Thara Rejimon for the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
July 5, 2006
"Reliability-Centric Probabilistic Analysis of VLSI Circuits"
Dr. Raphael Perez, Chairperson
Major Professor: Dr. Sanjukta Bhanja
Committee: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno, Dr. Murali Varanasi, Dr. Srinivas Katkoori, Dr. Manish Agrawal

Eduardo Zurek For the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
May 5, 2006
"System Optimization for Micron and Sub-Micron Particle Identification Using Spectroscopy-Based Techniques"
Dr. Robert Carnahan, Chairperson
Co-Major Professors: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno and Dr. Luis Garcia-Rubio
Committee: Dr. James T. Leffew, Dr. Miguel Laborador, Dr. Jose Olivares, Dr. Grisselle Centeno

Ismail Guvenc For the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering
March 31, 2006
"Towards Practical Design of Impulse Radio Ultrawideband Systems: Parameter Estimation and Adaptation, Interference Mitigation and Performance Analysis"
Major Professor: Huseyin Arslan, Ph.D.
Committee: Ravi Sankar, Ph.D., Thomas Weller, Ph.D., Miguel Labrador, Ph.D., Frederick Martin, Ph.D., A.N.V. Rao, Ph.D.

Thomas Ketterl For the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
March 27th, 2006
"Micro- and Nano-Scale Switches and Tuning Elements for Microwave Applications"
Major Professor: Thomas Weller, Ph.D.
Committee: Larry Dunleavy, Ph.D, Shekhar Bansali, Ph.D, Ashuk Kumar, Ph.D David Fries, M.S.

Jorge Galvis For the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
March 28, 2006
"Low-Power Flip-Flop using Internal Clock Gating and Adaptive Body Bias"
Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno
Committee: Dr. Fernando Falquez, Dr. James T. Leffew, Dr. Srinivas Katkoori, Dr. Hua Cao

Rachael Myers-Ward
For the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering
January 13, 2006
"High Growth Rate SiC CVD via Hot-Wall Epitaxy"
Major Professor: Stephen E. Saddow, Ph.D.
Committee: Andrew Hoff, Ph.D., John T. Wolan, Ph.D.,Grisselle Centeno, Ph.D., Yevgeniy Shishkin, Ph.D., Olle Kordina, Ph.D.

Jiang Liu
For the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering
November 7, 2005
"Practical Behavioral Modeling Technique of Power Amplifiers Based on Advanced Loadpull Measurements"
Co-major professors: Lawrence P. Dunleavy, Ph.D, Huseyin Arslan, Ph.D
Committee: Thomas Weller, Ph.D, Dennis K. Killinger, Ph.D, Miguel Labrador, Ph.D

Ralph Edward Fehr, III
For the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering
October 28 , 2005
"An Integrated Optimal Design Method for Utility Power Distribution Systems"
Co-Major Professors: Alex Domijan, Ph.D.; Ken Buckle, Ph.D.
Committee: Wilfrido Moreno, Ph.D., Paris Wiley, Ph.D. Tapas Das, Ph.D