Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Exploring Virtualization Platforms for ARM-based Mobile Android Devices
by Rahul Ramasubramanian

Gate Drive Circuits for High Voltage Power Converters using Coreless PCB Transformers
by Ryan Thomas Meitl

A Megahertz Retroreflecting MEMS Fabry Perot Modulator for Underwater Optical Communications
by Kory Forrest Gray

Shape Dynamic Analysis
by Sheng Yi

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

The Development of a Wind Turbine for Residential Use
by Wolfgang Emmanuel Sanyer

Electromechanically Coupled Finite Element Model of a Circular Electro-active Polymer Actuator
by Aseem Pralhad Deodhar

Modeling the Evolution of Mesoscale Morphology in C/SiC Ceramic Matrix Composites
by Ryan L. Kupchella

Organic Rankine Cycles : A Comparative Study and Analysis of Multiple Applications
by Ryan Timothy Nester

A Recovered Finite Volume Method for Diffusion Equations on Unstructured Grids
by Hanping Xiao

A Thermomechanically Coupled SMA Actuator Model for Finite Element Simulations of Adaptive Structures
by Nicole Lewis

Nuclear Engineering

A Dual Measurement System for Radioactive Tracer Pebble Tracking in PBRs
by Zhijian Wang

Particle Tracking Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation For Pebble Bed Reactors
by Kyoung Ook Lee

Study of Highly Concentrated Fission Product Sorption into Zeolite-A
by James Robert Allensworth
by Kyoung Ook Lee

Operations Research

An Application of Mixed Integer Linear Programing to Observed Medical Outcomes Partnership’s Safety Signal Detection
by Glen Wright Colopy

Multilevel Dirichlet Process Linear Model (MDPLM) for Heterogeneous Data
by Jiyong Lee

Matching and Stabilization of Discrete Mechanical Systems
by Yuanyuan Peng

Biological & Agricultural Engineering.

Proposing a new method of stormwater BMP assessment and evaluating the toxicity of forebay sediments
Jacquelyn K. McNett.

Biomedical Engineering.

Microarray analysis of human adipose-derived stem cells undergoing osteogenic differentiation in the absence and presence of 10% uniaxial cyclic tensile strain
Adisri Charoenpanich.

Finite element analysis of an in-vitro traumatic joint loading model
Richard Oluseni Shoge.

Chemical Engineering.

Functional genomics analysis of metal mobilization by the extremely thermoacidophilic archaeon Metallosphaera sedula
Kathryne Sherlock Auernik.

Chemistry.

Synthesis and investigation of chiral polycarbodiimides with reversible dynamic properties
Justin Glenn Kennemur.

Synthesis of substituted bacteriochlorins
Kelly Rose Meneely.

Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Design and control of distributed power flow controller
Wenchao Song.

Food Science.

Processing techniques for the improvement of peanut meal
Lauren Seifert.

Modulation of inflammatory responses by green and black tea in LPS-induced RAW 264.7 cells
Caroline Rueda Summers.

Environmental and varietal effects on niacin and folate contents in raw and roasted peanuts
Madison Lisbeth Whitley.

Materials Science & Engineering

Advanced materials based on carbon nanotube arrays, yarns and papers
Philip David Bradford.

Mathematics

Computational biomechanical models for the pericellular matrix of articular cartilage
Eunjung Kim.

Numerical computation of the characteristic polynomial of a complex matrix
Rizwana Rehman.

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

A reconstructed Discontinuous Galerkin method for the compressible Euler equations on arbitrary grids
Luqing Luo.

Operations Research.

Modeling ground sensor acquisitions of low earth orbit objects
James Kevin Bjerkaas.

Physics.

Possibilities: a framework for modeling students’ deductive reasoning in physics
Jonathan David Housley Gaffney.

Selecting the correct solution to a physics problem when given several possibilities
Evan Thomas Richards.

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Biological & Agricultural Engineering.

Design of processing conditions for conversion of sugar and starch based crops to value added products
Elizabeth Nicole Bridgers.

Impact of ammonia and long chain fatty acids on thermophilic anaerobic digestion of swine wastes
Kurt Sereno Creamer.

Biomedical Engineering.

Hemostatic mechanisms of common textile wound dressing materials
Tabitha Amber Rush.

Chemical Engineering.

Applications of functional polymer brushes for nanoparticle uptake and prevention of protein adsorption
Shafi M. Arifuzzaman.

Chemistry.

Fundamental study and method development for surface-based laser desorption ionization imaging mass spectrometry
Qiang Liu.

Civil Engineering.

Behavior of innovative precast shallow floor framing system.
Adam Michael Amortnont.

Analysis of vertical load distribution in shoring and slab systems of multistory concrete structures under construction.
Michael Patrick McGurl.

Development of a gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method for the simultaneous analysis of 19 taste and odor compounds
Anjali Viswakumar.

Computer Science.

Microplanning and linguistic realization for natural language generation in a biomedical domain
Rachael Susan Dwight.

Testing of open-source software developed in class
Uma Mahesh Katakam.

Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Design of DDR2 interface for Tezzaron TSC8200A Octopus Memory intended for chip stacking applications
Ojas Ashok Bapat.

A new operating system and application programming interface for the EvBot robot platform
Micah Colon.

The performance of passive lumped microwave elements
SeungKyun Heo.

Thermal transfer in semiconductor nano structures
Byoung-Don Kong.

A study of group III elements (La, Gd, Eu, and Al) incorporation on metal gate/high-k stacks for advanced CMOS applications.
Bongmook Lee

Finite-difference time-domain analysis of currents from a human electro-muscular incapacitation device
Rebecca Lynn Slager Mayhew.

3D face recognition from range image.
Shun Miao.

Value communication techniques to improve scalability of transactional memory systems.
Salil Mohan Pant.

Load estimation for distribution feeder monitoring & management
Urvir Singh.

Understanding the performance and resilience of large-scale multi-hop wireless networks
Yi Xu.

Industrial Engineering.

Solution procedures for logistics network models with economies of scale
Michael James Bucci.

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

A novel approach for the direct simulation of subgrid-scale physics in fire simulations
Sivaramakrishnan Balasubramanian.

System level airworthiness tool: a comprehensive approach to small unmanned aircraft system airworthiness.
David A. Burke

Embedded fiber Bragg sensors for damage identification in sandwich composites after impact
Drew Alexander Hackney.

Operations Research.

Exact and inexact methods for solving the view and index selection problem for OLAP performance improvement
Zohreh Asgharzade Talebi.

Physics.

Tribo-induced temperature rise and melting at a single asperity sliding contact
Benjamin D. Dawson.

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Chemical Engineering.

Title: Fixed Bed Hydrogenation of Polystyrene in Mixtures of Supercritical Propane and Decahydronaphthalene.
Author: Nathaniel Cain

Chemistry.

Title: Lipid-protein interactions by advanced EPR methods.
Author: Thomas Gray Chadwick

Title: Liquid-phase deoxygenation of free fatty acids to hydrocarbons using supported palladium catalysts.
Author: Jeremy Glen Immer.

Title: Investigation of the electronic and magnetic properties of electron exchange: exchange coupled donor-bridge-acceptor biradicals and novel magnetic behaviors of bis(pyridyl) cobalt dioxolene valence tautomers.
Author: Robert David Schmidt.

Computer Science.

Title: Online Erasure Coding in Distributed Storage Systems.
Author: Amey Deshpande

Title: Packet Aggregation Based Backpressure Scheduling in Multi-hop Wireless Networks.
Author: Gaurish Deuskar

Title: Tools for Business Protocols.
Author: Koushik Narayan Rajagopalan

Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Title: Optimal Resource Allocation for Next Generation Network Services.
Author: Michael Kallitsis

Title: Memory Design for Sensor IC.
Author: Seema Kumar

Title: Transient Performance Improvement Circuit (TPIC)s for DC-DC Converter Applications.
Author: Sung Keun Lim

Title: Resonant Gate Driver Design for High Efficiency Switching Power Converter.
Author: Xin Zhou

Industrial Engineering.

Title: Development of a High Throughput Nano-Positioning System with Applications in Micro-Manufacturing.
Author: Sebastian Polit

Materials Science & Engineering

Title: Integration of Functional Oxide Thin Film Heterostructures with Silicon (100) Substrates.
Author: Ravi Aggarwal

Title: Creep properties of a zinc-aluminum die-casting alloy as a function of grain size.
Author: Jeremy Michael Gobien.

Title: Integration of ferroelectric thin films in tunable microwave devices.
Author: Peter Gaifun Lam.

Title: Thermo-chemical Tool Wear in Orthogonal Diamond Cutting Steel and Stainless Steel.
Author: Meirong Shi

Mathematics

Title: Developing a New L-infinity Algebra Using Symmetric Brace Algebras.
Author: Mindy Capaldi

Title: Lifting automorphisms from root systems to lie algebras.
Author: Robert L. Watson.

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Title: An immersed boundary method for simulating the effects of control devices used in mitigating shock/boundary-layer interactions.
Author: Santanu Ghosh.

Title: Development of Predictive Models for Abrasive and Chemical Wear of Diamond Tools.
Author: Brandon Lane

Title: Flexible Structure Impact Modeling With a Particle Method.
Author: Nathan Obringer

Operations Research.

Title: Value at Risk Comparison of the CreditRisk+ and the 2-Stage CreditRisk+ Models for a Special Class of Credit Portfolios.
Author: Amogh Deshpande

Statistics.

Title: Bayesian Multi-Scale Smoothing of Photon-Limited Images with Applications to Astronomy and Medicine.
Author: John White

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