Solar water heaters (SWHs) are a well-established renewable energy technology that have been widely adopted around the world. This work presents a novel method of integrating Phase Change Materials (PCMs) within the evacuated ...

Data plays a fundamental role in modern science, engineering, and business applications. We investigate two important problems in data analytics. The first is feature selection, where we consider both the unsupervised and ...

Cities are the past, present, and future of humanity. How we develop our built environment directly affects our long-term wellbeing and viability as a species. Social issues such as crime and violence, obesity and related ...

As data-rate communication speeds continue to increase to hundreds of GHz, low-loss polymer nanocomposites have emerged as a promising material for producing interconnects and waveguides capable of operating at these high ...

“Millimeter waves” have enabled potential solutions to key problems in the field of security scanning, medical imaging, automotive radars and next generation wireless communication systems. These applications have become ...

Results of a Monte Carlo trajectory model calculating collision rate coefficients between electrically charged 3.0μm radius cloud droplets and aerosol particles are presented in this work. For particles with radius less ...

This dissertation consists of three essays, each focusing on one of the following three important topics in operations management: inventory management, capacity management, and management of resource-sharing systems. ...

Recently, network traffic analysis and cyber deception have been increasingly used in various applications to protect people, information, and systems from major cyber threats. Network traffic fingerprinting is a traffic ...

Estimates indicate that by 2050 the U.S. will incur a two-fold increase in the incidence of amputation and stroke, due largely to the prevalence of vascular disease. Amputees suffer from a slower, less stable, and less ...

This Ph.D. research focused on the development of new materials for alternative renewable energy using organic photovoltaics (OPVs). The first step was to established reliable fabrication and characterization methods of ...