Marietta, Georgia
March 10, 2024
March 10, 2024
March 12, 2024
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10.18260/1-2--45501
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JAVAD KHAZAII, PHD, PE, is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology and has more than twenty years of experience in HVAC engineering design and energy modeling. He also has twelve years of part-time and full-time teaching experience in teaching heat, energy, and programming courses. He has published two books focusing on energy efficiency, and advanced decision-making.
Aaron Adams, an Associate Professor, has a Master's and a Ph.D. from The University of Alabama in Mechanical Engineering.
Professor Adams’ research lies at the interface of materials and design. He has contributed to developing pioneering techniques in annealing CZT crystals that have pushed the research forward. He has also contributed in other areas (exotic aluminum alloys and additive manufacturing. His research has focused on the material end, which has provided him with an outlet to excel creatively.
A course of Advanced Decision Making methods for undergraduate students
Javad Khazaii PhD1; Ali Khazaei PhD1, Aaron Adams PhD1 1 Kennesaw State University; Engineering and Engineering Technology Department
All undergraduate engineering and engineering technology (EET) students are trained and educated in EET colleges to become a future problem solver in their own specific fields. In their own field of specialty, when they join the professional work force, they will be faced with decision makings such as what is the best way of manufacturing a specific product, what is the most efficient way of choosing material for any specific purpose, what is the most energy efficient way of performing a specific process, what is the most economical way of designing a building while considering the optimum point of design based on inputs from different trade engineers such as mechanical, electrical, architect, and other engineers, etc.. Students more or less learn about some optimization methods during their different undergraduate courses, but a course that is focused only on some of the newer and more advanced optimization methods such as artificial neural network, data fitting and pattern recognition methods, analytical hierarchy process, agent based modeling, and game theory would be extremely beneficial to the undergraduate students that do not enter the graduate study, and will join the work force immediately after graduation. The course will help the student to be armed with extremely strong tools that help them and the companies they join, allowing students to be able to move up the managerial level of their companies much faster. Authors recommend this course to become a required course for all EET students in different departments and engineering trades.
khazaii, J., & Khazaei, A., & Adams, A. L. (2024, March), A Proposed Course of Advanced Decision Making methods for Undergraduate Students Paper presented at 2024 South East Section Meeting, Marietta, Georgia. 10.18260/1-2--45501
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