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Farnaz Akhavi, 2006
Current position: Department of Labor, Washington D. C., USA.
Thesis title: A Comparative Study of Human-Computer Interaction with Deterministic and Fuzzy Multi-criteria Decision-Making Techniques.

Nan Tu, 2001
http://www.drtu.com/
Current position: Lecturer, department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Thesis title: TASK-ICDA: A Methodology for Designing Multi-Agent Decision Support Systems.

Carolyn B. Fiebig, 1999, (now Carolyn Brodie)
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/cabrodie.index.html
Current position, Researcher, IBM Watson Research Center, Hawthorn, New York, USA.
Thesis title: Designing Experience-Centered Planning Support Systems.

Daniel M. Gaines, 1998
http://ai.jpl.nasa.gov/public/home/gaines/
Current position: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA.
Thesis title: Effector-Based Goal and Operator Construction: A Model for the Design of Effector Adaptive Planners.

Michael Fu, 1997
Thesis title: SEDAR: An Architecture for Control in Associate Systems.

Masters of Science

Dileepan Narayanan, 2006
Thesis Title: Plan Assist: An Effects-Based Operations Planning Tool

Qian An, 2005
Current Position: Scientific Data Analyst, Ginn Group/Northrop Grumman Contractor, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Thesis title: Feature Conglomerator

Captain Adam Larson, 2004
Current position: PhD candidate, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
Thesis title: The Impact of Computer Decision Support on Military Decision Making

Jun Zeng, 2004
(co-advisor: Gerald E. Sobelman)
Thesis title: Cutting Tool Selection in MAPP

Richard Anderson, 2003
Thesis title: HorsePRO, Practical Horse Ration Optimizer.

Ujwala Ravinder, 2003
http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/ihi/cognition/person.php?staffid=ravinder,u&PHPSESSID=c6d9ba7ab225c04ccf2bade79dd69bc7Current Position: Senior Research Associate, NASA Ames Research Center, Sunnyvale, California, USA.
Thesis title: Weasel: A Constraint-Based Tool for Generating Enemy Courses of Action.

Farnaz Akhavi, 2003
Current position: Department of Labor, Washington D. C., USA.
Thesis title: A Comparison of Two Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques.

Amit Pande, 2002,
current position, Manager, Oricle, Bengalore, India.
http://amitpande.com/about-amit/
Thesis title: Square-IT and Plan-Merge: Decision Support Tools for Efficient Squaring and High Quality Manufacturing Setup Sequences.

Vipin Sharma, 2001,
Thesis title: Intra-Setup Planner: Combining Flexibility and Human Control with Automation in Process Planning.

Aleksey Veretennikov, 2000
Current Position: Director of development, ICE Portal; Owner, TechIQ, Russia.
Thesis title: Providing Clampability Analysis for Multiple Fixtures to Support Setup Sequencing in Process Planning.

Hakan Ergan, 2000
Current Position: Manager, Decision Support, Operations Performance and Planning, US Airways, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Thesis title: Design of a Decision Support System for Army Intelligence Collection Resource Scheduling.

Wael F. Faheem, 1998
Thesis title: Coordinator: An Automated Planner that Detects Setup Interferences to Produce Setup Plans.

Juan F. Castaño, 1998,
Market Development Engineer, Sun Microsystems, California, USA.
Thesis title: CLAMP-IT: Injecting Clampability Analysis into Feature-Extraction.

Carolyn C. Fiebig, 1997
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/cabrodie.index.html
Current position, Researcher, IBM Watson Research Center, Hawthorn, New York, USA.
Thesis title: Development of Expertise in Complex Domains.

Major Jerry Schlabach, 1997
Thesis title: The Illinois Architecture.

Hovig Heghinian, 1997
Thesis title: Feature Bridge: An Automatic Tool-Based Mapping From Form Features to Machining Operations.

Daniel Gaines, 1996
(Kuck Best Masters Thesis Award)
http://ai.jpl.nasa.gov/public/home/gaines/
Current position: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA.
Thesis title: Volume to Methods Mapping for Flexible CAD/CAPP Integration.

Carlos Varela, 1996,
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~cvarela/
Current position, Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA.
Thesis title: Browsing Databases over the WorldWide Web.

Michael Fu, 1995
(Kuck Best Masters Thesis Award)
Thesis title: Using a Task-Based Model Design for Flexible Control in an Expert Critiquing System.

John Miller, 1995
Thesis title: STEAMER: A Load Flow Simulator to Aid in Modification of Existing Steam Networks.

Harold Sun, 1995
Thesis title: A Constraint Analysis Approach to Generating Redesign Suggestions for Process Planning.

David Ralley, 1995 (Co-Advisor)
Thesis title: Music Composition as an Optimization Task: Evolving Melodies using a Genetic Algorithm.

Valeriya Nayshtut, 1995
Thesis title: Specification Design Checker: Automating the Heater Development Process.

Andrew Assad, 1993
Thesis title: Emergent Colonization in an Artificial Ecology.

Takahiro Ito, 1992
Thesis title: LSI Wafer Transfer Scheduling

Masters of Science (Plan B)

In a plan B thesis, students do a small project and short thesis, with more course work than for the regular Masters degree.

Janet Nurnberg, 2007
Udaya Kalluri, 2006
Vivek Singhania, 2003
Joel Halls, 2002
David Franke, 2002
Dave Scott, 2002
Kim Willis, 2001
Grant Mauch, 2001
Louis Rodriguez, 2001
Uyen Teng, 2001
Linda Miller-Craig, 2000
Neil Strain, 2000
Brent Hedding, 2000
William Hamarin, 2000
Andrew Supine, 2000
Bryan Nelson, 2000
Loren Evers, 2000
Anna Kerns, 2000
Miner Liang, 1999