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Author:

Shi, Xuechen

Title:

Xuechen's Master 2016

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Homeostasis
Self-regulated drug release
Aptamers
Adenosine
Human platelet derived growth factor BB

File:

Download Xuechen_s_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Yong Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Sulin Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Orbay, Sinem

Title:

Acoustically Driven Micro Electro-Mechanical Mixers for Biomedical Applications

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Micromixing
high-viscosity fluid
acoustofluidics
polyethylene glycol (PEG)
High viscosity fluids
Acoustofluidics
Artificial cilia

File:

Download SinemOrbay_MastersThesis_FinalSubmission.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Yang, Committee Member
Siyang Zheng, Committee Member

Author:

Rowlands, Grant William

Title:

VISUALIZATION OF THE OUTLET FLOW FROM THE HEARTMATE II LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE USING LASER DOPPLER AND PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Ventricular Assist Device
von Willebrand Factor
Fluid Dynamics
Heartmate II
Outlet Flow
Proteolytic cleavage
Laser Doppler Velocimetry
Particle Image Velocimetry

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Keefe B Manning, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Margaret June Slattery, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member

Author:

Mcphail, Michael Jesse

Title:

Glottal Aerodynamics From A Lagrangian Perspective

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Phonation
Lagranian Coherent Structures
Aeroacoustics
Voice
Speech

File:

Download Michael-McPhail-Dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael H Krane, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael H Krane, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Keefe B Manning, Committee Member
Ji Min Lee, Outside Member
Sid Khosla, Special Member

Author:

Aycock, Kenneth Iven

Title:

Towards Patient-Specific Modeling of Inferior Vena Cava Filter Performance

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

IVC filter
nitinol
pulmonary embolism
immersed boundary method
six degrees of freedom
inferior vena cava
computational fluid dynamics
finite element analysis
non-Newtonian
hemorheology
hemodynamics
patient-specific
computational modeling
embolus transport
coupled CFD/6-DOF
fictitious domain method

File:

Download 2016_Aycock_Kenneth_Penn_State_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Keefe B. Manning, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert L. Campbell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Michael Krane, Committee Member
Donna H. Korzick, Outside Member
Brent A. Craven, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keefe B. Manning, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Park, Soohyun

Title:

Development of Proteoliposome- and Nanowell-based Platforms to Assess P-glycoprotein Transport Activity

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Giant liposome
P-glycoprotein
Multidrug resistance
Pore-spanning bilayer

File:

Download SPark_doctoral_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sheereen Majd, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sheereen Majd, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Committee Member
Manish Kumar, Outside Member
William O Hancock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Kang, You Jung

Title:

MIMICKING AND TARGETING BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES USING GIANT PROTEOLIPOSOME AND POLYMERIC NANOPARTICLES

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Giant Unilamellar Vesicles
Hydrogel
Nanoparticles
Nanoprecipitation
Electroformation

File:

Download Thesis_fianl_YJ.pdf

Committee Members:

William O Hancock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sheereen Majd, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Committee Member
James R Connor, Outside Member
Sheereen Majd, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Gaddes, Erin Richards

Title:

Programmable Materials for Capturing, Releasing, and Characterizing Cancer Cells

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

polyvalent display
aptamers
CTC capture
signal amplification

File:

Download ErinGaddes_FinalDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yong Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor