Theses/Dissertations from 2020
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
Numerical Modeling Of Collision And Agglomeration Of Adhesive Particles In Turbulent Flows, Farzad Farajidizaji, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Rotating Magnetometry For Terrestrial And Extraterrestrial Subsurface Explorations, Robert Farrell, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Regularization in Symbolic Regression by an Additional Fitness Objective, Ryan Grindle, MS, Mathematical Sciences
Large Eddy Simulation of Oscillatory Flow over a Mobile Rippled Bed using an Euler-Lagrange Approach, Daniel S. Hagan, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Fluvial Processes in Motion: Measuring Bank Erosion and Suspended Sediment Flux using Advanced Geomatic Methods and Machine Learning, Scott Douglas Hamshaw, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Quasilinear Control of Systems with Time-Delays and Nonlinear Actuators and Sensors, Wei-Ping Huang, MS, Electrical Engineering
Leveraging Software-Defined Radio for a Scalable Wide-band Wireless Channel Measurement System, James Jamison, MS, Electrical Engineering
Smart In Situ Fibers And Their Applications, Sundong Kim, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Decoupled Reference Governors for Multi-Input Multi-Output Systems, Yudan Liu, MS, Electrical Engineering
An Autothermal, Representative Scale Test Of Compost Heat Potential Using Geostatistical Analysis, William J. McCune-Sanders, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Networks, (K)nots, Nucleotides, and Nanostructures, Ada Morse, PhD, Mathematical Sciences
Generating And Measuring Prescribed Levels Of Cohesion In Soil Simulants In Support Of Extraterrestrial Terramechanics Research, Laura Obregon, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mechano-Magnetic Telemetry For Urban Infrastructure Monitoring, Daniel Jerome Orfeo, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Crystallization Study Of Polymers Under High Pressure Gas / Supercritical Fluid, Sandra Romero, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Quantum Many - Body Interaction Effects In Two - Dimensional Materials, Sanghita Sengupta, PhD, Materials Science
Design and Evaluation of a Tactile Texture Production System, Samuel Benjamin Fertel Shuster, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Smart Classifiers and Bayesian Inference for Evaluating River Sensitivity to Natural and Human Disturbances: A Data Science Approach, Kristen Underwood, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Market Efficiency in U.S. Stock Markets: A Study of the Dow 30 and the S&P 30, Colin Michael Van Oort, MS, Mathematics
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Magnetic Graphene Memory Circuit Characterization And Verilog-A Modeling, Greg Abrami, MS, Electrical Engineering
A Formal Approach to Combining Prospective and Retrospective Security, Sepehr Amir-Mohammadian, PhD, Computer Science
Fabrication And Thermoelectric Characterization Of Stretchable Conductive Latex-Based Composites, Cory Michael Arcovitch, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Status Monitoring Of Inflatables By Accurate Shape Sensing, Justin Matthew Bond, MS, Mechanical Engineering
An Exposition of Selberg's Sieve, Jack Dalton, MS, Mathematics
Seaweed to Sealant : Multifunctional Polysaccharides for Regenerative Medicine and Drug Delivery Applications, Spencer Lincoln Fenn, PhD, Bioengineering
Temporal Feature Selection with Symbolic Regression, Christopher Winter Fusting, MS, Mathematics
Disentangling Discourse: Networks, Entropy, and Social Movements, Ryan Gallagher, MS, Mathematics
Hilbert Class Fields of Imaginary Quadratic Fields and Reflex Fields of Certain Sextic CM Fields, Garvin Gaston, MS, Mathematics
Microwave Bessel-Beam Propagation through Spatially Inhomogeneous Media, Ryan Francis Grecco, MS, Electrical Engineering
A New Evolutionary Algorithm For Mining Noisy, Epistatic, Geospatial Survey Data Associated With Chagas Disease, John P. Hanley, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Manufacturing Microfluidic Flow Focusing Devices For Stimuli Responsive Alginate Microsphere Generation And Cell Encapsulation, Michael A. Karasinski, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Steady State Simulation of Pyrolysis Gases in an Inductively Coupled Plasma Facility, Nicholas C. Martin, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Weighted Networks: Applications from Power grid construction to crowd control, Thomas Charles McAndrew, PhD, Mathematical Sciences
Navigational Complexity Within Building Codes, James Stephen McLean, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Assessing The Probability Of Fluid Migration Caused By Hydraulic Fracturing; And Investigating Flow And Transport In Porous Media Using Mri, James Montague, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ripple Performance Instrumentation, Modeling, and Testing for Wet Tantalum Capacitors, Paul Montane, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Application Of Electrokinetics In Subsurface Energy Extraction, Maria Peraki, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Towards a science of human stories: using sentiment analysis and emotional arcs to understand the building blocks of complex social systems, Andrew James Reagan, PhD, Mathematical Sciences
Cmos Programmable Time Control Circuit Design For Phased Array Uwb Ground Penetrating Radar Antenna Beamforming, Nicholas James Reilly, MS, Electrical Engineering
Wind Turbine Wake Interactions - Characterization of Unsteady Blade Forces and the Role of Wake Interactions in Power Variability Control, Daniel Curtis Saunders, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Sediment Mobilization from Streambank Failures: Model Development and Climate Impact Studies, Jody Juniper Stryker, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Adaptive High Voltage Pulse Signal Generator Circuit Design, Lixi Tao, MS, Electrical Engineering
Investigation of Pyrolysis Gas Chemistry in an Inductively Coupled Plasma Facility, Corey Tillson, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Bioprospecting For Genes That Confer Biofuel Tolerance To Escherichia Coli Using A Genomic Library Approach, Timothy Tomko, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Wronskian and Gram Solutions to Integrable Equations using Bilinear Methods, Benjamin Wiggins, MS, Mathematics
Gravitational Potential Modeling of Near-Earth Contact Binaries, Stephanie Wood, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Investigating Key Techniques to Leverage the Functionality of Ground/Wall Penetrating Radar, Yu Zhang, PhD, Electrical Engineering
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Reviewing Power Outage Trends, Electric Reliability Indices and Smart Grid Funding, Shawn Adderly, MS, Statistics
A Preliminary Study On The Interfacial Strength Of Red Abalone, Saleh Jaman Alghamdi, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Assessment Of Surface-CatalyzedReaction Products From HighTemperature Materials In Plasmas, Luke Daniel Allen, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Mapping the Substrate of Atrial Fibrillation: Tools and Techniques, Bryce Eric Benson, PhD, Bioengineering
An Alternative Sensor Fusion Method For Object Orientation Using Low-Cost Mems Inertial Sensors, Joshua Lee Bouffard, MS, Electrical Engineering
Use Of Sacrificial Embankments To Minimize Bridge Damage From Scour During Extreme Flow Events, Matthew Willi Brand, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
A Mechanistically Guided Approach to Treatment of Multi-Wavelet Reentry: Experiments in a Computational Model of Cardiac Propagation, Richard T. Carrick, PhD, Bioengineering
Using Real Time Statistical Data To Improve Long Term Voltage Stability In Stochastic Power Systems, Samuel Chevalier, MS, Electrical Engineering
Mathematical Modeling of Public Opinion using Traditional and Social Media, Emily Cody, PhD, Mathematical Sciences
Development of a Physical and Electronic Model for RuO2 Nanorod Rectenna Devices, Justin Dao, MS, Electrical Engineering
Uncommon Numerical instability in the method of characteristic applied to hyperbolic equations, Zihao Deng, MS, Mathematics