Dissertation Defense

Intelligent Network Management for Heterogeneous Services in Mobile Edge Computing

Doctoral Candidate Name: Qiang Liu Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering Defense Date and Time: December 1, 2020 – 1:00 PM Defense Location: Virtual Webex Meeting: https://uncc.webex.com/uncc/j.php?MTID=mb3d0d71414f36eef036e7594a89ac7df, Password: uncc@2020 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Tao Han Committee Members: Dr. Shen-En Chen, Dr. Yu Wang, Dr. Jiang (Linda) Xie Abstract: The proliferation of connected devices creates various use […]

Freeform Optical Surface Form Metrology with Serial Data Acquisition

Doctoral Candidate Name: Todd Noste Program: Mechanical Engineering Defense Date and Time: December 1, 2020 – 10:00 AM Defense Location: Webex Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Chris Evans Committee Members: Dr. Jimmie Miller, Dr. Ed Morse, Dr. Wesley Williams Abstract: Freeform optics, or optics with no axis of rotational invariance, provide optical designers more degrees of […]

Data Processing, Modeling, and Error Analysis in Discrete Part Geometric Inspection

Doctoral Candidate Name: Prashanth Jaganmohan Program: Mechanical Engineering Defense Date and Time: December 7, 2020 – 10:00 AM Defense Location: Webex Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Edward P. Morse Committee Members: Dr. Jimmie Miller, Dr. Konstantinos Falaggis, Dr. Yuri Godin Abstract: In today’s world of modern metrology, it becomes increasingly common to find new technologies which […]

Environmentally sustainable synthesis of novel nano assisted ion exchange systems for facile and high-capacity water purification

Doctoral Candidate Name: Abhispa Sahu Program: Nanoscale Science Defense Date and Time: November 25, 2020 – 2:00 PM Defense Location: Burson, UNC Charlotte Committee chair’s Name: Jordan C. Poler Committee Members: Dr. James E. Amburgey, Dr. HaiTao Zhang, Dr. Swarnapali De Silva Indrasekara, Dr. Terry Xu Abstract: Demand for clean and safe drinking water is […]

Enhancing Distribution Planning Methods To Facilitate High Growth Distributed Energy Resources

Doctoral Candidate Name: Wesley O. Davis Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering Defense Date and Time: December 1, 2020 – 10:30 AM Defense Location: Online Zoom Meeting, Join Zoom Meeting, https://uncc.zoom.us/j/99371803400?pwd=QXhBM1AySUNBY1paZWY3RFhvUlRuQT09 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Sukumar Kamalasadan Committee Members: Dr. Yogendra Kakad, Dr. Valentia Cecchi, Dr. Maciej Noras Abstract: Climate change is one of the most […]

The influence of urban restructuring on the social determinants of health in a Hispanic immigrant population in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Doctoral Candidate Name: Brisa Urquieta de Hernandez Program: Geography and Urban Regional Analysis Defense Date and Time: November 18, 2020 – 9:00 AM Defense Location: Zoom Meeting https://commonspirit.zoom.us/j/92564786302?pwd=anIyR25iVkdySjhMaTRibHpKbFpldz09 Committee chair’s Name: Heather Smith Committee Members: Maren Coffman, Michael Dulin, Owen Furuseth Abstract: The environment where a person lives impacts their health more than clinical care […]

Investigation of chemical wear in single point diamond turning of Copper-Nickel alloys

Doctoral Candidate Name: Alexander Blum Program: Mechanical Engineering Defense Date and Time: December 7, 2020 – 1:30 PM Defense Location: CPM Conference Room, Duke Centennial Hall Committee chair’s Name: Chris Evans Committee Members: Matt Davies, Angela Davies Allen, Yongge Wang, Chris Evans, John Taylor Abstract:

Perfect people, perfect environment: Applying person-environment interaction theory to examine the impact of Instagram use on health-related psychological outcomes among perfectionists

Doctoral Candidate Name: Kimberly Papay Rogers Program: Health Psychology Defense Date and Time: November 12, 2020 – 10:00 AM Defense Location: Zoom, please email kpapay@charlotte.edu for link Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Charlie Reeve Committee Members: Dr. Jennifer Webb, Dr. Erika Montanaro, Dr. Lisa Rasmussen Abstract: Perfectionism was once thought to be a detrimental personality trait […]

Prediction of Defect Hotspots for Highway Maintenance Management: A Multi-asset Machine Learning Approach

Doctoral Candidate Name: Arash Karimzadeh Program: Infrastructure and Environmental Systems Defense Date and Time: November 11, 2020 – 12:30 PM Defense Location: online Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Omidreza Shoghli Committee Members: Dr. Hamed Tabkhi, Dr. Srinivas Pulugurtha, Dr. Sandra Clinton, Dr. Glenda Mayo Abstract: Given multiple budget and revenue constraints that the transportation sector encounters, […]

Probabilistic Numerical Integration with Applications in Machine Learning

Doctoral Candidate Name: Kelly Smalenberger Program: Mathematics (Applied) Defense Date and Time: November 11, 2020 – 12:15 PM Defense Location: Virtual via Zoom Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Xingjie (Helen) Li Committee Members: Dr. Hae-Soo Oh, Dr. Duan Chen, Dr. Milind Khire Abstract: We consider the approximation of unknown or intractable integrals using quadrature when the […]