Theses/Dissertations from 2019
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
Evaluation Of The Engine Exhaust Particle Sizer (eeps) For Real-Time Measurements Of Diesel And Biodiesel Exhaust Particulate Matter, James Robert Dunshee, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Zero-Group-Velocity Propagation Of Electromagnetic Wave Through Nanomaterial, Taian Fan, MS, Electrical Engineering
Development of an Additively Manufactured Microthruster for Nanosatellite Applications, Kevin Russell Gagne, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Real-Time Strategies for the Deployment of Wireless Repeaters in Uncharacterized Environments, Andrew Giroux, MS, Electrical Engineering
Structure and Dynamics of Two Flow Fields Used for Particle Deposition onto and Removal from a Substrate, Adam Green, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
The Impacts Of Climate Change On Precipitation And Hydrology In The Northeastern United States, Justin Guilbert, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Leveraging the information content of process-based models using Differential Evolution and the Extended Kalman Filter, Lucas Howard, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Connecting every bit of knowledge: The Structure of Wikipedia’s first link network, Mark Ibrahim, MS, Mathematics
A Hybrid Approach to Semantic Hashtag Clustering in Social Media, Ali Javed, MS, Computer Science
A Wide Band Adaptive All Digital Phase Locked Loop With Self Jitter Measurement And Calibration, Bo Jiang, PhD, Electrical Engineering
Evolving Spatially Aggregated Features for Regional Modeling and its Application to Satellite Imagery, Sam Kriegman, MS, Statistics
Impact of ACL Injury on Patellar Cartilage Thickness, Ethan Leveillee, MS, Bioengineering
Monomial Characters of Finite Groups, John McHugh, MS, Mathematics
Smart Synthetic Biomaterials for Therapeutic Applications, Tianxin Miao, PhD, Bioengineering
A Framework For Estimating Nutrient And Sediment Loads That Leverages The Temporal Variability Embedded In Water Monitoring Data, Baxter G. Miatke, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Factors Influencing Mode Choice For Intercity Travel From Northern New England To Major Northeastern Cities, Sean Patrick Neely, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Two-Dimensional Numerical Study of Micronozzle Geometry, Jason M. Pearl, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Modeling The Spatiotemporal Dynamics Of Cells In The Lung, Joshua Jeremy Pothen, PhD, Bioengineering
The role of Uncertainty in Categorical Perception Utilizing Statistical Learning in Robots, Nathaniel V. Powell, MS, Statistics
Cascading Failure Risk Estimation and Mitigation in Power Systems, Pooya Rezaei, PhD, Electrical Engineering
Enabling Machine Science through Distributed Human Computing, Mark David Wagy, PhD, Computer Science
Quantifying Cultural Changes Through A Half-Century Of Song Lyrics And Books, Robert Bruce Woodward III, MS, Mathematics
A Genetic Programming Approach to Cost-Sensitive Control in Wireless Sensor Networks, Afsoon Yousefi Zowj, MS, Computer Science
A Drift Eliminated Attitude & Position Estimation Algorithm In 3D, Ruoyu Zhi, MS, Electrical Engineering
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Reverse Engineering the Human Brain: An Evolutionary Computation Approach to the Analysis of fMRI, Nicholas Allgaier, PhD, Mathematical Sciences
Robot Localization Obtained by Using Inertial Measurements, Computer Vision, and Wireless Ranging, William Baker, MS, Electrical Engineering
Predicting Trajectory Paths For Collision Avoidance Systems, Cesar Barrios, PhD, Electrical Engineering
Evaluation of Key Geomechanical Aspects of Shallow and Deep Geothermal Energy, Robert Alexander Caulk, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Burst Pressure Properties and Ex Vivo Analysis of Alginate-Based Hydrogels for Tissue Sealant Applications, Patrick Nelson Charron, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Characterization Of Real-World Particle Number Emissions During Re-Ignition Events From A 2010 Light-Duty Hybrid-Electric Vehicle, Matthew Beach Conger, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering