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  • Design Considerations and Circuit Techniques for Robust Ring-Amplifiers

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    Venkatachala, Praveen Kumar
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    Ring amplifiers (ringamps) have shown excellent power efficiency in the latest state-of-the-art analog to digital converters (ADCs). This thesis describes circuit techniques to ensure robust operation of ringamps using standard analog techniques and proportional-integral-derivative(PID) controller analogy. Large-signal and small-signal analysis of a ringamp are performed using simple RC settling and...
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    23, 2019. Title: Design Considerations and Circuit Techniques for Robust ringamps Abstract approved

  • Virtual Liberatory Women of Color Mentorship

    Creator:
    McAloney, Kimberly A.
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    Higher education literature lacks frameworks and models that consider women of color mentoring and fewer that discuss virtual mentorship among women of color. This work examined a successful and productive virtual mentorship and explored the key features of the mentorship, how the mentorship was maintained virtually, and the benefits and...
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    the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education presented on June 2, 2021. Title: Virtual

  • Just a tool after all? No evidence for tool-use effects on the body representation across virtual and real environments

    Creator:
    Bell, Joshua D.
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    While human tool-use proficiency helped define our history, the cognitive and perceptual mechanics of how humans use tools are not fully understood. This question is of great value to the design of hand-held tools and prosthetics. A prominent theory, tool embodiment, suggests that tool use is facilitated by a flexible...
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    psychology (Lanier et al., 2019). In addition to these potential visual shortcomings, virtual environments

  • Productive Interactions in a Complex Engineering Project: Influence of Team Members, Engineering Practice, and Emergence of Roles

    Creator:
    Chindanon, Kritsa
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    Engineering capstone projects are intended as a bridge from school to professional practice in which students work in teams to use learned knowledge and skills to complete real-world engineering projects. However, while the majority of time in many undergraduate programs is devoted to development of technical knowledge and skills, there...
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    Science presented on December 4, 2019. Title: Productive Interactions in a Complex Engineering

  • Progress Monitoring and Quality Assessment/Quality Control of Construction Projects Using Lidar and BIM

    Creator:
    Puri, Nisha
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    The construction industry is a key contributor to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of many countries around the world and is valued at more than $10 trillion globally. Schedule, cost and quality are the main performance measures of construction projects. The primary goal for project stakeholders in the construction industry...
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    the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering presented on June 3, 2019. Title

  • Data-Driven Approaches For Decoding Volitional Movement Intent From Bioelectrical Signals

    Creator:
    Cunha Dantas, Henrique
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    There are nearly two million limb amputees living in the United States of America. Loss of limbs results in profound changes in one's life. However, the underlying neural circuitry and much of the ability to sense and control movements of their missing limb is retained even after limb loss. This...
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    the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on May 28, 2019

  • IC-Antenna Co-Integration for Efficient and Scalable Millimeter-Wave Antenna Interfaces

    Creator:
    Liu,Yao
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    Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) technology promises high speed, high system capacity and low latency interconnects with reduced cost. Applications like high data-rate wireless links, next generation automotive sensors and security body scanners highly depend on mm-wave technology innovations. As operating frequency moves to higher mm-wave bands, shrinking antenna dimensions enable co-integration of...
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    Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on March 8, 2019. Title: IC

  • Multi-channel Stochastic Resource Allocation and Dynamic Access Scheduling

    Creator:
    Wang, Qiwei
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    Modern communication systems often have the ability to transmit signals on multiple communication mediums (e.g., RF, visible light) or interfaces (e.g., MAC layer protocols) at the same time. While each channel has different characteristics, a centralized controller with channel condition information will be able to schedule the resource allocated to...
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    of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on May 31, 2019. Title

  • Driver Distraction from Unmanned Aerial Systems: Evidence, Policy, and Mitigation

    Creator:
    Barlow, Zachary W.
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    Unmanned aerial systems (UASs), more commonly known as drones, have recently achieved commercial success for many public and private applications. As with all emerging technologies, new safety concerns and conflicts with existing paradigms are likely to arise. Many potential applications of UASs will result in their operation near roadway infrastructure,...
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    in Civil Engineering presented on June 3, 2019 Title: Driver Distraction from Unmanned Aerial

  • Design and Analysis of Free-space Optical Communications Systems for Next Generation Short-range Wireless Networks

    Creator:
    Liverman, Spencer
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    This dissertation focuses on indoor free-space optical communications systems for use in short range wireless networks. We propose that current radio frequency wireless links be augmented or replaced with optical frequency links due to overcrowding in the radio frequency spectrum. Optical frequencies contain hundreds of terahertz of unregulated bandwidth and...
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    and Computer Engineering presented on February 13, 2019. Title: Design and Analysis of Free