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Optimizing Photobiological Treatment of Reverse Osmosis Concentrate
(2021-08)Water scarcity as an emerging concern worldwide highlights the importance of alternative water management and augmentation strategies. As one of the important water treatment technologies, reverse osmosis (RO) has been ...
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A Comprehensive Economic Analysis of Vertical Farming: Quantitative Models and a Decision Support System for the Competitive Marketplace
(2020-08)There are various problems associated with our conventional practice of farming. In the past few years alone, agriculture has been responsible for a million square kilometers of deforestation. The world is facing a water ... -
Multivariate Analyses of the Effects of Land Use Change on River Water Quality: Case Study of Manawatu River Watershed, New Zealand
(2020-08)Various land use land cover (LULC) properties can be very informative about pollution signatures or fingerprints in rivers. In addition, determining the quantity of pollution contributed to river water quality by different ... -
Modification of Fused Filament Fabrication Printer to Print High Temperature Thermoplastics to Improve Z-Strength
(2020-08)A fused filament fabrication (FFF) desk top three dimensional printer was modified with a pre-deposition heating method using an infrared heat lamp in an omega shape around the printing nozzle to print high temperature ... -
Developing an Electrostatic Discharge Polyamide 6 Nanocomposite for 3D Printing
(2020-08)Polyamide 6 (PA 6) is an engineering thermoplastic ideal for 3D printing via fused deposition modelling (FDM) and could serve as potential replacement for conventional FDM polymers like acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene ... -
Investigations into (InxGa1-x)2O3 structures grown on c-plane sapphire using pulsed laser deposition
(2022-08)Alloys of Ga2O¬3 with In2O3, ternary (InxGa1–x)2O3 were grown for x ≤ 15% as a function of growth parameters such as substrate temperature (Ts), oxygen partial pressure (Po2), and laser power using Pulsed Laser Deposition ... -
Process Planning of Robotic Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) Using Machine Learning
(2021-05)Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) is an additive manufacturing technique that deposits metal layer upon layer to manufacture 3D parts which is popular for producing large metal parts for aerospace, marine, automotive, ... -
Demonstration of Ferroelectricity in PLD Grown HfO2-ZrO2 Nanolaminates
(2021-05)Ferroelectricity was demonstrated for Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) of HfO2-ZrO2 bilayer thin films grown on TiN bottom electrodes on SiO2/Si as a function of deposition conditions and ... -
A multi-stage stochastic model for production planning using onsite renewable generation with prosumer approach
(2020-12)This thesis researches on finding a production plan that minimizes the cost of a manufacturing system facing uncertainties on the demand of its final products over a horizon of multiple periods and considering adoption ... -
Design and application of conformal magnetic and graphene waveguide antenna
(2020-08)This thesis investigates conformal magnetic and graphene waveguide antennas working at c-band for applications of wireless local area network (WLAN) and Wi-Fi networks. Antennas with magnetic material could be an extremely ... -
Microphone array based sound source detection and localization with beamforming, gcc-phat, and triangulation using arduino and MATLAB
(2019-12)Microphone arrays are becoming popular for sound source localization (SSL). Keeping real-time applications in mind, such as search and rescue missions, military operations for gunshot detection, scream based localization, ... -
Exploration of a New Affordable Thermal Protection System Utilizing Needle-Punched (2.5D) Fabric Composites
(2018-08)Thermal protection systems (TPS) designed for solid rocket motors (SRMs) and reentry vehicles employ ablative composites. Phenolic and cyanate ester are state-of-the-art (SOTA) resin systems used in many of the ablative ... -
Growth and Characterization of (InGa)2O3 Alloys
(2018-08)To create the next generation of power devices, new materials are being developed for use as wide bandgap semiconductors. Wide bandgap oxides are receiving attention as their properties are conducive to improved power and ... -
Design and Performance Analysis of Hardware Accelerator for Deep Neural Network in Heterogeneous Platform
(2018-08)This thesis describes a new flexible approach to implementing energy-efficient DNN accelerator on FPGAs. Our design leverages the Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) which provides a cache-coherent view of ... -
Surface Modification of Thermoplastic Polymers for Lateral Flow Assay Applications
(2018-08)Lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA) is the technology behind low-cost, simple, rapid and portable detection devices which is popular in biomedicine, agriculture, food and environmental sciences. In this research, a simple and ... -
All Inkjet-Printed High On/Off Ratio Two-Dimensional Materials Field Effect Transistor
(2018-08)This thesis introduces the development of a novel ink, design, fabrication, and characterization of an all inkjet printed high current on/off ratio field effect transistor (FET). The inks were obtained through the liquid ... -
Exploration of 3D Printing a New Polysiloxane Composite for High Temperature Applications
(2019-12)Thermal protection materials are a necessary component for high-temperature applications because they serve as protection for delicate components, structures and payloads. Advanced composites are the materials of choice ... -
Advanced ZigBee Network With Greater Range and Longevity
(2021-12)With the rapid development of Internet of Things networks (IoT), a new type of wireless standard, ZigBee, has emerged in order to satisfy the demand of low power dissipation, low cost, and easy deployment among wireless ...
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A simulation-based data-driven analysis for improving collaboration between food bank facilities before and after natural disasters
(2021-12)Food banks are non-profit organizations that gather and distribute supplies to agencies serving people in need. Food banks obtain donations (i.e., supplies) from the public and public and private organizations. ...
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Capillary driven flows in micro-machined open polymer microchannels
(2021-08)Wettability and surface roughness have been studied for quite some years now especially in the area of microfabrication, in which more interests have been raised for the use of polymeric materials (acrylic family) for ...
