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
Elimination of the Hook Effect Using Microfluidic Valves, Nicholas Lemos
A MULTIPHYSICS COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING CELL AND MICROTISSUE MORPHOGENESIS, Bahador Marzban
Design, Modeling, and Implementation of an Environmental Control Chamber, Aaron Matarese
Corrosion of Different Materials Connected to Carbon Fiber, Jordan Angel Ortiz
COMPARISON OF AMERICAN, GERMAN AND JAPANESE CAR DEALERSHIP APPROACHES FOR SALES AND SERVICE, Lukas Schoske
DRIVING BEHAVIOR ENERGY CONSUMPTION ESTIMATION FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES, Niklas Schwertner
ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR FOR SUSTAINABLE TEAM PERFORMANCE, Md. Hasan Shahriar Simanto
DESIGN OF A TENDON DRIVEN SOFT CONTINUUM ROBOTIC ARM USING PROPRIOCEPTIVE SENSORS, Richard Sperling
Design of Complex Engineered Systems and the Effectiveness of Organizational Networks, Bryan Still
Electric Vehicle Charging Behavior in Existing Infrastructures: A Rhode Island Case Study, Roxana Voss Urquidi
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Density-Based Clustering Heuristics for the Traveling Salesman Problem, Matthew Agostinelli
Assessing Hand Hygiene Compliance in Healthcare Workers to Reduce Infectious Disease, Ahmed Salem Alhasani
Dynamic Response of TI2ALC Under Radial Confinement at High Temperature, Daniel Clarkin
Dynamic Collapse of Double Hull Composite Cylinders: Hydrostatic and Shock-Initiated Implosion, Nicholas A. DeNardo
Development of a Practical Method for Sustainable Routing in Manufacturing Enterprises, Christoph Gerdes
Extracting Parking Areas from Remote Sensing Imagery and Spatiotemporal Traffic Data, Julian Glaab
A New Framework for Model Reduction of Complex Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Shahab Ilbeigi
Quantifying Behavioral Impacts on Electric Vehicle Efficiency, Daniel Kowlasky
Experimental Studies on Mitigating the Risk of Air Blast Loading, Emad Ahmad Makki
Text Driving, Senior Mobility and Automated Sidewalk Assessment, Sanaz Motamedi
Evaluation of Geospatial Features for Forecasting Parking Occupancy Using Social Media Data, Johannes Riedel
Portable Wireless Measurement and Control System, Bryan Salisbury
Implosion and Blast Response of Metallic and Composite Structures in Underwater Environments, Helio David Sega Matos
Distributed Cooperative Control of Heterogeneous Multi-Vehicle Platoons, Keely Varada
High Strain Rate Deformation Mechanisms of Body Centered Cubic Material Subjected to Impact Loading, William Visser
Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Sandwich Structures Subject to Blast Loading, Jefferson Townsend Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Framework for the Automated Disassembly of Electronic Waste Using the Soar Cognitive Architecture, Nicholas M. DiFilippo
Proportional Integral Observer (PIO) Design for Linear Control Systems, Xiaonan Dong
Development Perspectives of Lithium-Ion Recycling Processes for Electric Vehicle Batteries, Jan Engel
Profitable Remanufacturing Processes in Small and Medium Sized Companies: A Case Study, Stefan Fertmann
Experimental and Computational Study of the Response of Composite Structures to Extreme Loading, Erin Gauch
Backup Strategy for Failures in Robotic U-Shaped Assembly Line Systems, Alexander Gebel
Airway Wall Deformation Under Smooth Muscle Contraction, Carlos Javier
Business Models Enabled by Industrie 4.0 and Internet of Things, Fabian Ludwig
Electrical Response of Functionally Graded Graphene-Nylon Segregated Composites Under Quasi-Static Loading, Kimberly I. McCarthy
Nonlinear Finite Element Modeling of Cellular Materials Under Dynamic Loading and Comparison to Experiments, Colin J. Murphy
Characterization of Novel Materials Under Extreme Dynamic Loading Conditions, Prathmesh Naik Parrikar
A Novel Genetic Algorithm and its Application to Optimize Manufacturing Schedules, Arash Nasrollahishirazi