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Title: A SYSTEM FOR COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION OF 3D COMMINUTED BONE FRACTURES
Author: Liu, Pengcheng
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science
Description: High energy impacts at joint locations often generate highly fragmented, or comminuted bone fractures. A leading current approach for treatment requires physicians qualitatively to classify the fracture to one of four possible fracture severity ca...

Title: ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROPAGATION CHARACTERIZATION OF CONDUIT NETWORKS
Author: Khan, Muhammad Safeer
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Sound
Description: Analysis of acoustic signal propagation in conduit networks has been an important area of research in acoustics. One major aspect of analyzing conduit networks as acoustic channels is that a propagating signal suffers frequency dependent attenuati...

Title: ANALYSIS OF CONDUCTIVE PROPERTIES OF CORE/ SHELL NANOCOMPOSITE STRUCTURES
Author: Moorthy, Gayathri
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Nanoscience
Description: Nanostructures have been explored considerably in recent times to ascertain the unique properties they exhibit in the nanoscale regime as opposed to their bulk counterparts. Their characteristic high surface-to-volume ratio coupled with confinemen...

Title: Architecture Estimation from Sparse Images using Grammatical Shape Priors for Cultural Heritage
Author: Sui, Yunfeng
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science
Description: The estimation and reconstruction of 3D architectural structures is of great interest in computer vision, as well as cultural heritage. This dissertation proposes a novel approach to solve the difficult problem of estimating architectural structur...

Title: Behavioral Modeling of Zinc-Oxide, Thin-Film, Field-Effect Transistors and the Design of Pixel Driver, Analog Amplifier, and Low-Noise RF Amplifier Circuits
Author: Calder, Leroy
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Zinc-oxide (ZnO) is of great interest due to transparent properties, high breakdown voltages, and low cost. Behavioral modeling is presented in this dissertation to model ZnO thin-film field-effect transistor (FET) drain current versus gate-source...

Title: Bridging the gap between heterogeneous computing and next generation memory architecture using high level synthesis
Author: Rajagopala, Abhilash
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: The impact of transistor scaling on FPGAs is changing the role of FPGA from accelerators to a major role as processors. With this rapid development and the ability to implement complex systems on FPGAs, the conventional hardware language design fl...

Title: COMPUTATIONAL INVERSE MECHANICS OF A HIGHLY COMMINUTED TIBIA FRACTURE
Author: Shadid, Waseem
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Biomedical engineering
Description: This dissertation presents a new computational system that seeks to estimate the inverse mechanics of a bone fracture from 3D CT images. One image provides a model of an unbroken bone and a second records a fractured example of the same bone after...

Title: DEFECTED SIGNAL LINE STRUCTURES FOR SINGLE-BAND AND MULTI-BAND BANDSTOP FILTERING IN PLANAR MICROWAVE DEVICES
Author: Yadav, Navneet Kumar
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: As the development of wireless communication increases, the current transceiver architecturesalso needs to be evolving along with it. This results in specifications likehigh linearity, low noise figure, and rejection of spurious signals. As device...

Title: Design of a Closed Loop Wireless Power Transfer System for an Electrocorticography Device to be Implanted in the Brain of a Rat Over an Extended Period
Author: Stuemke, Jeremiah
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: A biomedical power and communications system is currently under development for the purpose of continuously monitoring neural activity in ratswith epilepsy over a period of nine months. A closed loop system is employed that dynamically adjusts for...

Title: Design of a Microstrip Antenna and PCB for use in an Electrocorticography Biomedical Implant
Author: West, Jakob
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Biomedical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: An implantable system, that is part of a wireless body area network, is under development for a study monitoring of neural activity in rats with epilepsy. The study will continue over a nine month period to collect data for epilepsy research. This...

Title: Energy-efficient Base Station Sleep-mode Strategies for Ultra-dense Cellular Networks
Author: Opadere, Johnson
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Future mobile cellular networks will be characterized by massive densification of base stations (BSs) and a reshape of network functionalities, which include the potentials of advanced technologies like the network function virtualization, network...

Title: Exploiting Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications
Author: Karami, Morteza
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Physics, Electromagnetism
Description: Metamaterials are man-made structures developed to engineer electromagnetic waves, and they have been studied intensely in recent decades. Although there are still debates about the performance of these types of artificial materials, many practica...

Title: FRACTAL-INSPIRED SUBWAVELENGTH GEOMETRIC INCLUSIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF HIGH-FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC DEVICES
Author: Smith, Kathryn
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electromagnetism
Description: This dissertation presents research results demonstrating the efficacy of fractal-inspired subwavelength geometric inclusions for improvement of high-frequency electromagnetic devices. It begins with a review of the open literature in the area of ...

Title: FREQUENCY INDEPENDENT ANTENNAS INTERACTED ULTRA-WIDE BAND (UWB) ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC CONDUCTOR (AMC) FOR 5G MILLIMETER WAVE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS
Author: Wang, Xuehe
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Fifth generation (5G) wireless communication is on the horizon and presents opportunities for significant technological advancement for years to come. As part of this important technology, millimeter wave communication has become a very important ...

Title: Fan Noise Attenuation with an Acoustic Metamaterial
Author: Hill, Ryan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Sound
Description: In a world continuously increasing in the number of electronic devices, the need for cooling fans increases and so does its contribution to noise pollution. This project explores a solution to this problem by designing an acoustic metamaterial tha...

Title: From pixel to region to temporal volume: a robust motion processing framework for visually-guided navigation
Author: Liu, Jianfei
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Computer engineering, Diagnostic imaging
Description: The ability to view pre-operative CT colonoscopy images co-aligned with optical colonoscopy images from endoscopic procedures can provide useful information to the gastroenterologist and lead to improved polyp detection. Colonoscopy data presents ...

Title: Geometric Analysis Tools for Mesh Segmentation
Author: Zhou, Beibei
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Surface segmentation, a process which divides a surface into parts, is the basis for many surface manipulation applications which include model metamorphosis, model simplification, model retrieval, model alignment and texture mapping. This dissert...

Title: HUMAN-ROBOT COOPERATION USING EEG SIGNALS WITH SELF-LEARNING
Author: Bellary, Sunny Arokia Swamy
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: Able-bodied humans express and communicate their needs and ideas with each other through the exchange of verbal and non-verbal information. However, those with neuromuscular disorders, either inherited or acquired by other factors, have high needs...

Title: Improving Dense Real-Time 3D SLAM Using Sparse Geometric Constraints
Author: Papadakis, John-Richard
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: This thesis explores the extension of a state of the art dense RGBD SLAM system to include detected geometries as elements in the estimated global map. The existing approach leverages an algorithm for dense visual odometry, which is analyzed in de...

Title: Integration of the Simulation Environment for Autonomous Robots with Robotics Middleware
Author: Harris, Adam
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Robotics
Description: Robotic simulators have long been used to test code and designs before any actual hardware is tested to ensure safety and efficiency. Many current robotics simulators are either closed source (calling into question the fidelity of their simulation...