Thesis by EE Master Students for the MSEE Degree- 1995/96 Academic Year
Larry W. Miller
Impact on Oscilltor Phase Noise due to MMIC Buffer Amplifiers
July 17, 1996
Major Professor: Lawrence P. Dunleavy, Ph.D.
Members: Willy Moreno, Ph.D. and Paul Flikkema, Ph.D.
Marios A. Gavrielides
Shape Analysis of Mammographic Calcification Clusters
July 10, 1996
Co-Major Professor: Maria Kallergi, Ph.D. (Radiology) .
Co-Major Professor: Arthur D. Snider, Ph.D. (EE)
Member: Laurence P. Clarke, Ph.D. (Radiology)
William Shuts
"Microwave Pin Diode Modeling"
June 28, 1996
Major Professor: Lawrence P. Dunleavy, Ph.D.
Members: Thomas Weller, Ph.D., Horace Gordon, Jr., M.S.E., P.E.
George J. Sacks,
"Evaluation of Electrochromic Tungsten Oxid Prepared by Plasma Enhance Chemical Vapor Deposition"
June 26, 1996
Major Professor: Worth B. Henley, Ph.D.
committee members: Andrew Hoff, Ph.D. E. K. Stefanakos, Ph.D.
Spring Semester - 1996
Naveen Bhavanishankar
May 20, 1996
"Dynamic Frequency Based Linear Array Processor
Co-Major Professors: N. Ranganathan (CS) and H. Nienhaus (EE)
Member: A. David Snider (EE)
Raymond M. Chiu
"Apnea Identification Analysis of Photoplethysmograms"
May 13, 1996
Major Professor: A.David Snider, Ph.D.
Members: Profs. Sam Garrett, Kenneth Buckle, John Scharf, William Lee
Gregory M. Bonaguide
"An Evanescent Mode Waveguide Filter Design Procedure"
April 2, 1996
Major Professor: Lawrence P. Dunleavy, Ph.D.
Members: Thomas Weller and A. David Snider
Larry Allen Geis
"A Quasi-Optical Microwave Low Noise Amplifier"
April 1, 1996
Major Professor: Lawrence P. Dunleavy, Ph.D.
Members: Rudolf E. Henning and James Leffew
John Raymond Stanton
"Microwave Radiometer Callibration Techniques"
April 1, 1996
Major Professor: Rudolf E. Henning, D.Eng.Sc., P.E.
Members: Horace C. Gordon, Jr., Paul Flikkema
Xiang Li
"A Markov Model for Simulation of Wideband Indoor Radio Channels and Characterization of Spread Spectrum Receiver Performance"
March 28, 1996
Major Professor: Paul G. Flikkema, Ph.D.
Committee: Lawrence Dunleavy, Ph.D. - Ravi Sankar, Ph.D.
Rajesh Chandra
"A Linear Systolic Alogrithm and Architecture for Convex Bipartite Matching"
March 1, 1996
Co-Major Professors: Willy Moreno, Ph.D. (EE) and N. Ranganathan, Ph.D. (CS)
Committee: A. David Snider
Fall Semester - 1995
Tetali Bhaskar Reddy
"Processing and Characterization of High Efficiency CdS/CdTe Thin Film Solar Cells on Low Cost Substrates"
December 13, 1995
Major Professor: Christos S. Ferekides, Ph.D.
Hari Natarajan
"Processing and Characterization of CuInGaSe2 Solar Cells"
November 30, 1995
Major Professor:Don L. Morel, Ph.D.
Sheryl L. Weisenberg
"Preliiminary Design of a Generic Processor Interface"
November 21, 1995
Major Professor: Dave Landis, Ph.D.
April R. Gurba
"Prediction of Gate Oxide Quality Through Analysis of Low Level Leakage Currents"
November 16, 1995
Major Professor: Worth Henley, Ph.D.
Steve Corrigan
"Voltage Phasor Topology and Its Impact on Transmission Efficacy"
November 17, 1995
Major Professor: Sam Garrett, Sc.D.
Dominic Pipitone
"Afterglow Thermal Oxidation and Thin Film Transistors"
September 7, 1995
Major Professor: Andrew M. Hoff, Ph.D.