Student Dissertations

Engineering graduate students are active participants in scientific and engineering discourse.

Recent dissertations:

Student Name	Department	Title	Advisor	Year
Nicholas Harold Klausner	ECE	"Underwater Target Detection using Multiple Disparate Sonar Platforms"	Mahmood Azimi-Sadjadi	2013
Kate Musgrave	ATS	TROPICAL CYCLONE INNER CORE STRUCTURE AND INTENSITY CHANGE	Richard Johnson	2011
Gregory Elsaesser	ATS	TROPICAL RAINFALL REGIMES AND THEIR EVOLUTION ON HOURLY TO DAILY TIMESCALES	Christian Kummerow	2011
Fang Wang	ATS	QUANTITATIVE COMPARISONS OF SATELLITE OBSERVATION AND CLOUD MODELS	Christian Kummerow	2011
Levi Silvers	ATS	A THEORY OF TOPOGRAPHICALLY BOUND BALANCED MOTIONS AND APPLICATION TO ATMOSPHERIC LOW-LEVEL JETS	Wayne Schubert	2011
Kate Musgrave	ATS	TROPICAL CYCLONE INNER CORE STRUCTURE AND INTENSITY CHANGE	Wayne Schubert	2011
Kate Musgrave	ATS	TROPICAL CYCLONE INNER CORE STRUCTURE AND INTENSITY CHANGE	David Thompson	2011
Fang Wang	ATS	QUANTITATIVE COMPARISONS OF SATELLITE OBSERVATION AND CLOUD MODELS	Thomas Vonder Haar	2011
Norm Wood	ATS	Estimation of snow microphysical properties with application to millimeter-wavelength radar retrievals for snowfall rate	Graeme Stephens	2011
Jason Quinn	ME	Modeling of Microalgae Biofuel Systems	Thomas Siller	2011
Ethan Wiechert	CE	Beneficial Use of Off-Specification Fly Ashes to Increase the Shear Strength and Stiffness of Expansive Soil-Rubber (ESR) Mixtures	J. Antonio H. Carraro	2011
Xinhua Shen	ATS	Aqueous Phase Sulfate Production in Clouds at Mt. Tai in Eastern China	Jeffrey Collett	2011
Xinhua Shen	ATS	Aqueous Phase Sulfate Production in Clouds at Mt. Tai in Eastern China	Sonia Kreidenweis	2011
Katherine Maclay	ATS	TROPICAL CYCLONE KINETIC ENERGY AND STRUCTURE EVOLUTION IN THE HWRFx MODEL	Thomas Vonder Haar	2011
Kevin Grise	ATS	ON THE STRUCTURE OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY NEAR THE TROPOPAUSE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO EQUATORIAL PLANETARY WAVES	David Thompson	2011
Andrew Newman	ATS	Dynamics of North American Monsoon Circulation Systems	Richard Johnson	2011
Alex Gonzalez	ATS	STEADY-STATE CIRCULATIONS FORCED BY DIABATIC HEATING AND WIND STRESS IN THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE	Wayne Schubert	2011
Kevin Grise	ATS	ON THE STRUCTURE OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY NEAR THE TROPOPAUSE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO EQUATORIAL PLANETARY WAVES	Thomas Birner	2011
Alex Gonzalez	ATS	STEADY-STATE CIRCULATIONS FORCED BY DIABATIC HEATING AND WIND STRESS IN THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE	Eric Maloney	2011
Levi Silvers	ATS	A THEORY OF TOPOGRAPHICALLY BOUND BALANCED MOTIONS AND APPLICATION TO ATMOSPHERIC LOW-LEVEL JETS	David Thompson	2011
Amanda Anderson	ATS	A COMPARISON OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING DOMINANT STORMS IN THREE REGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES	Steven Rutledge	2011
Angela Rowe	ATS	A polarimetric radar analysis of convective observed during NAME and TiMREX	Steven Rutledge	2011
Xinhua Shen	ATS	Aqueous Phase Sulfate Production in Clouds at Mt. Tai in Eastern China	Steven Rutledge	2011
Nicholas Parazoo	ATS	Moist Synoptic Transport of CO2 Along Midlatitude Storm Tracks, Transport Uncertainty, and Implications for Flux Estimation	Eric Maloney	2011
Greg Elsaesser	ATS	TROPICAL RAINFALL REGIMES AND THEIR EVOLUTION ON HOURLY TO DAILY TIMESCALES	Eric Maloney	2011
Heather Quantz	ATS	Observations of the Double Intertropical Convergence Zone Using CloudSat	Eric Maloney	2011
Katherine Maclay	ATS	TROPICAL CYCLONE KINETIC ENERGY AND STRUCTURE EVOLUTION IN THE HWRFx MODEL	Wayne Schubert	2011
Nicholas Parazoo	ATS	Moist Synoptic Transport of CO2 Along Midlatitude Storm Tracks, Transport Uncertainty, and Implications for Flux Estimation	David Randall	2011
Gregory Elsaesser	ATS	TROPICAL RAINFALL REGIMES AND THEIR EVOLUTION ON HOURLY TO DAILY TIMESCALES	David Randall	2011
Nicholas Parazoo	ATS	Moist Synoptic Transport of CO2 Along Midlatitude Storm Tracks, Transport Uncertainty, and Implications for Flux Estimation	A. Scott Denning	2011
Beth Stuckmeyer	ATS	BOUNDARY LAYER FEATURES OBSERVED DURING NAME 2004	Steven Rutledge	2011
Kathryn Boyd	ATS	REGIONAL AEROSOL EFFECTS ON PRECIPITATION: AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY	Christian Kummerow	2011
Veljko Petkovic	ATS	A SPATIO-TEMPORAL CORRELATION TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE SATELLITE RAINFALL ACCUMULATION	Christian Kummerow	2011
Angela Rowe	ATS	A polarimetric radar analysis of convective observed during NAME and TiMREX	Susan van den Heever	2011
Amanda Anderson	ATS	A COMPARISON OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING DOMINANT STORMS IN THREE REGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES	Susan van den Heever	2011
Leonid Tolstoy	ECE	APPLICATION OF THE VARIATIONAL METHOD FOR CORRECTION OF WET ICE ATTENUATION FOR X-BAND DUAL-POLARIZED RADAR	Christian Kummerow	2011
Erica McGrath-Spangler	ATS	IMPORTANCE OF BOUNDARY LAYER PROCESSES FOR SURFACE FLUXES	A. Scott Denning	2011
Amanda Holden	ATS	TBD	Sonia Kreidenweis	2011
Kathryn Mullin	ATS	TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESSES THAT INFLUENCE GLOBAL MEAN TEMPERATURE	David Thompson	2011
Parker Kraus	ATS	Modeling wetland's extent, their surface heat fluxes and exchange of carbon dioxide and methane	A. Scott Denning	2011
Isaac Medina	ATS	APPLYING TWO BINNED METHODS TO THE SIMPLE BIOSPHERE MODEL (SIB) FOR IMPROVING THE REPRESENTATION OF SPATIALLY VARYING PRECIPITATION AND SOIL WETNESS	A. Scott Denning	2011
Elizabeth Stuckmeyer	ATS	BOUNDARY LAYER FEATURES OBSERVED DURING NAME 2004	Richard Johnson	2011
Erica McGrath-Spangler	ATS	IMPORTANCE OF BOUNDARY LAYER PROCESSES FOR SURFACE FLUXES	David Randall	2011
Norman Wood	ATS	Estimation of snow microphysical properties with application to millimeter-wavelength radar retrievals for snowfall rate	Christian Kummerow	2011
Levi Silvers	ATS	A THEORY OF TOPOGRAPHICALLY BOUND BALANCED MOTIONS AND APPLICATION TO ATMOSPHERIC LOW-LEVEL JETS	David Randall	2011
Jesse Steinweg-Woods	ATS	SURFACE AND SYNOPTIC FEATURES OF LEADING AND PARALLEL STRATIFORM MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS	Steven Rutledge	2011
Jeremiah Sjoberg	ATS	Low Order Models of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings	Wayne Schubert	2011
Yohei Takano	ATS	What controls the variability of oxygen in the subpolar North Pacific?	David Thompson	2011
Kathryn Boyd	ATS	REGIONAL AEROSOL EFFECTS ON PRECIPITATION: AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY	Susan van den Heever	2011
Veljko Petkovic	ATS	A SPATIO-TEMPORAL CORRELATION TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE SATELLITE RAINFALL ACCUMULATION	Thomas Vonder Haar	2011
Bonne Ford	ATS	The Vertical Distribution of Pollutants during Export and Long Range Transport: A Comparison of Model Simulations and A-Train Observations	Sonia Kreidenweis	2011
Amanda Sheffield	ATS	ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI ON CUMULUS CONGESTUS CLOUDS USING A CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL	Susan van den Heever	2011
Laura Paulik	ATS	QUANTIFYING DEEP CONVECTIVE INFLUENCE ON THE TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYER (TTL)	Thomas Birner	2011
Kelly Fagerstone	ME	N2O Production from Algal Biofuel Cultivation	Anthony Marchese	2011
Harrison Bucy	ME	Oxidative/Biological Stability of Algal Methyl Esters	Anthony Marchese	2011
Zachary Elliot	CE	TURBULENCE PARAMETERIZATIONS FOR NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF STABLY STRATIFIED ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS	Karan Venayagamoorthy	2011
Jordan Wilson	CE	EVALUATION OF FLOW AND SCALAR TRANSPORT CHARACTERISTICS OF SMALL PUBLIC DRINKING WATER DISINFECTION SYSTEMS USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS	Karan Venayagamoorthy	2011
Sangki Park	CE	UNDERSTANDING AND MITIGATING TSUNAMI RISK FOR COASTAL STRUCTURES AND COMMUNITIES	Rebecca Atadero	2011
Dustin Berger	SBME	INVESTIGATING THE OSTEOGENIC POTENTIAL OF MULTIPOTENT MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS THROUGH THE USE OF DNA MICROARRAY TECHNOLOGY AND BIOMATERIAL NANOTOPOGRAPHY	Ashok Prasad	2011
Douglas Allen	CE	EVALUATING THE LONG-TERM DURABILITY OF FIBER REINFORCED POLYMERS VIA FIELD ASSESSMENTS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES	Rebecca Atadero	2011
Matt Igel	ATS	A TROPICAL RADIATION AND CLOUD SYSTEM FEEDBACK MODULATED BY SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE	Susan van den Heever	2011
Ryan Nelson	CE	EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF WIND EFFECTS ON LONG-SPAN SLENDER BRIDGES WITH STOCHASTIC TRAFFIC FLOW	Suren Chen	2011
Katherine Maclay	ATS	TROPICAL CYCLONE KINETIC ENERGY AND STRUCTURE EVOLUTION IN THE HWRFx MODEL	Russ Schumacher	2011