Akiner Tuzuner
Ph.D. Industrial Engineering
Major Professor: Dr. Thomas Morin / Dr. Paul Preckel
“A Stochastic Equilibrium Model of the World Crude Oil Market”
August 2010

Devendra Canchi
Ph.D. Agricultural Economics
Major Professor: Dr. Paul Preckel
“Financial Transmission Rights Valuation and Auction Structure”
August 2010

Suriya Ruangpattana
Ph.D. Industrial Engineering
Major Professor: Morin/Dr. Paul Preckel
“Analysis of Load Factor for Fuel Diversification”
May 2010

Rapeeporn Wongsiriroj
Major Professor: Sparrow
“Investigation of market power in natural gas system”
May 2007

Anthony F. Black
Major Professor: Dr. Tom Sparrow
“Evaluation of technology options for future coal based power plants”
December 2006

Basak Uluca
Major Professor: Dr. Tom Sparrow/Rardin
“Modeling strategic competition in hydro-thermal electricity generation markets with cascaded reservoir-hydroelectric generation plants”
May 2006

Tarik Aouam
Major Professor: Rardin
“Incentive contracts using simulation benchmarks for natural gas local distribution companies regulation”
August 2005

Veeradech Siriariyaporn
Major Professor: Dr. Tom Sparrow
“Reducing the cost of serving uncertain loads via the portfolio of supply contracts”
May 2005

Muhammad Al-Salamah
Major Professor: Sparrow
“A cross-border natural gas supply system to support the electricity industry in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council — GCC: A large scale mixed integer linear mathematical programming model of the production, transportation, and storage of natural gas”
December 2004

Ramu Naidoo
Major Professor: Sparrow/Rardin
“Planning models for electric transmission network expansion”
August 2004

Le-Ren Chang-Chien
Major Professor: Ong
“An automatic generation control with adaptive frequency bias setting for current NERC performance standard”
December 2002

Naeb-boon Hoonchareon
Major Professor: Ong
“Feasibility of decomposing one-minute average area control error for apportioning load-frequency regulation costs”
August 2000

Pei-Chun Lin
Major Professor: Sparrow
“Estimating the energy demand of industrial HVAC”
December 1999

David G. Nderitu
Major Professor: Sparrow
“Electric utility capacity expansion planning model incorporating power flow equations”
May 1999

Jen-hung Wang
Major Professor: Sparrow
“The value of perfect information in power system planning problems”
December 1998

Brian H. Bowen
Major Professor: Sparrow
“Short-term benefits from central unit commitment and dispatch: applications to the Southern African Power Pool”
August 1998

Farqad AlKhal
Major Professor: Sparrow
“Artificial neural networks for long-term electric load modeling & forecasting”
August 1998
 
Kevin L. Stamber
Major Professor: Sparrow
“Forecasting industrial motor stock: economic theory and policy analysis”
May 1998

Thomas Cheong-Yuen Leung
Major Professor: Sparrow
“The world iron and steel industry and its impacts on Indiana iron and steel and electric utility industries”
December 1997

Douglas J. Gotham
Major Professor: Heydt
“Flexible AC transmission systems in power network analysis and for power flow control”
December 1996

Peter M. Boerger
Major Professor: Sparrow
“Engineering economic model of optimal manufacturing technology selection in a framework of concurrent engineering: theory and application to industrial electrification”
December 1996

Thomas F. Brady
Major Professor: Sparrow
“Prescriptive simulation: a heuristic approach”
December 1996

Julien S. Lee
Major Professor: Sparrow
“Integration of the steel and electricity industries using price and load information exchange”
December 1995

Nurhadi Siswanto
MSIE
Major Professor: Dr. Tom Sparrow
“Modeling capacity expansion under uncertainty: a case study of the Southern African Power Pool”
May 2000

Basak Uluca
MSIE
Major Professor: Dr. Tom Sparrow
“Profit maximization vs. welfare maximization in a long term electricity generation model”
May 2000

Iris Prasetyo
MSIE
Major Professor: Dr. Tom Sparrow
“Optimization of the Java-Bali electric power system”
December 1999

Maliki
MSIE
Major Professor: Dr. Tom Sparrow
“Electricity capacity expansion in west Java”
December 1998

Pamela L. Niedzwiecki
MSIE
Major Professor: Dr. Tom Sparrow
“Estimating the impact of central economic dispatch in Indiana electric utilities”
May 1996

Muhannad A. Matouk
MSIE
Major Professor: Dr. Tom Sparrow
“A hybrid simulation/optimization model in the context of capacity planning”
December 1994

Kevin L. Stamber
MSIE
Major Professor: Dr. Tom Sparrow
“A methodology to simulate the optimal selection of industrial capital motor stock”
August 1994

Hari S. Abhyankar
MSIE
Major Professor: Dr. Tom Sparrow
“Electric utility behavior in the presence of rate based regulation: A mixed integer nonlinear programming model”
May 1994

Douglas J. Gotham
MSEE
Major Professor: Heydt
“Automatic generation control response in power systems using short term load forecasting information”
December 1993

David G. Nderitu
MSIE
Major Professor: Dr. Tom Sparrow
“Optimal capacity expansion of Kenya’s energy (electrical) supply”
August 1993

Thomas F. Brady
MSIE
Major Professor: Dr. Tom Sparrow
“The development of a cost based capacity planning hierarchy”
May 1991