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Author:

Bozek, Evan

Title:

Contact and Noncontact Nonlinear/Linear Resonance Ultrasound Spectroscopy (N/RUS) of Additively Manufactured and Wrought 316L Stainless Steel Samples

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Ultrasound
NRUS
Additive Manufacturing
Resonance
Non-contact

File:

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Parisa Shokouhi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden, III, Committee Member
Jacques Riviere, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Waller, Matthew David

Title:

Composite Materials for Hybrid Aerospace Gears

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

hybrid gear
composite materials
pitch-based carbon fiber
BMI-2
BMI
bismaleimide
fatigue
mechanical testing

File:

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Committee Members:

Kevin Koudela, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Namiko Yamamoto, Outside Unit Member
Charles Bakis, Chair of Committee
Robert Campbell, Outside Field Member
Sean McIntyre, Special Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mc Elwain, Brody

Title:

exploring the utility of monocentric imagers for astronomy

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Optics
Aberration correction
Astronomical survey

File:

Download McElwain-Brody-MS-Thesis_2022-04-04_.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Suvrath Mahadevan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Hsu, Committee Member
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bozek, Andrew

Title:

Shape Memory Alloy Films for Increasing Amplitude of Photoacoustic Signals

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Ultrasound
Thin Films
Shape Memory Alloy

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_Final-_Andrew_Bozek.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Clifford Jesse Lissenden, III, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Reginald F Hamilton, Committee Member

Author:

Brown, Tucker

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION AND SIMULATION OF MICROWAVE STRIPLINE DEVICES

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

microwave
5G
transmission lines
microstrip

File:

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Michael T Lanagan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven Edward Perini, Committee Member

Author:

Mcatee, Patrick D

Title:

Sculptured Thin Films as a Platform for Machine-Learning Based Optical Sensing of Analytes

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Sensing
Plasmonics
Machine Learning
Sculptured thin films

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Catchmark, Outside Unit & Field Member
Osama Awadelkarim, Major Field Member
Mark Horn, Major Field Member
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ghosh, Amartya

Title:

Reliability Studies in Silicon Carbide and Silicon Power MOSFETs

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Wide Band Gap
SiC
Reliability
Device Physics
Interface Traps
Border Traps

File:

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Committee Members:

Samia Suliman, Major Field Member
Jian hsu, Major Field Member
Osama Awadelkarim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jifa Hao, Special Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Rongming Chu, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Shyam Kumar, Prashanth

Title:

Wearable Devices for ECG and Heart Sound: Design Considerations to Support Digital Health and Remote Monitoring

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Digital health
remote patient monitoring
wearable devices
ECG lead transformation
wearable phonocardiogram
deep learning
personalization

File:

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Committee Members:

Judith Todd Copley, Major Field Member
Vijay Varadan, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zoubeida Ounaies, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Harbaugh, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Williams, Colin

Title:

Ultrasonic Methods for Characterization of Additively Manufactured Materials: Experiments and Numerical Simulations

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

ultrasonic testing
numerical modeling
additive manufacturing
materials characterization
nondestructive evaluation
finite element simulations

File:

Download MS_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Parisa Shokouhi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeremy M. Shreiber, Committee Member
Matt Lear, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Taylor, Samuel

Title:

The Effect of Thickness and Surface Roughness on Ferroelectric Behavior of Lead Magnesium Niobate-Titanate and Lead Indium Niobate-Magnesium Niobate-Titanate Single Crystal

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Ferroelectric
Piezoelectric
Ultrasound
Characterization
Single Crystal
PMN-PT
PIN-PMN-PT

File:

Download SCT14_Thesis_final_4-18-2022.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael T Lanagan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wenwu Cao, Committee Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Richard Joseph Meyer, Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Bhattacharyya, Suparno

Title:

Physics-informed model reduction of dynamical systems subjected to impacts and discontinuity

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Physics-informed model reduction
reduced order modeling
model reduction
structural vibration
nonlinear dynamics
impulsive loading
kicked oscillator
data-driven methods
dimension reduction
POD
PCA
Proper orthogonal decomposition
Energy-closure criterion
vibration
structural dynamics
simulation
beam theory
solid mechanics
dynamical systems
chaos
bifurcation

File:

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Committee Members:

Joseph Cusumano, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Corina Drapaca, Major Field Member
Francesco Costanzo, Major & Minor Field Member
George Lesieutre, Outside Unit & Field Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jose, Nikesh

Title:

Ultrasonic Structural Health Monitoring of a metal target position in the transducer near field

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Ultrasound testing
Structural health monitoring
Piezo electric transducer
Immersion testing
Near Field

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Clifford Jesse Lissenden, III, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacques Riviere, Committee Member
Christopher Kube, Committee Member

Author:

Gao, Yuyan

Title:

Application of nanomaterials for wearable electronics

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Wearable electronics
Photonic sintering
bioelectronics

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Committee Members:

Sulin Zhang, Major Field Member
Larry Cheng, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Weihua Guan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Cunjiang Yu, Major Field Member
Reginald Hamilton, Major Field Member

Author:

Duane, Tyler

Title:

Ultrasonic Guided Waves For Human Health Monitoring: Simulation-Based Analysis Of The Fifth Metatarsal

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Ultrasound
Ultrasonic Guided Waves
Guided Waves
Human Health Monitoring
Fifth Metatarsal

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Clifford Jesse Lissenden, III, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Parisa Shokouhi, Committee Member
Elzbieta Sikora, Committee Member

Author:

Trautman, Elizabeth

Title:

Elastic Wave Propagation through Polycrystalline Ice With and Without Embedded Spherical Particle Inclusions

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Cryoultrasound
Analytical Attenuation

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Andrea P. Arguelles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Kube, Committee Member
Christian Peco, Committee Member

Author:

Brown, Gregory

Title:

IMAGING BIOMARKERS OF COGNITIVE DECLINE IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Cognition
MRI
Parkinson's Disease
Diffusion Tensor Imaging
penalized regression

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Committee Members:

Xuemei Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Corina Drapaca, Major Field Member
Bruce Gluckman, Major Field Member
James Broach, Outside Unit Member
Xiao Liu, Outside Field Member
Charles Duffy, Special Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nicastro, Jackson

Title:

Utilization of WGM Resonators Operating on Exceptional Surfaces for Sensing-Based Applications

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

WGM-Resonators
Non-Hermitian
Thermal Broadening
Exceptional Surfaces
Particle Sensing

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Sahin K Ozdemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Member
Larry Cheng, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Wei

Title:

Nonlinear Poroelastic Solutions for the Pore Fluid Flow and Sorption in Deformable Rocks

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Adsorption
Poroelasticity
Nonlinear solution
Constitutive modeling
Geomechanics

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Committee Members:

Luis Ayala H, Major Field Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Major Field Member
Albert Segall, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amin Mehrabian, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mort Webster, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Guha, Anurup

Title:

ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVES FOR HEALTH MONITORING OF HUMAN LONG BONES – MODELING AND EXPERIMENTS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Ultrasonic Guided Waves
Long Bones
Tibia
Frequency Domain
Wave-structure
partial-loading
omni-directional shear
tuning fork
SawBones
Stress Fracture
Eccentric Geometry
Time-domain
Bone Cement
Bone Ultrasound

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Committee Members:

Parisa Shokouhi, Major Field Member
Clifford Lissenden, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Michael Aynardi, Special Member
Daniel Cortes Correales, Outside Unit & Field Member
Gregory Lewis, Major Field Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Shangbin

Title:

Non-enzymatic Glucose Sensors based on Laser-induced Graphene integrated with Skin-interfaced Microfluidic component for On-body measurement

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

biosensor
glucose
mircofludic

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Larry Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Hsu, Committee Member

Author:

Erdely, Daniel

Title:

Crumpled Laser Induced Graphene Silver Nanowire Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Energy Harvesting

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

triboelectric
laser-induced-graphene
AgNW

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Larry Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David W Snyder, Committee Member
Melik C Demirel, Committee Member

Author:

Sgarrella, Joseph

Title:

Biomimetic Computational Techniques for the Simulation of Fungi Networks

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Fungal Infection
Growth Mechanics
Meshing
Phase-Field
Geometric Constraints

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Christian Peco, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Member
Michael Hillman, Committee Member

Author:

Dodda, Akhil

Title:

Novel materials and devices for sensing and security applications

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Sensing
Security
2D Materials
Internet of Things
In-sensor Compute

File:

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Committee Members:

Patrick Lenahan, Major Field Member
Mark Horn, Major Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joan Redwing, Outside Unit & Field Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dyer, William

Title:

Quasi-Static and Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Dry and Epoxy-Impregnated Carbon Nanotube Yarns

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Carbon nanotube yarn
Epoxy-impregnated carbon nanotube yarn
CNT yarn
Mechanical testing
Dynamic mechanical analysis

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Charles E Bakis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Namiko Yamamoto, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Robbins, Jackson

Title:

Data Trends in Solution-Gated Monolayer Graphene Field-Effect Transistors

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Graphene
FET
Salinity
Sensor
Electrolyte Gating

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Saptarshi Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Sahin K Ozdemir, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Zhiyu

Title:

Underwater wall detection using robotic flapping wing and Long Short-Term Memory

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Robotic Wing
Underwater Perception

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Bo Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Larry Cheng, Committee Member

Author:

Sebastian, Amritanand

Title:

Development of two-dimensional transistors for neuromorphic computing and simulated annealing applications

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

2D Materials
2D Transistors
Electrochemical Polishing
Device Variation
Probabilistic Neural Network
Bayesian Neural Network
2D Memtransistors
Simulated Annealing

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_A_Sebastian.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Outside Unit & Field Member
Osama Awadelkarim, Major Field Member
Patrick Lenahan, Major Field Member
Mark Horn, Major Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Haluza, Rudy T

Title:

Measurement and Explicit Finite Element Modeling of Dynamic Crush Behavior of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Crush
composite
carbon
fiber
energy
CFRP
shear
model
simulation
crashworthiness
LS-DYNA
MAT213

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Committee Members:

Kevin Koudela, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Charles Bakis, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Palacios, Outside Unit Member
J. Michael Pereira, Special Member
Robert Goldberg, Special Member
Reginald Hamilton, Outside Field Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sharov, Fedor

Title:

Applications of Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance to the Analysis of Technologically Relevant Reliability Mechanisms in Semiconductor Devices

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance
Near-Zero-Field Magnetoresistance
Reliability
Metal-Oxide-Semiconductors
Field Effect Transistors
Time Dependent Dielectric Breakdown
Gamma Irradiation
Total Ionizing Dose
Silicon Dioxide
Silicon Carbide
Rapid Scan
Interface Defects

File:

Download Thesis_FVS_Final_jcm6606_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Sahin Ozdemir, Major Field Member
Suzanne Mohney, Outside Unit & Field Member
Patrick Lenahan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Saptarshi Das, Major Field Member

Author:

Mo, Chen

Title:

Studies of Gallium Nitride based Schottky Barrier Diodes and Light Emitting Diodes

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Gallium Nitride
Schottky Barrier Diode
Micro LED
Surface Treatment
Efficiency Droop

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Committee Members:

Rongming Chu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Samia Suliman, Major Field Member
Jian hsu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Osama Awadelkarim, Major Field Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hall, Kenneth

Title:

Neural Dynamic Mode Decomposition

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Neural Network
Dynamic Mode Decomposition
Koopman Operator Theory
Dynamical Systems
NDMD
Acoustic Classification

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Joseph Cusumano, Major Field Member
Bruce Gluckman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joonho Daniel Park, Special Member
Francesco Costanzo, Major Field Member

Author:

Miller, Blake

Title:

Thermal Analysis for Characterizing Effects of Metallurgical Conditions in Nickel Titanium Based Shape Memory Alloys

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

NiTi
SME
TIMT
DSC
transformation temperature
repeatability
build
SMA
size
LDED
additive
manufacturing

File:

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Reginald F Hamilton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Kube, Committee Member
Todd Palmer, Committee Member

Author:

Moxim, Stephen

Title:

Exploring Atomic-Scale Defects Related to Time-Dependent Dielectric Breakdown with Spin-Dependent Measurements

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance
Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance
Near-Zero-Field Magnetoresistance
Time-Dependent Dielectric Breakdown
Atomic-Scale Defects
Semiconductor

File:

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Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sahin Ozdemir, Major Field Member
Patrick Lenahan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Saptarshi Das, Major Field Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bakre, Chaitanya

Title:

Fully non-contact laser ultrasound system and methods for monitoring metal additive manufacturing process

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Additive manufacturing
Process monitoring
Laser ultrasound

File:

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Committee Members:

Abdalla Nassar, Dissertation Advisor
Christopher Kube, Major Field Member
Victor Sparrow, Outside Unit & Field Member
Yun Jing, Minor Field Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Clifford Jesse Lissenden, III, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Abdalla Nassar, Dissertation Co-Advisor

Author:

Stutzman, Christopher B

Title:

MONITORING OF METAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING VIA OPTICAL EMISSIONS SENSING

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Plume Sensing
Optical Emission Monitoring
Laser Powder Bed Fusion

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Edward Reutzel, Major Field Member
Abdalla Nassar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Qian Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Jeffrey Corbin, Special Member
Albert Segall, Major Field Member

Author:

Felins, Michael

Title:

Biasing Distance and Heterogeneous Solution Effects in Liquid Gated Graphene Field Effect Transistors

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Liquid gating
Graphene
Biosensor
FET

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Saptarshi Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Sahin K Ozdemir, Committee Member