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Thesis Research Topics

This webpage is designed to aid graduate students in Management Information Systems (MIS) in the selection of a master's thesis topic. Below is a listing of MIS graduate faculty and possible research topics. Visit the IS&T Faculty Research Page for faculty areas of research.

Sidney Davis:
(No topics from this faculty member at this time)

Gert-Jan de Vreede:
  1. Design of repeatable collaboration processes with GSS in Software Engineering
  2. Design of repeatable collaboration processes with GSS in Information Assurance
  3. Enhancing collaborative learning in the graduate classroom through (electronic) facilitation

Donna Dufner:
  1. Service-learning
  2. Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN)
  3. Project Management Informatics
  4. Project Risk Management

Ann Fruhling:
(No topics from this faculty member at this time)

Dwight Haworth:
(No topics from this faculty member at this time)

Deepak Khazanchi:
(No topics from this faculty member at this time)

Lotfollah Najjar:
  1. Quality Information Systems (Data Quality) in the service and manufacturing industries
  2. Business Process Reengineering & IT
  3. Data Mining
  4. Total Quality Management (TQM) & IT in service and manufacturing

Leah R. Pietron:
(No topics from this faculty member at this time)

Sajda Qureshi:
  1. Informationi Technology for Development
  2. Outsourcing Infrastructures
  3. Health Informatics
  4. Digital Divide
  5. Electronic Government
  6. View Supporting PDF

Paul van Vliet:
  1. Systems Development Education
  2. Information Systems Architecture Definition
  3. Collaborative Work

Yong Shi:
(No topics from this faculty member at this time)

Kerry W. Ward:
  1. Risks and risk models in the Information Assurance domain
  2. IS strategy/Strategic alignment
  3. IS infrastructure
  4. Knowledge Management

Peter Wolcott:
(No topics from this faculty member at this time)

Ilze Zigurs:
  1. Systems development methods and techniques
    • comparison of methods and techniques
    • relative effectiveness of different methods and techniques
    • computer-based support for methods and techniques
  2. Virtual project management
    • collaboration tools to support virtual project team members
    • patterns of effectiveness in virtual project management
  3. Virtual teams
    • effectiveness of virtual teams
    • matching technology to the right task in virtual teams
    • leadership in virtual teams
  4. Collaboration technology
    • state-of-the-art in collaboration technology
    • new techniques for design and implementation of collaboration systems

This page was updated on August 15, 2006.