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Title: WAVEGUIDE, PHOTODETECTOR, AND IMAGING APPLICATIONS OF MICROSPHERICAL PHOTONICS
Author: Allen, Kenneth
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Engineering, Physics
Description: Dielectric microspheres with diameters (D) on the order of several wavelengths of light have attracted increasing attention from the photonics community due to their ability to produce extraordinarily tightly focused beams termed "photonic nanojet...

Title: Visibility of Two-Wheeled Motorists Approaching Left Turning Vehicles Under Nighttime Conditions
Author: Spivey, Heath
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Civil engineering
Description: The number of fatal crashes on United States roadways has declined substantially since 2002, yet the number of fatalities involving two-wheeled motorists has consistently increased over the same period. Examining incidents involving a two-wheel mo...

Title: VISION-GUIDED ROBOT FOR PLANETARY HABITAT ASSEMBLY
Author: Whitlow, Kohl
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: The focus of this research is to develop a vision-guided autonomous system for structure or habitat construction on distant planets/moons in support of NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD). The proposed approach would use building bl...

Title: VARIABLE SELECTION FOR FUNCTIONAL INDEX COEFFICIENT MODELS AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN FINANCE AND ENGINEERING
Author: Yang, Bingduo
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Statistics, Finance
Description: Variable selection with a non-concave penalty function has become popular in recent years, since it has ability to select significant variables and to estimate unknown regression coefficients simultaneously. In this dissertation, I consider variab...

Title: Urban Heat Islands and Cooling Strategies: A Comprehensive Assessment Of Charlotte, NC and National Comparisons
Author: Westendorff, Veronica
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Human ecology--Study and teaching, Landscape architecture
Description: The increasing threats posed by climate change and urbanization have elevated the importance of addressing Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon, a critical concern impacting cities across the United States. This dissertation comprises three articles...

Title: UPDATING AND ENHANCING THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION’S BRIDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USER COSTS
Author: Ramsey, Joshua
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Transportation
Description: A Bridge Management System (BMS) can be used for both storage of data and to provide decision making tools for maintenance, repair, and rehabilitation (MR&R) needs and cost forecasting. The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s (NCDOT) BMS...

Title: Trajectory tracking control for nonholonomic robots with actuation noise and imperfect communication
Author: Lawless, Frank
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: When executing safety-critical missions, tracking algorithms must be dependable, accurate, and have quantifiable tracking performance in non-ideal environments (e.g., actuation noise, delayed communication, and noisy measurement). Trajectory track...

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: The Relationship of Learning Communities to Engineering Students' Perceptions of the Freshman Year Experience, Academic Performance, and Persistence
Author: Tolley, Patricia
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Mathematics--Study and teaching, Curriculum planning
Description: The purpose of this correlational study was to examine the effects of a residential learning community and enrollment in an introductory engineering course to engineering students' perceptions of the freshman year experience, academic performance,...

Title: The Exploration of BIM and Visual Data for Owner Benefits
Author: Mallard, Jesse
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Operations research
Description: ABSTRACTJESSE M. MALLARD. Exploration of how Building Information Modeling (BIM) and visual data is used within the Architectural Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry currently to assist in closing the knowledge gaps between Owners and Desi...

Title: The Evalution of Chemical Wear on Single Crystal Diamond Tools while Diamond Turning a Binary Cu-Ni Alloy System
Author: Browy, Eric
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics, Engineering
Description: The current work describes the evaluation of chemical wear on diamond tools while diamond turning copper nickel alloys of varying composition. The primary goal of my project is to quantify the chemical wear of single crystal diamond tools while di...

Title: THEORY, CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATIONS OF INFRARED HYPERBOLIC METAMATERIALS
Author: Fullager, Daniel
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Engineering, Physics
Description: ABSTRACTDANIEL B. FULLAGER. Theory, characterization and applications of infraredhyperbolic metamaterials. (Under the direction of DR. MICHAEL A. FIDDY)Hyperbolic Metamaterials (HMMs) are engineered structures capable of supporting lightmatterinte...

Title: THE USE OF GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT IN SHORT-TERM LOAD FORECASTING
Author: Dharmapal, Deeksha
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Economic and demographic variables are important indicators that define the growth, decline or stationarity of a region. The daily load curve of small economies displays a different pattern than that of large economies, implying the economic condi...

Title: THE DESIGN OF AN IN-CONDUIT HYDROPOWER PLANT WITH A SEAL-FREE MAGNETIC TRANSMISSION
Author: Nichols, Casey
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
Description: Presently, governments are focused on the development of diverse energy sources from renewable supplies. A major part of that is the development of pico-hydro and micro-hydro power generation in low head, low flow rate rivers and streams. Numerous...

Title: THE APPLICABILITY OF FREE-FIELD ACOUSTIC SIGNATURES TO QUALITY INSPECTION OF ROTATING MACHINERY
Author: Paustian, Andrew
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Sound
Description: Quality assessment tools are used to increase productivity of a production line by ensuring that the produced item is fit for consumer use. In order for a quality inspection tool to be useful, the process must not affect the item and should not si...

Title: THE ADVANCED MANIPULATION OF AN ELECTROSPRAYED DIELECTRIC
Author: Garris, Robert
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: The objective of this research is to investigate the control of sprayed gasoline using electric fields. This research was separated into three main parts including: charge repeatability, charge magnitude, and control of a sprayed injection. Using ...

Title: Surface Scatter of Antireflective Nanostructured Dielectric Interfaces
Author: Gonzalez, David
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Physics, Engineering
Description: Anti-reflective nanostructured surfaces (ARSS) enhance optical transmission through suppression of Fresnel reflection at boundaries between layered media by creating a gradually increasing ratio of material to air volume fraction. Previous studies...

Title: Space Variant Guided Mode Resonant Filters
Author: Roth, Zachary
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Engineering, Nanoscience
Description: Guided mode resonance filters (GMRF) combine subwavelength gratings and planar slab waveguides to create highly efficient, narrow linewidth spectral filters. Resonances between diffracted orders of the SWG and the waveguide provide the mechanism f...

Title: SIGNAL PROCESSING BASED METHOD FOR MODELING AND SOLVING INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEMS
Author: Ritter, Richard
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Optics, Engineering
Description: A mature and difficult problem, still preoccupying many research communities in different application areas, is the recovery of a quantitative image of some unknown penetrable strongly scattering object. In most fields, such as ground penetrating ...

Title: SHORT TERM LOAD FORECASTING WITH RECENCY EFFECT: MODELS AND APPLICATIONS
Author: Liu, Bidong
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: Load forecasting is evolving in a smart grid era from the days before personal computer (PC) and the PC era. Thanks to the wide-spread use of smart meters, more data with high resolution is available than ever before. Meanwhile, with development o...