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Author:

Collins, Peter

Title:

Microgravity's Influence on the Hydration of Tricalcium Aluminate and Gypsum Pastes

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

tricalcium aluminate
gypsum
microgravity
cement
hydration
International Space Station

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Peter_Collins_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member
Sven G Bilen, Committee Member
Barry Earl Scheetz, Committee Member
Richard N Grugel, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Cheng Bang

Title:

RECURRENCE ANALYSIS OF HIGH-DIMENSIONAL COMPLEX SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE AND MANUFACTURING

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Recurrence Analysis
Nonlinear Dynamics
Pattern-Frequency Tree
Network Science
Space-Filling Curve
Complex system
Healthcare
Manufacturing

File:

Download phd_thesis_chengbang_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Saurabh Basu, Committee Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Outside Member
Hui Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hui Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Khan, Haris Ali

Title:

DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MICRO FRICTION STIR BLIND RIVETING FOR MULTILAYER THIN DISSIMILAR MATERIALS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

multilayer thin sheets joining
mechanical behavior
microstructure characterization
process-structure-property linkage
online quality monitoring
grain boundary engineering

File:

Download Dissertation_draft_Haris_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jingjing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jingjing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Saurabh Basu, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Committee Member
Jing Du, Outside Member
Scott Miller, Special Member
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bonfiglio, Jonathan

Title:

EVALUATION OF PENN STATE TOMATO VARIETIES FOR FRUIT QUALITY AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION

Graduate Program:

Horticulture

Keywords:

tomato
breeding
fruit quality
tomato breeding
plant breeding
commercial
variety
Solanum lycopersicum

File:

Download JTB_THESIS_final_submission_for_graduate_school.pdf

Committee Members:

Majid R Foolad, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Elsa Sanchez, Committee Member
Dr. David R. Huff, Committee Member
Erin L Connolly, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Campbell, Ryan

Title:

A Compact Wideband Stripline Hybrid Coupler

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Hybrid Coupler
stripline
compact

File:

Download RyanCampbell-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Gregory Huff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fernando, Shanika

Title:

SCHWEINFURTHIN-MEDIATED EFFECTS ON EGFR AND AKT IN CANCER CELLS

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

EGFR
Glioblastoma
Non-small cell lung cancer
AKT
MAPK
Schweinfurthin
Glycosylation

File:

Download 2019.12.03_Masters_THESIS_SF.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond J Hohl, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey D Neighbors, Committee Member
Nadine Hempel, Committee Member
Hong-Gang Wang, Committee Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Brooks, Allan

Title:

Programming the Dynamics of Active Colloids via Shape

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

micromotors
active matter
colloids

File:

Download Brooks_Dissertation_2019-11-07_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ayusman Sen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ayusman Sen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Outside Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Darrell Velegol, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Phillip E Savage, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bhattacharjee, Debapriya

Title:

Periodic Cross-Flow Trajectory Optimization for an Experimentally-Parameterized Model of a Tethered Energy Harvester

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

periodic optimal control
airborne wind energy systems
buoyant air turbine
optimization

File:

Download Debapriya_Bhattacharjee_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bo Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bo Cheng, Committee Member
Hosam Fathy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Volpe, Marc

Title:

Design, Development, and Field Testing of the GlacierHawk: an Unmanned Aerial System for Geoscience Data Retrieval

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Unmanned Aerial System
glaciology
geoscience
aircraft design
aerospace engineering
rotorcraft
flight
Greenland
Helheim
glacier
geoPebble
sensor

File:

Download MarcVolpe-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven G Bilen, Committee Member

Author:

Andichamy, Veerandra Chakkarava

Title:

AN INVESTIGATION OF USING TIP LEAKAGE INTERRUPTER AND BLADE SLIT TO MITIGATE AERODYNAMIC LOSSES IN AXIAL TURBINE STAGE

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Axial Turbines
Tip Leakage Flow
Blade Slit
TLI
Turbomachinery

File:

Download Thesis_draft_Veerandra_Andichamy_Dec_4.pdf

Committee Members:

Cengiz Camci, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cengiz Camci, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Savas Yavuzkurt, Outside Member
Jose Palacios, Committee Member
Michael P Kinzel, Committee Member
Yong W Kim, Special Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Walter, Timothy Noah

Title:

Processing of two-dimensional molybdenum disulfdie: oxidation, etching, and deposition on the basal plane for novel nanofabrication processes

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MoS2
contact engineering
oxidation
ALD
nanofabrication

File:

Download TNW_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Suzanne E Mohney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wyatt, Damaris Christine

Title:

Constraints from Monazite Petrochronology on the Assembly of the Ivrea-Verbano Zone

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Lower Crust
Metamorphism
Lower Continental Crust
Monazite
U-Pb Geochronology
Metamorphic Petrology
Tectonics
Trace Element Geochemistry
Thermobarometry
Pseudosection Modeling

File:

Download wyatt_ms_2019____.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew James Smye, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Member
Tanya Furman, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Runion, Megan

Title:

Teacher Emotion Regulation and Professional Quality of Life as Predictors of Responses to Students

Graduate Program:

School Psychology

Keywords:

Emotion regulation
Professional quality of life
Teacher-student relationships

File:

Download Runion_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Cristin Marie Hall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cristin Marie Hall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carlomagno Del Carmen Panlilio, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shirley Andrea Woika, Committee Member
Daniel Francis Perkins, Outside Member
James Clyde Diperna, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhao, Tian

Title:

Single Nanostructure Nonliear Behavior of Plasmonic Metal Nanoparticles Studied Using Ultrafast Correlated Light and Electron Microscopy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanostructure
Plasmonic
3D imaging
electronic dynamic
Ultrafast Microscopy
Super-resolution

File:

Download Dissertation_Tian_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member
Dr. Tae-Hee Lee, Committee Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yoxtheimer, David

Title:

UTILIZATION OF THE SQUARE ARRAY EARTH RESISTIVITY METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING ANISOTROPY IN FRACTURED SEDIMENTARY ROCK

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

earth resistivity
square array
anisotropy
fractured bedrock
karst
hydrogeology
paradox of anisotropy

File:

Download Yoxtheimer_dissertation-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Peter Christopher La Femina, Committee Member
Anthony Robert Buda, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Skoranski, Amanda

Title:

Modeling Profiles of Mothers' and Fathers' Mental Health and Stress Physiology and Physiological Coregulation with Preschool-Aged Children

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

parenting
mental health
anxiety
depression
respiratory sinus arrhythmia
latent profile analysis

File:

Download Skoranski-A-Dissertation-Final-Formatted_v3.pdf

Committee Members:

Erika Sell Lunkenheimer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erika Sell Lunkenheimer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Committee Member
Ginger A Moore, Committee Member
Robert William Roeser, Outside Member
J. Douglas Coatsworth, Special Member
Alicia Ann Grandey, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Clayman, Scott

Title:

Analyzing Pennsylvania’s Economic Resilience Considering Interdependent Infrastructures and Economic Sectors

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

economic
disruption
input-output model
inoperability input-output model
multi-regional inoperability input-output model
I-O model
IIM model
MRIIM model
infrastructure
critical infrastructure
economic resilience
economic sectors
industry sectors
bayesian vector autoregression
network
clustering
centrality
components
GDP
forecasting
vulnerability

File:

Download S._Clayman_-_Master_s_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mohamad Darayi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raghu Sangwan, Committee Member
Satish Mahadevan Srinivasan, Committee Member
Youakim Badr, Committee Member
Colin Neill, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zafeiroudi, Kyriaki

Title:

Automatic Keyphrase Extraction from Scholarly Documents

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

keyphrase extraction
PageRank
word embeddings

File:

Download KDZ_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Clyde Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cai, Jizhao

Title:

The Reasons behind the Differences Between Chinese and U.S. Training Programs

Graduate Program:

Human Resources and Employment Relations

Keywords:

training program
China
U.S.A.

File:

Download Thesis_Jizhao_Cai.pdf

Committee Members:

Elaine Farndale, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bora Kwon, Committee Member
Paul Clark, Program Head/Chair
Dorothea Roumpi, Committee Member

Author:

Silverhart, Perri

Title:

Land use versus climate controls on hillslope erosion at a farmed headwater catchment in central Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

erosion
agricultural erosion
critical zone
czo
cesium-137

File:

Download silverhart_thesis_final3.pdf

Committee Members:

Roman Alexander Dibiase, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tipton, Nathan

Title:

An Outdoor Sound Propagation Model in Concert with Geographic Information System Software

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

Acoustics
Outdoor Sound

File:

Download Tipton_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Victor Ward Sparrow, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Newman, Committee Member
Brendan Derrick Taff, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Clayman, Carly

Title:

RNA Sequencing and Clinical Data Analysis of Multiple Cancer Types on the National Cancer Institute's Genomic Data Commons

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science

Keywords:

RNA Sequencing
Genomic Data Commons
TCGA
Prostate Cancer
Survival Analysis
Boruta Random Forest
Feature Selection
Clustering Analysis
Principal Component Analysis
Clinical Data
RNA-Seq
Cancer
Landmark Genes

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Clayman_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Satish Mahadevan Srinivasan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raghu Sangwan, Committee Member
Youakim Badr, Committee Member
Colin Neill, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hromisin, Scott Michael

Title:

Aeroacoustic Characterization of Dual-Stream, Supersonic, Rectangular Exhaust Jets

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Aeroacoustics
Jet Noise
Supersonic jets
Multi-stream jets

File:

Download Hromisin_PhD_Dissertation_-_26Nov19_edit.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip John Morris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Jose Palacios, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Outside Member
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Special Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sieron, Scott Buku

Title:

Passive Microwave Forward Modeling and Ensemble-Based Data Assimilation within a Regional-Scale Tropical Cyclone Model

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM)
Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF)
hurricanes
tropical cyclones
data assimilation
microwave
infrared
satellite

File:

Download Sieron_PhDThesis_Revised2.pdf

Committee Members:

Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Robert Kumjian, Committee Member
Xingchao Chen, Committee Member
Jia Li, Outside Member
David Jonathan Stensrud, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dada, Gbolahan P

Title:

Generalized S.V.D. Reduced Order Observers for Noisy Linear and Nonlinear systems

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

GSVD
State estimation
Process Control
Reduced order observer
Measurement noise
Nonlinear system
LTI system
Generalized singular value decomposition

File:

Download MSc_Dada_Final_1.pdf

Committee Members:

Antonios Armaou, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali Borhan, Special Signatory
Phillip E Savage, Program Head/Chair
Monty Alger, Committee Member
Robert Rioux, Committee Member

Author:

Shenoy, Ashish

Title:

Maximizing Propellant Consumption To Prepare An Impaired Satellite For Retrieval

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

PSO
Particle Swarm Optimization
Satellite
Retrieval
Impaired Satellite
Propellant Consumption
Orbital Elements
Gauss Variational Equations
GVE

File:

Download Ashish-Shenoy-Thesis-2019_Final_Form_Fixed.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Puneet Singla, Committee Member

Author:

Chandler, Raeven

Title:

Latinx Health and Health Care in the United States: Comparing Rural and Urban Adults in New versus Established Destinations

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

Rural Health
Healthcare Access
Healthcare Satisfaction
Latino Health
Hispanic Health
Patient Satisfaction
New Destinations

File:

Download DissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Leif Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leif Jensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn Jo Brasier, Committee Member
Brian Clemens Thiede, Committee Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Outside Member
Shannon Monnat, Special Member
Kathryn J. Brasier, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Schroeder, Kingsley Manning

Title:

Components of Gender-Conformity Pressure: Measurement and Consequences of Awareness, Feelings, and Behaviors

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

gender development
parent socialization
felt pressure to conform to gender roles

File:

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Committee Members:

Lynn S. Liben, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lynn S. Liben, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Committee Member
Margaret L. Signorella, Committee Member
Mayra Y Bamaca, Outside Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mehta, Priyesh

Title:

Employing eye-tracking, screen capture and artifact analysis methods to characterize re-design for Additive Manufacturing behaviors

Graduate Program:

Additive Manufacturing and Design

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Powder bed fusion
metal Additive
Eye tracking
Qualitative analysis
Design for Additive Manufacturing
manufacturability matrix
design ideation
3D printing
cognitive design
engineering education
graduate engineering education
workforce development
design engineering
novice v/s expert designers

File:

Download Priyesh_Mehta_MS_Thesis_finalversion_submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Catherine G P Berdanier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Committee Member
Timothy W. Simpson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gunther, Kelley

Title:

Inhibitory Control as a Risk Factor for Internalizing Behaviors in Behaviorally Inhibited Children: A Mobile Eye Tracking Investigation

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Behavioral Inhibition
Anxiety
Internalizing
mobile eye tracking
inhibitory control
executive functions

File:

Download Gunther_Thesis_Grad_Sub2.pdf

Committee Members:

Koraly Elisa Perez-Edgar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cynthia L Huang-Pollock, Committee Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Committee Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Smallcomb, Molly

Title:

Focused ultrasound histotripsy of connective tissue: A tendon model

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

histotripsy
ultrasound
tendon
cavitation

File:

Download Smallcomb_MastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Juli Simon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Meghan Elise Vidt, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Durairaj, Deepit Abhishek

Title:

Unsupervised Deep Learning Approach For Photoacoustic Spectral Unmixing.

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Spectral Unmixing
Machine Learning
Autoencoders
Unsupervised Learning
Photoacoustic Imaging

File:

Download Deepit_Durairaj_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Jonathan Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gupta, Anchal

Title:

Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Energy-Efficient Heating Controller for Smart Buildings

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science

Keywords:

Deep reinforcement learning
Simulation
Occupant thermal comfort
Heating controller
HVAC

File:

Download Thesis_Final_Report.pdf

Committee Members:

Youakim Badr, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ashkan Negahban, Committee Member
Guanghua Qiu, Committee Member
Colin Neill, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Haddat, Mohamed

Title:

MODELING THE FREQUENCY RESPONSE OF A BRIDGE SUPERSTRUCTURE

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Bridge frequency response
Dynamic response of bridges

File:

Download Bridge_Frequency_Response.pdf

Committee Members:

Shashidhara S Marikunte, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seroj Mackertich-Sengerdy, Program Head/Chair
Sofia Margarita Vidalis, Committee Member
Seroj Mackertich-Sengerdy, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Boyu

Title:

ON THE ROBUSTNESS, EFFICIENCY AND INFORMATION FRESHNESS IN NETWORKED SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

cyber physical systems
robustness
efficiency
information freshness

File:

Download Boyu-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jing Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jing Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Committee Member
Aylin Yener, Committee Member
Hui Yang, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shah, Rajvi

Title:

Automated Reverse Docking of Tractor-Trailer using Infrastructure-based Sensing Experimentally Tested with a Full-scale Tractor-Trailer

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

reverse path tracking
docking
tractor-trailer
automation
infrastructure-based sensing
advanced driver assistance system
autonomous trucks

File:

Download Rajvi_Shah_MS_Thesis_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Minghui Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Marcon, Virginia Margaret

Title:

THE EFFECT OF LITHOLOGY ON (BIO)GEOCHEMICAL WEATHERING: SANDSTONE TO SERPENTINITE

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

biogeochemical weathering
critical zone
Shale Hills
87Sr/86Sr
mineral biosignatures
δ13C
porosity

File:

Download MarconDissertation_Formatted_Nov2019b.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maureen Feineman, Committee Member
Roman Alexander Dibiase, Committee Member
Li Li, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kimmel, Nathan

Title:

A Method for the Exploitation of Microlift for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

autonomy
soaring
microlift
thermal
thermal wall
thermal stream
thermal strand
autonomous
uav
autonomous soaring

File:

Download Nathan_Kimmel_A_Method_for_the_Exploitation_of_Microlift_for_Unmanned_Aerial_Vehicles.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member

Author:

Ho, Leslie

Title:

Emotion knowledge as a mediator of school readiness outcomes

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Emotion knowledge
emotional competence
school readiness
social-emotional learning

File:

Download Leslie_Masters_FINAL_VERSION.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Linn Bierman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erika Sell Lunkenheimer, Committee Member
Yo Jackson, Committee Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shringarputale, Sushrut Dhawal

Title:

Co-residency attacks on containers are real

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Containers
Orchestrators
Co-residency
Cloud Security

File:

Download Thesis_Title-3.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas F La Porta, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ramachandran, Sharath Kumar

Title:

INVESTIGATING THE ACCURACY OF CREATIVITY METRICS USED IN ENGINEERING DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Engineering Design

Keywords:

Creativity and Concept Generation
Design Evaluation
Design Validation
Creatvity Metrics
Verifying Metrics

File:

Download Sharath_Kumar_Ramachandran_Grad_Thesis_Fall_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Scarlett Rae Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Samuel Todd Hunter, Committee Member
Sven G Bilen, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Alamoudi, Hassan

Title:

Applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare: A cardiovascular case

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Healthcare
Cardiovascular

File:

Download Hassan_Alamoudi-MS_Thesis_Dec_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Hui Yang, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Special Signatory

Author:

Wafula, Eric

Title:

Computational methods for comparative genomics of non-model species: a case study in the parasitic plant family Orobanchaceae

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Computational biology
Evolutionary biology
Bioinformatics
Comparative genomics
Next-generation sequencing
de novo assembly
Genome annotation
Gene expression
Whole genome duplication
Gene duplication
Phylogenomics
Ancestral reconstruction
Transcriptomics
Orthogroups
Gene family evolution
Parasitic plants
Orobanchaceae
Striga

File:

Download Eric_wafula_dissertation_final_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Claude Walker Depamphilis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Harold Marden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Istvan Albert, Outside Member
Naomi S Altman, Outside Member
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Roth, Paul

Title:

INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF PROFESSIONAL PLANNERS FOR ENHANCING PRIVATE FOREST LEGACY DECISIONS

Graduate Program:

Forest Resources

Keywords:

forest legacy planning
estate planning
conservation based estate planning
forest land planning
forest land estate planning process
private forest landowner
Pennsylvania private forests
stewardship
conservation
values

File:

Download P_ROTH_FOR_RES_Dissertation_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

James Craig Finley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Craig Finley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William F. Elmendorf, Committee Member
Allyson Muth, Committee Member
Matthew Samuel Kaplan, Outside Member
David Eissenstat, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Agarwal, Amal

Title:

Model-Based Clustering of Nonparametric Weighted Networks

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Exponential-family random graphical model
Local likelihood
Variational inference

File:

Download Amal-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Diaz, Manuel

Title:

SEMICLASSICAL CONSISTENT CONSTRAINTS WITH MOMENTS IN SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC QUANTUM GRAVITY

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Canonical Quantum Gravity
Semiclassical Constraint Algebra
Canonical Effective Method
Dirac Algebra
Hypersurface Deformation Algebra
First-Class Algebra
First-Class Constraints
Constrained Hamiltonian System
Effective Theory

File:

Download ManuelDiaz-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Martin Bojowald, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Irina Mocioiu, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member

Author:

Srinivasan, Visweshwar

Title:

AN ULTRA-LOW-COST PORTABLE PHOTOACOUSTIC SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

medical
electronics
devices
ultrasound
photoacoustics
portable
cheap
ultra
ultraportable
cost effective

File:

Download Vish_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

William Evan Higgins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mehdi Kiani, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Clemente-Harding, Laura

Title:

Extension of the Analog Ensemble Technique to the Spatial Domain

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Analog Ensemble
uncertainty quantification
Search Space Extension
Schaake Shuffle
ensemble prediction
spatio-temporal consistency
computationally efficient
spatial optimization
optimal predictor weighting

File:

Download 2019_PSU_Dissertation_LCH_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Guido Cervone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guido Cervone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alexander Klippel, Committee Member
Robert George Crane, Committee Member
George Spencer Young, Outside Member
Sue Ellen Haupt, Outside Member
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rotella, Christopher

Title:

Harnessing the Properties of Carbon Nanotubes to Increase Applicability

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Carbon Nanotubes
Chemical Doping
Increasing applicability
Biomedical applications
Li-ion Batteries

File:

Download Rotella_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cristina Rosa, Outside Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Crowe, Elizabeth

Title:

Understanding Factors that Influence STEM Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Buy-In to Pedagogical Training

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

graduate teaching assistant
pedagogical training
buy-in
STEM pedagogical training
GTA professional development

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_Crowe_for_Submission_11-11.pdf

Committee Members:

Julia Diane Plummer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rose Mary Zbiek, Program Head/Chair
Hollie Kulago, Committee Member