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Author:: Culp, Jonathan
Title:: NON-INTRUSIVE DRIVER DROWSINESS MONITORING VIA ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: RPROP training
driving simulation
artificial neural networks
driver drowsiness
Radial Basis Networks
File:: Download jon_THESIS2.pdf
Committee Members:: Moustafa El Gindy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Md Amanul Haque, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Koncoski, Jeremy J
Title:: A REDUCED ORDER MODEL OF PROPELLER UNSTEADY FORCES FOR COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: propeller
unsteady force
model
CFD
computational fluid dynamics
File:: Download koncoski_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Eric G Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric G Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Ostanek, Jason
Title:: ESTABLISHING A METHODOLOGY FOR RESOLVING CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER FROM COMPLEX GEOMETRIES
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: rib turbulators
internal cooling
gas turbine heat transfer
ribbed channels
File:: Download Ostanek_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Slade, Jeffrey Lawrence
Title:: DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW OFF-ROAD RIGID RING MODEL FOR TRUCK TIRES USING FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Rigid ring model off-road truck tire finite elemen
File:: Download Jeff_Slade_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Moustafa El Gindy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Moustafa El Gindy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin L Koudela, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Haldaman, Jillian
Title:: Study of Reconfigurability and Reconfigurable Products for Use in Design
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: reconfigurable systems
reconfigurability
Designing for Human Variability
Transformers
File:: Download Haldaman_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Matthew B Parkinson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew B Parkinson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Stine, Jason S.
Title:: Analyzing Highway Median Safety Through Vehicle Dynamics Simulations
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Vehicle dynamics
Median safety
Vehicle rollover
Cross-median collisions
File:: Download Stine_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Sean Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Freeman, Kenneth Allan
Title:: ADAPTIVE DUAL CONTROL OF THE GLUCOSE REGULATORY SYSTEM IN PEOPLE WITH TYPE-1 DIABETES
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Adaptive Dual Control
Type-1 Diabetes
Artificial Pancreas
Automatic Control
File:: Download Thesis_FreemanKen_2011_07_26.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Qian Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Qian Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Shah, Kaushal Jayesh
Title:: THERMOLYSIS OF HIGH-NITROGEN ENERGETIC COMPOUNDS USING FTIR SPECTROSCOPY AND TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Rapid Thermolysis
TAGzT
GzT
File:: Download Thesis_June_7_2011.pdf
Committee Members:: Stefan Thynell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stefan Thynell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Smith, Kevin
Title:: Computation of Viscous Multiphase Hydrodynamics and Ship Motions During Wave-Slap Events and Wave Excited Roll
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: wave breaking
tumblehome
oscillating cylinder
prescribed motion
RANS
CFD
VOF
6DOF
seakeeping
wave impact
wave model
free surface
sponge layer
numerical beach
dissipation zone
box barge
mesh motion
deep water
shallow water
non reflecting boundary condition
openfoam
finite volume method
wave dissipation
impact load scaling
File:: Download KevinSmithMSThesisPSUETDr2.pdf
Committee Members:: Eric Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Jerath, Kshitij
Title:: Impact of Adaptive Cruise Control on the Formation of Self-organized Traffic Jams on Highways
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: traffic jams
traffic
self-organized
self organization
adaptive cruise control
congestion
multi-agent systems
File:: Download Thesis_20100412_v6.3.pdf
Committee Members:: Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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