Below are theses and dissertations completed by graduates of the University of Nevada Las Vegas Howard H. Hughes College of Engineering.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Designing, Building and Testing a Solar Thermoelectric Generation, STEG, for Energy Delivery to Remote Residential Areas in Developing Regions, Yacouba Moumouni
Safety Analysis of Freeway segments with unobserved heterogeneity and Second order spatial effects, Eneliko Mujuni Mulokozi
Performance Analysis of Hybrid Algorithms For Lossless Compression of Climate Data, Bharath Chandra Mummadisetty
Feasibility Study of Custom Manufacturing of Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Sensors, Shelby E. Nelson
A Multi-~Procedural Approach to Evaluating Walkability and Pedestrian Safety, Peris Nyagah
Situational Assessment using graph comparison, Pavan Kumar Pallapunidi
Tracking and Monitoring Unmanned Aircraft Systems Activities with Crowd-Based Mobile Apps, Tejaswini Papireddy
General Application of Smart Inverters in Distribution and Smart Grid, Wenxin Peng
CFD Simulation of Heat Enhancement in Internally Helical Grooved Tubes, Sogol Pirbastami
Compression of climate data through Artificial Neural Networks, Astha Puri
A Multi-Level Trust Management Scheme for the Internet of Things, Anusha Ramanathan
An Approach to Model Plastic Deformation of Metallic Plates in Hypervelocity Impact Experiments, Shawoon Kumar Roy
The Comparison of Two Supine Manikins and the Use of a Shock and Vibration Isolation System for Litter Patients in Air Medical Transport, Karina Karlui Saenz Acosta
Geotechnical Surrogates for Sediment Shear Behavior in Southern Nevada, Rinu Ann Samuel
Concurrent Lazy Splay Tree with Relativistic Programming Approach, Jaya Ram Sedai
Alkali-~Activated Fly Ash Binders: Feasibility as a Sustainable Alternative to Ordinary Portland Cement for Pre-~Cast Systems, Kimberly Sierra
Crystalline Phase Change in Steel Alloys due to High Speed Impact, Muna Slewa
Constructing BFS Trees Using Tokens To Balance Speed and Network Traffic, Michael Spencer
Concurrent Non-blocking Skip List Using Multi-word Compare and Swap Operation, Anish Ratna Tuladhar
A Survey of Network Coding and Applications, Jonny L. Winger
A Survey on Potential Privacy Leaks of GPS Information in Android Applications, Srinivas Kalyan Yellanki
Effect of Void Geometry on Strength, Stiffness, and Failure Modes of Rock-like Materials, Omed Yousif
3D Obstacle Avoidance for Unmanned Autonomous System (UAS), Lin Zhao
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
GIS Framework for Spatiotemporal Mapping of Urban Flooding and Analyze Watershed Hydrological Response to Land Cover Change, Sayed Joinal Hossain Abedin
Smart Data Collection Using Mobile Devices To Improve Transportation Systems, Tharindu Dasun Abeygunawardana
Effect of Caliche on the Behavior of Drilled Shafts, Rouzbeh Afsharhasani
Simulation of Thermal Transit-Time Flow Meter for High Temperature, Corrosive and Irradiation Environment, Elaheh Alidoosti
Design and Implementation of an Instruction Set Architecture and an Instruction Execution Unit for the REZ9 Coprocessor System, Daniel Spencer Anderson
Design and Analysis of Hydrogen Powered Actuator Integrating Metal Hydride Storage System, Md Mainul Hossain Bhuiya
Mitigation of Moving Shocks in an Expanding Duct, Veraun Chipman
A Characterization of Open Shop Scheduling Problems using the Hall Theorem and Network Flow, Arunasri Chitti
A Novel Multimodal Image Fusion Method Using Hybrid Wavelet-based Contourlet Transform, Yoonsuk Choi
Development of a Black-Box Transient Thermal Model for Residential Buildings, Andrew Cross
A Taxonomy of Polynomially Solvable Shop Problems with Limited Number of Machines or Jobs, Megha Sairam Darapuneni
Evaluation of Conservation Voltage Reduction as a tool for demand side management, Ali Dorrody
Evaluation of PHB Mid-Street Crossing System in Las Vegas, Nevada - Pedestrian Perspectives, Anna Eapen
Investigating the Physical Properties and Runoff Treatment Capability of Pervious Concrete Containing Granular Activated Carbon, Mark Elias Elkouz
Feedback Speed Control of a Small Two-Stroke Internal Combustion Engine that Propels an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Paul D. Fjare
Novel Deployment of Elpasolites as a Dual Neutron / Gamma-ray Directional Detector, Amber Lynn Guckes
Approaches for Generating 2D Shapes, Pratik Shankar Hada
Highway Routine Maintenance Cost Estimation for Nevada, Monika Hagood
Using the Web 1T 5-Gram Database for Attribute Selection in Formal Concept Analysis to Correct Overstemmed Clusters, Guymon Hall
Neutron Spectroscopy with Scintillation Detectors using Wavelets, Jessica Hartman
Power Optimization, Diagnostic Monitoring, and Modeling of Photovoltaic System, Khalid Hurayb
Simulation, and Overload and Stability Analysis of Continuous Time Sigma Delta Modulator, Kyung Kang
Implementing Influence Diagram Concepts to Optimize Border Patrol Operations using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Ashish Karki
Modeling and Development of Human Interface for Pedestrian Simulator, Romesh Khaddar
Development of a Visualization System for Highway Safety Management Using Safety Analyst, Indira Khanal
A Branch and Bound Method for Sum of Completion Permutation Flow Shop, Swapna Kodimala
Concurrent Localized Wait-Free Operations on a Red Black Tree, Vitaliy Kubushyn
Modeling of Short Term and Long Term Impacts of Freeway Traffic Incidents using Historical Data, Vidhya Kumaresan
Evaluation of Earthquake Hazard for Las Vegas Valley, Nevada Incorporating Probabilistic Hazard Assessment and Non--Linear Site Response, Suchan Lamichhane
Progressive Collapse Analysis of Older Reinforced Concrete Flat Plate Buildings Using Macro Model, Jinrong Liu
A Comparative Study: Utilizing Data Mining Techniques to Classify Traffic Congestion Status, Abbas Mirakhorli
Transport Properties of Nano-Silica Contained Self-Consolidating Concrete, Borhan Moradi
Numerical study of a novel fin configuration of a high temperature ceramic plate fin heat exchanger, Vijaisri Nagarajan
Finite Difference Modeling of Surface-~Wave Scattering for Shallow Cavity Detection, Heston Travis Norcott
A Survey of Tabu Search in Combinatorial Optimization, Lemasri Piniganti
Simultaneous Equation Modeling for Crash Rate of Freeway Segments, Anthony Ramos
Self Adjusting Contention Friendly Concurrent Binary Search Tree by Lazy Splaying, Mahesh Raj Regmee
Time Correlated Measurements Using Plastic Scintillators with Neutron-Photon Pulse Shape Discrimination, Norman Edison Richardson
Identification of long term changes and evaluation of the relationships among streamflow variability and oceanic-atmospheric indices, Soumya Sagarika
Modeling Pavement Distress Rates within U.S. Air Force Airfields, Lauren Sahagun
Designing a Biomimetic Testing Platform for Actuators in a Series-Elastic Co-contraction System, Ryan Tyler Schroeder
Remote sensing based on hyperspectral data analysis, Ershad Sharifahmadian
An Energy-Efficient, Time-Constrained Scheduling Scheme in local mobile cloud, Ting Shi
A Light-Weight Real-Time Privacy Protection Scheme for Video Surveillance by Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Surendra Shrestha
Analysis of Bolted Joints Under Medium and High Impact Loading, Deepak Somasundaram
Study of Water Transport Phenomena on Cathode of PEMFCs using Monte Carlo Simulation, Karn Soontrapa
Influence of limestone powder content and size on transport properties of self-consolidating concrete, Rebecca Kendal Spitek
Post-Occupancy Energy Efficiency Evaluation of a LEED Platinum Federal Government Facility, Theresa Tincher
Co-Emulation of Scan-Chain Based Designs Utilizing SCE-MI Infrastructure, Bill Jason Pidlaoan Tomas
Analytical and Experimental Analysis of Magnetorheological Elastomers, Sarah Trabia
Simulations of Interfacial Electrokinetics with Applications to Microfluidic Systems, Sebastian Uppapalli
Non-Learning Semantic Analysis for Context Discovery and Sentiment Estimation: Transportation Application, Himanshu Verma
Developing Seamless Connections in the Urban Transit Network: A Look toward High-Speed Rail Interconnectivity, Tingting Yu
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Stability Aware Delaunay Refinement, Bishal Acharya
Utilizing Big Data in Identification and Correction of OCR Errors, Shivam Agarwal
Study of a Non-Equilibrium Plasma Pinch with Application for Microwave Generation, Ahmad Al Agry
A Digital Image Processing Method for Detecting Pollution in the Atmosphere from Camera Video, Amrita Nikhil Amritphale
Investigation of Peak Load Reduction Strategies in Residential Buildings in Cooling Dominated Climates, Fady Atallah
Real Time Pattern Recognition in Digital Video with Applications to Safety in Construction Sites, Dinesh Bajracharya
Max Operation in Statistical Static Timing Analysis on the Non-Gaussian Variation Sources for VLSI Circuits, Abu M. Baker
Object Detection Using Contrast Enhancement and Dynamic Noise Reduction, Justin Lee Baker
An Online Algorithm for the 2-Server Problem On The Line with Improved Competitiveness, Lucas Adam Bang
Numerical Modeling of Heat Pipe Radiator and Fin Size Optimization for Low and No Gravity Environments, Virginia Ruth Bieger
Temperature Trends and Urban Heat Island Intensity Mapping of the Las Vegas Valley, Adam Leland Black
Criticality and Characteristic Neutronic Analysis of a Transient-State Shockwave in a Pulsed Spherical Gaseous Uranium-Hexafluoride Reactor, Jeremiah Boles
Simulation and Analysis of Insider Attacks, Christopher Blake Clark
Traffic Modeling in Lagrangian Coordinates Using Smartphone Apps, Sergio Contreras
Snail Algorithm For Task Allocation In Mesh Networks, Bartosz Duszel
Computer-Based Stereoscopic Parts Recognition for Robotic Applications, Ahmad A. Fayed
Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity Investigation of Steel Fiber Reinforced Self-Compacted Concrete, Belayhun Tesfaye Gebretsadik
Experimental and Finite Element Studies of Shock Transmission, Eldon Jerry Goddard