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New N-Nitrosodimethylamine (Ndma) Precursors That React With Ozone: Implications For Water Reuse, Erica Marti, Aleks Pisarenko, Eric Dickenson
New N-Nitrosodimethylamine (Ndma) Precursors That React With Ozone: Implications For Water Reuse, Erica Marti, Aleks Pisarenko, Eric Dickenson
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
Ozonation is a promising treatment step for water reuse. Compared to the “gold standard” with reverse osmosis and advanced oxidation, ozone requires less energy and does not result in a waste brine. This makes ozone more cost-effective. However, the formation of nitrosamines may be a significant barrier to the use of ozonation in water reuse applications, particularly for potable reuse.
Solar Cell Design Using Metamaterials, Yang Liu, Yitung Chen, Jichun Li
Solar Cell Design Using Metamaterials, Yang Liu, Yitung Chen, Jichun Li
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
Natural structure with simultaneous negative permittivity and permeability has not been discovered yet. However, using specially-designed metal embedded in dielectric bodies can achieve a kind of artificial negative index. This periodic structure which is smaller than the guided wavelength is known as a metamaterial. However, recent designs of metamaterials have some disadvantages when they are used in the application of solar cell. The perfect absorption is only within a narrow band, and for most of the solar spectrum, the absorption is no more than 10%. Here, a new kind of absorber for the solar spectrum has been designed and analyzed, …
Calibration Of Traffic Flow Models, Victor Molano
Calibration Of Traffic Flow Models, Victor Molano
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
This study proposes a methodology to calibrate microscopic traffic flow simulation models. A Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation (SPSA) algorithm searches for the set of model parameters that minimizes the difference between actual and simulated values
Century Wide Hydrologic Trends And Shifts In Colorado River Basin, Soumya Sagarika, Ajay Kalra, Sajjad Ahmad
Century Wide Hydrologic Trends And Shifts In Colorado River Basin, Soumya Sagarika, Ajay Kalra, Sajjad Ahmad
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
To evaluate the long-term trends and step (abrupt change) changes in three hydrologic variables: temperature, precipitation, and streamflow over a century wide time frame in Colorado River Basin.
Applied Analysis Of Ionic Polymer Metal-Composite Actuators, Siul Ruiz, Benjamin Mead, Woosoon Yim
Applied Analysis Of Ionic Polymer Metal-Composite Actuators, Siul Ruiz, Benjamin Mead, Woosoon Yim
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
- IPMC is a type of smart material called an electroactive polymer
- Consists of an ionic polymer such as Nafion or Flemion and a conducive metal such as platinum or gold
- COMSOL multi-physics simulations accurately model the experimental displacement results
- Optimization performed using the multi-physics model to find the maximum deflection, force, and twisting
- Using the closed loop control system accurate IPMC tip location can be achieved
- This control system has been extended to function using a computer mouse as an input
Assessing The Impact Of Additional Seismic Sources On The Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment For The Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, Suchan Lamichhane, Barbara Luke, Wanda Taylor, William Savage
Assessing The Impact Of Additional Seismic Sources On The Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment For The Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, Suchan Lamichhane, Barbara Luke, Wanda Taylor, William Savage
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
- The densely populated (~2M) Las Vegas Valley, Nevada (LVV) is underlain by sediments that are cut by six mapped, active normal faults that comprise the Las Vegas Valley Fault System (LVVFS). Recent research indicates that these faults have the potential to generate earthquakes up to a maximum magnitude of 6.8.
- The current (2008) USGS national seismic hazard model (NSHM) explicitly considered only the Eglington fault of the LVVFS (the remaining 5 LVVFS sources were classified as "Class B" in the USGS fault and fold database and effectively given a weight of zero in the 2008 NSHM) and also did not …
Development Of A Smart Application For Police Crash Reports, Sebastien Bonnet, Victor Molano, Alexander Paz
Development Of A Smart Application For Police Crash Reports, Sebastien Bonnet, Victor Molano, Alexander Paz
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
- Gaining a significant amount of time to help police work
- Developing a User Friendly Interface
- Optimizing the GPS Gaining a significant amount of time to help police work
- Developing a User Friendly Interface
- Optimizing the bar code scan technology
- Application for MC 75 mobile technology
Owners’ Satisfaction Level With The Use Of Alternative Project Delivery Methods In Water And Wastewater Infrastructures, Pramen Shrestha, Jacimaria R. Batista
Owners’ Satisfaction Level With The Use Of Alternative Project Delivery Methods In Water And Wastewater Infrastructures, Pramen Shrestha, Jacimaria R. Batista
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
In 2013, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Report Card for America’s Infra-structure stated that the US needs up to $1.3 trillion in capital investments to replace the aging water pipes and repair the wastewater infrastructures. It is further believed by the industry that the streamlined approach of alternative project delivery methods, such as Design-Build (DB), and Construction Manager At-Risk (CMAR) helps ensure the economical and timely design and construction of the water and wastewater infrastructures.
Development Of A Comprehensive Database System For A Highway Safety Engineering And Management, Naveen Veeramisti, Justin Baker, Indira Khanal, Kenny Moupita, Alexander Paz
Development Of A Comprehensive Database System For A Highway Safety Engineering And Management, Naveen Veeramisti, Justin Baker, Indira Khanal, Kenny Moupita, Alexander Paz
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
In simple words, the objective of this study is to develop a comprehensive database system to provide a data for highway safety engineering and management.
Modeling And Architectural Simulations Of The Statistical Static Timing Analysis Of The Variation Sources For Vlsi Circuits, Abu M. Baker
Modeling And Architectural Simulations Of The Statistical Static Timing Analysis Of The Variation Sources For Vlsi Circuits, Abu M. Baker
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
As CMOS technology scales down, process variation introduces significant uncertainty in power and performance to VLSI circuits and significantly affects their reliability. Although Static-Timing Analysis (STA) remains an excellent tool, current trends in process scaling have imposed significant difficulties to STA. As one of the promising solutions, Statistical static timing analysis (SSTA) has become the frontier research topic in recent years in combating such variation effects. This poster will be focusing on two aspects of SSTA and its applications in VLSI designs: (1) Statistical timing modeling and analysis; and (2) Architectural implementations of the atomic operations (max and add) using …
Fast Sobel Edge Detection Using Parallel Pipeline-Based Architecture On Fpga, Mohammad Shokrolah Shirazi, Brendan Morris
Fast Sobel Edge Detection Using Parallel Pipeline-Based Architecture On Fpga, Mohammad Shokrolah Shirazi, Brendan Morris
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
Implementing image processing algorithms on FPGA has recently become more popular since it provides high speed in comparison with software-based approaches. In this paper, we have presented fast pipeline-based architecture for one of the most popular edge detection algorithms called Sobel edge detection. The objective of our work is to present two fast pipeline-based architectures for Sobel edge detection on FPGA benefiting one and two way parallelism. We used Verilog language to implement our designs and we synthesized each one for Cyclone IV FPGA. Experimental results show that our pipeline-based architectures perform edge detection process more than 379 and 751 …
On High-Performance Parallel Decimal Fixed-Point Multiplier Designs, Ming Zhu
On High-Performance Parallel Decimal Fixed-Point Multiplier Designs, Ming Zhu
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
Decimal computations are required in finance, and etc.
- Precise representation for decimals (E.g. 0.2, 0.7… )
- Performance Requirements (Software simulations are very slow)
A Computation Model For Nanoantenna-Based Solar Cell With High Conversion Efficiency, Yiyan Li, Ke-Xun Sun, Yingtao Jiang
A Computation Model For Nanoantenna-Based Solar Cell With High Conversion Efficiency, Yiyan Li, Ke-Xun Sun, Yingtao Jiang
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
- Build a model of spiral nanoantenna and an antenna
array based solar cell collector. - Using Rao-Wilton-Glisson (RWG) basis functions to
simulate the spiral nanoantennas. - We calculate the frequency response of the radiation
gain as the indicator of receiving bandwidth which is a
key factor in conversion efficiency.
Mono-Sized Sphere Packing Algorithm Development Using Optimized Monte Carlo Technique, Karn Soontrapa, Yitung Chen
Mono-Sized Sphere Packing Algorithm Development Using Optimized Monte Carlo Technique, Karn Soontrapa, Yitung Chen
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
In this research, fuel cell catalyst layer was developed using the optimized sphere packing algorithm. An optimization technique named adaptive random search technique (ARSET) was employed in this packing algorithm. The ARSET algorithm will generate the initial location of spheres and allow them to move in the random direction with the variable moving distance, randomly selected from the sampling range (a), based on the Lennard–Jones potential and Morse potential of the current and new configuration. The solid fraction values obtained from this developed algorithm are in the range of 0.610–0.624 while the actual processing time can significantly be reduced by …
A Visualization Tool For A Highway Safety Management System, Indira Khanal, Naveen Veeramisti, Justin Baker, Alexander Paz
A Visualization Tool For A Highway Safety Management System, Indira Khanal, Naveen Veeramisti, Justin Baker, Alexander Paz
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
- With lot of research, Federal Highway Administration
has released a highway Safety management System
software called as SafetyAnalyst (SA) - SA has a suite of analytical tools to identify and
manage system-wide safety improvements:
Network Screening
Diagnosis and Countermeasure Selection
Economic Analyses and priority Ranking
Countermeasure Evaluation - SA provides a very rudimentary approach to display
results just in tabular and textual format - This study proposes a visualization tool that expands
the output capabilities provided by SafetyAnalyst
Image Processing Algorithms For Improving Planetary Exploration And Understanding, Ali Pouryazdanpanah
Image Processing Algorithms For Improving Planetary Exploration And Understanding, Ali Pouryazdanpanah
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
- To design a fully automated tool-set that allows to detect and extract the sky region in planetary images.
- To develop the new method for rock segmentation in planetary stereo images.
- To develop the new method for shadow detection in planetary images