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Author:

Lebel, Luke

Title:

An Analysis of the Impact of Vertical Wind Shear on Convection Initiation Using Large-Eddy Simulations: Importance of Wake Entrainment

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

convection initiation
wind shear
large-eddy simulation
convection

File:

Download LEBEL_FINAL_THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Markowski, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yvette Pamela Richardson, Committee Member
David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair
George Spencer Young, Committee Member

Author:

Fazzino, Alexander

Title:

Estimating Total Mangrove Carbon Stock with Airborne LiDAR, Multi-spectral Imagery, and Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis in the Everglades National Park

Graduate Program:

Spatial Data Science

Keywords:

Blue Carbon
Mangroves
Aboveground Biomass
Belowgroud Carbon Stock
Carbon Sequestration
Remote Sensing
NAIP
NDVI
GEOBIA
Total Carbon Stock

File:

Download AFazzino_PSU_Thesis_SDS_2023.pdf

Committee Members:

Brandi Gaertner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jitendra Bal Sharma, Committee Member
Anthony Robinson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bond, Margaret

Title:

Parent Involvement, School Readiness, and Socioeconomic Status

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy (MA)

Keywords:

parent involvement
school readiness
socioeconomic status

File:

Download Parent_Involvement__School_Readiness__and_Socioeconomic_Status.pdf

Committee Members:

David P Baker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stacy Silver, Committee Member
Mimi Schaub, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Self, Ian

Title:

Parametric Design and Optimization of Roller Coaster Support Structures Considering Sustainability and Maintenance

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Optimization
Parametric Design
Structural Engineering
Structures
Roller Coaster

File:

Download Thesis_-_Ian_Self.pdf

Committee Members:

Nathan Brown, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Boothby, Committee Member
James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair
John Messner, Committee Member
Rebecca Napolitano, Committee Member

Author:

Spina, Dan

Title:

The Real Relationship in Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

borderline personality disorder
psychotherapy research
Real Relationship
Transference-focused psychotherapy

File:

Download The_RR_in_the_treatment_of_BPD_D._Spina_Masters_DS_10_14_22.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth N. Levy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Louis Georges Castonguay, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
James Le Breton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Slotkin, Becca

Title:

Impact of a School-Based Social Skills Intervention on Parent-Child and Parent-School Relationships

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Peer rejection
Parent-Child Relationships
Parent-School Relationships
Social Skills Training
Intervention

File:

Download Slotkin_Masters_Thesis_for_Grad_School_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Linn Bierman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martha Ellen Wadsworth, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Janet Agnes Welsh, Committee Member

Author:

Tucker, Nora

Title:

A PERSON-CENTERED ANALYSIS OF PARENT SOCIALIZATION OF EMOTION AT AGES TWO AND FIVE​

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Emotion Socialization
Parent Socialization of Emotion
Parenting
Person-Centered

File:

Download Tucker__MastersThesis_Dec22.pdf

Committee Members:

Kristin Buss (She/Her), Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Pamela Marie Cole, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Rina Das Eiden, Committee Member

Author:

Rahimian, Mina

Title:

A Data Mining Model and a Real-Time Predictive Software Prototype for the Spatial Design and Planning of High Energy Performance Solar Community Microgrids

Graduate Program:

Architecture

Keywords:

Data Mining
Machine Learning
Community Microgrid
Energy Consumption
Urban Scale
Energy Performance
Predictive
Software

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Mina_Rahimian.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Pinto Duarte, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Seth Blumsack, Outside Unit Member
Lisa Iulo, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Guido Cervone, Outside Field Member
Ute Poerschke, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Troncoso Aldas, Nelson Daniel

Title:

AIGuide: An Augmented Reality Hand Guidance Application for People with Visual Impairments

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

assistive technology augmented reality
mixed reality
mobile computing
assistive technology
augmented reality

File:

Download Thesis_Revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

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

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:

Runa, Ferdousy

Title:

Relationship Between Green and Red Occupancy Ratios and Pedestrian Delays

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

High-resolution Data
Pedestrian Delay
Split Failure
Traffic Operation
ATSPM

File:

Download Thesis_FR.pdf

Committee Members:

Vikash V. Gayah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
S. Ilgin Guler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Joseph Fox, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Xianbiao Hu, Committee Member

Author:

Strand, Natalie

Title:

GENDER/SEX DIFFERENCES IN ENJOYMENT OF THREAT-RELATED IMAGES AND CONSIDERATIONS OF APPROACH-AVOIDANCE AND RESILIENCE TRAITS

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Threat Perception
Emotion
Gender/sex
Resilience
Approach-Avoidance

File:

Download Natalie_Strand_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Reginald Adams, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jes Matsick, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Koraly Elisa Perez-Edgar, Committee Member

Author:

Tenembaum, Katriella

Title:

Examining Asymmetric Precipitation Processes and Vertical Wind Shear in Typhoon Nesat (2017)

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

Tropical Cyclone
vertical wind shear
precipitation
Nesat 2017

File:

Download TenembaumKatriellaThesis2023.pdf

Committee Members:

Anthony Carl Didlake, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yunji Zhang, Committee Member
David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair
Kelly Lombardo, Committee Member

Author:

Vargas Venegas, Carlos

Title:

Physics-Infused Reduced-Order Modeling of Aerothermal Loads for Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interactions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

hypersonic
fluid-thermal-structural
aerothermoelasticity
data-driven
physics-driven
physics-based
reduced-order modeling
machine learning
field inversion
aerothermal
turbulent viscous-inviscid interactions
neural ordinary differential equations
direct collocation
optimization
kriging
proper-orthogonal decomposition
latin hypercube sampling
thermoelastic
hypersonic vehicle
RANS
skin-panel
two-dimensional
gaussian process regression
computational fluid dynamics
supported panel
augmentation
augmented
model augmentation
surrogate
POD-kriging
POD
algebraic
differential
algebraic augmentation
differential augmentation
NODE
PIROM
analysis

File:

Download ms-thesis-corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

Daning Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member

Author:

Melo Cruz, Arthur

Title:

Value Alignment in Ethical Dilemmas Through Reinforcement Learning

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Robotics
Reinforcement Learning
Ethical Dilemma
Robot Ethics
Machine Ethics
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence

File:

Download Melo_Cruz_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan Richard Wagner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Feng, Songtao

Title:

Information Freshness: Fundamental Limits and Optimization Methodologies

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Age of Information (AoI)
Scheduling
Wireless networks

File:

Download Feng_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Constantino Lagoa, Major Field Member
Viveck Cadambe, Major Field Member
Jing Yang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Guodong Pang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Stueck, Clifford

Title:

Effective Use of an Analytical Approximation for the Relative Motion of Spacecraft on Hyperbolic Trajectories

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Hyperbolic Orbits
Relative Motion
Lagrange Expansion
Analytical Model

File:

Download Clifford_Stueck_Master_s_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert G. Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Daning Huang, Committee Member

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

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:

Bhattacharyya, Suparno

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

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:

Download Bhattacharyya_PhD_thesis.pdf

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:

Tian, Chao

Title:

Mean-Field Models and Nonlocal Problems

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Nonlocal-in-Time
Nonlinearity
Semigroup
Nonlocal noise
Mean-field

File:

Download ChaoTian-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Anna Mazzucato, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zhibiao Zhao, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Wenrui Hao, Major Field Member
Qiang Du, Special Member
Xiantao Li, Major & Minor Field Member
Alexei Novikov, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies