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1. Interference reduction with relay beacon in cognitive radio networks

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Open Access
Author:
Banik, Arnab Kumar
Title:
Interference reduction with relay beacon in cognitive radio networks
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
cognitive radio
spectrum scanning
SU
secondary user
primary user
PU
sdr
software defined radio
signal relaying
usrp
File:
Download THESIS_FALL2010_ARNAB.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Sven G Bilén, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Sven G Bilén, Thesis Supervisor
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Thesis Honors Advisor

2. An Open-Source Beacon Receiver for CubeSat Missions

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Open Access
Author:
Hackett, Alexander
Title:
An Open-Source Beacon Receiver for CubeSat Missions
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Beacon Receiver
SDR
GNU Radio
Software-Defined Radio
USRP
GRBR
GNU Radio Beacon Receiver
Pico GNU Radio Beacon Receiver
PGRBR
TEC
In Situ
File:
Download Hackett_Alexander_Honors_Thesis2.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Julio Urbina, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Julio V. Urbina, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Sven G Bilén, Faculty Reader
Dr. Julio V. Urbina, Thesis Honors Advisor

3. Analysis, Design, and Synthesis of a Negative Resistance Converter for a Marginal Oscillator

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Open Access
Author:
Tricou, Brandon A
Title:
Analysis, Design, and Synthesis of a Negative Resistance Converter for a Marginal Oscillator
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
negative resistance converter
marginal oscillator
quadrupole resonance
File:
Download Tricou-Thesis_final.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Thesis Supervisor
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Thesis Supervisor
John Douglas Mitchell, Thesis Honors Advisor

4. Long Term Electrical Stability Testing of Zinc Oxide Thin Film Transistors

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Open Access
Author:
McCormick, Brian T
Title:
Long Term Electrical Stability Testing of Zinc Oxide Thin Film Transistors
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Zinc-Oxide
Thin Film Transistor
ZnO
TFT
Testing
Measurement
File:
Download BrianMcCormick_ZincOxideStabilityThesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Thesis Supervisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Thesis Supervisor
John Douglas Mitchell, Thesis Honors Advisor

5. Software-Defined Radio Techniques For Geolocation of First-Responder Transceivers

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Open Access
Author:
Gardner, Christopher B.
Title:
Software-Defined Radio Techniques For Geolocation of First-Responder Transceivers
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
software defined radio
sdr
geolocation
angle of arrival
aoa
usrp
gnu radio
File:
Download ChristopherGardner-HonorsThesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Sven G Bilén, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Sven G Bilén, Thesis Supervisor
John Douglas Mitchell, Thesis Honors Advisor

6. ESTIMATION OF BROAD QUADRUPOLE RESONANCE LINESHAPES USING MEASUREMENTS OBTAINED WITH NARROWBAND PROBES

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Open Access
Author:
Schmitt, Drew
Title:
ESTIMATION OF BROAD QUADRUPOLE RESONANCE LINESHAPES USING MEASUREMENTS OBTAINED WITH NARROWBAND PROBES
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
quadrupole resonance
QR
reconstruction
probes
File:
Download 2011_SHT_Schmitt_final.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Thesis Supervisor
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Thesis Supervisor
John Douglas Mitchell, Thesis Honors Advisor

7. Implementing a Software-Defined Radio Ground Station for Satellite Communications

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Open Access
Author:
Lipnitskiy, Ilya Y
Title:
Implementing a Software-Defined Radio Ground Station for Satellite Communications
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
software-defined radio
USRP
GMSK
GFSK
modulation
digital transmission
satellite communication
Si4432
DSP
GNU Radio
File:
Download Ilya-HonorsThesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Sven G Bilén, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Sven G Bilén, Thesis Supervisor
John Douglas Mitchell, Thesis Honors Advisor

8. Computational Efficiency and Efficacy in the Autonomous, Cooperative Multi-Agent Complete Coverage Problem

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Open Access
Author:
Luff, Jacqueline Marie
Title:
Computational Efficiency and Efficacy in the Autonomous, Cooperative Multi-Agent Complete Coverage Problem
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
autonomy
multi-agent
complete coverage
File:
Download Thesis_-_Jacqueline_Luff_-_Final.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Shashi Phoha, Thesis Supervisor
Shashi Phoha, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Sven G Bilén, Thesis Honors Advisor

9. Analysis of Power Electronic Converter Transfer Functions Using a Poincare Map Approach

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Open Access
Author:
Ross, Johnathan Paul
Title:
Analysis of Power Electronic Converter Transfer Functions Using a Poincare Map Approach
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Poincare Map
Non-linear state space modeling
Transfer Functions
Bilinear Transform
State Space Averaging
File:
Download Analysis_of_power_electronic_converters_using_a_Poincare_map_approach.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Thesis Supervisor
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Thesis Supervisor
John Douglas Mitchell, Thesis Honors Advisor

10. SEGMENTATION OF ARTICULAR FEMORAL KNEE CARTILAGE USING ACTIVE SHAPE MODELS

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Open Access
Author:
Durkin, John R
Title:
SEGMENTATION OF ARTICULAR FEMORAL KNEE CARTILAGE USING ACTIVE SHAPE MODELS
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
osteoarthritis
knee
cartilage
segmentation
active shape models
active appearance models
File:
Download Durkin_Thesis_final.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. David Miller, Thesis Supervisor
David Jonathan Miller, Thesis Supervisor
Professor William Evan Higgins, Thesis Honors Advisor
Kenneth Urish, Thesis Supervisor

11. A System and Method for Auto-Correction of First-Order Lens Distortion

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Open Access
Author:
Fry, Jonathan Richard
Title:
A System and Method for Auto-Correction of First-Order Lens Distortion
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
distortion
optical aberration
camera calibration
warp
calibration target
LWIR
thermal camera
thermal sensor
File:
Download thesis_formatted_final2_nosig.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Michael Anthony Pusateri, Thesis Supervisor
Michael Anthony Pusateri, Thesis Supervisor
John Douglas Mitchell, Thesis Honors Advisor

12. Conversion Gain and Sensitivity in Marginal Oscillators: Continuous and Sampled-Data Negative Resistance Converters

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Open Access
Author:
Zhang, Klaus
Title:
Conversion Gain and Sensitivity in Marginal Oscillators: Continuous and Sampled-Data Negative Resistance Converters
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
marginal oscillator
conversion gain
sensitivity
negative resistance converter
File:
Download Zhang_thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Thesis Supervisor
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Thesis Supervisor
John Douglas Mitchell, Thesis Honors Advisor

13. FEATURE SELECTION AND CLASSIFICATION TO AUTOMATICALLY DETECT KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS USING MRI

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Open Access
Author:
Keffalas, Matthew George
Title:
FEATURE SELECTION AND CLASSIFICATION TO AUTOMATICALLY DETECT KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS USING MRI
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
support vector machine
feature selection
osteoarthritis
machine learning
MRI
File:
Download thesis_final.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
David Miller, Thesis Supervisor
David Jonathan Miller, Thesis Supervisor
Kenneth Urish, Thesis Supervisor
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Thesis Honors Advisor

18. Non-Linear Input Impedance For Energy Harvesting Backpack

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Open Access
Author:
Suffian, Stephen
Title:
Non-Linear Input Impedance For Energy Harvesting Backpack
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
SEPIC converters
energy harvesting
File:
Download Non-Linear_Input_Impedance_for_Energy_Harvesting_Backpack_Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Heath Hofmann, Thesis Supervisor
Heath Hoffman, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Honors Advisor
William Kenneth Jenkins, Thesis Honors Advisor

19. ELECTRIC VEHICLE IMPACT ON DISTRIBUTION GRID: REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATION AND VOLTAGE SUPPORT

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Open Access
Author:
Russell, Thomas Carlyon
Title:
ELECTRIC VEHICLE IMPACT ON DISTRIBUTION GRID: REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATION AND VOLTAGE SUPPORT
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Electric Vehicles
Impact
Power Grid
Voltage Support
Reactive Power
VAR Support
Newton-Raphson
Power Flow
Bi-directional Chargers
File:
Download Final_Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Jeffery Mayer, Thesis Supervisor
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Thesis Supervisor
John Douglas Mitchell, Thesis Honors Advisor

20. Simulating the Mechanical and Electrical Properties of A Designed Magnetoelectric Resonant Gate Transistor

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Open Access
Author:
Wu, Yufei
Title:
Simulating the Mechanical and Electrical Properties of A Designed Magnetoelectric Resonant Gate Transistor
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Magnetoelectric Resonant Gate Transistor (MERGT)
COMSOL Multiphysics
Sentaurus
File:
Download Wu_Yufei_Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Suman Datta, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Julio V. Urbina, Thesis Honors Advisor

23. Detection of Quadrupole Resonance Signals in the Presence of a Deterministic Sinusoidal Disturbance: A Comparison of Signal Averaging and Pseudo-Random Sequence Modulation

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Open Access
Author:
Yu, Cathy
Title:
Detection of Quadrupole Resonance Signals in the Presence of a Deterministic Sinusoidal Disturbance: A Comparison of Signal Averaging and Pseudo-Random Sequence Modulation
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
QR explosive detection
File:
Download 2012_SHT_Yu.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Thesis Supervisor
John Douglas Mitchell, Thesis Honors Advisor

28. A New UHF High Dynamic Range Receiver for the Arecibo Observatory

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Open Access
Author:
Mills, Amanda Christine
Title:
A New UHF High Dynamic Range Receiver for the Arecibo Observatory
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
low noise amplifier
cryogenic noise temperature measurement
coupled resonator filter
File:
Download Mills_Amanda_ReceiverAreciboObservatory.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Julio V. Urbina, Thesis Supervisor
John Douglas Mitchell, Thesis Honors Advisor
Dr. Timothy Joseph Kane, Faculty Reader

29. Fast and Accurate Numerical Modeling of Non-stationary Corona Discharges Based on Implicit Time Integration on Non-uniform Grid

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Open Access
Author:
Tucker, Joseph Patrick
Title:
Fast and Accurate Numerical Modeling of Non-stationary Corona Discharges Based on Implicit Time Integration on Non-uniform Grid
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
lightning
corona
thundercloud
File:
Download Tucker_Honors_Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Victor P Pasko, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Honors Advisor

32. Investigation of Attitude and Translational Rate Command Control Laws for a Ship-based Helicopter

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Open Access
Author:
Ripley, Rebecca Helen
Title:
Investigation of Attitude and Translational Rate Command Control Laws for a Ship-based Helicopter
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Attitude Command
Translational Rate Command
Helicopter Control Laws
Ship-Based Operations
File:
Download Ripley_Thesis_Final.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Supervisor
John Douglas Mitchell, Thesis Honors Advisor
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Faculty Reader

33. Quantitative Analysis of the Human Airway Tree Using High Resolution MDCT Data

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Open Access
Author:
Amthor, Michael R
Title:
Quantitative Analysis of the Human Airway Tree Using High Resolution MDCT Data
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
image processing
lungs
medical imaging
quantitative
analysis
statistics
File:
Download SchreyerThesis041913.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Professor William Evan Higgins, Thesis Supervisor
Professor William Evan Higgins, Thesis Honors Advisor
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Faculty Reader

35. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Optimizing Multi-site Pv Power Output Variability in Eagleville Pa

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Open Access
Author:
Morozzi, Gregory James
Title:
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Optimizing Multi-site Pv Power Output Variability in Eagleville Pa
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Solar
PV
Decentralized Generation
Power Spectral Density
File:
Download Morozzi_Gregory_itsalwayssunny.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Jeffrey Brownson, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Honors Advisor
Mark Stephen Klima, Faculty Reader

38. Neural Network Feature Extraction For Activity Recognition In Video Data

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Open Access
Author:
Casterline, Kyle A
Title:
Neural Network Feature Extraction For Activity Recognition In Video Data
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
features
PCA
sparsity
neural
network
video
extraction
spatio-temporal
object
recognition
classification
SVM
neighbors
VIRAT
File:
Download Casterline_thesis_draft_final.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Shashi Phoha, Thesis Supervisor
John Douglas Mitchell, Thesis Honors Advisor

41. Electrostatic modeling of power transmission lines using boundary element methods

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Open Access
Author:
Jiang, Yifan
Title:
Electrostatic modeling of power transmission lines using boundary element methods
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Boundary Element Method
Fourier series
Two-dimensional Potential Problems
Charge Distribution of Power Lines
Self-potential
File:
Download Jiang_Yifan_electrostatic_modeling_of_power_transmission_lines_using_boundary_element_methods.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Thesis Supervisor
John Douglas Mitchell, Thesis Honors Advisor

42. Investigation And Benchmarking Of Quadratic Optimization Algorithms For The Study Of Control Systems

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Open Access
Author:
Bahr, Adam M
Title:
Investigation And Benchmarking Of Quadratic Optimization Algorithms For The Study Of Control Systems
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
control systems
optimization
quadratic optimization
quadratic programming
File:
Download Adam_Bahr_Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Thesis Supervisor
John Douglas Mitchell, Thesis Honors Advisor

44. Image Classification Techniques for Automated Grading of Brain Tumor Histopathological Images

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Open Access
Author:
Inamdar, Kapil R
Title:
Image Classification Techniques for Automated Grading of Brain Tumor Histopathological Images
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
automated image classification
histopathology
lgg
gbm
binarization
necrosis
mvp
File:
Download Inamdar_Kapil_ImageClassificationTechniquesForAutomatedGradingOfBrainTumorHistopathologicalImages.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Vishal Monga, Thesis Supervisor
John Douglas Mitchell, Thesis Honors Advisor

49. Development of the Airborne Remote Communication (ARC) Network Infrastructure

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Open Access
Author:
Hackett, Timothy Michael
Title:
Development of the Airborne Remote Communication (ARC) Network Infrastructure
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
communications
Wi-Fi
public safety
disaster relief
ARC
File:
Download Development_of_the_Airborne_Remote_Communication__ARC__Network_Infrastructure_v2.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Sven G Bilén, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Sven G Bilén, Thesis Honors Advisor
Dr. Scarlett Rae Miller, Faculty Reader

50. Design and Analysis of Devices and Circuits based on Correlated Materials

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Open Access
Author:
Sibert, Kyle Thomas
Title:
Design and Analysis of Devices and Circuits based on Correlated Materials
Area of Honors:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Electrical Engineering
Correlated Materials
Circuit Design
File:
Download Sibert_Kyle_designandanalysisofdevicesandcircuitsbasedoncorrelatedmaterials.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Thesis Supervisor
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Thesis Honors Advisor