Browsing Theses - Engineering Systems by Title
Research and Teaching Output of the MIT Community
- Home
- →
- Engineering Systems Division
- →
- Theses - Engineering Systems
- →
- Browsing Theses - Engineering Systems by Title
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
Browsing Theses - Engineering Systems by Title
-
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)The airport industry is changing. Once understood as stand-alone public infrastructures, many modern airports now operate within privatized multi-airport systems and contend with previously unknown competitive pressures. ...
-
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)The cost of healthcare has been increasing over the past several years. From 1997 to 2002, the average cost for hospital stays increased 24 percent. The increase in healthcare cost can be explained by malpractice law suits ...
-
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Recently, governments have leveraged a variety of new technologies, especially new social media, to create an open government, or Government 2.0 that is transparent in its policies and gives its citizens the ability to ...
-
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Web wrapping technologies were developed in the 90s in the middle of the dot com boom to facilitate the extraction of web data. In recent years, the underlying architecture of web wrapping technologies is also been used ...
-
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)There are currently about 120 airport rail links existing or proposed to be constructed around the world. The growth in the number of airport rail links reflects the almost relentless growth in air travel and the associated ...
-
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Engineering, management, and social science methodologies have been employed to analyze a new asset tracking and management system for human spaceflight applications. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Aurora ...
-
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)A growing number of embedded multi-core processors from several vendors now offer several technical advantages over single-core architectures. However, despite these advantages, adoption of multi-core processors in embedded ...
-
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The emergence of large-scale hydrocarbon production from shale reservoirs has revolutionized the oil and gas sector, and hydraulic fracturing has been the key enabler of this advancement. As a result, the need for water ...
-
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This thesis presents a model to quantify the economic costs and environmental impacts of producing fuels from hydroprocessed renewable oils (HRO) process. Aspen Plus was used to model bio-refinery operations and supporting ...
-
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Technological development is one of the main drivers in economic progress throughout the world and is strongly linked to the creation of new industries, jobs, and wealth. This thesis attempts to better understand how a ...
-
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The Massachusetts life sciences supercluster is a source of tremendous innovation. The Commonwealth's academic and industrial institutions produce a consistent stream of cutting-edge scientific research and the region has ...
-
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
-
Technology and policy drivers for standardization : consequences for the optical components industry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Optical communications promise the delivery of high bandwidth service to all types of customers. The potential for optical communications is enormous and has generated excitement and anticipation over the last decade. ...
-
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)Technology plays an important role in dealing with air pollution and other environmental problems faced by developing and developed societies. This research examines if technological solutions alone, such as end-of-pipe ...
-
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Political participation and community involvement in the United States have declined steadily and significantly over the past four decades, and some attribute the fall to new media, such as television and the Internet. ...
-
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)The role of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in economic development is increasingly moving to the core of national competitiveness strategies around the world thanks to its revolutionary power as a critical ...
-
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Solid state memories are used in a variety of applications as data and code storages. A non-volatile memory is a memory that retains information when its power supply is off. Flash memory is a type of nonvolatile memory ...
-
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Commercial human spaceflight looks ready to take off as an industry, with "space tourism" as its first application. Paying passengers are likely to begin taking suborbital spaceflights within the next several years, both ...
-
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)China's recent entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in December 2001 has lent speed to an ongoing series of market reforms that has opened up the massive Chinese domestic market to the world. The thought of China ...
-
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)In the first part of this thesis I give an overview of the political-economic and telecommunications sector developments in major western economies, as well as some of the advanced Eastern European countries. I use this ...
Browse
My Account
MIT-Mirage