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  • Development of leadership and design skills among ECE juniors and graduate students

    Creator:
    Luo, Ding
    Abstract:
    Engineering students spend a significant amount of their undergraduate careers focused on technical theory and practice. This intensive student prepares them for their technical challenges in the future. This training is so intense that often the more 'soft skills' such as communication, leadership, design, and troubleshooting are left out or...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Donald L. Heer Engineering students spend a significant amount of their undergraduate

  • Design and Modeling Techniques for Impedance Based Flow Cytometry

    Creator:
    Dawes, Jacob
    Abstract:
    Microfluidic devices have enabled lab-on-a-chip (LOC) systems that allow for complex sample analysis and preparation in a compact form factor. One technology that may benefit from a microfluidic approach and further miniaturization is flow cytometry. Flow cytometry is an analysis technique for enumerating and characterizing populations of cells; this is...
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 3.17 Schematic of test setup. A switch array was used to select which elec- trode(s) to measure

  • Passive health monitoring with wirelessly powered medical devices

    Creator:
    House, Samuel
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    The proliferation of body worn autometric devices has been enabled by advances in low-power electronics and fueled by the quantified-self movement. These devices range in complexity from pedometers to clinical vital sign measurement. They all share the same drawback, typically the most expensive and heaviest component, the battery. The future...
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    Masters Thesis
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    committee, Donald Heer, Dr. Huaping Liu, and Dr. Kristen Macuga. Thanks to all my instructors and

  • Co-planar integration of silicon integrated circuits and microfluidic networks for biosensor applications

    Creator:
    Lindsay, McKay W.
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    Silicon integrated circuit (IC) technology has enabled numerous electrical and optical sensors used in biological and chemical assays, where they can increase performance while decreasing cost and size compared to traditional detectors. There is significant potential to further leverage IC technology for lab-on-chip applications, creating affordable and portable medical diagnostic...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Extending the TekBots [superscript TM] Platform for Learning [superscript TM] to upper division ECE courses

    Creator:
    Smit, Adriaan
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    In April of 1997 it was pointed out at an NSF Engineering Education Innovators conference that “… education appears to ignore the need for connections and for integration – which should be at the core of an engineering education.” In order to solve this problem a group named ‘TekBotsTM’ was...
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    Masters Thesis
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    division ECE courses. Abstract approved: Terri S. Fiez In April of 1997 it

  • A practical implementation of self-efficacy theory to improve the engineering curriculum

    Creator:
    Plisch, Marjorie
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    What are the most effective ways to improve the engineering curriculum? Improvements should result in increased student retention, undergraduates who are more industry-ready and graduates who are better prepared to be leaders. Current research suggests that the best predictor of persistence is a person’s self-efficacy. The focus of this thesis...
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    needed anchor. Thank you for caring enough to ask the hard questions. I thank Donald Heer for all

  • Theory and Implementation of a Variational Database Management System

    Creator:
    Ataei, Parisa S.
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    In this thesis, I present the variational database management system, a formal framework and its implementation for representing variation in relational databases and managing variational information needs. A variational database is intended to support any kind of variation in a database. Specific kinds of variation in databases have already been...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Parisa S. Ataei for

  • Power Network Parameter Correction via Sparse Unsupervised Regression

    Creator:
    Senaratne, Galpottage Dilan S.
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    Accurate information of power network parameters is essential for performing various power system monitoring and control tasks including state estimation, economic dispatch, and contingency analysis. In this paper, we present a novel approach of power network parameter correction wherein we exploit the sparse nature of parameter errors. Parameter error correction...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , . . . ,M} while constraining ∆β to be sparse. Since the state vectors x(i)’s are unknown, this problem is

  • Maximum flow in planar digraphs

    Creator:
    Harutyunyan, Anna
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    Worst-case analysis is often meaningless in practice. Some problems never reach the anticipated worst-case complexity. Other solutions get bogged down with impractical constants during implementation, despite having favorable asymptotic running times. In this thesis, we investigate these contrasts in the context of finding maximum flows in planar digraphs. We suggest...
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    Masters Thesis
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    iteration can be imple­ mented in O(log n) time. Long before, Itai and Shiloach showed that when s and t

  • How does AAR/AI Support Problem Solvers with Diverse Behaviors and Cognitive Styles?

    Creator:
    Dikkala, Rupika
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    "What’s wrong with this AI?" Explainable AI (XAI) researchers are moving beyond explaining an AI’s actions, to helping users detect an AI’s failures. However this detection may not be enough—for actionability, we often need to pinpoint which part failed. We investigate how AAR/AI, a structured assessment process, supports users with...
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    a fault localization task in a reinforce- ment learning (RL) agent. In Study 1’s qualitative