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Title: A Comparative Study Between Axial and Radial Flux-Focusing Magnetic Gear Topologies and Mechanical Gearboxes
Author: Calvin, Matthew
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: A variety of magnetic gear topologies have been investigated in recent years as alternatives to traditional mechanical gearboxes. In general these magnetic gears offer advantages in the non-contact transmission of torque including inherent overloa...

Title: A LOAD-BASED TEMPERATURE PREDICTION MODEL FOR ANOMALY DETECTION
Author: Sobhani, Masoud
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: Electric load forecasting, as a basic requirement for the decision-making in power utilities, has been improved in various aspects in the past decades. Many factors may affect the accuracy of the load forecasts, such as data quality, goodness of t...

Title: APPLICATION OF SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION BASED METHODS ON POWER SYSTEM OSCILLATION CHARACTERIZATION AND MITIGATION
Author: Hossain, Sheikh Jakir
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: This dissertation presents measurement-based system identification methods that help to improve the reliability and operational stability of modern power systems. One of the important factors in maintaining stability is to know the damping and fre...

Title: Autonomous Navigation of an Electric All-Terrain Vehicle Along Waypoint-Defined Trails
Author: Daniel, Jacob
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Electrical engineering, Mechanical engineering
Description: Previous research attempted to autonomously control an internal combustion all-terrain vehicle platform but was unsuccessful due to the inability to reliably control speed. To address this, an electric motor conversion is performed on the platform...

Title: Autonomous Vehicle Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance Along a Predetermined Vector
Author: Pfeifer, Elijah
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Robotics
Description: Search and Rescue (SaR) operations rely on civilian volunteers to provide mandatory manpower when covering large areas of land. These SaR operations are typically conducted in remote environments where conditions can be hazardous and GPS signal in...

Title: Combining Sister Load Forecasts
Author: Liu, Jiali
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Combining forecasts is a well-known approach to further improving forecast accuracy. In the load forecasting literature, there are only few papers discussing load forecast combination. Most of them are on combining independent forecasts. However, ...

Title: Coordinated optimal control of smart buildings and PV systems in active distribution networks
Author: Kodanda Pani, Naveen Kumar
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: Driven by economic and environmental policies, there is an increase in distributed energy resources (DER) penetration, such as wind farms and rooftop solar panels in the electrical grid system. With advancement in smart technology such as smart me...

Title: DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL TOOLS FOR MAGNETIC DRUG TARGETING IN CARDIOVASCULAR FLOW
Author: Ciero, Ashley
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: The aim of the present work is to design and develop experimental and numerical tools to investigate the practicality of magnetic drug targeting (MDT) in a patient-specific diseased left carotid bifurcation artery for the potential prospects of tr...

Title: Delivery Point Load Forecasting
Author: Sobhani, Masoud
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: Electric load forecasting has been integrated into the business decision making processes across virtually every segment of the power industry. Power companies use short-term and long-term load forecasts primarily for power systems operations and ...

Title: Development of a Digital Twin for a Solar Powered Electric Race Vehicle
Author: Baer, James
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Electrical engineering, Mechanical engineering
Description: The global and local impacts of climate change have increased the interest in decarbonizing energy economies in general and transportation in particular. Solar EVs represent an intersection of renewable energy generation and EV development, both o...

Title: ENHANCING THE RESILIENCE OF DISTRIBUTION POWER GRIDS WITH PHOTOVOLTAICS (PVs) AND ENERGY STORAGE
Author: McGirt, Alexander
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
Description: Extreme events such as natural disasters can cause power grid failures, leading to catastrophic consequences and losses. With increasing integrations of photovoltaics (PVs) and energy storage in the distribution power grid, this work explores how ...

Title: EXTERNAL WAVELENGTH STABILIZATION OF GRATING COUPLED SURFACE EMITTING LASERS AND APPLICATIONS
Author: Yilmaz, Yigit
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Optics, Electromagnetism
Description: In this dissertation, we explore a semiconductor optical device configuration based on non-resonant diffraction grating coupler. These devices are coupled with monolithic and external wavelength selection elements to form the resonant cavity lasin...

Title: Electromagnetic Wave Phenomena In Periodic Metastructures
Author: Schenk, John
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Optics, System theory
Description: There is an active effort toward the development of negative index metamaterials for application in high-resolution imaging. In particular, engineering an artificial material exhibiting an index of exactly -1, may permit sub-wavelength imaging. Th...

Title: Enhanced electron mobility at Gd2O3(100)/Si(100) interface: origin and applications
Author: Sitaputra, Wattaka
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Electrical engineering
Description: A growth of a gadolinium oxide (Gd₂O₃) layer with (100) orientation on a Si(100) substrate was obtained for the first time using molecular beam epitaxy deposition (MBE) with the growth temperature in the range of 150-200°C and the oxygen partial p...

Title: Experimental Study for Detection of Thermal Runaway, Explosion, and Fire in Li-Ion Batteries Initiated by Hot Plate Method
Author: Coe, Corbin
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: CORBIN COE. Experimental Study for Detection of Thermal Runaway, Explosion, and Fire in Li-Ion Batteries Initiated by Hot Plate Method(Under the direction of DR. NICOLE BRAXTAN)In 2006, Tesla announced the first fully electric lithium-ion battery ...

Title: Hierarchical Control Strategies for Spatiotemporally Varying Systems with Application to Airborne Wind Energy
Author: Bafandeh, Alireza
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering
Description: Wind energy represents a leading renewable resource for the production of clean and sustainable electricity for on- and off-grid networks. Nevertheless, tower and foundation costs, which typically represent about 30 percent of the total installati...

Title: INGAN/GAN MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELL STRUCTURES: SUBMICRON STRUCTURAL, OPTICAL, ELECTRICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
Author: Li, Ying
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Electrical engineering, Optics
Description: In this work, a novel approach has been implemented to investigate the submicron (30nm spatial resolution) structural and optical properties of bulk GaN, InGaN/GaN Multiple Quantum Well (MQW), p-typle AlGaN capped MQW, and full Light Emitting Diod...

Title: Implementation of a cost effective non-destructive testing laboratory experiment
Author: Nye, Cameron
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: A great amount of research is being performed in the field of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT). In addition, research is being performed in optimizing the distance learning experience, allowing students to gain equal involvement compared to students ...

Title: Instrumentation, techniques, and evaluation of ePTV for particle manipulation studies using micro-scale oscillators
Author: Kafashi, Sajad
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Physics
Description: A need for dynamic micro-particle manipulation is the ability to position fragile particles without damaging them, for instance biological particles like blood cells, stem cells, neurons, pancreatic β cells, DNA, chromosomes, for repeated measurem...

Title: Investigation of impedance-matching techniques for infrared antennas
Author: Moreno Cleves, Camilo
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Optics, Physics
Description: In this study, we used scattering-scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) to experimentally characterize several structures relevant to infrared (IR) antenna technology, by measuring the electric near-field strength as a function of positi...