PhD Graduates

2006-2007

DEDMAN COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES & SCIENCES

Anthropology

James Nicholas Ambrosino
May 2007
“Warfare and Destruction in the Maya Lowlands: Pattern and Process in the Archaeological Record of Yaxuna, Yucatan Mexico”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. David Alan Freidel

Michelle Marlene Amoruso
December 2006
“Re-emerging Infectious Disease and Ethnic Stratification: Dengue Fever in Trinidad and Tobago”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Carolyn F. Sargent

Jeffrey Ian Rose
December 2006
“Among Arabian Sands: Defining the Paleolithic of Southern Arabia”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Anthony E. Marks

Biology

Sabine Delannoy
December 2006
“Structure-Function Relationship in the Nucleotide-Binding Domains of ABC Transporters”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Pia D. Vogel

Jose Miguel Viana Dias
December 2006
“Insights into the Regulation of the Ryanodine Receptor: Differential Effects of Ca**, Mg**, and Pharmacological Agents on ATP Binding”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Pia D. Vogel

Thomas Neal Jetton
December 2006
“Trypanosoma Brucei Aurora Kinase-1: Function, Turnover and Potential as a Therapeutic Target”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Lawrence S. Ruben

Economics

Jeffrey T. Brimhall
December 2006
“Empirical Applications of Corporate Finance and Industrial Organization”
Graduate Advisors: Drs. Jeffrey W. Allen and Daniel J. Slottje

Pandej Chintrakarn
May 2007
“Essays on Consequences of Economic Integration”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Daniel Millimet

Jeffry Ankur Jacob
August 2006
"Essays on Micro-and Macro-Determinants"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Thomas Osang

Faruk Sengul
August 2006
“Essays on the Most Favored Nation Clause and the World Trading System”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Kamal Saggi

Le Wang
August 2006
“Essays on the Economics of Family”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Daniel Millimet

Liye Zhu
August 2006
“Three Essays on the U.S. Health Insurance Market”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Daniel Millimet

Geological Sciences

Kamil Erkan
May 2007
“Post Subduction Thermal Regime of the Western North America and Effects on the Great Valley, Sierra Nevada and Northern Baja-California”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. David D. Blackwell

Paul W. Golden
May 2007
“Infrasound Studies and Seismic Station Development”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Eugene T. Herrin, Jr.

Tae Sung Kim
August 2006
“Infrasound Signals from Earthquakes and Other Sources and Upper Crustal and Source Constraints from Seismic Observations of Single-Fired Explosions in SE Arizona”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Brian William Stump

History

José A. Ramírez
May 2007
“To the Line of Fire, Mexican-Texans!: The Tejano Community and World War I”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. John R. Chavez

Clive G. Siegle
May 2007
“Ciboleros!   Hispanic Buffalo Hunters on The Southern Plains”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Sherry L. Smith

Mathematics

Mulugeta Markos
May 2007
“Steady Liquid Flow and Liquid-Vapor Interface Shapes in Different Groove Structure in Micro Heat Pipes”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Vladimir Ajaev

Marina Angelova Rangelova
May 2007
“Error Estimation for Fourth-Order Partial Differential Equations”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Peter K. Moore

Tatyana Vladimirovna Savchuk
December 2006
“The Multiscale Finite Element Method for Elliptic Problems”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Zhangxin Chen

Psychology

Heather Emma Kitzman
December 2006
“The Impact of a Family Intervention on Weight Loss and Diet in Overweight Female Adolescents”
Graduate Advisor: Robert B. Hampson

Mary O’Boyle II
August 2006
“Family Factors Associated with Obese Adolescent Girls”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Robert B. Hampson

Religious Studies

David Brockman
December 2006
“Turning to Religious Others: Visions and Blindspots in Modern Christian Reflection about Non-Christians”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Joerg Rieger

Kevin Michael Carnahan
May 2007
“Sin, Guilt, Justice and War: Paul Ramsey and Reinhold Niebuhr on the Moral Framework for Just War Thought”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Robin W. Lovin

Robert L. Foster
May 2007
“Justice Prescribed and Personified: Toward a Biblical Theology of Justice”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Richard D. Nelson

Nina Eva Livesey
May 2007
“Circumcision as a Malleable Symbol: Treatments of Circumcision in Philo, Paul And Justin Martyr”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jouette M. Bassler

Statistical Science

Zhongxue Chen
May 2007
“Probe-Level Data Analysis for High-Density Oligonucleotide Arrays”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Monnie McGee

Md. Jobayer Hossain
August 2006
“Analysis of Nonstationary Time Series with Time Varying Frequencies”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Wayne A. Woodward

Yue Jia
May 2007
“Using Sampling Weights in the Estimation of Random Effects Model”
Graduate Advisor:  Dr. Lynne Stokes

Qihua Lin
December 2006
“Bayesian Hierarchical Spatiotemporal Modeling of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Richard F. Gunst

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE

Civil Engineering

Patricia A. Taylor
December 2006
“Assessing the Sustainability of Using Stone to Address Coastal Louisiana Wetland Loss in Projects Funded by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act”
Graduate Advisors: Drs. Roger O. Dickey and Bijan Mohraz

Computer Science

Li Ma
May 2007
“Usage Based Models for Web Reliability Improvement”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jeff Tian

Yu Meng
May 2007
“Deployment of Heterogenous Sensing Devices”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Margaret Holder Dunham

Jason Joseph Meyer
May 2007
“Novel SRAM-Based FGPA Architectures And Supporting CAD Tools”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Faith Kocan

Rabie Abd El-Tawab Ramadan
May 2007
“On Deployment of Sensing Devices”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Hesham El-Rewini

Nanthi Suthikarnnarunai
May 2007
“Improving Transportation Service for the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Eli V. Olinick

Electrical Engineering

Gregory Allan Maca
December 2006
“Array Signal Parameter Estimation for CDMA Technology (ASPECT)”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Mandyam Dr. Srinath

Enwang Zhou
May 2007
“Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems and their Application in Short-Term Load Forecasting and Classification Problems”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Alireza Khotanzad

Mechanical Engineering

Vijay Soundararajan Mythili
December 2006
“Thermo-Mechanical and Microstructural Issues in Joining Similar and Dissimilar Metals by Friction Stir Welding”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Radovan Kovacevic

Christian Naaktgeboren
May 2007
“Vortex Interactions with Porous Media: Experiments and Modelling”
Graduate Advisors: Drs. Paul Krueger and Jose L. Lange

Ali Bahadir Olcay
May 2007
“Measurement of Ambient Fluid Entertainment and Calculation of Vortex Ring’s Impulse during Vortex Ring Formation”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Paul Krueger

Cristian Porneala
December 2006
“Heat Transfer and Plume Dynamics During Nanosecond Laser Ablation”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. David A. Willis

Nuraj Indika Rajapakse
August 2006
“Analytical Modeling, Analysis & Robust Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Dynamical Systems by Using Sliding Mode Control (SMC) & Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT)”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Gemunu S. Happawana

Eswar Reddy Yarrapareddy
May 2007
“Numerical Stimulation and Experimental Investigation of Layer-Based Additive Manufacturing Technologies for Industrial Applications”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Radovan Kovacevic

Operations Research

Qibin Cai
August 2006
“Optimization-based Design Tools for W-CDMA Cellular Networks”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey L. Kennington

 

2005-2006

DEDMAN COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES & SCIENCES

 

Anthropology
 

Robert Joseph Graff

December 2005

“HIV Prevention in Dallas, Texas”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Carolyn F. Sargent

 

Susan Blanche Harper-Bisso

December 2005

“Negotiating Gender Identity and Social Identity in an American Neopagan Community”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Caroline B. Brettell

 

Pei-Lin Yu

May 2006

“Pit Cooking and Intensification of Subsistence in the American Southwest and Pacific Northwest”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Lewis R. Binford

 

Biology

 

Tripelo Michael Cooper

December 2005

“Overexpression of Thioredoxin-2 in Drosophila Melanogaster and Calorie Restriction/Nutrient Variation in Musca Domestica to Modulate the Aging Process”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. William C. Orr

Robert Rafgotovitch Ishmukhametov

May 2006

“Isolation and Functional Studies of Subunit aMutants of the E. Coli F*F*APT Synthase”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Steven B. Vik

 

Economics

 

Khawaja Saeed Abdullah-Al Mamun

August 2005

“Three essays on Cigarette Addiction, Taxation, and Health”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Per Fredriksson

 

Trevor Creed Collier

May 2006

“Essays on the Economics of Education”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Daniel Millimet

 

George Dimitrov Kalchev

August 2005

“Essays in Corporate Governance: Liability Insurance, Shareholder Litigation and Litigation Announcements”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Thomas B. Fomby

 

Jayanta Sarkar

May 2006

“Essays on the Endogenous Lifetime, Economic Growth and Income Inequality”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Thomas Osang

 

Qin Wang

August 2005

“Three essays on Credit Spreads”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Nathan Balke

Geological Sciences

 

Sara Mihan House McKenna

August 2005

“Infrasound Wave Propagation Over Near-Regional and Tele-Infrasonic Distances”
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Brian William Stump

History
 

Jimmy Lawrence Bryan, Jr.

May 2006

“The American Elsewhere: Adventurism and Manliness in the Age of Expansion: 1815-1848”

Graduate Advisors: Drs. Sherry L. Smith and David J. Weber

 

Francis Xavier Galán

May 2006

“Last Soldiers: First Pioneers: The Los Adaes Border Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier, 1721-1779”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. David J. Weber

 

Bonnie Maria Martin

May 2006

“ ‘To Have and to Hold…’ Human Collateral: Mortgaging Slaves to Build Virginia and South Carolina”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. David J. Weber

 

Mathematics

 

Hilary Smith Riser

December 2005

“Computational Methods for Singularly Perturbed Two Point Boundary Problems”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Ian Gladwell
 

Zhongxiao Wang

August 2005

“Parallel Computation for Reservoir Thermal Stimulation: An Overlapping Domain Decomposition Approach”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Zhangxin Chen

 

Physics
 

Liang Lu

December 2005

“A New Analysis Strategy to Search for New Particles at the LHC”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Youngshen Gao

 

Psychology

 

Lynne Pyle Fitzhugh

August 2005

“Spontaneous Writing Sample Comparisons of Normal and Learning Disabled Upper Elementary School Students”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Curtis W. McIntyre

Religious Studies

 

Sharon Lynn Baker

May 2006

“By Grace?: An ‘Economy’ of Atonement”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Bruce D. Marshall

 

Janet Marcy Jerrow

December 2005

“Arguing with God in the Wake of the Golden Calf Episode: The Rabbis Read Exodus 32”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. John C. Holbert

 

Gwang-Seok Oh

December 2005

“John Wesley’s Ecclesiology: A Study in Its Sources and Development”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. William J. Abraham

 

Mark Edward Powell

December 2005

“Papal Infallibility as Religious Epistemology: Manning, Newman, Dulles, and Küng”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. William J. Abraham

 

David Farrell Watson III

December 2005

“Honor Among Christians: A Reassessment of the ‘Messianic Secret’ ”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jouette Bassler

 

Statistical Science

 

Kangxia Gu

May 2006

“Testing the Rates of Poisson Distribution”

Graduate Advisors: Drs. H.K. Tony Ng and William R. Shucany

 

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE

 

Applied Science
 

Susan Gene Vandiver

May 2006

“Systems Engineering Approach to Model and Analyze the Performance of Containerized Shipping and Its Interdependencies with the United States Critical Infrastructure”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jerrell T. Stracener

 

Computer Engineering

 

Lun Li

May 2006

“Integrated Techniques for the Formal Verification and Validation of Digital Systems”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Mitchell A. Thornton

 

Computer Science

 

Jahanzeb Faizan

December 2005

“Introducing Reliability and Load Balancing In Mobile IPV6 Based Networks”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Hesham El-Rewini

 

Alexandru Fit-Florea

August 2005

“Extending Hardware Support for Arithmetic Modulo 2k”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. David W. Matula

 

Padmaraj M.V. Nair

May 2006

“Quality of Service in Metro Ethernet”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Sukumaran Nair

 

Electrical Engineering

 

Tao He

August 2005

“Blind Deconvolution of Backscattered Ultrasound Using Sparse Sensor Arrays”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Carlos E. Davila

 

Gokhan Ozgur

December 2005

“Application of the Resonant-Layer Effect to Integrated Isolators and Other Photonic Components”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Gary A. Evans

 

Manjunath Somayaji

May 2006

“Enhancement of Form Factor and Light Collection in Computational Imaging Systems Through Wavefront Coding Techniques”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Marc Christensen

 

Bo Wei

December 2005

“Voice Communications Over Two-Hop Tandem Networks”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Mandyam Dr. Srinath

 

Susan Lynn Wilson

December 2005

“High Power Grating-Outcoupled Surface-Emitting Semiconductor Laser”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Gary A. Evans

 

Mechanical Engineering

 

Rajeev Dwivedi

May 2006

“Process Planning for Rapid Manufacturing of Parts with Complex Geometries and Functionally Graded Composition”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Radovan Kovacevic

 

Vicentiu Grosu

December 2005

“Heat Transfer Analysis of Nanosecond Laser-Induced Forward Transfer”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. David A. Willis

 

Vasfi Gunhan Kaytaz

August 2005

“A New Simulation Model Coupled Electro-Thermal Performance for Mosfet Devices”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Peter E. Raad

 

Dechao Lin

May 2006

“Development of Lead-Free Solders Reinforced With Nanoparticles”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Radovan Kovacevic

 

Srdja Zekovic

May 2006

“Numerical Simulation and Experimental Investigation of Laser-Based Direct Metal Deposition Phenomena”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Radovan Kovacevic

 

Operations Research

 

Giray Arif Birkan
May 2006

“Design Procedures and Restoration Schemes For Backbone Transport Networks: Optimization-Based Models, Heuristic Algorithms, and Unavailability Computations”

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jeffery Kennington

2004-2005

DEDMAN COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES & SCIENCES

Anthropology

Grace Bascope
May 2005
"The Household Ecology of Disease Transmission: Childhood Illness in a Yucatan Maya Community"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Carolyn F. Sargent

Hilary Chester
May 2005
"Early Agriculture in the Mongollon (AD200-1200): Material Manifestations of Labor Organization and Agricultural Intensification"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Michael A. Adler

Jeremy Kulisheck
May 2005
"Change on the Jemez Plateau, A.D. 1200 to 1700: The Effects of Spanish Contact and Conquest"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Michael A. Adler

Jason LaBelle
May 2005
"Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Variability During the Early Holocene of the Central Plains of North America"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. David J. Meltzer

Biology

Sangeeta Ganti
May 2005
"Conformational Changes in the Epsilon Subunit of the E Coli F1F0 APT Synthase"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Steven Vik

Leena Prabhudesai
May 2005
"Gamma-Glutamatecysteine in Drosophila Melanogaster and Drosphila S2 Cells"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William C. Orr

Economics

Khawaja Saeed Abdullah Al-Mamun
July 2005
"The Essays on Cigarette Addiction, Taxation, and Health"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Per G. Fredriksson

Georgi Kalchev
August 2005
"Essays in Corporate Governance: Liability Insurance, Shareholder Litigation and Litigation Announcements"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Thomas Fomby

Qin Wang
August 2005
"Three Essays on Credit Spreads"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Nathan Balke

James Wollscheid
May 2005
"Essays of Political Economy on Environmental Policy"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Per G. Fredriksson

Geological Sciences

Sara McKenna
August 2005
"Infasound Wave Propagation Over Near-Regional and Tele-Infrasonic Distances"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Brian William Stump

Petru Negraru
May 2005
"Investigation on Air to Ground Coupled Waves and Other Geophysical Studies"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Eugene Thorton Herrin

History

Amy Meschke
December 2004
"The Spanish and Mexican Borderlands, 1750-1846"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. David Weber

Mathematics

Zhongxiao Wang
August 2005
"Parallel Computation for Reservoir Thermal Simulation: An Overlapping Domain Decomposition Approach"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Zhangxin Chen

Psychology

Lynne Fitzhugh
August 2005
"Spontaneous Writing Sample Comparisons of Normal and Learning Disabled Upper Elementary School Students"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Curtis W. McIntyre

Heather McMinn
December 2004
"Assessment of the College Preparatory Program: A Retention Study and Prediction Model for College Admission 1995-2003"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Curtis W. McIntyre

Religious Studies

Michael Greene
December 2004
"Working Our Way Out of Poverty: Toward an Ethic of Employment Assurance"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Robin W. Lovin

Cynthia Moore
May 2005
"Grounded Hebrew Semantics: A New Inductive Method for Linguistic Meaning With Special Focus on the Hebrew Terms ..."
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Richard D. Nelson

G. Wilkes
December 2004
"An Inquiry Into the Foundations of Christian Belief"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William J. Abraham

Kornel Zathureczky
December 2004
"Moltmann Through the Messianic Philosophy of Walter Benjamin: Staying with the Negative"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William J. Abraham

Statistical Science

Liangang Liu
December 2004
"Spectral Analysis With Time-Varying Frequency"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Wayne A. Woodward

Liansheng Tang
May 2005
"Undercoverage of Wavelet-based Resampling Confidence Intervals and a Parametric Spatial Bootstrap"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William R. Shucany

Yan Zhong
December 2004
"Analysis of Time-Varying Frequency Exponential Chirp Process Through Exponential Time Transformation"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Wayne A. Woodward

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE

Computer Science

Alexandru Fit-Florea
August 2005
"Extending Hardware Support For Arithmetic Modulo 2k"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. David W. Matula

Electrical Engineering
 
David De Schweinitz
May 2005
"Low-Cost 360-Degree Switched Beam Scanner"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Choon S. Lee

Hanem Eladly
December 2004
"Enhancing the Support of Multi-Hopping in IEEE 802.11 Ad-Hoc Networks"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Thomas M. Chen

Tao He
August 2005
"Blind Deconvolution of Backscattered Ultrasound Using Sparse Sensor Arrays"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Carlos E. Davila

Martin Kinyua
December 2004
"Continuous Digital Background Auto-Calibration for High Accuracy Pipelined Analog-to-Digital Conversion"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William M. Gosney

Jiang Yue
May 2005
"Detection and Channel Estimation for MIMO-OFDM Wireless Communications"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jerry D. Gibson

Mechanical Engineering

Ivan Charamisinau
December 2004
"Analysis and Design of a Red Laser Light Delivery System for Use in Photodynamic Therapy"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Gemunu S. Happawana

Chang Chen
December 2004
"Thermomechanical Modeling of Friction Stir Welding by Finite Element Method"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Radovan Kovacevic

Michael Jahadi
May 2005
"Methodology for Predicting the Effect of Changes in the Load Spectrum on Fatigue Life Predictions and Inspection Intervals"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Paul F. Packman

Vasfi Gunhan Kaytaz
August 2005
"A New Simulation Model of Coupled Electro-Thermal Performance for Mosfet Devices"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Peter Raad

Payam Khashaee
December 2004
"Energy-Based Seismic Design and Damage Assessment for Structures"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Bijan Mohraz

2003-2004

DEDMAN COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES & SCIENCES

Anthropology

Elisabet Bordt
December 2003
"La Delicia: A Late Formative Ceramic Production Site in Southwestern Coastal Ecuador"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. David A. Freidel

Shengqian Chen
August 2004
"Adaptive Changes of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers During the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in China"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. D. Fred Wendorf, Jr.

Ben Passmore
May 2004
"Prace: Social Capital and the Workplace in the Late Transition Czech Republic"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Caroline Brettell

Economics

Keith Phillips
December 2003
"An Analysis and Application of Statistical Techniques to Predict and Measure Business Cycles"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Thomas B. Fomby

Jakovs Itkins
May 2004
"Essays on the Term Structures of Discount Bonds and Commodity Futures"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Nathan Balke

Limin Lin
May 2004
"Structural Change Analysis and Forecasting of Time Series Data in Three Empirical Applications"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Thomas Fomby

Vasudha Rangaprasad
May 2004
"Essays on the Determinants of School Quality and Student Achievement"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Daniel Millimet

Geological Sciences

Yoshitsugu Kobayashi
May 2004
"Asian Ornithomimosaurs"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Louis Jacobs

Junchang Lu
August 2004
"Oviraptorid Dinosaurs From Southern China"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Louis Jacobs

Bethany Rinard
May 2004
"Structure of Kilauea's Southwest Rift Zone and Western South Flank Defined by Relocated Earthquakes"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Brian William Stump

Rongmao Zhou
May 2004
"Intermediate Period Surface Waves from Mining Explosions for Crustal Structure and Source Studies - Application in the Western USA and Northeast China"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Brian William Stump

Psychology

Courtney Raspin
December 2003 
"Eating Disorders and Family Patterns: Classifying Families Using the Beavers Family Systems Model"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Robert B. Hampson

Religious Studies

Douglas Koleska
December 2003
"Yves Congar's Vision of Ecclesiality: Pneumatological Development and Ecumenical Promise"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William J. Abraham

David Halleen
May 2004
"The Role of Religious Speech in Public Discourse: An Examination of Contemporary Theories Through Analyzing the Religious Speech of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Reed"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Robin Lovin

Jason Vickers
May 2004
"Early Church and Seventeenth Century England"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William J. Abraham

John Williams
May 2004
"Between the Labyrinth and the Abyss: Presbyterians and Schism, 1837-1861"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. James E. Kirby

Statistical Science

Patrick Carmack
August 2004
"Recursive Partitioning in Spatially Correlated Data"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William R. Schucany

An Jia
December 2003
"A Tree-Based Approach for Estimating Variable Bandwidths in Local Linear Regression"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William R. Schucany

Huiping Jiang
December 2003
"Time-Frequency Analysis: G(lambda) Stationary Processes"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Gray and Dr. Woodward

Yushan Liu
August 2004
"On Estimation of the Number of Multinomial Cells from Cluster Sampling"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Lynne Stokes

Shuyi Shen
August 2004
"The Minimum L2 Distance Estimator in Poisson Mixtures"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Ian R. Harris

Jeffrey Spence
May 2004
"Imagining Data: Optimal Prediction in Regions of Interest"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Richard F. Gunst

Zhu Wang
August 2004
"The Application of the Kalman Filter to Nonstationary Time Series Through Time Deformation"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Henry L. Gray

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE

Electrical Engineering
 
Amitabh Dixit
August 2004
"Asymptotically Optical Blind Techniques For Receiver Bit Error Rate Estimation And Network Optimization In An Arbitrary Multi-Receiver Network"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Geoffrey Orsak

Nayera Sadek Mohamed
August 2004
"High-Speed Network Traffic Prediction and Its Applications Using Neural Networks and Self-Similar Models"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Alireza Khotanzad

Sumant Paranjpe
August 2004
"Training-Free Universal Receivers For Wireless Communication Systems"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Geoffrey Orsak

Jun Yu
August 2004
"Content-Based Temporal and Spatial Segmentation of Motion Pictures"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Mandyam Dr. Srinath

Engineering Management

Saib Jarrar
May 2004
"Formulation And Evaluation of Optimization Models for MPLS Traffic Engineering With QOS Requirements"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Richard S. Barr

Akif Koru
August 2004
"Risk Identification For Defect Reduction in Software Development"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jeff Tian

Charles Stein
August 2004
"An Analytic Hierarchy Process Methodology to Combine Multiple Preferences with Data Normalization Effects in Data Envelopment Analysis Model"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Eli Victor Olinick

Mechanical Engineering

Remus Ciobotaru
May 2004
"Free Surface Fluid Interactions With Moving Solids"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Peter E. Raad

Honggang Fan
August 2004
"Numerical Analysis of Heat and Mass Transfer in Arc Welding"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Radovan Kovacevic

Ali Merrikh
May 2004
"Convection-Diffusion Analysis of Gas Transport in a Pulmonary Capillary"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jose L. Lage

Mingde Song
December 2003
"Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer in Friction Stir Welding"

2002-2003

DEDMAN COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES & SCIENCES

Anthropology

M. Kathryn Brown
May 2003
"Emerging Complexity in the Maya Lowlands: A View from Blackman Eddy, Belize"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. David Friedel

Mary Elizabeth Clark
 May 2003
 "Archaeological Investigations at the Jenne-Jeno Settlement Complex, Inland Niger Delta,
 Mali, West Africa"
 Graduate Advisor: Dr. Harold Heitala

Sidney Siegel Perutz
  May 2003
  "Women's Work in Tepoztlan (Mexico) in the Time of Globalization"
  Graduate Advisor: Dr. Victoria Lockwood

Arushi Sinha
  May 2003
  "Telemedicine: The Virtual Gaze of Healthcare"
  Graduate Advisor: Dr. Caroline Brettell

John Kenneth Williams
  May 2003
  "Examining the Boundaries of the Levantine Aurignacian"
  Graduate Advisor: Dr. Anthony Marks

Dawn Alice Youngblood
  May 2003
  "Later Stone Age Economic Strategies and System Stability in the Upper Karoo, South Africa"
  Graduate Advisor: Dr. Garth Sampson

Katherine Rebecca Monigal
December 2002 
"The Levantine Leptolithic: Blade Production from the Lower Paleolithic to the Dawn of the Upper Paleolithic" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Anthony Marks

Biological Sciences

Bilal Ahmad Amarneh
December 2002 
"Structure-Function of the nuoN Subunit of Escherichia Coli Complex I and the Association of Complex I with Malate Dehydrogenase" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Steven Vik

Economics

Halis Murat Yildiz
May 2003
"Essays on the Linkages Between Industry Structure and Trade Liberalization"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Kamal Saggi

Geological Sciences

Leslie F. Bleamaster III
May 2003 
"The Ix-Chel, Kuanja, Vir-Ava Chasmata System, Venus: Geologic History, Crustal Structure, and Magma Production & Transport" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Vickie L. Hansen

Duncan Alexander Young
May 2003 
"Rusalka Planitia, Venus: Geological Constraints on Lithospheric Evolution" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Vickie L. Hansen

Meena Balakrishnan
December 2002 
"Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Land Snail Aragonte Shells: Modeling, Measurements and Paleoenvironmental Interpretation" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Crayton Yapp

Jason McKenna
August 2002 
"Implications of the Shallow and Intermediate Thermal Structure of Subduction Zones for Arc-Volcanism and Back-Arc Heat Flow and Other Geophysical Studies" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. David Blackwell

History

Kerry Ray Oman
May 2003 
"As Far As the Eye Can Reach: Eastern Travelers and the Changing Western
Landscape 1800-1890"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Sherry Smith and Dr. David Weber

Mathematics

Bentley Todd Garrett
May 2003 
"Wavelets and Boundary Value Problems"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Ian Gladwell

Baoyan Li
August 2003 
"A Control Volume Function Approximation Method and Reservoir Simulation with Flexible Grids"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Zhangxin Chen

Physics

Eliana Vianello
May 2003 
"Non-Perturbative Effects from Perturbative Theory in Adjoint QCD 1+1"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Gary McCartor

Psychology

Alex Burmeister
May 2003 
"An Investigationof the Influence of Narrative Coherence on Couple Relationship Functioning"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Deborah Laible

Ashley Hollweg Sibley
December 2002 
"Emotional Abuse in Intimate Partner Relationships: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Implications" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Chris Eckhardt

Statistical Science

Eun-Ha Choi
August 2003
"Earma Processes With Spectral Analysis of Non-Stationary Time Series" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Henry Gray and Dr. Wayne Woodward

Krista Cohlmia
August 2003
"Filtering M-Stationary Processes"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Henry Gray and Dr. Wayne Woodward

Sergio Francisco Juarez
May 2003
"Robust and Efficient Estimation for the Generalized Pareto Distribution" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William R. Schucany

Abu Minhajuddin
August 2003
"Bootstrap Tests for Multivariate Ordered Alternative Hypotheses"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William R. Shucany

Chu-Ping Vijverberg
December 2002 
"Discrete Multiplicative Stationary Processes" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Henry Gray

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE

Applied Science

Wei Han
August 2002 
"Practical and Asymmetric Synthesis of Core Structure of Sequicillin, Total Synthesis of F-12509 A.  Synthetic Studies Toward Quassinoid Skeleton" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Edward Biehl

Computer Science

Ryan Mellor Garlick
May 2003
"Dynamic Wavelength Routing and Microbatch Provisioning in WDM Networks" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Richard S. Barr and Dr. Suku Nair

Ayse Yasemin Seydim
May 2003
"Location Dependent Query Processing in Mobile Environments" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Margaret Dunham

Ahmad Saad Al Mogren
August 2002 
"Developing an Architectural Model and Maintaining Transactional Consistency for Universal Mobile Broadcast" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Margaret Dunham

Electrical Engineering
 
Huo-Hua Tseng
May 2003
"Electrically Small Microstrip Antennas" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Choon Sae Lee

Hui Dong
December 2002 
"SNR and Bandwidth Scalable Speech Coding" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jerry Gibson

Xioan Sun
December 2002 
"Blind Source Separation and Multi-channel Blind Deconvolution: Adaptive Algorithms" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Scott Douglas

Ahmed H. Hmimy
August 2002 
"Design and Analysis of Turbo Codes for Next Generation Wireless Technologies" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Someshwar Gupta

Mark Gavin Kokes
August 2002 
"Spectral Entropy-Based Wideband Speech Coding" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jerry D. Gibson

Muhammet Alparslan Yaradanakul
August 2002 
"Room Temperature Infrared Microbolometers on a Flexible Substrate" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Zeynep Celik-Butler

Ali Yildiz
August 2002 
"Semiconducting YBaCuO Infrared Microbolometers on a Flexible Substrate" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Zeynep Celik-Butler

Engineering Management

Randal William Oberle
December 2002 
"Decision Model Selection and Application of Titanium in the Design of Packaging for Gallium Arsenide Devices Susceptible to Hydrogen Degradation" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Charles M. Lovas

John William Via III
December 2002 
"Flexible Packaging Lines: Design, Implementation, and Performance Evaluation" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Richard S. Barr

Mechanical Engineering

Dongming Hu
May 2003 
"Sensing, Control, and Modeling of Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing for Solid
Freeform Fabrication" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Radovan Kovacevic

Zoran Jandric
May 2003 
"Optimization of Hybrid Rapid Manufacturing/Repair Process" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Radovan Kovacevic

Marius Raducanu
May 2003 
"Solving the Delay Problem in Master-Slave Mechanisms" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Radovan Kovacevic

Philip Thomas Shimon
May 2003 
"Advanced Control Methodologies for Suppression of Vibration on Aircraft Skin" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Yildirim Hurmuzlu

Eloi Taha
August 2003 
"Systems by Using Sliding Mode Control (SMC) and Quantitative Feedback Theory (QMT)" 

Elena V. Borzova
August 2002 
"Using Passive Models to Develop Low Torque Controller for Bipedal Locomotion" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Yildirim Hurmuzlu

Arunn Narasimhan
August 2002 
"Unraveling, Modeling and Validating the Temperature Dependent Viscosity Effects in Flow Through Porous Media" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. José Lage

Operations Research

Thomas Wayne McLoud, Jr.
May 2003
"Constrained Integer Network Flows" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Richard S. Barr

2001-2002

DEDMAN COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES & SCIENCES

Anthropology

Risa Cybele Diemond Arbolino
August 2001 
"Agricultural Strategies and Labor Organization: An Ethnohistoric Approach to the Study of Prehistoric Farming Systems in the Taos Area of Northern New Mexico" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Michael Adler

Timothy John Benner
December 2001 
"Issues in the Measurement and Definition of Poverty: An Example from the Rural Phillipines" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Ben Wallace

Russell T. Gould
May 2002 
"Logic and the Analysis of Function in Historical Archaeology" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Lewis Binford

David Harold Jurney
December 2001 
"Diaspora of the Alabama and Koasati Indians Across Southeastern North America" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Garth Sampson

Joseph Miller
May 2002
"A Macroarchaeological Examination of the New Mexico Archaic with Implications for the Transition to Food Protection" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Lewis Binford

Katherine Rae Nelson
December 2001 
"The Container Complex: Ethnographic and Environmental Patterning" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Fred Wendorf

Christine Skipper
December 2001 
"To Deserve One Another's Confidence: An Historical Ethnography of Company, Community and Deindustrialization in an Alabama Town" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Caroline Brettell

Biological Sciences

Julie C. Long
August 2001 
"Membrane Topology of the A Subunit of Escherichia Coli F1F0 ATP Synthase with Characterization of First Cytoplasmic Loop" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Steven Vik

Di Zhang
December 2001 
"The Helix Packing of Subunit A of the F1Fo Atpase as Studied by Protease Activity of 1, 10-Phenanthroline-Copper" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Steven Vik

Economics

Hiranya Kumar Nath
May 2002 
"Essays on the Behavior of Prices" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Nathan Balke

Geological Sciences

Rebecca Rose Ghent
May 2002 
"An Analysis of Tectonic Structures in Venusian Crustal Plateau: Structure, Kinematics, and Numerical Modeling" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Vicki Hansen

Jason James Head
May 2002 
"Reptile Paleontology of the Siwalik Group (Miocene of Pakistan): Correlation of a Rich Fossil Record to Environmental Histories" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Louis Jacobs

Physics

Ilya V. Narsky
August 2001
"Rare Leptonic Decays of the D Meson and Tau Lepton" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Ryszard A. Stroynowski

Yurii Yurevich Maravin
May 2002
"Search for CP Violation in Tau Lepton Decays" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Ryszard A. Stroynowski
 
Psychology

Camille Rene Patterson
December 2001 
"The Pursuit of Happiness Above All Else: A Critique of Mood Management" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Laura King

Anne Vahala Ellis
May 2002 
"Relationship Between Adoptive Family Competence and Emotional Functioning of Adopted Children" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Robert Hampson

Religious Studies

Michael D. Burkett
May 2002 
"St. Ambrose's Theology of Integrity" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William Babcock

Pavel Leonid Gavrilyuk
December 2001 
"Divine Suffering/Impassibility in Patristic Theology with Special Reference to Cyril of Alexandria's Doctrine of the Incarnation" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William Babcock

Donna C. Yarri
May 2002 
"The Ethics of Animal Experimentation: A Critical Analysis and Constructive Christian Proposal" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Charles Curran

Statistical Science

Jian Han
December 2001 
"Genetic Linkage Analysis of Bivariate Traits Using Identity by Descent Data from Sib-pairs" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Rudy Guerra

 

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE

Applied Science

Tae Hwan Oh
December 2001 
"Reliability and QOS in Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Networks" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Thomas M. Chen

Computer Science & Engineering

Mihai Surdeanu
August 2001
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Dan Moldovan

Lee Dobson McFearin
May 2002 
"A p-Bit Model of Binary Floating Point Division and Square Root with Emphasis on External Rounding Boundaries" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. David Matula

Rada Flavia Mihalcea
December 2001 
"Turning Implicit Knowledge into Explicit Knowledge via Word Semantics: A Model for Information Retrieval" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Dan Moldovan

Alexandru M. Pasca
December 2001 
"High-Performance, Open-Domain Question Answering from Large Text Collections" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Sanda Harabagiu

Vasile Rus
May 2002 
"Logic Forms for WordNet Glosses" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Dan Moldovan

Electrical Engineering

Mohmoud Almasri
December 2001 
"Micromachined Semiconducting YBaCuO IR and FIR Detectors" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Donald Butler

Nuditha Vibhavie Amarasinghe
December 2001 
"Random Telegraph Signals in Submicron MOSFETs" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Zeynep Celik-Butler

Ahmed Ibrahim Elarabawy
May 2002 
"OFDM for Wireless Multimedia Applications" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Someshwar Gupta

Orlando J. Hernandez
May 2002 
"Color Image Retrieval Using Multispectral Random Field Texture Model and Color Content Features" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Alireza Khotanzad

Chung-Jen Kuo
December 2001 
"Signal Subspace-based Speech Enhancement" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Carlos Davila

Mohamed Fouad Madkour
December 2001 
"W-CDMA for Wireless Multimedia Applications" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Someshwar Gupta

Nermin Abdelkader Mohamed
May 2002 
"Advanced Combined antenna Arrays and Multi-User Detection Wireless CDMA Receivers in Multipath Channels" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. James G. Dunham

Sandra Selmic
May 2002 
"Multiple Quantum Well Semiconductor Lasers Emitting at Wavelengths of 1310 nm and 1550 nm" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Gary Evans

Jian Wang
December 2001 
"Erasure-robust CELP Speech Coding and Concealment" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jerry Gibson

Mechanical Engineering

Mihai Burzo
December 2001 
"Transient Thermoreflectance Measurements of the Thermal Properties of Metallized Thin-Film Electronics Materials" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Peter Raad

2000-2001

DEDMAN COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES & SCIENCES

Anthropology

James W. Kendrick
May 2001 
"Archaeological Studies in the Lowry Area: An Examination of Great House Development in Southwest Colorado" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Michael Adler

Beverly Jill Smith
May 2001 
"Church and State: AIDS in Rural Kenya" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Carolyn Sargent

Biological Sciences

Patricia Lopez
December 2000 
"Transport Via Actin or Tubulin Depending on Respiratory State of Mitochondria" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Diane Gambill

Nathalie Sumien Signol
December 2000 
"Vitamin E Supplementation Effects on Different Aging Aspects in Mice" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William Orr

Economics

Indro Dasgupta
December 2000 
"Essays on the Impact of Globalization on Relative Wages" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Thomas Osang

Indranil Ghosh
December 2000 
"Essays on Mechanism Design" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Rajat Deb

Mathematics

David C. Dimminnie
August 2000 
"Slow Passage Through Homoclinic Orbits Associated with the Unfolding of a Saddle-Center Bifurcation" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Richard Haberman

Valeria Antohe
May 2001 
"Computational Algorithms for Hamiltonian Systems" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Ian Gladwell

Qiaoyuan Jiang
May 2001 
"Characteristic Finite Element Methods for Degenerate Parabolic Problems and their Application to Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Zhangxin (John) Chen

Physics

Vitaliy Fadeyev
August 2000 
"Production of Pseudoscalar Charmonia in B Meson Decays" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Ryszard A. Stroynowski
 
Psychology

Michael D. Crow
August 2000 
"Physiological and Health Effects of Writing About Stress" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Laura A. King

Siobhan Andrews Maize
August 2000 
"Pediatric Pain: Meta-analysis and Comparative Study of Psychological Interventions" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Ephrem Fernandez

William David Barta
May 2001 
"Mortality Salience, Sexual Permissiveness, and Prospective Infidelity Across the Life-Span" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Diane Berry

Elizabeth Harper
May 2001 
"Reducing Treatment-Related Anxiety in Cancer Patients: Comparison of Psychological Interventions" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Marjorie Woodruff

Susan Hornstein
May 2001 
"Memory for Action Events: The Effect of Re-enactment During Retrieval and Enactment on Source Discrimination" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Neil Mulligan

Gayla Paschall
May 2001
"Olfactory-Mediated Fear-Potentiated Startle" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Alan Brown

Religious Studies

Frederick David Aquino
December 2000 
"Communities of Informed Judgement:  The Significance of John Henry Newman's Notion of the Illative Sense for Issues in Theological Prolegomena" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William Abraham

John Havea
December 2000 
"Keep Your Vow:  A Transtextual Reading of Numbers 30" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Danna Nolan Fewell

Statistical Science

Euikyoo Lee
May 2001 
"Bayesian Hierarchical Spatiotemporal Models with Application to the Modeling of Hanford Site Tritium Concentrations" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Richard Gunst

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE

Computer Engineering

Krishnan G. Indiradevi
August 2000
"Design and Validation of Authentication Systems"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Sukumaran Nair

Computer Science

Yu Wang
August 2000
"Mobility and Quality of Service Support in Packet-switched Mobile Data Networks" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Weidong Chen

Yongqiao Xiao
December 2000
"Online Adaptive Data Mining for Large Databases" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Margaret Dunham

Cheng Shan
May 2001 
"Guaranteed Quality of Service for VBR Traffic" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Weidong Chen

Electrical Engineering

Haydar Bilhan
December 2000
"A CMOS Current Mode Pipelined Analog to Digital Conversion" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. W. Milton Gosney

Cheng I. Chung
August 2000
"Hand Written Digit Recognition Using Combination of Neural Network Classifiers" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Alireza Khotanzad

Chao Kan
December 2000
"Moment-Based Invariant Character Recognition Using Global and Local Information" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Mandyam Srinath

Justin Ridge
December 2000
"Smoothed Descriptions:  Joint Encoder-Decoder Design for Robust Multi-Channel Transmission of Images" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jerry Gibson

Hassan El-Ragal
May 2001 
"Forecasting with Combination of Artificial Neural Networks" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Alireza Khotanzad

Raymond Samaniego
May 2001 
"Range and Doppler Alignment in High Resolution Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Using Overlapped Subapertures" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Mandyam Srinath

Engineering Management

Ali Farmehr
December 2000
"Design Strategies for Both Survivable and Non Survivable Personal Communication Networks" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jeff Kennington

Michael E. Hopper
August 2000
"US Air Force Acquisition of Commercial Aircraft: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Richard Helgason

Mohammed H. Rahman
December 2000
"Optimization-Based Methods to Design Ring Covers for Telecommunications Networks" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jeff Kennington

William David Bell
May 2001
"Quality and Productivity Comparisons of Object-Oriented and Cleanroom Software Developments" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jeffery Kennington

Mechanical Engineering

Ionut Cristian Popescu
December 2000
"An Unmapped Eulerian-Langrangian Approach to Modelling Coupled Fluid-Solid Motion" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Peter Raad

Cuneyt Yilmaz
December 2000
"Solving Multi-Impact Problems Using Impulse Transmission Ratio" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Yildirim Hurmuzlu

Marko Labudovic
May 2001
"Laser Surface Modification of Titanium Alloys" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Radovan Kovacevic

Operations Research

Karen Lewis
May 2001
"Preprocessing Algorithms for Generalized Networks: Theory and an Empirical Analysis" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jeffery Kennington

1999-2000

DEDMAN COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES & SCIENCES

Anthropology

Francisco Almeida
May 2000 
"The Terminal Gravettian of Portuguese Estremadura: Technological Variability of the Lithic Industries" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Anthony Marks

Michael Rober Bever
May 2000 
"Paleoindian Lithic Technology and Landscape Use in Late Pleistocene Alaska: A Study of the Mesa Complex" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. David Meltzer

Sandra Weinstein Bever
December 1999 
"Migration, Household Economy, and Gender: A Comparative Study of Households in a Rural Yucatec Maya Community" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Victoria Lockwood

Lisa Henry
December 1999 
"The Reconstruction and Revitalization of Tahitian Healing" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Carolyn Sargent

Marvin Douglas Henry
May 2000 
"Embodied Violence: War and Relief Along the Sierra Leone Border" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Carolyn Sargent

Susan M. Racine
May 2000 
"How It Go Look? Beauty, History, and Commodity in the Caribbean" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Caroline Brettell

Travis Stanton
May 2000 
"Heterachy, Hierarchy and the Emergence of the Northern Lowland Maya: A Study of Complexity at Yaxuna, Yucatan, Mexico" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. David Freidel

Economics

Stuart John Fowler
August 1999 
"Three Essays on Estimation and Control in the Neoclassical Growth Model" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Nathan Balke

Geological Sciences

Vladimir Liahkovitch
August 1999
"Fluid-Rock Interaction Fossil and Modern: The Paleozoic Trinity Complex and East Texas Formation Waters" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Robert Gregory

Elizabeth Gomani
December 1999
"Dinosaurs of the Cretaceous Sediments of Northern Malawi, Africa"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Louis Jacobs

Psychology

Ashley Lowry Conklin
May 2000 
"Assessment of the College Preparatory Program: 1995-1998" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Curt McIntyre

Lois Glasgow
December 1999
"A Comparison of Broad and Narrow Personality Traits in the Prediction of Job Performance"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Margery Hatch

Jo Meier
December 1999
"The Effect of Writing About Emotional Aspects of Infertility" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Laura King

Eleanor Herndon Munson
May 2000 
"Delinquency Subtypes and Offenses" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Curt McIntyre

Janet M. Ossman
May 2000 
"Inhibition, ADHD, and Negative Charged Priming" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Neil Mulligan

Religious Studies

Peter W. Agnew
December 1999
"Religion and the Social Order in a Twentieth-Century City: Six Dallas Leaders" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Edwin Sylvest

Charles E. Gutenson
May 2000 
"The Being and Nature of God in the Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William Abraham

Robert Christopher Heard
May 2000 
"Dynamics of Diselection: Ambiguity and Ethnic Identity in Genesis 12-36" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Danna Fewell

Martha Vail Myre
May 2000 
"The Speeches of Elihu in the Book of Job: Reading the First Reader" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William J.A. Power

Lisa Anne Unterseher
May 2000 
"The Mark of Cain and the Jews: Augustine's Theology of Jews and Judaism" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William Babcock

Statistical Science

Carol Etzel
December 1999 
"Meta-Analysis for Genetic Linkage Studies"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Rudy Guerra

Jo Kang Kuo
December 1999 
"Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci with Extreme Discordant Sib Pairs: Sampling Considerations Using Bivariate Data"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Rudy Guerra

Jeffrey Scott Pitblado
May 2000 
"Estimating Partially Variable Bandwidths in Local Linear Regression Using an Information Criterion" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William Schucany

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE

Applied Science

Rick L. Wise
May 2000
"Low-Temperature Epitaxial Silicon Deposition Process with Reduced Arsenic Autodoping Using Clustered HF Pre-Clean"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Edward Forest

Computer Engineering

Cristina Iordache
August 1999
"Rounding Standards and Interpolative Algorithms for Reciprocal, Division, Square Root and Square Root Reciprocal"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. David Matula

Computer Science

George A. Deprez
May 2000
"A Distributed Fault Management Framework for Multi-Layered Networks" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Sukumaran Nair

Mihaela Iridon
August 1999
"Regular Triangulated Toroidal Graphs with Applications in Cellular and Interconnection Networks"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. David Matula

Arnel Periquet
December 1999
"A Reflective Model and Meta-Level Architecture for Mobile Component Design"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Dan Moldovan

Qun Ren
May 2000
"Semantic Caching in Mobile Computing" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Margaret Dunham

Guang Wan
December 1999
"Network Delivery of Packet-Based Multi-Services in Wireless Communications Networks"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Weidong Chen

Electrical Engineering

Pi Wei Chen
May 2000
"Leaky-Wave Microstrip Antenna and Electrically Small Microstrip Antenna" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Choon Sae Lee

Alaa Eldin Y. El Sherif
May 2000
"Mosfet Modeling for RF Analog Circuit CAD" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Ken Ashley

William Thomas Jennings
May 2000
"Modulo Arithmetic Systems and Key Escrow" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jim Dunham

Engineering Management

Mona Kathryn Whitley Howard
May 2000
"Integration and Management of a Non-Traditional Educational Degree Program Using Conjoint Analysis" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Marion Sobol

Mechanical Engineering

Razvan Bidoae
May 2000 
"Interaction of Free Surface Flow with Solid Obstacles and Porous Media" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Peter Raad

Vladimir Koulich
May 1999
"Heat and Mass Diffusion in Microscale: Fractals, Brownian Motions and Fractional Calculus" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jose Lage

Cuneyt Yilmaz
May 2000 
"Solving Multi-Impact Problems Using Impulse Transmission Ratio" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Yildirim Hurmuzlu

Operations Research

Mark W. Lewis
May 2000
"Spare Capacity Planning for Telecommunications Networks: Models and Algorithms" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jeffery Kennington

1998-1999

DEDMAN COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES & SCIENCES

Anthropology

Frederic Sellet
May 1999 
"A Dynamic View of Paleoindian Assemblages at the Hell Gap Site, Wyoming: Reconstructing Lithic Technological Systems" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. David Meltzer

Biological Sciences

Mary H. Bassett
August 1998 
"Sequence and Developmental Expression of CYP 18, An Ecdysone-Regulated Gene From Drosophila melanogaster" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. John McCarthy

Robin Jon Mockett
December 1998
"Glutathione Reductase Overexpression in Transgenic Drosophila melanogaster" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Raj Sohal

Ernest Simpson
May 1999
"Mutational Analysis of PBP 2B in B. subtilis" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Christine Buchanan

Economics

Satish Raghavendran
December 1998 
"Three Essays on Random Matching Models and Asset Markets"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Gregory Huffman

Aniruddha Sanyal
May 1999 
"Two Essays on Interest Rate Derivatives" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Nathan Balke

Geological Sciences

Ileana M. Tibuleac
May 1999
"Array Measurements of P and PcP Slowness Residuals with Implications for Lateral Hetergeneity in the Lower Mantle Beneath the Caribbean Sea and Other Geophysical Studies" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Eugene Herrin

Kenneth Wisian
May 1999
"Numerical Modeling of Basin and Range Geothermal Ssytems"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. David D. Blackwell

Mathematics

Jacek Kierzenka
December 1998
"Studies in the Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Lawrence Shampine

Todd Dewitt Fortenberry
May 1999
"Investigations of Interfacial Instabilities in a Coating Flow Problem" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Douglas Reinelt

Natalia Khlopina
May 1999
"Finite Element Methods for Degenerate Two-Phase Incompressible Flow Problems" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Zhangxin Chen

Physics

Ilya Korolkov
May 1999
"Study of Radiative Upsilon Decays" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Richard Stroynowski

Psychology

Morgan Luise Walls
May 1999
"An Intra- and Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Self-Conscious Emotions"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Ephrem Fernandez

Teresa Williams
May 1999
"The Long Term Impact of Emotional Experience During a Single Event on the Pursuit of a Life Dream" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Laura King

Religious Studies

Timothy David Beck
December 1998
"The Spirit of the New Age: The Eschatological Dimensions of the Work of the Holy Spirit in the Writings of Paul the Apostle and Jurgen Moltmann" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William Abraham

Thomas E. Phillips
December 1998 
"Reading Issues of Wealth and Poverty in Luke and Acts" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Joseph Tyson

Paul Barton
May 1999 
"In Both Worlds: A History of Hispanic Protestantism in the U.S. Southwest" 
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Edwin E. Sylvest, Jr.

Statistical Science

Bryan Emmett Adams
August 1998 
"Scatterplot Smoothing with Partially Variable Bandwiths"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. William Schucany

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE

Computer Engineering

Hakki Candan Cankaya
May 1999
"Survivability Analysis of Restorable SONET Networks"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Sukumaran Nair

Prasad Golla
May 1999
"KUMA--A Kernel-User Multithreaded Architectural Model"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Dan Moldovan

Georghe M. Spiride
May 1999
"Design and Evaluation of Restoration Protocols for SONET Mesh Networks"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Sukumaran Nair

Computer Science

William Gale Farquhar
December 1998
"A Multithreaded Architecture with Deterministic Real-time Behavior"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Dan Moldovan

Jenq Foung Yao
December 1998
"Caching Management of Mobile DBMS on a Mobile Unit Engineering"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Margaret Dunham

Israel Hilerio
May 1999
"Herbal-T, A Distributed Architecture for Internet Component Integration"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Weidong Chen

Electrical Engineering

Tsun-Liang Lu
August 1998
"Forecasting with Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Alireza Khotanzad

Insoo Sohn
August 1998
"Adaptive Multiuser Detection in CDMA Channels"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. S.C. Gupta

Huseyin Arslan
December 1998
"Adjacent Channel Interference Cancellation in TDMA/FDMA Mobile Radio Systems"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. S.C. Gupta

Tung-Hung Hsieh
December 1998
"Double-layer Microstrip Array Antenna"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Choon-Sae Lee

Maher Mahmoud Sarraj
December 1998
"A New Scheme for a Pipelined A/D Converter"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. W. Milton Gosney

Clark D. Kinnaird
May 1999
"Adaptive Fuzzy Process Control of Integrated Circuit Wire Bonding"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Alireza Khotanzad

Ibrahim S. Nomay
May 1999
"Mobility Tracking Using an AVL Technique for PCS Networks"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. James Dunham

Donald R. Van Rheeden
May 1999
"Automatic Vehicle Location Using Adaptive Antennas"
Graduate Advisor: Dr. S.C. Gupta

Engineering Management

Richard Edwin Chambers