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Author:

Wilhelm, Kyle Jacob

Title:

Development and Operation of a Li6F:ZnS(Ag) Scintillating Plastic Capture-Gated Detector

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Neutron scintillation
Composite detector
Capture-gated spectroscopy
Fast neutron detection
Pulse shape discrimination
Li6F:ZnS(Ag) scintillator

File:

Download wilhelm-ms-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Igor Jovanovic, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marek Flaska, Committee Member
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member

Author:

Pooler, Rick Kevin

Title:

AN ANALYSIS OF SPECTRUM SHARING FOR RADAR APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Spectrum Sensing
Cognitive Radar
Spectrum Sharing
Optimal Sub-band

File:

Download Rick_Pooler_-_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Kane, Committee Member
Anthony Martone, Committee Member

Author:

Mazzone, Jennie Diehl

Title:

Responding to growers' needs: Evaluation of management strategies for onion center rot, caused by Pantoea ananatis and Pantoea agglomerans

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

onion
Pantoea ananatis
Pantoea agglomerans
center rot
cultivar
nitrogen
transplant
bactericide
management
integrated pest management
Allium cepa
bacteria
disease
Honduras
horticultural production guide
Rhizoctonia solani
tomato
tomato foliar blight
Pennsylvania

File:

Download Thesis-_MAZZONE_J.D..pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Beth K. Gugino, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. María del Mar Jiménez Gasco, Committee Member
Dr. Kari A. Peter, Committee Member
Dr. William Lamont, Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Poore, Ryan James

Title:

EXTENDING A BIOLOGICAL CELL TRACKING SYSTEM TO TRACK RANGE DATA OF PEDESTRIANS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

LIDAR range data
topological constraints
geometric active contour
Interacting Multiple Model

File:

Download ThesisMastersRyanPoore.pdf

Committee Members:

William Higgins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Tutwiler, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member

Author:

Akkullu, Monica Roy

Title:

Distribution of La and O Vacancies in Bulk and Surface Models of Ceria

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Lanthanum doped Ceria
Ceria
DFT plus U
Dopant and O vacancy distribution

File:

Download Monica_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Janik, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristen Fichthorn, Committee Member
Xueyi Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Gebhardt, Evan Thomas

Title:

Mimo Radar Through the Wall Imaging Techniques

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Radar
Through-Wall-Radar
Wall Mitigation
Target Detection
SAR
MIMO
Virtual Array

File:

Download Gebhardt_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram M Naraynan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James K Breakall, Committee Member
Ram M Naraynan, Committee Member

Author:

Ajayi, Oluwaseyi Adebola

Title:

Testing the Viability of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide as a Fracking Fluid by Computing its Chemical Interaction with Illite

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

molecular modeling
fracking
hydraulic fracturing
marcellus shale
supercritical CO2
illite
density functional theory
molecular dynamics
DFT
DFT-MD
scCO2
interfacial tension
interfacial energy
interaction energy
VASP
energy minimization

File:

Download seyi_ajayi_ms_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. James Kubicki, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Michael Arthur, Committee Member
Dr. Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Dr. Demian Saffer, Committee Member

Author:

Ayub, Ali

Title:

An Adaptive Markov Process for Deceptive Robotics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Deception
Robotics
Probability Theory
HRI
Markov Process
Entropy

File:

Download PS-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Aldo Morales, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seth Wolpert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amit Banerjee, Committee Member

Author:

Singh, Madhu

Title:

Density-based rescaled exponential model for gas-condensate reservoirs during boundary-dominated flow

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

density-based
rescaled exponential
gas-condensate
boundary dominated flow
variable bottomhole pressure
multiphase flow
analytical model

File:

Download MadhuSingh_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
John Yilin Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Laurent, Jean Emile

Title:

Cross-Functional Project Teams in Construction: A Case Study

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Integrated Project Delivery
IPD
Lean
Cross-functional teams
cross-functional project teams
cluster
case study
interviews

File:

Download Master_Thesis__-_Jean_Laurent_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert M. Leicht, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Riley, Committee Member
John R. Bechtel, Committee Member