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 AJ Sona for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) often teach introductory lecture and laboratory sections in large, research intensive institutions. They are frequently left insufficiently supported inconsistent levels of professional development. Previous work using the TeachLivE mixed-reality teaching simulator showed that when GTAs …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationAnnouncing the Final Examination of Elakkat Dharmaraj Gireesh for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Deep Neural networks (DNN) are fundamentally information processing machines, which synthesize the complex patterns in input to arrive at solutions, with applications in various fields. One major question when working with the DNN is, which features in the input lead to a specific decision by …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationAnnouncing the Final Examination of Sydney Briggs for the degree of Master of Science An experimentally obtained comparison between the breakup of water droplets in the flow field behind both a detonation wave and shock wave is considered. The experiments presented here were completed to support ongoing research efforts into droplet breakup mechanisms at different Mach and Weber numbers. The …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationAnnouncing the Final Examination of Nicolas Berube for the degree of Master of Science Initial results, design considerations, and experimental validation of a new detonation tube are presented to further improve detonation wave interaction research. The new structure consists of four independent portions: the deflagration to detonation initiation section, transition expansion section, operating test section, and dump section. The initiation, …
Graduate Thesis and Dissertation