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Dissertation Defense: Tianchen Liu

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Title: Co-design for Multi-subsystem and Vehicle Routing-and-Control Problems Author: Tianchen Liu Date & Time: Friday, May 15, 2020 – 2:00PM. Committee: Professor Shapour Azarm, Chair/Advisor Professor Nikhil Chopra, Co-advisor Professor Balakumar Balachandran Professor Jin-Oh Hahn Professor Nuno Martins Professor Miao Yu Abstract: Co-design refers to the process of integrating optimization of the physical design with […]

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5/8/20 Thesis Defense: Devashis Shrestha

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Title: “Energy Audit and Modeling of High Energy-consuming Buildings in the University of Maryland.”  Date/Time: Friday May 8, 2020; 3-5pm Committee Members:   Dr. Michael Ohadi (Chair), Dr. Yunho Hwang, Dr. Bao Yang Abstract: The goal of this thesis project is to analyze and optimize energy usage in the Biopsychology building and Gossett Football House

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Dissertation Defense: Martin Erinin

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Title: Droplet and Bubble Measurements in Turbulent Free-Surface Flows Defense Date and Time: Friday, April 17 starting at 10:00 am. Important Note about Connectivity: If any prospective audience member is having issues connecting to the Zoom Meeting via the link provided, please email Professor James Duncan (duncan@umd.edu), who can send you a personal invitation link. Committee Members: Professor

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Dissertation Defense: Saurabh Saxena

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Title: “Effects of Rest Time and Temperature on Graphite – LiCoO2 Battery Degradation”   Date: Friday, April 17thTime: 11:00amLink: https://umd.zoom.us/j/380744735 Committee Members: Professor Michael Pecht, Chair/Advisor Professor Abhijit Dasgupta Professor Peter Sandbord Professor Mark Fuge Professor Eric Wachsman, Dean’s Representative Abstract: Lithium-ion batteries are used as energy storage devices in a variety of applications ranging from small portable electronics

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Dissertation Defense: Ahmed O. Said

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Title: DYNAMICS AND HAZARDS OF CASCADING FAILURE IN CELL ARRAYS: ANALYSIS, PASSIVE MITIGATION, AND ACTIVE SUPPRESSION Defense date and time: Friday- Feb 28, 2020 at 10 am Location: A. James Clark Bldg.  (AJC 2132) Committee members:  Professor Stanislav I. Stoliarov, Chair  Professor Dongxia Liu, Dean’s Representative  Professor Arnaud Trouve  Professor Marino diMarzo  Professor Peter Sunderland

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Dissertation Defense: David Verstraete

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Title: Deep Adversarial Approaches in Reliability  Date: Tuesday, December 17th Time: 1pm Location: AV Williams 2460 ECE Conference Room  Committee Members: Professor Mohammad Modarres, Chair Associate Professor Enrique Lopez Droguett Assistant Professor Mark Fuge Assistant Professor Katrina Groth Professor Balakumar Balachandran Professor Mohamad Al-Sheikhly (Dean’s Representative) Abstract: Reliability engineering has long been proposed with the problem

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Thesis Defense: Ayush Nankani

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Title: EIT BASED PIEZORESISTIVE TACTILE SENSORS: A SIMULATION STUDY Date: Wednesday December 11, 2019 Time: 1 pm Location: Martin Hall EGR 2164   Committee Members: Dr. Elisabeth Smela, Chair/AdvisorDr. Miao YuDr. Nikhil Chopra ABSTRACT: Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is an imaging technique that uses voltage measurements to map the internal conductivity distribution inside a body by

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