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Author:

Leng, Rui

Title:

DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MAGNETIC FIELD ACTUATED MULTILAYERED POLYMERS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Smart materials
Magneto-active elastomers
Magneto-active polymer-based materials
Shape memory polymers
Polymer actuation
Polymer Characterization
Additive manufacturing
Printability
Unimorph
Biomedical field

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Frecker, Program Head/Chair
Zoubeida Ounaies, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

Author:

Sharp, Logan

Title:

Low-Temperature Electron Wind Force Annealing through Electropulsing Treatment

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

annealing
electropulsing
EPT
electron wind
electron wind force
EWF
titanium carbide
Ti3C2Tx
MXene
film
NiTi
nitinol
shape memory alloy
SMA
electrical resistivity
thermal microscopy
scanning electron microscopy
SEM
low temperature
Raman spectroscopy

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Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Md Amanul Haque, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donghai Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Soares, Nicholas

Title:

Incorporating Novel Sprue Design and Additive Manufacturing Techniques to Improve Nickel Aluminum Bronze Castings

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

metal casting
sand casting
3D sand printing
additive manufacturing
nickel aluminum bronze

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Committee Members:

Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Carl Voigt, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dinesh Nair, Manasi

Title:

SELF BALANCING OF BATTERY CELLS AND PV ARRAYS – A REAL-TIME PHYSICAL VALIDATION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Battery
PV array
Self-balancing
Battery balancing

File:

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Committee Members:

Herschel C Pangborn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher D. Rahn, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

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:

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:

Moser, Eric

Title:

Development of a Computational Model of a High Temperature Lithium-Carbon Dioxide Reactor for Space Power Generation

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

CFD Modeling
Lithium-CO2 Combustion
Power Generation
Multiphase Flow

File:

Download Eric_Moser_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Alexander S Rattner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph John Cor, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel J. Leonard, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair
Michael Manahan, Committee Member

Author:

Lukac, Meghan

Title:

Longitudinal Analysis of Spatial-Temporal Gait Parameters for ALS Patients Using Remotely Collected Foot-Worn IMU Data

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

ALS
Gait
Longitudinal Analysis
Walking Speed
Remote Monitoring
IMU

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair
Anne Elizabeth Martin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Michael Geronimo, Committee Member
Jean-Michel Mongeau, Committee Member

Author:

Iezzi, Andrew

Title:

Integrated Modeling and Optimization of Hybrid-Electric Aircraft Power and Thermal Management Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

graph-based modeling
dynamic optimization
optimal control
hybrid-electric aircraft

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair
Herschel C Pangborn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member

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