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Author:

Agrawal, Suyash

Title:

Functional Modelling and Simulations of Hummingbird Musculoskeletal System

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Hummingbird Musculoskeletal System
Flapping Wing Flight
Flapping Wing Simulation
Hummingbird Hovering

File:

Download Master_s_thesis_Suyash_Agrawal_V7.pdf

Committee Members:

Bo Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jean-Michel Mongeau, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Alattar, Bader

Title:

Investigating Biologically Inspired Inverted Landing Strategies in a Nano-Quadcopter

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Biologically Inspired
Quadcopter
Crazyflie
Control
Reinforcement Learning
Blue Bottle Flies
Inverted Landing
Visual Cues
Optical Flow

File:

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Committee Members:

Bo Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiang Yang, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tilton, Maryam

Title:

MULTI-OBJECTIVE DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ORTHOPAEDIC IMPLANTS AND META-BIOMATERIALS FABRICATED VIA ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Additive manufacturing
Biomechanics
Mechanical behavior
Fracture fixation implants
Large bone defects
metamaterials

File:

Download MaryamTilton_Dissertation_08-13-2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gregory Stephen Lewis, Committee Member
Reuben H Kraft, Committee Member
April D Armstrong, Outside Member
Michael W. Hast, Special Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Osedeme, Janose

Title:

Computational Mechanics Study of A Kinematically Constrained Wrist Arthroplasty Implant

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Total Wrist Arthroplasty
Wrist Kinematics
Biomechanics
Wrist Implant

File:

Download Janose_s_Final_Thesis_Document_Sunday_08-03-20.pdf

Committee Members:

Anilchandra Attaluri, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory Stephen Lewis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amit Banerjee, Committee Member
Richard Christopher Ciocci, Program Head/Chair
Hwa Bok Wee, Committee Member

Author:

Velez, Chris

Title:

Quench Detection Logic for High Temperature Superconducting Magnets Based on Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

high temperature superconductors
optical fiber sensors
distributed sensing
Rayleigh-scattering interrogated optical fibers
Magnet quench detection
structural health monitoring
superconducting magnets
incipient fault detection
Monotonic
time-validation
data analysis

File:

Download Velez_Thesis_CV.pdf

Committee Members:

Justin Schwartz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair
Zoubeida Ounaies, Committee Member

Author:

Zhou, Yuxiao

Title:

3D Full-field Bone Biomechanics Study: Effects of Diseases and Treatments

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Biomechanics
Atomic Force Microscopy
Digital Volume Correlation
Dental implant
Glenohumeral joint
Rheumatoid arthritis

File:

Download Dissertation_Yuxiao_Zhou.pdf

Committee Members:

Jing Du, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jing Du, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Reuben H Kraft, Committee Member
April D Armstrong, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Torab, Peter

Title:

Collective Invasion In Heterogeneous Bladder Cancer Tumors: A Biomanufacturing Approach

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

bladder
cancer
heterogeneity
invasion
heterogeneous
biomanufacturing
biosensor
biomanufactured
biomanufacture
3D
extracellular matrix
leader cells
collective invasion
invasion assay
in vitro

File:

Download Peter_Torab_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Pak Kin Wong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Pak Kin Wong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jing Du, Committee Member
Tak Sing Wong, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chatterjee, Bikramjit

Title:

Electro-thermal Investigation of Next Generation Wide Bandgap Electronics

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Thermography
Thermal Management
Raman
Thermoreflectance
Infrared
GaN
Gallium Oxide
HEMT
MODFET
Optical Metrology
Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Devices
Field Effect Transistors
AlGaN
Schottky Barrier Diode
Power Electronics
Thermal Transport
Irradiation

File:

Download Bikramjit_Chatterjee_Dissertation_08122020.pdf

Committee Members:

Sukwon Choi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sukwon Choi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Md Amanul Haque, Committee Member
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Adil, Nosherwan

Title:

Rational design process for gas turbine exhaust to supercritical CO2 waste heat recovery heat exchanger using topology optimization

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Topology Optimization
Heat Exhanger
Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
Additive Manufacturing
Waste Heat Recovery

File:

Download Nosherwan_Adil_MS_Thesis_Final_Submission__2021_.pdf

Committee Members:

Alexander S Rattner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew J Rau, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair