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Author:

Morales, David Roberto

Title:

THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG PROCRASTINATION, ACHIEVEMENT, AND THE USE OF MOTIVATIONAL MESSAGES WITHIN AN ONLINE COURSE

Graduate Program:

Instructional Systems

Keywords:

Instructional Design
ARCS Model
Messages
Procrastination
Online Learning
Achievement
Motivation

File:

Download DavidRobertoMorales.pdf

Committee Members:

Jill L Lane, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kyle Leonard Peck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Hoi Kin Suen, Committee Member

Author:

Van Niekerk, Daniel

Title:

STRUCTURAL ELUCIDATION, MOLECULAR REPRESENTATION AND SOLVENT INTERACTIONS OF VITRINITE-RICH AND INERTINITE-RICH SOUTH AFRICAN COALS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

coal-to-liquids
solvent extraction
coal
macerals
reflectance
petrography
molecular modeling

File:

Download Daniel_Van_Niekerk_2008_high_quality.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Harold Harris Schobert, Committee Member
Caroline Elaine Clifford, Committee Member
Paul C Painter, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Guohua

Title:

MOLECULAR COMPOSITION OF NEEDLE COKE FEEDSTOCKS AND MESOPHASE DEVELOPMENT DURING CARBONIZATION

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Mesophase
Carbonization
Delayed Coking
Polyaromatic hydrocarbon
Needle Coke
FCC decant oil

File:

Download Guohua_Wang_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Semih Eser, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ljubisa R Radovic, Committee Member
Harold Harris Schobert, Committee Member
Alan W Scaroni, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
A Daniel Jones, Committee Member

Author:

Kumar, Hemant

Title:

INDUCING FRACTURES AND CLEAT APERTURE ENHANCEMENT IN BITUMINOUS COAL VIA THE APPLICATION OF MICROWAVE ENERGY APPLIED UNDER HYDROSTATIC STRESS CONDITIONS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Fracture
Bituminous coal
Microwave
Coalbed Methane

File:

Download Hemant_Kumar_MS_Thesis_2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan P Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan P Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Pone, Jean Denis Nda'si

Title:

CARBON DIOXIDE SEQUESTRATION IN COAL: CHARACTERIZATION OF MATRIX DEFORMATION, SORPTION CAPACITY AND DYNAMIC PERMEABILITY AT IN-SITU STRESS CONDITIONS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

carbon dioxide sorption capacity in coal
coalbed methane
Sequestration
coal permeability
stress

File:

Download DPone_PSU_thesis_2009.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan P Mathews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Phillip Michael Halleck, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member

Author:

Mao, Jin

Title:

THE EFFECTS OF ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES AND SELF-REGULATED LEARNING (SRL) SKILLS ON COLLEGE STUDENTS’ SKILL-BASED AND COGNITIVE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PERCEPTIONS OF ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING

Graduate Program:

Instructional Systems

Keywords:

Assessment

File:

Download Thesis_JMao.pdf

Committee Members:

Kyle Leonard Peck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Priya Sharma, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member

Author:

Nyathi, Mhlwazi Solomon

Title:

Evaluation of co-cokes from bituminous coal with vacuum resid or decant oil, and evaluation of anthracites, as precursors to graphite

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

graphitization
coke
coking
coal
graphite
isotropic

File:

Download MHLWAZI_SOLOMON_NYATHI_THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Harold Harris Schobert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harold Harris Schobert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Caroline Elaine Clifford, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Peter J Pappano, Committee Member

Author:

James, Richard

Title:

A numerical investigation of the effects of dry air aloft on deep convection

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

convection
severe storms
dry air aloft

File:

Download thesis_rpjames.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Markowski, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Markowski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yvette Pamela Richardson, Committee Member
James Michael Fritsch, Committee Member
Charles Luther Hosler Jr., Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member

Author:

Cetiner, Ruveyda

Title:

FRAGMENTATION OF COAL AND IMPROVED DISPERSION OF LIQUEFACTION CATALYSTS USING IONIC LIQUIDS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

dispersion of liquefaction catalysts
Fragmentation of coal
ionic liquids

File:

Download FINALMSTHESIS_RZC12.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan P Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan P Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul C Painter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

McGunegle, Steven Berle

Title:

ANALYZING INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION: A REVIEW OF THE POTENTIAL FOR SUSTAINED ETHANOL PRODUCTION IN PENNSYLVANIA

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Economic Development
Ethanol Production
Industrial Location Theory

File:

Download McGunegle_S_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Amy Glasmeier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy K Glasmeier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seth Adam Blumsack, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan P Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Berkhous, Scott K.

Title:

Thermal Oxidative Stability of Coal-Based JP-900 Jet Fuel: Impact on Selected Physical Properties

Graduate Program:

Fuel Science

Keywords:

Freeze Point
Viscosity
Liquefaction
Crystals
Modelling

File:

Download ScottKBerkhous.pdf

Committee Members:

Harold Harris Schobert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Donald Phelps, Committee Member

Author:

Lai, Ting-ling

Title:

THE EFFECT OF USING PEER DISCUSSION, LEARNING JOURNALS AND QUESTION PROMPTS TO SUPPORT REFLECTION IN A DISTANCE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Graduate Program:

Instructional Systems

Keywords:

Distance Learning
Question Prompts
Peer Discussion
Learning Journal
Reflection

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Susan M Land, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peggy Noel Van Meter, Committee Member
John David Popp, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

Author:

Rodriguez Santiago, Victor

Title:

ELECTROPHORESIS OF NANOPARTICLES IN HIGH TEMPERATURE AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

electrokinetics
zeta potential
high temperature
protonation reactions
nanoelectrophoresis

File:

Download Victor_thesis_final_073109.pdf

Committee Members:

Serguei Lvov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Serguei Lvov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member

Author:

Fernandez-Alos, Victor

Title:

IMPROVED MOLECULAR MODEL GENERATION FOR SOOT, CHARS, AND COALS: HIGH-RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY LATTICE FRINGES REPRODUCTION WITH FRINGE3D

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

soot
molecular model
3D HRTEM lattice fringe images
char
low-rank coals

File:

Download ID_9438372_Victor_Fernandez_Alos_MSc.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan P Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan P Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harold Harris Schobert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Alvarez Rojas, Yesica E.

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF A REACTIVE COARSE-GRAINING APPROACH FOR THE UTILITY ENHANCEMENT OF COMPLEX LARGE-SCALE MOLECULAR MODELS OF COAL

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

pyrolysis
simplification
coarse-graining
molecular modeling
lattice
coal
large scale
biomass

File:

Download Yesica_Alvarez_MS_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan P Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan P Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ching, Yu-Hui

Title:

THE EFFECTS OF COMPUTER-BASED VIDEO STRATEGY TRAINING FOR PROBLEM REPRESENTATION AND SELF-EXPLANATION ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS REPRESENTING AND SOLVING ILL-STRUCTURED PROBLEMS

Graduate Program:

Instructional Systems

Keywords:

problem representation
self-explanation
ill-structured problem solving
strategy instruction
scaffolding
undergraduate

File:

Download ChingDissertation2009.pdf

Committee Members:

Barbara L Grabowski, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barbara L Grabowski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peggy Noel Van Meter, Committee Member
Priya Sharma, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Shugang

Title:

Gas transport, sorption, and mechanical response of fractured coal

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Gas transport
sorption
desorption
poromechanical
coal

File:

Download Shugang_Wang_PhD_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Jamal Rostami, Committee Member

Author:

Belvalkar, Rohan Anirrudha

Title:

Permeabilities of coal-biomass mixtures for high pressure gasifier feeds

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

permeability
porosity
kozeny-carmen
coal
biomass
gasifier
feed
particle size
stress
strain
isotropic
pulse decay

File:

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Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Marone, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan P Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Castro Marcano, Fidel

Title:

Improved generation of large-scale atomistic representations and pyrolysis/combustion simulations of Illinois coal and coal char using the Reaxff reactive force field

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

coal structure
coal pyrolysis
char combustion
molecular modeling
ReaxFF
reactive molecular dynamics

File:

Download Fidel_Castro_Doctoral_Dissertation_corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan P Mathews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ljubisa R Radovic, Committee Member
Caroline Elaine Clifford, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member

Author:

Louw, Enette

Title:

Structure and combustion reactivity of inertinite-rich and vitrinite rich South African coal chars: quantification of the structural factors contributing to reactivity differences

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Coal
char
reactivity
structure
molecular modeling
South Africa

File:

Download Final_Thesis_Enette_22July.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan P Mathews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Member
Semih Eser, Committee Member

Author:

Prabhakar, Bhaskar

Title:

Examination of Egr Cooler Fouling and Engine Efficiency Improvement in Compression Ignition Engines

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

EGR Cooler Fouling
High Efficiency Combustion
Dual Fuel Combustion
Clean Diesel Technology

File:

Download Bhaskar_Prabhakar_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andre Louis Boehman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Special Member

Author:

Kumar, Hemant

Title:

Poromechanical Response of Naturally Fractured Sorbing Media

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Coal
Shale
Permeability
Proppant
Modeling
Simulation

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Kumar.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Denis Pone, Special Member

Author:

Sokolowski, Christopher Henry

Title:

Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOX by NH3 for Diesel Exhaust Aftertreatment

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

selective catalytic reduction
SCR
NH3-SCR
diesel
NOX
nitrogen oxides
catalyst deactivation
zeolite
iron zeolite

File:

Download Sokolowski_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Yongsheng Chen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarma V Pisupati, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan P Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sircar, Sarmishtha

Title:

Studies of Gas Adsorption in Flexible Metal-organic Frameworks

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Adsorption
Gate-Opening
Metal-Organic Frameworks

File:

Download Final_Thesis._Sircar.pdf

Committee Members:

Angela Lueking, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Angela Lueking, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Adri van Duin, Committee Member

Author:

Ciavarella, Veronica Charlotte

Title:

Exploratory qualitative case study of lab-type activity interactions in an online graduate geoscience course

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

geoscience
online
interaction
case study
qualitative
lab-type activity

File:

Download Ciavarella_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Kuhne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Kuhne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Melody M Thompson, Committee Member
Scott P Mcdonald, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member

Author:

Pulati, Nuerxida

Title:

Bitumen Recovery from Oil Sands Using Deep Eutectic Solvent and Its Aqueous Solutions

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Oil Sands
Bitumen
Oil Recovery
Atomic Force Microscopy
Peakforce Tapping QNM
Force Measurement
Deep Eutectic Solvent

File:

Download Nuerxida_Pulati_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul C Painter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Evangelos Manias, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member

Author:

Gautam, Suman

Title:

Three Essays on Empirical Analysis of United States Electricity Markets

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Electricity Markets
RPS
Coal Plants
Selection Bias
demand response
RCT Design
extreme value theory
AR/GARCH Models

File:

Download Gautam_Suman_Dissertation_-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Seth Adam Blumsack, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Zhen Lei, Committee Member
Robert D Weaver, Committee Member
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member

Author:

Sitamraju, Siddarth

Title:

Novel Ti based mixed metal oxide systems for adsorptive desulfurization: A combined ab initio and experimental study

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

DFT
Titania
Anatase
Adsorptive desulfurization
Air promoted desulfurization

File:

Download Dissertation_Sitamraju.pdf

Committee Members:

Chunshan Song, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chunshan Song, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Xiaoxing Wang, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Special Member

Author:

Gaddam, Chethan Kumar

Title:

Electron Microscopic and Spectroscopic Characterization for Soot Source Differentiation by Laser Derivatization

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

SSILD
HRTEM
pulsed laser heating
soot source identification
partial graphitization
radial profile analysis

File:

Download Gaddam_Chethan_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Randy Lee Vander Wal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member

Author:

Mukherjee, Amrita

Title:

Progression Towards Optimization Of Viscosity Of Highly Concentrated Carbonaceous Solid-water Slurries By Incorporating And Modifying Surface Chemistry Parameters With And Without Additives

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

petcoke
coal
slurry
viscosity
interfacial interactions
aggregation networks
free water
bound water

File:

Download Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarma V Pisupati, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Stephen Klima, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member

Author:

Abrahamson, Joseph Peter

Title:

Pulsed Laser Annealing of Carbon

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

carbon
carbonization
graphitization
graphitizable
graphitizability
odd membered carbon rings
laser annealing
microscopy
electron microscopy
carbon annealing
kinetics of graphitization
carbon black
coke
char
mesophase

File:

Download Abrahamson-Dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Randy Lee Vander Wal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Semih Eser, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Adri van Duin, Outside Member

Author:

Valdez, Robert Dennis

Title:

MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF MAJOR PLATE BOUNDARY FAULT SYSTEMS: INSIGHTS INTO THE STRESS STATE OF THE NANKAI SUBDUCTION-ACCRETION COMPLEX OFFSHORE SW JAPAN AND SLIP STABILITY OF THE ALPINE FAULT ZONE IN NEW ZEALAND

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Consolidation state
Nankai Trough
In situ stress state
Friction
Slip stability
Scientific drilling
Alpine Fault
Accretionary prism
Rate and state friction

File:

Download RD_Valdez_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Demian Saffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Demian Saffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Donald Myron Fisher, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Outside Member

Author:

Sagzhanov, Daulet

Title:

3D DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK FOR CLEAT-SCALE MODELING OF DYNAMIC COAL BEHAVIOR

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Coal Cleat
Discrete Fracture Network

File:

Download Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan P Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Mohammad Rezaee, Committee Member

Author:

Rosoff-Verbit, Brett

Title:

Liberation of Graphene-like Nanoplatelets and Sub-micron Particles from Anthracite Coal through Chemically Aided Attrition Milling

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Graphene
anthracite
coal
nanomaterial
nano
attrition
milling

File:

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Committee Members:

James Hansell Adair, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
John C Mauro, Committee Member