EPP GRADUATE
EDUCATION
Information and Frequently Asked Questions
Recent
Ph.D. Thesis Titles in the Department of Engineering
and Public Policy
2001
- Effectiveness,
efficiency, and governance: An integrated study
of China's air pollution management.
- Integrated
assessment and uncertainty analysis of air pollution
emission control and health impacts"
- Issues
in software development: outsourcing, architecture
design and organization"
- Setting
drinking water standards: historical perspective
and simulation modeling
2000
- Automobile
risk perceptions and insurance decisions: A
Japan-US comparison during deregulation.
- The
influence of government actions on innovative
activities in the development of environmental
technologies to control sulfur dioxide emmisions
from stationary sources.
- The
role of uncertainty in improving fire protection
regulation.
- Adoption
and supply of a distributed energy technology.
1999
- An
assessment of air pollution and environmental
impacts from international maritime transportation
including engineering controls and policy alternatives.
- The
development and evaluation of a risk ranking
method.
- The
risk of accidents and spills at offshore production
platforms: A statistical analysis of risk factors
and the development of predictive models.
1998
- Economies
of scale in information dissemination over the
internet.
- Environmental
risks, decision making and public perception.
- Formal
verification of computer systems.
- Mathematical
and computational techniques for research prioritization
with an application to global climate change
research.
- Life
cycle models of conventional and alternative-fueled
automobiles
- Economic
and sulfur removal models for optimization of
a pressurized fluid bed combustion (PFBC) power
generation system.
- Decision-making
tools for environmental cleanup and redevelopment.
- Technological
changes and pollution control: An adaptive agent-based
analysis.
- Energy
development, especially for third-world countries.
- Pricing
of integrated-services networks.
- Studies
in natural and human system response relevant
to global environmental change
- Designing
wireless local loops using low tier technology:
An approach to providing basic telecommunications
service in less developed countries.
1997
- Quality
design of emission control strategies and control
technology development.
- An
analysis of security incidents on the internet.
- Attributes
for risk evaluation.
- Evaluating
the cost-effectiveness of the title IV acid
rain provisions of the 1990 clean air act amendments.
1996
- Integration
of air and ground-based methane measurements
with those of the NASA earth observing system.
- Privacy
and reliability in internet commerce.
A methodology for evaluating the usefulness of
global-change information for long-term decision
making: A case study of fisheries management in
the Pacific Northwest.
- Regional
integrated municipal solid waste management
in the Northeastern United States.
- Outcomes-based
evaluations for educational programs in engineering:
A focus on the construction industry's needs.
- Electricity
utility conservation programs: Empirical studies
of impacts and cost-effectiveness.
- An
application of statistical methods for modeling
impacts of climate change on terrestrial distribution
of vegetation.
- Measuring
environmental performance: Sources and implications
of uncertainty.
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