Martin Fischer: Teaching Overview: Service on Ph.D. Reading and Examination Committees

Student Namer, Thesis Title, (Anticipated) Finish Date, Principal Advisor

This page lists Ph.D. students for whom I served or am serving as a Reading Committee member or as a member of the Ph.D. Defense Examination Committee.

Ph.D. students for whom I have served on the Reading and Defense Examination committee:
Douglas Phan, The Primitive-Composite (P-C) Approach-A Methodology for Developing Sharable Object-Oriented Data Representations for Facility Engineering Integration, June 1993, (H.C. Howard principal advisor)
Tore Christiansen, Modeling Efficiency and Effectiveness of Coordination in Engineering Design Teams, Sept. 1993 (R. Levitt principal advisor)
Keith Hampson, Technology Strategy and Competitive Performance: A Study of Bridge Construction, Dec. 1993 (C.B. Tatum principal advisor)
Taha Khedro, A Distributed Problem Solving Approach to Collaborative Facility Engineering Through Agent-Based Software Integration, Dec. 1993 (P. Teicholz principal advisor)
Gaye Oralkan, EXPLORER: A Computational Model of Organizational Learning in Response to Changes in Environment and Technology, Aug. 1996 (R. Levitt principal advisor)
Jan Thomsen, The Virtual Team Alliance (VTA): Modeling the Effects of Goal Incongruency in Semi-Routine, Fast-Paced, Project Organizations, March 1998 (R. Levitt principal advisor)
Robin Dillon, Programmatic Risk Analysis: Engineering and Management Risk Tradeoffs for Interdependent Projects, June 1999 (E. Pate-Cornell principal advisor)
Charles S. Han, Computer Models and Methods for a Disabled Access Analysis Design Environment, June 2000 (K. Law principal advisor)
J. Andrew Arnold, Information Interoperation for Internet-based Component Engineering Analysis, July 2000 (P. Teicholz principal advisor)
Jolin Marie Salazar-Kish, Modeling Concurrency Tradeoffs and their Effects on Project Duration and Rework, March 2001 (R. Levitt principal advisor)
Thomas Korman, Integrating Multiple Products over their Life-Cycles: An Investigation of Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing Coordination, June 2001 (C.B. Tatum principal advisor)
Keeso Kim, Distributed Coordination of Project Schedule Changes: An Agent-based Compensatory Negotiation Approach, Dec. 2001 (B. Paulson Jr. principal advisor)
Kihong Ku, 3D Model-Based Collaboration in Buildings: Effective Practices for Geometry Control, Oct. 2005 (S. Pollalis, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, principal advisor)
Bijan KHosraviani, Project Organization Design Using Genetic Programming, December 2005 (R. Levitt principal advisor)
Leonardo Rischmoller, Impact of Computer Advanced Visualization Tools (CAVT) on the Design Process of Industrial Projects, Dec. 2005 (L. Alarcon, Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Santiago, Chile, principal advisor)
Zixiao Zhang, Visualization and Vision-Based Tool for Infrastructure Maintenance Management, June 2009 (S. Billington principal advisor)
Ph.D. students for whom I am currently serving on the Reading and Defense Examination Committee:
Michael Murray, The Engineering Vice-President's Problem, Dec. 2009 (R. Levitt principal advisor)
Kioumars Najmabadi (K. Waldron, Mechanical Engineering, principal advisor)
Victor Gane, Goal driven parametric modeling for improved conceptual high-rise design, June 2010 (J. Haymaker principal advisor)
Forest Flager, Development of a Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) method for the integrated design of steel frame structure topology, shape and topology in the AEC industry, June 2010 (J. Haymaker principal advisor)
Reid Senescu, Design Process Management, Dec. 2010 (J. Haymaker principal advisor)
Benjamin Welle, Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization, Dec. 2010 (J. Haymaker principal advisor)
Partial list of Ph.D. students for whom I have served on the Examination Committee:
Tamaki Horii, Impact of Multiple Normative Systems on Organization Performance of International Ventures, Aug. 2005 (R. Levitt principal advisor)
Shih Chung Jessy Kang, Automatic Erection Planning In Single And Multiple Cranes Construction, Aug. 2005 (E. Miranda principal advisor)
Whitfield Fowler, Decision Analytical Scorecarding: Visually Representing Uncertainty to Aid in Product Development Decisions, June 2009 (K. Ishii, Mechanical Engineering, principal advisor)
Amy Javernick Will, Mobilizing Institutional Knowledge for International Projects: The Relative Importance, Acquisition and Transfer of Institutional Knowledge for International Firms, June 2009 (R. Levitt principal advisor)
Michael Dalton, Building DIFT Systems for Software Security, Sept. 2009 (Christos Kozyrakis, Computer Science, principal advisor)
David Akers, Backtracking Events as Indicators of Software Usability Problems, Dec. 2009 (Terry Winograd, Computer Science, principal advisor)


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