Theses/Dissertations from 2023
DESIGN, DYNAMIC MODELING AND CONTROL OF SOFT ROBOTS, Xiaotian Chen
ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING UTILIZATION IN DISADVANTAGED AND NON-DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES, Camila Colandré
SUSTAINABLE ERGONOMICS FOR SOLAR INSTALLATIONS, Jesse Duroha
UNDERWATER EXPLOSIVE BUBBLE INTERACTION WITH A FLAT ADJACENT WATER-BACKED STRUCTURE, Michael Galuska
DYNAMIC BUCKLING BEHAVIOR OF 3D-PRINTED POLYMER STRUCTURES, Nathan Grantham-Coogan
MICROFLUIDIC PAPER-BASED DEVICES FOR THE DETECTION OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL AGENTS, Hojat Heidaribafroui
EXECUTING ADVANCED ALGORITHMS TO EXTRAPOLATE UNIQUE ELECTRIC VEHICLE USERS’ CHARGING BEHAVIORS, Mehrsa Khaleghikarahrodi
3D PRINTING MULTIFUNCTIONAL STRUCTURES WITH ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL CAPABILITIES, William Maciolek
OPTIMIZING AUTONOMOUS MULTI-AGENT SEARCH PATTERNS USING SWARM INTELLIGENCE, Justin P. Maio
MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES FOR MICROPLASTICS SEPARATION AND IDENTIFICATION, Pedro Mesquita
RESPONSE OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURES TO DYNAMIC AND EXTREME LOADING CONDITIONS, Gregory Morgan
GREEN ERGONOMICS: A DECADE’S CALL UNANSWERED? A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW, Philipp Neugebauer
ANALYSIS OF VOTE-BY-MAIL PROCESSING AND TABULATION: A TIME STUDY FROM SALT LAKE CITY, Leonie Samira Otte
IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF GENETIC ALGORITHMS USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING., Jose D. Quevedo
STUDY OF ANISOTROPIC THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF GAS ADSORBED TWO DIMENSIONAL COVALENT ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS, Muhammad Akif Rahman
MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF GYROIDS UNDER DYNAMIC LOADS, Alexander Sapronov
Fluid-Structure Interaction of Collapsing Volumes in Confined Environments, Craig Tilton
CHARACTERIZATION & DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF NOVEL COMPOSITE STRUCTURES TO AIR BLAST AND UNDERWATER SHOCK, Piyush Wanchoo
MODELING, DIAGNOSIS AND CONTROL OF COMPLEX NONLINEAR UNCERTAIN DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS: FROM ALGORITHM DESIGN TO PHYSICAL EXPERIMENT, Jingting Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Empowering Industrial IoT Systems with GPU-Powered Optimization Algorithms and Cybersecurity Tools, Marwan Fouad Abdelatti
MEASURING THE EFFECTS OF SYSTEM CONDITIONS ON U.S. ELECTIONS THROUGH SIMULATION, Nicholas D. Bernardo Jr.
MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF CONSTITUENT MATERIALS USED IN PLAIN WEAVE NYLON REINFORCED INFLATABLE DROP STITCH STRUCTURES, Matthew S. Buglio
AUTOMATED EXTRACTION OF FASTENERS USING DIGITAL TWIN ROBOTICS SOFTWARE AND DCNN VISION SYSTEM, Austin Clark
Quantitative Methods for Analyzing Team Communication Patterns, Dominique Engome Tchupo
DEFINING PATTERNS OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE USER CHARGING BEHAVIOR: URBANICITY & SERVICE, Tim Jonas
INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF WEAVE GEOMETRY ON THE MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF WOVEN FABRICS, Rogan Daniel Kennedy
PERFORMANCE OF CURVED ALUMINUM STRUCTURES SUBJECTED TO UNDERWATER EXPLOSIONS, Matthew A. Leger
ON DATA-DRIVEN FATIGUE DAMAGE MONITORING AND PREDICTION IN NONLINEAR MECHANICAL SYSTEMS, He-Wen-Xuan Li
PERFORMANCE OF FLAT ALUMINUM STRUCTURES SUBJECTED TO IN-CONTACT UNDERWATER EXPLOSIONS, Bastian A. Madsen
Effects of Marine Environments on the Mechanical Response of Polymeric Coatings, Julianna Martinez
ESTIMATING TRANSPORTATION COSTS AND EMISSIONS OF RECYCLABLES IN RHODE ISLAND MUNICIPALITIES USING A GIS, ROUTING MACHINE, AND GENETIC ALGORITHM, Luke Norman Martin-Jourdenais
Welding Personal Protective Equipment: Survey, Interview, and Anthropometric Measurement Study, Kaitlin Neville
TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION SCHEME FOR DYNAMIC CONDITIONS, Peter Thomas Phelps
THE DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF A THIN METALLIC AIR-BACKED PLATE TO A NEARFIELD UNDERWATER EXPLOSION, Valentina Rossell
Bulk Recycling: Density Separation Models for Mixed Plastic Waste, Megan Lee St. Hilaire
MEASURING THE EFFECTS OF LEAN AND GREEN MANUFACTURING PRACTICES ON THE TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE, Leon Sundermann
Numerical Analysis of Thermal Distributions and Localized Melting in Solids, Wilhelm Unkelbach
MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF PLAIN WEAVE NYLON REINFORCED DROP-STITCH INFLATABLE PANELS, Anthony J. White
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
SECOND-LIFE SOLUTIONS FOR END-OF-LIFE PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES, Lennart Banaszak
ENHANCEMENT AND BENCHMARKING OF THE PRESCRIBED MATERIAL REDISTRIBUTION TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION SCHEME, Tjard Bätge
A NEW PAPER-BASED MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR SENSITIVE DETECTION OF NITRATE IN SEAWATER, Amer Charbaji
EFFECTS OF LONG-TERM DEEP-SEA IMMERSION ON THE IMPLOSION AND EXPLOSION OF HOLLOW COMPOSITE CYLINDERS, Tyler Chu
ALGORITHM SELECTION FOR THE CAPACITATED VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM USING MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFIERS, Justin C. Fellers
DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED METAL ALLOYS, Chelsea Fox
SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF USAGE PATTERNS IN A PUBLIC BIKE SHARING SYSTEM DURING A PANDEMIC, Vincent Marcus Garcia
REVISITING TEAM COHESION: A SYSTEMATIC MIXED METHODS APPROACH, Caroline A. Hammett
TRANSIENT ANALYSIS OF THE NUSCALE POWER HELICAL-COIL STEAM GENERATOR TUBE RUPTURE USING RELAP5-3D, Kyle P. Johnson
DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED 17-4PH1100 SS TO SHOCK LOADING GENERATED BY PLATE IMPACT EXPERIMENTS, Mark Keenan
DESIGN OF A PLATFORM FOR INTERACTION WITH UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES USING VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGY, Janis Kinzinger
FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION DURING EXTREME DYNAMIC LOADING EVENTS OF COMPOSITES AND METALS, Shyamal Kishore
SIMULATION METHODS FOR WOVEN FABRIC MATERIALS SUBJECTED TO BIAXIAL LOADING, Felix N. Klempt
MODELLING AND ASSESSMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF A LONG-RANGE FUEL CELL POWERED AIRCRAFT, Luisa Lindner
IMPACT OF FACILITIES LAYOUT METHODS ON IN-PERSON ELECTIONS: A THEORETICAL EXPLORATION, Emma C. McCool-Guglielmo
SMALL DUAL-CHANNEL WATERJET PROPULSION MODULE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT, Corey Murphy
PERFORMANCE OF ELASTOMERIC COATINGS AND COATED STRUCTURES SUBJECTED TO AGGRESSIVE MARINE ENVIRONMENTS, Irine Neba Mforsoh
SIMULATION BASED EVALUATION OF PALLET MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABILITY, Niklas Thiele
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
SYNTHETIC SCENE BASED OBJECT DETECTION: CAN YOU TRAIN NEURAL NETWORKS WITH SYNTHETICALLY GENERATED DATA TO RECOGNIZE REAL OBJECTS FOR MANUFACTURING?, Gabriella M. Aiello
ATTRACTIVENESS OF CARBON REMOVAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR CONSUMERS IN GERMANY AND THE USA, Dominik Rüdiger Daniel Brysch
CHARACTERIZATION OF DROP-STITCH CONSTITUENT MATERIALS AND INFLATED PANEL RESPONSE, Ryan A. Buglio
TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE FOR PARTIALLY AUTOMATED VEHICLES IN THE UNITED STATES AND GERMANY, Sergio Bujanov
HIGHLIGHTING FIT ISSUES OF WELDING PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT THROUGH ANTHROPOMETRY, Kelly L. Domogala
COMPOSITE COOPERATIVE ADAPTIVE LEARNING AND CONTROL FOR MULTI-ROBOT COORDINATION, Xiaonan Dong
EFFECTS OF LONG TERM DEEP-SEA IMMERSION ON THE MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURES, Dillon T. Fontaine
STUDY OF THE AUTOMATION OF DISASSEMBLY OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERIES, Jan Friedrich Hellmuth
PATTERNS, OR NO PATTERNS, THAT IS THE QUESTION, Mehrsa Khaleghikarahrodi
THE TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM WITH JOB-TIMES, MULTI-CIRCUIT, AND VARIATIONS, Mohsen Mosayebi
SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT IN SCHOOLS, Emily Orr
AN INVERSE METHOD FOR MATERIAL PROPERTY DERIVATION USING DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATION AND THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD, Sean D. Scro
SHOCK RESPONSE OF SOFT MATERIALS FOR STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS, Koray Senol
MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF WATER-FILLED DROP-STITCH INFLATABLE STRUCTURES, Dylan Stephanik
DESIGN OF AN AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR CORNER BRICK ASSEMBLY PROCESS, Zachary Whittaker
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
MODELING, SIMULATION AND INVESTIGATION OF INFLATABLE DROP-STITCH PANELS WITH FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS, Alena M. Alich
DEVELOPMENT OF AN RFID-ENABLED SERIAL KANBAN PRODUCTION SYSTEM WITH REAL TIME ORDER SCHEDULING, Kian M. Asgari
FROM BREAST PUMP TO BEST PUMP: A HUMAN-CENTERED EVALUATION, Rachel L. Bartels
QUANTIFICATION OF VOTING ERROR: THE 2018 RHODE ISLAND MIDTERMS, Nicholas D. Bernardo
REAL-TIME GEOMETRY-BASED FEEDBACK FOR DESIGN ENGINEERS ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF MANUFACTURING, Amanda Bligh
DYNAMIC INSTABILITY OF REINFORCED CYLINDERS IN A CONFINING ENVIRONMENT, Nidhi Mehta Bodurtha
ANALYZING THE CORRELATIONS AMONG DRIVER DISTRACTIONS AND THE PROBABILITY OF AN ACCIDENT, Tobias Bopp
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE IN-PLANE AND CROSS-PLANE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF POLYMER NANOFIBER THIN FILM UTILIZING THE 3-OMEGA METHOD, John P. Carlin
DEVELOPMENT OF AN EFFICIENT VERTICAL TAKEOFF AND LANDING AIRCRAFT, Alexander Desilets
EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION AND SCALE MODELING OF A VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINE, Milo Ferrazzoli
ESTIMATION OF VOTER ARRIVAL RATES USING ELECTRONIC POLL BOOK TRANSACTION LOGS, James Houghton
DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURES SUBJECTED TO AGGRESSIVE MARINE ENVIRONMENTS: AN EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION, Carlos Rafael Javier Mella
QUANTIFYING THE IMPACT OF TRAFFIC ON ELECTRIC VEHICLE EFFICIENCY, Tim Jonas
CREEP DEFORMATION MECHANISMS IN CARBIDE PRECIPITATE STRENGTHENED NICKEL-BASED SUPERALLOYS AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES, Michael Lapera
IDENTIFYING FACTORS OF SUCCESS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY GROWTH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Alaa Masrahi
MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION OF COMPOSITES FOR A VERTICAL WIND TUBRINE, Anthony McQueen
ENERGY EFFICIENT STREETLIGHT CONVERSION: INTEGRATING LEDS AND INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, Jeffrey Reinker
DEVELOPMENT OF A PAPER-BASED MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR THE DETECTION OF ORTHOPHOSPHATE IN WATER, Brenno Ribeiro
DYNAMIC INSTABILITY OF COMPOSITE CYLINDERS IN UNDERWATER CONFINING ENVIRONMENTS, Christopher J. Salazar
DESIGN OF A MODULAR SOFT CONTINUUM ROBOTIC ARM, Thomas Schwarz
MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF POLYMER-FABRIC SKIN MATERIALS USED IN INFLATABLE DROP-STITCH STRUCTURES, Michael P. Smith
THE IMPACT OF ROAD TYPES ON THE ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES, Taris Frederic Wilde
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Three Dimensional Localization of Work Pieces in Assembly Lines with Radio Frequency Identification, Frederik Armbrecht
Residual Strength of Composite Materials After Exposure to Blast Loading, Monica L. Black
A NOVEL APPROACH FOR MEASURING THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF ELECTRO-SPUN NANOFIBERS, Nicholas Bonatt
Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) In Communication, Dominique Engome Tchupo
Transient Thermal-hydraulic Simulation of a Small modular Reactor in RELAP 5, Patrick Freitag
PHOTONIC METAMATERIALS: SPECTRAL CONTROL AND MODULATION OF NANOSCALE THERMAL RADIATIVE TRANSPORT, Alok Ghanekar
MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS OF THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL NEUTRON FLUX PROFILE INSIDE THE R.I.N.S.C. REACTOR, Benjamin Iannitelli