Summer Quarter 2009-2010

Melissa Fender- September 17th, 2010 at 10:30pm in the Pearlstein Building, Room TBA

• Thesis Title: Electronic Thethering: Perpetual Wireless Connectivity to the Organization
• Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey Greenhaus
• Major Area: Business Administration
• Examining Committee: Dr. Jeffrey Greenhaus, Dr. Murugan Anandrajan, Dr. Frank Linnehan, Dr. Jonathan Ziegert and Dr. John Schaubroeck

Celia Zwicker - September 16th, 2010 at 1:00pm in the TBA Building, Room TBA

• Thesis Title: Preparedness, Appraisal of Behaviors and Role Strain in Family Caregivers
• Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Gonzalez
• Major Area: Nursing Science
• Examining Committee: Dr. Elizabeth Gonzalez, Dr. Judith Reishtein, Dr. DiMaria Ghalili, Dr. Zekarias Berhane

Eric Gallo - September 10th, 2010 at 11:00am in the CAT Building, Room 61

• Thesis Title: Characterization of MSM Devices on Novel Material Systems
• Advisor: Dr. Timothy Kurzweg
• Major Area: Electrical Engineering
• Examining Committee: Dr. Timothy Kurzweg, Dr. Bahram Nabet, Dr. Jonathan Spanier, Dr. Steven May, Dr. Kevin Scoles and Dr. S. Basavaiah

Michael walters- August 31st, 2010 at 2:00am in the Bossone Building, Room 302

• Thesis Title: Low Density Lipoprotein Modification and Aggregation in Atherogenesis
• Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Barbee
• Major Area: Chemical Engineering
• Examining Committee: Dr. Kenneth Barbee, Dr. Yossef Elabd, Dr. Anthony Lowman, Dr. Kevin Williams and Dr. Steven Wrenn

Yung Chen- August 30th, 2010 at 10:00am in the Curtis Building, CAEE Conference Room

• Thesis Title: Framework for the Utilization of Forward and Inverse Airflow Models for Systematic Sensor System Design
• Advisor: Dr. Jin Wen
• Major Area: Civil Engineering
• Examining Committee: Dr. Jin Wen, Dr. Charles Haas, Dr. Patrick Gurian, Dr. Michael Waring and Dr. Andrew Persily

Yun Yoo - August 27th, 2010 at 1:00pm in the Korman Building, Room 245

• Thesis Title: Semigroup Approach to Representation Theory of Infinite Wreath Products
• Advisor: Dr. R. Andrew Hicks
• Major Area: Mathematics
• Examining Committee: Dr. R. Andrew Hicks, Dr. Robert Boyer, Dr. Justin Smith, Dr. Dmitry Kaliuzhnyi-Verbovetskyi and Dr. Arkady Kitover

John Fitzpatrick - August 17th, 2010 at 3:00pm in the Bossone Building, Room 302

• Thesis Title: Characterization of Decellularized Arterial Conduits
• Advisor: Dr. Franco Capaldi
• Major Area: Mechanical Engineering
• Examining Committee: Dr. Franco Capaldi, Dr. Alan Lau, Dr. Tein-Min Tan, Dr. Adam Fontecchio and Dr. Fred Allen

Yin Huang - August 11th, 2010 at 10:00am in the Curtis Building, CAEE Conference Room

• Thesis Title: Incorporating Time to Response Into Dose-Response Models Used in Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment
• Advisor: Dr. Charles Haas
• Major Area: Environmental Engineering
• Examining Committee: Dr. Charles Haas, Dr. Patrick Gurian, Dr. Jin Wen, Dr. Mira Olson and Dr. Rosina Weber

Khaldoun Hamade- August 11th, 2010 at 10:00am in the Bossone Building, Room 709

• Thesis Title: Activity of Bifunctional Motoneurons During Fictive Locomotion: A Computational Modeling Study
• Advisor: Dr. Karen Moxon
• Major Area: Biomedical Engineering
• Examining Committee: Dr. Karen Moxon, Dr. Rahamim Seliktar, Dr. Hualou Liang, Dr. Ilya Rybak and Dr. Michel Lemay

Rachel Rosenberg- August 3rd, 2010 at 9:00am in the Lebow Building, CBE Conference Room

• Thesis Title: Controlling Transport Using Surface Porosity in Colloidosomes
• Advisor: Dr. Nily Dan
• Major Area: Chemical Engineering
• Examining Committee: Dr. Nily Dan, Dr. Steve Wrenn, Dr. G.R. Palmese, Dr. Gary Friedman and Dr. Steven Siegel

Nan Zhou- August 2nd, 2010 at 10:00am in the Rush Building, Room 014

• Thesis Title: Troubles of Understanding In Virtual Math Teams
• Advisor: Dr. Gerry Stahl
• Major Area: Information Science and Technology
• Examining Committee: Dr. Gerry Stahl, Dr. Denise Agosto, Dr. Robert Allen, Dr. Michael Khoo and Dr. Alan Zemel

Jade Mitchell-Blackwood - July 26th, 2010 at 10:00am in the Curtis Building, Room 275

• Thesis Title: Using Analytic Models to Address Uncertainty and Establish Thresholds for Risk-Based Responses to Pathogenic Agents in the Environment
• Advisor: Dr. Patrick Gurian
• Major Area: Environmental Engineering
• Examining Committee: Dr. Patrick Gurian, Dr. Charles Haas, Dr. Jin Wen, Dr. Timothy Bartrand and Dr. Joan Rose

Efrain Rondinel-Oriedo - July 26th, 2010 at 10:30am in the Curtis Building, CAEE Conference Room

• Thesis Title: Ground Failure During the 2001 (Mw 8.4) Southern Peru Earthquake
• Advisor: Dr. Joseph Wartman
• Major Area: Civil Engineering
• Examining Committee: Dr. Joseph Wartman, Dr. Joe Martin, Dr. Jonathan Cheng, Dr. Frank Moon and Dr. Adrian Rodriguez-Marek

Richard Primerano- July 23rd, 2010 at 9:00am in the Bossone Building, Room 333

• Thesis Title: High Bit Rate Digital Communication Through Metal Channels
• Advisor: Dr. Steven Weber
• Major Area: Electrical Engineering
• Examining Committee: Dr. Steven Weber, Dr. Moshe Kam, Dr. Kapil Dandekar, Dr. Leonid Hrebien and Dr. Harry Kwatny

Christopher Schade - July 21st, 2010 at 9:30am in the LeBow Building, Hill Conference Room

• Thesis Title: Processing, Microstructures and Properties of a Dual Phase Precipitation Hardening PM Stainless Steel
• Advisor: Dr. Antonios Zavaliangos
• Major Area: Materials Engineering
• Examining Committee: Dr. Antonios Zavaliangos, Dr. Roger Doherty, Dr. Fred Fletcher, Dr. Alan Lawley and Dr. Sim Narasimhan

Yung Chen - July 6th, 2010 at 11:00am in the Curtis Building, CAEE Conference Room

• Thesis Title: Study of Forward and Inverse Models for Sensor System Design
• Advisor: Dr. Jin Wen
• Major Area: Civil Engineering
• Examining Committee: Dr. Jin Wen, Dr. Charles Haas, Dr. Patrick Gurian, Dr. Hernando Perez and Dr. Andrew Persily

Stephen Niezgoda - June 21st, 2010 at 10:00am in the Curtis Building, Mechanical Seminar Room

• Thesis Title: Stochastic Representation of Microstructure Via Higher Order statistics
• Advisor: Dr. Surya Kalidindi
• Major Area: Materials Science and Engineering
• Examining Committee: Dr. Surya Kalidindi, Dr. Antonios Zavaliangos, Dr. Ulrike Wegst, Dr. Antonios Kontsos, Dr. David Fullwood and Dr. Chris Schuh

Archibald Filshill- June 18th, 2010 at 2:00pm in the TBA

• Thesis Title: Long-Term Structural Design of Geosynthetic Stormwater Chambers and the Use of Nanocomposites to Enhance Their Performance
• Advisor: Dr. Joseph Martin
• Major Area: Civil Engineering
• Examining Committee: Dr. Joseph Martin, Dr. Kurt Sjoblom, Dr. Jonathan Cheng, Dr. Morton Rabinowitz and Dr. Andrea Welker

Sagar Mahanta - July 15th, 2010 at 2:00pm in the Pearlstein Building, Room 405

• Thesis Title: Supply Chain Disruption and Recovery Through Coordination
• Advisor: Dr. Avijit Banerjee
• Major Area: Business Administration
• Examining Committee: Dr. Avijit Banerjee, Dr. Seung-Lae Kim, Dr. Wenjing Shen, Dr. Maria Rieders and Dr. Thomas Hindelang