EE Thesis/Project Presentations

EE Thesis and Project Presentations - 2002-2003
Summer 2003 Graduate Presentations

Goran Ivkovic
"AN ALGORITHM FOR IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT"
July 10th, 2003
Major professor: Ravi Sankar, Ph.D.,
Committee Members: Wei Qian, Ph.D., Arthur David Snider Ph.D.

Ashok Rangaswamy
Stability Analysis of CdTe/CdS Solar Cells Under Illumination
July 8th, 2003
Major Professor: Dr. Chris Ferekides
Committee Members: Dr.Don Morel, Dr.Y.L.Chiou

Catherine Boosales
MILLIMETER WAVE ANTIPODAL TAPERED SLOT ANTENNA DESIGN AND MINIATURIZATION
July 7, 2003
Major Professor: Tom Weller
Committee Members: Larry Dunleavy, Ken Buckle

Luis Navarrete
TiMI CROCONTROLLER-FPGA BASED, CONTROL, MONITORING AND PROTECTION DEVICE FOR DIESEL/GAS FUEL DRIVEN GENERATOR SETS
July 3rd, 2003
Major Professor: Wilfrido Moreno
Committee: Dr. Paris Wiley, Dr. James Leffew

Hongshun Su
"KNOWLEDGE-BASED NODULE DETECTION SYSTEM ON HELICAL CT IMAGES: PRELIMINARY STUDY"
July 1, 2003
Co-major Professor Ravi Sankar, Ph.D; Co-major Professor Wei Qian, Ph.D
Committee member Arthur David Snider, Ph.D
Khaled Obeidat
"DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MULTI-LAYER COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE BALUNS AND INDUCTORS"
June 30, 2003
Major Professor: Thomas Weller, Ph.D.
Committee: Larry Dunleavy, Ph.D., Horace Gordon, M.S.E., P.E.

Manjula Rao Katapally
"Towards the Design and Fabrication of MEMS Corner Cube Retroreflector"
May 23, 2003
Co-major professors: Shekhar Bhansali PHD; Scott Samson, Ph.D.
Committee member: Shinzo Onishi , PHD.,
Lester Lopez
Microwave Cross-Coupled Filter Design on Low Resistivity Silicon Substrates
May 2, 2003
Major Professor: Thomas M. Weller
Committee: Dr. Lawrence P. Dunleavy, Dr. Arthur David Snider

Spring 2003 Graduate Presentations
Ashokkumar Jayakumar: Master's Project Presentation
Simulation and Analysis of IS-95 CDMA System and CDMA2000 System using Systemview and Matlab
April 16, 2003
Major Professor: Dr. Ravi Sankar
Committee: Dr. A. David Snider, Dr. Kaushal Chari
Maria Elena Sterner
UNIT COMMITMENT SCHEDULING ALGORITHM FOR DISTRIBUTED GENERATION, PEAKING UNITS
April 1, 2003
Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido A. Moreno
Committee Members: Dr. Kenneth A. Buckle, Ralph Fehr, MSEE, P.E.
Siddhardha N. Garige
"A Distributed Routing algorithm for ER-LSP setup in MPLS Networks"
April 1, 2003
Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido A. Moreno
Committee Members:
Dr. James T. Leffew, Dr. Kenneth A. Buckle
Phalguni Reddy Baddam
Micromirror Array for an Optical Microspectrometer
April 4, 2003
Co-major professor: Shekhar Bhansali PHD
Co-Major professor: Scott Samson, Ph.D.
Committee member: Shinzo Onishi , PHD.

Kiran Potluri
Angular Strength Characterization Of Micro Needles
March 31, 2003
Major Professor: Dr.S.Bhansali
Committee: Dr. Ashok Kumar, Dr. Moussy Francis
Sriram Srinivasan
"Microwave/Millimeter Wave PIN Diode Modeling and Control Circuit Design"
March 31, 2003
Major Professor: Larry Dunleavy, Ph.D.
Committee: Thomas Weller, Ph.D., Horace Gordon, M.S.E., P.E.

Rajsekhar Popuri
Development of Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT) Thin Films for Piezoelectric Microsensors and Microactuators
March 31, 2003
Major Professor: Dr. Shekhar Bhansali
Committee members: Larry Langebrake, P.E., Dr. Shinzo Onishi
SYLWESTER SOBOLEWSKI
"A SIMPLE FREQUENCY DOMAIN-BASED PERCEPTUAL IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT FOR SPIHT AND JPEG2000 IMAGE COMPRESSION"
March 28, 2003
Major professor: Dr. Ravi Sankar
Committee members: Dr. Arthur David Snider, Dr. Huseyin Arslan, Dr. Ahmed Abu-Hajar
JOHN DHANRAJ
"SEMI AUTOMATED NAVIGATION CONTROL SYSTEM FOR POWERED WHEELCHAIRS"
March 28, 2003
Co-Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno, Co-Major Professor: Dr. Rajiv Dubey
Committee Member: Dr. Paris Wiley

Murty S. Ravula
Fabrication and "Characterization of MEMS Based Microporous Silicon Capacitors"
March 26, 2003
Major Professor: Dr. S. Bhansali
Committee: Larry Langebrake, P. E., Dr.Scott Samson. Ph.D.

Unmesh Khadilkar
Modeling and Characterization of Polycrystalline Mercuric Iodide Radiation Detectors
March 21, 2003
Major Professor: Don Morel, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Chris Ferekides, Ph.D., Y. L. Chiou, Ph.D.

Krishnakanth Barri
Effect of Copper on CdTe/CdS Solar cells
March 21, 2003
Major Professor: Chris Ferekides
committee: Don Morel, Ph.D., Y. L. Chiou, Ph.D.

Ananth Isti
"Effect of Low-Level Iron and Nickel Contamination on Thin Gate Oxide Integrity"
February 21, 2003
Major Professor: Dr. Andrew M. Hoff
Committee Members: Dr. Y.L. Chiou, Dr. Ken Buckle

Shyam Aravamudhan
"Effect of Low-Level Copper and Cobalt Contamination on Thin Gate Oxide Integrity"
December 17, 2002
Major Professor: Dr. Andrew M. Hoff
Committee Members: Dr. Y.L. Chiou, Dr. Ken Buckle

Fall 2002 Graduation

Sampth Gangi: Master's Project
ASIC IMPLEMENTATION OF A CUSTOM ADPCM ENCODER
December 3, 2002
Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno
Committee: Dr. James Leffew, Dr. Paris Wiley

PRASHANT P. DATAR
SYSTEM INTEGRATION AND TESTING USING OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING BASED CONTROL
November 14th, 2002
Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno
Committee Members: Dr. James Leffew, Dr. Griselle Centeno

Jason Naylor
"Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Planar Circuit Transitions"
November 14th, 2002
Major Professor: Thomas Weller, Ph.D.
Committee members: Larry Dunleavy, Ph.D., Horace Gordon, M.S.E., P.E.
Prathihba Nandavaram
"Implementation of Significance Based Evaluation of Elementary Functions in Clockess Logic"
November 13, 2002
Major Professor: A. David Snider
Committee members: Kenneth A. Buckle, Ph.D., Wilfrido Moreno, Ph.D.
Yu SU
"Characterization of CdTe/CdS Solar Cells"
November 13th, 2002
Major Professor: Chris Ferekides
Committee members: Don Morel, Ph.D., Y. L. Chiou, Ph.D.

Hehong Zhao
"Vapor Chloride Treatment Studies of CdTe/CdS Solar Cells"
November 12th, 2002
Major Professor: Chris Ferekides
Committee members: Don Morel, Ph.D., Y. L. Chiou, Ph.D.

Anandkrishna Parameswaran
"Improving Bandwidth Efficiency in Survivable Optical Networks"
November 12, 2002
Co-Major Professors: Dr. Wilfrido A. Moreno, Dr. Miguel A. Labrador
Committee member: Dr. Kenneth A. Buckle
Saravana P. Natarajan
"Microwave Characterization of Zinc Oxide Capacitors and Toroidal Inductors for Sensing Applications"
November 8, 2002
Major Professor: Thomas Weller, Ph.D.
Committee members: Larry Dunleavy, Ph.D., Horace Gordon, M.S.E., P.E.
Aaron Frank
"THE DECOMPOSITION OF THE SULFONATE ADDITIVE SPS IN ACID COPPER ELECTROPLATING CHEMISTRIES"
November 8, 2002
Co- Major Professors: Drew Hoff, Ph.D., Richard Gilbert, Ph.D.
Committee member: Chris Ferekides, Ph.D.
Wendy Trietley Alvis
"Using Sliding Mode Controller Techniques to Design PWM DC-DC"
November 5, 2002
Major Professor: W. Moreno, Ph.D.
Committee Members: James Leffew, Ph.D., Kenneth Buckle, Ph.D.

Arti Tribrewala
"THERMAL OXIDATION OF SINGLE CRYSTAL SILICON CARBIDE IN FLOWING AFTERGLOW"
November 1, 2002
Major Professor: Andrew M. Hoff,Ph.D.
Committee Members: Stephen E. Saddow, Ph.D., John T. Wolan, Ph.D.
Shailaja P. Rao
"Simulation & Design of Silicon Carbide Transistors"
November 1, 2002
Major Professor: Stephen E. Saddow, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Andrew M. Hoff, Ph.D., John T. Wolan, Ph.D.

Michael Smith
"DEVELOPMENT OF DUAL GATE SIC JUNCTION FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS"
November 1, 2002
Major Professor: Stephen E. Saddow, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Andrew M. Hoff, Ph.D. , John T. Wolan, Ph.D.
Xiaoshan Song
"Standardization for Image Characteristics in Telemammogrphy"
October 15, 2002
Major Professor: Ravi Sankar, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Wei Qian, Ph.D., Firman D. King, Ph.D.
Eduardo E. Zurek
"VOICE QUALITY MEASUREMENTS FOR VoIP COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS"
September 24, 2002
Major Professor: Wilfrido Moreno, Ph.D.
Committee Members: James Leffew, Ph.D., Kenneth A. Buckle, Ph.D.

Kiran Kumar Pasuparthi - Master's Project Presentation
"A PIC MICROCONTROLLER-BASED CALLER ID ON TV DISPLAY UNIT"
September 17, 2002
Major Professor:Wilfrido Moreno, Ph.D.
Committee Members: James Leffew, Ph.D., Kenneth A. Buckle, Ph.D.
Himani Peddanenikalva
"Microfabrication of Cylindrical Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer Arrays"
September 6, 2002
CO-Major Professors: Shekhar Bhansali, Ph.D., R. Timothy Short, Ph.D.
Committee Member: Scott Samson, Ph.D.

An Thanh Le
"Implementation of VBR Codec for Adaptive VoIP Applications"
August 23, 2002
Major Professor: Ravi Sankar, Ph.D.
Committee: A. David Snider, Ph.D., Firman D. King, Ph.D.