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Author:

Burke, Vanessa

Title:

GENDER GAP IN LEADERSHIP INTEREST: STEREOTYPE INCONGRUITY EXPLANATIONS AND TARGETED RECRUITMENT SOLUTIONS

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Gender
Gender Gap
Leadership
Targeted Recruitment
Role Congruity
Attraction to Leadership

File:

Download VBurke_ForSubmission.pdf

Committee Members:

Alicia Ann Grandey, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Samuel Todd Hunter, Committee Member
Jessica Lynn Matsick, Committee Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Knapp, Kyler

Title:

The role of negative affect and social experiences predicting changes in daily craving for individuals in residential treatment for opioid use disorders

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

Opioids
Craving
Affect
Social Experiences
Ecological Momentary Assessment

File:

Download Kyler_Knapp_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Hobart H Cleveland, III, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Raymond Brick, Committee Member
Lesley Anne Ross, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Palazzo, Thomas

Title:

A Levy flight based approach to solving optimal control problems with indirect methods

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Optimal Control
Heuristic Optimization
Levy flights
Metaheuristics
Trajectory optimization
Aerospace Engineering

File:

Download Palazzo-MS-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Schwob, Natalie

Title:

Easy-First in Language and Action

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Easy-First
language planning
motor planning
planning constraints

File:

Download Schwob_Thesis_Format__HNPM.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel J Weiss, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roger Beaty, Committee Member
Carol Anne Miller, Committee Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wong, Joseph

Title:

Smart Home Surveillance System Through Edge Computing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

smart home
edge computing
security
machine learning
deep learning
motion detection
facial recognition
fog computing

File:

Download thesis_grad.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Theriault, Cristina

Title:

DIF in the CRT-A

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Aggression
DIF
CRT-A
Gender
Race
Implicit personality

File:

Download Theriault_C_Thesis_Defense_11.13.19.pdf

Committee Members:

James Marshall Lebreton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rustin David Meyer, Committee Member
Kenneth Levy, Committee Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lee, Jaeyoon

Title:

Global High-Tech Talent Sourcing Strategy: Implication of Internal and External Alignment on Strategic Direction

Graduate Program:

Human Resources and Employment Relations

Keywords:

high-tech industry
global talent management
talent sourcing strategy
contingency theory
institutional theory
fit concept
skill shortage

File:

Download Thesis_JaeYoon_Lee.pdf

Committee Members:

Elaine Farndale, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Antone John Aboud, Committee Member
Bora Kwon, Committee Member
Elaine Farndale, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shooshtari, Andrew Amir

Title:

Association of Biologics on the Use of Non-drug Medical Services in Medicare

Graduate Program:

Health Policy and Administration

Keywords:

biologics
rheumatoid arthritis
multiple sclerosis
healthcare utilization

File:

Download Shooshtari_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeah Jung, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Samuel Hollenbeak, Program Head/Chair
Joel E Segel, Committee Member
Christopher Samuel Hollenbeak, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Zilong

Title:

DYNAMICS OF COUPLED FLOW-OBJECT-SEDIMENT SYSTEMS WITH SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS (SPH) SIMULATIONS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

fluid-object-sediment interaction
multi-phase
SPH
visco-elastoplastic model

File:

Download ZilongLi-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaofeng Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Taverna, Emily

Title:

INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE PERPETRATION, POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, AND GUILT: THE MODERATING ROLE OF PARENTING STATUS

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Intimate partner violence
Guilt
PTSD
Parenting

File:

Download Emily_Taverna_Masters_Thesis_IPV_PTSD_and_Guilt.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Dyanna Marshall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ginger A Moore, Committee Member
Steffany Fredman, Committee Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hoffelmeyer, Michaela

Title:

Sexuality and Sustainable Agriculture: Queer Farmers in the Northeastern U.S.

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

Agriculture Sustainability Farming LGBTQ

File:

Download Hoffelmeyer_Thesis_AESE_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathleen J D Sexsmith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clare Hinrichs, Committee Member
Kathryn Jo Brasier, Committee Member
Kathryn Jo Brasier, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sessions, Deanna

Title:

Leveraging Data-Science to Characterize Additively Manufactured Electromagnetic Components

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Additive manufacturing
frequency selective surface
conformal electromagnetics
machine learning

File:

Download Deanna_Sessions_Thesis_v1.pdf

Committee Members:

Gregory Huff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bennett, Matthew

Title:

Factors Affecting Airfield Pavement Performance in the United States Air Force Enterprise Wide

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

airfield pavement
asset management
pavement management
united states air force
united states air force pavement
distress
pavement distress
pavement performance
pavement asset management
air force

File:

Download Matthew_Bennett_s_Master_s_Thesis_11-14-2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Shelley Marie Stoffels, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Shihui Shen, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Meng

Title:

Dual Estimation in State Space Models with Violation to Normality: A Comparison between the Extended Kalman Filter and the Particle Filter

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

state space model
Kalman filter
particle filter
dual estimation

File:

Download MengChen_MastersThesis_FinalSubmission.pdf

Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Le Bao, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wekhande, Siddarth

Title:

PARALLEL FACTOR CHIP SPIKE-IN DECONVOLUTION

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Keywords:

ChIP-seq spike in deconvolution
bioinformatics
ChIP-seq analysis

File:

Download FinalThesis_SiddarthWekhande.pdf

Committee Members:

Shaun Mahony, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Istvan Albert, Committee Member
Qunhua Li, Committee Member
George H Perry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Collins, Peter

Title:

Microgravity's Influence on the Hydration of Tricalcium Aluminate and Gypsum Pastes

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

tricalcium aluminate
gypsum
microgravity
cement
hydration
International Space Station

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Peter_Collins_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member
Sven G Bilen, Committee Member
Barry Earl Scheetz, Committee Member
Richard N Grugel, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bonfiglio, Jonathan

Title:

EVALUATION OF PENN STATE TOMATO VARIETIES FOR FRUIT QUALITY AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION

Graduate Program:

Horticulture

Keywords:

tomato
breeding
fruit quality
tomato breeding
plant breeding
commercial
variety
Solanum lycopersicum

File:

Download JTB_THESIS_final_submission_for_graduate_school.pdf

Committee Members:

Majid R Foolad, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Elsa Sanchez, Committee Member
Dr. David R. Huff, Committee Member
Erin L Connolly, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Campbell, Ryan

Title:

A Compact Wideband Stripline Hybrid Coupler

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Hybrid Coupler
stripline
compact

File:

Download RyanCampbell-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Gregory Huff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fernando, Shanika

Title:

SCHWEINFURTHIN-MEDIATED EFFECTS ON EGFR AND AKT IN CANCER CELLS

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

EGFR
Glioblastoma
Non-small cell lung cancer
AKT
MAPK
Schweinfurthin
Glycosylation

File:

Download 2019.12.03_Masters_THESIS_SF.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond J Hohl, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey D Neighbors, Committee Member
Nadine Hempel, Committee Member
Hong-Gang Wang, Committee Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bhattacharjee, Debapriya

Title:

Periodic Cross-Flow Trajectory Optimization for an Experimentally-Parameterized Model of a Tethered Energy Harvester

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

periodic optimal control
airborne wind energy systems
buoyant air turbine
optimization

File:

Download Debapriya_Bhattacharjee_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Volpe, Marc

Title:

Design, Development, and Field Testing of the GlacierHawk: an Unmanned Aerial System for Geoscience Data Retrieval

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Unmanned Aerial System
glaciology
geoscience
aircraft design
aerospace engineering
rotorcraft
flight
Greenland
Helheim
glacier
geoPebble
sensor

File:

Download MarcVolpe-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven G Bilen, Committee Member

Author:

Wyatt, Damaris Christine

Title:

Constraints from Monazite Petrochronology on the Assembly of the Ivrea-Verbano Zone

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Lower Crust
Metamorphism
Lower Continental Crust
Monazite
U-Pb Geochronology
Metamorphic Petrology
Tectonics
Trace Element Geochemistry
Thermobarometry
Pseudosection Modeling

File:

Download wyatt_ms_2019____.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew James Smye, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Member
Tanya Furman, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Clayman, Scott

Title:

Analyzing Pennsylvania’s Economic Resilience Considering Interdependent Infrastructures and Economic Sectors

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

economic
disruption
input-output model
inoperability input-output model
multi-regional inoperability input-output model
I-O model
IIM model
MRIIM model
infrastructure
critical infrastructure
economic resilience
economic sectors
industry sectors
bayesian vector autoregression
network
clustering
centrality
components
GDP
forecasting
vulnerability

File:

Download S._Clayman_-_Master_s_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mohamad Darayi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raghu Sangwan, Committee Member
Satish Mahadevan Srinivasan, Committee Member
Youakim Badr, Committee Member
Colin Neill, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zafeiroudi, Kyriaki

Title:

Automatic Keyphrase Extraction from Scholarly Documents

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

keyphrase extraction
PageRank
word embeddings

File:

Download KDZ_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Clyde Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cai, Jizhao

Title:

The Reasons behind the Differences Between Chinese and U.S. Training Programs

Graduate Program:

Human Resources and Employment Relations

Keywords:

training program
China
U.S.A.

File:

Download Thesis_Jizhao_Cai.pdf

Committee Members:

Elaine Farndale, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bora Kwon, Committee Member
Paul Clark, Program Head/Chair
Dorothea Roumpi, Committee Member

Author:

Silverhart, Perri

Title:

Land use versus climate controls on hillslope erosion at a farmed headwater catchment in central Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

erosion
agricultural erosion
critical zone
czo
cesium-137

File:

Download silverhart_thesis_final3.pdf

Committee Members:

Roman Alexander Dibiase, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tipton, Nathan

Title:

An Outdoor Sound Propagation Model in Concert with Geographic Information System Software

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

Acoustics
Outdoor Sound

File:

Download Tipton_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Victor Ward Sparrow, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Newman, Committee Member
Brendan Derrick Taff, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Clayman, Carly

Title:

RNA Sequencing and Clinical Data Analysis of Multiple Cancer Types on the National Cancer Institute's Genomic Data Commons

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science

Keywords:

RNA Sequencing
Genomic Data Commons
TCGA
Prostate Cancer
Survival Analysis
Boruta Random Forest
Feature Selection
Clustering Analysis
Principal Component Analysis
Clinical Data
RNA-Seq
Cancer
Landmark Genes

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Clayman_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Satish Mahadevan Srinivasan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raghu Sangwan, Committee Member
Youakim Badr, Committee Member
Colin Neill, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dada, Gbolahan P

Title:

Generalized S.V.D. Reduced Order Observers for Noisy Linear and Nonlinear systems

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

GSVD
State estimation
Process Control
Reduced order observer
Measurement noise
Nonlinear system
LTI system
Generalized singular value decomposition

File:

Download MSc_Dada_Final_1.pdf

Committee Members:

Antonios Armaou, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali Borhan, Special Signatory
Phillip E Savage, Program Head/Chair
Monty Alger, Committee Member
Robert Rioux, Committee Member

Author:

Shenoy, Ashish

Title:

Maximizing Propellant Consumption To Prepare An Impaired Satellite For Retrieval

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

PSO
Particle Swarm Optimization
Satellite
Retrieval
Impaired Satellite
Propellant Consumption
Orbital Elements
Gauss Variational Equations
GVE

File:

Download Ashish-Shenoy-Thesis-2019_Final_Form_Fixed.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Puneet Singla, Committee Member

Author:

Mehta, Priyesh

Title:

Employing eye-tracking, screen capture and artifact analysis methods to characterize re-design for Additive Manufacturing behaviors

Graduate Program:

Additive Manufacturing and Design

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Powder bed fusion
metal Additive
Eye tracking
Qualitative analysis
Design for Additive Manufacturing
manufacturability matrix
design ideation
3D printing
cognitive design
engineering education
graduate engineering education
workforce development
design engineering
novice v/s expert designers

File:

Download Priyesh_Mehta_MS_Thesis_finalversion_submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Catherine G P Berdanier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Committee Member
Timothy W. Simpson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gunther, Kelley

Title:

Inhibitory Control as a Risk Factor for Internalizing Behaviors in Behaviorally Inhibited Children: A Mobile Eye Tracking Investigation

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Behavioral Inhibition
Anxiety
Internalizing
mobile eye tracking
inhibitory control
executive functions

File:

Download Gunther_Thesis_Grad_Sub2.pdf

Committee Members:

Koraly Elisa Perez-Edgar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cynthia L Huang-Pollock, Committee Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Committee Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Durairaj, Deepit Abhishek

Title:

Unsupervised Deep Learning Approach For Photoacoustic Spectral Unmixing.

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Spectral Unmixing
Machine Learning
Autoencoders
Unsupervised Learning
Photoacoustic Imaging

File:

Download Deepit_Durairaj_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Jonathan Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gupta, Anchal

Title:

Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Energy-Efficient Heating Controller for Smart Buildings

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science

Keywords:

Deep reinforcement learning
Simulation
Occupant thermal comfort
Heating controller
HVAC

File:

Download Thesis_Final_Report.pdf

Committee Members:

Youakim Badr, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ashkan Negahban, Committee Member
Guanghua Qiu, Committee Member
Colin Neill, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Haddat, Mohamed

Title:

MODELING THE FREQUENCY RESPONSE OF A BRIDGE SUPERSTRUCTURE

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Bridge frequency response
Dynamic response of bridges

File:

Download Bridge_Frequency_Response.pdf

Committee Members:

Shashidhara S Marikunte, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seroj Mackertich-Sengerdy, Program Head/Chair
Sofia Margarita Vidalis, Committee Member
Seroj Mackertich-Sengerdy, Committee Member

Author:

Shah, Rajvi

Title:

Automated Reverse Docking of Tractor-Trailer using Infrastructure-based Sensing Experimentally Tested with a Full-scale Tractor-Trailer

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

reverse path tracking
docking
tractor-trailer
automation
infrastructure-based sensing
advanced driver assistance system
autonomous trucks

File:

Download Rajvi_Shah_MS_Thesis_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Minghui Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kimmel, Nathan

Title:

A Method for the Exploitation of Microlift for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

autonomy
soaring
microlift
thermal
thermal wall
thermal stream
thermal strand
autonomous
uav
autonomous soaring

File:

Download Nathan_Kimmel_A_Method_for_the_Exploitation_of_Microlift_for_Unmanned_Aerial_Vehicles.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member

Author:

Ho, Leslie

Title:

Emotion knowledge as a mediator of school readiness outcomes

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Emotion knowledge
emotional competence
school readiness
social-emotional learning

File:

Download Leslie_Masters_FINAL_VERSION.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Linn Bierman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erika Sell Lunkenheimer, Committee Member
Yo Jackson, Committee Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shringarputale, Sushrut Dhawal

Title:

Co-residency attacks on containers are real

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Containers
Orchestrators
Co-residency
Cloud Security

File:

Download Thesis_Title-3.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas F La Porta, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ramachandran, Sharath Kumar

Title:

INVESTIGATING THE ACCURACY OF CREATIVITY METRICS USED IN ENGINEERING DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Engineering Design

Keywords:

Creativity and Concept Generation
Design Evaluation
Design Validation
Creatvity Metrics
Verifying Metrics

File:

Download Sharath_Kumar_Ramachandran_Grad_Thesis_Fall_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Scarlett Rae Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Samuel Todd Hunter, Committee Member
Sven G Bilen, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Alamoudi, Hassan

Title:

Applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare: A cardiovascular case

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Healthcare
Cardiovascular

File:

Download Hassan_Alamoudi-MS_Thesis_Dec_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Hui Yang, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Special Signatory

Author:

Agarwal, Amal

Title:

Model-Based Clustering of Nonparametric Weighted Networks

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Exponential-family random graphical model
Local likelihood
Variational inference

File:

Download Amal-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Diaz, Manuel

Title:

SEMICLASSICAL CONSISTENT CONSTRAINTS WITH MOMENTS IN SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC QUANTUM GRAVITY

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Canonical Quantum Gravity
Semiclassical Constraint Algebra
Canonical Effective Method
Dirac Algebra
Hypersurface Deformation Algebra
First-Class Algebra
First-Class Constraints
Constrained Hamiltonian System
Effective Theory

File:

Download ManuelDiaz-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Martin Bojowald, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Irina Mocioiu, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member

Author:

Srinivasan, Visweshwar

Title:

AN ULTRA-LOW-COST PORTABLE PHOTOACOUSTIC SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

medical
electronics
devices
ultrasound
photoacoustics
portable
cheap
ultra
ultraportable
cost effective

File:

Download Vish_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

William Evan Higgins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mehdi Kiani, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Crowe, Elizabeth

Title:

Understanding Factors that Influence STEM Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Buy-In to Pedagogical Training

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

graduate teaching assistant
pedagogical training
buy-in
STEM pedagogical training
GTA professional development

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_Crowe_for_Submission_11-11.pdf

Committee Members:

Julia Diane Plummer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rose Mary Zbiek, Program Head/Chair
Hollie Kulago, Committee Member

Author:

Banfill, James Steven

Title:

APPLICATION OF SPENT MUSHROOM COMPOST TO ANTHRACITE MINE SOILS: BIOMASS PRODUCTION, SOIL FERTILITY, AND SPATIAL INVENTORY OF SUITABLE MINE SITES

Graduate Program:

Soil Science

Keywords:

coal mine reclamation
spent mushroom compost
warm-season grass
biomass
switchgrass
landscape fragmentation

File:

Download Final_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Charles Stehouwer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Alan Miller, Committee Member
Douglas Brian Beegle, Committee Member
David Eissenstat, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Snyder, Cody

Title:

Development of a Cast 50 ksi (345 MPa) Yield Strength Low Alloy Steel with a Low Carbon Equivalent

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

cast steel
HSLA cast steel
HSLA steel

File:

Download Snyder_Master_s_Thesis__Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Carl Voigt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Jingjing Li, Committee Member
Amy Carol Robinson, Special Signatory

Author:

Feurer, Matthew

Title:

UPDATED SUBLATTICE MODELS OF TOPOLOGICALLY CLOSE PACKED PHASES WITH A REVISED PHASE DESCRIPTION OF σ PHASE

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

CALPHAD
First Principles
Topologically close packed phases
TCP phases
Sigma phase

File:

Download Thesis-v9.pdf

Committee Members:

Zi-Kui Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan B Sinnott, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hackenbrack, Nicole Marie

Title:

INVESTIGATING THE REPLICATION AND EVOLUTION OF ICOSAHEDRAL VIRUSES WITH CRYO-ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

virus
cryo-electron microscopy
replication
evolution
picornavirus
partitivirus
adenovirus

File:

Download Hackenbrack_Masters_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Hafenstein, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joyce Jose, Committee Member
Scott Eugene Lindner, Committee Member
B. Tracy Nixon, Committee Member

Author:

Smallcomb, Molly

Title:

Focused ultrasound histotripsy of connective tissue: A tendon model

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

histotripsy
ultrasound
tendon
cavitation

File:

Download Smallcomb_MastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Juli Simon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Meghan Elise Vidt, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Program Head/Chair