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Title: A Comprehensive Study of Drinking Water Coagulation with Aluminum Sulfate
Author: Alansari, Amir
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Coagulation is usually the first and most important step in conventional drinking water treatment processes. The efficiency of all downstream processes is directly dependent on the effectiveness of the coagulation stage. Coagulants such as aluminu...

Title: Active Cyber Defense Planning and Orchestration
Author: Islam, Md Mazharul
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: The overwhelming number of recent data breaches reported that hundreds of terabytes of highly sensitive information, including national, financial, and personal, have been stolen from different organizations, indicating a clear asymmetric disadvan...

Title: DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING JOINT DYNAMIC AMBULANCE RELOCATION AND FLEXIBLE DISPATCHING STRATEGIES: A SIMULATION-OPTIMIZATION APPROACH
Author: Li, Xun
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information technology, Business
Description: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system's mission is to provide timely and effective treatment to anyone in need of urgent medical care throughout their jurisdiction. The main goal of most EMS deployment is to reduce mortality, disability, pain an...

Title: DRONE ROUTING FOR DAMAGE ASSESSMENT ON POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS UNDER HILF EVENTS
Author: Alapati, Mahesh
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Power resources, Operations research
Description: Significant damages caused by extreme weather conditions such as flood, storm, hurricanes, blizzards etc., contribute multiple and widely-spread damages to electric power transmission and distribution systems resulting in large-scale power failure...

Title: Decision Analysis in Public Policy: Multi-Objective Optimization for Economic Mobility Policy Portfolio Mix in Local Urban Governments
Author: Watlington, Victoria
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Government policy
Description: In this dissertation, I take an interdisciplinary approach to improve the budget allocation process for economic mobility policy by leveraging multi-objective optimization as a decision support tool. Economic mobility is measured as the difference...

Title: Distributed Renewable Energy Technologies:Design and Development of Scalable Transmission Systems
Author: Menon, Shruti Mohandas
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Renewable forms of energy are being intensively pursued and investigated in systems connected to the grid as well as in standalone applications. The global energy generation is expected to grow 2.7 times by the year 2035. Today, renewable energy r...

Title: ENHANCING THE RESILIENCE OF DISTRIBUTION POWER GRIDS WITH PHOTOVOLTAICS (PVs) AND ENERGY STORAGE
Author: McGirt, Alexander
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
Description: Extreme events such as natural disasters can cause power grid failures, leading to catastrophic consequences and losses. With increasing integrations of photovoltaics (PVs) and energy storage in the distribution power grid, this work explores how ...

Title: LIBRARY OF THINGS (LoT) - AN URBAN SYSTEM MODEL FOR RECONCEPTUALIZING THE ROLE AND SPATIALIZATION OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Author: Nelson, Alexandra
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Information technology, Architecture
Description: As the public library system struggles to find support in the age Google and Amazon, their impact through crucial resources and personalized support from library staff prove their undeniable value in cities -- especially for those without internet...

Title: LIFE CYCLE COST OPTIMIZATION OF A SOLAR COMBISYSTEM IN NEPAL
Author: Thapa, Bishan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Nepal has a huge potential for solar energy utilization to meet the growing energy demand. Solar thermal systems have been used in Nepal since the 1960s. In the past two decades, much work was done with a focus on improving design, fabrication, an...

Title: Model development and system optimization to minimize greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment plants
Author: KIM, DONGWOOK
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering
Description: As greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reduction has drawn considerable attention, various methods have been established to estimate greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). In order to establish a design and operational strat...

Title: Modeling and Optimization of Demand-Side and Supply-Side Energy Management in Electricity Markets
Author: Vatani, Behdad
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources, Operations research
Description: An energy management system (EMS) is a system designed for owners of generation companies (GenCos), operators of electricity markets and electric utility grids, as well as consumers and aggregators to monitor, control, and optimize the performance...

Title: NESTED OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK FOR FUSING ITERATIVE PLANT OPTIMIZATION WITH CONTINUOUS CONTROLLER OPTIMIZATION
Author: Deese, Joseph
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: This research establishes a novel combined plant and controller optimization (termed co-design) framework, aimed at complex systems, that speeds up the optimization process by adjusting controller parameters during an experiment while plant parame...

Title: Optimal Sizing and Operation of Energy Storage Systems to Mitigate Intermittency of Renewable Energy Resources
Author: Naziri Moghaddam, Iman
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Increased share of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in the generation mix requires higher flexibility in power system resources. The intermittent nature of the RES calls for higher reserves in power systems to smooth out the unpredictable power fluc...

Title: Optimization of Building Envelope Design for Daylighting and Thermal Performance
Author: Futrell, Benjamin
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, System theory, Building
Description: Buildings account for 40% of US energy usage. A building’s energy usage is largely determined by decisions made during its design. Such decisions relate to the form and orientation of the building, the materials used, and location of windows. A bi...

Title: Overlap Packing Optimization for Spacecraft Layout Design
Author: Alaimo, Richard
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Industrial engineering, Operations research
Description: Packing optimization is a common problem that is encountered on a day-to-day basis and has led to an extensive study over the years. One variant of the packing problem that is beginning to emerge is the overlap cuboid packing problem (OCPP), which...

Title: Real-Time Control and Optimal Plant Design for Renewable Energy Systems Using Bayesian Optimization
Author: Baheri, Ali
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Computer science
Description: The overarching objective of this research is to use machine learning tools to address the design and real-time control of active systems, focusing specifically by tethered airborne wind energy and ocean current energy systems. In both application...

Title: Resilient Operation and Optimal Scheduling of Networked Microgrids
Author: Kamal, Faria
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: The rapid proliferation and widespread adoption of microgrids (MG) necessitate the development of new methodologies to holistically model all the active components within MGs. It’s crucial to focus on specific islanding requirements, especially wh...

Title: Resistance Optimization for Skeletal Muscles during Exercise
Author: Edwards, Matthew
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Biomechanics
Description: The physical fitness industry is booming due to an increase in health awareness. People are spending more time and money to become healthy and stay healthy. Physical exercise has been proven to improve mental and physical health, but what if we ar...

Title: SELECTION, OPTIMIZATION, AND COMPENSATION (SOC) STRATEGIES AND PERCEIVED WORK ABILITY: THE ROLES OF PERCEIVED HEALTH AND JOB CONTROL
Author: Flinchum, Jonathan
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Perceived work ability (PWA) represents an employee’s perceptions of their ability to continue working in their current job given their personal resources and the characteristics of their job, and relates to many positive organizational outcomes (...

Title: Statistical Machine Learning based Modeling Framework for Design Space Exploration and Run-time Cross-stack Energy Optimization for Many-core Processors
Author: Zhang, Changshu
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: The complexity of many-core processors continues to grow as a larger number of heterogeneous cores are integrated on a single chip. Such systems-on-chip contains computing structures ranging from complex out-of-order cores, simple in-order cores, ...