Electrical and Computer Engineering Dissertations

 

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Dissertations from 2010

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Advanced dynamic response improvement methods for dc-dc power electronic converters, Lisheng Shi

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High temperature tolerant optical fiber inline microsensors by laser fabrication, Tao Wei

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Optimal excitation controllers, and location and sizing of energy storage for all-electric ship power system, Chuan Yan

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Intelligent power system operation in an uncertain environment, Yusuf Yare

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Robust frequency-domain turbo equalization for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications, Jian Zhang

Dissertations from 2009

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Novel modulated antennas and probes for millimeter wave imaging applications, Mohamed A. Abou-Khousa

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Advanced control techniques for doubly fed induction generator-based wind turbine converters to improve low voltage ride-through during system imbalances, Murali M. Baggu

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Formation control of mobile robots and unmanned aerial vehicles, Travis Alan Dierks

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Modeling and analysis of noise coupling in multilayer power/ground planes, Gang Feng

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Real-time and portable microwave imaging system, Mohammad Tayeb Ahmad Ghasr

AC/DC power system small-signal impedance measurement for stability analysis, Jing Huang

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Quality of service provisioning through resource allocation and data aggregation in wireless sensor networks, Carl Larsen

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Integration of energy storage components with cascaded H-bridge multilevel converters, Jingsheng Liao

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Decentralized adaptive neural network control of interconnected nonlinear dynamical systems with application to power system, Shahab Mehraeen

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Meta-learning computational intelligence architectures, Ryan J. Meuth

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EMI failure analysis techniques and noise prediction for trace crossing split planes, Weifeng Pan

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Novel optofluidic sensor systems for quantitative chemical imaging and on-chip sensor calibration, Jongwon Park

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Detection of low cost radio frequency receivers based on their unintended electromagnetic emissions and an active stimulation, Sarah A. Seguin

On unified computational intelligence: neural networks, dynamic programming, and applications to economics and finance, John E. Seiffertt IV

Autonomous triggering system and measurement protocols for smart bridge testing, Theresa M. Swift

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A control-theoretical fault prognostics and accommodation framework for a class of nonlinear discrete-time systems, Balaje T. Thumati

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Advanced current-mode control techniques for DC-DC power electronic converters, Kai-Tak Wan

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Applications of sensor arrays in acoustic and seismic signal processing, Peng Xie

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Energy and voltage management methods for multilevel converters for bulk power system power quality improvement, Atousa Yazdani

Dissertations from 2008

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Energy efficient wireless sensor network protocols for monitoring and prognostics of large scale systems, James W. Fonda

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System and IC level analysis of electrostatic discharge (ESD) and electrical fast transient (EFT) immunity and associated coupling mechanisms, Jayong Koo

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Enabling wind turbine generators to participate in power grid frequency regulation for enhanced stability, HongTao Ma

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Multiple-input multiple-output wireless communications with imperfect channel knowledge, Christopher Potter

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Laboratory implementation of unified power flow controller hardware-in-loop simulation, Keyou Wang

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Inter-area oscillation damping in large scale power systems with unified power flow controllers, Mahyar Zarghami

Dissertations from 2007

Automated synthesis and NULL cycle reduction optimization for asynchronous NULL convention circuits using industry-standard CAD tools, Bonita Bhaskaran

Automatic detection of lesion border and edge-related structures in dermoscopy images, Xiaohe Chen

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Mobile array designs with ANSERLIN antennas and efficient, wide-band PEEC models for interconnect and power distribution network analysis, Michael A. Cracraft

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Innovative applications of TEM cell measurements in predicting radiated emissions due to common-mode current on printed circuit boards, Shaowei Deng

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Data fusion techniques for health monitoring of aging aircraft and skin cancer detection, Kapil Gupta

Integrated circuits switching current modeling, measurement and power delivery network optimization, Kuifeng Hu

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Nonlinear optimization approach for UPFC power flow control and voltage security: Sufficient system constraints for optimality, Radha P. Kalyani

High efficiency and high performance power converters and motor drives for hybrid vehicles and electric ship propulsion, Shuai Lu

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Simple and efficient solutions to the problems associated with acoustic echo cancellation, Asif Iqbal Mohammad

Gate level pipelining optimization, energy estimation, and design for test techniques for asynchronous NULL convention circuits using industry-standard design tools, Venkat Satagopan

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BGA footprints modeling and physics based via models validation for power and signal integrity applications, Giuseppe Selli

Power grid flow control studies and high speed simulation, William M. Siever

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Energy-aware and secure routing with trust levels for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, Eyad Taqieddin

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Detection algorithms for spatial data, Spandan Tiwari

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Neural network control of nonstrict feedback and nonaffine nonlinear discrete-time systems with application to engine control, Jonathan B. Vance

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New techniques to improve power quality and evaluate stability in modern all-electric naval ship power systems, Peng Xiao

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Advanced controller design using neural networks for nonlinear dynamic systems with application to micro/nano robotics, Qinmin Yang

Characterization and modeling for multi-gigabit signaling, Jianmin Zhang

Dissertations from 2006

Advanced architecture and training algorithms for recurrent neural networks, Xindi Cai

Further analysis and application of the multirate method for power system dynamic simulation, Jingjia Chen

Neural network demodulator for optical Bragg strain sensors, Rohit Dua

Decentralized control and placement of multiple unified power flow controllers, Jianjun Guo

On improving the low-frequency performance of full-wave modeling techniques, Haixin Ke

Visual mobile robotic navigation and mapping, Dale Humbert Lord

The application of genetic algorithms to identify the worst credible states in a bulk power system, Prasert Paenyoorat

Unitary space-time codes: New techniques for code searching, construction, and performance evaluation, Adam Panagos

Model simplification for system-level EMI prediction and power delivery network analysis and: a transmission line sensor for crack sensing in civil concrete structures, Shishuang Sun

Measurement and application of near-field scan data: prediction of currents, radiated emissions, and probe characteristics, Haixiao Weng

Microarray gene expression data analysis using machine learning and neural networks, Rui Xu

Distributed power control (DPC) based energy efficient protocols for wireless networks, Maciej Jan Zawodniok

Dissertations from 2005

A new standard in secure networking, Robert Denier

Estimation, modeling and identification of electromagnetic crosstalk and emissions in automotive and integrated circuit applications, Xiaopeng Dong

Hybrid numerical electromagnetic modeling techniques for analyzing printed circuit board geometries, Chunlei Guo

Power system stabilization using neural networks, Wenxin Liu

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CAD model extraction of PCB signal discontinuity using a circuit extraction approach based on mixed-potential integral equation formulation, Shaofeng Luan

Near-field measurement and analysis procedures for characterizing electromagnetic interference, Jin Shi

System level ESD failure mechanisms, analysis and test method, Kai Wang

Part I: Improved handling of geometry details in finite difference time domain method; Part II: Method of circuit extraction using finite difference frequency domain matrix formulation with application to power bus modeling, Kai Xiao

A microscopic investigation of force generation in a permanent magnetic synchronous machine, Weidong Zhu

Dissertations from 2004

StatCom/BESS using a diode-clamped multilevel inverter, Ying Cheng

Mid-term voltage stability assessment and enhancement, Feng Dong

Control, interaction mitigation and location for FACTS devices, Liangying Dong

Bipolar excitation of switched reluctance machines, Chris S. Edrington

Computationally complex, nonlinear systems modeling using neural networks, Xiao Hu

Anticipating system-level electromagnetic interference using numerical methods and measurement techniques, Geping Liu

Persistent current and electron transport through ultra-thin networks, Ditshupo Ecco Maje

Circuit model extraction in digital and RD circuits using the partial element equivalent circuit (PEEC) method, Jingkun Mao

Intelligent agent based, autonomous real-time structural health monitoring system, Kyle Mitchell

Neural networks with categorical valued inputs and applications to intrusion detection, Alexander Novokhodko

Reduction of model dimension in nonlinear finite element approximations of electromechanical systems, Scott Patrick Rutenkroger

Automation of power network design in industrial and commercial buildings, Grzegorz Rzepka

Development of radiated EMI estimation algorithms for PCB EMI expert system, Hwan-Woo Shim

Development and applications of the cavity model and FDTD for power integrity and EMI problems, Chen Wang

Automatic sensor fault diagnosis and controller reconfiguration for induction motor drives sensor fault-tolerance, Hainan Wang

Modeling and analysis of electric machines with asymmetric rotor poles using a reluctance based, magnetic equivalent circuit, Joshua Michael Williams

Biologically inspired identification and classification of a system's environment through artificial vision, Robert S. Woodley

Modeling and analysis of source-commutated five-phase diode rectifier systems, Bo Zhang

Innovative approaches to characterize DC power distribution systems in high speed PCB design, Lin Zhang

VLSI layout verification using adaptive critic designs and fuzzy logic, Nian Zhang

Dissertations from 2003

Robust analysis and control of smart structural systems, Pengxiang Liu

Study on multilevel converters for static synchronous compensators with energy storage, Chang Qian

Dissertations from 2002

Skin cancer diagnosis using hybrid artificial intelligence system, Ying Chang

Application of singular-perturbation-based model reduction techniques to neglect saliency in synchronous machines, Michael Thomas Lemanski

Development and applications of a hybrid finite element method (FEM)/method of moments (MoM) tool, Hao Wang

Designing protection of a distribution feeder to maximize reliability, Jingyu Wang

An investigation of gaps in return planes, decoupling capacitor ESR in resonance suppression, and low-mutual inductance filters, Theodore M. Zeeff

Dissertations from 2001

Robust feedback control of uncertain systems, Eddie Archie Akpan

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Derivation of a coupled-circuit model for analysis and design of claw-pole alternator/rectifier systems, Hua Bai

Modeling and design of DC power bus interconnects, segmentation, and signal via transitions in multi-layer printed circuit boards using FDTD and a mixed-potential integral equation approach with circuit extraction, Wei Cui

Control of smart structural systems using multi-objective optimization techniques, Sridhar Sana