Up to 2003, our graduate students produced masters theses as part of their degree requirement. The following is a list of abstracts of such theses. Since 2004, our program has been changed to a non-thesis program for which students produce industry project reports.
Class of 2002-2003
Predicting Short Term Disability Benefit Days for the Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia
Junko Fukui-Innes | April 2004
An LP Based Distribution Network Planning Tool for a Large Pulp and Paper Company
Mariel Lavieri | April 2004
Planning an Automated Storage and Retrieval System at UBC Library
Ying Liu | April 2004
Developing and Implementing Industrial Engineering Methods for Process Improvement at TELUS Communications
Tomas Mojica | April 2004
Risk Factor Analysis, Continuous Monitoring and Root Cause Analysis for Teekay Shipping
Michael (Shengyuan) Chen | March 2004
Determining Staffing Levels for a Product Inspection Process
Liping Liang | March 2004
Pricing in a Congestible Service Industry with a Focus on the Ski Industry
Raul Martinez Benavides | March 2004
Class of 2001-2002
Staff Scheduling and Workstation Allocation at UBC Libraries
Yixin Guo | March 2003
Red, Yellow, or Green Light? Signaling Performance in the Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia's Executive Dashboard
Bryan Read | March 2003
Approaches to Assessing Wage Loss Duration at the Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia
David Walker | March 2003
Simulation Modeling as a Decision Analysis Support Tool at the Vancouver Container Terminal
Aimee Zhou | March 2003
Methodology for Scheduling Pre-Board Screening Staff at the Vancouver International Airport
Anita Parkinson | February 2003
Expansion Planning at a Prominent Canadian Investment Management Firm
Kelly Chung | December 2002
Improving Inventory Management for Methanex
Russell Fenske | December 2002
Aggregate Logistics Optimization for a Large Beverage Company
Ernest Hongtu Wu | December 2002
Class of 2000-2001
Optimization Techniques Applied to the Trading of Natural Gas from a Restricted Storage Facility
Ellen Fowler | August 2002
Adaptive Inventory Control Heuristics for Non-Stationary Demand
Sumant Jha | August 2002
Share and Share Alike? The Value of Pooling Demand Data Across Retail Locations
Sarah Colby | July 2002
Production Planning in JS McMillan Fisheries Ltd: Catch Allocation Decision Support Tool Design
Mehmet Begen | December 2001
The Application of Gravity Models to Air Cargo Forecasting
Sheelah Turner | December 2001
Estimating Mixtures of Exponential Distributions to Improve Simulation of Telephone Call Durations for TELUS
Sean Baird | December 2001
An Investigation of Air Cargo Operations at the Vancouver International Airport
Omar-Hafaez Ladak | December 2001
Determining Trunk Reservation Parameters in a Telecommunications Network
Thaddeus Sim | December 2001
Robust Performance Benchmarking: An Application of Multivariate and Data Envelopment Analysis at the Workers' Compensation Board
Kevin Tang | December 2001
Theories of Investor Behavior and Their Application to Segmentation and Predictive Modeling of Retail Clients at Phillips, Hager & North
Nicole Franjic | November 2001
Class of 1999-2000
A Heuristic Algorithm for Automated Routing in Integrated Circuits
Amir Sepasi | October 2003
Dynamic Linear Models for Motion Pictures Box-Office Forecasting
Remi Desmeules | April 2001
Determining Optimal Daily Staffing Levels at the Whistler Blackcomb Ski and Snowboard School
Stanley Tse | Dec 2000
An Application of Multivariate Analysis to Time of Day Routing in Telecommunications Networks
Isabelle Smith | Dec 2000
Decision-making in the Fisheries Industry: Design of Catch-Allocation Decision Tool
Laura Morrison | Dec 2000
Nonhierarchical Alternate Routing in a Circuit-Switched Network at TELUS
Steven Kabanuk | Dec 2000
Airline Network Inventory Control Policy: An Application of Markov Decision Processes and Simulation
Kyle Biswanger | Dec 2000
Development and Implementation of the Quality Evaluation Metric Application - To Promote Continuous Process Improvement at Phillips, Hager and North
Derek Leung | Oct 2000
A Simulation of Case Management Operations at the Workers' Compensation Board - A Decision Support Tool For Human Resource Allocation
Claire Lin | May 2000
Class of 1998-1999
Life Time Buy Modeling at Agilent Technologies
Dragomirna Rugina | Dec 2000
Efficient Routing of Telephone Calls in a Circuit-Switched Network
Darrel Braun | Jun 2000
Contact Centre Staff Scheduling at Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management Ltd.
Ana Maria Kim | Apr 2000
Simulation Modeling as a Decision Analysis Support Tool: Case Study at the PH&N Telephone Contact Centre
Paul Hiom | Mar 2000
A Proposal for Improving the Meal Provisioning Process at Canadian Airlines
Vincent Morency | Dec 1999
Identifying High-Risk Claims Within the Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia's Claim Inventory by Using Logistic Regression Modeling
Ernest Urbanovich | Dec 1999
Class of 1997-1998
A Markov Decision Process Model for Airline Meal Provisioning
Jason Goto | Apr 1999
Developing an Effective Interactive Voice Response (IVR) System for the Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia
Gaurav Mehra | Apr 1999
Scheduling Customer Service Representatives for the Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia
Rafael Sanegre | Jul 1998
Earlier Classes
Inventory Control in the Retail Sector: A Case Study of Canadian Tire Pacific Associates
Brian Kapalka | Apr 1995