Since the Ph.D. In Engineering program began accepting students in 1997, we have awarded 90 doctoral degrees. We are very proud of our alumni and the body of scholarly work they have created.
Below is a listing of all our graduates and their dissertation topics. We are currently working to compile current lists of their publications. You can access the lists as they become available by clicking on the appropriate link.
| 2011 |
Michael Findler
Summer 2011 |
Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. S. Narayanan |
Cognitively Sensitive User Interface for Command and Control Applications |
Matthew Riley
Summer 2011 |
Focus Area: Computational Design and Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Ramana Grandhi |
Quantification of Model-Form, Predictive, and Parametric Uncertainties in Simulation-Based Design |
Thomas Spradlin
Summer 2011 |
Focus Area: Computational Design and Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Ramana Grandhi |
Process Sequencing for Fatigue Life Extension of Large Laser Peened Surfaces |
Orelle Ryan Fogle
Spring 2011 |
Focus Area: Sensor Signal and Image Processing
Advisor: Dr. Brian Rigling |
Human Micro-Range/Micro-Doppler Signature Extraction, Association, and Statistical Characterization for High-Resolution Radar |
Kara Hall
Spring 2011 |
Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. Chandler Phillips |
Dynamic Control for a Pneumatic Muscle Actuator to Achieve Isokinetic Muscle Strengthening |
Darrell Lochtefeld
Spring 2011
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Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. Frank Ciarallo |
Multi-Objectivization in Genetic Algorithms |
Christopher Marks
Spring 2011 |
Focus Area: Computational Design and Opimization
Advisor: Dr. Mitch Wolff |
Surface Stress Sensors for Low Reynolds Number Seperation Control |
Veera Venkata Sunil Kumar Vytla
Spring 2011 |
Focus Area: Computational Design and Opimization
Advisor: Dr. George Huang |
Multi-Disciplinary Optimization of a High Speed Train |
Carissa Johnson
Winter 2011 |
Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. S. Narayanan |
Adaptive User Interfaces to Support Web Based Information Seeking for the Blind |
| 2010 |
Hrishikesh Karvir
Fall 2010 |
Focus Area: Sensor Signal and Image Processing
Advisor: Dr. Julie Skipper |
Design and Validation of a Sensor Integration and Feature Fusion Test-Bed for Image-Based Pattern Recognition Applications |
Phani Kidambi
Fall 2010
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Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisors: Dr. S. Narayanan |
A Human-Computer Integrated Approach Towards Content Based Image Retrieval |
Robert Fitch
Summer 2010 |
Focus Area: Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology
Advisor: Dr. Marian Kazimierczuk |
Design, Modeling, Fabrication and Characterization of Three-Dimensional Ferromagnetic-Core Solenoid Inductors in Su-8 Interposer Layer for Embedded Passive Component Integration with Active Chips |
Timothy Leger
Summer 2010 |
Focus Area: Computational Design and Opimization
Advisor: Dr. Mitch Wolff |
Development of an Unsteady Aeroelastic Solver for the Analysis of Modern Turbomachinery Designs |
Randy Tobe
Summer 2010
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Focus Area: Computational Design and Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Ramana Grandhi |
Structural Health Monitoring of a Thermal Protection System for Fastener Failure with a Validated Model |
Hemanth Amarchinta
Spring 2010 |
Focus Area: Computational Design and Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Ramana Grandhi |
Uncertainty Quantification of Residual Stresses Induced by Laser Peening Simulation |
Maurissa D'Angelo
Spring 2010 |
Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisors: Dr. S. Narayanan and Dr. David Reynolds |
Analysis of Amputee Gait Using Virtual Reality Rehabilitation Techniques |
Brian Heath
Spring 2010 |
Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. Frank Ciarallo |
The History, Philosophy, and Practice of Agent-Based Modeling and the Development of the Conceptual Model for Simulation Diagram |
Nisha Kondrath
Spring 2010 |
Focus Area: Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology
Advisor: Dr. Marian Kazimierczuk |
Relative Stability of the Inner-Current Loop of Peak Current-Mode Controlled PWM DC-DC Converters |
Dakshina Murthy Bellur
Spring 2010 |
Focus Area: Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology
Advisor: Dr. Marian Kazimierczuk |
Hard-Switching and Soft-Switching Two-SwitchFlyback PWM DC-DC Converters and Winding Loss due to Harmonics in High-Frequency Transformers |
Arunesh Roy
Spring 2010 |
Focus Area: Sensor Signal and Image Processing
Advisor: Dr. Lang Hong |
Fusion of EO Sensor and Doppler Radar for Surveillance |
Simon Josef Tritschler
Spring 2010 |
Focus Area: Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology
Advisor: Dr. Marian Kazimierczuk |
High-Power Energy Scavenging for Portable Devices |
| 2009 |
Mary Fendley
Fall 2009 |
Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. S. Narayanan |
Human Cognitive Biases and Heuristics in Image Analysis |
Priya Ganapathy
Fall 2009 |
Focus Area: Sensor Signal and Image Processing
Advisor: Dr. Julie Skipper |
Development and Evaluation of a Flexible Framework for the Design of Autonomous Classifier Systems |
George Yu-Heng Lee
Fall 2009 |
Focus Area: Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology
Advisor: Dr. Henry Chen |
Dynamic Kernel Function for High-Speed Real-Time Fast Fourier Transform Processors |
Scott Stanfield
Fall 2009 |
Focus Area: Computational Design and Optimization
Advisor: Dr. James Menart |
A Spectroscopic Investigation of a Surface-Discharge-Mode, Dielectric Barrier Discharge |
Gulshan Singh
Summer 2009
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Focus Area: Computational Design and Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Ramana Grandhi |
Effective Simulation and Optimization of a Laser Peening Process |
Gregory Cazzell
Spring 2009 |
Focus Area: Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology
Advisor: Dr. Marian K. Kazimierczuk |
Output Impedance in PWM Buck Converter |
Richard McKinley
Spring 2009 |
Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. Jennie Gallimore |
A Predictive Model of Cognitive Performance Under Acceleration Stress |
Lee Patton
Spring 2009 |
Focus Area: Sensor Signal and Image Processing
Advisor: Dr. Brian Rigling |
On the Satisfaction of Modulus and Ambiguity Function Constraints in Radar Waveform Optimization for Detection |
Rafael Aleman
Winter 2009 |
Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. Ray Hill |
A Guided Neighborhood Search Applied to the Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem |
Vishnu Kesaraju
Winter 2009 |
Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. Frank Ciarallo |
An Integrated Simulation Environment Combining Process-Driven and Event-Driven Models |
Sriram Mahadevan
Winter 2009 |
Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. Ray Hill |
Visualization Methods and User Interface Design Guidelines for Rapid Decision Making in Complex Multi-Task Time-Critical Environments |
2008 |
Jeff Brown
Fall 2008 |
Focus Area: Computational Design and Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Ramana Grandhi |
Reduced Order Modeling Methods for Turbomachinery Design |
Arvind Chakravarthy
Fall 2008 |
Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. Xinhui Zhang |
Model and Solution Approaches for the Equipment Scheduling Under Disruption Problems in Usps Mail Processing and Distribution Centers |
Bala Cherukuri
Fall 2008 |
Focus Area: Materials and Nanotechnology
Advisor: Raghavan Srinivasan |
Microstructural Stability and Thermomechanical Processing of Boron Modified Beta Titanium Alloys |
Carl Hager, Jr.
Fall 2008 |
Focus Area: Computational Design and Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Ramana Grandhi |
Mechanisms of Nickel-Based Coatings for Fretting Wear Mitigation of Ti6Al4V Interfaces |
Peter Hlinomaz
Fall 2008 |
Focus Area: Sensor Signal and Image Processing
Advisor: Dr. Lang Hong |
Study of Multi-Modal and Non-Gaussian Probability Density Functions in Target Tracking with Applications to Dim Target Tracking |
Doug Meador
Fall 2008 |
Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. Ray Hill |
Modeling Training Effects on Task Performance Using a Human Performance Taxonomy |
Jenna Serres
Fall 2008
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Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. Dave Reynolds |
Dynamic Characterization of a Pneumatic Muscle Actuator and Its Application to a Resistive Training Device |
Vasu Chakravarthy
Summer 2008
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Focus Area: Sensor Signal and Image Processing
Advisor: Dr. Arnab Shaw |
Evaluation of Overlay/Underlay Waveform via SD-SMSE Framework for Enhancing Spectrum Efficiency |
Sean Henderson
Summer 2008
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Focus Area: Computational Design and Optimization
Advisor: Dr. James Menart |
Study of the Issues of Computational Aerothermodynamics Using a Riemann Solver |
Suman Niranjan
Summer 2008
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Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. Frank Ciarallo |
A Study of Multi-Echelon Inventory Systems with Stochastic Capacity and Intermediate Product Demand |
Todd Benanzer
Spring 2008 |
Focus Area: Computational Design and Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Ramana Grandhi |
System Design of Undersea Vehicles with Multiple Sources of Uncertainty |
Maria Gerschutz
Spring 2008
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Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. Chandler Phillips |
Dynamic Pneumatic Muscle Actuator Control System for an Augmented Orthosis |
Phillip Hanna
Spring 2008
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Focus Area: Sensor Signal and Image Processing
Advisor: Dr. Brian Rigling |
Expectation-Maximization Optical Tomosynthetic Volume Imaging |
Jinjun Shi
Spring 2008
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Focus Area: Materials and Nanotechnology
Advisor: Dr. Bor Jang |
Composite Membranes for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells |
Oleg Shiryayev
Spring 2008
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Focus Area: Controls and Robotics
Advisor: Dr. Joseph Slater |
Improved Structural Health Monitoring Using Random Decrement Signatures |
Amy Sipp
Spring 2008
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Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. Blair Rowely & Dr. Dave Reynolds |
A System for Collecting Data to Characterize a Pre-Fall Change in Sway: Development and Proof-of-Concept Analyses |
Kumar Yelamarthi
Spring 2008
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Focus Area: Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology
Advisor: Dr. Henry Chen |
Process Variation-Aware Timing Optimization with Load Balance of Multiple Paths in Dynamic and Mixed-Static-Dynamic CMOS Logic |
Chaitr Hiremath
Winter 2008 |
Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. Ray Hill |
New Heuristic And Metaheuristic Approaches Applied To The Multiple-choice Multidimensional Knapsack Problem |
Michael Myers
Winter 2008 |
Focus Area: Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology
Advisor: Dr. Ray Siferd |
The Development of a Nonlinear Phase-Lock Loop with Adaptive Gain Control Based on Modern Control Theory |
Saiyu Ren
Winter 2008 |
Focus Area: Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology
Advisor: Dr. Ray Siferd |
Broad Bandwidth High Resolution Analog to Digital Converters: Theory, Architecture and Implementation |
2007 |
Sudhaker Mahalingam
Fall 2007 |
Focus Area: Computational Design and Optimization
Advisor: Dr. James Menart |
Particle Based Plasma Simulation for an Ion Engine Discharge Chamber |
Mingzhen Wang
Fall 2007 |
Focus Area: Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology
Advisor: Dr. Henry Chen |
High-speed Low-voltage CMOS Flash Analog-to-Digital Converter for Wideband Communication System-on-a-Chip |
Kiranraj George
Summer 2007
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Focus Area: Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology
Advisor: Dr. Henry Chen |
Design and Performance Evaluation of 1 Giga Hertz Wideband Digital Receiver |
Joseph Jenkins
Summer 2007
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Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. Jennie Gallimore |
The Effect of Configural Displays on Pilot Situation Awareness in Helmet-Mounted Displays |
Mark McQuilling
Summer 2007 |
Focus Area: Computational Design and Opimization
Advisor: Dr. Mitch Wolff |
Design and Validation of a High-Lift Low-Pressure Turbine Blade |
Arif S. Malik
Spring 2007 |
Focus Area: Computational Design & Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Ramana Grandhi |
Rolling Mill Optimization Using an Accurate and Rapid New Model for Mill Deflection and Strip Thickness Profile |
Sasanka V. Prabhala
Winter 2007 |
Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. Jennie Gallimore |
Designing Computer Agents with Personality to Improve Human-Machine Collaboration in Complex Systems |
2006 |
Phani Adduri
Fall 2006 |
Focus Area: Computational Design & Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Ravi Penmetsa |
Robust Estimation of Reliability in the Presence of Multiple Failure Modes |
Fawaz K. Al-Karaeen
Fall 2006 |
Focus Area: Industrial and Human Systems
Advisor: Dr. Raymond Hill |
Characterizing Battlefield Human Decision Making with Value Focused Thinking and Reliability Modeling |
Mark Haney
Fall 2006 |
Focus Area: Computational Design & Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Ramana Grandhi |
Topology Optimization of Engine Exhaust-Washed Structures |
Srikanth Bontha
Summer 2006 |
Focus Area: Computational Design & Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Nathan Klingbeil |
The Effect of Process Variables on Microstructure in Laser Deposited Materials |
Jalaja Repalle
Summer 2006 |
Focus Area: Computational Design & Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Ramana Grandhi |
Robust Shape Design Techniques for Steady-State Metal Forming Processes |
Edward Alyanak
Spring 2006 |
Focus Area: Computational Design & Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Ramana Grandhi |
Reliable Design of Department of Defense Weapon Systems Using Evidence Theory |
Govind Bharwani
Spring 2006 |
Focus Area: Humans in Complex Systems
Advisor: Dr. Chandler Phillips |
Application of Quantitative Information Theory to the Modeling & Simulation of Industrial Workplace Tasks |
Seung-Kyum Choi
Spring 2006 |
Focus Area: Computational Design & Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Ramana Grandhi |
Propagation of Uncertainty in Complex Structural Systems Using Stochastic Approach |
Jeremy Daily
Spring 2006 |
Focus Area: Computational Design & Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Nathan Klingbeil |
Dissipated Energy at a Bimaterial Crack Tip under Cyclic Loading |
Subhashini Ganapathy
Spring 2006 |
Focus Area: Humans in Complex Systems
Advisors: Dr. S. Narayanan and Dr. Ray Hill |
Decision Aiding to Support Human Reasoning in Dynamic, Time-Critical Scenarios |
Amanda Muller
Spring 2006 |
Focus Area: Humans in Complex Systems
Advisor: Dr. S. Narayanan |
Cognitively-Engineered Multisensor Data Fusion System for Military Applications |
| 2005 |
Donald J. Kessler
Fall 2005 |
Focus Area: Electronics and Microwave
Advisor: Dr. Marian Kazimierczuk |
Power Loss and Efficiency Analysis of the Class-E Amplifier at Any Duty Ratio |
Rajasekhar Venkata Pulikollu
Fall 2005 |
Focus Area: Processing and Properties of Materials
Advisor: Dr. Sharmila Mukhopadhyay |
Nano-coating on Carbon Structures for Interfacial Modification |
Shunguang Wu
Summer 2005 |
Focus Area: Sensor Signal and Image Processing
Advisor: Dr. Lang Hong |
Rigid-Body Object Motion and Structure Estimation with HRR/GMTI measurements |
Richard Kleismit
Spring 2005 |
Focus Area: Electronics and Microwave
Advisor: Dr. Marian Kazimierczuk |
Local Complex Dermittivity Characterization of Materials Using Evanescent Microwave Microscopy |
Joseph Anderson
Winter 2005 |
Focus Area: Sensor Signal and Image Processing
Advisor: Dr. Lang Hong |
Comprehensive Sensor Resource Management Driven By Priorities and Threat Projection |
Xeudong Zhou
Winter 2005 |
Focus Area: Computational Design and Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Mitch Wolff |
Turbomachinery Investigation With Fluid/Structure Interaction |
| 2004 |
Ha-Rok Bae
Fall 2004 |
Focus Area: Computational Design and Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Ramana Grandhi |
Uncertainty Quantification and Optimization of Structural Response Using Evidence Theory |
Brian Beachkofski
Fall 2004 |
Focus Area: Computational Design and Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Ramana Grandhi |
Minimization of Probabilistic Analysis Confidence Interval Through a Novel Experimental Design Process |
Brad Bryant
Fall 2004 |
Focus Area: Electronics and Microwave
Advisor: Dr. Marian Kazimierczuk |
Boost PWM DC-DC Converter With Current-Mode Control |
Pratik Joshi
Fall 2004 |
Focus Area: Processing and Properties of Materials
Advisor: Dr. Sharmila Mukopadhyay |
Study of Growth and Characterization of Nano-Coatings on Solids For Surface Modification |
Brian Joyce
Fall 2004 |
Focus Area: Processing and Properties of Materials
Advisor: Dr. Raghavan Srinivasan |
Deformation and Recrystallization Behavior of Coarse Grain Beta Titanium |
Michael Patzek
Fall 2004 |
Focus Area: Humans in Complex Systems
Advisor: Dr. S. Narayanan |
The Effects of Automation Levels on Human Supervisory Awareness and Judgment of Simulated Robotics Activities |
William Roberts
Fall 2004 |
Focus Area: Humans in Complex Systems
Advisor: Dr. Jennie Gallimore |
Predicting Cybersickness in Human Virtual Environment Interaction |
Mostafa El-Ashry
Summer 2004
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Focus Area: Processing and Properties of Materials
Advisor: Dr. Maher Amer |
Evaluation of Carbon Nanotube and Buckyball Behavior Under High Pressures: A Micro-Raman Study |
James Adams
Summer 2004 |
Focus Area: Controls and Robotics
Advisor: Dr. Kuldip Rattan |
Optimal Rule Reduction of Multi-Stage Fuzzy Logic Control for a Multi-Link Robot |
Karl Gudmundssonn
Spring 2004 |
Focus Area: Electronics and Microwave
Advisor: Dr. Marian Kazimierczuk |
Multi Dimensional Tracking, Classification and Training Using Phase Only Filter Pattern Classifier |
| 2003 |
Michael Stephens
Summer 2003 |
Focus Area: Humans in Complex Systems
Advisor: Dr. Jennie Gallimore |
Elecroneurophysiologic Diagnosis of Aircraft Pilot Spatial Disorientation |
Amy Neidhard-Doll
Spring 2003 |
Focus Area: Humans in Complex Systems
Advisor: Dr. Chandler Phillips |
Biomimetic Phenomenological Modeling of Mammalian Skeletal Muscle Isometric Force Twitch and Its Application to a Pneumatic Muscle force Control System |
Hong Zhang
Winter 2003 |
Focus Area: Controls and Robotics
Advisor: Dr. Junghsen Lieh |
Lobing Control of Shoe Centerless Grinding |
| 2002 |
Michael Bryant
Fall 2002 |
Focus Area: Sensor Signal and Image Processing
Advisor: Dr. Fred Garber |
Manifold Recognition |
Shi Shen
Summer 2002 |
Focus Area: Senor Signal and Image Processing
Advisor: Dr. Lang Hong |
A Multisensor-Based Collision Prediction System |
Ravi Penmetsa
Spring 2002 |
Focus Area: Computational Design and Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Ramana Grandhi |
Uncertainty Analysis Techniques Suing Approximatiion Concepts in Multidisciplinary Structural Design Environment |
Zhichao Li
Winter 2002 |
Focus Area: Computational Design and Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Ramana Grandhi |
Optimum Design of Gas Quenching Process by Using Response Surface Method |
| 2001 |
Nathan Brannon
Spring 2001 |
Focus Area: Humans in Complex Systems
Advisor: Dr. Richard Koubek |
Knowledge Degradation |
| 2000 |
Khalid Abed
Fall 2000 |
Focus Area: Electronics and Microwave
Advisor: Dr. Raymond Siferd |
VLSI Implementations of Logarithm and Anti-Logarithm Converters and Their Use in Multiplication and Division |
Guosong Li
Fall 2000 |
Focus Area: Computational Design and Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Ramana Grandhi |
Accuracy and Efficiency Improvement of Response Surface Models for Multidisciplinary Optimization |
Kristen Liggett
Spring 2000 |
Focus Area: Humans in Complex Systems
Advisor: Dr. Jennie Gallimore |
The Effect of Helmet-Mounted Display Symbology on the Opto-Kinetic Cervical Reflex, Frame of Reference, and Pilot Performance |
| 1999 |
Erik Blasch
Fall 1999 |
Focus Area: Sensor Signal Image Processing
Advisor: Dr. Lang Hong |
Derivation of a Relief Filter for High Range Resolution Radar Simultaneous Target Tracking and Identification |
