College of Engineering: Recent submissions
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Quality Managemet In Higher Education: Enhancing Retention And Graduation Rates
(2018 , Master Thesis)Quality management and continuous improvement have become increasingly practiced in worldwide industries and organizations. Recently, the higher education sector has been gradually moving towards Quality Management as ... -
A Novel Framework For Construction Contractor Selection Using Unique Hybrid Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Technique
(2018 , Master Thesis)The successful delivery of a construction project is highly dependent on the contractor allocated to the project and hence the proper selection of the contractor is of significant importance. In public sector, the procurement ... -
Bagged Randomized Conceptual Machine Learning Method
(2018 , Master Thesis)Formal concept analysis (FCA) is a scientific approach aiming to investigate, analyze and represent the conceptual knowledge deduced from the data in conceptual structures (lattice). Recently many researchers are counting ... -
Equipment Criticality Classification Using Analytical Hierarchy Method
(2018 , Master Thesis)The overall aim of this project is to use the analytical hierarchy process as new method in the equipment criticality process. The equipment criticality in the industrial sector is very essential part in the prioritizing ... -
Fault Detection And Localization In Modular Multilevel Converter
(2018 , Master Thesis)The Modular Multilevel Converter is gaining wide acceptance in both industrial and research communities for medium and high power applications. However, the increasing need for a higher number of active power switches ... -
An Investigation Of Vibration From Underground Tunnels By Using A Plane-Strain Finite Element Model
(2018 , Master Thesis)In 2013, Qatar Rail announced major rail projects that include an urban rail network for the city of Doha with lines running on the surface and underground which are expected to be in operation by 2020. Railway systems are ... -
Spare Parts Strategy: A Multi-Criteria Systematic Classification Approach To Reduce Inventory Cost
(2018 , Professional Masters Project)Efficient and effective spare parts management play an essential role for equipment-intensive companies, and many of them struggle with spare parts management issues. Asset and maintenance managers are continuously challenged ... -
Application Of Lean Thinking In Main Service Center Of Toyota Qatar
(2018 , Professional Masters Project)Lean thinking is one of the well-known techniques that aims to create more value to customers with minimum used resources via minimizing or eliminating wastes. While the lean concepts are traditionally applied in the ... -
Illuminant Estimation By Deep Learning
(2018 , Master Thesis)Computational color constancy refers to the problem of estimating the color of the scene illumination in a color image, followed by color correction of the image through a white balancing process so that the colors of the ... -
Prospects Of Amino Acids And Ionic Liquids As Natural Gas Hydrate Inhibitors For Offshore Flow Assurance
(2018 , Dissertation)Gas hydrates are ice-like compounds that are formed when small gas molecules get trapped within the water molecules at high pressure and low-temperature conditions. The formation of gas hydrates in the offshore subsea lines ... -
Application Of Management Science Tools To Effective Decision Making: A Case Study Of Smart Hvac Products In Qatar
(2018 , Professional Masters Project)Qatar is a fast-developing country, and this rapid growth increases the need for the introduction of new product ideas to the market aiming to satisfy customer’s needs. However, not all product ideas are equally attractive ... -
URBAN REGENERATION OF OLD DOHA IN QATAR; TOWARDS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF HISTORIC URBAN LANDSCAPE APPROACH
(2018 , Master Thesis)This thesis examines the causes and the procedure that has led to the elaboration and implementation of a new conservation tool and adaptive recover of the modern historic cities. The new tool is the Historic Urban Landscape ... -
EFFICIENT SKYLINE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT FOR NORMAL AND HIDDEN DATABASES: APPLICATION FOR GOOGLE FLIGHTS
(2018 , Professional Masters Project)Deep web databases provide strict search interface and limited web access with top-k results based on a pre-defined ranking function. However, top-k results may not be suitable for multi-criteria decision making because ... -
A NOVEL HYBRID ELECTRO-COAGULATION/ FORWARD OSMOSIS MEMBRANE SYSTEM FOR TREATMENT OF PRODUCED WATER
(2018 , Master Thesis)Large volumes of fresh water are consumed in the process of oil and gas exploration, producing even larger volumes of highly contaminated produced water (PW) which exhibits a major environmental problem. This work ... -
Deep Learning Based Approach For Prediction Of Cloud Resource Needs
(2018 , Professional Masters Project)Cloud computing allows scaling applications to serve dynamic and time-varying workloads and to avoid application performance degradation, while keeping low provisioning costs. But, resource demand of applications need to ... -
Pedestrian Detection Using Motion Saliency Aided Convoltional Neural Network
(2018 , Master Thesis)Pedestrian and crowd analysis is one of the oldest problems in the area of computer vision and image processing. Researchers have proposed several algorithms that analyze crowds for different purposes aiming to improve ... -
A Threat-Specific Risk Evaluation Tool For Cloud Environments
(2018 , Professional Masters Project)With the spread of using cloud computing; both as organizations and individual, it has become a target for attackers. The cloud environment has several weaknesses that pose threats to its users’ assets. To assess any type ... -
NEW APPROACH OF PIPELINES JOINING USING FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS COMPOSITES
(2018 , Master Thesis)It is well known that maintenance of pipelines failures due to leakage or rupture caused by either corrosion or lack of strength is a significant challenge for pipelines engineers. Pipelines joining is considered as a ... -
Factors Affecting Bus Ridership In Qatar
(2018 , Master Thesis)Traffic congestion is a major problem in Qatar where most of the population are car dependent. The purpose of this study is to understand the influence of various attributes on the system wide and stop level of public buses ... -
Advanced Technology For Low Energy Commercial Building In Qatar
(2018 , Master Thesis)There is no doubt that it is critical and beneficial for Qatar to start utilizing alternative energy efficient solutions to reduce the energy consumption and sustain its natural resources. In particular, commercial buildings ...