EE Thesis and Project Presentations - 2006 - 2007


Summer 2007


Venkataramanan Gurumurthy
"Performance Analysis of Barium Strontium Titanate Thin Film Varactors for Tunable Microwave Applications"
June 21, 2007
Co-Major Professors: Dr. Thomas Weller, Dr. Ashok Kumar
Committee: Dr. Jing Wang


Spring 2007

James Lyon For December 07 graduation
"Fabrication and Analysis of Poly (3-hexylthiophene) Interfaces Via Electrospray Deposition and Photoemission Spectroscopy"
April 5, 2007
Major Professor: Dr. Rudy Schlaf
Committee: Dr. Hua Cao, Dr. Matthias Batzill


Vikram Mehendale "System Approach to Embedded System Design"
April 2, 2007
Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno
Committee: Dr. James Leffew, Dr. Paris Wiley


Veera Raghava Kakireddy
"Effect of Temperature on Copper Chemical Mechanical Planarization"
March 28, 2007
Co-Major Professor: Dr. Ashok Kumar
Co-Major Professor: Dr. Shekhar Bhansali
Committee Member: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno


Samuel Andrew Baylis
"Tunable Patch Antenna Using Semiconductor and Nano-Scale Barium Strontium Titanate Varactors"
March 23, 2007
Major Professor: Thomas M. Weller, PhD.
Committee: Lawrence P. Dunleavy, PhD., Ashok Kumar, PhD.


Diego Escobar
"Metal/Complex Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage"
March 23, 2007
Major Professor: Elias K. Stefanakos, Ph.D.
Committee: John T. Wolan, Ph.D., Burton Krakow, Ph.D.

Fall 2006


William Dallas
Resonance Ultrasonic Vibrations (RUV) for Crack Detection in Silicon Wafers for Solar Cells
November 2, 2006
Major Professor: Rudy Schlaf, Ph.D.
Committee: Sergei Ostapenko, Ph.D., Daniel Hess, Ph.D.


Diana P. Aristizabal
Electromagnetic Characterization of Miniature Antennas for Portable Devices
October 30, 2006
Co Major Professors: Dr. Thomas Weller, Dr. Kenneth Buckle
committee: Dr. Arthur Snider


Eugene L. Short III
Growth of Oxide Thin Films on 4H- Silicon Carbide in an Afterglow Reactor
October 20, 2006
Major Professor: Dr. Andrew Hoff
Committee Members: Dr. Stephen Saddow, Dr. Kenneth Buckle


Ravi Samala
EFFICIENT SUSPICIOUS REGION SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM FOR COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS BASED ON TOMOSYNTHESIS IMAGING
October 18, 2006
Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno
Committee: Dr. James Leffew, Dr. Wei Qian


Christopher L. Frewin
Design and Implementation of a 100mm 3C-SiC CVD Reactor major
October 13, 2006
Major Professor: Stephen E. Saddow, Ph.D.
committee members: Andrew M. Hoff, Ph.D., Paris H. Wiley, Ph.D.


Suzie Harvey
"Growth of 3C-SiC via a Hot-Wall CVD Reactor"
October 3, 2006
Major Professor: Dr. Stephen Saddow
Committee: Dr. Andrew M. Hoff, Dr. John T. Wolan