This calendar lists graduate thesis and dissertation events. Send all notices to the College of Graduate Studies at editor@ucf.edu
Announcing the Final Examination of Manoj Prabakar Sargunaraj for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The research methodology involves an exploration of effective cooling methods for the front edges of hypersonic vehicles, with a specific emphasis on the application of Supercritical CO2 (sCO2) in multiple jets for cooling. Numerical simulations are utilized to comprehend airflow patterns and heat transfer dynamics, …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationAnnouncing the Final Examination of Tasnuba Binte Jamal for the degree of Master of Science Major disasters such as wildfire, tornado, hurricane, tropical storm, flooding cause disruptions in infrastructure systems such as power outage, disruption to water supply system, wastewater management, telecommunication failures, and transportation facilities. Disruptions in electricity infrastructures have negative impacts on sectors throughout a region, including education, …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationAnnouncing the Final Examination of Rajkumar Dhar for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Seismocardiography (SCG) is the low frequency chest surface vibration generated by the mechanical activities of the heart.SCG has been found to have clinical utilities in diagnosis of different cardiac diseases. This study focused on the applicationof SCG signal in predicting hospital readmissions of heart failure (HF) …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationAnnouncing the Final Examination of MD RAKIBUL ISLAM for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Real-time crash prediction is a complex task, with no existing framework to predict crash likelihood, types, and severity together along with a real-time traffic management strategy. Developing such a framework presents various challenges, including not independent and identically distributed data, imbalanced data, large model size, …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationAnnouncing the Final Examination of Ms. Jessica Lee Clark for the degree of Master of Arts in Anthropology The use of Light Detection and Ranging (lidar) technology is revolutionizing Maya archaeology, as it penetrates through thick vegetation prevalent in Maya environments, uncovering the structures and features below. At the site of El Mirador in the Department of Petén, Guatemala, lidar …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationAnnouncing the Final Examination of Tyrone Thames for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Physics Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (ssNMR) spectroscopy can be a powerful tool for investigating the atomic-level structures and dynamics of biological macromolecules, including proteins. In this dissertation, I present an ssNMR study of three diverse proteins, revealing insights into their respective secondary structures, conformational …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationAnnouncing the Final Examination of Ms. Sanne Methorst for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Emerging Media: Animation and Visual Effects The Spoon Theory is a 3D animated short film that tells the story of a dancer struggling with an invisible disability. There is a variety of media that focuses on the struggles of the disabled, however The …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationAnnouncing the Final Examination of Md Nazmul Karim for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The main focus of this doctoral dissertation is to study the problem of robust representation learning under different scenarios. Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become an integral part of recent developments in tasks like image recognition, semantic segmentation, object detection, etc. Representation learning plays a …
Graduate Thesis and Dissertation