This collection includes Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations, and other similar projects, completed in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Records for print-only, retrospectively scanned, and electronic works are included—digital copies are included where available.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Verification and Automated Synthesis of Memristor Crossbars, Arya Pourtabatabaie

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Deposition and characterization studies of boron carbon nitride (BCN) thin films prepared by dual target sputtering, Adithya Prakash

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Smart Grasping using Laser and Tactile Array Sensors for UCF-MANUS- An Intelligent Assistive Robotic Manipulator, Kiran Prakash

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High Temperature Shock Tube Ignition Studies of CO2 Diluted Mixtures, Owen Pryor

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Assessing the Effect of Social Networks on Employee Creativity in a Fast-Food Restaurant Environment, Mitchell Rabinowitz

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The effect of glycerol on readily biodegradable chemical oxygen demand (RBCOD) in a wastewater stream, Rojina Rawut

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Modeling Wastewater Indicators and Effects of Contaminant Removal Strategies on Groundwater and Spring Discharge in a Karst Aquifer, Erin Reed

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a priori synthetic sampling for increasing classification sensitivity in imbalanced data sets, William Rivera

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Integrating Spray Aeration and Granular Activated Carbon for Disinfection By-Product Control in a Potable Water System, Angela Rodriguez

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Evaluating Wrong-Way Driving for Florida Interstates and Toll Road Facilities: A Risk-Based Investigation, and Countermeasure Development, John Rogers

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Analysis of Driving Behavior at Expressway Toll Plazas using Driving Simulator, Moatz Saad

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Towards Energy-Efficient and Reliable Computing: From Highly-Scaled CMOS Devices to Resistive Memories, Soheil Salehi Mobarakeh

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Effects of climate change and anthropogenic activities on the Everglades landscape., Daljit Sandhu

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Investigation of the effect of rain on sea surface salinity, Andrea Santos Garcia

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Development of enzyme-free hydrogen peroxide biosensor using cerium oxide and mechanistic study using in-situ spectro-electrochemistry, Shashank Saraf

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Compressive and Coded Change Detection: Theory and Application to Structural Health Monitoring, Omid Sarayanibafghi

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The Effect of Vibrations on Cryogens Boil Off During Launch, Transfer and Transport, Erin Schlichenmaier

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Advanced Metrology and Diagnostic Loss Analytics for Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics., Eric Schneller

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Impact of Dynamic Message Signs on Driver Behavior Under Reduced Visibility Conditions, Ryan Selby

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Virtual resistance based DC-link voltage regulation for Microgrid DG inverters., Siddhesh Shinde

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Stress-induced Phase Change Sintering: A Novel Approach to the Fabrication of Barium Chloride Transparent Ceramic Scintillators, William Shoulders

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The Mechanical Response and Parametric Optimization of Ankle-Foot Devices, Kevin Smith

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A New Path Planning Guidance Law For Improved Impact Time Control of Missiles and Precision Munitions, Mark Snyder

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An Experimental Investigation of the State of Creativity, Critical Thinking and Creativity Training in Undergraduate Engineering Students, Eric Sola

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Remote Sensing of Coastal Wetlands: Long term vegetation stress assessment and data enhancement technique, Subrina Tahsin

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Confluence of Vision and Natural Language Processing for Cross-media Semantic Relations Extraction, Amara Tariq

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Catalytically Enhanced Heterogeneous Combustion of methane, Anthony Terracciano

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Non-Dispersive Infrared (NDIR) Gas Sensor Utilizing Light-Emitting-Diodes Suitable for Applications Demanding Low-Power and Lightweight Instruments, Kyle Thurmond

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Sinkhole Monitoring Using Groundwater Table Data, Ton Tu

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Data-driven Predictive Analytics For Distributed Smart Grid Control, Hamed Valizadehhaghi

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Smart Grid Demonstration: Distributed Active and Reactive Power Control, Siddarth Vellakovil Rajamani

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Evaluation of crash modification factors and functions including time trends at intersections, Jung-Han Wang

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Microscopic Safety Evaluation and Prediction for Special Expressway Facilities, Ling Wang

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Developing New Power Management and High-Reliability Schemes in Data-Intensive Environment, Ruijun Wang

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Computational Approaches for Binning Metagenomic Reads, Ying Wang

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Design and characterization of system level electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection solutions, Yunfeng Xi

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Spatial and Temporal Modeling for Human Activity Recognition from Multimodal Sequential Data, Jun Ye

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Modeling Mass Transfer and Assessing Cost and Performance of a Hollow Fiber Nanofiltration Membrane Process, David Yonge

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High-Performance Composable Transactional Data Structures, Deli Zhang

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Spatiotemporal Graphs for Object Segmentation and Human Pose Estimation in Videos, Dong Zhang

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Model Selection via Racing, Tiantian Zhang

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Interdiffusion, Crystallography and Mechanical Properties of Nickel Manganese Gallium Alloys, Le Zhou

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Data-Driven Simulation Modeling of Construction and Infrastructure Operations Using Process Knowledge Discovery, Reza Akhavian

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Investigation on the Mechanical, Microstructural, and Electrical Properties of Graphene Oxide-Cement Composite, Baig Abdullah Al Muhit

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Safety Climate and Safety Outcomes in Aircraft Maintenance: A Mediating Effect of Employee Turnover and Safety Motivation, Muhanna Alnoaimi

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A New Methodology for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Bus Rapid Transit Strategies, Ahmad Alomari

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Performance Evaluation of TCP Multihoming for IPV6 Anycast Networks and Proxy Placement, Raya Alsharfa

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Design Disjunction for Resilient Reconfigurable Hardware, Ahmad Alzahrani

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Opportunistic Spectrum Utilization by Cognitive Radio Networks: Challenges and Solutions, Muhammad Faisal Amjad

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A Simulation-Based Task Analysis using Agent-Based, Discrete Event and System Dynamics Simulation, Anastasia Angelopoulou

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Characterization of Waste-To-Energy (WTE) Bottom and Fly Ashes in Cementitious Materials, Jin Woo An

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Exploring Techniques for Providing Privacy in Location-Based Services Nearest Neighbor Query, John-Charles Asanya

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Adaptive Architectural Strategies for Resilient Energy-Aware Computing, Rizwan Arshad Ashraf

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Optimal distribution network reconfiguration using meta-heuristic algorithms, Arash Asrari

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Modeling Dense Storage Systems With Location Uncertainty, Mohamed Awwad

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Opportunistic Networks in Campus Environments, Salih Safa Bacanli

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Combustion Kinetics of Advanced Biofuels, Ghazal Barari

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Modeling social norms in real-world agent-based simulations, Rahmatollah Beheshti

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Providing Context to the Clues: Recovery and Reliability of Location Data from Android Devices, Connie Bell

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Quantifying Trust and Reputation for Defense against Adversaries in Multi-Channel Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, Shameek Bhattacharjee

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The Relationship Between DNA's Physical Properties and the DNA Molecule's Harmonic Signature, and Related Motion in Water--A Computational Investigation, Victor Boyer

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A New Paradigm Integrating Business Process Modeling and Use Case Modeling, Barclay Brown

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Finding Consensus Energy Folding Landscapes Between RNA Sequences, Joshua Burbridge

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Droplet impact on liquid pools: secondary droplets formation from Rayleigh jet break-up and crown splash, Eduardo Castillo Orozco

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A Coupled CFD-Lumped Parameter Model of the Human Circulation: Elucidating the Hemodynamics of the Hybrid Norwood Palliative Treatment and Effects of the Reverse Blalock-Taussic Shunt Placement and Diameter, Andres Ceballos

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Theoretical And Experimental Investigation Of The Cascading Nature Of Pressure-Swirl Atomization, Pretam Choudhury

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Streamlining the Acquisition Process: Systems Analysis for Improving Army Acquisition Corps Officer Management, Shawn Chu-Quinn

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Microwave Radiometer (MWR) Evaluation of Multi-Beam Satellite Antenna Boresight Pointing Using Land-Water Crossings, for the Aquarius/SAC-D Mission, Bradley Clymer

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Autonomous Quadcopter Videographer, Quiquia Rey Coaguila

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Parallel Distributed Discrete Event Simulation Optimization Using Complexity and Deep Learning, Edwin Cortes

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Assessing Biofiltration Pretreatment for Ultrafiltration Membrane Processes, Andrea Cumming

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Modeling User Transportation Patterns Using Mobile Devices, Erfan Davami

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Thermally induced motion, collision and mixing of levitated droplets, Ashkan Davanlou

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Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites in Retrofitting of Concrete Structures: Polyurethane Systems Versus Epoxy Systems, Elie El Zghayar

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Phase Transformations and Microstructural Evolution in the U-10 wt.% Mo Alloy with Various Zr Additions at 900C and 650C, Nicholas Eriksson

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Sustainability Assessment of a Municipal Utility Complex: a System of Systems Approach, Tarek Fahmy

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Examining Multiple Approaches for the Transferability of Safety Performance Functions, Ahmed Tarek Ahmed Farid

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An On-orbit Calibration Procedure for Spaceborne Microwave Radiometers Using Special Spacecraft Attitude Maneuvers, Spencer Farrar

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Performance optimization of lateral-mode thin-film piezoelectric-on-substrate resonant systems, Hedy Fatemi

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The Design, Implementation, and Refinement of Wait-Free Algorithms and Containers, Steven Feldman

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Ultra-wideband Spread Spectrum Communications using Software Defined Radio and Surface Acoustic Wave Correlators, Daniel Gallagher

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Design, Fabrication, and Interrogation of Integrated Wireless SAW Temperature Sensors, Mark Gallagher

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Optimization of Glycerol and Biodiesel Waste Prefermentation to Improve EBPR, Marzieh Ghasemi

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Base Flow Recession Analysis for Streamflow and Spring Flow, Debapi Ghosh

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Evaporative Vapor Deposition for Depositing 2D Materials, Kevin Gleason

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Sustainable Material Solution for Flexible Pavements; Performance Evaluation and Impact Assessment of Utilizing Multiple Recycled Materials in HMA, Behnam Golestani

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Catalytic Role of Boron Nitride in the Thermal Decomposition of Ammonium Perchlorate, Kevin Grossman

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Adsorption Behaviour of Polyacrylic Acid on Cerium Oxide Nanostructures: Experimental and Predictive Model, Ali Haghighat Mesbahi

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The Experience of Physical and Social Presence in a Virtual Learning Environment as Impacted by the Affordance of Movement Enabled by Motion Tracking, Aleshia Hayes

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Porosity Removal of CM247 Ni-base Superalloy using Thermal Heat Treatment without Applied Pressure, Chad Heinrich

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A Roughness Correction for Aquarius Ocean Brightness Temperature Using the CONAE MicroWave Radiometer, Yazan Hejazin

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The Effects of Chronic Sleep Deprivation on Sustained Attention: A Study of Brain Dynamic Functional Connectivity, Yiling He

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A Full Coverage Film Cooling Study: The Effect of an Alternating Compound Angle, Justin Hodges

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Information Propagation Algorithms for Consensus Formation in Decentralized Multi-Agent Systems, Christopher Hollander

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Functional Characterization of Green Sorption Media and Scaling of Pilot Studies for Copper Removal in Stormwater Runoff, Cameron Houmann

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Response of Streamflow and Sediment Loading in the Apalachicola River, Florida to Climate and Land Use Land Cover Change, Paige Hovenga

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Biomechanics of Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip - An engineering study of closed reduction utilizing the Pavlik harness for a range of subtle to severe dislocations in infants., Victor Huayamave

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Energy Harvesting toward the Vibration Reduction of Turbomachinery Blades via Resonance Frequency Detuning, Taylor Hynds

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Drinking Water Infrastructure Assessment with Teleconnection Signals, Satellite Data Fusion and Mining, Sanaz Imen

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Characterization of a Spiking Neuron Model via a Linear Approach, Amirhossein Jabalameli