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• 1. [Article] Analyzing the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Project: An Engineering Economic Perspective

  For thousands of years, humanity has been involved in building and rebuilding the world. Groups, Governments, NGO’s and many more organizations are involved in ‘building’ activities for developing the ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Analyzing the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Project: An Engineering Economic Perspective Author: Castillejos, Ignacio, Garcia, Jorge, Shah, Kshiti, Upadhyay, Jubin Year: 2012 For thousands of years, humanity has been involved in building and rebuilding the world. Groups, Governments, NGO’s and many more organizations are involved in ‘building’ activities for developing the surroundings that affect their existence with the aim of making living more convenient. Public projects, for the welfare of the citizens fall under this purview. Engineering Economics, as a subject and research area, teaches us to evaluate and analyze large scale public projects. The Pacific Northwest region in the US is characterized by the culture of holistic development: the monetary element is only one component in the decision making process to decide the viability of a project, and hence we see wind turbines, green recycling, electric cars and excellent public transport in this region. One such project is the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail construction project which is currently under construction and will be operational in a couple of years. This paper intends to explore the viability of this project from multiple perspectives, using Engineering Economy theory it analyzes the outcome on the basis of Benefits and Costs. We intend to learn and explore the theoretical aspect of project feasibility from the engineering economic theory point of view. Title: Analyzing the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Project: An Engineering Economic Perspective Author: Castillejos, Ignacio, Garcia, Jorge, Shah, Kshiti, Upadhyay, Jubin Year: 2012 For thousands of years, humanity has been involved in building and rebuilding the world. Groups, Governments, NGO’s and many more organizations are involved in ‘building’ activities for developing the surroundings that affect their existence with the aim of making living more convenient. Public projects, for the welfare of the citizens fall under this purview. Engineering Economics, as a subject and research area, teaches us to evaluate and analyze large scale public projects. The Pacific Northwest region in the US is characterized by the culture of holistic development: the monetary element is only one component in the decision making process to decide the viability of a project, and hence we see wind turbines, green recycling, electric cars and excellent public transport in this region. One such project is the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail construction project which is currently under construction and will be operational in a couple of years. This paper intends to explore the viability of this project from multiple perspectives, using Engineering Economy theory it analyzes the outcome on the basis of Benefits and Costs. We intend to learn and explore the theoretical aspect of project feasibility from the engineering economic theory point of view. Close

• 2. [Article] Optimization of Staffing Schedule At SHARC

  Scheduling employee’s staff is a crucial part of the operations of any organization. The organization must be efficiently schedule the staff to meet the continuous and potentially changing business demands. ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Optimization of Staffing Schedule At SHARC Author: Garcia, Jorge, Shah, Kshiti, Singla, Puniti, Yilmaz, Selen, Sengupta, Sowmini Year: 2013 Scheduling employee’s staff is a crucial part of the operations of any organization. The organization must be efficiently schedule the staff to meet the continuous and potentially changing business demands. Staff scheduling becomes challenging when the need to balance various personnel shifts and try to accommodate their preferences. In our report, we have attempted to address the lifeguard scheduling problem at Shute Park Aquatic and Recreation Center (SHARC). The aquatic center offers a variety of classes all year around for all age groups. The lifeguards and swim instructors are part-time employees and mostly students, over 16 years of age. The primary metrics used to schedule lifeguard staff are availability of personnel, avoid double booking when already working in other areas of SHARC, gender diversity, performance, and assessment by supervisor based on previous history. There are situations of last minute cancellations and thus a substitute has to be scheduled for those emergency situations. Currently the SHARC manager uses Microsoft Word for scheduling lifeguards. This paper attempts to propose a scheduling tool based on excel to cope with the emergency substitute scheduling of the lifeguards and document the process rather than relying on a person’s memory. Through this paper we attempt the following: 1) To address the issue of last minute scheduling and find a reliable person to cover. 2) To develop a model that be used for automation of life guard scheduling process. 3) To provide an Excel based program replacing the current word based for automated scheduling at no extra cost. 4) To achieve scheduling of personnel at least cost. Title: Optimization of Staffing Schedule At SHARC Author: Garcia, Jorge, Shah, Kshiti, Singla, Puniti, Yilmaz, Selen, Sengupta, Sowmini Year: 2013 Scheduling employee’s staff is a crucial part of the operations of any organization. The organization must be efficiently schedule the staff to meet the continuous and potentially changing business demands. Staff scheduling becomes challenging when the need to balance various personnel shifts and try to accommodate their preferences. In our report, we have attempted to address the lifeguard scheduling problem at Shute Park Aquatic and Recreation Center (SHARC). The aquatic center offers a variety of classes all year around for all age groups. The lifeguards and swim instructors are part-time employees and mostly students, over 16 years of age. The primary metrics used to schedule lifeguard staff are availability of personnel, avoid double booking when already working in other areas of SHARC, gender diversity, performance, and assessment by supervisor based on previous history. There are situations of last minute cancellations and thus a substitute has to be scheduled for those emergency situations. Currently the SHARC manager uses Microsoft Word for scheduling lifeguards. This paper attempts to propose a scheduling tool based on excel to cope with the emergency substitute scheduling of the lifeguards and document the process rather than relying on a person’s memory. Through this paper we attempt the following: 1) To address the issue of last minute scheduling and find a reliable person to cover. 2) To develop a model that be used for automation of life guard scheduling process. 3) To provide an Excel based program replacing the current word based for automated scheduling at no extra cost. 4) To achieve scheduling of personnel at least cost. Close