EE Dissertations - 2007 - 2008


Summer 2008


Thomas A. Ricard for the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
"Active and Passive Radiometry for Transcutaneous Measurements of Temperature and Oxygen Saturation"
May 30th, 2008
Co Major Professor: Thomas Weller, Ph.D.
Co Major Professor: Jeffrey Harrow, M.D.
Committee Members: Shekar Bhansali, Ph.D., Lawrence Dunleavy Ph.D., N. Raganathan, Ph.D., John Whitaker, Ph.D.

Sathyaharish Jeedigunta for the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
"Growth and Characterization of Nanocrystalline Diamond Films for Microelectronics and Microelectromechanical Systems"
May 29th, 2008
Co Major Professor: Shekhar Bhansali, Ph.D.
Co-major Professor: Ashok Kumar, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Stephen E Saddow, Ph.D., Jing Wang, Ph.D.,John Bumgarner, Ph.D., Priscila Spagnol, Ph.D.

Spring 2008
Colleen Spiegel: for the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
"Mathematical Modeling of Polymer Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells"
March 24, 2008
Major Professor: Shekhar Bhansali, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Ken Buckle, Ph.D., Lee Stefanakos, Ph.D., Julie Harmon, Ph.D. Yogi Goswami, Ph.D.

Hasari Celebi for the doctorate in Electrical Engineering
Location Awareness in Cognitive Radios and Networks
March 19, 2008
Major Professor: Huseyin Arslan, PhD
Committee: Frederick Martin , Ph.D., Miguel A. Labrador, Ph.D., Thomas Weller, Ph.D.,Leslaw Skrzypek, Ph.D., Paris H. Wiley, Ph.D.

Wendy Alvis for the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
"Development of an FPGA Based Autopilot Hardware Platform For:
Research & Development of Autonomous Systems"
March 3, 2008
Co-Major Professor: Wilfrido Moreno, PhD and Co-Major Professor: Kimon Valavanis, PhD
Committee: James T. Leffew, PhD, Paris Wiley, PhD, Richard Wallace, PhD, MaryAnne Fields, PhD

Saket Srivastava For the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
Probabilistic Modeling of Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata
December 14, 2007
Major Professor: Dr. Sanjukta Bhanja
Committee: Dr. W. Moreno, Dr. R. Schlaf, Dr. N. Ranganathan Dr. N. Jonoska

Hehong Zhao For the doctorate in Electrical Engineering
Impurity and Back Contact Effects on CdTe/Cds Thin Film Solar Cells
December 5, 2007
Major Professor: Dr. Chris Ferekides
Committee: Dr. Don Morel, Dr. Y. L. Chiou, Dr. Richard Gilbert, Dr. Nicholas Djeu

Fall 2007

Andres Lombo Carrasquilla for the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering
Nano Scale Based Model Development For MEMS To NEMS Migration
November 7, 2007
Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno
Committee: Dr. Fernando Falquez, Dr. Sanjukta Bhanja, Dr. James Leffew, Dr. Kimon Valavanis

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)
Major Professor: Dr. Stephen Saddow
Committee Members: Dr. Larry Dunleavy, Dr. Paris Wiley, Dr. Wesley Tipton, Dr. David Rabson

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