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 1990

Computer Automated Bridge Inspection System, Thomas E. Davidson

Recognition by Aspect Constrained Stochastic Optimization, John M. DeCatrel

ACAT: An Automated Tool to Determine the Type of Coupling Exhibited by Ada Programs, John Robert Denton

Catalytic Oxidation of THM Precursors Using Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation, Charles Edward DiGerlando

Modeling the Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor for Computer Aided Simulation, William A. Drafts

TTESS, A Tutorial Tool for Expert-supervised Simulations, Murat Draman

Mutual Coupling of Skewed Two-element Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antenna Arrays, Gwyn Laurie Dunn

Modeling of Mass Transfer and Synthetic Organic Compound Removal in a Membrane Softening Process, Steven J. Duranceau

Evaluation of Non-toxic Solvents in the Surface Finishing Industry, Ronald Dean Eaglin

Modeling Radiative Heat Transfer in an Absorbing, Emitting, and Scattering Medium, Peter Erpelding

Evaluation of Exfiltration Systems, David L. Evans

Development of a Bridge Inspection Software, Leonard Merino Fiji

A mechanistic study of stress corrosion cracking utilizing activation energy, Fritz John Friedersdorf

Classification of the Most Commonly Used Adaptive Algorithms and Their Extension to Multidimensional Variable Step Size Sequential Adaptive Algorithms, Shomit M. Ghosh

Chemomechanical Effects in Wear Processes, Frederick C. Gray

Geographic Information Systems: The User's Perspective, Janet Lane Griffin

Architectural Enhancement to the Transputer Instruction Set for Parallel Processing, Alan D. Gruis

Distributed Simulation Systems, Umesh Gupta

Motion Control Law Analysis of a Tethered Drive Mechanism in Space, Michael Howard Haddock

Multistage Filtering for Synthetic Enhancement of Digitized Images, Jean Carolyn Hartigan

Comparison of Full-scale and Bench-scale Biological Nitrogen Removal Kinetics on a Wastewater Treatment Facility Biomass, John Christopher Healy

The Development of a Pedagogical Tool for the Demonstration of Computer Graphic Curve Generation Techniques, Ronald Ray Hill

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The extraction of the equivalent circuit parameters of surface acoustic wave resonators, Brent H. Horine

Elicit: Expertise Learner and Intelligent Causal Inference Tool, Leslie Dawn Interrante

A VSI Pipeline Sorting Algorithm Design and Implementation, Kevin Levi Jackson

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Counterpropagation neural network detection of visual primitives, Cynthia Lynn Johnson

Design and Development of an RF Data Acquisition System, Thomas H. Jones

Interface Development and Integration of the ATC-610J Personal Flight Trainer with the XTAR Graphics Boards, B. Keith Keeton

Excursion Areas of Intensity Due to Random Optical Waves, Frank E. Kragh

Algorithms for Fine-grained Architecture Implementation of 2-dimensional Fast Walsh-Hadamard Transforms, Shuk Fong Lai

A photodetector system for improved position feedback of a scanning mirror, Wayne Eugene Lance

Design Specification of an Artificial Neural Network Communication Controller, David F. Lange

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Application of case-based reasoning techniques to the automation of single-family residential property appraisals, Raymond Laureano-Ortiz

Complex Zero Compensation for Classical Controls Systems Design, Chau B. Le

Broadband Antireflection Coatings for Infrared Windows, Tam Van Thanh Le

Transport of Heavy Metals Through Accumulated Sediments in Detention/retention Ponds, L'Yu Lin

Evaluation of the GAC Treatment Facility at the Lake Angel Detention Pond, Orange County, Florida, Richard S. Lott

Dynamic Base Analysis for the NSGS Induced Draft Fans by Single Degree-of-freedom Models, Alan L. Lumpkin

Knowledge Worker Productivity Enhancement: Issues and Techniques for Creative Professional, Steven Harold Mason

Implementation of Total Quality Management in the Department of Defense, Kimberly Margaret McCarthy

The Use of Constraints to Represent Process System Knowledge in Automated Knowledge Generation, Federic Donohue McKenzie

The design, development, and implementation of a statistical process control (spc) system in a U.S. army contractor's manufacturing facility, Richard Joseph Merriman

An Investigation of a Pressure Controlled Fluidic Value Used for Controlling the Volume of the Human Bladder of a Catheterized Patient, Patrick Jay Miller

Risk assessment and and risk management of high technology product development, Robert A. Mohs

Predicting fouling in membrane separation processes, Kevin L. Morris

The Supervisor's Associate: An Intelligent Shop Management System for Production Supervision, Gary P. Moynihan

An entropy based adaptive image encoding technique, Gregory Paul Murphy

Electromagnetic scattering from a finite cylinder with complex permittivity at arbitrary orientation, Robert A. Murphy

Intelligent agents in multilevel simulation of manufacturing systems, Gajanana Nadoli

Thermocatalytic Destruction of Volatile Organic Compounds, Jeffrey A. Nangle

Failure detection and prediction of paper mill rubber covered rolls, Moin Nawaz

Computer-aided nonlinear analysis of microwave and millimeter wave amplifiers and mixers, Cam Nguyen

Self-organizing neural network implemented in analog circuitry requires supervisional, scaling and parametric optimization attributable to 1/f noise, Erich Nold

Development of a database and database compiler in support of a low cost driver trainer simulation system design, Peter James Polasek

Visual and realism enhancements for a low cost flight simulator graphics system, Steven Glenn Rindfleisch

The design and analysis of a digital missile telemetry unit controller, Jeffrey K. Rosson

Radiation characteristics of a circular array of microstrip patch antennas, Kimberly Ann Rutkowski

The development of a controllable wickless heat pipe system, F. Dave Sanderlin

Computational and engineering aspects of in situ ellipsometry, Steven Savrda

An evaluation of steam turbine exhaust hood performance using a water flow testing facility, Dana Scarbrough

Mathematical modeling of a low frequency cylindrical sound transducer, Paul A. Semper

Implementation and analysis of an acousto-optic photorefractive correlator, Christopher John Sherman

Sediment Accumulation in Wet Detention/Retention Ponds Receiving Highway Runoff, John V. Sloat

Comparison of BCH and convolutional codes in ds-ss multiple access environment, Bancroft O. B. Smith

Redesign proposal for the space shuttle propellant cavity purge, William M. Stinson

Heat pump performance study: an evaluation of performance enhancement devices, Colin Thomas

Functional conflict resolution in automated knowledge generation, Massood Towhidnejad

A statistical approach for estimating the loss contribution of concatenated connectors in fiber-optic links, James G. Uhing

The generation of mid-infrared coherent pulse sources using non-linear techniques, Richard A. Utano

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Closure of unlined landfills, Brenda J. Westhorp

Instructional software for explaining the principles of solar energy heating, Sharon M. Wong

Toward a generic simulator for industrialized housing manufacturing, Lorenzo Allan Young

Modeling Friction between Metals in Dry Contact Following Run-In, Jiguang Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 1989

A Coupling-of-Modes model for SAW Transducers with Arbitrary Reflectivity Weighting, Benjamin P. Abbott

Optimum Allocation of Load Requirements to Generating Units in an Electric Power System, Charles R. Adams

Broward County Year 2010 Plan Update Model Validation, Ossama M. Al Aschkar

SPRITE Detector Characterization and System Optimization Through Impulse Response Testing, Barry K. Anderson

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Development of Scale Factors for Clarifier Design Based on Batch Settling Data, Robert K. Anderson

Mode modulation accelerometer, Joseph Anthony Aurelia

Cost and Performance Analysis of a Nanofiltration Membrane Pilot Plant Operated on a Surface Water Source, William M. Barrett

Analysis and Design of a Pulsed GaAs Laser Rangefinder Receiver, Hoyt N. Burns

Power efficient wideband noise from a narrowhand piezoelectric transducer, Darren P. Carpenter

Application of Expert Systems to the Materials Handling Problem, Jack Castro

Drag Characteristics of Objects in Two-phase Boiling Flows, Padmanabha R. Chappidi

Spectral Dependent Propagation of Low Order Modes in Bend and Temperature Stressed Single Mode Fibers, Duc Minh Chau

An Expert Instructor for an Intelligent Simulation Training System in the Air Traffic Control Domain, Christine Muriel Chemin

A simulation study of the ethernet and gbram lan access protocols for networking real-time simulation devices, Nikos T. Christou

Abie: An Ada-based Inference Engine, Maria A. Cianci

CMOS Propagation Delay Change Using Laser Die Probing, Michael Shane Clamme

A Time Delay and Integration Design for Focal Plane Arrays, William N. Davis

Tactical team training utilizing Artificial Intelligence, Michael Dorris

A Comparative Study of Management Information System Development Methodologies, David R. Douglas

Analysis and Design of Rectangular Waveguide-to-microstrip e-Probe Transitions, Daniel S. Dunn

Mathematical Modeling and Dynamic Analysis of the Fast Triaxial Shear Device, Alireza F. Noorollahi

Timing Margin Examination Using Laser Probing Technique, Glenn Curtis Fuller

Design of a Simulated Laboratory Course in Microprocessor Based Digital System Design, Rosalind N. Galyon

Kalman filter augmentation of a classically designed closed loop tracking system, Charles Jeffrey Garrison

A Simulation and Theoretical Analysis of the Doubly Stochastic Homodyne K Scattering Model, Philip Gatt

Generalization in multi-layer feed forward nueral networks employing the back propagation algorithm/, Francis Joseph Gerrity

Total Vendee Cost: An Economic Model for Just in Time, Janette M. Gould