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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: Broadband and Reconfigurable Filtering Antennas for Next Generation Mobile Wireless Communications Systems
Author: Shehan, Joshua
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: Mobile wireless communications systems, particularly at the base station level, are ever evolving to provide more data with better coverage resulting in continuously evolving antenna technology. From first generation (1G) mobile networks deployed ...

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: 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: 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: 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...

Title: Low Power RFID System Design and Implementation
Author: Bowen, Jacob
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: A successful design and implementation of an RFID(Radio Frequency Identification)tag and reader.The RFID reader was implemented using a USRP board and GNU radio. TheRFID system designed here is considered a UHF(ultra high frequency) RFID. Thereade...

Title: Metamaterial Enhanced Broadband Dipole Antenna with Selective Directivity and Enhanced Gain
Author: Naik, Ajay
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electromagnetism
Description: This research is aimed at investigating the interaction between a broadband dipole andmetamaterials. Metamaterials are artificial electromagnetic structures whose electricpermittivity and magnetic permeability can be engineered to have parameter v...

Title: Metamaterial Loading of Electrically Small Patch Antennas to Enable Beam Steering up to the Horizon
Author: Pai Raikar, Vandita Rajiv
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: This thesis research has been conducted with an aim of investigating the effects ofmetamaterials on microstrip patch antennas. Metamaterials exhibit interesting propertiessuch as single negative or simultaneous double negative values of relative p...

Title: Microwave power imaging for ultra-wide band early breast cancer detection
Author: Shao, Wenyi
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Biomedical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: Due to the critical need for complementary or/and alternative modalities to current X-ray mammography for early-stage breast cancer detection, a 3D active microwave imaging system has been developed. This thesis presents a detailed method for rapi...