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Author:

Brown, Andrea Michelle

Title:

Multiwavelength Multistatic Optical Scattering for Aerosol Characterizationn

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

optical scattering
multistatic lidar
aerosol characterization
multiwavelength lidar

File:

Download Thesis_AMB_final.pdf

Committee Members:

C Russell Philbrick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Russell Philbrick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Anne Mee Thompson, Committee Member

Author:

Malhotra, Akshay

Title:

Solving Long-Standing Meteor Mysteries

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Radio Science
Meteors
Radar
Aspect Sensitivity

File:

Download Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

John David Mathews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Mathews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Kenneth Breakall, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Hampton Nelson Shirer, Committee Member

Author:

Jain, Ankit

Title:

Low Cost Instrumentation and Interface for Neural Recordings

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

low cost
EEG
instrumentation
brain computer interface
biomedical
medical device
ADS1298
MSP430.

File:

Download Thesis2012mJainA04102012.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce Gluckman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Jenkins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Insoo Kim, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hibit, Elijah Ben

Title:

The Role of Atmospheric Parameters and Turbulence on Meteor Trail Evolution: Analysis and Simulations

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

meteor
numeric
model
radar
trail
non-specular
underdense

File:

Download ebh130-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhiwen Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Weir, Erik David

Title:

DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS OF ZIGBEE-ENABLED WIRELESS SENSOR SYSTEMS FOR A SPACE RELEVANT ENVIRONMENT

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

wireless sensor system
zigbee
thermal protection system
thermocouple

File:

Download Weir_Masters_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven G Bilen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Seker, Ilgin

Title:

THE PROPERTIES AND 3D STRUCTURE OF MEDIUM SCALE TRAVELING IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

F-region
ionosphere
instabilities
irregularities
plasma depletion
mid-latitude
allsky imager
radar
ISR
MSTID
model
Arecibo Observatory

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation-Ilgin_Seker.pdf

Committee Members:

John David Mathews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Mathews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
C Russell Philbrick, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member

Author:

Kanani, Jesal Hiren

Title:

Cryptographic Module for Wireless Sensor Nodes Complying with FIPS 140-2

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Microprocessor
embedded
Cryptography
MSP430
AES

File:

Download Jesal_Kanani_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven G Bilen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Azarmanesh, Okhtay

Title:

A Novel Approach to Modulation Classification in Cognitive Radios

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

modulation classification
cognitive radios
Software-defined radios
OFDM

File:

Download Okhtay-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven G Bilen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
James Kenneth Breakall, Committee Member
John F Doherty, Committee Member
John D Mitchel, Committee Member
Kyusun Choi, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Pin-Heng

Title:

DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF A PORTABLE REAL-TIME THROUGH-WALL NOISE RADAR

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

noise radar
through-wall sensing
through-wall imaging
correlation technique
active circulator

File:

Download PinHengChen-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Kenneth Breakall, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Seal, Ryan

Title:

Software Defined Radar for VHF Meteor Research at the Pennsylvania State University

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

SDR
Open Source
VHF
Radar
Meteor
Remote Sensing
Atmosphere

File:

Download meteor_summary.pdfDownload thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhao, Siming

Title:

Radar Meteor Trail Detection and Classification

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

detection
meteor trails

File:

Download Siming-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sodagari, Shabnam

Title:

MECHANISMS FOR INCREASING EFFICIENCY AND SECURITY OF COGNITIVE RADIO USING INCENTIVE ALLEVIATION AND DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

cognitive radio
wireless communications

File:

Download ShabnamSodagari-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven G Bilen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Frank Edward Ritter, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member

Author:

Nagarmat, Tejas

Title:

Interferometric techniques using Software Defined Radars

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Software Defined Radar
Interferometry

File:

Download Tejas_Nagarmat_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Narayanan, Udit

Title:

Investigation of Hydrologic Remote Sensing Techniques at Spring Creek, Centre County, Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Remote Sensing
Hydrology
Spring Creek
Thermal Imaging
Ground penetrating radar
Image processing
thermography.

File:

Download Thesis-UditNarayanan-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chen, Wei-Jen

Title:

DETECTION AND ESTIMATION IN ULTRAWIDEBAND MIMO NOISE RADAR

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

TDL BEAMFORMING
MIMO
ULTRAWIDEBAND
GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST

File:

Download WeiJEn_dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John F Doherty, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Member

Author:

Kizilkaya, Serdar

Title:

Optical Propagation through the Ocean Surface

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Optical propagation
laser
ocean
ocean surface
ocean waves
gravity waves.

File:

Download 1-FinalSubmission.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tuysuz, Burak

Title:

Development and Implementation of a Passive Vhf Radar System Using Software Defined Radio Techniques to Study Equatorial Plasma Instabilities Near the Peruvian Andes

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

CAPRI
passive radar
coherent radar
ionospheric irregularities
software defined radio

File:

Download BurakTuysuz-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Julio Urbina, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Mathews, Committee Member
James Kenneth Breakall, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

Namin, Frank Azadi

Title:

Nature-inspired optimization of quasicrystalline arrays and all-dielectric optical filters and metamaterials

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Quasicrystals
generalized Mie scattering
metamaterials
optical filters
genetic algorithms.

File:

Download FrankNamin_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Douglas Henry Werner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Henry Werner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pingjuan Li Werner, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Brian Lewis Weiner, Committee Member

Author:

Qin, Jianqi

Title:

Numerical modeling of the inception, morphology and radio signals of sprites produced by lightning discharges with positive and negative polarity

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Lightning
Sprites
Halo
Streamers
Inception
Morphology
Radio signals
Modeling

File:

Download QinPhD2013.pdf

Committee Members:

Victor P Pasko, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Victor P Pasko, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John David Mathews, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Deborah A Levin, Committee Member
Sebastien Celestin, Special Member

Author:

Mills, Amanda Christine

Title:

A New UHF High Dynamic Range Receiver for the Arecibo Observatory

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

low noise amplifier
cryogenic noise temperature measurement
coupled resonator filter

File:

Download Mills_Amanda_NewReceiverAreciboObservatory.pdf

Committee Members:

Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor