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Title
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Electromagnetic and vibration energy harvesting utilizing a piezoelectric device
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Author
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Vo, Misa
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Engineering, Power resources
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Description
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The main goal of this research is to design an energy harvesting device that produces enough power to supply a voltage sensor deployed on a power line. Energy harvesting using piezoelectric material is one of the promising methods of powering the ...
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Title
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Empowering FPGAs For Massively Parallel Applications
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Author
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SHIDDIBHAVI, SUHAS ASHOK
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Engineering, Computer engineering
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Description
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The availability of OpenCL High-Level Synthesis (OpenCL-HLS) has made FPGAs an attractive platform for power-efficient high-performance execution of massively parallel applications. FPGAs with their customizable data-path, deep pipelining abilitie...
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Title
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Energy loss due to traffic congestion
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Author
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Gouribhatla, Raghuveer Prasad
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Engineering, Civil engineering
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Description
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Traffic congestion is a problem related not only to traffic characteristics but also to several other factors which are of growing concern to the society. Traffic delays lead to increased fuel consumption and there by increased energy loss. This r...
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Evaluation of J-Rox as a Supplementary Cementitious Material for Concrete Applications
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Author
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Summers, Allison
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Civil engineering, Engineering, Materials science
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Description
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Supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) provide a variety of benefits to fresh and hardened concrete. These materials can be found in naturally occurring substances or from by-products or co-products of a variety of industries. However, some o...
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Title
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Evidence-Based Human-Centric Lighting Assist Tool towards a Healthier Lit Environment
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Author
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Amirazar, Armin
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Engineering
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Description
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Light is an essential element of building design that influences human health, comfort, performance, and well-being. Humans' daily rhythms in behavior and physiology, such as wake/sleep patterns, have evolved under natural light-dark cycles over m...
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Title
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Extrapolation of Test Performance for Air-to-Air Rotary Energy Exchangers
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Author
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Jamal Alhariry, Alaa
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Engineering
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Description
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Air-to-air energy exchangers are used in building HVAC systems to transfer energy between the exhaust air and the outdoor air. Because of its potential to reduce the energy consumption for conditioning ventilation air and to downsize the cooling a...
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Title
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FEASIBILITY OF ELECTRIC FIELD SENSOR FOR EXTERNAL BALLISTICS ANALYSIS
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Author
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Benfield, Christopher
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Engineering
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Description
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Accurately modeling the flight path to resemble the actual flight dynamics of a given projectile enables a shooter to engage targets at distances that extend into the transonic and subsonic flight regions. This requires the collection of velocity ...
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Title
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FINITE ELEMENT STUDIES OF ORTHOGONAL MACHINING OF AISI 1045 STEEL
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Author
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Thekdi, Parth
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Engineering
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Description
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In this work, a two-dimensional finite element model of orthogonal machining ofAISI 1045 steel is developed using the commercial non-linear finite element packageABAQUS. The material behavior is described using the Johnson-Cook constitutivelaw. Fu...
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FROM ROOTS TO STAR TREK: A CASE STUDY ON SUCCESSFUL PERSISTENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ENGINEERING MAJORS
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Author
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McGee, Marquis
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Engineering, Education, Higher, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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The United States is competing on a global level for jobs in the STEM fields but retention and graduation rates in the engineering disciplines are lower than desired. African American males make up 5 % of the population of American colleges and un...
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Title
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Forecasting Most Valuable Players of the National Basketball Association
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Author
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McCorey, Jordan
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Engineering, Industrial engineering
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Description
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This thesis aims at developing models that would accurately forecast the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the National Basketball Association (NBA). R programming language was used in this study to implement different techniques, such as Artificial N...
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Title
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Frequency-Dependent Electric Power Line Modeling for Steady State Harmonic Analysis
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Author
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Poudel, Bikash
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Engineering
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Description
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The modern electric power system is experiencing an increased level of harmonic frequency components because of the growing use of power electronic devices, such as converters, and nonlinear loads, such as rectifier-end loads. Electric power line ...
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Title
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IMPACT OF FIXED FIREFIGHTING SYSTEMS ON ROAD TUNNEL RESILIENCE
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Author
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Jha, Anurag
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Engineering, Civil engineering
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Description
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This thesis investigates the impact of different fixed firefighting systems (FFFS) on road tunnel resilience. The road tunnel and fire protection communities are considering a uniform approach for considering the benefits of an integrated design f...
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Title
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INVESTIGATION OF TURBULENCE IN GRANULAR FLOW
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Author
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Abdelrahman, Mohamed
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Mechanics, Engineering
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Description
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Granular flow poses interesting questions in terms of both theoretical and applied mechanics. The increased utilization of vibrational finishing processes in the manufacturing of high precision components has resulted in an increased need to under...
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INVESTIGATION ON TOROIDAL PCB EMBEDDED INDUCTOR FOR POWER ELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS
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Author
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Shah, Neel
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Engineering
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Description
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This thesis investigates a Printed Circuit Board embedded air core inductor at5 MHz switching frequency for two different prototypes 200 W- 5 A/ 250 nH and300 W -10 A/150 nH. The toroid structure has been used, as they have weaker external magnet...
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Title
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Image Segmentation using Markov Random Field
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Author
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Tatavarti, Aparna
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Engineering
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Description
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This thesis describes an algorithm for efficient segmentation of point cloud data into local planar surface regions. This is a problem of generic interest to researchers in the computer graphics, computer vision, artificial intelligence and roboti...
