Thesis Presentations by EE Master Students - 1996/97 Academic Year

Svetlana G. Marinskaya for the MSEE degree

"The CdTe/ZnSe Junctions and Solar Cells"

July 22, 1997

Major Professor: Christos Ferekides, Ph.D.

Committee: Worth Henley, Ph.D., Don Morell, Ph.D.


John J. D'Amico for the MSEE degree

"Processing and Characterization of CuGaSe2 Solar Cells"

July 21, 1997

Major Professor: Don Morel, Ph.D.

Committee: Christos Ferekides, Ph.D., Worth Henley, Ph.D.


Cynthia D. Salomonson for the MSEE degree

"MODELING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A QUARTER MICRON LOW POWER TECHNOLOGY"

July 22nd 1997

Major Professor: Worth Henley, Ph.D.

Committee: Andrew M. Hoff, Ph.D., Paris Wiley, Ph.D.


Lee Kidd Project Presentation for the MEE degree

"A Micowave Bandpass Filter"

July 10, 1997

Major Project Professor: Lawrence P. Dunleavy, Ph.D.

Committee: Tom Weller, Ph.D., Horace Gordon, MSEE


Carlos A. Montemayor M. for the MSEE Degree

"Estimation of Discrete-Time Dispersive Channels Using Correlation with Sidelobe Cancellation"

July 2, 1997

Major Professor: Paul G. Flikkema, Ph.D.

Committee: R. Henning, Ph.D., A. David Snider, Ph.D.


Ketan Poladia for the MSEE degree

"FPGA Design for the Application Specific Signal Processing Algorithms and WSI Technology"

May 19, 1997

Major Professor; Wilfrido Moreno, Ph.D.

Committee: Sanuel Garrett, Ph.D., N. Ranganathan, Ph.D.


Rajat Anand for the MSEE degree

"A VLSI ATM Switch Architecture for VBR Traffic"

Monday, May 5, 1997

Co-Major Professor: Wilfrido Moreno, Ph.D.

Co-Major Professor: N. Ranganathan, Ph.D.

Committee Member: Prof. H. Nienhaus.


Pankaj Singh - MSEE degree

"Flexible MPEG Audio Decoder Layer III Chip Architecture"

April 28, 1996

Co-Major Professor: Wilfrido Moreno, Ph.D.

Co-Major Professor: N. Ranganathan, Ph.D.

Committee Member: H. Nienhaus, MSEE


Spring 1997 Semester


Louay M. Semaan - MSEE Degree

April 8, 1997

"Transport of Surface Iron Contamination Through Silicon Oxide Films"

Major Professor: Worth Henley, Ph.D.,

Committee: Chris Ferekides, Ph.D. and Paris Wiley, Ph.D.

Otto Acon - MSEE Degree

April 4, 1997

"Top Down Design Methodology Applied to a Mixed Signal Wireless Application"

Major Professor: Wilfrido Moreno, Ph.D.

Committee: James Leffew, Christos Ferekides, Paul Flikkema


Eric Earl Wolfe - MSEE Degree

February 24, 1997

"Correlation of KA-Band Propagation Attenuation and S-Band Doppler Radar Reflectivity"

Major Professor: Paul G. Flikkema, Ph.D.

Committee: R. Henning, Ph.D. and T. Weller, Ph.D.


Rajeswari Prabhakaran - MSEE Degree

February 24, 1997

"Zinc Oxide as the Transparent Conducting Oxide for CdTe Solar Cells"

Major Professor: Christos S. Ferekides, Ph.D.

Committee: Don Morel, Ph.D. and Worth Henley, Ph.D.


Fall Semester, 1996

Netoo Singh Sethi - MSEE Degree

"Evaluation of Noise Reduction Techniques and RBF Neural Network for Robust Speech Recognition in Mobile Applications"

December 2, 1996

Major Professor: Ravi Sankar, Ph.D.

Members: Paul Flikkema, Ph.D, Wilfrid Moreno, Ph.D., Lawrence Hall, Ph.D.


Manish N. Vaidya - MSEE Degree

"A 15 KW Photovoltaic Power Station for Charging Electric Busses"

November 27, 1996

Major Professor: E. K. Stefanakos, Ph.D.

Members: Keith Klontz, Ph.D., Samuel Garrett, Ph.D.


John C. Sperandio - MSEE Degree

November 26, 1996

"Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Multipath Arrival Time Parameters for Indoor Wireless Channels"

Major Professor: Paul G. Flikkema, Ph.D.

Members: Lawrence Dunleavy, Ph.D., Ravi Sankar, Ph.D.


Deepak Ramappa - MSEE Degree

"Quantitative Analysis of Iron Precipitation in Silicon"

November 25, 1996

Major Professor: Worth B. Henley, Ph.D.

Members: Lubek Jastrzebski, Ph.D., Andrew M. Hoff, Ph.D.


King Tung Ma - MSEE Degree

"Congestion Controls for ABR Services in ATM Networks"

November 25, 1996

Major Professor: Ravi Sankar, Ph.D.

Members: Kenneth J. Christensen, Ph.D. and Vijay K. Jain, Ph.D.


Gina Marie Szklarz, MSEE Degree

October 22, 1996

"KA-Band Site Diversity in a Subtropical Region Utilizing NASA's Advanced Communication Technology Satellite"

Major Professor: Rudolf E. Henning, D.,Eng. Sc., P.E.,

Members: Horace C. Gordon, Jr., Paul Flikkema