STRATEGIC COALITION FORMATION IN SUPPLY CHAINS N. Krothapalli and A. Deshmukh Department of Me hani al and Industrial Engineering, University of Massa husetts, Amherst, MA, USA. Phone: 1-413-545-1615 Fax: 1-413-545-1027 Email: deshmukh e s.umass.edu

6 Affiliations: 1. Department of Physics 7 Harvard University 8 17A Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. 9 10 2. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 11 Northeastern University 12 Boston, MA 02115 13 14 3. School of Engineering & Applied Sciences 15 Harvard University 16 40 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. 17 18 4. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering 19 Georgia Institu...

Expanding the Possibilities of Deliberation: The Use of Data Mining for Strengthening Democracy with an Application to Education Reform Juan D. Velásquez a; Pablo González b a Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering and Science, University of Chile, Santiago, Región Metropolitana, Chile b Center for Applied Economics, Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineeri...

Most studies on mergers and acquisitions are not sample selective. This study directly examines the motives of horizontal mergers by utilizing a sample of acquiring firms based on same SIC codes. A three factor Arbitrage pricing model was utilized, with Tobin’s q ratio as a measure of market power, to study the performance of the firms involved in the mergers. The results indicate the acquisiti...

This is a literature review for the year 2015 and contains information specifically associated with suspended growth processes including activated sludge, upflow anaerobic sludge blanket, and sequencing batch reactors. The review encompasses modeling and kinetics, nutrient removal, system design and operation. Compared to past reviews, many topics show increase in activity in 2015. These includ...

ID: 34 I. Gremyr, V. Siva, H. Raharjo Division of Quality Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology SE-412 96 Sweden T. N. Goh Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore Singapore 117576

In this paper, a finishing system with a mounted abrasive tool is proposed for finishing of metallic molds. The shape of the mounted abrasive tool is a ball-end type. When a metallic mold with curved surface is polished, the orientation of the mounted abrasive tool is not only fixed but also its revolution is locked. The motion of the mounted abrasive tool is feedforwardly controlled based on a...

This paper presents results of our educational experiments aimed to raise awareness of freshmen engineering and senior high school students on the importance of spatial skills and develop strategies for spatial learning through practice of remote operation and programming robot systems in automated manufacturing labs. In the first experiment senior high school students performed two assignments...