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Courtney Green, Ph.D., 2022, Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation, and Moinul Hossain, Ph.D., 2020, Electrical Engineering received the Graduate Dean's Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2022.
The award is presented each year by Graduate School Dean Thomas Reynolds to recognize outstanding research and scholarship by a doctoral student at UNC Charlotte.
Green’s dissertation, “Persistence of Engineering Transfer Students: Identifying Student-Influenced and Institution-Influenced Academic Success Factors,” examined the extent to which student-influenced and institution-influenced factors predict the academic success and degree completion of engineering transfer students at public four-year institutions in North Carolina. Her study found that first-term academic performance is influenced student background, college and department characteristics and attempted and earned hours in the first semester.
Green, currently a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Williams States Lee College of Engineering, earned her M.S. degree in Engineering in 2008.
Moinul Hossain’s dissertation, “Security Assessment of Dynamic Spectrum Access in Emerging Wireless Networks,” addresses security issues under the unique challenges of spectrum coexistence among heterogeneous wireless technologies and ways to improve spectrum utilization.
Hossain currently serves as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Cybersecurity Engineering at George Mason University.
The Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award includes a cash prize and plaque. This years’ honorees will represent UNC Charlotte in the Council of Graduate School’s (CGS) CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Competition in San Francisco later this year.