Applied Science Graduates 1997-2000
1997
Sheeba Ahmed, Ph.D. (1997, Polymer Science). Advisor: Robert A. Orwoll
"The Synthesis, Characterization, and Molecular Modeling of Cyclic Arylene Ether Oligomers"
Agus Ananda, Ph.D. (1997, Nondestructive Evaluation--Physics). Advisor: B. Smith
"Propagation of Rayleigh Waves in Thin Films"
Larry Dickinson, Ph.D. (1997, Polymers and Composite Materials). Advisor: Mark K. Hinders
"Trans-Laminar-Reinforced (TLR) Composites"
Walt Silva, Ph.D. (1997, Applied Mathematics). Advisor: Dennis M. Manos
"Discrete-Time Linear and Nonlinear Aerodynamic Impulse Responses for Efficient CFD Analyses"
Mahesh Chowdhary, Ph.D. (1997, Physics). Advisor: Dennis M. Manos
On-line system identification for control system applications in particle accelerators.
Robin Elaine Southward, Ph.D. (1997, Polymer Science). Advisor: Robert A. Orwall
"Synthesis of Reflective and Electrically Conductive Polymide Films via and in situ Self-Metallization Procedure using Silver(I) Complexes"
Yunfei Wang, Ph.D. (1997, Polymer Science) Advisor: Robert A. Orwall
"Correlation of Dynamic Dielectric Properties to Reaction Kinetics and Changing Mechanical Properties of Epoxy Resins During Cure"
Michael Stuart West, Ph.D. (1997, Nondestructive Evaluation--Physics) Advisor: William P. Winfree
Radiation-Induced Luminescence in Terbium-Doped Silicate Glasses
Karen H. Wood, Ph.D. (1997, Polymer Science). Advisor: Robert A. Orwall
"The Thermal Cure of Phenylethnynl Terminated Polyimides and Selected Model Compounds"
Hongyang Yao, Ph.D. (1997, Polymer Science). Advisor: William H. Starnes Jr
"Microstructure of Poly(Vinyl Acetate) Studied by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy"
Vadim Zaikov, Ph.D. (1997, Polymer Science) Advisor: William H. Starnes, Jr.
"A Study of Poly(Vinyl Chloride) Microstructure"
1998
Andrew G. Glen, Ph.D. (1998, Applied Mathematics). Advisor: Lawrence M. Leemis
"The Development and Application of a Probability Programming Language"
Eric Kielin, Ph.D. (1998, Polymer Science) Advisor: Floyd Klavetter
"Platinized Tin Oxide: A Low-Temperature Oxidation Catalyst"
James Christopher P. McKeon, Ph.D. (1998, Nondestructive Evaluation) Advisor: Mark Hinders
"Tomography Applied to Lamb Wave Contact Scanning Nondestructive Evaluation"
Lawrence Mtetwa, Ph.D. (1998, Atmospheric Science) Advisor: Joel S. Levine
Africa as a regional and global source of atmospheric gases and particulates
Thomas Joseph Venhaus, Ph.D. (1998, Surface Science) Advisor: Dennis M. Manos
"Plasma Source Ion Implantation of High Voltage Electrodes"
Andrew Gerard Weisenberger, Ph.D. (1998, Accelerator Science) Advisor: Margaret Saha
"Gamma Ray Imaging Detector for Small Animal Research"
1999
Shaun M. Fallat, Ph.D. (1999, Applied Mathematics). Advisor: Charles R. Johnson.
"Totally Nonnegative Matricies"
Michael Pitts, Ph.D. (1999, Atmospheric Science) Advisor: Martin Mlynczak
"An Investigation of Remote Sensing of Temperature and Pressure from the Oxygen A Band on SAGE III"
Michael Lee Watkins, Ph.D. (1999, Nondestructive Evaluation) Advisor: Mark K. Hinders
"The Thermographic Nondestructive Evaluation of Iron Aluminide Green Sheet"
Deonna F Woolard, Ph.D. (1999, Nondestructive Evaluation--Physics). Advisor: Mark K. Hinders
Thermoelastic and Photoelastic Full-Field Stress Measurement
Joseph Divine Ametape, Ph.D. (1999, Physics). Advisor: Dennis M. Mannos
Studies in microwave and RF capacitively couples excimer temp
2000
Adam Friedman, Ph.D. (2000, Nondestructive Evaluation). Advisor: Mark K. Hinders
"Theoretical and Experimental Study of Generation Mechanisms for Laser Ultrasound in Woven Graphite/Epoxy Composites with Translaminar Stitching"
Eugene Malyarenko, Ph.D. (2000, Nondestructive Evaluation). Advisor: Mark K. Hinders.
"Lamb Wave Diffraction Tomography"
James Alexander McAdoo, Ph.D. (2000, Surface Science). Advisor: Dennis M. Manos
"Factors Affecting Carrier Transport in Ultrafast III-IV Compound"
Jeffrey David Rogozinski, Ph.D. (2000, Polymer Science). Advisor: David E. Kranbuehl
"In Situ Frequency Dependent Electromagnetic Sensing for Monitoring Physical and Chemical Attributes During Chemical Processing"
Xianmin Tang, Ph.D. (2000, Surface Science). Advisor: Dennis M. Manos
"Low Damage Plasma Processing and Process Characterization"
Lingling Wu, Ph.D. (2000, Surface Science). Advisor: Dennis M. Manos
"Surface Processing by RFI PECVD and RFI PSII"