Ph.D. THESIS:

1.     Ph.D - Major advisor for John C. Shepherd, "An Interactive Decision Support System to Choose the Optimal Portfolio of Projects Under Conditions of Uncertainty and Multiple Criteria", (University of Pittsburgh, 1981).

2.     Ph.D - Committee member for Md. Abdul Quaddus, "Multiple Criteria Decision Making:  A

      Computational Method and an Application to Economic Policy Making at Bangladesh,

      (University of Pittsburgh, 1981).

3.     Ph.D - Major advisor for Amir A. Sadrian, "A Decision Support System For Portfolio Selection and Resource Allocation of R&D Projects Using 0-1 Goal Programming", (University of Pittsburgh, 1986).

4.     Ph.D - Major advisor for Margaret F. Shipley, "A Hierarchical Strategic Planning and 0-1 Integer Programming Resource Allocation Decision Support System for a Universitythe School of Engineering", (University of Pittsburgh, 1986).

5.     Ph.D - Major advisor for Hugo Gomez-Guzman, "Production Scheduling in a Manufacturing Cell: Development of Scheduling Heuristics", (University of Pittsburgh, 1988).

6.     Ph.D - Major advisor for Jang W. Ra, "Analysis of Expert Judgments in Hierarchical Decision Process", (University of Pittsburgh, 1988).

7.     Ph.D. - Major advisor for Guven Iyigun, "A Group Decision Support System for Multiobjective Strategic R&D Portfolio Selection and Resource Allocation Using Probabilistic Tradeoffs", (Portland State University, 1994), [This dissertation won the PMI International Award for Best Paper in 1993]

8.     Ph.D - Committee member for Byrne Lovell, "Uncertainty Theory: Outline of Requirements for a Normative Heuristic for Rational Behavior in a World of Critically Limited Information with Applications to Planning in the Electric Utility Industry", (Portland State University, 1994).

9.     Ph.D - Major advisor for Sida Zhou, "The Development and Evaluation of Aggregation Methods for Group Pairwise Comparison Judgments”, (Portland State University, 1995)

10.  Ph.D. - Major advisor for Karen Beekman Eden, “Selection of Information Technology in the Health Care Industry” (Portland State University, 1997) [This dissertation won the Honorable Mention in INFORMS Technology Management Society “Best Dissertation” competition]

11.  Ph.D. - Committee member for Patricia Jo Coulthard, "The Quality-Achieving Behavior of Work Group Managers" (Portland State University, 1998)

12.  Ph.D. - Major advisor for Tom Long, “Corporate Culture and Strategy in the Electronics Industry”, (Portland State University, 1998)

13.  Ph.D. - Major advisor for Erwin L. "Al" Herman, “Technology Strategies in the U.S. Electronics Industry: An Exploratory Study” (Portland State University, 1998)

14.  Ph.D. - Major advisor for Tugrul Unsal Daim, “Technology Evaluation and Acquisition Strategies and Their Implications in the U.S. Electronics Manufacturing Industry”  (Portland State University, 1998)

15.  Ph.D. - Major advisor for Razif Abd.Razak, “A Decision Model for Site Selection for Petroleum

Explorations”, (Portland State University, 1999)

16.  Ph.D. - Major advisor for Robert Martin, “A Unified Model for the Software Development

      Process”, (Portland State University, 2002)

17.  Ph.D. - Major advisor for Toryos Pandejpong, “Strategic Decision Process for Technology Selection in the Petrochemical Industry”, (Portland State University, 2002)

18.  Ph.D. – Major Advisor for Stacey Erica Ewton, “Assessment of the Impacts of E-Commerce Technologies on Business Processes: An Analytic Delphi Process”, (Portland State University, 2003)

19.  Ph.D. – Major Advisor for Nathasit Gerdsri, “An Analytical Approach to Building a Technology Development Envelope (TDE) for Roadmapping of Emerging Technologies”, (Portland State University, 2004)

20.  Ph.D. – Major Advisor for Jonathan Ho, “Strategic Technology Choices for Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry – Case: Taiwan”, (Portland State University, 2004)

21.  Ph.D. – Major Advisor for Audrey Alvear, “Technology Strategies and Policies for Socio-Economic Development in a Developing Economy – Case: Costa Rica”, (Portland State University, 2005)

22.  Ph.D. – Major Advisor for Iwan Sudrajat, “Strategic Management of Value Chains”, (Portland State University, 2007)

23.  Ph.D. – Major Advisor for Hongyi Chen, “Sensitivity Analysis for Hierarchical Decisions”, (Portland State University, 2007)

24.  Ph.D. – Major Advisor for Guillermo Rueda, “Diffusion of Innovation”, (Portland State University,

expected completion 2009)

25. Ph.D. – Major Advisor for Pisek Gerdsri, “Technology Roadmapping for Nanotechnology Policies in

      Developing Economies”, (Portland State University, expected completion 2010)

26.     Ph.D. – Major Advisor for Thien Tran, “Technology Transfer from Government R&D Labs to Industry”  (Portland State University, expected completion 2011) 

27.     Ph.D. – Major Advisor for Patt Suntharasaj, “International Collaboration in R&D”  (Portland State University, expected completion 2011)

28.     Ph.D. – Major Advisor for Mustafa Abbas, “International Collaboration in R&D”  (Portland State University, expected completion 2011)

 

M.S. THESIS:

1.             M.S. - Thesis advisor for Thomas R. Bell, "A Consistency Measure for the Constant-Sum Method",

         (University of Pittsburgh, 1980) [This thesis won the Canadian O.R. Society Award in June, 1981].

2.             M.S. - Thesis advisor for Harry K. Frost, "Methodology for the Investigation of Correlations Between Attitude

         Surveys and the Productivity of Professionals in High and Medium Technology Industrial Facilities",

         (University of Pittsburgh, 1981).

3.             M.S. - Thesis advisor for J. Suri, "A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. and Japanese Steel Industries",

         (University of Pittsburgh, 1982).

4.             M.S. - Thesis advisor for Jang W. Ra, "Analysis of the Column-Row Sums Approach for Pairwise

         Comparisons", (University of Pittsburgh, 1986).