Announcements

Author: Michael Dawson Committee Members: Professor Jeffrey Herrmann- Assistant Professor Yancy Diaz-Mercado Mark Fuge Title: Metareasoning Approaches to Thermal Management During Image Processing Date: Friday, April 15th, 2022 Time: 10:00 AM Location: EGR-2164 (DeWALT Conference Room) Abstract: Resource-constrained electronic systems are present in many semi- and fully-autonomous systems and are tasked with computationally heavy tasks such as image processing. Without sufficient cooling, […]

Author:  Sergio Manuel Ignacio Cofre Martel  Date: Friday, April 8th, 2022 at 1:00PM Location: Glenn L. Martin Hall, Room EGR-2164 Committee Members: Professor Dr. Mohammad Modarres, Chair + Dr. Enrique Lopez Droguett, Co-ChairProfessor Mark FugeProfessor Katrina GrothProfessor Balakumar BalachandranProfessor Gregory Baecher, Dean’s Representative Title: A Physics-Informed Neural Network Framework for Big Machinery Data in Prognostics and Health Management for Complex Engineering

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