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  • Student Club Analysis: The Effects of Organizational Structuring on Competition Performance

    Creator:
    Chandler, Jacob J.
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    This thesis aims to explore the effects of organizational and management principles within the context of a student club – an international Formula Student team. Research on the effects of organizational structuring on student club performance tends to be qualitative in nature. While considering the inherent complexity of the human...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Appendix A: Global Formula Racing 2012 Organizational Chart Positions. ............. 70 Appendix B

  • Functional analysis to inform early design decisions for novel systems with substantial operations and maintenance costs

    Creator:
    Algarra, Nathan
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    Long field-life systems are those for which operational, as opposed to capital, expenditures dominate the life time cost of the system. In established product categories, operational experience and historical maintenance data allows engineers to make informed decisions influencing maintenance during the early design stages when design changes are at their...
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    Masters Thesis
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    from “Appendix A: Flow Definitions” and “Appendix B: Function Definitions” [40]. By providing

  • Evaluation of system-level performance of closed thermochemical energy storage systems for space heating

    Creator:
    Rivera, Kate E.
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    This study evaluates the system efficiency and energy-offsetting capabilities of a closed-cycle thermochemical energy storage (TCES) system. Current TCES research primarily focuses on material selection and reactor design but overlooks the practical limitations faced on a system level. Thus, this study investigates various TCES integration methods for providing building space...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : conversion degree for (a) reference case, (b) case 1, (c) case 2, and (d) case 3 (Li et al., 2019

  • Co-design of a Jupyter Notebook for wood stove emissions analysis

    Creator:
    Schofield, Ryan
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    Designs for improved cookstoves aim to decrease the detrimental environmental and health impacts that are associated with traditional biomass cooking practiced by nearly 40% of the global population. Programs to provide improved cookstoves are found worldwide, and regional testing centers support development of these through emissions testing services. Aprovecho Research...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    4. Hit install now a) make sure that use admin privileges when installing py.exe checked b) make

  • LPBF and Post Processing of H13 Tool Steel

    Creator:
    Alabdulali, Ali
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    Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is an innovative method where metal powder is fused together to generate complex geometries. LPBF is used as a technology to reduce material waste, and extensive labor that are often linked to conventional subtractive manufacturing. H13 tool steel is one of the widely used materials...
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    Masters Thesis
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    2023-08-31
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    reservoir, (B) is the build plate, (C) is the printed part, (D) is the laser beam, and (E) is the coater

  • Mechanically Enhanced and Optically Compatible Hydrogels for Particle Image Velocimetry in Porous Flow

    Creator:
    Cornwell-Arquitt, Luke
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    Hydrogels have been attractive for use as a medium in porous flow studies, but have always been limited in this role because of their poor mechanical properties. This project analyzes and tests two recently developed hydrogels, poly(methacrylamide-co-methacrylic acid) (PMM), and a heat-treated long chain PVA hydrogel. Particle image velocimetry (PIV)...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    approved:_____________________________________________________ James Liburdy Hydrogels have been

  • Probabilistic Wind Power Forecasting for Hybrid Systems

    Creator:
    Irmas, Cameron
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    Wind power forecasting provides valuable insights for demand response, energy market operation, and plant control optimization. Probabilistic approaches—which capture uncertainty in these complex systems by representing predictions as probability distributions—represent a growing area of research in wind energy science. However, their applications for wind-based hybrid systems, particularly those focused on...
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    Masters Thesis
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    quantile regression with B-splines [35]. Quantile regression differs from typical regression in that

  • Modeling of Non-Spherical Particle Dynamics in a Non-Uniform Flow

    Creator:
    Alshehri, Ahmad S.
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    Turbulent flow with suspended, non-spherical particles can be found in nature and several industrial applications. Although turbulence with dispersed spherical particles has been studied extensively, modeling the dynamics of non-spherical particles in a turbulent flow has not been studied extensively. Motion of spherical particles in complex flows is typically captured...
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    Masters Thesis
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    master’s thesis committee: Dr. Deborah Pence, Dr. James Liburdy, and Dr. Jonathan Istok. I would like to

  • The Effect of Isothermal Aging on the Development of Long-Range Order in Ni-based Alloys

    Creator:
    Aerne, Nicholas S. J.
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    Nickel (Ni)-based alloys with a high chromium (Cr) content are frequently employed in applications where elevated temperatures and/or corrosive environments are present due to their excellent corrosion resistance and mechanical properties. However, a gap exists around the formation, and kinetics of long-range order (LRO) Ni2Cr phase in both model binary...
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    Dissertation
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    . .................................................... 12 Figure 3. Ni-Cr binary phase diagram Xiong 2012 [7] with orange lines in (b) indicating

  • Material science in menstrual health and hygiene

    Creator:
    Aduviri, Brooke
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    Menstrual health and hygiene insecurity is a global health issue people across the world face, particularly in developing countries. According to the World Bank, an estimated 500 million lack access to adequate menstrual products, and “to effectively manage their menstruation, women and girls require access to water, sanitation, and hygiene...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    , Mar Brasted-Maki, Nyssa Engebo, Isabel Griffin, Isabel Howard, Carter James, Syd- ney Nash, Lillian