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Author:

Yener, Devren Adem

Title:

Guided wave mode conversion behavior and delamination detection in composite plates: an FEM-driven approach

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

ultrasound
ultrasonic
guided waves
composites
delamination
finite element
non-destructive testing
non-destructive evaluation
structural health monitoring
ndt
nde
shm
lamb waves
laminate
carbon fiber
fem
fea
composite

File:

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Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Xiao

Title:

Programming in Eliza

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Program Synthesis
Natural Language
Eliza
LOGO

File:

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Committee Members:

Dinghao Wu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Weathers, Thomas Casey

Title:

CONSERVATION GENETICS OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BROOK TROUT (Salvelinus fontinalis)

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

Population genetics
Genetic differentiation
Isolation
Fragmentation
Riverscape genetics
Conservation

File:

Download Weathers_PhD_Dissertation_May_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

John Edward Carlson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Edward Carlson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Lee King, Committee Member
Jesse R Lasky, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Outside Member
Matthew A Kulp, Special Member

Author:

Lv, Weining

Title:

DEEP SCENE END TO END OCR TOOL

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

deep learning ocr system

File:

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Committee Members:

Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Croninger, Rachel Miriam Vriend

Title:

Facilitating Small-Group Discussions: Effects of Teacher Discourse Moves Across Four Group Composition Formats in Fourth and Fifth Grade

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

Classroom Discussions
High-level Comprehension
Teacher Moves
Group Composition

File:

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Committee Members:

P. Karen Murphy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Li, Xinyue

Title:

DEALING WITH TESTLET-STRUCTURED DATA: EFFECT OF SAMPLE SIZE ON IRT MODEL SELECTION

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

item response theory
unidimensional model
bifactor model
model selection
testlet data

File:

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Committee Members:

Pui-Wa Lei, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wallace, Anya Michelle

Title:

CURVING SPACETIME: ON PERFORMANCE, PLEASURE, AND THE IMAGINARY BLACK GIRLHOOD SEXUAL POLITICS

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

Black girlhood
Girlhood
Visual Culture
Performance Writing
Art Writing
Popular Culture
Narratology
Translation
Language
black hole theory
Philosophy
Sexuality Studies
Gender Studies
Women's Studies
Art Education
Visual Culture Studies
Undisciplined
Body Politics
Black body
Rage
Freedom Studies
Fantasy
Creative Writing
Youth Culture Studies
Prison Culture Studies
Cultural Studies
Children's Narrative Studies
Fiction Studies
Rememory

File:

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Committee Members:

Wanda Knight, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wanda Knight, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Grace Hampton, Committee Member
Courtney Desiree Morris, Outside Member
Uju Anya, Outside Member
Booker Stephen Carpenter, II, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Malife, Chukwudiuto Udechukwu

Title:

PARALLELIZATION STRATEGY FOR MULTIPLE POINT STATISTICS BASED SIMULATION ON GPU

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Reservoir Characterization
Reservoir Modeling
MPS
Geostatistics
Geo-statistics
Multiple Point Simulation
Multiple Point Statistics
Multi Point Simulation
Multi Point Statistics
Spatial Estimation
GPU
Parallelization
Graphics Processing Unit

File:

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Committee Members:

Sanjay Srinivasan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Affane Nguema, Chris Raymond

Title:

Development of Artificial Neural Networks Applicable to Single Phase Unconventional Gas Reservoirs with Slanted Wells

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Artificial Neural Networks
Slanted Wells
Rate Transient Analysis
Pressure Transient Analysis
Reservoir Simulation
Unconventional Gas
Dual Porosity

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr .Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis F. Ayala H., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member

Author:

Last, Beth Anna

Title:

Multi-scale Microstructure and Thermo-mechanical Characterization for Shape Memory Alloy Design via Additive Manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

shape memory alloy
additive manufacturing
microstructure
digital image correlation

File:

Download BethLast_PhD_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Reginald Felix Hamilton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reginald Felix Hamilton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Todd Palmer, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Outside Member
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member

Author:

Ikis, Didem

Title:

ALASKAN PONDS AND THEIR MIGRATORY BIRD AND INSECT COMMUNITIES IN A CHANGING ARCTIC: DEVELOPMENT OF A LONG-TERM INVENTORY AND MONITORING PLAN FOR IZEMBEK NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

BIODIVERSITY
CLIMATE CHANGE
GLOBAL CHANGE
COMMUNITY ECOLOGY
PHENOLOGY
SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP
CONSERVATION
ALASKA
ARCTIC
PONDS
INVENTORY & MONITORING
ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

File:

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Committee Members:

Tracy Lee Langkilde, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Victoria Anne Braithwaite-Read, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tomas A Carlo-Joglar, Committee Member
David Andrew Miller, Committee Member
Eric Post, Outside Member

Author:

Boyer, Brady William

Title:

Rates and prevalences of predispersal seed predation on plant communities across a latitudinal gradient

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

density dependence
Janzen-Connell hypothesis
seed predation
host specificity
latitude

File:

Download Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Tomas A Carlo-Joglar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Frazier Tooker, Committee Member

Author:

Varadarajan Srinivasan, Krishna Prasad

Title:

ANALYZING THE EFFECTS OF GEOMETRIC LANE CONSTRAINTS ON RADAR-BASED SENSING OF AVAILABLE VEHICLE HEADWAY USING MAPPED LANE GEOMETRY AND CAMERA REGISTRATION OF LANE POSITION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

RADAR-based sensing
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Headway estimation
Available free space in ego-lane
free space estimation for fuel economy
sensor fusion

File:

Download Krishna_Prasad_Varadarajan_Srinivasan_Masters_Thesis_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Noureldeen, Ali

Title:

Security Study of Ranking Algorithms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ranking Algorthims
Machine Learning

File:

Download AliNoureldeen.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Charania, Rahim Karim

Title:

PREDICTING AND MODELLING THE STATISTICAL LIKELIHOOD OF CARDIAC INCIDENTS USING THE COX PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Survival Analysis
Cox Regression Models
Kaplan-Meier Curves
Cardiac Events
Heart Disease
Prediction
Statistical Modelling
Reliability Engineering
Survival Analysis
Cox Regression Models
Kaplan-Meier Curves
Cardiac Events
Heart Disease
Prediction
Statistical Modelling
Reliability Engineering

File:

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Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Blecher, Jared Jacob

Title:

Hybrid Laser-Arc Welding of Ni-base Alloy 690

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

laser welding
hybrid welding
nickel alloy
keyhole porosity
root defect
inline coherent imaging
heat transfer and fluid flow modeling

File:

Download Blecher_Dissertation_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Tarasankar Debroy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Todd Palmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Outside Member

Author:

Axten, Christopher Joseph

Title:

Utilizing Transitional CFD to Analyze the Performance of a Racing Sailplane

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

computational fluid dynamics
sailplane
boundary layer transition
aircraft performance
aircraft design

File:

Download Axten_C_Master_Thesis_Draft_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Devadoss, Daphny Oviya

Title:

HOIST MOTION CONTROL: HYDRAULIC SOLENOID VALVE CURRENT REGULATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF MINIMUM CURRENT FOR MOTION

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

hoist control
PI controller
current regulation in solenoid valve
minimum current for hydraulic motion
averaging state-space model

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Cady, Matthew D

Title:

Nurture TRUMPS Nature: Genetics, The Environment, and Parenting and Their Effect on Child Food Intake and Childhood Obesity

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

childhood obesity
obesity
genetics
adoption
cluster analysis
environmental health
Nurture versus Nature

File:

Download Matt_Cady_Dissertation_FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Green, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Green, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathleen Keller, Committee Member
Jennifer Savage Williams, Committee Member
Melissa Bopp, Outside Member
Jody Ganiban, Special Member

Author:

Yao, Wenqing

Title:

Data-driven sensor recalibration and fault diagnosis in nuclear power plants

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

sensor recalibration
fault diagnosis
nuclear power plants
online monitoring
autoregressive support vector regression
resistance temperature detector

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_Wenqing_Yao_20190415.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Justin Kyle Watson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Ivanov, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member
Justin Kyle Watson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kostadin Ivanov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James A Turso, Special Member
Xin Jin, Special Member

Author:

Doddabasappa, Sushamshushekar

Title:

LQR CONTROL DESIGN FOR A DC-DC CONVERTER USING SENSITIVITY FUNCTIONS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

LQR Control
Sensitivity Functions
Sensitivity Analysis

File:

Download Sushamshushekar_Doddabasappa_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Javad Khazaei, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Idowu, Committee Member
Scott Van Tonningen, Committee Member

Author:

Trivedi, Yamankumar Premalbhai

Title:

FIELD DEPLOYABLE GUIDED WAVE TRANSDUCERS FOR HIGH-TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Bismuth Titanate
Spray-on Transducers
Film Transducers
SHM
NDE
High-Temperature
Lithium Niobate
Lamb Wave generation
Guided Waves
Excitation Frequency
Dispersion Curves

File:

Download Trivedi_Thesis_20190418.pdf

Committee Members:

Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrea Paola Arguelles, Committee Member
Parisa Shokouhi, Committee Member

Author:

Griffin, Dominiqua Monica

Title:

AN INVESTIGATION OF SCHOOL COUNSELING ROLES, PRACTICES, CHALLENGES, AND DEMANDS IN BARBADOS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAMS IN BARBADOS

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

Barbados
School Counseling
Guidance Counselling
International Education
International School Counseling
Caribbean

File:

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Committee Members:

Julia A Green Bryan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julia A Green Bryan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nicole Sheree Webster, Committee Member
Seriashia Joyce Chatters, Committee Member
Ashley Nichol Patterson, Outside Member

Author:

Sadagopan, Aravinth

Title:

A design strategy for a 6:1 supersonic mixed-flow compressor stage and its viscous flow-based performance analysis

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

mixed-flow compressor
mean-line design
turbomachinery
computational fluid dynamics
shock stability
aerospace propulsion
Bezier curves
NASA Rotor 37
Supersonic Diffuser
6:1
pressure-ratio
blade optimization

File:

Download MS_thesis_Aravinth_Sadagopan_May_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Cengiz Camci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wisor, Joshua Michael

Title:

The Invasion of the Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus) and its effect on the Habitat Partitioning of Benthic Fishes in French Creek.

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

Fish
microhabitat
invasive species
Round Goby

File:

Download Wisor_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jay Richard Stauffer Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Weeks Boyer, Committee Member
Julian D Avery, Committee Member

Author:

Bharatula, Vasudha

Title:

REGULATION OF STRESS INDUCED GENE EXPRESSION IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Msn2
yeast
Stress

File:

Download Vbharatula_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

James Riley Broach, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Riley Broach, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ralph Lauren Keil, Committee Member
Gregory Steven Yochum, Committee Member
Scot R Kimball, Outside Member
Oranee Tawatnuntachai, Special Member

Author:

Speacht, Toni Leigh

Title:

Interdependence of the Musculoskeletal System in Response to Unloading, Immobilization, and RANKL

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

osteopenia
sarcopenia
unloading
immobilization
RANKL
hindlimb suspension

File:

Download T_Speacht_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles H Lang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles H Lang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gregory Stephen Lewis, Committee Member
Scot R Kimball, Committee Member
Gregory Steven Yochum, Outside Member
Henry Joseph Donahue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Henry Joseph Donahue, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Im, Kyungjae

Title:

FRICTION AND PERMEABILITY EVOLUTION OF FRACUTRES AND FAULTS DURING STATIC REPOSE AND DYNAMIC REACTIVATION

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Fault permeability
Fault Friction
Rate and State Friction
Fault Reactivation

File:

Download Dissertation_KJ_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Almishwat, Mohammad Ali

Title:

STRUCTURAL AND MECHANISTIC ENZYMOLOGY OF NUCLEOTIDE INCORPORATION BY A-FAMILY DNA POLYMERASES

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

DNA polymerase
A-family
DNA replication
DNA
Nucleotide incorporation
time-resolved
structural enzymology
X-ray crystallography
high-fidelity

File:

Download AlMishwat_PhD_Dissertation_2019_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

James Gregory Ferry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Gregory Ferry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Hafenstein, Committee Member
David Scott Gilmour, Committee Member
Squire J Booker, Outside Member
Amie Kathleen Boal, Committee Member
Ken Keiler, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dusch, William George

Title:

Data Science in Scanning Probe Microscopy: Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

scanning tunneling microscopy
data science
machine learning
python
data analysis
deep learning
scanning probe microscopy
condensed matter
software
vibration cancellation
automation
unsupervised learning
physics

File:

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Committee Members:

Eric Hudson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Hudson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Sofo, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Whitehead, Shelley Alexandra

Title:

Nature Nurtures: How environmental variation influences Anopheles stephensi vectorial capacity

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

mosquito
malaria
climate change
Anopheles
vector ecology
environmental variation
life history
Plasmodium

File:

Download Whitehead_Dissertation_May_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Brian Thomas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Brian Thomas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Rudolf Johannes Schilder, Committee Member
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Outside Member
Diana Cox-Foster, Special Member

Author:

Lee, Pei Wei

Title:

USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO ACCESS AND SUPPORT INFORMAL LEARNING IN MUSEUMS OF TAIWAN AND THE U.S.

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

Informal Learning
Social Media

File:

Download PS_LEE.pdf

Committee Members:

Ladislaus M. Semali, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ladislaus M. Semali, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adnan Qayyum, Committee Member
Wei-Fan Chen, Committee Member
Roger Shouse, Outside Member

Author:

Patia, Kaitlyn Grace

Title:

The (F)utiliy of Knowledge: The Democratic Faith of W.E.B. Du Bois and Jane Addams

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Democratic Faith
Rhetoric
Memory
Addams
Du Bois
Poetics
Storytelling
Agitation
Hull-House

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Committee Members:

Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Debra Hawhee, Outside Member
Denise Haunani Solomon, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rangavittal, Samarth

Title:

ASSEMBLY AND ANALYSIS OF GREAT APE Y CHROMOSOMES

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Keywords:

genome assembly
great ape
Y chromosome
k-mers

File:

Download SR_dissertation_Spring_2019_SUBMISSION_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raquel Assis, Committee Member
Wansheng Liu, Committee Member
Paul Medvedev, Outside Member

Author:

Graboski, Lake Edward

Title:

A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF OAK SEEDLING SUCCESS IN REGENERATING OAK FOREST STANDS

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

oak
seedling
regeneration
pennsylvania

File:

Download Thesis_Lake_Graboski__Corrected_.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Kim C. Steiner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Marc McDill, Committee Member
Dr. Laura Leites, Committee Member
Dr. James Finley (Retired), Committee Member

Author:

Wiepz, Rebecca Josephine

Title:

THE IMPACTS OF ARTIFICIAL SPUR EXTINCTION AND LEAF REMOVAL ON YIELD AND FRUIT QUALITY OF ‘GALA’

Graduate Program:

Horticulture

Keywords:

Spur removal
Spur leaf
Crop load management

File:

Download Wiepz_Masters_Thesis_Complete.pdf

Committee Members:

James Rawlinson Schupp, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kari Anne Peter, Committee Member
Richard P Marini, Committee Member

Author:

Beck, Faith Rose

Title:

Experimental and Theoretical Study of Oscillatory Two-Phase Flows with Heat and Mass Transfer

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

oscillatory reflood
liquid carryover
stability analysis
heat and mass transfer
thermal-hydraulics
liquid entrainment

File:

Download Faith_Dissertation2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan-Bill B Cheung, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fan-Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rui Ni, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Member
Diane Marie Henderson, Outside Member
Horacio Perez-Blanco, Special Member
Gita Talmage, Special Member
Steven M. Bajorek, Outside Member

Author:

Zhao, Peng

Title:

Multiscale Modeling and Mechanics of 2D Layered Crystals

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Multiscale Modeling
2D Material
Finite Crystal Elasticity

File:

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Committee Members:

The Pennsylvania State University, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sulin Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Outside Member

Author:

Quinlan, Kevin Randall

Title:

Advances in Design of Computer Experiments

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Covering Arrays
Bayesian Design
Plackett and Burman Designs
Experimental Run Order
Optimization

File:

Download Thesis_2262019.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis Keith Pearl, Committee Member
David Hunter, Committee Member
Enrique Del Castillo, Outside Member

Author:

Flonc, Brianna Evelyn

Title:

Do fungi make caterpillars picky eaters? Effects of endophytic Metarhizium robertsii on corn, Zea mays, growth and fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Metarhizium
Fall Armyworm
Spodoptera frugiperda
Zea mays
Biological Control
Endophyte
Agriculture
Pest Control
Metarhizium robertsii
Entomopathogenic Fungus

File:

Download MastersThesisEntomology_BriannaFlonc.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Ellen Barbercheck, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nina Ellen Jenkins, Committee Member
Maryann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member

Author:

Yun, Xingzhao

Title:

RECONSTRUCTION OF ULTRASOUND TOMOGRAPHY FOR CANCER DETECTION USING ADVANCED REGULARIZATION METHODS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ultrasound tomography
inverse scattering problem
regularization

File:

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Committee Members:

Almekkawy Mohamed, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jin, Yue

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF TWO-PHASE FLOW THERMAL-HYDRAULIC BEHAVIOR IN ROD BUNDLE DURING REFLOOD TRANSIENTS BASED ON THE RBHT EXPERIMENTAL DATA

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Two-Phase Flow
Heat Transfer
Reflood
Liquid Droplets
Mass Quality
DFFB

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Final_Yue_Jin_-2222222.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan-Bill B Cheung, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fan-Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Outside Member
Kostadin Ivanov, Special Member
Maria Avramova, Special Member
Bao-Wen Yang, Special Member
Stephen Bajorek, Special Member

Author:

Alzaabi, Abdulla Saleh

Title:

A Semi-Analytical Analysis of the Gas and Water Forecasts from Unconventional Reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Material Balance
Unconventional Reservoirs
Coalbed Methane
Runge-Kutta
Muskat

File:

Download Abdulla_Alzaabi_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Gregory R King, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jain, Abhishek

Title:

Multi-Scale Investigations in Soot Formation and Chemical Vapor Deposition

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Multi-scale
Soot formation
Chemical Vapor Deposition
simulation
nanomaterials

File:

Download AJ-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xuan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Outside Member

Author:

Chumongkhon, Visanu

Title:

ONLINE CUSTOMER REVIEW ANALYTICS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Text Classification
Machine Learning
Sentiment Analysis
Topic Modeling
Online Review Analytics
Support Vector Machine
Convolutional Neural Network
VADER

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Visanu_Chumongkhon.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lengel, Kathleen

Title:

ETHNIC-SPECIFIC HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE-16 VARIANTS EXHIBIT DISTINCT MODES OF HOST ENTRY AND INFECTION

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

HPV
Virus entry

File:

Download KLengel_Thesis_2_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Craig Matthew Meyers, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Neil David Christensen, Committee Member
Laura Carrel, Committee Member

Author:

Austin, Morgan Elizabeth

Title:

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST RIG TO STUDY METAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Metal Additive Manufacturing
Shields Number
Saltation
Metal Powder

File:

Download Austin_Morgan.pdf

Committee Members:

Rui Ni, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bazer, Abdulsamed

Title:

Shrinkage Cracking Potential & Petrographic Analysis of Concrete with MgO Expansive Admixture

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

shrinkage
restrained ring test
MgO expansive admixture
MgO concrete
petrography
thin sections
concrete
cementitious admixtures
shrinkage cracking
cracking potential
microstructure of concrete
fluorescence microscopy
polarized light microscopy
scanning electrom microscopy
SEM
EDS
concrete petrography

File:

Download SAMET_THESIS_FULL_reviewed_edited_on_20_december.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Committee Member

Author:

Cook, Aaron Matthew

Title:

Economic Issues in Nutrient Pollution Control

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

nutrient pollution
Chesapeake Bay
dynamic control
water quality trading
lag times
multiple pollutants

File:

Download Cook_AEREC_Dissertation_4_08_19.pdf

Committee Members:

James Samuel Shortle, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Samuel Shortle, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas Harvey Wrenn II, Committee Member
Karen Ann Fisher-Vanden, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Outside Member

Author:

Mathur, Tanmay Dutt

Title:

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS, DESIGN, AND FABRICATION OF PERICYCLIC MECHANICAL TRANSMISSION WITH STRAIGHT BEVEL GEARS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

LTCA
EHL
Internal bevel gear
Pericyclic drive
FSM

File:

Download Mathur-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward C. Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C. Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Liming Chang, Committee Member
Robert C. Bill, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Outside Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member