Author name: Segen Sara A. Habte

Author:  Walter Arias-Ramírez. Date: Friday, April 8th, 2022 at 11:00AM Location: Glenn L. Martin Hall, Room EGR-2164 Committee Members: Professor Dr. Johan Larsson, ChairProfessor Dr. Amir RiazProfessor James DuncanProfessor Kenneth KigerProfessor Dr. James D. Baeder,Representative Title: A multi-fidelity approach to sensitivity estimation in large eddy simulation. Abstract:  An approach to compute approximate sensitivities in a large eddy simulation (LES) is proposed and […]

Author: Amirhossein Yazdkhasti Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 at 12:00PM Location: Glenn L. Martin Hall, Room EGR-0159 Committee Members: Professor Miao Yu, Chair/AdvisorProfessor Amir BazProfessor Balakumar BalachandranProfessor Nikhil ChopraProfessor Timothy Horiuchi, Dean’s Representative Title: PASSIVE AND ACTIVE GRADED-INDEX ACOUSTIC METAMATERIALS: SPATIAL AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN MULTIPLEXING Abstract: Acoustic metamaterials, similar to their electromagnetic counterparts, are artificial subwavelength materials designed to manipulate sound waves.

Author: Jeffrey Twigg Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2022 at 3:30pm Location: Glenn L. Martin Hall, Room EGR-2164 Committee Members: Professor Nikhil Chopra, Chair/AdvisorProfessor Miao YuProfessor Yancy Diaz-MercadoProfessor Shapour AzarmProfessor Dinesh Manocha, Dean’s RepresentativeDr. Brian Sadler Title: On the Control of Robotic Parasitic Antenna Arrays Abstract:     Wireless networking is challenging in safety, security, and rescue contexts where network infrastructure may be damaged or compromised. Radio communication between ground robots at the lower end of the Very High Frequency (low-VHF) band

Author: Parth Rakesh Desai Date: Friday, April 1, 2022 at 9:30 AM Location: Glenn L. Martin Hall, Room EGR-0159 Committee Members: Professor Siddhartha Das, Chair Dr. Keir C. NeumanProfessor Peter ChungProfessor Paul PaukstelisProfessor Don DeVoeProfessor Jason Kahn, Dean’s Representative Title of Dissertation: EFFECT OF MISMATCHED BASE PAIRS ON DNA PLECTONEMES  Abstract: Base pair mismatches in

Defense Date: Friday April 1, 2022 at 1:00pm Location: Martin Hall 088-2162 Title: Dynamic Bayesian Network Updating Approaches for Enabling Causal Prognostics and Health Management of Complex Engineering Systems Committee Members: Associate Professor Katrina Groth, Chair Assistant Professor Michelle Bensi Professor Jeffrey Herrmann Professor Mohammed Modarres Professor Gregory Baecher, Dean’s Representative Abstract: Complex engineering systems