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Title: The Use of Lidar Point Cloud Data for Facilities Management
Author: Poulos, George
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: ABSTRACTGEORGE POULOS. The Use of LiDAR Point Clouds for University Facilities Management (Under the direction of Dr. Glenda Mayo) The use of 3D LiDAR technology has been consistently in demand. 3D scans are used for many different applications in...

Title: Prototype System for Autonomous Detection and Extraction of Floating Pollution from Aquatic Environments
Author: Brake , Jeremy
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical engineering
Description: This research aims to develop an autonomous system for pollution acquisition and extraction within waterways. Currently, there are approximately 270,000 tons of pollution within the world’s oceans, with 80% originating from inland waterways. The e...

Title: Model Predictive Control on Thermal Stress Reduction for Grid-Connected Inverters Reliability Enhancement
Author: Wang, Luocheng
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
Description: Thermal stress has been identified as one of the major failure causes in the power module. It is generated from the mechanical strain by severely varying temperatures at different loci in the power module and the different coefficients of the ther...

Title: Maximizing Benchmarking Initiatives in the Built Environment for Sustained Continuous Improvement
Author: Dodd, Justin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Civil engineering, Industrial management
Description: While continuous improvement initiatives such as benchmarking have a history of utilization for core business objectives, their successful utilization in the built environment industries, such as construction and facilities management is not nearl...

Title: Manufacturing Methodologies and Optomechanics for Dynamic Freeform Optics
Author: Gurganus, Dustin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Engineering, Mechanical engineering
Description: Freeform optics have traversed the gap from theoretical to practical application propelled by ultra-precision multi-axis machining, like diamond turning and milling. Utilized for complex infrared sensors to human vision correction, freeform optics...

Title: Forecasting Most Valuable Players of the National Basketball Association
Author: McCorey, Jordan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Industrial engineering
Description: 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...

Title: Evidence-Based Human-Centric Lighting Assist Tool towards a Healthier Lit Environment
Author: Amirazar, Armin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: 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...

Title: Evaluation of J-Rox as a Supplementary Cementitious Material for Concrete Applications
Author: Summers, Allison
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Engineering, Materials science
Description: 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...

Title: Development of an all-fiber homodyne quadrature laser interferometer for integration into a compact thermal actuator
Author: Hastings, DJ
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: D.J. HASTINGS. Development of an all-fiber homodyne quadrature laser interferometer for integration into a compact thermal actuator(Under the direction of DR. STUART T. SMITH)This thesis presents the development of an all-fiber homodyne quadrature...

Title: Decentralized Agent-Based Control of Distributed Energy Resources for Providing Multiple Services in Active Distribution Networks
Author: Karandeh, Roozbeh
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
Description: In recent decades, due to the carbon-free energy policies of power utilities, small and medium-scale renewable energy sources (RES), such as roof-top solar photovoltaic panels (PV), have been widely deployed across the distribution systems.However...

Title: Characterization of Highly Efficient Delivery Models for Eye Care Services in Veteran Affairs
Author: Kilambi, Sruthi
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Veterans Affairs (VA) provides eye care and vision treatment to all eligible veterans to help improve eye and vision health. Over the past years, timely access to eye care has become a challenge with the increase in its demand. Therefore, it is im...