Theses from 2010
DESIGN TOOL DEVELOPMENT FOR CELLULAR STRUCTURE SYNthesis TO ACHIEVE DESIRED PROPERTIES, Luke Berglind
Electromechanical Modeling and Analysis of a Self-excited Micro-power Generator, Amin Bibo
Electrokinetic Manipulation of Particles and Cells in Microfluidic Devices, Christopher Church
MODELING OF A POROUS METAL FOAM CRYOGENIC COUNTER FLOW HEAT EXCHANGER, Craig Fortier
Pulse Echo Ultrasonic Testing of Adhesive Bonded Joints for Automotive Applications, Arun Ganapathi
Reduction of Rocket-Borne Atmospheric Density Measurements Using Monte Carlo Simulation, Travis Gaulden
A COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF CONTACT PRESSURE FOR A NON-PNEMAUTIC WHEEL WITH A META-MATERIAL SHEAR BAND, Renuka Jagadish
ADVANCED AUTOMOTIVE THERMAL MANAGEMENT - OPERATION OF AN ELECTRIC RADIATOR FAN ARRAY FOR REDUCED ELECTRIC POWER CONSUMPTION, Amit Jagarwal
MAPPING PROBLEM AND REQUIREMENTS TO SOLUTION: DOCUMENT ANALYSIS OF SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTS, Shraddha Joshi
Design Method Development for the Design of Traction Systems, Avinash Kolla
DETERMINATION OF HIGHER ORDER COEFFICIENTS FOR A CRACK PARALLEL TO AN INTERFACE, Venkata lakshman Kolluru
A Proposed Method to Identify Requirements Significant to Mass Reduction, James Mclellan
SYSTEM MODELING AND POWER MANAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR A SERIES HYDRAULIC HYBRID VEHICLE, Sisay Molla
MASS AND ASSEMBLY TIME REDUCTION FOR FUTURE GENERATION AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLES BASED ON EXISTING VEHICLE MODEL, Essam Namouz
The Characterization of Leadership within Undergraduate Engineering Design Teams through Case Study Analysis, Gary Palmer ii
INDUCTION ASSISTED THERMOGRAPHY FOR INSPECTION OF MICRO DEFECTS ON SHEET METALS, Sree Pamidi
Incorporating Function Structures into Morphological Charts: A User Study, Jenkins Richardson iii
Ultracapacitor Heavy Hybrid Vehicle: Model Predictive Control Using Future Information to Improve Fuel Consumption, Seneca Schepmann
AUTOMATION OF NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING TECHINIQUES USED FOR FINDING DEFECTS, Bhanu Singh
Re-Engineering a Trash/Recycling Collection Vehicle Based on Challenging Customer Requirements, Edward Smith
Parametric Instabilities for Vibratory Energy Harvesting under Harmonic, Time-Varying Frequency, and Random Excitations, Christopher Stabler
ANALYSIS OF PART CONSOLIDATION TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMOTIVE BODY IN WHITE PANELS BASED ON ADVANCED SHEET METAL FORMING TECHNOLOGIES, Harish Thiruvengadam
Interpretability Analysis of Function Structures at Various Levels of Abstraction: A User Study, Jonathan Thomas
Design Decisions Under Risk and Uncertainty, Sravya Thoomu
NON-CONTACT SPATIALLY CONSTRAINED OPTICAL SCANNING METHODS APPLIED FOR DEPTH, WIDTH AND GAP MEASUREMENTS, Konda reddy Thotti reddy
Modeling and Optimization of a Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, Venkat vijay kishore Turlapati
INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY AND ULTRASONIC INSPECTION OF ADHESIVE BONDED STRUCTURES, OVERVIEW AND VALIDITY, Suhas Vedula
ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES FOR LIGHTWEIGHT BIW DESIGNS, USING ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS, Srinath Vijayakumar
Theses from 2009
CHARACTERIZATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF SENSING PROPERTIES OF PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS WITH APPLICATIONS TO VIBRATION SUPPRESSION, Siddharth Aphale
PREDICTIVE ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN SMART VEHICLES: EXPLOITING TRAFFIC AND TRAFFIC SIGNAL PREVIEW FOR FUEL SAVING, Behrang Asadi
DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATING SPOKE PAIR CONCEPTS FOR A NON-PNEUMATIC TIRE WITH REDUCED VIBRATION AT HIGH SPEED ROLLING, Shashank Bezgam
Charging Kinetics of Electric Double Layer Capacitors, Clint Cagle
An Evaluation of Function-Based Representations and Information Archival in Engineering Design, Benjamin Caldwell
Monitoring CO Concentration in Fuel Cells Using Microcantilever Sensors, Tugba Demir
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE THREE-STREAM SCALAR MIXING IN A TURBULENT COAXIAL JET, Matthew Dinger
A priori Analysis of Subgrid Scalar Phenomena and Mass Diffusion Vectors in Turbulent Hydrogen-Oxygen Flames, Justin Foster
User Study of Information Extracted from Engineering Representations, Rachel Hannah
IDENTIFYING THE OPTIMUM PROCESS PARAMETERS OF PRECISION GLASS MOLDING FOR ASPHERICAL LENSES, Waqas Iqbal
EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF STRESS RELAXATION IN GLASS, Hemanth Kadali
2-D and 3-D Assessment of Cambered and Symmetric Airfoils: A CFD Study, Tuncay Kamas
MODELING THE COOLING PHASE OF THE LENS MOLDING PROCESS, Saravanan Kannan
STRAIGHT LINE BRAKING PERFORMANCE OF A ROAD VEHICLE WITH NON LINEAR TIRE STIFFNESS FORMULATION, Anup Khekare
Linguistic Analysis of Natural Language Engineering Requirements, Carl Lamar
The Effect of a Surfactant Monolayer on Gas Exchange Across an Air-Water Interface during Mixed Convection, Richard Lee
Dynamic Finite Element Simulation of Ultrasonic Consolidation, Daniel Mccullough
VIBRATIONS OF THIN PLATE WITH PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR: THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS, Parikshit Mehta
Taxonomy of physical prototypes: structure and validation, Ashwin Michaelraj
IMPROVED AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY THROUGH INSTRUCTIONAL MODULES AND AUTOMOTIVE DRIVING SIMULATOR BASED SKILLS TRAINING WITH ASSESSMENT, Dionne Norfleet
DEVELOPMENT OF A NONLINEAR RIDE QUALITY MODEL TO AID IN TWEELå© PARAMETER SELECTION, Marc Paradiso
PRINCIPAL COMPONENT THERMOGRAPHY FOR STEADY THERMAL PERTURBATION SCENARIOS, Rohit Parvataneni
Thermoelastic Behavior of a Small Bearing Cage, Eric Planting
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LANE CHANGE PERFORMANCE AND OPEN-LOOP HANDLING METRICS, Robert Powell
ROBUST PARAMETER DESIGN AND FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS FOR A NON-PNEUMATIC TIRE WITH LOW VIBRATION, Amarnath Proddaturi
Use of Orthogonal Arrays for Efficient Evaluation of Geometric Designs for Reducing Vibration of a Non-Pneumatic Wheel During High-Speed Rolling, William Rutherford
A STUDY IN THE INFORMATION CONTENT, CONSISTENCY, AND EXPRESSIVE POWER OF FUNCTION STRUCTURES IN MECHANICAL DESIGN, Chiradeep Sen
On the Modeling of Energy Harvesters and Analysis of their Response under Time-Varying Frequency Excitations, Thiago Seuaciuc-osorio
Design, Construction, and Testing of a New Class of Mobile Robots, Ivan Siles
FRICTION STIR WELDING PROCESS AND MATERIAL MICROSTRUCTURE EVOLUTION MODELING IN 2000 AND 5000 SERIES OF ALUMINUM ALLOYS, Harshavardhan Yalavarthy
Theses from 2008
On New Applications and Sensitivity Enhancement of Cantilever-based Sensing Systems, Calvin Bradley
Electrokinetic Transport in Micro- and Nano- Channels:A study examining electrokinetic energy conversion and dielectrophoretic particle separation, Christian Davidson
Ductile-Regime Machining of Glass Using the Micromilling Process, Kevin Foy
ESTIMATION OF VEHICLE MASS AND ROAD GRADE, Tejas Ghotikar
Real-Time Power Management of A Fuel Cell/Ultracapacitor Hybrid, Wesley Greenwell
ENHANCEMENT OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES IN MDO FRAMEWORK, Santosh Hiriyannaiah
An Investigative Study Of Patents From An Engineering Design Perspective, Ajit singh Kanda
INDEPENDENT TORQUE DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLE STABILITY CONTROL, Indrasen Karogal
Stability Analysis and Decentralized Control of Coupled Oscillators with Feedback Delays, Saurabh Keni
DESIGN PROCESS MODELING: TOWARDS AN ONTOLOGY OF ENGINEERING DESIGN ACTIVITIES, Pavan Kumar
COMPUTATIONAL METHOD FOR SOLVING SPOKE DYNAMICS ON HIGH SPEED ROLLING TWEEL, Kranti kiran Manga
THREE DESIGN TOOL FOCUSED CASE STUDIES OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECTS, William Miller
RANDOM ROAD ANALYSIS AND IMPROVED GEAR RATIO SELECTION OF A FRONT WHEEL DRIVE DRAG RACING CAR, Thomas New
Finite Element Analysis of Carbon Fiber Composite Ripping Using ABAQUS, Joy Pederson
Reduction of sink marks in wire insert molded parts, Gauri Phadke
TOPOLOGY AND FREE-SIZE OPTIMIZATION WITH MULTIPLE LOADING CONDITIONS FOR LIGHT WEIGHT DESIGN OF DIE CAST AUTOMOTIVE BACKREST FRAME, Sreeram Polavarapu
Compliant Multi-Link Vehicle Suspensions, Souharda Raghavendra
Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of TWEEL Geometric Parameter Modifications on Spoke Dynamics during High Speed Rolling, Maya Ramachandran
Ultracapacitor Assisted Powertrains: Modeling, Control, Sizing, and The Impact on Fuel Economy, Dean Rotenberg
Computational Analysis of Input-Shaping Control of Microelectromechanical Mirrors, Thomas Starling
Investigating the Role of Prototyping in Mechanical Design Using Case Study Validation, David Stowe
NON-LINEAR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION FOR LIGHT WEIGHT DESIGN OF AN AUTOMOTIVE SEAT BACKREST, Prasanna balaji Thiyagarajan
An Investigation on Spot-Weld Modeling Complexity for Crash Simulation, Srinivasan Vimalanathan
MODELING, ANALYSIS AND CONTROL OF FLEXIBLE SOLID-STATE HYSTERETIC ACTUATORS, Kushan Vora
QUANTITATIVE MODELING OF SOIL PROPERTIES BASED ON COMPOSITION AND APPLICATION TO DYNAMIC TIRE TESTING, Sumalatha Yaski
FLOW BOILING OF ACETONE IN PARALLEL RECTANGULAR MINI-CHANNELS, Rafael Zimmermann
Theses from 2007
NONLINEAR MODELING OF THE ADSORPTION-INDUCED SURFACE STRESS IN PIEZOELECTRICALLY-DRIVEN MICROCANTILEVER BIOSENSORS, Mana Afshari
Registration using Graphics Processor Unit, Koushik Aravalli
Temperature Control of an Air Shower, Vedik Bobba
Development of a Microscopic MoirŽ Interferometry System, Jeremy Brougher
A CASE STUDY INVESTIGATING RULE BASED DESIGN IN AN INDUSTRIAL SETTING, Siva Chavali
SIMULATION OF A BACKREST MOMENT TEST FOR AN AUTOMOTIVE FRONT SEAT USING NONLINEAR CONTACT FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS , Abhinand Chelikani
Exact Solution of Time History Response for Dynamic Systems with Coupled Damping using Complex Mode Superposition, Manoj kumar Chinnakonda
EFFECTS OF SUPPORT GRID VANE ANGLES ON SINGLE PHASE HEAT TRANSFER WITHIN ROD BUNDLE SUBCHANNELS, Michael Cosby