Fan Bill B Cheung, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor Lawrence E Hochreiter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member Gita Talmage, Committee Member Ali Borhan, Committee Member "David L Aumiller, Jr", Committee Member Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Member