Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

2005 Master’s Thesis and Ph.D. Dissertations –
(May, August, December graduation)

Directed by A.A. Arkadan:
M.S. EECE, Ameed Hanbali, “A Novel Approach for Design Optimization of SynRM with ALA Rotor Configuration,” December 2005.

Directed by G. Corliss:
M.S. in Computing, Don Shelley, “Applications of Construction Management Techniques to Software Project Management,” May 2005.
M.S. in Computing, Jason Kelley, “A Comparison of Macromedia Flash-Based Applications versus Traditional HTML Online Applications,” May 2005.
M.S. in Computing, Jill Gilbert, “Legal Structures for Data Structures: The Impact of Patent and Copyright Law on Software Innovations,” May 2005.
M.S. in Computing, Aaron Jeutter, “Performance Analysis of Industrial Communications Devices and Their Associated Protocols,” December 2005.

Directed by N. Demerdash:
Ph.D., Behrooz Mirafzal, “Incipient Fault Diagnosis of Squirrel-Cage Induction Motors,” August 2005.

Directed by X. Feng:
M.S. EECE, Xiao Dong, “Neural Network Application in Genomic Data Mapping,” May 2005.
M.S. EECE, Jack Szeto, “Minimum Entropy Clustering in Microarray Data Mining,” May 2005.
M.S. EECE, Neelima Tummala, “Neural Network Modeling of Protein Structures,” May 2005.

Directed by M. Johnson:
Ph.D., Patrick Clemins, “Automatic Classification of Animal Vocalizations,” May 2005.

Directed by F. Josse:
M.S. EECE, Uttara Sampath, (co-directed with S. Heinrich) “Analytical Modeling of Polymer-Coated Microcantilever Dynamic Microsensors,” May 2005.
M.S. EECE, Arnaud Houndegla, “The Use of SU-8 Polymer as Waveguide Material on SH-SAW Sensor for Liquid Phase Applications,” May 2005.
M.S. EECE, Samuel J. Wheeldon, “A Model for Technique Optimization of Dual Energy X-Ray Digital Imaging with Application to Intravenous Urography,” December 2005.
Ph.D., Zhonghui Li, “Guided Shear- Horizontal Surface Acoustic Wave (SH-SAW) Chemical Sensors for Detection of Organic Contaminants in Aqueous Environments,” May 2005.
Ph.D., Cyril Vancura, (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich)
“CMOS-Based Resonant Cantilever Systems for Chemical and Biological Sensing Applications,” December 2005.
 
Co-Directed by S. Schneider and F. Josse:
M.S. EECE, Ohiorenuan (Jude) Amu, “Characterization of Polyisobutylene (PIB) in Aqueous Environments Using Thickness-Shear Mode Resonators,” August 2005.

Directed by E. Yaz:
Ph.D., Huawei Ruan, “State Estimation of Stochastic Systems with Applications to Chaotic Communications,” December 2005.