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» Average number of undergraduate students advised per year:
~50


» Chairman of Committee for MS degree students on thesis program:


No. Student: Degree Title: Year:
1. Jefferson M. Trumpower Cable-Suspended Robots Dec. 1997
2. Marcus Spells ATM Networks Aug. 1998
3. Saroj Bono Singularities of Robots May 1999
4. Charles Conklin (co-adviser) A Biologically Inspired Vision System Dec. 1999
5. Andrise Jean-Baptiste Quantifying the Dexterity of Kinematically Redundant Manipulators in the Presence of Joint Failures April 2000
6. Janet Villalta Minimal Realization of a Spatial Stiffness matrix with simple line springs connected in parallel April 2001
7. Enos Fabre A New Procedure for Realizing a Compliance Mechanism for Assembly Robots August 2002
8. Charmane V. Caldwell Dynamics-based Measures of Fault Tolerance for Kinematically Redundant Manipulators Dec. 2002
9. Tracy Wynn Electrical Engineering Meets Neurophysicology; Models and Application Dec. 2002
10. Claudel Narcisse Minimal Realization of a Compliance Mechanism using Simple and Complex Springs Summer 2003
11. Edmond DuPont Object Pose Detection in the Presence of Background Clutter and Occlusion Fall 2003
12. Bryan Pinkston (ME, co-advisor) Telerobot Control using Wave Variables with Prediction Spring 2004
13. Hyun Geun Yu Watershed-based Segmentation of Collocated Visible and Range Images Fall 2004


» Chairman of Committee for Ph.D. degree students:


No. Student: Degree Title: Year:
1. Theresa Shirey Active and Passive Interaction Control for Robotic Manipulators April 2004


» MS Thesis and/or examining committee memberships (excluding chairmanships):


No. Student: Degree Title: Year:
1. Althar Mahboob A PSPICE Circuit Model for Metal Oxide Varistor Spring 1995
2. Dongshen Yuan STREED – A Maple Package for Modeling of Uncertain Systems Fall 1997
3. Dapo Sanu Vibration, Analysis, and Synthesis of the Dundun (A Traditional Yoruba Talking Drum) Summer 1999
4. Kofi Boateng A Simulation Study Of Optical Code Division Multiple Access for Local Area Networks Spring 1999
5. Masood Ejaz Smart Digital to Analog Converter: A DSP Microprocessor Based Design for Data Reconstruction Spring 2000
6. K. N. Girish-Kumar Performance Analysis & Simulation of a Direct Sequence CDMA System for various Spreading Sequences. Spring 2000
7. Marlon Brown A Simulation Study of Coherent OCDMA for Local Area Networks Fall 2000
8. Hai Bi Studies in Cylindrical Optical Waveguides Spring 2001
9. Kamishan O. Martin (IE) Comparative Study of Nanotechnology and Traditional Medicine for Treatment of Asthma and Cancer Spring 2002
10. Terita Norton A Hardware Packet Sniffer Design Using FPGAs Summer 2002
11. Shawn Henry A Generalized Method of Re-coordination after the Addition of Fault Current Limiters Summer 2002
12. Shani Lewis Comparison of Load Flow Techniques on Shipboard Electric Power Systems Summer 2002
13. Timothy Hogans A Single-Phase Arc Welder Model for the Study of Flicker Compensation Fall 2002
14. Adewale Iyanoye Graphical User Interface – GUI in Power Systems Fall 2002
15. Sameer Ashok Oswal Interference Issues in a Bluetooth Piconet Fall 2002
16. Salman Ahmad Siddiqui Performance Analysis of Speech Compression Algorithms Fall 2002
17. Shantanu H. Joshi SAS Yaw Motion Compensation Using Along-Track Phase Filtering Fall 2002
18. Jason C. Isaacs Evolvable Pseudo Random Number Generators Fall 2002
19. Da Zhang Real Time Digital Signal Processing for Wireless Communication Summer 2003
20. Raymond N. Hansen Improved Sound Localization of Fire Alarm Notification Devices Using Wavelet Signal Conditioning Summer 2003
21. Pankaj Kumar Jha Development of Suspension Module for Mobile Robot XUV Summer 2003
22. Liqun Xing (ME) Multivariable Control of STATCOM Fall 2003
23. Robert McCown Medium Velocity Impact Triboelectrification Experiments with JSC Mars-1 Regolith Simulant Fall 2003
24. Deviprasad Chabukswar Modeling Simulation and Experimental Validation of ATRV-Jr. Spring 2004
25. Kiran Kumar Shetty A Novel Algorithm Approach for Uplink Interference Suppression using Smart Antennas Spring 2004
26. Punit Nakar Design of a Compact Microstrip Patch Antenna for Use in Wireless/Cellular Devices Spring 2004
27. Faizal Iqbal Wavelet Transformation Based Image Compression on FPGA Spring 2004
28. Shailesh Lakkad Modeling and Simulation of Steering Systems for Autonomous Vehicles Spring 2004
29. Venkata Billapati   Summer 2004
30. Damion Dunlap   Summer 2004
31. Clement Chandrabalan Design Of One D.O.F Haptic Interface Summer 2004
32. Andrew Otete Power Electronics Fall 2004
33. Lance Williams Power Systems Fall 2004
34. Lining Zhou Evaluation and DSP Based Implementation of PWM Approaches for Single-Phase AC-DC Converters Spring 2005
35. Michael Zimmer Model Characteristics and Properties of Nanorobots in the Bloodstream Spring 2005
36. Venkata Chaganti An Optimum Wavelet Approach to Edge Detection Using Discrete Wavelet Transform Spring 2005
37. Eduardo Gomez Design, Manufacture, and Performance of a Solar-Powered Floating Fountain Spring 2006


» Ph.D. thesis and/or examining committee memberships (excluding chairmanships):


No. Student: Degree Title: Year:
1. Aaron Robinson Qualitative Criteria for Assigning Parameter Update and Sample Rates in the Analysis and Simulation of Nonlinear and Time-varying Discrete Models Fall 2001
2. Jihua Gou Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Carbon Nanotube Based Composites Using Computational and Experimental Approach Summer 2002
3. Moshin Maktaar Suppression of Cyclostationary Properties in Phase Coded Waveforms Fall 2003
4. Shonda Walker Optimal Wavelets for Robust Speech Recognition Spring 2003
5. Jong-Ae Kim User Acceptance of Web-based Subscription Databases: Extending the Technology Acceptance Model Spring 2005???
6. Bo Zhang Compliance Mechanism Design 2005 (Univ. of Florida)???


» Undergraduate independent study projects supervised:


No. Student: Title of Study: Year:
1. David Hoos DC Motor Control Electronics Spr. 1995
2. Kamran Agharahimi Process Control Design Project Spr. 1995
3. Pedram Khorshidi Process Control Design Project Spr. 1995
4. Eric Lockley Voice Telephone Ringer Spr. 1995
5. Frank Prado (DIS) Simulation of Robotic Systems Su 1995
6. William B. Cameron II Bathroom Temperature Controller Su 1995
7. Peter Wint Chaos in Sync Fa 1995
8. Daniel Reeves Function Generator Fa 1995
9. Shenera Bryson (DIS) Communication Systems Spr. 1996
10. Eddie Peterson Message Encryption Spr. 1996
11. Gregory Richey Message Encryption Spr. 1996
12. Shaunterra Robinson Voice Intercom System Design Spr. 1996
13. Chelan Williams Voice Intercom System Design Spr. 1996
14. Armando Vieira Broom-Balancing Problem Spr. 1997
15. Damion Bell High Frequency Detector Fa 1998
16. Daryl Holmes High Frequency Detector Fa 1998
17. Charmane Caldwell Robot Kinematics Simulation Spr. 1999
18. Larry Russ Filter Design Spr. 1999
19. Eldrick Barnes A Nonlinear Robot Controller Spr. 1999
20. Patrick McMillen A Nonlinear Robot Controller Spr. 1999
21. Michael D. Craig Autoassociative Memory Fall 1999
22. Fausto A. Diaz, Jr. Adaptive Noice Cancellation via the LMS Algorithm and Adaptive Filters Fall 1999
23. Albert Burkley FM Telephone Transmitter Spr. 2000
24. Toine McIntosh FM Telephone Transmitter Spr. 2000
25. Miguel R. Pena Jr. Butterworth, Chebyshev I and Chebyshev II Digital Filter Design using Bilinear Transformation Spr. 2000
26. Henry Hoff III Butterworth, Chebyshev I and Chebyshev II Digital Filter Design using Bilinear Transformation Spr. 2000
27. Walter B. Harvey IV Determining the Fault Tolerance of a Robotic Manipulator with the Use of Matlab Sum. 2000
28. Martecia Baldwin Mini-Robot Fall 2000
29. LaShekia Barker Communication System Fall 2000
30. Deonte Thompson Communication System Fall 2000
31. Taylor Goodson Senior Design Spr. 2001
32. Samantha Moore Senior Design Spr. 2001
33. William Cox Senior Design Spr. 2001
34. Nathalie Martin Senior Design Spr. 2001
35. Anthony Wright Senior Design Spr. 2001
36. Orrane Smith Senior Design Spr. 2001
37. Dwayne Stewart Senior Design Spr. 2001
38. Kia Johnson Senior Design Spr. 2001
  Stopped keeping track (Spr. 2001-Fall 2004)    
  Collins Adetu Senior Design Spring 2005
  Corey Brown Senior Design Spring 2005
  Chris Dupree Senior Design Spring 2005
  Brandon Little Senior Design Spring 2005
  Kendrick Moore Senior Design Spring 2005
  Sean Simmons Senior Design Spring 2005
  Lisa Soliman Senior Design Spring 2005
  Christian Wahiwe Senior Design Spring 2005
  Jaime De-Roux Senior Design Fall 2005
  Roberto Moutran Senior Design Fall 2005
  Sebastian Profili Senior Design Fall 2005


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