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Seventeen
new Ph.D.
Students Join EPP
The Fall of 2004 witnessed the largest entering class
yet of new Ph.D. students in EPP. Most appear in this
picture taken at the annual departmental picnic. |
Back
row (left to right): Royce Francis, Victoria Yuhas,
Matthew Hamilton, Leonardo Reyes, Daniel Vijge (visiting
student from Eindhoven), Rahul Walawalkar, Anthony Barrett,
Amelia MacSleyne, Faheem Hussain, Asmerom Gilau, Daniel
Hunter, Constantine Samaras. Front row (left to right):
Elisabeth Gilmore, Hirokazu Igarashi, Adam Tagert, Pitikorn
Tengtrakul, Xinguang Sheng.
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EPP Project
Courses
Project Courses are
interdisciplinary problem-solving projects in which students
work as leaders or members of project teams. Problem areas
are abstracted from local, state, and national situations
and involve the interaction of technology and public policy,
with different projects being chosen each semester. Oral
and written presentations concerning the results of project
studies are prepared.
Spring 2003
“Abandoned Mine
Drainage in Pennsylvania.” Faculty Advisors: Peter
Adams (CEE/EPP) and Spyros Pandis (ChemE/EPP). Student
Managers: EPP doctoral students Rob Pinder and Ketra Schmitt.
The project focused on treatment and resource recovery
for mine drainage, and designed several options for treating
water. Students predicted profitability of resource recovery
operations at mine drainage sites and suggested several
options for encouraging these businesses.
“Black Boxes
in Automobiles: Technical, economic, and legal issues.”
Faculty Advisors: Henry Piehler (MSE/EPP) and Marvin Sirbu
(EPP/ECE/IA). Student Managers: EPP doctoral students
Matt Dombroski and Doug King. Students performed a cost-benefit
analysis of event data recorders in automobiles for accident
reconstruction, medical intervention, and aggregated data
applications. An accident reconstruction survey was used
to assess benefits. A simulation of EMS accident response
times revealed that a significant number of lives can
be saved by automatic crash notification (ACN) systems.
Needed legal and policy changes were identified.
“Human Capital:
Attraction and Retention in Pittsburgh.” Faculty
Advisors: Gordon Lewis (Heinz) and Francisco Veloso (EPP).
Student Managers: Joule Bergerson (CEE/EPP) and Elaine
Newton (EPP). This study examined the severity of the
“Brain Drain” problem in Pittsburgh and how
it might be reduced. Two aspects of the problem were examined;
migration and business growth. Benchmarking was used to
compare Pittsburgh to other cities in the U.S. In addition,
regression analysis was used to understand the historic
population and business trends in Pittsburgh and throughout
the U.S.
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Fall
2003
“Personal Safety
on Campus.” Faculty Advisors: Baruch Fischhoff (SDS/EPP)
and Ed Rubin (EPP/MechE). Student Managers: EPP doctoral
students Robert Behrman and Claire Palmgren. This project
analyzed how to reduce the threat of crime, especially violent
crime, to members of the university community. A campus-wide
survey assessed the perceived level of safety on and near
campus, and opinions of existing safety measures. Both technology-based
measures (i.e., phones and security cameras) and people-oriented
services (i.e., transportation services, campus police)
were analyzed.
Spring 2004
“Pittsburgh CivicNet:
Broadband for a better Pittsburgh.” Faculty Advisors:
Allen Robinson (MechE/EPP) and Marvin Sirbu (EPP/ECE/IA).
Student Managers: EPP doctoral students Jaegul Lee and Mary
Schoen. The Pittsburgh CivicNet project assessed the feasibility
of providing a largescale optical fiber-based Gigabit network
that provides services to public and private schools, universities,
museums, libraries, governmental entities, and other non-profits
in the Pittsburgh area. Students developed a network design,
organizational and pricing structure, and assessed economic
feasibility. Guidance was provided for successfully implementing
the Pittsburgh CivicNet.
“Sustaining Pittsburgh’s
Vital Services When the Power Goes Out.” Faculty Advisors:
Jay Apt (Tepper School/EPP), Marija Ilic (ECE/EPP), Granger
Morgan (EPP/ECE/Heinz), and Dmitri Perekhodtsev (Tepper
School). Student Managers: EPP doctoral students Paul Hines
and Kyle Meisterling. Students defined a set of potentially
life critical and economically important services in the
Pittsburgh region, studied how these services would be affected
by a set of reference power disruptions, and analyzed a
variety of policies that could improve the availability
of important services during a power disruption. While many
services, such as hospitals and emergency response systems,
have adequate backup facilities, others, such as ground
transportation and police stations, are vulnerable to power
failures. Cost-effective means exist to mitigate these vulnerabilities.
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