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Recent theses:

2008

  • Coffelt, Donald - 'Roof Management Improvement: Improving Infrastructure Management Decision Making Through a Consideration of Total Life Cycle Cost and Deterioration'; Advisor: Prof. Hendrickson
  • Guo, Wei - 'Automated Defect Detection and Recognition for Wastewater Infrastructure Inspection and Condition Assessment'; Advisors: Profs. Garrett and Soibelman
  • Helbling, Damian - 'Monitoring Chlorine as an Indicator of Microbial Contamination in Water Distribution Systems'; Advisor: Prof. VanBriesen
  • Isovitsch Parks, Shannon - 'Water Quality Control through Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Water Quality Monitoring Systems'; Advisor: Prof. VanBriesen
  • Kiziltas, Semiha - 'An Automated Approach for Developing Integrated Model-Based Project Histories to Support Estimation of Activity Production Rates'; Prof. Akinci
  • Phenrat, Tanapon - 'Effect of Polymeric Surface Modification on Nano-sized Zerovalent Iron (NZVI) Aggregation, Transport of Concentrated NZVI Dispersions in Porous Media, and Reactivity with Trichloroethylene'; Advisor: Prof. Lowry
  • Samaras, Constantine - 'A Life-Cycle Approach to Technology, Infrastructure, and Climate Policy  Decision Making:  Transitioning to Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles and Low-Carbon Electricity'; Advisor: Prof. Hendrickson
  • Wakeley, Heather - 'Alternative Transportation Fuels: Infrastructure Requirements and Environmental Impacts for Ethanol and Hydrogen'; Advisor: Prof. Hendrickson
  • Weber, Christopher - 'Trade, Consumption, and Climate Change: An Input-Output Study for the United States'; Advisory: Prof. Matthews

2007

  • Hawkins, Troy - 'A Mixed-Unit Input-Output Model for Life Cycle Assessment:Development, Uncertainty, and Application'; Advisors: Profs. Hendrickson and Matthews
  • Harris, Allison - 'Modeling Soil Particle Resuspension Over a Range of Length Scales'; Advisor: Prof. Davidson
  • Higgins, Cortney - 'Quantifying and Assessing the Impacts of Heavy Metal Flows: Fate, Transport, and Impacts of Lead Use in U.S. Produce Manufacturing'; Advisors: Profs. Matthews and Small
  • Jaramillo, Paulina - 'A Life Cycle Comparison of Coal and Natural Gas for Electricity Generation and the Production of Transportation Fuels'; Advisors: Profs. Matthews and Griffin
  • MacDonald, Jacqueline - 'Risks of Unexploded Ordnance at Former Military Training Ranges: Mathematical Modeling and Assessment'; Advisor: Prof. Small
  • Marriott, Joseph - 'An Electricity-focused Economic Input-Output Model: Life-cycle Assessment and Policy Implications of Future Electricity Generation Scenarios'; Advisor: Prof. Matthews
  • Moore, Robert - 'Three-Dimensional Computational Modeling of Polycrystalline Materials'; Prof. Saigal
  • Saleh, Navid - 'An Assessment of Novel Polymeric Coatings to Enhance Transport and In situ Targeting of Nanoiron for Remediation of Non-aqueous Phase Liquids (NAPLs)'; Advisor: Prof. Lowry
  • Sharrard, Aurora - 'Greening Construction Processes with an Input-Output-Based Hybrid Life Cycle Assessment Model'; Advisor: Prof. Matthews

2006

  • Askan, Aysegul - 'Full Waveform Inversion for Seismic Velocity and Anelastic Losses in Heterogeneous Structures'; Advisors: Prof. Bielak and Ghattas
  • Boukamp, Frank - 'Modeling of and Rerasoning about Construction Specifications to Support Automated Defect Detection'; Advisor: Prof. Akinci
  • Chen, Ping - 'Extension and Combination of Economic Input Output Models for Assessing Critical Infrastructure System Interdependencies'; Advisors: Profs. Matthews, Garrett, Hendrickson
  • Escoriza, Maria - 'Quantification and Viability Assessment of Waterborne Bacteria Using Raman Spectroscopy'; Advisors: Prof. VanBriesen, Dzombak
  • Gordon, Christopher - 'A Formalism and a Framework for Planning of Sensor-Based Construction Inspections'; Advisors: Profs. Akinci, Garrett
  • Khaitan, Sameer - 'In-Situ Neutralization of Stored Bauxite Residue'; Advisors: Profs. Dzombak, Lowry
  • Liu, Ran -'Electrochemical Study of Pyrite Dissolution'; Advisor: Prof. Dzombak
  • Liu, Yueqiang - 'Reactivity and Lifetime of Nano-scale Zero-Valent Iron For Groundwater Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid Remediation'; Advisor: Prof. Lowry
  • Morrow III, William - 'An Assessment of Costs and Infrastructure for Alternative Uses of Biomass Energy Crops as an Energy Feedstock'; Advisor: Prof. Matthews
  • Singhvi, Vipul - 'Machine Learning Based Building Control Strategy'; Advisors: Profs. Matthews, Garrett
  • Stolaroff, Joshuah - 'CO2 Capture from Ambient Air: A Feasibility Assessment'; Advisors: Profs. Lowry, David Keith
  • Tantisevi, Kevin - 'Representations and Formalisms for Generating Conflict-Free Workspaces of Mobile Cranes on Construction Sites'; Advisor: Prof. Akinci
  • Wang, Hongjun - 'Domain-Oriented Semi-Automated Model Matching for Supporting Building Commissioning-Related Data Exchange'; Advisors: Profs. Akinci, Garrett
  • Xiao, Jinghua - 'Thermodynamic and Kinetic Model for Bacterial Yield Prediction'; Advisor: Prof. VanBriesen