Electrical and Computer Engineering Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Novel Control and Harmonics Impact of PV Solar Farms, Byomakesh Das
Wireless Telemetry System for Implantable Sensors, Kyle G. Fricke
Modelling of the Western University Campus Electrical Network for Infrastructural Interdependencies in a Disaster Response Network Enables Platform, Gagandeep S. Gill
Single-Stage Power Electronic Converters with Combined Voltage Step-Up/Step-Down Capability, Navid Golbon
Experimental Evaluation of the Projection-based Force Reflection Algorithms for Haptic Interaction with Virtual Environment, Mir Z. Hasan
Technique for Measurement of Weld Resistance for AC Resistance Spot Welding via Instantaneous Phasor Measurement, Mian Mohsin Irshad
Multi-stage Wireless Signal Identification for Blind Interception Receiver Design, Gejie Liu
Electrohydrodynamic Enhancement of Heat Transfer and Mass Transport in Gaseous Media, Bulk Dielectric Liquids and Dielectric Thin Liquid Films, Seyed Reza Mahmoudi
System of Terrain Analysis, Energy Estimation and Path Planning for Planetary Exploration by Robot Teams, David C. Michel
Development and Evaluation of a Real-Time Framework for a Portable Assistive Hearing Device, Aleksandar Dimitrov Mihaylov
Enabling Techniques Design for QoS Provision in Wireless Communications, Penghui Mi
Subsynchronous Resonance in Wind Farms, Akshaya Kumar Moharana
Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Microgrid in Island and Grid Connected Modes with a Fuel Cell Power Source, Andrew T. Moore
Situation-Aware Rate and Power Adaptation Techniques for IEEE 802.11, Jay Nadeau
Low Power AC-DC and DC-DC Multilevel Converters, Mehdi Narimani
Performance Analysis of Channel-Aware Media Access Control Schemes, Abdulfattah Noorwali
Investigation of Wireless LAN for IEC 61850 based Smart Distribution Substations, Palak P. Parikh
Novel Controls of Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Farms, Shah Arifur Rahman
A Control Scheme for an AC-DC Single-Stage Buck-Boost PFC Converter with Improved Output Ripple Reduction, Kamran Rezaei
Development of a Novel Handheld Device for Active Compensation of Physiological Tremor, Abhijit Saxena
Geometrical Analysis and Modeling of Craniosynostosis, Sahar Shahbazi
A Telerobotic Drilling Control System with Haptic Feedback, Faraz Shah
Metrics for Evaluating Surgical Microscope Usage During Myringotomy, Arefin M. Shamsil
A total electron content receiver for the e-POP mission, Dmitry Shatskiy
Enhancing reliability in passive anti-islanding protection schemes for distribution systems with distributed generation, Mohsen Sheikholeslamzadeh
Delay Extraction Based Equivalent Elmore Model For RLC On-Chip Interconnects, Shamsul Arefin Siddiqui
Security on Medical Wireless Sensor Networks, Eric D. Southern
Dynamic Model Construction and Control System Design for Canadian Supercritical Water-cooled Reactors, Peiwei Sun
Haptics-Enabled Teleoperation for Robotics-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery, Ali Talasaz
A Sensorized Instrument for Minimally Invasive Surgery for the Measurement of Forces during Training and Surgery: Development and Applications, Ana Luisa Trejos
Concurrent Multipath Transfer: Scheduling, Modelling, and Congestion Window Management, Thomas Daniel Wallace
Security Aspects of Smart Grid Communication, Pubudu E. Weerathunga
Development of 3-D Neutronic Kinetic Model and Control for CANDU Reactors, Lingzhi Xia
Protection and Control of Active Distribution Networks and Microgrids, Mohammad Amin Zamani
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Optical-WiMAX Hybrid Networks, Abdou R. A. Ahmed
High Speed and Low-Complexity Hardware Architectures for Elliptic Curve-Based Crypto-Processors, Reza Azarderakhsh
Image-Guided Robot-Assisted Techniques with Applications in Minimally Invasive Therapy and Cell Biology, Mahdi Azizian
Impact of Geomagnetically Induced Currents on Power Transformers, Jonathan E. Berge
Time-Domain Macromodeling of High Speed Distributed Networks, Amir Beygi
Energy Efficient Reduced Complexity Multi-Service, Multi-Channel Scheduling Techniques, Dan J. Dechene
Advanced Islanded-Mode Control of Microgrids, Mohammad Bagher Delghavi
Optical Power Splitting Techniques Using Photonic Crystal Line Defect Waveguides, Rajat Dey
Three-Dimensional Modeling of Electrostatic Precipitator Using Hybrid Finite Element - Flux Corrected Transport Technique, Niloofar Farnoosh
Measurement of Dynamic Temperatures and Pressures in Nuclear Power Plants, Hashem M. Hashemian
Nanoplasmonic Sensors based on Periodic Arrays of Gold Nanoparticles, Hao Jiang
Investigating Performance and Reliability of Process Bus Networks for Digital Protective Relaying, Mitalkumar Kanabar
Advances In Internal Model Principle Control Theory, Jin Lu
Reliable and High-Performance Hardware Architectures for the Advanced Encryption Standard/Galois Counter Mode, Mehran Mozaffari-Kermani
Planar Photonic Crystal for Biosensor Applications, Anil Kumar Mudraboyina
Addressing Computational Complexity of High Speed Distributed Circuits Using Model Order Reduction, Ehsan Rasekh
A Usability Maturity Model for Open Source Software, Arif Raza
Attitude Estimation and Control of VTOL UAVs, Andrew D. Roberts
Modeling Lung Tissue Motions and Deformations: Applications in Tumor Ablative Procedures, Ali Sadeghi Naini
Control and Power Supply for Resistance Spot Welding (RSW), Meranda Salem
FEM-FCT Based Dynamic Simulation of Trichel Pulse Corona Discharge in Point-Plane Configuration, Paria Sattari
Fault Location and Incipient Fault Detection in Distribution Cables, Zhihan Xu
Semantic Privacy Policies for Service Description and Discovery in Service-Oriented Architecture, Diego Zuquim Guimaraes Garcia
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Motion Coordination of Aerial Vehicles, Abdelkader Abdessameud
Addressing Computational Complexity of Electromagnetic Systems Using Parameterized Model Order Reduction, Majid Ahmadloo
Arithmetic Units for the Elliptic Curve Cryptography with Concurrent Error Detection Capability, Arash Hariri
A New Signal Processing Approach to Study Action Potential Content in Sympathetic Neural Signals, Aryan Salmanpour
Ontological View-driven Semantic Integration in Open Environments, Yunjiao Xue