Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Predicting General Aviation Pilots’ Weather-related Performance through a Scenario-based Written Assessment, Jessica Cruit
Predicting the Market Share of a New Airport in Multi-Airport Cities: the Case of Lagos, Samson Oladele Fatokun
Prediction of Tonal Acoustic Radiation Due to Feedback-Loop Resonant Interactions in Transitional Airfoils, Seyyed Saman Salehian
Psychological Health Outcomes Within USAF Remotely Piloted Aircraft Support Career Fields, Kris Anthony Ostrowski
Real-Time Optimization Based Power Flow Controller for Energy Consumption and Emissions Reduction in a Parallel HEV, Abdulla Abdulaziz Karmustaji
Safety Assurance of Non-Deterministic Flight Controllers in Aircraft Applications, Alfonso Noriega
SAFTE-VAT Functionality Effects on Flight Instructors' Situation Awareness and Instrument Student Pilots' Performance during FTD Training, Rafael E. Abreu Vega
Sensing, Actuation, and Embedded Control for a Custom SCR Nitrogen Oxides Emissions Reduction System, Anuj Kalidas Sharma
Sliding Mode Observers for Distributed Parameter Systems: Theory and Applications, Niloofar Nasiri Kamran
Study of Hybrid Magneto-Active Propellant Management Device for Slosh Damping, Leander Paul
Study of Surface Tension, Natural Evaporation, and Subcooled Boiling Evaporation of Aqueous Surfactant Solutions, Matthew John Lehman
The Effect of Generation on Retention of Women Engineers in Aerospace and Industry, Kristine Maria Kiernan
The Effects of IS-BAO Implementation and Leadership Performance on Safety Culture in Business Aviation Flight Operations, Christopher Mark Broyhill
The Effects of Safety Culture and Ethical Leadership on Safety Performance, Kevin O’Leary
The Proteus Effect and Gaming: The Impact of Digital Actors and Race in a Virtual Environment, Christopher M. Via
Traction and Launch Control for a Rear-Wheel-Drive Parallel-Series Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle, Adam Michael Szechy
Tsunami Warning System, Amay Vijay Desai
Turbulence Control in Wall Jets, Jonathan Latim
UAV as a Service: Providing On-Demand Access and On-The-Fly Retasking of Multi-Tenant UAVs Using Cloud Services, Justin Yapp
Vibration Analysis of a Composite Wing Box with Arbitrarily Shaped Spars and Ribs, Rossana R. Fernandes
Vision-Aided Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles Using Tracked Feature Points, Ahmed Saber Soliman Sayem
Windshield Defrost and Deice Using Carbon Nanotube Composite, Santhosh Kumar Loganathan
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Aerodynamic and Structural Design of a Winglet for Enhanced Performance of a Business Jet, Nicolas El Haddad
Aerodynamic Trade Study of Compound Helicopter Concepts, Julian Roche
Aircraft De-Icing System Using Thermal Conductive Fibers, Min Soon Park
Aircraft Detection and Tracking Using UAV-Mounted Vision System, Yan Zhang
Analysis of a Hybrid Rocket Burn Using Generalized Compressible Flow, Naveen Sri Uddanti
An Approach to Automotive Electrification and Testing, Christopher Rowe
An Experimental Method to Calculate Coefficient of Friction in Mecanum Wheel Rollers and Cost Analysis Using DFMA Techniques, Nishant Sonawane
An Investigation of Cooling Configurations in Gas Turbine Engines Using Jet Impingement, Bhushan Upalkar
Attitude Determination & Control System Design and Implementation for a 6U CubeSat Proximity Operations Mission, Francisco J. Franquiz
Benchmarking of Computational Models Against Experimental Data for Adiabatic Film-Cooling Effectiveness for Large Spacing Compound Angle Full Coverage Film Cooling Arrays, Simon R. Martinez
Comparing Different Methods for Estimating Total Open Heliospheric Magnetic Flux, Samantha J. Wallace
Computation of Hypersonic Flows with Lateral Jets Using k-ω Turbulence Model, Spatika Dasharati Iyengar
Cubesat Wakes in the Earth’s Ionosphere, Robert M. Albarran II
Design and Manufacturing of a Mecanum Wheel for the Magnetic Climbing Robot, Shruti Deepak Kamdar
Design and Validation of Hardware-in-the-Loop Testbed for Proximity Operations Payloads, Kristia K. Harris
Design, Fabrication, and Testing of a Proprioceptive Electroadhesion Pad for Space Applications, Walter Saravia
Design of Synthetic Jet Actuator for Flight Control of Small UAV, Priyanka Pagadala
Determination of a Simplified High-Order Vortex Equation for Radial Equilibrium with CFD Verification, Travis K. Matsumoto
Determination of Factors That Influence Passengers’ Airline Selection: A Study of Low Cost Carriers in Thailand, Thapanat Buaphiban
Development and Prototype Validation of an Additive Manufactured Cubesat Propulsion Tank, Geovanni A. Solorzano
Direct Adaptive Control for Stability and Command Augmentation System of an Air-Breathing Hypersonic Vehicle, Ron Aditya
Economic Interrelationships and Impacts of the Aviation/Aerospace Industry in the State of Florida using Input-Output Analysis, Kelly A. Whealan-George
Experimental and Computational Investigation of Ribbed Channels for Gas Turbine Thermal Management, Yash T. Mehta
Hybrid Electric Power System Validation through Parameter Optimization, Hasnaa Khalifi
Investigation of Mountain Waves in the Mesosphere over the Andes Mountains, Jaime Aguilar Guerrero
Investigation of Pulse Detonation Engines: the Effect of Variable Blockage Ratio on the Deflagration to Detonation Transition, Christopher Tate
Lagrangian Points and Jacobi Constants for a Class of Asteroids, Tasneem Rashid
Low-velocity Impact Analysis of Composite Repair Patches of Different Shapes, Sarvesh Baliga
Lumped Parameter Model for a Self Powered Fontan Palliation of the Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Jang Ho Park
Modeling and Simulation of Radiation from Electronic Transitions in Hypersonic Atmospheric Reentry Flow, Curtis Scholz
Numerical Investigation of Tonal Noise on a Transitional Airfoil under Varying Conditions, Warren W. Hiner
Numerical Study of Synthetic-Jet Actuation Effect on Airfoil Trailing Edge Noise, Marco Sansone
Phased Array Beamsteering in Composite Laminates for Guided Wave Structural Health Monitoring, Peter Osterc
Random Actuation Pattern Optimization by Genetic Algorithm for Ultrasonic Structural Health Monitoring of Plates, Pierrot R. Derjany
Scalloped Leading Edge Vaned Diffuser Analysis for a Compact High Pressure Ratio Centrifugal Compressor, Vinod Poonamchand Gehlot
Sensor Fusion and Obstacle Avoidance for an Unmanned Ground Vehicle, Gurasis Singh
Similarity Analysis of a Swirling Counter-Flow, Jitesh Rane
Supersonic Retro-Propulsion Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis Applied to Future Mars Mission, Margarita Nataly Brandt
Surface Structure and Its Effect on Reducing Drag, Ragini Ramachandran
The Design for Manufacturing and Assembly Analysis and Redesign of an Aircraft Refueling Door Hinge Utilizing Additive Manufacturing, Kurt A. Schwarz
The Lunar Exosphere: Spatial and Temporal Variations of Sodium and Potassium Emissions from November 2013 to May 2014, Dona Chathuni P. Kuruppuaratchi
The Three-Dimensional Turbulent Boundary Layer on a Rotating Disk, Daniel Digre
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
3D Aerodynamic Optimization of NREL VI Wind Turbine Blade for Increased Power Output and Visualization of Flow Characteristics, Tsewang Rabga Shrestha
3D Simulation of the Velodyne HDL-32E Lidar Integrated with an Autonomous Marine Vehicle, Alecia A. Hurst
A CFD Investigation of the Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Fluid Flow through an Impeller and Multi-Objective Design Optimization of a Centrifugal Pump, Mohammed Khammat Sagban
A Comparative Study of the Low Speed Performance of Two Fixed Planforms versus a Variable Geometry Planform for a Supersonic Business Jet, Aaron C. Smelsky
A Continuous/Discontinuous FE Method for the 3D Incompressible Flow Equations, Nikolaos Kyriazis
Aerodynamic Study of Forces due to Wind Velocity and Angle of Attack on Parabolic Solar Troughs, Brian Northshield
An Analysis of Airport Surface Deviations using the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS), James H. Cistone
An Analysis of Helicopter EMS Accidents using HFACS: 2000-2012, Christopher G. Bryan
Assessment of the Thermal Advantages of Biased Supersonic Cooling, Michael J. Carkin
Axial Compressor Design with Counter-Rotation and Variable RPM for Stall Mitigation, Madhur Tiwari
Bio-Inspired Mechanism for Aircraft Assessment Under Upset Conditions, Israel A. Moguel
Characterization of Electron Number Density of Rocket Exhaust Plumes Through Microwave Transmissions, Jorge Torres
Decreasing the Power Consumption of Hybrid Electric Vehicle Architectures, Domenic Leo Barsotti
Design and Development of Scalable Solar Powered Water Purification Systems for Developing Nations, Shavin Pinto
Design and Dynamic Analysis of a Variable-Sweep, Variable-Span Morphing UAV, Nirmit Prabhakar
Design of a Lean Manufacturing System for the Production of Compliant Wind at Sparton Electronics, Arash Sabet-Rasekh
Design Optimization of a Composite Wing Box for High-Altitude Long-Endurance Aircraft, Philip T. Arévalo
Development, Analysis, and Comparison of Electromechanical Properties and Electrode Morphology of Ionic Polymer Metal Composites, Balaji Sivasubramanian
Development of an Exteroceptive Sensor Suite on Unmanned Surface Vessels for Real-Time Classification of Navigational Markers, Christopher Lloyd Kennedy
Development of a System Architecture for Unmanned Systems Across Multiple Domains, Charles Randall Breingan Jr.
Early Damage State Criterion from a Fault-Seeded Helicopter Gear Using Acoustic Emission and Neural Networks, Rudy L. Baum
Effect of Air Carrier Restructuring Strategies on Post-bankruptcy Performance, Harold Dale Townsend
Energy Conservation By Intermittently Recirculating and Aerating an Aquaponics System with an Airlift, Bjorg Magnea Olafs
Enhancement Techniques of Boiling Heat Transfer, Basim Qasim Ali Al-Sukaini
Evaluation and Flight Assessment of a Scale Glider, Alvydas Anthony Civinskas
Evaluation of Mixing-Limited Quasi-Global Wind-US Model for HIFiRE 2 Flowpath, Michael R. Borghi Jr.
Execution of a Hybrid Vehicle Controls Development Effort Utilizing Model-Based Design, Hardware-in-the-loop Testing, Agile Scrum Methods and Requirements Engineering, Derek Simon Bonderczuk
Exploration of a Computational Fluid Dynamics Integrated Design Methodology for Potential Application to a Wind Turbine Blade, Gaurav Kapoor
Extreme Value Analysis of Rainfall Events Over the Kennedy Space Center Complex, Adam David Schnapp
Fatigue Damage Prognosis of Internal Delamination in Composite Plates Under Cyclic Compression Loadings Using Affine Arithmetic as Uncertainty Propagation Tool, Audrey J-M Gbaguidi
Finite Element Modeling of Macro Fiber Composite Actuators with Application to Wing De-icing, Boutros Youssef Azizi
Flow Separation Control Using Synthetic Jets on a Flat Plate, Karunakaran Saambavi
Free-Piston Stirling Convertor Model Development, Validation, and Analysis for Space Power Systems, Jonathan F. Metscher
