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Author:

Fernandez, Alisha Rachel

Title:

EVALUATING ECOSYSTEM AND WIND-FOLLOWING SERVICES FOR HYDRO-ELECTRIC DAMS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

energy policy
hydro-electric power
wind generation
ancillary services
ecosystem services
sensitivity analysis
drought

File:

Download MastersThesis_vs04122011.pdf

Committee Members:

Seth Adam Blumsack, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick M Reed, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seth Adam Blumsack, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Martin, Jay Dean

Title:

A Methodology for Evaluating System-Level Uncertainty in the Conceptual Design of Complex Multidisciplinary Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

conceptual design
uncertainty assessment
sensitivity analysis
kriging models

File:

Download JayDMartin-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
Russell Richard Barton, Committee Member
Mark Thomas Traband, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

van Werkhoven, Kathryn Lynn

Title:

EVALUATING MODEL BEHAVIOR FOR HYDROLOGIC FORECASTING IN GAUGED AND UNGAUGED WATERSHEDS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

watershed modeling
sensitivity analysis
optimization
ungauged basins
climate change impacts
distributed models

File:

Download KvanWerkhoven_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Thorsten Wagener, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick M Reed, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member
Michael Mann, Committee Member

Author:

Lowe, Michael

Title:

Sensitivity Analysis of Hurricane Evacuation Casualties and Costs in Florida

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

hurricane forecasting
cone of uncertainty
hurricane evacuations
sensitivity analysis

File:

Download Michael_Lowe_masters_thesis_FINAL_binding.pdf

Committee Members:

Jenni Evans, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Young, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Goldman, Robert W

Title:

Development of a Rollover-Warning Device for Road Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

vehicle dynamics
fuzzy inference systems
fuzzy logic
neural networks
artificial neural networks
rollover
sensitivity analysis

File:

Download RWGoldman_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Barbara E Kulakowski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moustafa El Gindy, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Ageliki Elefteriadou, Committee Member

Author:

Amin, Sanket R

Title:

DETERMINING THE UNCERTAINTY OF A GPS-BASED COLLISION VEHICLE DETECTION SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Allan Variance
sensitivity analysis
LIDAR
collision warning system
GPS
friction coefficient estimation

File:

Download Amin_MastersThesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tang, Yong

Title:

ADVANCING HYDROLOGIC MODEL EVALUATION AND IDENTIFICATION USING MULTIOBJECTIVE CALIBRATION, SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS, AND PARALLEL COMPUTATION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrologic model
model calibration
sensitivity analysis
multiobjective optimization
evolutionary algorithm
parallel computation

File:

Download Dissertation_Yong_Tang_02_02_07_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick M Reed, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member
Thorsten Wagener, Committee Member
Hangsheng Lin, Committee Member

Author:

Herman, Jonathan D

Title:

Time-varying sensitivity analysis reveals impacts of watershed model choice on the inference of dominant processes

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

rainfall-runoff modeling
sensitivity analysis
hydrology

File:

Download Herman_Jonathan_CE_MS_Thesis_SP2012.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick M Reed, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thorsten Wagener, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Gooseff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wlostowsk, Adam Nicholas

Title:

Solute Transport Dynamics in Alaskan Arctic Tundra Streams

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

hydrology
Alaska
solute transport
sensitivity analysis
numerical modeling
surface water groundwater interaction

File:

Download Wlostowski_MS_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Michael N Gooseff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kelleher, Christa Ann

Title:

Interpreting hydrologic behavior in headwater streams using comparative hydrology

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

hydrology
headwater streams
sensitivity analysis
watersheds

File:

Download CKelleher_Dissertation_7_17_2013.pdf

Committee Members:

Thorsten Wagener, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Gooseff, Committee Member
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member
Raymond Gabriel Najjar Jr., Committee Member