Dissertations 1996/97 Academic Year

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Dissertations for SUMMER, 1997 Graduation

• Lei Lin, Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering July 3rd, 1997 "High Speed Nonlinear Computer Arithmetic:Algorithms, VLSI Design, and Accuracy Prediction" Major Professor: Vijay K. Jain, Ph.D. Committee: Gerard Lachs, Ph.D., Arthur D. Snider, Ph.D., A.N.V. Rao, Ph.D., N. Ranganathan, Ph.D.

• Steven Lardizabal, Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering April 24, 1997 "Bias and Temperature Dependent Noise Modeling of Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Field Effect Transistors" Major Professor: Lawrence Dunleavy, Ph.D. Committee: Dr. Rudolf Henning, D.Eng.Sc., Thomas Weller, Ph.D., Dennis Killinger, Ph.D., Glen Besterfield, Ph.D.

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• Peter B. Winson, Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering April 18, 1997 "An Investigation of Linear and Nonlinear Modeling of MESFET Characteristics as a Function of Temperature" Lawrence Dunleavy, Ph.D., Major Professor Committee: Dr. Rudolf Henning, D.Eng.Sc., A. D. Snider, Ph.D.,Daniel Hess, Ph.D., Sylvan Bloch, Ph.D.

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• Satish Yadav - Ph.D.in Electrical Engineering April 16, 1997 "Control of Systems with Parametric Uncertainties and Unstable Parameter Variations" Major Professor: Samuel J. Garrett, Sc.D. Committee: Carlos A. Smith, Ph.D., K. M. Ramachandran, Ph.D., Firman D. King, Ph.D., A. D. Snider, Ph.D.

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  Dissertations for Spring, 1997 Graduation

• Victoria T. Franques, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering March 7, 1997 "Wavelet Based Embedded Zerotree Coding of Images: Software Implementation" Major Professor: V.K. Jain, Ph.D. Committee: A.D. Snider, Ph.D.; P.G. Flikkema, Ph.D.; D.B. Goldgof, Ph.D.; R.W. Darling, Ph.D.

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• Syed A. Zafar, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering February 21, 1997 "Growth and Characterization of Thin-Film ZnO and Cu(In,Ga)Se2 for Photovoltaic Applications" Don Morel, Ph.D., Major Professor Committee: C. S. Ferekides, Ph.D., E. K Stefanakos, Ph.D., L.H. Garcia-Rubio, Ph.D., S. Witanachchi, Ph.D.

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• Subramanian Karthikeyan December 16, 1996 "Characterization of Polycrystalline Thin Film Compound Semiconductor Solar Cells" Don Morel, Ph.D. Major Professor Committee: Chris Ferekides, Ph.D., Luis Garcia-Rubio, Ph.D., Arthur David Snider, Ph.D., Swaminatha Sundaram, Ph.D.
  Fall Dissertations: For Fall, 1996 Graduation

• John J. Heine for the Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science Date: Friday, September 27, 1996 "Multiresolution Statistical Analysis of High Resolution Digitized Mammograms and Other Gray Scaled Images" Major Professor: S. R. Deans Committee: H. R. Brooker, Ph.D. Laurence Clarke, Ph.D., P.G. Flikkema, Ph.D., K. A. Buckle, Ph.D.

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• George A. Edwards, Ph.D.in Electrical Engineering Friday, September 13, 1996 "Advanced Handoff Algorithms for Microcellular Communication Using Fuzzy Techniques" Major Professor: Ravi Sankar, Ph.D. Committee: V.K. Jain, A. Kandel, Gerald Lachs, K.T. Ma, A.N. Rao

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• Thomas M. Taczak, Ph.D.in Engineering Science Friday, September 13, 1996 "Developmeht of a Tunable, Narrow Linewidth 2.066 um Ho, TM:YLF Laser for Open-Path Remote Sensing of Atmospheric CO2 and Water Vapor" Major Professor: Dennis K. Killinger, Ph.D. - Physics Department Committee: Nicholas Dbeu, Robert S. Chang, Gerard Lachs, Arthur Snider

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• Kevin Kenyatta Green, Ph.D.in Electrical Engineering Monday, August 26, 1996 "Generic Recognition of Articulated Objects through Reasoning About Potential Function" Kevin W. Bowyer, Ph.D. Co-Major Professor and Arthur D. Snider, Ph.D. Co-Major Professor Committee: Samuel J. Garrett, Sc.D., Ravi Sankar, Ph.D., Dmitry B. Goldgof, Ph.D., Richard W.R. Darling, Ph.D.

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• John C. Rodgers, Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, August 23, 1996 Title: "A Multipolar Electron Cyclotron Resonance Plasma Source for Semiconductor Processing" Kenneth Buckle, Ph.D. - Major Professor: E. K. Stefanakos, Ph.D., S. Kranc, Ph.D., Worth Henley, Ph.D., S. Witanachchi, Ph.D.

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