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Author:

Bhawani, Sagata

Title:

A Function-Based Lean Construction Methods Ontology Supporting the Lean Implementation Planning Process Developed for Construction Projects

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Lean Construction Methods
Lean Implementation
Lean Implementation Planning Process
Domain Ontology
Construction Projects
Project Team
Case Study
Lean Construction Methods Ontology

File:

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Committee Members:

Rob Leicht, Co-Chair of Committee
Somayeh Asadi, Major Field Member
Chris McComb, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Messner, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sez Atamturktur, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yu, Min Gyung

Title:

Uncertainty and Risk Aware Controls for Portfolios of Buildings with Thermal Energy Storage

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Transactive control
Stochastic optimization
Thermal energy storage
Grid-integrated building
Model Predictive Control
Uncertainty quantification

File:

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Committee Members:

Mort Webster, Outside Unit Member
Greg Pavlak, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Freihaut, Major Field Member
Uday Shanbhag, Outside Field Member
Julian Wang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Pei, Gen

Title:

A MODELING AND MEASUREMENT FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING TRANSPORT, FATE, AND CONTROL OF INDOOR AIR POLLUTANTS

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Indoor air quality
Building ventilation
Pollutant exposure assessment
Indoor chemistry
Airborne disease transmission
Low-cost particle sensor
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Energy-efficient building

File:

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Committee Members:

Yuan Xuan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Donghyun Rim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Greg Pavlak, Major Field Member
James Freihaut, Major Field Member
Somayeh Asadi, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Shakerian, Shahrad

Title:

Digital Twin Enabled Facilities Maintenance Management through the Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Sensory-Level Data

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Facility maintenance
digital twins
machine learning
signal processing
failure prediction
early failure detection
anomaly detection

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Committee Members:

Bill Sitzabee, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Somayeh Asadi, Major Field Member
Houtan Jebelli, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Asok Ray, Outside Unit & Field Member
Somayeh Asadi, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Feng, Yanxiao

Title:

OPTIMIZING INDIVIDUALIZED INDOOR THERMAL COMFORT PREDICTION MODEL

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Thermal sensation; Thermal preference; Responsive control; Real-time measurement; Event alert; Internet of things; Threshold tuning; Feature interactions; Mini-batch based learning.

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Committee Members:

Ying-Ling Jao, Outside Unit & Field Member
Julian Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Greg Pavlak, Major Field Member
Esther Obonyo, Major Field Member
Somayeh Asadi, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Jiang, Zhouqian

Title:

Automated Construction Progress Monitoring using Image Segmentation and Building Information Models

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Construction Progress Monitoring
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Computer Vision
Image Segmentation
Deep Learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Rob Leicht, Major Field Member
John Messner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julian Wang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Yuqing Hu, Major Field Member
Yanxi Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Asadian, Elnaz

Title:

The Impact of Lean Methods Implementation on Construction Team Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Lean Construction
Team Dynamics
Last Planner System (LPS)

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Committee Members:

Rob Leicht, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Somayeh Asadi, Major Field Member
John Messner, Major Field Member
Susan Simkins, Outside Field Member
Julian Wang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Stephen Humphrey, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Hinkelman, Kathryn

Title:

Modelica Modeling and Ecosystem Biomimicry of District Energy Systems

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Biomimicry
Building Systems
Design
District Energy
District Heating
District Cooling
Dynamical Systems
Ecological Network Analysis
Ecosystem Biomimicry
Exergy
Modelica
Modeling and Simulation
Numerical Performance
Optimization
Steam
Sustainability
Systems

File:

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Committee Members:

Margot Kaye, Outside Unit & Field Member
Wangda Zuo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Greg Pavlak, Major Field Member
James Freihaut, Major Field Member
Michael Wetter, Special Member
Kyri Baker, Special Member
James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair

Author:

He, Zhanwei

Title:

Resilience of smart energy systems: security against cyberattacks and power outages

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

smart energy system
energy resilience

File:

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Committee Members:

William Bahnfleth, Major Field Member
Seth Blumsack, Outside Unit & Field Member
Greg Pavlak, Dissertation Advisor
James Freihaut, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Javad Khazaei, Special Member
Julian Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Bunt, Stephanie

Title:

Progression of Designer Behavior when Exploring Digital Building Design Spaces

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

parametric design
design optimization
design behavior
expertise in design
parametric thinking
building design education

File:

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Committee Members:

James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair
Jose Pinto Duarte, Outside Field Member
Nathan Brown, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ryan Solnosky, Major Field Member
Peter von Buelow, Special Member
Jessica Menold, Outside Unit Member
Catherine Berdanier, Outside Field Member

Author:

Alkhatatbeh, Baraa

Title:

Harmonizing Visual And Non-Visual Light Effects For Energy Efficient Classrooms' Designs

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Classrooms' design
visual and non-visual effects of light
daylighting
Multi-objective optimization
energy use

File:

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Committee Members:

James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair
Somayeh Asadi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rahman Azari, Outside Unit & Field Member
Julian Wang, Major Field Member
Houtan Jebelli, Major Field Member

Author:

Liu, Yizhi

Title:

Worker-Centric Human-Robot Co-adaptation in Construction

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Construction Robotics
Human-Robot Collaboration
Human-Robot Interaction
Construction Safety and Productivity
Artificial Intelligence in Construction
Construction Automation

File:

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Committee Members:

Somayeh Asadi, Major Field Member
John Messner, Major Field Member
Houtan Jebelli, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mehdi Kiani, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sadat Mohammadi, Milad

Title:

Human-Centric Digital Twin Model of Electric System Maintenance Technicians for Near Real-Time Health and Ergonomic Postural Risk Monitoring

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Human Centric Digital Twin Model
Health Monitoring
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Ergonomic Risk Assessment

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Committee Members:

Somayeh Asadi, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Somayeh Asadi, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Messner, Major Field Member
Houtan Jebelli, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mehdi Kiani, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Mottahedi, Sam

Title:

Microgrid Energy Management System Control Using Reinforcement Learning

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Reinforcement Learning
Safe Reinforcement Learning
Energy Management Systems
Constrained Differentiable Cross-Entropy Method

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Committee Members:

Greg Pavlak, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Freihaut, Major Field Member
Somayeh Asadi, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Yan Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Somayeh Asadi, Major Field Member

Author:

Nazari-Heris, Morteza

Title:

Techno-Socio-Economic Analysis of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Electric vehicles
EV smart parking lot
Energy management
Social equity access
Economic analysis

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Committee Members:

Somayeh Asadi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Freihaut, Major Field Member
Houtan Jebelli, Major Field Member
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Julian Wang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Karji, Ali

Title:

A DATA-CENTRIC APPROACH FOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS AND ORGANIZATIONS: BARRIERS, ASSESSMENT, AND IMPLEMENTATION

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

data-centric approach in construction
data-centric barriers
data-centric
construciton industry
categorical principal component analysis
digitization
digitalization
digital transformation
barriers
data-centric maturity
data-centric maturity matrix
Building Information Modeling
data-centric implementation framework
data-centric case study
Assessment
data-centric assessment
implementation

File:

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Committee Members:

Rob Leicht, Major Field Member
Nathan Brown, Major Field Member
Chris McComb, Outside Field Member
John Messner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Aleksandra Radlinska, Outside Unit Member
Julian Wang, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kurdi, Yumna Imad

Title:

Co-simulation and optimization of PV system design at the urban scale: Correlation between electricity supply and demand

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Photovoltaics (PV)
Battery Energy Storage System
Urban design
building energy simulation
Electricity transactions over the grid
energy supply and demand

File:

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Committee Members:

Somayeh Asadi, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lisa Iulo, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Freihaut, Major Field Member
Houtan Jebelli, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Russell Bechtel, Special Member
Somayeh Asadi, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Swaminathan, Siddharth

Title:

Pro-active and re-active dispatch of energy flexible buildings using peer-to-peer markets for building-to-grid integration

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Model predictive controls
building-to-grid integration
non-wires alternative
peer-to-peer markets
microgrid sizing
energy flexible buildings

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Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Outside Field Member
Greg Pavlak, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Freihaut, Major Field Member
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Outside Unit Member
Julian Wang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Mc Clymonds, Austin

Title:

Facilitating the Information Exchange Between A BIM and Construction Robot

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Robots
Information Exchange
Parametric Modeling
Computational Modeling
Masonry
Construction
Robotic Construction
System Architecture
Photogrammetry
Reality Capture

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Committee Members:

James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair
Jose Pinto Duarte, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rob Leicht, Major Field Member
Somayeh Asadi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Messner, Major Field Member

Author:

Duan, Qiuhua

Title:

Energy Performance Analysis of Photothermal Building Windows

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

building windows
solar infrared radiation
thermodynamics
condensation
low-e coating
energy performance

File:

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Committee Members:

Ali Memari, Major Field Member
Somayeh Asadi, Major Field Member
Julian Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sez Atamturktur, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rusk, Zane

Title:

Perceptual and Quantitative Comparison of Headphone-Based Spatial Audio Techniques With Applications in Spatial Enhancement of Music and Binaural Panning

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

virtual acoustics
acoustics
spatial audio
3D audio
3D sound
surround sound
audio
audio signal processing
binaural rendering
panning
perceptual evaluation
listening tests

File:

Download Rusk_Zane_Dissertation2024.pdf

Committee Members:

James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair
Dorukalp Durmus, Major Field Member
John Messner, Major Field Member
Michelle Vigeant-Haas, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Victor Sparrow, Minor Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Scott Roths, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Broyles, Jonathan

Title:

Advancing the sustainable and acoustic design of concrete structures

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

concrete floors
embodied carbon
acoustic insulation
impact sound insulation
sustainability

File:

Download Broyles_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair
Nathan Brown, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ryan Solnosky, Major Field Member
Rebecca Napolitano, Major Field Member
Michelle Vigeant-Haas, Major Field Member
Andrew Barnard, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Leonard, Samantha

Title:

Parametrically-Informed Early-Design Guidance for Mass Timber Floors for Embodied Carbon and Structural Design

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Mass Timber
Embodied Carbon
Parametric Analysis
Design Space Exploration
Floors
Structural Design
Timber
Wood Design
Sustainability
Design Guidance
Early Design
Performance Objectives

File:

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Committee Members:

Nathan Brown, Major Field Member
Ali Memari, Major Field Member
M Parfitt, Special Member
Ryan Solnosky, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Corey Gracie-Griffin, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Aljuhani, Abdulrahman Eid

Title:

APPLYING DAYLIGHT GLARE PROBABILITY (DGP) SIMULATIONS TO WINDOWS WITH FABRIC SHADES AND AUTO-SHADE POSITION CONTROL

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Daylight Glare Probability
DGP
Daylight Simulations
Automated Shading Control
Fabric Shades
Radiance
Spatial Daylight Autonomy
sDA
frads
Glare source
Glare protection
DGP calculation
Vertical illuminance

File:

Download Abdulrahman_Eid_Aljuhani_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Mistrick, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julian Wang, Major Field Member
Greg Pavlak, Major Field Member
Ute Poerschke, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yemesegen, Eden Binega

Title:

Material Science, Analysis, and Design of Clay-Hemp Based Material Mixtures for Sustainable Home Building Using 3D Printing Technology

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Clay-Hemp based material
3D Printing Technology
Sustainable Home Building
Automation in Construction
Historical Building Construction
Bamboo based Material
Finite Element Modeling

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Committee Members:

Hojae Yi, Outside Field Member
Jose Pinto Duarte, Outside Field Member
Ali Memari, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Juan Pablo Gevaudan Burgos, Major Field Member
Aleksandra Radli¿ska, Outside Unit Member
James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair