EE Thesis/Project Presentations

EE Thesis and Project Presentations - 2003 - 2004 Total for 2003/04: forty-nine thesis presentations and seven project presentations

Summer 2004 (17 thesis presentations - 2 project presentations - summer)

Tanmoy Islam Master's Project Presentation
Project Title: Speech & Speaker Recognition as Human Id
August 3, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Ravi Sankar
Committee Members: Dr. Sudeep Sarkar, Dr. David Snider

Brian Trabert, Master's Project Presentation
Body Borne Wireless Mobile Personal Communication System
July 9, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Thomas Weller
Committee Members: Dr. Larry Dunleavy, Dr. Ken Buckle

Shirish Pethe
Optimization of the Two Stage Process for Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Solar Cells
July 6, 2004
Major Professor: Don Morel, Ph.D.
Committee: Chris Ferekides, Ph.D, Y.L. Chiou, Ph. D.

Ning Yang
Congestion-Aware Cross-Layer Design for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
July 6, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Ravi Sankar
Committee Members: Dr. A. David Snider, Dr. Miguel Labrador

Bijoy Purushothaman
High Speed VLSI Architecture for Iterative Decoding
July 6, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno
Committee: Dr. James T Leffew, Dr. S. Bhanja

Madhavi Oleti Kalki Rajan
"Characterization of P-type ZnO Films"
July 6, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Don Morel
Committee: Dr. Chris Ferekides, Dr. Andrew Hoff

Ying Zhang
"Prostate Boundary Detection in Transrectal Ultrasound Images"
July 1, 2004
Co-Major Professors: Dr. Ravi Sankar, Dr. Wei Qian
Committee: Dr. David Snider

Prince J. Simon
"POLYCRYSTALLINE MERCURIC IODIDE THIN FILMS FOR DIGITAL RADIATION DETECTORS"
June 30, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Christos Ferekides
Committee: Dr. Don Morel, Dr. Steve Saddow

Senthilnathan Subramanian
Characterization Of Cadmium Zinc Telluride Solar Cells By RF Sputtering
June 29, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Christos Ferekides
Committee: Dr. Don Morel, Dr. Y. L. Chiou

Helen Benjamin
A Planar Micro-Sensor for Bio-Impedance Measurements
June 29 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Shekhar Bhansali
Committee Members: Dr. Rod Smallwood, Dr. Steven Hoath, Dr. Paris Wiley

Madhan Raj Ramalingam
"Processing and Optimization of Cadmium Zinc Telluride Solar Cells by Closed Space Sublimation"
June 28, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Christos Ferekides
Committee: Dr. Don Morel, Dr. Y. L. Chiou

Surendra Gaddipati
"Characterization of HfO2 Films for Flash Memory Applications"
June 28th, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Y. L. Chiou
Committee: Dr. Andrew M. Hoff, Dr. Don Morel

Clemente Toro, Jr.
Improved 1/f Noise Measurements for Microwave Transistors
June 25, 2004
Major Professor: Lawrence P. Dunleavy, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Thomas Weller, Ph.D., Horace Gordon Jr., M.S.E., P.E.

Venkatesh Mohanakrishnaswamy
Processing and Characterization of CIGS-Based Solar Cells
June 24, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Don Morel
Committee Members: Dr. Christos Ferekides, Dr. Y. L. Chiou

Mursheda Hussain
"Effect of Cadmium Chloride (CdCl2) on CdS/CdTe Solar Cells in a Large Area Vapor Chamber"
June 16 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Christos Ferekides
Committee: Dr. Don Morel, Dr. Sanjukta Bhanja

Maheshkumar Chettiar
"Co-production of Hydrogen and Sulfuric Acid by Electrolysis"
June 14, 2004
Major Professor: Elias K. Stefanakos, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Burton Krakow, Ph.D., Venkat Bhetanabotla, Ph.D.

Karthikeyan Lingasubramanian
"Estimation of Switching Activity in Sequential Circuits Using Dynamic Bayesian Networks"
June 2, 2004
Major Professor: Sanjukta Bhanja, Ph.D.
Committee members: Nagarajan Ranganathan, Ph.D., Wilfrido A. Moreno, Ph.D.

Subramanian Krishnam
Design and Fabrication of Thin Film M-I-M Diode
May 26, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Elias Stefanakos
Committee Members: Dr. Shekhar Bhansali, Dr. Kenneth Buckle

James F. Winslow Joint Physics/EE Thesis Presentation
Investigation of Spatial Filtering for Planar Range-resolved Pulsed Laser Ablated Plume Imaging
May 25, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Pritish Muckerjee
Committee: Dr. Sarath Witanachchi, Dr. Robert Chang, Dr. Kenneth Buckle, Dr. Andrew Hoff

Spring 2004 (18 thesis presentations - 2 project presentations - Spring)
David Arft Master's Project Presentation
"Design of a Multi-Octave Power Amplifier Using Linear and Non-linear Methods"
Date: Thurday May 6, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Larry Dunleavy
Committee Members: Dr. T. Weller and Dr. S. Saddow

Charles W. Chandler Master's Project
"Inflatable Antenna for Jupiter Telecommunications Relay Station"
April 2, 2004
Co-Major Professors: Dr. Ken Buckle and Dr. Larry Dunleavy
Committee Members : Dr. A. D. Snider and Dr. R. Henning

David A. Doheny
Real Time Digital Signal Processing Adaptive Filters For Correlated Noise Reduction in Ring Laser Gyro Inertial Systems
April 1, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Ravi Sankar
Committee Members: Drs. A.D. Snider and K. Buckle

Sharath Reddy Billoori
Towards Adaptation of OFDM Based Wireless Communication Systems
March 31, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Huseyin Arslan
Committee members: Dr. Arthur D. Snider, Dr. A. N. V. Rao, Dr. Mohamed K. Nezami

Jagadish Gaduputi
Characterization of CdZnTe Solar Cells on Glass and Flexible Substrates by RF Sputtering
March 31, 2004
Major Professor: Chris Ferekides, Ph.D
Committee members: Don. L. Morel , Ph.D, Y.L. Chiou, Ph.D

Bhaskar Vijay Tadi
Ultrasound Hardware Setup For Finding The Physical Characteristics Of CMP Pads
March 30th
Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido A. Moreno
Members: Dr. James T. Leffew, Dr. Grisselle Centeno

Mangesh Telrandhe
Fabrication and Testing of Cylindrical Ion Trap Microarray for Tunable Mass Spectrometer
March 29, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Shekhar Bhansali
Members: Dr. Timothy Short, Dr. Scott Samson

Anthony Webster
Modeling and Measurement Techniques for 5 GHz OFDM Wireless LAN Transceivers
March 29, 2004
Co-Major Professors: Dr. Larry Dunleay, Dr. Huseyin Arslan
Committee member: Dr. Thomas Weller

Eid Alsabbagh
Thin Film Micro-bolometers for Microwave Power Detection
March 29, 2004
Major Professor: Tom Weller, Ph.D
Committee members: E. K. Stefanakos , Ph.D. Ken Buckle, Ph.D

Varuna Reddy Gangireddy
Characterization of CdS/CdTe Solar Cells
March 29th, 2004
Major Professor: Chris Ferekides, Ph.D
Committee members: Don. L. Morel , Ph.D, Y.L. Chiou, Ph.D

Sathya Padmanabhan
"Broad-band Space Conservative On-wafer Network Analyzer Calibrations with More Accurate SOLT Definitions"
March 29, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Larry Dunleavy
Committee Members: Dr. Tom Weller, Dr. Stephen Saddow

Srinath Balachandran
MEMS Tunable Planar Inductors for mm-wave and Microwave Applications
March 26, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Tom Weller
Committee: Dr.Shekhar Bhansali, Dr.Rudy Schlaf

SHASHANK BHARADWAJ
"Investigation of Oxide Thickness Dependence of Fowler-Nordheim Parameter B"
March 25, 2004
Major Prof.: Dr. Y.L. Chiou
Committee Members : Dr. Christos Ferekides, Dr. Wilfrido Moreno

Umamaheswari Balasubramanian
Indium Oxide as a High Resistivity Buffer Layer for CdTe Thin Film Solar Cells
March 24, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Chris Ferekides
Members: Dr. Don Morel, Dr. Robert Mamazza, Jr, Dr. Andrew Hoff
Rajender Manteena
A VHDL Implementation of the Advanced Encryption Standard-Rijndael Alorithm
March 23, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno
Committee members: Dr. James Leffew, Dr. Wei Qian

Jay Bieber
"Synthesis of Nanoscale Structures in Single Crystal Silicon Carbide by Electron Beam Lithography"
March 22, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Steve Saddow
Committee Members: Dr. W. Moreno, Dr. J. Wolen

Jayanti Patel
Adaptive Digital Predistortion Linearizer for Power Amplifier in Military UHF Satellite
March 17, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Ravi Sankar
Committee Members: Drs. L. Dunleavy and P. Wiley

Oneida Dugarte Westhoff
Development of an Instrumented Mannequin for Training of Caregivers in Safe Patient Handling and Movement
March 16, 2004
Major Professor: Dr.Wilfrido Moreno
Committee Members: Dr. James Leffew, Dr. John Lloyd

Paris D. Wiley
"Fault Tolerant Design Verification Through the Use of Laser Fault Injection"
February 27, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno
Committee Members: Dr. Fernando Falquez , Dr. John Samson, Jr.

Charles P. Baylis II
"Improved Current-Voltage Methods for RF Transistor Characterization"
February 27, 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Larry Dunleavy
Committee Members: Arthur David Snider, Ph.D., Thomas M. Weller, Ph.D.

Fall 2003 (14 thesis presentations - 3 project presentations - Fall)

Rakesh Nathwani Master's Project Presentation
"Comparison of Different Routing Protocols Over Ad Hoc Networks"
December 8, 2003
Major Professor: Dr. Ravi Sankar
Committee Members: Dr. A. D. Snider, Miguel Labrador, Ph.D

Toby Kaminsky: Master's Project Presentation
"Hardware Implementation of a Small Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Network"
November 17, 2003
Major Professor: Dr. V. K. Jain
Committee Members: Dr. H. Arslan, Dr. K. Buckle

Tevfik Yucek
"Self-interference Handling in OFDM Based Wireless Communication Systems"
November 14, 2003
Major Professor: Dr. Huseyin Arslan
Committee Members: Dr. Vijay K. Jain, Dr. Mohamed K. Nezami, Dr. Arthur D. Snider

Subir Wagle: Master's Project Presentation
"Space-Time Coding for MIMO Systems"
November 10, 2003,
Major Professor: Dr. Ravi Sankar
Committee Members: Dr. A. D. Snider, Dr. Murali Varanasi

Gowri Sivaraman
Characterization of Cadmium Zinc Telluride Solar Cells
November 12, 2003
Major Professor: Dr. Christos S. Ferekides
Committee: Dr. Don L. Morel, Dr. Yun L. Chiou

Vishwanath Kumar
"Characterization of large area cadmium telluride films and solar cells deposited on
moving substrates by close spaced sublimation"
November 12th, 2003
Major Professor : Dr. Chris S. Ferekides
Committee members: Dr. Don. L. Morel. Dr. Yun. L. Chiou

Joshua David Schumacher
"Design and Construction of Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor
Deposition Reactor and Directed Assembly of Carbon Nanotubes"
November 10, 2003
Major Professor: Rudy Schlaf, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Shekhar Bhansali, Ph.D., Andrew Hoff, Ph.D.

Lavanya Doddannagari
"Rapid System Prototyping of OWSS Wireless Functions and ICA Using Reconfigurable J-Platform"
November 7, 2003
Major Professor: Dr. V. K. Jain
Committee Members: Dr. B. A. Myers, Dr. Sanjuktha Bhanja, Dr. Huseyin Arslan

Rahul Agarwal
"A NOVEL NORMAL-TO-PLANE SPACE EFFICIENT MICRO CORNER CUBE
RETROREFLECTOR WITH IMPROVED FILL FACTOR"
November 7, 2003
Co-Major Professors: Dr. Shekhar Bhansali, Dr. Scott Samson
Committee Member: Dr Shinzo Onishi

Carlos Castillo
"FACE RECOGNITION USING NEURAL NETWORKS AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS"
November 6, 2003
Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno
Committee Members: Dr. Rafael Perez, Dr. James L. Leffew

Hariharasudhan T. Kannan
"DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF MULTI - DIMENTIONAL RF MEMS VARIABLE CAPACITORS"
Thursday, November 6, 2003
Major Professor: Dr. Thomas Weller, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Shekhar Bhansali, Ph.D. Kenneth A. Buckle, Ph.D., P.E.

Sadashi Seto
"The Development of the Hexapod Walking Robot by Implementing DSP58624"
November 5, 2003
Major Professor: Wilfrido A. Moreno, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Kenneth A. Buckle, Ph.D., James T. Leffew, Ph.D.

Balaji Ramadoss
"VECTOR FLOW MODEL IN VIDEO ESTIMATION AND EFFECTS OF NETWORK CONGESTION
IN LOW BIT-RATE COMPRESSION STANDARDS. "
October 15, 2003
Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno
Committee Members: Dr. James Leffew, Dr. W. Qian

Nikhil A. Deshpande
"Matlab Implementation of GSM Traffic Channel Committee"
October 15, 2003
Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno
Committee Members: Dr. James Leffew, Dr. W. Qian

SrinivasaPrasath Raghavendran
"Software Simulation of an Acoustic Echo Canceller"
October 15, 2003
Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno
Committee Members: Dr. James Leffew, Dr. W. Qian

Jayavardhan R. Kandi
Embedded Cryptography: An analysis and evaluation of performance and code optimization techniques,
for encryption and decryption in embedded systems
July 17th, 2003
Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno
Committee Members: Dr. Kenneth Buckle; Dr. James Leffew

Rishikesh Gokhale
"A Technique For Packet Loss Concealment In VoIP"
July 31st, 2003
Major Professor: Dr. Wilfrido Moreno
Committee Members: Dr. James Leffew , Dr. W. Qian