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2005

Ozah, Folarin Edward

2008

Zhao, Jun

Spring 2022

Mahajan, Subhamoy

Cellular DNAs contain genetic information vital for the functioning of the cells. Corruption of this information, or genetic disorders, can lead to various diseases. A potential treatment is to deliver exogenous DNAs with the correct genetic information to malignant cells to achieve a...

Fall 2018

Knowles, Brooklynn

Sports and recreation are a leading cause of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in North America, accounting for nearly 30% of TBI cases in youth in Canada. Contact sports, such as hockey and football, put athletes at greater risk of suffering mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI, such as concussion),...

Fall 2017

Yu, Henry Y

Conventional wisdom and the language in international helmet testing and certification standards suggest that appropriate helmet fit and retention during an impact are important factors in protecting the helmet wearer from impact-induced injury. This thesis aims to investigate impact-induced...

Fall 2019

Ruifan Wu

Autonomous navigation has been a popular research topic over the last two decades. The ability for a robot to solve the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem is required to navigate unknown environments. One such example is a self-driving car: it needs to build maps of new...

Spring 2014

Lueke, Jonathan S.

Energy harvesting is an important developing field in Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) research. In this thesis, a fixed-fixed folded spring-based harvester is presented as an alternative mechanical element for beam-based piezoelectric harvesters to reduce its natural frequency for low...

Fall 2013

Mateo Villanueva, Pedro Abdiel

Water management on proton exchange membrane fuel cells is one of the biggest issues that stop the effective commercialization of this promising technology. Due to water flooding, the performance of fuel cells decays rapidly at high current densities. To better design fuel cell electrodes, a...

Spring 2017

Hunt, Alexander J

Braided composite materials are a class of fiber reinforced composite materials which obtain their unique material properties from the interlaced fiber structure. The fiber orientation has a critical impact on the resulting material properties of the composite component and as a result, the...

Spring 2017

Babadagli, Mustafa E

Low dose rate (LDR) brachytherapy is a minimally invasive form of radiation therapy, used to treat prostate cancer, and it involves permanent implantation of radioactive sources (seeds) inside of the prostate gland. Treatment planning in brachytherapy involves a decision making process for the...