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PhD Graduates

2002-2003 : Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor(s)
M. Kathryn Brown MAY 2003 "Emerging Complexity in the Maya Lowlands: A View from Blackman Eddy, Belize" Anthropology Dr. David Friedel
Mary Elizabeth Clark MAY 2003 "Archaeological Investigations at the Jenne-Jeno Settlement Complex, Inland Niger Delta, Mali, West Africa" Anthropology Dr. Harold Heitala
Sidney Siegel Perutz MAY 2003 "Women's Work in Tepoztlan (Mexico) in the Time of Globalization" Anthropology Dr. Victoria Lockwood
Arushi Sinha MAY 2003 "Telemedicine: The Virtual Gaze of Healthcare" Anthropology Dr. Caroline Brettell
John Kenneth Williams MAY 2003 "Examining the Boundaries of the Levantine Aurignacian" Anthropology Dr. Anthony Marks
Dawn Alice Youngblood MAY 2003 "Later Stone Age Economic Strategies and System Stability in the Upper Karoo, South Africa" Anthropology Dr. Garth Sampson
Katherine Rebecca Monigal DEC 2002 "The Levantine Leptolithic: Blade Production from the Lower Paleolithic to the Dawn of the Upper Paleolithic" Anthropology Dr. Anthony Marks
Bilal Ahmad Amarneh DEC 2002 "Structure-Function of the nuoN Subunit of Escherichia Coli Complex I and the Association of Complex I with Malate Dehydrogenase" Biological Sciences Dr. Steven Vik
Halis Murat Yildiz MAY 2003 "Essays on the Linkages Between Industry Structure and Trade Liberalization" Economics Dr. Kamal Saggi
Leslie F. Bleamaster III MAY 2003 "The Ix-Chel, Kuanja, Vir-Ava Chasmata System, Venus: Geologic History, Crustal Structure, and Magma Production & Transport" Geological Sciences Dr. Vickie L. Hansen
Duncan Alexander Young MAY 2003 "Rusalka Planitia, Venus: Geological Constraints on Lithospheric Evolution" Geological Sciences Dr. Vickie L. Hansen
Meena Balakrishnan DEC 2002 "Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Land Snail Aragonte Shells: Modeling, Measurements and Paleoenvironmental Interpretation" Geological Sciences Dr. Crayton Yapp
Jason McKenna AUG 2002 "Implications of the Shallow and Intermediate Thermal Structure of Subduction Zones for Arc-Volcanism and Back-Arc Heat Flow and Other Geophysical Studies" Geological Sciences Dr. David Blackwell
Kerry Ray Oman MAY 2003 "As Far As the Eye Can Reach: Eastern Travelers and the Changing Western Landscape 1800-1890" History Dr. Sherry Smith and Dr. David Weber
Bentley Todd Garrett MAY 2003 "Wavelets and Boundary Value Problems" Mathematics Dr. Ian Gladwell
Baoyan Li AUG 2003 "A Control Volume Function Approximation Method and Reservoir Simulation with Flexible Grids" Mathematics Dr. Zhangxin Chen
Eliana Vianello MAY 2003 "Non-Perturbative Effects from Perturbative Theory in Adjoint QCD 1+1" Physics Dr. Gary McCartor
Alex Burmeister MAY 2003 "An Investigation of the Influence of Narrative Coherence on Couple Relationship Functioning" Psychology Dr. Deborah Laible
Ashley Hollweg Sibley DEC 2002 "Emotional Abuse in Intimate Partner Relationships: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Implications" Psychology Dr. Chris Eckhardt
Eun-Ha Choi AUG 2003 "Earma Processes With Spectral Analysis of Non-Stationary Time Series" Statistical Science Dr. Henry Gray and Dr. Wayne Woodward
Krista Cohlmia AUG 2003 "Filtering M-Stationary Processes" Statistical Science Dr. Henry Gray and Dr. Wayne Woodward
Sergio Francisco Juarez MAY 2003 "Robust and Efficient Estimation for the Generalized Pareto Distribution" Statistical Science Dr. William R. Schucany
Abu Minhajuddin AUG 2003 "Bootstrap Tests for Multivariate Ordered Alternative Hypotheses" Statistical Science Dr. William R. Shucany
Chu-Ping Vijverberg DEC 2002 "Discrete Multiplicative Stationary Processes" Statistical Science Dr. Henry Gray

2002-2003 : School of Engineering & Applied Science

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor(s)
Wei Han AUG 2002 "Practical and Asymmetric Synthesis of Core Structure of Sequicillin, Total Synthesis of F-12509 A. Synthetic Studies Toward Quassinoid Skeleton" Applied Science Dr. Edward Biehl
Ryan Mellor Garlick MAY 2003 "Dynamic Wavelength Routing and Microbatch Provisioning in WDM Networks" Computer Science Dr. Richard S. Barr and Dr. Suku Nair
Ayse Yasemin Seydim MAY 2003 "Location Dependent Query Processing in Mobile Environments" Computer Science Dr. Margaret Dunham
Ahmad Saad Al Mogren AUG 2002 "Developing an Architectural Model and Maintaining Transactional Consistency for Universal Mobile Broadcast" Computer Science Dr. Margaret Dunham
Huo-Hua Tseng MAY 2003 "Electrically Small Microstrip Antennas" Electrical Engineering Dr. Choon Sae Lee
Hui Dong DEC 2002 "SNR and Bandwidth Scalable Speech Coding" Electrical Engineering Dr. Jerry Gibson
Xioan Sun DEC 2002 "Blind Source Separation and Multi-channel Blind Deconvolution: Adaptive Algorithms" Electrical Engineering Dr. Scott Douglas
Ahmed H. Hmimy AUG 2002 "Design and Analysis of Turbo Codes for Next Generation Wireless Technologies" Electrical Engineering Dr. Someshwar Gupta
Mark Gavin Kokes AUG 2002 "Spectral Entropy-Based Wideband Speech Coding" Electrical Engineering Dr. Jerry D. Gibson
Muhammet Alparslan Yaradanakul AUG 2002 "Room Temperature Infrared Microbolometers on a Flexible Substrate" Electrical Engineering Dr. Zeynep Celik-Butler
Ali Yildiz AUG 2002 "Semiconducting YBaCuO Infrared Microbolometers on a Flexible Substrate" Electrical Engineering Dr. Zeynep Celik-Butler
Randal William Oberle DEC 2002 "Decision Model Selection and Application of Titanium in the Design of Packaging for Gallium Arsenide Devices Susceptible to Hydrogen Degradation" Engineering Management Dr. Charles M. Lovas
John William Via III DEC 2002 "Flexible Packaging Lines: Design, Implementation, and Performance Evaluation" Engineering Management Dr. Richard S. Barr
Dongming Hu MAY 2003 "Sensing, Control, and Modeling of Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing for Solid Freeform Fabrication" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Radovan Kovacevic
Zoran Jandric MAY 2003 "Optimization of Hybrid Rapid Manufacturing/Repair Process" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Radovan Kovacevic
Marius Raducanu MAY 2003 "Solving the Delay Problem in Master-Slave Mechanisms" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Radovan Kovacevic
Philip Thomas Shimon MAY 2003 "Advanced Control Methodologies for Suppression of Vibration on Aircraft Skin" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Yildirim Hurmuzlu
Eloi Taha AUG 2003 "Systems by Using Sliding Mode Control (SMC) and Quantitative Feedback Theory (QMT)" Mechanical Engineering  
Elena V. Borzova AUG 2002 "Using Passive Models to Develop Low Torque Controller for Bipedal Locomotion" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Yildirim Hurmuzlu
Arunn Narasimhan AUG 2002 "Unraveling, Modeling and Validating the Temperature Dependent Viscosity Effects in Flow Through Porous Media" Mechanical Engineering Dr. José Lage
Thomas Wayne McLoud, Jr. MAY 2003 "Constrained Integer Network Flows" Operations Research Dr. Richard S. Barr