EE Dissertations - 2006 - 2007


Fall 2007

Saravana Prakash Natarajan for the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
November 1, 2007
Micro Coaxial Transmission Lines for Integrated Microwave Circuits
Major Professor: Dr. Thomas M. Weller
Committee: Dr. Lawrence P. Dunleavy, Dr. Andrew M. Hoff, Dr. Hariharan Srikanth, Dr. Benkat Bhethanabotla

Erick N. Maxwell for the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
October 29, 2007
Ultra-Wideband Electronics, Desing Methods, Algorithms, and Systems for Dielectric Spectrosopy
of Isolated BIG Tumor Cells in Liquid Medium
Major Professor: Dr. Thomas Weller
Committee: Kenneth Buckle, Ph.D., Arthur David Snider, Ph.D., Dennis Killinger Ph. D.

Shyam Aravamudhan For the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
Development of Micro/Nanosensor Elements and Packaging Techniques for Oceanography
October 25, 2007
Major Professor: Shekhar Bhansali, Ph.D.
Committee: Thomas M. Weller, Ph.D., Jing Wang, Ph.D., Ashok Kumar, Ph.D. Larry Langebrake, MSEE

Mauricio Castillo Effen for the doctorate in Electrical Engineering
October 22, 2007
Cooperative Localization in Wireless Networked Systems
Co-Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno
Co-Major Professor: Dr. Kimon Valavnis
Committee: Dr. Fernando Falquez, Dr. James Leffew, Dr. Miguel Labarador

Camilla Coletti for the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
October 9, 2007
Silicon Carbide Biocompatibility, Surface Control
and Electronic Cellular Interaction for Biosensing Applications
Major Professor: Dr. S. E. Saddow
Committee: Andrew M. Hoff, Ph.D., Mark J. Jaroszeski, Ph.D., Ulrich Starke, Ph. D. Jing Wang, Ph. D.

Summer 2007


Jeremy Walker for the doctorate in Electrical Engineering
July 20, 2007 (for FALL 07 Graduation)
Modeling of Magnetic Cores via Temperature and Field Dependent Anhysteretic Magnetization
(an Addition to the Jiles-Atherton Model)
Examining Committee: Dr. John Wolan, Chairperson
Major Professor: Dr. Stephen Saddow
Committee Members: Dr. Larry Dunleavy, Dr. Paris Wiley, Dr. Wesley Tipton, Dr. David Rabson

Tevfik Yucek For the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
July 16, 2007
Channel, Spectrum and Waveform Awareness in ODFM-based Cognitive Radio Systems
Major Professor: Dr. Huseyin Arslan
Committee Members: Dr. Havish Kooraparty, Dr Miguel A. Labrador, Dr. Wilfrido Moreno Dr Thomas Weller

Abdur Rub Abdur Rahman: For the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
(FALL 07 Graduation)
June 28, 2007
CellMap: An Automated Multielectrode Array Cell Culture Analysis System
Based on Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
Major Professor: Dr. Shekhar Bhansali
Committee Members: Dr. Thomas Weller, Dr. Jing Wang, Dr. Chun Min Lo, Dr. Mark Jaroszeski

Rahul Agarwal For the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
For FALL 07 GRADUATION
June 1, 2007
Low Temperature Hermetically Sealed 3-D MEMS Device for Wireless Optical Communications
CO- Major Professors: Dr. Shekhar Bhansali, Dr. Scott Samson
Committee Members: Dr. Ashok Kumor, Dr. Jing Wang Dr. Thomas Weller

Spring 2007


Charles Passant Baylis II For the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
March 20, 2007
"Improved Techniques for Nonlinear Electrothermal FET Modeling and Measurement Validation"
Major Professors: Dr. Lawrence P. Dunleavy and Dr. Arthur David Snider
Committee Members: Dr. Thomas M. Weller, Dr. Dennis Killinger, Dr. Frank Pyrtle, III

Fall 2006

Sridevi A. Vakkalanka For the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
November 6, 2006
"Development of Window Layer for High Bandgap, High Efficiency CdSe Solar Cell for 4-Terminal Tandem Solar Cell Applications"
Major Professor: Don Morel, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Chris Ferekides, Ph.D, Dennis Killinger, Ph.D, Richard Gilbert, Ph.D, Sarat Witanachchi, Ph.D

Maciej Dybiec For the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
October 20th, 2006
"Spatially Resolved Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of Quantum Dots"
Co-Major Professor: Stephen Saddow, Ph.D
Co-Major Professor: Sergei Ostapenko, Ph.D
Committee Members: Andrew Hoff, Ph.D, Chris Ferekides, Ph.D,Sarath Witanachi, Ph.D Tatyana Zhukova, Ph.D

Alexandro Castellanos Mier For the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
October 17, 2006
"Poly(N-Isopropylacrylamide) Based BioMEMS/NEMS for Cell Manipulation"
Co-Major Professor: Wilfrido Moreno, Ph.D
Co-Major Professor: Ryan Toomey, Ph.D
Committee Members: Andrew Hoff, Ph.D, Stephen Saddow, Ph.D, James Leffew, Ph.D, Andres Cardenas, Ph.D., Peter Stroot, Ph.D/