Search

Author:

Bozek, Evan

Title:

Contact and Noncontact Nonlinear/Linear Resonance Ultrasound Spectroscopy (N/RUS) of Additively Manufactured and Wrought 316L Stainless Steel Samples

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Ultrasound
NRUS
Additive Manufacturing
Resonance
Non-contact

File:

Download EBozekMastersThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Parisa Shokouhi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden, III, Committee Member
Jacques Riviere, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Waller, Matthew David

Title:

Composite Materials for Hybrid Aerospace Gears

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

hybrid gear
composite materials
pitch-based carbon fiber
BMI-2
BMI
bismaleimide
fatigue
mechanical testing

File:

Download MattWaller-Dissertation8.pdf

Committee Members:

Kevin Koudela, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Namiko Yamamoto, Outside Unit Member
Charles Bakis, Chair of Committee
Robert Campbell, Outside Field Member
Sean McIntyre, Special Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mc Elwain, Brody

Title:

exploring the utility of monocentric imagers for astronomy

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Optics
Aberration correction
Astronomical survey

File:

Download McElwain-Brody-MS-Thesis_2022-04-04_.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Suvrath Mahadevan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Hsu, Committee Member
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bozek, Andrew

Title:

Shape Memory Alloy Films for Increasing Amplitude of Photoacoustic Signals

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Ultrasound
Thin Films
Shape Memory Alloy

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_Final-_Andrew_Bozek.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Clifford Jesse Lissenden, III, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Reginald F Hamilton, Committee Member

Author:

Brown, Tucker

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION AND SIMULATION OF MICROWAVE STRIPLINE DEVICES

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

microwave
5G
transmission lines
microstrip

File:

Download brown_ms_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Michael T Lanagan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven Edward Perini, Committee Member

Author:

Mcatee, Patrick D

Title:

Sculptured Thin Films as a Platform for Machine-Learning Based Optical Sensing of Analytes

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Sensing
Plasmonics
Machine Learning
Sculptured thin films

File:

Download McAtee_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Catchmark, Outside Unit & Field Member
Osama Awadelkarim, Major Field Member
Mark Horn, Major Field Member
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ghosh, Amartya

Title:

Reliability Studies in Silicon Carbide and Silicon Power MOSFETs

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Wide Band Gap
SiC
Reliability
Device Physics
Interface Traps
Border Traps

File:

Download Final-Revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Samia Suliman, Major Field Member
Jian hsu, Major Field Member
Osama Awadelkarim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jifa Hao, Special Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Rongming Chu, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Shyam Kumar, Prashanth

Title:

Wearable Devices for ECG and Heart Sound: Design Considerations to Support Digital Health and Remote Monitoring

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Digital health
remote patient monitoring
wearable devices
ECG lead transformation
wearable phonocardiogram
deep learning
personalization

File:

Download Dissertation_-_Prashanth_Shyam_Kumar.pdf

Committee Members:

Judith Todd Copley, Major Field Member
Vijay Varadan, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zoubeida Ounaies, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Harbaugh, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Williams, Colin

Title:

Ultrasonic Methods for Characterization of Additively Manufactured Materials: Experiments and Numerical Simulations

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

ultrasonic testing
numerical modeling
additive manufacturing
materials characterization
nondestructive evaluation
finite element simulations

File:

Download MS_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Parisa Shokouhi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeremy M. Shreiber, Committee Member
Matt Lear, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Taylor, Samuel

Title:

The Effect of Thickness and Surface Roughness on Ferroelectric Behavior of Lead Magnesium Niobate-Titanate and Lead Indium Niobate-Magnesium Niobate-Titanate Single Crystal

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Ferroelectric
Piezoelectric
Ultrasound
Characterization
Single Crystal
PMN-PT
PIN-PMN-PT

File:

Download SCT14_Thesis_final_4-18-2022.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael T Lanagan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wenwu Cao, Committee Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Richard Joseph Meyer, Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Bhattacharyya, Suparno

Title:

Physics-informed model reduction of dynamical systems subjected to impacts and discontinuity

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Physics-informed model reduction
reduced order modeling
model reduction
structural vibration
nonlinear dynamics
impulsive loading
kicked oscillator
data-driven methods
dimension reduction
POD
PCA
Proper orthogonal decomposition
Energy-closure criterion
vibration
structural dynamics
simulation
beam theory
solid mechanics
dynamical systems
chaos
bifurcation

File:

Download Bhattacharyya_PhD_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Cusumano, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Corina Drapaca, Major Field Member
Francesco Costanzo, Major & Minor Field Member
George Lesieutre, Outside Unit & Field Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jose, Nikesh

Title:

Ultrasonic Structural Health Monitoring of a metal target position in the transducer near field

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Ultrasound testing
Structural health monitoring
Piezo electric transducer
Immersion testing
Near Field

File:

Login to Download

Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Clifford Jesse Lissenden, III, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacques Riviere, Committee Member
Christopher Kube, Committee Member

Author:

Gao, Yuyan

Title:

Application of nanomaterials for wearable electronics

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Wearable electronics
Photonic sintering
bioelectronics

File:

Login to Download

Committee Members:

Sulin Zhang, Major Field Member
Larry Cheng, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Weihua Guan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Cunjiang Yu, Major Field Member
Reginald Hamilton, Major Field Member

Author:

Duane, Tyler

Title:

Ultrasonic Guided Waves For Human Health Monitoring: Simulation-Based Analysis Of The Fifth Metatarsal

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Ultrasound
Ultrasonic Guided Waves
Guided Waves
Human Health Monitoring
Fifth Metatarsal

File:

Login to Download

Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Clifford Jesse Lissenden, III, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Parisa Shokouhi, Committee Member
Elzbieta Sikora, Committee Member

Author:

Trautman, Elizabeth

Title:

Elastic Wave Propagation through Polycrystalline Ice With and Without Embedded Spherical Particle Inclusions

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Cryoultrasound
Analytical Attenuation

File:

Login to Download

Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Andrea P. Arguelles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Kube, Committee Member
Christian Peco, Committee Member

Author:

Brown, Gregory

Title:

IMAGING BIOMARKERS OF COGNITIVE DECLINE IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Cognition
MRI
Parkinson's Disease
Diffusion Tensor Imaging
penalized regression

File:

Login to Download

Committee Members:

Xuemei Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Corina Drapaca, Major Field Member
Bruce Gluckman, Major Field Member
James Broach, Outside Unit Member
Xiao Liu, Outside Field Member
Charles Duffy, Special Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nicastro, Jackson

Title:

Utilization of WGM Resonators Operating on Exceptional Surfaces for Sensing-Based Applications

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

WGM-Resonators
Non-Hermitian
Thermal Broadening
Exceptional Surfaces
Particle Sensing

File:

Login to Download

Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Sahin K Ozdemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Member
Larry Cheng, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Wei

Title:

Nonlinear Poroelastic Solutions for the Pore Fluid Flow and Sorption in Deformable Rocks

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Adsorption
Poroelasticity
Nonlinear solution
Constitutive modeling
Geomechanics

File:

Login to Download

Committee Members:

Luis Ayala H, Major Field Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Major Field Member
Albert Segall, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amin Mehrabian, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mort Webster, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Guha, Anurup

Title:

ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVES FOR HEALTH MONITORING OF HUMAN LONG BONES – MODELING AND EXPERIMENTS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Ultrasonic Guided Waves
Long Bones
Tibia
Frequency Domain
Wave-structure
partial-loading
omni-directional shear
tuning fork
SawBones
Stress Fracture
Eccentric Geometry
Time-domain
Bone Cement
Bone Ultrasound

File:

Login to Download

Committee Members:

Parisa Shokouhi, Major Field Member
Clifford Lissenden, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Michael Aynardi, Special Member
Daniel Cortes Correales, Outside Unit & Field Member
Gregory Lewis, Major Field Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Shangbin

Title:

Non-enzymatic Glucose Sensors based on Laser-induced Graphene integrated with Skin-interfaced Microfluidic component for On-body measurement

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

biosensor
glucose
mircofludic

File:

Login to Download

Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Larry Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Hsu, Committee Member