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Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2021
An Exploration of the Practice of Engineering as Experienced Through the Capstone Course, Mary Raber
Autonomous Vehicle Obstacle Avoidance Maneuvers: Analytical and Experimental Development of Friction Surface Dependent Path Planning and Control, Nathan D. Spike
CHARACTERIZATION OF PROLIFERATION AND MIGRATION OF BREAST CANCER CELLS TARGETED BY A GLUT5-SPECIFIC FRUCTOSE MIMIC, Srinivas Kannan
Comparison of Path Planning Approaches of Autonomous Vehicles for Obstacle Avoidance Application, Duo Zhang
Control of spontaneous emission dynamics in microcavities with chiral exceptional surfaces, Amin Hashemi
CORRELATED SIMULATION OF PSEUDO TRANSIENT TORQUE CONVERTER CLUTCH ENGAGEMENT USING COUPLED FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION, Aniket Vilas Beldar
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEAR-INFRARED FLUORESCENT PROBES FOR SENSING pH, HYPOXIA AND PEROXYNITRITE, Shulin Wan
DISCRETE ELEMENT SIMULATION OF ASPHALT MIXTURE FROM MODELING TO APPLICATION, Xiaodong Zhou
DYNAMICS OF THE TOBA MAGMATIC SYSTEM AS RECORDED BY CRYSTALS, Olivia Barbee
EXPLORING GLUT5 TARGETING FOR CANCER DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY, Avik Ghosh
IDENTIFICATION OF CANDIDATE GRF AND MIR396 REGULATOR GENES IN POPLARS INVOLVED IN RESPONSE TO ABIOTIC STRESSES, Hazen Keinath
IMPACTS OF CROSS-SCALE HYDRODYNAMICS ON THE GREAT LAKES COASTAL SYSTEM, Chenfu Huang
IMPUTATION OF ORDINAL RESPONSES USING UNIVARIATE BAYESIAN PROBIT MODEL, Weibing Li
INVESTIGATING REDOX CHEMISTRY OF GRAPHITE, IRON OXIDE & IRON SURFACES, Mikhail Trought
Landscape Ecology of North American River Otter (Lontra canadensis) in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Stacy Cotey
MEMBRANE-BASED HEAT SINK FOR ENHANCED FLOW BOILING PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY, Shivam Gupta
MODEL-BASED ENGINE-OUT EMISSIONS ANALYSIS FOR A GASOLINE TURBOCHARGED DIRECT INJECTION SPARK-IGNITED ENGINE IN ELEVATED HEV CRANKING SPEED, Amir Khameneian
MODEL POLYMER SYSTEMS CONTAINING CATECHOL MOIETIES TO TUNE HYDROGEN PEROXIDE GENERATION FOR ANTIPATHOGENIC AND WOUND HEALING APPLICATIONS, Pegah Kord Fooroshani
“Not to Sound like a Conspiracy Theorist, but…”: A Rhetorical Cultural Analysis of the Conspiracy Theory Pejorative, Joshua Chase
Phase field fracture modeling for chemically strengthened glass and Machine Learning for Reaction-- diffusion equations, Revanth Mattey
Prediction of coincident peak days in electricity system: a case study for classification on imbalanced data, Jinxiang Liu
RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION METHOD FOR COMPUTATIONAL PHOTONICS, Seyed Mostafa Rezaei
Spatial Technologies, (Geo)Epistemology, & the Global South: Addressing the Discursive Materiality of GhanaPostGPS through Technical Communication, G. Edzordzi Agbozo
Trailer Articulation Angle Detection and Tracking For Trailer Backup Assistant Systems, Mojtaba Bahramgiri
Van der Waals Quantum Dots: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications, Amit Acharya
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2020
A BAYESIAN CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED CLASSIFIER TO DETECT BREAST CANCER FROM HISTOPATHOLOGICAL IMAGES AND UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION, Pushkar Khairnar
A CYTOKINE-INDUCED PLATELET-TYPE PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE (PFKP) REGULATING GLUCOSE-STIMULATED INSULIN SECRETION, Xinqian Chen
AN INVESTIGATION OF SEAWEED CLEANUP POLICIES IN WEST AFRICA, Roland Oduro Ofori
BONDING HARDWOOD LUMBER FOR CROSS LAMINATED TIMBER: PROPERTIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, Munkaila Musah
CYBER RISK MANAGEMENT AND MODELING FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) PLANTS, Alexander W. Miranda
DESIGNING FOR JUST ENERGY ACCESS: ELECTRIFICATION PLANNING IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, Bethel Tarekegne
DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF A LUNG-INSPIRED 3D-PRINTED DESICCANT-COATED HEAT EXCHANGER, Umamaheswar Puttur
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE FLOW CHAMBER FOR SHEAR FLOW MECHANOTRANSMISSION STUDIES, Mohanish Chandurkar
DISCOURSE, WOMEN AND POLITICS IN THE POSTCOLONY: ON NANA KONADU AGYEMAN-RAWLINGS, GHANA’S FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, Nancy Henaku
Discursive Positioning at an Indian Midwifery Clinic, Geethu Madeckal Jose
ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR INTERNET OF THINGS: OPTIMIZED NETWORKING FOR CONNECTED AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES, Ali Jalooli
EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF FIBER-REINFORCED RUBBERIZED CONCRETE AND RUBBERIZED SELF-CONSOLIDATING CONCRETE, Jiaqing Wang
Exploring the Need for Improved Precipitation Measurements for Rainfall-Induced Landslides, Katelyn E. Kring
GEOCHEMICAL AND PETROLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF THE GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION OF THE BELL CREEK BATHOLITH, REPUBLIC QUADRANGLE, MARQUETTE, Anna Dalle Fratte
GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION OF THE OPEN PIT MINING COMPLEX WITH INTEGRATED CUT-OFF GRADE OPTIMIZATION UNDER UNCERTAINTY, Amol Paithankar
HOMETRACKER: A HOUSEHOLD LEVEL FIELD INTERVENTION AND METABOLISM TRACKER, Prathyusha Sreedhara
Macromolecular strategies for discovering disease-related proteins and new therapeutic agents, Christina Welch
MODELING THE TRANSFER AND TRANSFORMATION OF PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID (PFOS) AND PRECURSOR COMPOUNDS DURING WASTEWATER TREATMENT VIA THE BIOWIN 6.0 PLATFORM, Christine D. Wood
NOVEL GENE-BASED ASSOCIATION TEST BASED ON NEW POLYGENETIC RISK SCORES AND REAL DATA ANALYSIS USING UK BIOBANK COPD DATA, Zhongyuan Hu
ONE-DIMENSIONAL, STEADY-STATE, COUPLED GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER MODEL AND DATABASE FOR THE MESILLA ALLUVIAL AQUIFER, NEW MEXICO AND TEXAS, USA, Marjan Monfarednasab
POWER AND POSSIBILITIES IN THE CENTER: AN ARTICULATION THEORY TOOL FOR WRITING CENTER WORK, William E. De Herder III
Proximal Reliability Optimization for Reinforcement Learning, Narendra Patwardhan
ROCK MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF THE L5 ORDINARY CHONDRITE DAULE, Katie E. Bristol
Sensitivity and Uncertainty Quantification of Continuum and Stochastic Bond Dissociation Kinetics Based Cohesive Laws, Rishabh Awasthi
STUDY OF SPARK DISCHARGE AND CYCLE-TO-CYCLE COMBUSTION VARIATIONS USING OPTICAL DIAGNOSTICS, Mary Pourhasanzadehsharifi
SURFACE MODIFICATION OF ZnO BASED DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS, Shu Zhao
SUSTAINABILITY IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF ALGAL BIOFUEL PRODUCTION, Hossein Tavakoli
SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATIONS OF METAL/SEPIOLITE AND METAL OXIDE/SEPIOLITE NANOCOMPOSITES, Huaguang Wang
TECHNO-ECONOMIC AND LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF INNOVATIVE ROUTES TO CHEMICAL PRODUCTS, Kaled Bentaher
Water Injection and its Impact on Knock Mitigation in Spark Ignited Engines, Niranjan Miganakallu Narasimhamurthy
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2019
ADVANCEMENTS IN TIME-DOMAIN MODELING OF POWER SYSTEM DISTURBANCES, Hemanth Kumar Vemprala
A GLOBAL COMPARISON OF THE BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES OF BILGE WATER, BOAT SURFACES, AND EXTERNAL PORT WATER, Laura G. Schaerer
AN INVESTIGATION OF UNCERTAINTY IN ULTRASONIC ELASTOGRAPHY: A CONTINUUM BIOMECHANICS PERSPECTIVE, David P. Rosen
Bayesian Hypothesis Testing in Linear Regression Models, Lilia Feng
Cathode Coupling in a Low Power Hall Effect Thruster, Tristan Slabaugh
CHARACTERIZATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER (DOM) IN ENGINEERED ULTRAVIOLET (UV) PHOTOLYSIS AND UV-BASED ADVANCED OXIDATION PROCESSES, Padmalathika Varanasi
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE POST INJECTION BEHAVIOR OF GASOLINE DIRECT INJECTION FUEL INJECTORS, Robert A. Schroeter
Cloud Manufacturing Based Embroidered Wearable Electronics For Daily ECG Monitoring, Hui Huang
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HOG WITH LINEAR SVM AND SSD ALGORITHMS FOR REAL-TIME PEDESTRIAN DETECTION, Kalpesh Kuber
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HOG AND YOLO FOR TRAFFIC SIGN DETECTION SYSTEMS, Sphurti More
COMPARISON BETWEEN A* BASED SPLINES AND STATE LATTICE PATH PLANNING FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES, Om Kukunuru
COST ANALYSIS AND JOB DESCRIPTION FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF A NIGHT SHIFT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST AT BARAGA COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, Claire E. Danielson
DEMONSTRATE SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAY OF OREXIN RECEPTOR 1 (OX1R) ACTIVATION, Wafa Fhad A Alharbi
DEPHOSPHORIZATION OF GOETHITE ORE, Long Zhang
DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF BRAKE ROTOR USING CFD TECHNIQUES, Shubham Ramesh Jain
Determination of Reduced Salt Dome Hydrocarbon Accumulation Using Full-Azimuth 3D Seismic Data: A Case Study, Ben Pletcher
DEVELOPMENT OF A TURBULENT BURNING VELOCITY MODEL BASED ON FLAME STRETCH CONCEPT FOR SPARK IGNITION ENGINES, Behdad Afkhami
DIGITAL IN-LINE HOLOGRAM ENHANCEMENT USING FILTERING AND PADDING FOR PARTICLE CHARACTERIZATION, Ashfiq Rahman
EVALUATION OF RHEOLOGICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FOAMED AND EMULSIFIED ASPHALT MATERIALS, Lingyun You
GENETIC MODIFICATION OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS FOR INCREASING SACCHARIFICATION EFFICIENCY IN POPLARS, Yogesh Ahlawat
IEC 61850 BASED GOOSE AND SV SERVICES FOR WIDE-AREA PROTECTION AND AUTOMATION, Jaya Raghavendra Arun Kumar Yellajosula
Light-matter interactions in plasmonic arrays, two dimensional materials and their hybrid nanostructures, Jinlin Zhang
MAGNETOSTRICTIVE BONE FIXATION DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING LOCAL MECHANICAL STIMULI TO BONE FRACTURE SITES, Salil Sidharthan Karipott
MEASUREMENT OF CATALYST LAYER WETTABILITY IN PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELL, Saleel Visal
Mineral Policy: The Severance of Rights, Resources, and Relations, Sophia Ford
Molecular Dynamics Modeling of PEEK, Cyanate Esters, and Carbon Nanotubes for Aerospace Applications, Will Pisani
MULTIMODAL COMPOSITION AND PEDAGOGY: AN APPROACH FROM THE INSTRUCTOR'S POINT OF VIEW, Laura Vidal Chiesa
NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF MOISTURE TRANSPORT IN ASPHALT MIXTURES, Siyu Chen
ON DILUTE PLUME AND IMPINGEMENT FLOWS IN SPACE ENGINEERING, Kai Zhang
OPTIMIZATION OF DIESEL ENGINE AND AFTER-TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR SERIES HYBRID FORKLIFT APPLICATION, Roman Maharjan
PEPTIDE VACCINES AGAINST MOSQUITO-BORNE RNA VIRUSES BASED ON BACTERIOPHAGE VIRUS-LIKE PARTICLES, Rupsa Basu
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GHANAIAN MEDIA: CONCEPTUALIZING NEWS MEDIA’S ROLE THROUGH THE MEDIA COALITION AGAINST GALAMSEY, Nancy Achiaa Frimpong
SLIP BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW STABILITY ANALYSIS AND MICRO-PLASMA JET END FLOW MODELLING, Xin He
SPECTRAL DECOMPOSITION OF SEISMIC DATA USING SPARSE S-TRANSFORM COMPARED TO CONVENTIONAL METHODS, Kara Donahue
STORIES FEEDING HISTORY IN THE RÍO DE LA PLATA: NEOLIBERAL CULTURAL APPROPRIATION IN ESPINOSA’S CARLOTA PODRIDA (2009) AND COHN AND DUPRAT’S EL CIUDADANO ILUSTRE (2016), Matias Larramendi Salvat
STRENGTH OPTIMIZATION OF A HIGH SYMMETRY INTERLOCKING MICRO-ARCHITECTURE POLYMER COMPOSITE, Manoj Balabadhruni
STUDY OF BLACKHOLE ATTACK AND WORMHOLE ATTACK IN VANET ENVIRONMENT AND THEIR COUNTERMEASURE, Smruti Prasad Dash