Browsing Theses--Electrical Engineering by Title
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Acceleration of MP3 encoder by using the GPU
(2010-05-15)At the present time, CUDA is a useful and common computing engine used by many people. It accelerates the computing speed by running simply same tasks at the same time which is called the parallel processing. Many scientists ... -
An Analysis of FPGA-based Architectures and Algorithm Implementations for the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Regional Calorimeter Trigger Phase-I Luminosity Upgrade
(2011-05-15)The Large Hadron Collider's (LHC) Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a high-energy physics experiment designed to observe and analyze particle collisions at a rate of one billion collisions per second. The CMS experiment relies ... -
AN ANALYSIS OF HOUSEHOLD VEHICLE TYPE ACUQISITION USING MULTINOMAIL LOGIT MODEL
(2011-08-26)The US is a highly motorized society and personal vehicles are clearly an integral part of American life in that people are used to rely on their personal vehicles when both traveling and commuting. According to the 2001 ... -
An Analysis of the Smartphone Point-of-Sale System
(2012-05-20)Smartphones have become powerful enough to replace general purpose computers as the platform for payment applications. This thesis investigates Android smartphone payment applications and audio-jack magnetic card readers ... -
Analysis of worst case Power system contingencies using vulnerability frontier
(2010-05-15)One of the most important aspect in a power system network is to make a network secure against unanticipated events. In general, a power system network is always made N-1 secure: any single outage will not lead to ... -
The Application of High-Frequency Microwaves in Tissue Ablation for Cancer Treatment
(2014-05-18)The study demonstrates the feasibility of using high-frequency microwaves for tissue ablation by comparing the performance of a 10 GHz microwave ablation system with that of a 1.9 GHz system. Two sets of floating sleeve ... -
Applications of LiNbO3 Nested Waveguide and Design of AlGaAs Nested Waveguide for Terahertz Difference Frequency Generation
(2011-08-26)Nonlinear optics is the consequence of the nonlinear dependence of the polarization of a material on the incident electric field. Typically, to detect the nonlinear optical process the incident light must be relatively ... -
Assessing the Performance of Computational Engineering Codes
(2015-05-18)The goal of this thesis is threefold. First, it attempts to gauge the performance of different computational engineering libraries on different platforms. Given a numerical computing library, we compare the performance ... -
Automated acquisition approaches for multidimensional multiphoton microscopy
(2015-08-24)Recent development in laser scanning microscopy relies increasingly on the automation.Important part of the laser scanning microscopes like laser, galvanometer, photomultiplier tube(PMT), filter are now automated and come ... -
An Automated Approach to Bee Identi cation from Wing Venation
(2011-12-15)Colony collapse disorder is killing o the world's honeybees at alarming rates. Since honeybees are the primary pollinators of much of mankind's food supply, we must look to other sources of pollination. There are thousands ... -
Automated Feature Analysis in Biological Images
(2017-05-11)This thesis is comprised of three projects that I worked on during the period of my Master of Science degree. All three projects use computer vision and image processing techniques to improve microscopy image analysis ... -
Automatic generation of high-performance multipliers for FPGAs with asymmetric multiplier blocks
(2010-05-15)The introduction of asymmetric embedded multiplier blocks in recent Xilinx FPGAs complicates the design of larger multiplier sizes. The two different input bitwidths of the embedded multipliers lead to two different shifting ... -
Benchmark Creation for Multi-Personality and Content-Aware Circuit Partitioning Algorithms
(2014-05-18)This report documents efforts to assemble and modify a set of benchmark circuits for testing a new class of circuit partitioning algorithms designed for heterogeneous FPGAs. Often, computations can be implemented using ... -
Capacitive Power Transfer Through Rotational and Sliding Bearings
(2017-01-05)Throughout the history of electrification, applications have existed for the transmission of electrical energy from stationary sources to moving loads. Electrical equipment which is expected to move along tracks, or in ... -
Cascaded Stalling of Induction Motors in Fault-Induced Delayed Voltage Recovery (FIDVR)
(2011-05-15)In recent years, the phenomenon of Fault-Induced Delayed Voltage Recovery (FIDVR) has increasingly been observed. Air conditioner (A/C) motor stalling is considered as one of the main reasons for the occurrence of delayed ... -
Challenges In Applying Sustainability Principles to the design of the Engineering School located in San Juan, Puerto Rico
(2011-03-15)The Engineering School of Island University in San Juan, Puerto Rico has decided to complete a new classroom and lab facility on their campus in the year 2015. The facility will provide a home for innovative courses which ... -
CHARACTERIZATION OF HIGH FREQUENCY WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS USING CST
(2011-08-26)This report discusses different waveguide components using a simulation software CST. It includes the characterization of rectangular probes which are used for near-field measurements, and a coupling hole which is equivalent ... -
Civil Engineering Master?s Programs: A Comprehensive Review of Types and Requirements And A Review and Update of CEE 498: Construction Project Management
(2011-08-26)The purpose of this report was to describe the range of existing civil engineering master?s programs by providing fundamental and statistical information on domestic ABET accredited civil engineering master?s programs. ...