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Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

AN EFFICIENT HEURISTIC TO BALANCE TRADE-OFFS BETWEEN UTILIZATION AND PATIENT FLOWTIME IN OPERATING ROOM MANAGEMENT, Feidi Dang

THE LIMITS & EFFECTS OF DRAW ON PROPERTIES AND MORPHOLOGY OF PAN-BASED PRECURSOR AND THE RESULTANT CARBON FIBERS, Sarah Edrington

ADAPTIVE MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPERATING ROOM PLANNING WITH STOCHASTIC DEMAND AND CASE TIMES, Vivek Reddy Gunna

A TRANSFER MATRIX APPROACH TO DETERMINE THE LOW FREQUENCY INSERTION LOSS OF ENCLOSURES INCLUDING APPLICATIONS, Shujian He

A FRAMEWORK AND METRICS FOR SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AT THE PRODUCTION LINE, PLANT AND ENTERPRISE LEVELS, Aihua Huang

AUTONOMOUS QUADROTOR COLLISION AVOIDANCE AND DESTINATION SEEKING IN A GPS-DENIED ENVIRONMENT, Thomas C. Kirven

ANALYTICAL AND BOUNDARY ELEMENT SOLUTIONS OF BULK REACTING LINED DUCTS AND PARALLEL-BAFFLE SILENCERS, Jundong Li

EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE, ORIENTATION, LOAD LEVEL AND INDENTER SHAPE ON THE INDENTATION RESPONSE OF NITI-BASED SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS, Peizhen Li

Data-Driven Adaptive Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes k - ω Models for Turbulent Flow-Field Simulations, Zhiyong Li

FORECASTING THE WORKLOAD WITH A HYBRID MODEL TO REDUCE THE INEFFICIENCY COST, Xinwei Pan

Target Read Operation of Passive Ultra High Frequency RFID Tag in a Multiple Tags Environment, Zi Qin Phua

INVESTIGATION OF POLISHING METHODS AND SURFACE ANALYSIS AFTER MACHINING AISI 4140 ALLOY STEEL, Qiang Qi

Effect of Interlayers on Mechanical Properties and Interfacial Stress Transfer of 2D Layered Graphene-Polymer Nanocompsites, Colton C. Roach

Shape Memory Behavior of Dense and Porous NiTi Alloys Fabricated by Selective Laser Melting, Soheil Saedi

INVESTIGATION OF AN AXIAL FLOW ROTARY VALVE SEAL, Joseph K. Stieha

A PHYSICS-BASED APPROACH TO MODELING WILDLAND FIRE SPREAD THROUGH POROUS FUEL BEDS, Tingting Tang

TORQUE RESPONSE OF THIN-FILM FERROMAGNETIC PRISMS IN UNIFORM MAGNETIC FIELDS AT MACRO AND MICRO SCALES, Soroosh Torabi

SIMULATION OF HORSE-FENCE CONTACT AND INTERACTION AFFECTING ROTATIONAL FALLS IN THE SPORT OF EVENTING, Gregorio Robles Vega

COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF TRANSMURAL DIFFERENCES IN LEFT VENTRICULAR CONTRACTILITY AND HYDROGEL INJECTION TREATMENT FOR MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, Hua Wang

IMPEDANCE-TO-SCATTERING MATRIX METHOD FOR LARGE SILENCER ANALYSIS, Peng Wang

ADVANCES IN MULTI-AGENT FLOCKING: CONTINUOUS-TIME AND DISCRETE-TIME ALGORITHMS, Brandon Wellman

UTILIZATION OF EMPIRICAL MODELS TO DETERMINE THE BULK PROPERTIES OF COMPRESSED SOUND ABSORPTIVE MATERIALS, Ruimeng Wu

ADAPTIVE SCHEDULING FOR OPERATING ROOM MANAGEMENT, Honghan Ye

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF READING PASSIVE UHF TAGS IN A MULTI-TAG ENVIRONMENT, Yi Zhou

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

KINETICS OF MOLTEN METAL CAPILLARY FLOW IN NON-REACTIVE AND REACTIVE SYSTEMS, Hai Fu