Search

Author:

Brunet, Jean-patrick Leopold

Title:

Effects Of Porosity And Mineral Composition On Cement Alteration During Geological Carbon Sequestration

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Carbon capture and storage
carbon sequestration
wellbore cement
carbon dioxide reaction

File:

Download Thesis_brunet.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Li Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tremper, Amber Leigh

Title:

Effects of Nanoscale Coatings on Reliability of MEMS Ohmic Contact Switches

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MEMS
ohmic
thin films
nanoindentation
coatings
ruthenium
gold
platinum
contact resistance

File:

Download Tremper_Doctoral_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Suzanne E Mohney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Christopher Muhlstein, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Raymond Howell, Committee Member
Seong Han Kim, Committee Member
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member

Author:

Maniaci, David Charles

Title:

Wind Turbine Design Using A Free-wake Vortex Method With Winglet Application

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Wind turbine
winglet
free-wake
vortex method
rotor aerodynamics
blade design

File:

Download psu-thesis-Dmaniaci-18m_FIN_4-5-13_DateChange.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark David Maughmer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barnes Warnock Mccormick Jr., Committee Member
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Committee Member
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Sue Ellen Haupt, Committee Member
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member

Author:

Gu, Jin

Title:

Model engineered cellulose-hemicelluose-pectin nanomaterials for understanding plant cell wall assembly

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

cellulose
hemicellulose
pectin
bacterial cellulose
cellulose nanowhiskers

File:

Download Jin_Gu_phd_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey M Catchmark, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nicole Robitaille Brown, Committee Member
Seong H Kim, Committee Member
Teh Hui Kao, Committee Member

Author:

Tuysuz, Burak

Title:

Development and Implementation of a Passive Vhf Radar System Using Software Defined Radio Techniques to Study Equatorial Plasma Instabilities Near the Peruvian Andes

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

CAPRI
passive radar
coherent radar
ionospheric irregularities
software defined radio

File:

Download BurakTuysuz-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Julio Urbina, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Mathews, Committee Member
James Kenneth Breakall, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

Mandala, Supreet Reddy

Title:

Scalable and robust algorithms for clustering large scale networks

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Social Networks
Clustering
Optimization
Data Mining

File:

Download Thesis_Mandala.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Member
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member

Author:

Zheng, Lijuan

Title:

Computational Exploration of High Power Operation in Porous Flow Field Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells with a Validated Model

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

polymer electrolyte fuel cell
porous flow field
multi-phase model
high power density operation
anode dry-out
net water drag

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_03_05_2013.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew M Mench, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Member
John Michael Regan, Committee Member

Author:

Ahn, Chong Hyun

Title:

Modeling Of Hydraulic Fracture Network Propagation In Shale Gas Reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Hydraulic fracture
shale gas reservoir
fracture network
naturally fractured reservoir

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Chong_Hyun_Ahn_12052012.pdf

Committee Members:

Yilin Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Terry Engelder, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
R Larry Grayson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Pun, Wik Hung

Title:

Development And Validation Of a Test Stake Perception Measure

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

High Stake Testing
Measure
Validation

File:

Download Development_And_Validation_Of_a_Test_Stake_Perception_Measure.pdf

Committee Members:

Hoi Kin Suen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puiwa Lei, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hoover, Joshua Daniel

Title:

Case Study Analysis of Submeso Motions in Moderately Complex Terrain of Central PA

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

submeso
complex terrain
stable boundary layer

File:

Download HooverMSThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott James Richardson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Khajeh, Ehsan

Title:

Guided Wave Propagation in Complex Curved Waveguides: Flexural Guided Waves and their Application for Defect Classification in Pipes

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Guided Waves
Flexural
Ultrasonic
Inspection
Pipes
Defect
Dispersion Curves

File:

Download Ehsan_Khajeh-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reginald Felix Hamilton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Junhyoung

Title:

Exploring The Leisure Behaviors Of Older Korean Immigrants Associated with Leisure Benefits, Facilitators to Leisure, Leisure Constraints, and Acculturation

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Keywords:

Leisure
Acculturation
older Korean immigrants
leisure benefits

File:

Download FINAL_DISSERTATION13.pdf

Committee Members:

Garry Chick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Deborah Lee Kerstetter, Committee Member
Careen M Yarnal, Committee Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Committee Member

Author:

Chin-quee, Karis P

Title:

Breast cancer cell secretions promote a pre-metastatic niche in bone; an in vitro look

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

breast cancer metastasis
pre-metastatic niche
bone
collagen fragments
collagenase

File:

Download thesisuploadedapr17noon.pdf

Committee Members:

Henry Joseph Donahue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Henry Joseph Donahue, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrea Manni, Committee Member
Andrea Marie Mastro, Committee Member
David Feith, Committee Member
Lisa M Shantz, Committee Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Committee Member

Author:

Giacobe, Nicklaus A

Title:

Measuring the Effectiveness of Visual Analytics and Data Fusion Techniques on Situation Awareness in Cyber-security

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

situation awareness
cyber-security
simulation
data fusion
visualization
visual analytics

File:

Download Giacobe_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David J Hall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael David Mcneese, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Committee Member
Mark Edward Ballora, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Minho

Title:

Longitudinal Methods for Prioritizing Highway Safety Investments

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Geometric Effects
Crash Frequency
Accident Severity
Heterogeneous Negative Binomial Model
Multinomial Logit Model

File:

Download Dissertation-Minho_Park.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkataraman Shankar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Swagata Banerjee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Jeremy Joseph Blum, Committee Member

Author:

Spence, Patricia Ruma

Title:

Interconnectedness and Contingencies: A Study of Context in Collaborative Information Seeking

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

CIS
teams
collaboration
context
healthcare
contextual factors
information seeeking

File:

Download PRSpence_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Madhu Reddy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sandeep Purao, Committee Member
Bernard James Jansen, Committee Member
Barbara Louise Gray, Committee Member
Wayne G Lutters, Special Member

Author:

Temes, Christina Maria

Title:

Understanding Heterogeneity in Non-suicidal Self-injury: A Latent Class Approach

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

non-suicidal self injury
self-harm
latent class analysis

File:

Download temes_masters_NSSI.LCA_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Levy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Haolun

Title:

High Frequency Mri Rf Coil Design

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

high frequency
mri
rf coil

File:

Download GraduationThesis_haolunzhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael T Lanagan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Neuberger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Xu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Millard, Craig Louis

Title:

Evaluating controls on crevasse-splay growth in modern and ancient fluvial systems

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Crevasse-splay
Splay
River
Fluvial
Avulsion
Sedimentology

File:

Download Craig_Millard_Thesis_whole_011013.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Ann Hajek, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kuterbach, James Michael

Title:

A model of academic enablers and academic performance among postsecondary learners

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

academic enablers
academic performance
postsecondary
higher education

File:

Download Dissertation_-_Jim_Kuterbach.pdf

Committee Members:

David P Baker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David P Baker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katerina Bodovski, Committee Member
Robert James Stevens, Committee Member
Liang Zhang, Committee Member