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1985

Lingnau, B. E.

Report of study to provide qualitative and some quantitative observations of design and performance of Dempster Highway in Yukon and NWT 5 years after construction of its final phase (1979). Also suggests engineering recommendations and design improvements to alleviate problems arising from highway

Fall 2018

Zheng, Chaoyu

Reinforced steel rebar is fabricated in the form of one-dimensional stocks, designed according to structural engineering code, and installed in various structural components. Cutting one-dimensional stocks to fit to project-specific requirements results in cutting losses, which is the major

contributor in the generation of construction waste. Previous research efforts developed mathematical models aimed to analytically minimize cutting losses in preliminary engineering designs, but few have offered insight on the integration of engineering design, workface plan, detailed estimating, plus

Spring 2018

Wong, Wai Man

crack width has the potential to reduce the wide cracks and fracture problems associated with critical loads and large imposed deformations in structural members made with conventional concrete. Previous studies have demonstrated that the unique characteristics of ECC offer high damage tolerance

Spring 2013

Schofield, Jonathon S

Sit-to-stand (STS) transfer is a prerequisite for many daily tasks. Literature often assumes symmetrical behavior across the body (bilateral symmetry) during healthy STS. However; little research has been conducted to validate this assumption. Motion analysis was utilized to evaluate STS in 10...

Spring 2022

Mokhtari Dizaji, Fardad

Numerical simulation and hybrid simulation are extensively used in earthquake engineering to evaluate the seismic response of structures under seismic loading. Despite the advances in computing power and the development of efficient integration algorithms in the past, numerical simulation

when only one or limited number of potential critical components, seismic fuses, are physically tested due to laboratory or cost constraints. The recent progress in machine learning algorithms and applications in engineering has motivated novel and innovative simulation techniques achieved by

leveraging data in various fields of engineering including seismic engineering where complexities arising from the stochastic nature of the phenomenon can be tackled by making use of available experimental and numerical data towards the development of more reliable simulation models and dynamic analysis

Fall 2010

Campbell, Rachel

differences in commitment and the engineering habitus; and 7) explore women’s perceptions of “gendered personalities”, structural issues in the balancing of family and work, and the relationship between organizational support of work-life balance and commitment to the profession. Through these analyses I find

This dissertation examines the gendered experience of professional engineers in Alberta, Canada. The study is based on qualitative interview data collected from men and women trained in engineering (n=36) and textual analysis of materials produced by engineering organizations (Association of

Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta; the Consulting Engineers Association in Alberta; the Engineering Alumni Association at the University of Alberta; and the School of Engineering at the University of Calgary). Drawing on the theoretical insights of Bourdieu, in combination with

Fall 2016

Abdelfattah, Ahmed

). Using protein engineering and directed evolution, we engineered FlicR1 to have sufficient speed and sensitivity to report single action potentials in single-trial recordings. Because it is excitable with yellow light, FlicR1 is the first FP-based voltage indicator that can be used in conjunction with

Fluorescence microscopy is currently the most powerful imaging technique for interrogation of neural circuits. Accordingly, tremendous efforts have been invested in engineering fluorescent proteins (FPs) to act as indicators for various biochemical processes in neural circuits, resulting in a

plethora of genetically encoded FP-based indicators for neural imaging. In this thesis, we report the development of various FP-based indicators for neuronal imaging. Specifically, we describe our efforts to expand the current repertoire of neuronal activity indicators to include a voltage indicator with

Fall 2013

Alipour, Anahita

already reported. Hence, many reports end up referring to the same issue, which effectively makes the bug-report triaging process time consuming and error prone. Many researchers have approached the bug-deduplication problem using off-the-shelf information-retrieval tools. In this thesis, we extend the

Android, Eclipse, Mozilla, and OpenOffice Software Systems. Based on this experience, we conclude that researchers should not ignore the context of the software engineering domain for deduplication.

Fall 2022

Gonzalez Mariscal, Rafael De Jesus

Slender masonry walls are often found in school gymnasiums, warehouses and other low-rise buildings. According to current North American masonry design standards, a slender wall is defined to have a height-to-thickness ratio of 30 or greater. These walls must satisfy several stringent...

Spring 2018

Cheng, Zhengrong

Engineering design is a complex process. There are unknowns and uncertainties. To better support engineering design, researches on different aspects of engineering design need to be conducted. Function concepts represent the engineering design purposes of the product elements and are usually

design dependencies, both functional and structural. Next, with the dependency analysis of CAD models, it shows that CAD modeling at best complies with the form of the design at the current stage. The current practice of CAD modeling lacks functional design flavor. Because functional design is critical

in the engineering design process, it justifies the need of extending CAD modeling capability to support functional design. Functional feature, which inherits from the associative feature, is introduced to address the issue of connectivity deficiency between the declarative functions in high-level