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Spring 2024

Zhang, Tianyu

Retrofitting buildings and optimizing their operation have been at the forefront of global efforts to reduce carbon emissions over the past few decades. Intelligent control of building systems, such as Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), presents two clear benefits: it improves...

Fall 2024

Gandhi, Deep Rajesh

It has been shown that pretrained language models exhibit biases and social stereotypes. Prior work on debiasing these language models has largely focussed on modifying embedding spaces in pretraining, which is not scalable for large models. Since pretrained models are typically fine-tuned on...

Fall 2013

Hasan, Md Shafiul

Selecting the most appropriate cranes and identifying ideal crane locations on site can improve the productivity and safety of large-scale construction projects. A significant proportion of crane accidents have been caused by improper crane selection, lack of a proper crane support system, or a...

Fall 2013

Allen,Richelle J

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is a worldwide health concern. To detect STEC, a loop mediated isothermal amplification reaction (LAMP) was optimized to detect shiga toxin genes. LAMP’s performance was compared to conventional and real-time (RT) PCR using two product detection...

Spring 2023

Chen, Jiahuan

Body posture predicting methods have many applications, including product design, ergonomic workplace design, human body simulation, virtual reality and animation industry. Initiated in robotics, Inverse Kinematic (IK) method has been widely applied to proactive human body posture estimation. The...

Fall 2021

Sara Ebrahimi

Construction labour productivity (CLP) is considered one of the most important parameters affecting the performance of construction projects. Therefore, modeling CLP is a crucial step in construction projects. Accurate prediction of CLP helps in effective planning, cost estimating, and...

Spring 2014

Dehdari, Vahid

Oil sand reservoirs play an important role in the economy of Canada due to their significant recoverable reserves. Due to the high viscosity of the oil in these reservoirs, conventional methods cannot be used for production. The steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) method is an efficient way of...

Fall 2014

Sahar, Movaghati

In distributed sensing systems, measurements from a random process or parameter are usually not available in one place. Also, the processing resources are distributed over the network. This distributed characteristic of such sensing systems demands for special attention when an estimation or...

Fall 2024

Sales-Ortiz, Javier C

This thesis studies a virtual power plant (VPP) that trades the bidirectional charging flexibility of privately owned plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) in a real-time electricity market to maximize its profit. The main contribution of this thesis is the development of scalable and efficient...

Spring 2011

Wubneh, Abiy

This research investigates and proposes methods to be used for the automation of the conceptual design phases of variational mechanisms. It employs the concept of feature-based modeling approaches. A method is proposed for integrating the dimensional synthesis, mechanical design and CAD...