Graduate Program
Electrical Engineering

Recent Student Research

Below you will find recent MS and PhD research topics. The following list is only provided to present a very limited view of the wide range of graduate research activities that students become involved in.

MS Students/Titles

• Mike Fortney (March 2007), "A low-cost, linear response wireless temperature sensor for extreme environments." Advisor: Jeff Frolik.
• Benji Capsuto (October 2006), "Characterization and impact of radio signal variation for statically deployed wireless sensors." Advisor: Jeff Frolik.
• Christopher Fitzhugh (March 2006), "Multipath characterization of enclosed environments." Advisor: Jeff Frolik.
• Jake Galbreath (March 2006), "Channel allocation strategies for wireless sensor networks statically deployed in multipath environments." Advisor: Jeff Frolik.
• Linda Mayer (October 2004), "On the robustness of wireless sensor network target tracking algorithms." Advisor: Jeff Frolik.
• Mohamed Elfataoui (February 2004), "Discrete-time analytic signals with improved shiftability. Advisor: Gagan Mirchandani.
• Seth Maciejowski (October 2003), "Development of a low-cost, low-power wireless sensor network." Advisor: Jeff Frolik.
• Andy Fredman (October 2003), "Lung strain profiles using computed tomography elastography." Advisor: Jeff Frolik.
• Bhaskar Shrestha (March 2003), "Simulation of MOSFETs at low-voltage operation." Advisor: Steve Titcomb.
• David Horton (October 2002), "Modification and improvement of a photoluminescence system for characterization of thin film material." Advisor: Walter Varhue.
• Jiri Kabelac (May 2002, Materials Science), "Growing YTTRIA stabilized zirconia on Si(001) and its characteristics as an electronic material." Advisor: Walter Varhue.
• Xingle Wang (March 2002), "Metamerism breaking in color machine vision." Advisor: John E. Lecky.
• John R. Goss (May 2001), "A high speed, low voltage CMOS built in current sensor." Advisor: Richard Absher.

PhD Students/Titles

• Mohamed Elfataoui (May 2007), "Analytic signals from analytic functions: A fundamental description." Advisor: Gagan Mirchandani.
• Jim Kay (March 2007), "Energy and channel efficient control of wireless sensor network clusters." Advisor: Jeff Frolik.
• Jun Ge (May 2004), "Practical denoising with sub-optimal solutions." Advisor: Gagan Mirchandani.
• Thang Nguyen (December 2003), "Growth of Ga Sb on a variety of substrate materials." Advisor: Walter Varhue.
• Daniel Foty (March 2002, Materials Science), "Long-term current transients in MOSFETs at low temperatures."
• Peter T. Anderson (October 2001), "A source of accurately calculable quasi-static magnetic fields." Advisor: Richard Absher.
• Sean G. Reidy (October 2001, Materials Science), "Plasma enhanced processing of silicon for electronic and optical device applications." Advisor: Walter Varhue.
• Thomas E. Obremski (May 2001), "Advanced non-concurrent BOST architectures for deep sub-micron embedded DRam macros." Advisor: Richard Absher.
• David R. Stauffer (May 2001), "Generation of static timing analysis models for digital ASIC cores." Advisor: Richard Absher.
• Patricia S. Bunt (March 2001, Materials Science), "Heteroepitaxial growth of YTTRIA-stabilized zirconia on silicon (100) and the subsequent deposition of a superconducting film." Advisor: Walter Varhue.
• Xuling Luo (April 2000), "Phase and the wreath product transform: Some applications and an extension." Advisor: Gagan Mirchandani.