CCOMMENCEMENOMMENCEMETNT VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY FALL 2018 DEC 14 DOCTORAL DEGREES THE GRADUATE SCHOOL Dean Karen P. DePauw DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCES Baxter, Abigail Elaine Novel Coated Fertilizers as Multi-Nutrient Sources for Soybeans and Tomatoes AGRICULTURAL AND EXTENSION EDUCATION Committee Chair: Prof. R. O. Maguire Flemmig, Emma Leigh December 13, 2018 Resuscitating Rapid Rural Appraisal for Improved Food Security Outcomes in Cook, Natalie Ebony International Agricultural Development Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB) as a Site for Social Transformation: Development, Committee Chair: Prof. W. E. Thomason Implementation, and Evaluation of a Transformative ECB Intervention Committee Chair: Prof. T. G. Archibald ENTOMOLOGY

Elliott-Engel, Jeremy December 13, 2018 State Administrators’ Perceptions of the Environmental Challenges of Cooperative Means, Jackson Cornelius Extension and the 4-H Program and Their Resulting Adaptive Leadership Behaviors Biodiversity, Conservation and Mimicry Rings of Appalachian Millipedes Committee Chair: Prof. D. M. Westfall-Rudd Committee Chair: Prof. P. Marek Omosa, Oladayo Olukayode FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Towards Defi ning and Mainstreaming “Made in Africa Evaluation” Committee Chair: Prof. T. G. Archibald December 13, 2018 Wiley, Shannon Renea Farzad, Razieh Professional Learning in Cooperative Extension: Understanding Opportunities for Selenium, Prebiotic, Probiotic and Synbiotic as Functional Ingredients in Aquafeed Social Learning and the Use of Computer Mediated Technologies Committee Chair: Prof. D. D. Kuhn Committee Chair: Prof. H. H. Scherer Griffi n, Laura Elizabeth August 11, 2018 The Infl uence of Dietary Flavanol Mean Degrees of Polymerization on Sensory Kyle, Crystal Anne Preference Trends and the Metabolic Syndrome The Formation of Cultural Capital Using Symbolic Military Meanings of Objects and Self Committee Chair: Prof. A. C. Stewart in an Adult Agricultural Education Program Serving Military Veterans Hurley, Eldon Kenneth Committee Chair: Prof. K. L. Niewolny Modifi cation of Fermentation by Targeted Energy Input June 30, 2018 Committee Chair: Prof. R. C. Williams Webb, Randall Curtis June 30, 2018 A Case Study of How Modern Agricultural Education Programs May Be Designed to Dharmarha, Vaishali Support Innovative Agricultural Content Effect of Standard Post-harvest Interventions of Fresh Vegetables on Bacterial Committee Chair: Prof. D. M. Westfall-Rudd Community Dynamics, Pathogen Survival and Antibiotic Resistance ANIMAL AND POULTRY SCIENCES Committee Chair: Prof. M. A. Ponder Yang, Lily L. December 13, 2018 Assessment of Consumers’ Knowledge, Attitudes, Awareness, and Beliefs of Food Harl, Audra Whitney Handling and Beef Safety Handling Behaviors Factors Affecting the Quality and Function of the Bovine Periovulatory Follicle Committee Chair: Prof. R. R. Boyer Committee Chair: Prof. M. Rhoads HORTICULTURE McCauley, Sydney Russelle Glucose Metabolism in Low Birth Weight Neonatal Pigs December 13, 2018 Committee Chair: Prof. S. W. El-Kadi de la Mota Daniel, Francisco Javier Sutherland, Dez-Ann Antoinette Therese Water Fluxes in Soil-pavement Systems: Integrating Trees, Soils and Infrastructure Quantitative and Molecular Genetics of a Three - Generation Intercross Between Committee Chair: Prof. S. D. Day Chickens Selected for Low Body Weight and Red Junglefowl August 11, 2018 Committee Chair: Prof. P. B. Siegel Das, Sanghamitra August 11, 2018 Soil Solarizaton, and Bio-based Products as Alternatives to Preplant Fumigation in Zhang, Haihan Annual Plasticulture Strawberry Production System Ontogeny and Biological Function of Epithelial Cells in the Chicken Yolk Sac and Small Committee Chair: Prof. J. B. Samtani Intestine Rigoulot, Stephen Bradley Committee Chair: Prof. E. A. Wong Characterization of Signaling Pathways Underlying Key Growth and Development Processes in Populus trichocarpa ANIMAL SCIENCE, DAIRY Committee Chair: Prof. E. P. Beers December 13, 2018 June 30, 2018 Li, Mengmeng Laimbeer, Francis Parker Effi ngham Modeling Nitrogen and Energetic Effi ciency in Bovine Potato Genomics Three Ways: Quantifi cation of Endoreduplication in Tubers, a Romp Committee Chair: Prof. M. D. Hanigan Through the Transposon Terrain, and Elucidation of Flower Color Regulation Yoder, Peter Committee Chair: Prof. R. E. Veilleux Amino Acid Metabolism in Dairy Cows HUMAN NUTRITION, FOODS AND EXERCISE Committee Chair: Prof. M. D. Hanigan August 11, 2018 December 13, 2018 Enger, Benjamin Myers, Emily Anne Intramammary Infection in Rapidly Growing, Non-lactating Mammary Glands Improving Non-nutritive Sweetener Study Design Methodology Committee Chair: Prof. R. M. Akers Committee Chair: Prof. V. E. Hedrick Williams, Brian Orbreyn CROP AND SOIL ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Heart Rate Kinetics and Control Chart Violations Effect on Physical Demands and December 13, 2018 Fatigue Prediction in College Aged Soccer Players Battaglia, Martin Leonardo Committee Chair: Prof. J. H. Williams Crop Residue Removal Effects on Crop Production, Greenhouse Gases Emissions, and August 11, 2018 Soil Quality in the Mid-Atlantic USA Hayes, Jasmine Marie Committee Chair: Prof. J. H. Fike and Prof. W. E. Thomason Skeletal Muscle Adaption to 5 Days of High-Fat Feeding in Humans Committee Chair: Prof. M. W. Hulver PLANT PATHOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY AND WEED SCIENCE PAMPLIN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS December 11, 2018 BUSINESS, BUSINESS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Acharya, Bhupendra Integrated Management of Anthracnose and Grain Mold Diseases in Grain Sorghum June 30, 2018 Under Mid-Atlantic Conditions Baghersad, Milad Committee Chair: Prof. H. L. Mehl Firms’ Resilience to Supply Chain Disruptions Clermont, Kristen Renee Committee Chair: Prof. C. W. Zobel Plasticity of Primary Metabolism in Parasitic Orobanchaceae HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT Committee Chair: Prof. J. H. Westwood August 11, 2018 December 13, 2018 Dinkeloo, Kasia Rhou, Yinyoung New Tools to Understand Mechanisms of Nutrient Transfer from Plants to Biotrophic The Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility in the Context of Hospitality Pathogens Management Committee Chair: Prof. G. Pilot Committee Chair: Prof. M. Singal COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING URBAN STUDIES AEROSPACE ENGINEERING ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN RESEARCH December 13, 2018 Abou Jaoude, Dany December 13, 2018 Computationally Driven Algorithms for Distributed Control of Complex Systems La Coe, Jodi Lynn Committee Chair: Prof. M. H. Farhood Construction of Vision: Experiments in Higher Spatial Dimensions in the Stage Designs Seifert, David Ryan of László Moholy-Nagy Topology Optimization of Multifunctional Nanocomposite Structures Committee Chair: Prof. M. Feuerstein Committee Chair: Prof. M. J. Patil and Prof. G. D. Seidel August 11, 2018 Sun, Xingsheng Alisan Yetkin, Aylin A Computational Framework for Long-Term Atomistic Analysis of Solute Diffusion in A Community-based Cultural Landscape Study Method to Understand Cultural Nanomaterials Landscapes of Findikli-Rize in Turkey Committee Chair: Prof. K. G. Wang Committee Chair: Prof. T. L. Clements and Prof. M. Kim Tyson, William Conrad PLANNING, GOVERNANCE, AND GLOBALIZATION On Numerical Error Estimation for the Finite-Volume Method with an Application to Computational Fluid Dynamics December 13, 2018 Committee Chair: Prof. C. J. Roy Elouardighi, Selma Wu, Jinlong Transfer of Environmental Best Practices from Developed to Developing Countries Predictive Turbulence Modeling with Bayesian Inference and Physics-Informed Through Multinational Corporations Machine Learning Committee Chair: Prof. E. Weisband and Prof. R. P. Hall Committee Chair: Prof. E. G. Paterson and Prof. H. Xiao Kruczek, Gregory John August 11, 2018 Christian Minorities and the Struggle for Nineveh: The Assyrian Democratic Movement Cagas, Petr in Iraq and the Nineveh Plains Protection Units Continuum Kinetic Simulations of Plasma Sheaths and Instabilities Committee Chair: Prof. A. I. Ahram Committee Chair: Prof. B. Srinivasan Wei, Rongrong June 30, 2018 Local Fiscal Sustainability Within American Fiscal Federalism Nastasi, Kevin Committee Chair: Prof. M. M. Cowell Autonomous and Responsive Surveillance Network Management for Adaptive Space June 30, 2018 Situational Awareness Breske, Ashleigh M. L. Committee Chair: Prof. J. T. Black Politics of Repatriation: Formalizing Indigenous Cultural Property Rights Committee Chair: Prof. T. W. Luke BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION/PUBLIC AFFAIRS August 11, 2018 December 13, 2018 Alamdari, Nasrin Dupuis, Nicole Marie Modeling Climate Change Impacts on the Effectiveness of Stormwater Control Stories of the Sharing Economy: Comparing Narratives and Regulatory Responses to Measures in Urban Watersheds TNCs Across American Cities Committee Chair: Prof. D. J. Sample Committee Chair: Prof. M. M. Dull Kang, Hyunwoo Soil Moisture-driven Drought Evaluation Under Present and Future Conditions Lee, Kimberly Taylor Committee Chair: Prof. V. R. Sridhar Organizing Freedom: An Institutional Logics Perspective on Public-Private Partnerships June 30, 2018 and the Freedmen’s Bureau Akinola, Akinrotimi Idowu Committee Chair: Prof. L. S. Jensen Temporal and Thermal Effects on Fluvial Erosion of Cohesive Streambank Soils Lopes, Crane L. Committee Chair: Prof. S. Mostaghimi and Prof. T. M. Thompson Historical Institutionalism and Defense Public Procurement: The Case of Other Guimaraes Braga da Silva, Pedro Ivo Transactions Agreements Discovery of a Novel Microalgal Strain Scenedesmus sp. A6 and Exploration of its Committee Chair: Prof. P. S. Roberts Potential as a Microbial Cell Factory August 11, 2018 Committee Chair: Prof. R. S. Senger Pintard-Newry, Yvette Jasmine What is the Relationship Between Civil Society and the State in Small Island States? BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING An Examination of Social Origins Theory and The Bahamas Committee Chair: Prof. A. M. Khademian December 13, 2018 Sharma, Arun Cristino, Danielle M. Patient-centric Care in the U.S. - A Comparative Study of Patient Satisfaction and Lower Extremity Biomechanical Response of Female and Male Post-Mortem Human Quality Care Among For-profi t Physician-owned, Corporate-owned, and Not-for-profi t Surrogates to High-Rate Vertical Loading During Simulated Under-Body Blast Events Hospitals Committee Chair: Prof. W. N. Hardy Committee Chair: Prof. K. M. Hult Douglas, Temple Anne Development of a Dielectrophoresis-Based Cancer-Cell Analysis Tool Committee Chair: Prof. R. V. Davalos Hlavac, Nora Mae Saha, Deba Pratim Attributes of Astrocyte Response to Mechano-stimulation by High-rate Overpressure Study of Methods in Computational Psychophysiology for Incorporating Implicit Committee Chair: Prof. P. VandeVord Affective Feedback in Intelligent Environments Simmons, Jamelle Marquis Committee Chair: Prof. T. L. Martin and Prof. R. B. Knapp Effects of Febuxostat on Autistic Behaviors and Computational Investigations of Diffusion & Pharmacokinetics COMPUTER SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS Committee Chair: Prof. Y. W. Lee December 13, 2018 August 11, 2018 Handosa, Mohamed Hussein Hafez Rolong, Andrea Supporting User Interactions with Smart Built Environments Tissue Engineered Scaffolds and Three Dimensional Tumor Constructs to Evaluate Committee Chair: Prof. D. Gracanin and Prof. H. G. Elmongui Pulsed Electric Field Treatments Li, Bo Committee Chair: Prof. R. V. Davalos Modeling and Runtime Systems for Coordinated Power-Performance Management CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Committee Chair: Prof. K. W. Cameron Zhang, Xuan December 13, 2018 Product Defect Discovery and Summarization from Online User Reviews Chen, Hongyu Committee Chair: Prof. E. A. Fox and Prof. W. Fan Modeling of Microstructures and Stiffness of Injection Molded Long Glass Fiber August 11, 2018 Reinforced Thermoplastics Cheng, Long Committee Chair: Prof. D. G. Baird Program Anomaly Detection Against Data-Oriented Attacks Lambert, Gregory Michael Committee Chair: Prof. D. Yao Using Non-Lubricated Squeeze Flow to Obtain Empirical Parameters for Modeling the Hou, Kaixi Injection Molding of Long-Fiber Composites Exploring Performance Portability for Accelerators via High-level Parallel Patterns Committee Chair: Prof. D. G. Baird Committee Chair: Prof. W. Feng August 11, 2018 Khandpur, Rupinder Paul Jo, Ami Augmenting Dynamic Query Expansion in Microblog Texts The Design of Biodegradable Polyester Nanocarriers for Image-guided Therapeutic Committee Chair: Prof. N. Ramakrishnan and Prof. C. Lu Delivery Stewart, Michael Clark Committee Chair: Prof. R. M. Davis CoListen June 30, 2018 Committee Chair: Prof. D. G. Tatar Ford, Andrew June 30, 2018 Investigating the Interplay Between Infl ammation and Matrix Stiffness: Evaluation of Esakia, Andria Cell Phenotype and Cytoplasmic Stiffness In Vitro Smartwatch Centered System for Facilitating Group Processes of Small Teams in a Committee Chair: Prof. P. Rajagopalan Statewide Health Promotion Program CIVIL ENGINEERING Committee Chair: Prof. D. S. McCrickard Ning, Yue December 13, 2018 Modeling Information Precursors for Event Forecasting Ashqar, Huthaifa Issam Committee Chair: Prof. N. Ramakrishnan Strategic Design of Smart Bike-Sharing Systems for Smart Cities Santos Lages, Wallace Committee Chair: Prof. H. A. Rakha and Prof. L. L. House Walk-Centric User Interfaces for Mixed Reality Farzampour, Alireza Committee Chair: Prof. D. A. Bowman Evaluating Shear Links for Use in Seismic Structural Fuses Sun, Wenhai Committee Chair: Prof. M. R. Eatherton Towards Secure Outsourced Data Services in the Public Cloud Musick, Ryland Wayne Committee Chair: Prof. W. Lou Developing and Implementing a Friction Management Plan for the West Virginia Tian, Ke Division of Highways’ Roadway Network Learning-based Mobile App Analysis and Binary Customization for Security Committee Chair: Prof. G. W. Flintsch Committee Chair: Prof. D. Yao August 11, 2018 Walker, Jonathan Bearnarr ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING An Empirical Method of Ascertaining the Null Points from a Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) Roadside Unit (RSU) at a Highway On/Off-Ramp December 13, 2018 Committee Chair: Prof. K. P. Heaslip II Adhikari, Rajendra June 30, 2018 Algorithms and Simulation Framework for Residential Demand Response Liu, Yi Committee Chair: Prof. S. Rahman Investigation of the Spatiotemporal Evolution of Tropical Cyclone Storm Surge Under Allen, Patrick Sea Level Rise Characterization of GaN PN Diode Drift Layers for High Power Applications Committee Chair: Prof. J. L. Irish Committee Chair: Prof. L. J. Guido Shahtaheri, Yasaman Carrick, Matthew David A Probabilistic Decision Support System for a Performance-Based Design of Cyclostationary Methods for Communication and Signal Detection Under Interference Infrastructures Committee Chair: Prof. J. H. Reed Committee Chair: Prof. J. M. de la Garza and Prof. M. M. Flint Cui, Xuelin Joint CT-MRI Image Reconstruction COMPUTER ENGINEERING Committee Chair: Prof. L. M. Mili December 13, 2018 Dimarino, Christina Marie Guo, Shengjian Design and Validation of a Compact 10 kV Silicon Carbide MOSFET Power Module with Effi cient Symbolic Execution of Concurrent Software Reduced Electric Field Strength and Integrated Common-Mode Screen Committee Chair: Prof. M. S. Hsiao and Prof. C. Wang Committee Chair: Prof. D. Boroyevich and Prof. R. Burgos Zeng, Kexiong Diomedi, Kevin Paul The Single Scatter Subtraction Approach to Rough Surface Scattering Threat and Application of Flexible Radio Systems Committee Chair: Prof. G. S. Brown Committee Chair: Prof. Y. Yang June 30, 2018 Kim, Hyunchul Liu, Qingrui Power Amplifi ers and FIR fi lter at Millimeter Wave Compiler-directed Error Resilience for Reliable Computing Committee Chair: Prof. K. Koh Committee Chair: Prof. C. Jung and Prof. H. Zeng Li, Bin High Frequency Bi-directional DC/DC Converter with Integrated Magnetics for Battery Charger Application Committee Chair: Prof. Q. Li Li, Chengshuai Nave, Amy Lynn Hermundstad Multimodal Quantitative Imaging Based on Spectral Interferometry All in a Day’s Work: Women Engineering Students’ Professional Development in a Committee Chair: Prof. Y. Zhu Living-Learning Community Netto, Marcos Committee Chair: Prof. M. C. Paretti and Prof. D. R. Simmons Robust Identifi cation, Estimation, and Control of Electric Power Systems Using the June 30, 2018 Koopman Operator-theoretic Framework Agrawal, Ashish Committee Chair: Prof. L. M. Mili A Multiple-Case Study Exploring the Experiences of International Teaching Assistants Sanjab, Anibal Jean in Engineering Security of Cyber-Physical-Human Systems: Theoretical Foundations, Game Theory, Committee Chair: Prof. M. C. Paretti and Prof. E. D. McNair and Bounded Rationality Committee Chair: Prof. W. Saad ENGINEERING MECHANICS Wirsing, Karlton Edward December 13, 2018 Multifractal Analysis of Geomagnetically Induced Currents Using Wavelet Leaders Chattopadhyay, Arka Prabha Committee Chair: Prof. L. M. Mili Free and Forced Vibration of Linearly Elastic and St. Venant-Kirchhoff Plates Using the Xu, Yijun Third Order Shear and Normal Deformable Theory Uncertainty Quantifi cation and State Estimation in Power Systems Using Polynomial Committee Chair: Prof. R. C. Batra Chaos Based Methods Elbadawy, Mohamed Mohamed Zeinelabdin Mohamed Committee Chair: Prof. L. M. Mili and Prof. S. Rahman Dynamic Strain Measurement Based Damage Identifi cation for Structural Health Zhang, Xiangyu Monitoring A Data-driven Approach for Coordinating Air Conditioning Unit Operation in Commercial Committee Chair: Prof. M. P. Singh Buildings Hussein, Ahmed Abd Elmonem Ahmed Committee Chair: Prof. S. Rahman Analysis of Dynamics and Fluid-Structure Interactions of Air and Underwater Robotics August 11, 2018 Committee Chair: Prof. M. R. Hajj Choi, Junsung Singh, Harmeet Feasibility Study and Performance Evaluation of Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Discontinuities, Balance Laws, and Material Momentum Communications Applications Committee Chair: Prof. J. Hanna Committee Chair: Prof. C. B. Dietrich, Jr. Ge, Ting Yang, Wenchao Two-dimensional Wakes and Fluid-structure Interaction of Circular Cylinders in Cross- Resonant Cross-Commutated Dc-Dc Regulators with Omni-Coupled Inductors fl ow Committee Chair: Prof. K. D. Ngo Committee Chair: Prof. M. A. Stremler Karra, Kiran August 11, 2018 Modeling and Analysis of Non-Linear Dependencies Using Copulas, with Applications Emami, Anahita to Machine Learning Investigation on Physics-based Multi-scale Modeling of Contact, Friction, and Wear in Committee Chair: Prof. L. M. Mili Viscoelastic Materials with Application in Rubber Compounds Li, Chi Committee Chair: Prof. S. Taheri Impedance-Based Stability Analysis in Power Systems with Multiple STATCOMs in Proximity Nave, Gary Kirk Nonlinear Models and Geometric Structure of Fluid Forcing on Moving Bodies Committee Chair: Prof. R. Burgos Committee Chair: Prof. S. D. Ross and Prof. M. A. Stremler Sun, Bingyao June 30, 2018 High-Frequency Oriented Design of Gallium-Nitride (GaN) Based High Power Density Converters Alrowaijeh, Jamal Salem Fluidic Energy Harvesting and Sensing Systems Committee Chair: Prof. R. Burgos Committee Chair: Prof. M. R. Hajj Yetkin, Harun Toward Real-Time Planning for Robotic Search INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Committee Chair: Prof. D. J. Stilwell June 30, 2018 December 13, 2018 Gibson, Scott Brian Brown, TeAirra Monique Improved Dynamic Modeling and Robust Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Playing to Win: Applying Cognitive Theory and Gamifi cation to Augmented Reality for Committee Chair: Prof. D. J. Stilwell Enhanced Mathematical Outcomes in Underrepresented Student Populations Kishk, Mustafa Committee Chair: Prof. J. L. Gabbard, Jr. Coverage, Secrecy, and Stability Analysis of Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks Elhabashy, Ahmed Essam Committee Chair: Prof. H. Dhillon Quality Control Tools for Cyber-Physical Security of Production Systems Miao, Zichen Committee Chair: Prof. J. A. Camelio and Prof. L. J. Wells Packaging and Magnetic Integration for Reliable Switching of Paralleled SiC MOSFETs Hedberg, Thomas Daniel Committee Chair: Prof. K. D. Ngo Enabling Connections in the Product Lifecycle Using the Digital Thread Mozaffari, Mohammad Committee Chair: Prof. J. A. Camelio Wireless Communications and Networking with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: August 11, 2018 Fundamentals, Deployment, and Optimization Esfahani, Mohammad Iman Mokhlespour Committee Chair: Prof. W. Saad Development and Assessment of Smart Textile Systems for Human Activity Venkataramani, Karthik Classifi cation Modeling the Energetics of the Upper Atmosphere Committee Chair: Prof. M. A. Nussbaum Committee Chair: Prof. S. M. Bailey Shafae, Mohammed Saeed Abuelmaka Advancing the Utility of Manufacturing Data for Modeling, Monitoring, and Securing ENGINEERING EDUCATION Machining Processes Committee Chair: Prof. J. A. Camelio and Prof. L. J. Wells December 13, 2018 Morelock, John Ray Smith, Martha Irene Motivating Students in Game-Based Learning: The Importance of Instructor Teaching Informing Design of Augmented Reality Head-Up Displays and Methods for Assessment Practices Committee Chair: Prof. J. L. Gabbard, Jr. Committee Chair: Prof. H. Matusovich June 30, 2018 August 11, 2018 Kulkarni, Aditya Umesh Basu, Debarati Incentive Mechanism Design for Organizations in Systems Engineering and Beyond: A Investigating Personalized Learning and Engagement Within a Cyberlearning System Multiscale Decision Theory Approach for Environmental Monitoring Education Committee Chair: Prof. C. Wernz Committee Chair: Prof. V. K. Lohani Larsen, Ethan Philip Lee, Heonjoong Macroergonomics to Understand Factors Impacting Patient Care During Electronic Modeling and Analysis of Thermoelectric Generator Performance with Consideration of Health Record Downtime Thermal Losses Using Effective Properties Committee Chair: Prof. B. M. Kleiner and Prof. R. M. Ratwani Committee Chair: Prof. S. Priya Pereira, Savio Joseph MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING On the Utilization of Vehicle Dynamics in Sensor Fusion for Mobile Mapping Systems December 13, 2018 Committee Chair: Prof. J. B. Ferris Floyd, R. Su, Chuang Synthesis and Characterization of Si, Ge, and Si(x)Ge(1-x) Nanowires by Fiber Drawing Tire Wear Modeling Using Machine Learning Methods Committee Chair: Prof. G. R. Pickrell Committee Chair: Prof. S. Taheri Gervasio, Michelle Rose August 11, 2018 Sub-micron Patterning of ZnO-PMMA Hybrid Films Brown, Ryan Charles Committee Chair: Prof. P. Lu Development of Ground-Level Hyperspectral Image Datasets and Analysis Tools, and Metzman, Jonathan Seth Their Use Towards a Feature Selection Based Sensor Design Method for Material Nanoparticle Encapsulation and Aggregation Control in Anti-refl ection Coatings and Classifi cation Organic Photovoltaics Committee Chair: Prof. A. L. Wicks Committee Chair: Prof. J. R. Hefl in Garcia, Anthony Jon Chanco Mills, Robert Jeffrey Millipede-Inspired Locomotion for Rumen Monitoring Remotely Operated Vehicle Surface Orientation Dependent Corrosion Damage and Temperature Dependent Committee Chair: Prof. S. Priya Mechanical Property Degradation of Sensitized AA5083-H116 Alloys Kang, Yong Suk Committee Chair: Prof. S. W. Case Development of Predictive Vehicle Control System Using Driving Environment Data for Monzel, William Autonomous Vehicles and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Committee Chair: Prof. J. B. Ferris Synthesis, Processing, and Properties of Silicon-Containing Phthalonitrile Resins Committee Chair: Prof. G. Lu Musgrave, Patrick Francis Roberts, Rose A. Turbulent Boundary Layer Over a Piezoelectrically Excited Traveling Wave Surface Committee Chair: Prof. P. A. Tarazaga Polymer Nanoparticle Characterization and Applications for Drug Delivery Committee Chair: Prof. E. J. Foster June 30, 2018 Sarlo, Rodrigo Song, Myung-Eun High-Resolution, High-Frequency Modal Analysis for Instrumented Buildings Correlation Between Processing, Structure and Properties of High Temperature Committee Chair: Prof. P. A. Tarazaga Thermoelectric Oxide Materials Committee Chair: Prof. S. Priya MINING ENGINEERING Yamada, Ryo Application of Steepest-Entropy-Ascent Quantum Thermodynamics to Solid-State December 13, 2018 Phenomena Louk, Andrew Kyle Committee Chair: Prof. W. T. Reynolds, Jr. Monitoring Interwell Connectivity for a CO2 Storage - Enhanced Coalbed Methane August 11, 2018 Recovery Test in Central Appalachia Cooke, Shelley Lynn Committee Chair: Prof. N. S. Ripepi Investigation into the Stability of Biomedical Grade Silicone and Polyurethane Exposed to Ionizing Radiation NUCLEAR ENGINEERING Committee Chair: Prof. A. R. Whittington June 30, 2018 Roskoff, Nathan MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Development of a Novel Fuel Burnup Methodology and Algorithm in RAPID and its December 13, 2018 Benchmarking and Automation Alsaiari, Abdulmohsen Omar Committee Chair: Prof. A. Haghighat Augmentation of Jet Impingment Heat Transfer on a Grooved Surface Under Wet and Dry Conditions COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS & HUMAN SCIENCES Committee Chair: Prof. T. E. Diller Attia, Tamer Said Abdelzaher CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION Design and Development of a Novel Reconfi gurable Wheeled Robot for Rough Terrain December 13, 2018 Applications Shelton, Thomas C. Committee Chair: Prof. K. B. Kochersberger and Prof. T. Furukawa Student Temperament Assessment and its Relationship with the Selection of Bender, Matthew Jacob Accounting as a Major Modeling and Estimation of Bat Flight for Learning Robotic Joint Geometry from Committee Chair: Prof. W. T. Price, Jr. Potential Fields Committee Chair: Prof. A. J. Kurdila and R. Mueller CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION Fu, Yucheng December 13, 2018 Development of Advanced Image Processing Algorithms for Bubbly Flow Measurement Al Zahrani, Turki Saad Committee Chair: Prof. Y. Liu Creating Guidelines for Integrating Technology in EFL Classrooms Goswami, Ishan Committee Chair: Prof. B. B. Lockee Computational and Experimental Investigation of the Critical Behavior Observed in Cell Arnold, Amy Joan Signaling Related to Electrically Perturbed Lipid Systems Constructing Guidelines for Practicing Professionals Teaching Continuing Professional Committee Chair: Prof. M. R. von Spakovsky and Prof. S. Verbridge Development in Online Environments Hodges, Jonathan Lee Committee Chair: Prof. B. B. Lockee Simulating Large Domain Multi-Physics Problems Using Predictive Analytics Biviano, Amanda C. Committee Chair: Prof. B. Y. Lattimer and Prof. T. Furukawa Shifting Perceptions of Disability in Literature: A Case Study of One English Teacher’s Krummel, Gregory Michael Use of a Sociocultural Lens to Examine Disability Critically Locomotion and Control of Cnidarian-Mimetic Robots Committee Chair: Prof. B. S. Billingsley and Prof. A. P. Azano Committee Chair: Prof. S. Priya Miller, Brian Wade Kumar, Prashant “I No Longer Teach History, I Teach S.O.Ls”: Navigating the Curricular and Instructional Multifunctional One Dimensional Architectures for Energy Harvesting and Sensing Minefi eld of a High-stakes Educational Environment Committee Chair: Prof. S. Priya Committee Chair: Prof. D. Hicks Ofori, Eunice Sheng, Xiaoyan Design and Development of Guidelines for Message Design in Mobile Learning A Flowering Gene Homologs Regulate Seasonal Growth Changes in Poplar Guideline for Designing Instruction for Mobile Phones Committee Chair: Prof. A. M. Brunner and Prof. J. A. Holliday Committee Chair: Prof. B. B. Lockee June 30, 2018 June 30, 2018 Ji, Xinde Munz, Stephan Georg Three Essays on the Economics of Water, Climate Change and Agriculture Assessing Student-Athletes’ Motivation: The Development and Validation of the Committee Chair: Prof. K. M. Cobourn MUSIC® Model of Athletic Motivation Inventory Committee Chair: Prof. B. D. Jones GEOSPATIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS HIGHER EDUCATION December 13, 2018 Aksha, Sanam Kumar December 13, 2018 Assessing Vulnerability and Multi-hazard Risk in the Nepal Himalaya Woods-Johnson, Kelley J. Committee Chair: Prof. L. M. Resler and Prof. L. Juran Reframing Responses to Workplace Stress: Exploring Entry-Level Residence Life Odom, Richard Hoyt Professionals’ Experiences of Workplace Resilience Simulating Potential Effects of Rapid Climate Change on Forested Landscapes Committee Chair: Prof. C. K. Robbins Managed by the Department of Defense in the United States HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Committee Chair: Prof. S. P. Prisley and Prof. W. M. Ford Tran, Hoa Thi December 13, 2018 Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in Monitoring Desertifi cation Process in Kianpour, Saeid Coastline Areas of Vietnam (Case Study in Binh Thuan Province) Understanding Syrian Refugee Fathers’ Perceptions of Their Identity and Family Committee Chair: Prof. R. H. Wynne and Prof. J. B. Campbell, Jr. Dynamics in the U.S. After Displacement August 11, 2018 Committee Chair: Prof. E. L. Grafsky Poor, Erin Elizabeth A Multiscale Analysis and Quantifi cation of Human Impacts on Sumatran Tiger SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES (Panthera tigris sumatrae) Habitat in Riau, Sumatra December 13, 2018 Committee Chair: Prof. M. J. Kelly Phillips, Amanda Kirsten Infrastructural Imaginaries: Highways and the Sociotechnical Production of Space in Baltimore COLLEGE OF SCIENCE Committee Chair: Prof. D. Breslau Zacharias, Kari Elizabeth BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Messy Transdisciplinarity: Science, Engineering, Art, and Design in the Contemporary August 11, 2018 Research University Broadway, Katherine Marie Committee Chair: Prof. M. Wisnioski Novel Perspectives on the Utilization of Chemotactic Salmonella Typhimurium VNP20009 as an Anticancer Agent SOCIAL, POLITICAL, ETHICAL, AND CULTURAL THOUGHT Committee Chair: Prof. B. Scharf December 13, 2018 Liang, Chen Khreiche, Mario Mechanism of CASK-linked Ophthalmological Disorders Milieus in the Gig Economy Committee Chair: Prof. K. Mukherjee Committee Chair: Prof. T. W. Luke and Prof. R. Kalyan Medina Lopez, Daniel Christofer August 11, 2018 Assessing Diversity, Culturability and Context-dependent Function of the Amphibian Laney, Jordan LeAnne Skin Microbiome Recreating and Deconstructing the Shifting Politics of (Bluegrass) Festivals Committee Chair: Prof. L. K. Belden Committee Chair: Prof. K. M. Powell Wepking, Carl Soil Microbial Function in a Time of Global Change: Effect of Dairy Antibiotics on Soil SOCIOLOGY Microbial Communities and Ecosystem Function Committee Chair: Prof. J. E. Barrett December 13, 2018 Dick-Mosher, Jennifer Lynne June 30, 2018 Deng, Jingren Out of Sorts: An Intersectional Analysis of Disabled Men’s and Women’s Workplace Microfl uidic Approaches for Probing Protein Phosphorylation in Cells Outcomes Committee Chair: Prof. M. I. Lazar Committee Chair: Prof. T. M. Calasanti Sun, Zhixiong The Epigenetic Role of EGR1 During Postnatal Mammalian Brain Development COLLEGE OF NATURAL RESOURCES Committee Chair: Prof. C. B. Lawrence and Prof. H. D. Xie AND ENVIRONMENT CHEMISTRY

FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE December 13, 2018 December 13, 2018 Kaurich, Kevin Joseph Anane-Taabeah, Gifty Segmented Aromatic Polymers Containing Thermally Reversible Linkages Characterization of the Molecular Genetic Variation in Wild and Farmed Tilapia in Committee Chair: Prof. P. A. Deck Ghana for Conservation and Aquaculture Development Li, Hao Committee Chair: Prof. E. A. Frimpong Design, Synthesis, and Structure-Activity Relationship Analysis of Selective Sphingosine Kinase Inhibitors FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS Committee Chair: Prof. W. Santos December 13, 2018 Liu, Jianzhao Kruger, Steven Daly Studies of Macromolecule/molecule Adsorption and Activity at Solid Surfaces Measuring Medicinal Nontimber Forest Product Output in Eastern Deciduous Forests Committee Chair: Prof. A. R. Esker Committee Chair: Prof. J. L. Chamberlain III and Prof. J. F. 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Scarola INTERDISCIPLINARY DEGREES Herbert, Elizabeth Anne Justice, Nicole Rhea MACROMOLECULAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Koonce, Jason Scott June 30, 2018 Mullins, Jessica Sanders Joseph, Ronald Matthew Noell, Joshua Keith Synthesis and Characterization of High Performance Polymers for Gas Separation and Perno, Meghan Rose Water Purifi cation Membranes and as Interfacial Agents for Thermplastic Carbon Ruhl, Sarah Denise

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DOCTOR OF EDUCATION COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS & HUMAN SCIENCES EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY STUDIES December 13, 2018 Calhoun, Prosperanta Beneus Effects of Leadership on Mathematics Teachers’ Self-effi cacy Committee Chair: Prof. W. D. Mallory Coefi eld, Cora Beatress Virginia School Leaders’ Perception of the Relationship Among Socioeconomic Status, School Culture, and Student Achievement to Identify Best Practices Committee Chair: Prof. C. S. Cash and Prof. T. S. Price Rhue, Chandra Nichelle A Study on the Level of Ethnic Representation of High School (9-12) Teachers to the Ethnic Representation of Students Enrolled in Each Comprehensive High School in the Commonwealth of Virginia Committee Chair: Prof. C. S. Cash and Prof. T. S. Price Wright, Chantea Renee Teacher Perceptions of the Impact of Professional Development on Instructional Practices and Student Achievement Committee Chair: Prof. C. S. Cash June 30, 2018 Wilcox, Nicole Marie Building Features that Impact Perceptions of Safety as Seen Through the Eyes of Students and Teachers Committee Chair: Prof. M. D. Kelly

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