EE Thesis Presentations

EE Thesis and Project Presentations - 2001/2002

Summer 2002
Yaser A. Mohammed - Master's Project
" MULTILEVEL INTERCONNECTS AND TIME DELAY ESTIMATION IN DEEP SUB-MICRON 2D AND 3D VLSI"
July 26, 2002
Major Professor: V. K. Jain, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Kenneth A. Buckle, Ph.D., A. David Snider, Ph.D.

Han Wang
"Back Contact Studies of CDS/CDTE Solar Cells"
July 22, 2002
Major Professor: Chistos S. Ferekides, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Don Morel, Ph.D., Y. L. Chiou, Ph.D.

Sree Krishna Lolla - Master's Project
"Hardware Implementation of One Dimensional Discrete Cosine Transform"
July 11, 2002
Major Professor: Wilfrido Moreno, Ph.D.
Committee Members: James Leffew, Ph.D., Fernando J. Falquez, Ph.D.

Ramya Chandrasekaran
"DEVELOPMENT OF DIODE TECHNOLOGY ON POROUS SILICON CARBIDE SUBSTRATES"
July 10th, 2002
Major Professor: Stephen E. Saddow, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Andrew M. Hoff, Ph.D., John T. Wolan, Ph.D.
Vishal Kandregula
"Reactive Ion Etching of SiC for MEMS Applications"
July 10th, 2002
Major Professor: Stephen E. Saddow, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Andrew M. Hoff, Ph.D., John T. Wolan, Ph.D.

Lavanya Emmadi
"Development of Equivalent Circuit Models for Surface Mount Varactor Diodes Including Substrate and Temperature Effects"
July 8, 2002
Major Professor: Thomas Weller, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Larry Dunleavy, Ph.D., Rudolf E.Henning, Sc.D., P.E.

Majad Mohammad, Project Presentation
"Characterization of Thin Gate Oxide"
July 8, 2002
Major Professor: Y.L. Chiou, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Kenneth Buckle, Ph.D., James Leffew, Ph.D.

Jiang Liu
"Measurement Based Modeling and Simulation of Mixers"
July 2, 2002
Major Professor: Lawrence P. Dunleavy, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Thomas M. Weller, Ph.D., Kenneth A. Buckle, Ph.D.
Ying (David) Ying
"CIGS Device Characterization Studies by Using Capacitance Measurement"
July 2, 2002
Major Professor: Don Morel, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Chris Ferekides, Ph.D., Y. L. Chiou, Ph.D.

Arnildo Cardozo Daza
"Hardware Implementation of an Enhanced Video Coder"
July 2, 2002
Major Professor: Wilfrido Moreno, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Kenneth Buckle, Ph.D., James Leffew, Ph.D.
Anton Byelyayev
"Resonance Acoustic Diagnostics in Silicon Wafers"
June 24, 2002
Co-Major Professors: Sergei Ostapenko, Ph.D., Rudiger Schlaf, Ph.D.
Committee Member: Ashok Kumar, Ph.D.

Alberto Rodriguez
"Injection-Locked Phase Noise Measurements"
May 30, 2002
Co-Major Professors: Larry Dunleavy, Ph.D., Thomas Weller, Ph.D.
Committee Member: Horace Gordon, M.S.E.

William Clausen
"Small and Large Signal Modeling of MM-Wave MHEMT Devices"
May 14, 2002
Major Professor: Larry Dunleavy, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Thomas Weller, Ph.D., Rudof Henning, Sc.D.

Yue Shen - EE Masters PROJECT
Comparison of Fuzzy Image Segmentation Algorithms in Lung Nodule Detection
May 6, 2002
Co - Major Professors: Ravi Sankar, Ph.D., Wei Qian, Ph.D.
Committee Member: Wilfrido Moreno, Ph.D.

Spring 2002
Jorge Galvis - EE Master's PROJECT
"Image Compression using a Wavelet Transform"
April 30, 2002
Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno
Committee Members: Dr. James Leffew, Dr. Wei Qian

Yisub Ahn - Master's PROJECT
"CAPACITOR MODELING TECHNIQUE FOR MICROWAVE ANTENNA APPLICATIONS"
April 18, 2002
Major Professor: Thomas Weller, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Larry Dunleavy, Ph.D., Horace Gordon, M.S.E.

Kenelt Pierre
"The Understanding and the Elimination of the Corrosion Processes in the Metal-Oxide-Metal (MOM) Capacitor"
April 5, 2002
Major Professor: Andrew Hoff, Ph.D.
Committee: Kenneth A. Buckle, Ph.D., Richard A. Gilbert, Ph.D.

Lane Manoosingh
Master's PROJECT
"A Low Noise Charge Sensitive Preamplifier for Gamma Radiation Detection in Mercuric Iodide"
April 4, 2002
Major Professor: Paris Wiley, Ph.D.
Committee: Y.L. Chiou, Ph.D., Christos Ferekides, Ph.D.

Fall 2001

Peter Kirby
"Improved Vector Network Analyzer Calibrations Utilizing Lumped Element Standards"
December 14, 2001
Major Professor: Larry Dunleavy, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Thomas Weller, Ph.D., Horace Gordon, M.S.E
Terje B. Svensen
Master's PROJECT
"Characterization of a Bits-to-Bits Wireless Communication System"
December 4, 2001
Major Professor: Larry Dunleavy, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Thomas Weller., Ph.D., Ken Buckle, Ph.D.
Rafael E. Alonso
"Data Acquisition Devise with Packet Based Communication Protocol for Engine Monitoring"
November 5, 2001
Major Professor: Wilfrido Moreno, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Ken Buckle., Ph.D., Jim Leffew, Ph.D.

Steven D. Eason
"Fractal Dipole Antennas for Use in Global Positioning System"
November 9, 2001
Major Professor: Thomas Weller, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Ken Buckle., Ph.D., A. David Snider, Ph.D.
Fady Isshak
November 19, 2001
Master's PROJECT
"Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing for Broadband Application"
Major professor: Dr Sankar
Committee: Firman King, Ph.D., Wilfrido Moreno, Ph.D.

Serita Narinesingh
"ANALYSIS OF PATTERN DEPENDENCIES ON COPPER DAMASCENE CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING"
September 4, 2001
Major Professor: Wilfrido Moreno, Ph.D.
Committee Members: James Leffew, Ph.D., Mariappan Hariharaputhiran, Ph.D.
Antara Basu
Master's PROJECT
"Enhanced Coder with Error Resilience: A Software Implementation"
Major Professor: Wilfrido Moreno, Ph.D.
Committee: Paris Wiley, Ph.D., Wei Qian, Ph.D.