Recent Applied Science Graduates

• Yunfei Wang, Ph.D. (1997, Polymer Science)
• "Correlation of Dynamic Dielectric Properties to Reaction Kinetics and Changing Mechanical Properties of Epoxy Resins During Cure"
• Mike West, Ph.D. (1997, Nondestructive Evaluation--Physics)
• "Radiation-Induced Luminescence of Terbium-Doped Silicate Glasses"
• Robin Southward, Ph.D. (1997, Polymer Science).
• "Synthesis of Reflective and Electrically Conductive Polymide Films via and in situ Self-Metallization Procedure using Silver(I) Complexes"
• Karen Wood, Ph.D. (1997, Polymer Science).
• "The Thermal Cure of Phenylethnynl Terminated Polyimides and Selected Model Compounds"
• Hongyang Yao, Ph.D. (1997, Polymer Science).
• "Microstructure of Poly(Vinyl Acetate) Studied by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy"
• Larry Dickinson, Ph.D. (1997, Polymers and Composite Materials).
• "Trans-Laminar-Reinforced (TLR) Composites"
• Agus Ananda, Ph.D. (1997, Nondestructive Evaluation--Physics).
• "Propagation of Rayleigh Waves in Thin Films"
• Walt Silva, Ph.D. (1997, Applied Mathematics).
• "Discrete-Time Linear and Nonlinear Aerodynamic Impulse Responses for Efficient CFD Analyses"
• Sheeba Ahmed, Ph.D. (1997, Polymer Science).
• "The Synthesis, Characterization, and Molecular Modeling of Cyclic Arylene Ether Oligomers"
• Vadim Zaikov, Ph.D. (1997, Polymer Science)
• "A Study of Poly(Vinyl Chloride) Microstructure"
• Andrew G. Glen, Ph.D. (1998, Applied Mathematics)
• "The Development and Application of a Probability Programming Language"
• Thomas J. Venhaus, Ph.D. (1998, Surface Science)
• "Plasma Source Ion Implantation of High Voltage Electrodes"
• Lawrence Mtetwa, Ph.D. (1998, Atmospheric Science)
• "Africa as a Regional and Global Source of Atmospheric Gases and Particulates"
• Drew Weisenberger, Ph.D. (1998, Accelerator Science)
• "Gamma Ray Imaging Detector for Small Animal Research"
• Jim McKeon, Ph.D. (1998, Nondestructive Evaluation)
• "Tomography Applied to Lamb Wave Contact Scanning Nondestructive Evaluation"
• Eric Kielin, Ph.D. (1998, Polymer Science)
• "Platinized Tin Oxide: A Low-Temperature Oxidation Catalyst"
• Michael Pitts, Ph.D. (1999, Atmospheric Science)
• An Investigation of Remote Sensing of Temperature and Pressure from the Oxygen A Band on SAGE III
• Michael Watkins, Ph.D. (1999, Nondestructive Evaluation)
• "The Thermographic Nondestructive Evaluation of Iron Aluminide Green Sheet"
• Shaun Fallat, Ph.D. (1999, Applied Mathematics)
• "Totally Nonnegative Matricies"
• Deonna Woolard, Ph.D. (1999, Nondestructive Evaluation--Physics).
• "Thermoelastic and Photoelastic Full-Field Stress Measurement"
• Jeff Rogozinski, Ph.D. (2000, Polymer Science).
• "In Situ Frequency Dependent Electromagnetic Sensing for Monitoring Physical and Chemical Attributes During Chemical Processing"
• Gretchen Lingenfelser, MA (2000, Atmospheric Science).
• "The Use of Long-Lived Tracer Observations to Examine Transport Characteristics in the Lower Stratosphere"
• James McAdoo, Ph.D. (2000, Surface Science).
• "Factors Affecting Carrier Transport in Ultrafast III-IV Compound"
• Adam Friedman, Ph.D. (2000, Nondestructive Evaluation).
• "Theoretical and Experimental Study of Generation Mechanisms for Laser Ultrasound in Woven Graphite/Epoxy Composites with Translaminar Stitching"
• Xianmin Tang, Ph.D. (2000, Surface Science).
• "Low Damage Plasma Processing and Process Characterization"
• Lingling Wu, Ph.D. (2000, Surface Science).
• "Surface Processing by RFI PECVD and RFI PSII"
• Eugene Malyarenko, Ph.D. (2000, Nondestructive Evaluation).
• "Lamb Wave Diffraction Tomography"
• Andrew Meyer, Ph.D. (2001, Polymer Science).
• "Characterizing and Monitoring Changes in State of Polymers During Cure and Use-Aging"
• Dariya I. Malyarenko, Ph.D. (2001, Polymer Science).
• "Solid State NMR Characterization of Structural & Motional Parameter Distributions in Polyamidoammonium Dendrimers"
• John E. Lynch, Ph.D. (2001, Nondestructive Evaluation).
• "Ultrasonographic Measurement of Periodontal Attachment Levels"
• Diane L. Evans, Ph.D. (2001, Applied Mathematics).
• "Algorithms for Operations on Probability Distributions in a Computer Algebra System"
• Donavon M. Delozier, Ph.D. (2002, Polymer Science).
• "Preparation and Characterization of Polyimide/Organoclay Nanocomposites"
• Brian D. Killough, Jr, Ph.D. (2003, Atmospheric Science).
• "A Semi-Empirical Cellular Automata Model for Wildfire Monitoring from a Geosynchronous Space Platform"
• Yuhang Ren, Ph.D. (2003, Surface Science).
• "Time-Resolved Optical Studies of Colossal Magneto-Resistence and Charge Density Wave Materials"
• Xianlong Ge, Ph.D. (2003, Polymer Science).
• "Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies of Poly(vinyl chloride) and Some Other Chlorinated Polymers"
• Tai-Fang Fan, M.A.(2003, Atmospheric Science).
• "Net Surface Flux Budget Over Tropical Oceans Estimated From The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)"
• Julia D. Warner, Ph.D. (2003, Polymer Science).
• "Transport Analysis in Polymeric Liquids and Films"
• George A. Andrews, Jr., Ph.D. (2003, Applied Mathematics).
• "Spontaneous Pulse Formation in Bistable Systems"
• Yanina A. Goddard, Ph.D. (2004, Polymer Science).
• "Solid State NMR Characterization of Conductive Polyanilines"
• John A. Hayes, M.S. (2004, Applied Mathematics).
• "A Framework for Implementing Bioinformatics Knowledge-Exploration Systems"
• Thomas W. Milligan, Ph.D. (2004, Applied Mathematics).
• "On Certain Sets of Matricies: Distance Matricies, Ray-Nonsingular Matricies, and Matricies Generated by Reflections"
• Jidong Hou, Ph.D. (2004, Nondestructive Evaluation).
• "Ultrasonic Signal Detection and Characterization Using Dynamic Wavelet Fingerprints"
• Kevin R. Leonard, Ph.D. (2004, Nondestructive Evaluation).
• "Ultrasonic Guided Wave Tomography of Pipes"
• Erik S. Weiser, Ph.D. (2004, Polymers and Composite Materials).
• "Synthesis and Characterization of Polyimide Residuum, Friable Baloons, Microspheres and Foams"
• Randolph F. Wojcik, Ph.D. (2004, Nondestructive Evaluation).
• "Dual Energy Scanning Beam X-Radiography"
• Lucy Yue Hu, Ph.D. (2004, Polymer Science).
• "Binding Studies on Molecularly Imprinted Polymers"
• Christine F. Conrad, Ph.D. (2004, Surface Science-VIMS).
• "Planar Oxides as a Novel Approach to Metal Ion Sorption Studies: From the Lab to the Field"
• Zhengmao Zhu, Ph.D. (2005, Surface Science).
• "Photochemical Modification of Polyethylene Terephthalate Surface"
• Wen Gao, Ph.D. (2005, Nondestructive Evaluation).
• "Sonar Sensor Interpretation for Ectogenous Robots"
• Kathleen A. Powell, M.S. (2005, Atmospheric Science).
• "Earth System Science Pathfinder 3 (ESSP3) Lidar Simulator"
• Christopher J. Tignanelli, B.A. (2005, Computational Neuroscience).
• "The Effect of Residual Calcium on the Stochastic Gating of Calcium-regulated Calcium channels"
• Haibin Zhao, Ph.D. (2005, Optics & Lasers).
• " Nonlinear-Optical Studies of Spin-Injection Devices"
• Charles R. Cole, Ph.D. (2005, Surface Science).
• "Electron Stimulated Desorption of Hydronium Ions from Chromium Oxide Surfaces"
• Xin Zhao, Ph.D. (2006, Surface Science).
• "Field Emission Study of Carbon Nanostructures"
• Alexander Frey, M.S. (2006, Optics & Lasers).
• "Time-Resolved Magneto-Optical Imaging of High Temperature Superconductor Thin Films in the High Frequency AC Current Regime"
• Yumei Zhang, Ph.D. (2006, Polymer Science).
• "UV Cure Kinetics of Dimethacrylate Thin and Thick Samples"
• Mingyao Zhu, Ph.D. (2006, Surface Science -- Physics).
• "Carbon Nanosheets and CNT by RF PECVD"
• Baozhao Sun, Ph.D. (2006, Optics & Lasers).
• "Vibrational Lifetimes of Hydrogen and Oxygen Defects in Semiconductors"
• Nimel D. Theodore, Ph.D. (2006, Surface Science).
• "Silicon Oxynitride: A Field Emission Suppression Coating"
• Kevin Rudd, Ph.D. (2007, Nondestructive Evaluation).
• "Parallel 3D Acoustic and Elastic Wave Simulation Methods with Applications in Nondestructive Evaluation"
• Shuyan Zhang, Ph.D. (2007, Surface Science).
• "Spatial Beam Shaping of High-Power Ultra-Short Laser Pulses"
• Stephanie Hummert, M.S. (2007, Surface Science).
• "Magneto-Optical Imaging of Superconducting MgB2 Thin Films"
• Andreas Peterson, M.S. (2007, Surface Science).
• "Magnetization Dynamics and Anisotropy in Ferromagnetic/Antiferromagnetic Ni/NiO Bilayer"
• Ran Yang, M.S. (2007, Surface Science).
• “Time-Resolved Magneto-Optical Imaging of Type II Superconductors"
• John Hayes, Ph.D. (2007, Neuroscience).
• "Phenotypic Properties and Intrinsic Currents of Neurons Involved in the Neural Generation of Mammalian Breathing"
• Kun Hou, Ph.D. (2007, Surface Science).
• "Synthesis and Field Emission Properties of Carbon Nanostructures"
• Ryland Pace, Ph.D. (2007, Neuroscience).
• " Mechanisms Underlying Inspiratory Burst Generation in preBötzinger Complex Neurons of Neonatal Mice"
• Jeffrey R. Groff, Ph.D. (2007, Computational Cell Biology).
• "Markov Chain Models of Calcium Puffs and Sparks"
• Liang Wei, M.S. (2007, Applied Mathematics).
• "An Introduction to Ambiguity and Instability: New Merits for Evaluating Classification Performance"
• Blair Williams, Ph.D. (2008, Computational Cell Biology).
• "Probability Density Methods for Modeling Local and Global Aspects of Intracellular Calcium Signaling"
• Hilary DeRemegio, Ph.D. (2008, Computational Cell Biology).
• “Markov Chain Models of Instantaneously Coupled Intracellular Calcium Channels"
• Hui Tian, Ph.D. (2008, Surface Science).
• “Surface Studies on Niobium for Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) Accelerator"
• Jianguo Qian, Ph.D. (2008, Medical Imaging).
• “A Versatile Imaging System for In Vivo Small Animal Research"
• William L Fehlman II, Ph.D. (2008, Nondestructive Evaluation).
• “Classification of Non-heat Generating Outdoor Objects in Thermal Scenes for Autonomous Robots"