Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Perils and pitfalls of symbolic regression, Ryan Grindle, MS, Computer Science
Towards Remote Gait Analysis: Combining Physics and Probabilistic Models for Estimating Human Joint Mechanics, Reed Donovan Gurchiek, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Characterization of Pressure and Temperature Reactions in an On-Demand Pressurization System for Small Satellite Propulsion, Anna M. Humphreys, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Cluster Analysis of Time Series Data with Application to Hydrological Events and Serious Illness Conversations, Ali Javed, PhD, Computer Science
Modeling and Control for Packetized Energy Management, Adil Khurram, PhD, Electrical Engineering
Network and Ecological Methods to Study Enteric Pathogen Co-infections, Connor L. Klopfer, MS, Complex Systems and Data Science
Arrangements of the Inputs and Outputs in the Multi-Robot Continuous Control Problem, Sida Liu, MS, Computer Science
3D acoustic pipe locator imaging based on finite element analysis, Yi Liu, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Measurement on stress-time avalanches of fiber reinforced concrete beams during flexure, Zhuang Liu, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Optimization of energy-constrained resources in radial distribution networks with solar PV, Mohammad Nawaf Nazir, PhD, Electrical Engineering
Shaped And Structured Fields For Underground Remote Sensing And Communication, Daniel Jerome Orfeo, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Atomistic Simulation Study Of Nickel Solute Segregation And Mechanical Behavior In Nanocrystalline Fcc, Bcc And Hcp Binary Alloys, Eve-Audrey Picard, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Robustness and Accuracy Bounds of Model-based Structural Health Monitoring, Nestor Ramon Polanco, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Strengthening Mechanisms in Nanocrystalline Silver-Nickel Nanolayered Materials, Malcolm Ryan Pringle, MS, Mechanical Engineering
The Effects of Oxidized Biodiesel Fuel on Fatty Acid Methyl Ester Composition and Particulate Matter Emissions from a Light-Duty Diesel Engine, Jack Elliot Reed, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Nonlinear Impedance Spectroscopy to characterize Hole Transport and Recombination Dynamics in Organic Semiconductor Devices, Robin Rice, MS, Materials Science
Establishing behavioral baselines for computational systems: two case studies, John Henry Ring, PhD, Computer Science
Absolute Number Density Measurements of Atomic Species in Air and Nitrogen Plasmas, Jeffrey C. Schindler, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Flood Analysis of Bridge-Stream Interactions using Two-Dimensional Models, Rachel Seigel, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Quantifying language changes surrounding mental health on Twitter, Anne Marie Stupinski, MS, Complex Systems and Data Science
Optimizing New In Vitro Methodologies For Assessing The Effects Of Mechanical Stimuli On Lung Cells: Implications For Lung Biology And Disease, Alicia E. Tanneberger, MS, Biomedical Engineering
Sit-Stand Performance With Wearables: An Indicator Of Impairment And Fall Risk In Multiple Sclerosis, Lindsey Tulipani, PhD, Biomedical Engineering
Leveraging Domain Knowledge in Deep Learning Systems, Colin Van Oort, PhD, Complex Systems and Data Science
Carbon Monoxide Measurements in a CO2 Plasma Using Two-Photon Laser Induced Fluorescence, Brandon Voll, MS, Mechanical Engineering
A Peridynamic Simulation Of Repeated Projectile Impacts On A Steel Plate, Jacob Williams, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Exciton Coherence in 1D Phthalocyanine Based Organic Crystalline Thin Films, KimNgan Burrill, PhD, Materials Science
Subsurface Sensing with Shakers and Inspection Vehicles, Jonathan Robert Burton, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Essays on modeling and analysis of dynamic sociotechnical systems, David Rushing Dewhurst, PhD, Complex Systems
Utilizing Machine Learning For Respiratory Rate Detection Via Radar Sensor, Anwar Elhadad, MS, Electrical Engineering
Active Magnetic Sensing for Urban Target Discrimination, Wilson Ezequelle, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Understanding Grain Boundary And Stress Concentration Effects On Strengthening Mechanisms In Nanotwinned Metals, Qiongjiali Fang, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Co-optimization of a Robot's Body and Brain via Evolution and Reinforcement Learning, Jack Felag, MS, Complex Systems
The Utilization of Software Defined Radios for Adaptive, Phased Array Antenna Systems, Evan Fennelly, MS, Electrical Engineering
Software Defined Radio Based Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave Ground Penetrating Radar, Patrick Fiske, MS, Electrical Engineering
Reference Governors for Time-varying Systems and Constraints, Collin Freiheit, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Some results on a set of data driven stochastic wildfire models, Maxfield E. Green, MS, Complex Systems
Microwave Assisted Heating of a Ferromagnetically-Doped Propellant for Small Satellites: An Efficacy Study, Thomas Joseph Heffernan, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Microwave Assisted Heating of a Ferromagnetically-Doped Propellant for Small Satellites: An Efficacy Study, Thomas Joseph Heffernan, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Open Source Quantitative Stress Prediction Leveraging Wearable Sensing and Machine Learning Methods, Blake Hewgill, MS, Electrical Engineering
Economic Efficiency and Carbon Emissions in MES with Flexible Buildings, Zach Lawrence Hurwitz, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Characterization of the University of Vermont Plasma Torch and Simulation of Pyrolysis Gas and Plasma Interactions, Precious Jagun, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Three-Phase Hybrid Model Of Bacterial Biofilm Growth, Xing Jin, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Shape Detection Of Concealed Conductive Objects Using Microwave Ultra-Wideband Spectra, Kyle Kowalczyk, PhD, Electrical Engineering
Design for an Increasingly Protean Machine, Sam Kriegman, PhD, Computer Science
The Iteration Domain Reference Governor, a Constraint Management Scheme for Batch Processes, Aidan Ridner Laracy, MS, Mechanical Engineering
A Software Defined Radio Interrogator for Passive Harmonic Transponders, Timothy Fennell Laracy, MS, Electrical Engineering
A State Estimation Framework for Fatigue Monitoring and Prognosis of Minimally Instrumented Structural and Biomechanical Systems, Benjamin LeBlanc, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Optimization of Mixing Efficiency in Low Reynolds Unlike Doublet Injectors by Incorporating Swirl, Samuel Braggins Ligon, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Enhancement of Charge Transfer in Thermally-expanded and Strain-stabilized TIPS-pentacene Thin Films, Yang Li, PhD, Materials Science
Extremal/Saturation Numbers for Guessing Numbers of Undirected Graphs, Jo Ryder Martin, MS, Mathematics
The circuit and cocircuit lattices of a regular matroid, Patrick Mullins, MS, Mathematical Sciences
Reference Governors: From Theory to Practice, Joycer Osorio, PhD, Electrical Engineering
Experimental And Computational Studies Of Heat Transfer In Flexible Two-Dimensional Woven Fiber Ceramic Materials, Rodrigo Penide Fernandez, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Measuring and Modeling Information Flow on Social Networks, Tyson Charles Pond, MS, Mathematics
The Incidence of Inverter Incidents: Understanding and Quantifying Contributions to Risk in Systems with Large Amounts of Inverter-Based Resources, Caroline Rose Popiel, MS, Electrical Engineering
Applications Of Wearable Sensors In Delivering Biologically Relevant Signals, Jordyn Scism, MS, Biomedical Engineering
Modeling Volcanic Ash Particle Impingement In The Hot Sections Of A Gas Turbine Engine, Drue Seksinsky, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Complex systems analysis in selected domains: animal biosecurity & genetic expression, Luke Trinity, MS, Complex Systems
Knee Articular Cartilage Material Properties Estimation Through FEA, Eduardo Enrique Valdez, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Numerical Simulations of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Torch, Samuel Whitmore, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Model Parameter Calibration in Power Systems, Yuhao Wu, MS, Computer Science
Using Dielectric Characterization To Study Transport And Thermal Properties Of Gas/supercritical Fluid Embedded Polymer Solution, Xiangxiao Yao, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Functional Rotation Axis Based Approach for Estimating Hip Joint Angles Using Wearable Inertial Sensors: Comparison to Existing Methods, Lukas Adamowicz, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Interfacial Mechanical Behavior Between Nacreous Tablets Under Normal And Shear Stresses, Saleh Jaman Alghamdi, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Optimal dispatch of uncertain energy resources, Mahraz Amini, PhD, Electrical Engineering
Distributed Control of Electric Vehicle Charging: Privacy, Performance, and Processing Tradeoffs, Micah Botkin-Levy, MS, Electrical Engineering
Reliability of Inter- and Intra-Examiner Loading of the Knee Joint During Simulated MRI, Tess Aspen Braddish, MS, Bioengineering
Exploring the Modularity and Structure of Robots Evolved in Multiple Environments, Collin Cappelle, PhD, Computer Science
Mathematical Analysis of Some Partial Differential Equations with Applications, Kewang Chen, PhD, Mathematical Sciences
Applications In Sentiment Analysis And Machine Learning For Identifying Public Health Variables Across Social Media, Eric Michael Clark, PhD, Complex Systems
Network Scientific and Information Theoretic Approaches to Social Media During Extreme Climate Events, Benjamin Freixas Emery, MS, Complex Systems
Development And Characterization Of Multi-Crosslinking Injectable Hydrogels For Use In Cell And Drug Delivery, Jennifer Etter, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Multi-Polarized Channel Characterization, Marcia Golmohamadi, PhD, Electrical Engineering
Using Word Embeddings to Explore the Language of Depression on Twitter, Sandhya Gopchandani, MS, Computer Science
Measuring Linguistic and Cultural Evolution Using Books and Tweets, Tyler Gray, PhD, Mathematical Sciences
Energy Accommodation from Surface Catalyzed Reactions in Air Plasmas, Roland Herrmann-Stanzel, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Multi-Objective Optimization Mission Design for Small-Body Coverage Missions, David William Hinckley, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Modeling Electric Vehicle Energy Demand and Regional Electricity Generation Dispatch for New England and New York, Sarah E. Howerter, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Higher-order Runge--Kutta type schemes based on the Method of Characteristics for hyperbolic equations with crossing characteristics, Jeffrey Steven Jewell, MS, Mathematical Sciences
Coupled Thermal-Hydrological-Mechanical-Chemical Processes In Geothermal And Shale Energy Developments, Arash Kamali-Asl, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Atomistic Simulation Studies Of Grain-Boundary Segregation And Strengthening Mechanisms In Nanocrystalline Nanotwinned Silver-Copper Alloys, Xing Ke, PhD, Materials Science
Quantifying the Seismic Vulnerability of Bridges in Low to Moderate Seismicity Regions, John Edward Lens, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Adhesion of bituminous and cementitious materials using Particle-Probe Scanning Force Microscopy, Yujie Li, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Quadrature-Based Gravity Models for the Homogeneous Polyhedron, Jason Pearl, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Ground Penetrating Radar Imaging and Systems, Mauricio Pereira, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Design, Prototyping And Fabrication Of Powder Spray Device For Dehydrated Biological Particulates, James Reilly, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Performance-Based Seismic Monitoring of Instrumented Buildings, Milad Roohi, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Sparsity Constrained Inverse Problems - Application to Vibration-based Structural Health Monitoring, Chandler B. Smith, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Rehab Tracker: Framework for Monitoring and Enhancing NMES Patient Compliance, Timothy Stevens, MS, Computer Science
Characterizing and Quantifying Vaccine Discourse Patterns on Social Media Amidst Global Pandemics, Amelia Tarren, MS, Mathematical Sciences
Simulating hydraulic interdependence between bridges along a river corridor under transient flood conditions, Matthew Everett Trueheart, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Edge-of-Field Hydrology and Nutrient Fluxes within Northeastern Agroecosystems: Evaluation of Alternative Management Practices and Water Quality Models, Cameron Robert Twombly, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Incorruptible Integrator: A Streamlined Approach to IMC-PID Controller Tuning, Sam Wisotzki, MS, Electrical Engineering
Acoustic Emission Sensing for Crack Monitoring in Prefabricated and Prestressed Reinforced Concrete Bridge Girders, Robert Lee Worley II, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Improving Detection And Prediction Of Bridge Scour Damage And Vulnerability Under Extreme Flood Events Using Geomorphic And Watershed Data, Ian Anderson, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Novelty Detection Of Machinery Using A Non-Parametric Machine Learning Approach, Enrique Angola, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Developing Toward Generality: Combating Catastrophic Forgetting with Developmental Compression, Shawn L. Beaulieu, MS, Complex Systems
Optimization of Turbulent Prandtl Number in Turbulent, Wall Bounded Flows, Donald Edward Bernard, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Improving Scalability of Evolutionary Robotics with Reformulation, Anton Bernatskiy, PhD, Computer Science
Some results on a class of functional optimization problems, David Rushing Dewhurst, MS, Mathematics