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Considerations for Defense Contractors Entering the Small Satellite Market
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
Federal defense agencies have historically relied on large unique satellites to accomplish their communication and earth-sensing missions. In recent years, there has been a rapid expansion of the commercial small satellite ...
Distributed energy platforms: Who will lead the next electricity revolution?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
Climate change is forcing rapid change in the energy landscape. Two opposing paths represent plausible futures for the US power sector: centralization vs. distribution. Without trying to predict its likelihood, this thesis ...
Applications of Machine Learning and First-Principle Modeling to Evaluate Design Enhancements in Autoinjectors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
One of the key guiding principles in Amgen operations is to ensure reliability of the offered combination products to best serve patients and maintain a competitive advantage for the business. With a broad device portfolio ...
Data driven manufacturing risk assessment for turbine engine programs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Waste and uncertainty can be managed at all levels of a production process from a program level down to a single step in a manufacturing cell, and is done by assessing risk. Risk is defined as uncertainty in the ability ...
Essays on workplace practices in different institutional settings
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This dissertation consists of three essays investigating how organizational policies operate within different institutional contexts and in the face of migration, demographic shifts, and globalization. The first essay ...
Overlapping communities on social networks : a self-falsifiable hierarchical detection algorithm
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Community detection is a central topic in network studies, whereas no community detection algorithm can be optimal for all possible networks; thus it is important to identify whether the algorithm is suitable for a given ...
The road to development is paved with good intentions : inter-organizational dysfunction in the UN development system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The ability of multiple organizations to effectively collaborate in pursuit of shared goals is important across many fields, but perhaps nowhere more so than in sustainable development. Advancing sustainable development ...
Digital business model development and validation for real-time monitoring solution for electrical power transformers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Currently, the health of high-value power transformers is primarily evaluated by visual inspections, oil sample analysis conducted by a third-party lab, and measurements taken by a mechanic physically present at the ...
Project-based manufacturing : an approach for quote development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Project-based manufacturing presents unique challenges that highly automated and repetitive production lines do not face. Highly automated production lines do not have much variation in the types of products that are made, ...
Case studies on companies that delisted from US and relisted in China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
China concept stocks, the stock in a company that operates in mainland China and listed in the US, are becoming the largest group of non-native listed stocks in the US in terms of market value. This paper reviews the peaks ...