Dissertation and Thesis Defenses
All are welcome to attend dissertation and thesis defenses by our students. As they are scheduled, they will be listed on this page.
Recent Dissertation and Thesis Defenses
Application of Eigenvalue Problem in Analysis & Design of Vibration Problem
Li Li
Wednesday, April 15 2:00pm Woolf Hall 200
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Multi-Mechanism Assessment of Coolant Technologies for Data Center Thermal Management: Corrosion Inhibition, Erosion Behavior, and Long-Term Reliability in Immersion Systems
Lochan Sai Reddy Chinthaparthy
Thursday, April 23 10:00am Woolf Hall 413
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BUCKLING ANALYSIS OF AUXETIC COMPOSITE LAMINATES AND OPTIMAL DESIGN USING LAMINATION PARAMETERS AND MACHINE LEARNING
HANS BENDON MARIA TAMIL SELVAN
Wednesday, April 29 10:00am Woolf Hall 413
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Thermal Management in Data Centers: A Study of Hybrid-Cooled Servers and Single-Phase Immersion Systems
AKIILESSH SIVAKUMAR
Thursday, April 30 10:00am Woolf Hall 413
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Characterization of Tomographic PIV System for Single-Phase Immersion Cooling Applications
Joel Joshua Oomen
Thursday, April 30 10:00am Woolf Hall 413
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Gas Dynamic Modeling of Blowdown Supersonic Wind Tunnel and Multimode Control System Development
Harshwardhan Prasad
Friday, May 1 1:00pm Woolf Hall 200
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Finite Element and Machine Learning Based Recreation of Damage Morphologies of BVID
Oscar A. Valdez Loya
Friday, May 1 12:30pm Woolf Hall 413
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Set-theoretic Reachability-informed Model Predictive Control for Mechanical and Aerospace Systems
Jinaykumar Nitinkumar Patel
Monday, May 4 9:30am Woolf Hall 211-F
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DEVELOPMENT OF A HYPERSONIC AERODYNAMIC METHODOLOGY FOR CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
Stephen Atkins
Wednesday, May 6 10:00am Woolf Hall 413
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Uncertainty Quantification, Propagation and Conjunction Assessment in Orbital Mechanics using Generalized Polynomial Chaos Expansion and 2-Dimensional Conjunction Plane Analysis Techniques
Monalisa Karim
Wednesday, May 6 1:00pm Woolf Hall 413
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Gaussian Process Regression–Based Uncertainty Quantification for Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management and Advanced Air Mobility Applications
Aakarshan Khanal
Friday, May 8 1:30pm Woolf Hall 413
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Biomimetic Insect-like Wing Structure for Embodied Intelligent Soft Robot
Rui Suzuki
Friday, May 22 3:00pm Woolf Hall 200
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Investigation and Development of Grasp Synthesis Methods for Rigid and Deformable Objects Using Anthropomorphic Robot Hands
Abdul Hafiz Abdul Rahaman
Thursday, June 11 2:30pm WH 413
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MULTISCALE INJURY BIOMECHANICS AND NEURONAL COMMUNICATION IN BRAIN
Md Navid Imtiaz Rifat
Wednesday, July 29 3:00pm Nedderman Hall 601
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Autonomous UAV Mission Planning Under Threat Using Model Predictive Control with Proportional-Navigation Pursuers
Mehmet Baris Ozcelik
Monday, August 3 3:00pm Woolf Hall 413
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Experimental Thermal Characterization and Comparison of Direct Liquid Cooling and Air Cooling for a High-Density GPU Server Thermal Test Vehicle
Oluwagbolahan Esan
Tuesday, August 4 3:00pm Woolf Hall 413
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LLM-Driven Closed-Loop UAV Control with Obstacle-Aware Model Predictive Control
Halimcan Yasar
Thursday, August 6 3:00pm Woolf Hall 413
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COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF ROTATING DETONATION COMBUSTORS
ADITYA BALASUBRAMANIAM
Monday, August 10 1:00pm Woolf Hall 413
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IMPROVING STRENGTH AND FRACTURE RESISTANCE IN FUSED FILAMENT FABRICATION THROUGH PRINTHEAD-INTEGRATED IN-SITU ANNEALING
TANVIR AHMED SHANTO
Friday, August 14 3:00pm Woolf Hall 413
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Past Dissertations and Theses
