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Title: A Cultural Wealth Perspective on Success and Persistence in Engineering for Black and Latino Students: Exploring Interactions with Faculty and Other Institutional Agents
Author: Foxx, Krystal
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Education
Description: Using Yosso's (2005) community cultural wealth (CCW) framework, this qualitative case study (conducted through a federally-funded grant) explored the experiences of eight Black and Latino successful engineering students at a Southeastern universit...

Title: APPRAISAL OF CRANE SAFETY PREPAREDNESS FOLLOWING THE INTRODUCTION OF THE NEW OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (OSHA) CRANE RULES
Author: Boafo, Francis
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: This research investigates the impact of the new Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Crane and Derrick Regulations 29CFR 1926 Subpart CC on the frequencies of the causes of crane related accidents and fatalities. The old and new c...

Title: Accelerated aging and health monitoring of IGBT(s) switches in motor drives
Author: O'Connor, Paul
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: ABSTRACTPAUL RICHARD VALENTINE O'CONNOR. Accelerated aging and health monitoring of IGBT(s) in Motor Drives. (Under the direction of DR. ROBERT W. COX) There has been a proliferation in the use of power electronic drives in applications such as sh...

Title: EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF SODIUM CHLORIDE DEICING AND ANTI-ICING SOLUTIONS ON EXPOSED, COATED, AND REINFORCING STEEL IN HIGHWAY BRIDGES
Author: Diep, Thanh-tu
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: In North Carolina, winter roadway maintenance strategies vary across the state, with some areas using brine for anti-icing pre-treatment, some using granular salts for deicing, and some using a mix of granular salts with traction enhancing materia...

Title: FEASIBILITY OF ELECTRIC FIELD SENSOR FOR EXTERNAL BALLISTICS ANALYSIS
Author: Benfield, Christopher
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering
Description: 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 ...

Title: Game Theoretic Approaches for Channel Selection, Power Control and Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Darak, Natwar
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: This work proposes a game theoretic framework for managing the radio resources of wireless sensor nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). We consider data collecting sensor networks that are typical of environmental monitoring applications, whic...

Title: POSITIONING SENSOR BY COMBINING OPTICAL PROJECTION AND PHOTOGRAMMETRY
Author: Zheng, Benrui
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Engineering, Remote sensing
Description: Six spatial parameters, (x, y, z) for translation, and pitch, roll, and yaw for rotation, are used to describe the 3-dimensional position and orientation of a rigid body - the 6 degrees of freedom (DOF). The ability to measure these parameters is ...

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: 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: 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...