2017 past PhD defences

Amir Azhari - Wednesday, January 11, 2017; Room  E5 3052 - 9:00 am to 12:00 PM

Title: Additive Manufacturing of Graphene-Based Devices

Supervisor: Ehsan Toyserkani


Usman Ali - Thursday, January 12, 2017; Room E5 3006 - 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Title: Characterization and Through Process Modelling of Large Strain Phenomena for Aluminum Alloys at Room and Elevated Temperatures

Supervisor: Kaan Inal


Ping Ma - Tuesday, February 7, 2017; Room E5 3006 - 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Title: Computational Acoustic Beamforming for Noise Source Identification for Small Horizontal Axis Wind

Supervisor: Fue-Sang Lien / Eugene Yee


Edward Cyr - Friday, February 17, 2017; Room EC4 1104 - 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM

Title: A New Crystal Plasticity Formulation to Simulate Large-Strain Plasticity of Polycrystalline Metals at Elevated Temperatures

Supervisor: Kaan Inal


Dawit Effa - Wednesday, February 22, 2017; Room E5 3052 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Title: Design, Fabrication and Characterization of MEMS Gyroscopes Based on Frequency Modulation

Supervisors: Mustafa Yavuz / Eihab Abdel-Rahman


Robert Liang - Thursday, April 6, 2017; Room E5 3052 - 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Title: TiO2 Nanomaterials: Photocatalysis and Multifunctional Water Treatment Applications

Supervisor: Norman Zhou


Christopher Kohar - Friday, April 7, 2017; Room EC4 1104 - 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM

Title:Multi-Scale Modeling and Optimization of Energy Absorption and Anisotropy in Aluminum Alloys

Supervisor: Kaan Inal


Geoffrey Rivers - Monday, April 10, 2017; Room E5 3052 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Title: Cure and Conductivity: Investigation of Thermal Processing of Silver Nanobelt-Epoxy Composites

Supervisors: Pearl Sullivan /  Boxin Zhao


Ehsan Hashemi - Monday, April 10, 2017; Room E5 2007 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Title: Full Vehicle State Estimaiton Using a Corner-Based Aproach

Supervisor: Amir Khajepour


Badr Bedairi - Tuesday, May 2, 2017; Room E5 3006 - 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Title: Fatigue Analysis of Welded Joints Using Local Reference Stress

Supervisor: Grzegorz Glinka


Qiulan Zeng - Tuesday, May 2, 2017; Room ERC 3012 - 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Title: Numerical Schemes for 1D Two-Phase Flow

Supervisors: Fue-Sang Lien / Nusret Aydemir


Gurkan Yesiloz - Tuesday, May 9, 2017; Room E3 4117 - 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM

Title: Development of Microwave / Microfluidics Integrated Heating and Sensing Platforms for Biomedical and Phamaceutical Lab-on-a-Chip Applications

Supervisor: Carolyn Ren


Feyyaz Emre Sancar - Wednesday, May 10, 2017; Room E5 3052 - 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM

Title: Robust and Adaptive Cooperative Highway Platooning and Applications

Supervisors: Baris Fidan / Jan Huissoon


Ning Qin - Thursday, May 11, 2017; Room E5 3006 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Title: Micro-Scale Studies on Hydrodynamics and Mass Transfer of Dense Carbon Dioxide Segments in Water

Supervisor: Carolyn Ren


Seyed Sepehr Mohaddes Foroushani, Wednesday, June 7, 2017; Room E5 3052 - 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

Title: A New Technique for Characterizing Multi-Temperature Convection with Application in Building Energy

Supervisors: John Wright / Michael Collins / David Naylor


Ali Asghar Roostaei, Tuesday, July 11, 2017; Room ERC 3012 - 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM

Title: Cyclic Characterisation and Plasticity Modelling of AM30 Magnesium Alloy Extrusion

Supervisor: Hamid Jahed

Matthew DiDomizio, Monday, July 17, 2017; Room E5 3052 - 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Title: Experimental Study of Thermal Degradation of Construction Assemblies in Compartment Fires

Supervisor: Beth Weckman


Daniel Odoh, Tuesday, July 25, 2017; Room E5 3052 - 1:00 PM To 4:00 PM

Title: Effect of Alloy Composition on the Hot Deformation Behavior, extrudability and Mechanical Properties of AA6XXX Aluminum Alloys

Supervisors: Mary Wells / Michael Worswick

Mohammadmehdi Jalalmaab, Friday, August 4, 2017; Room E5 3052 - 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Title: Model Predictive Control of Highway Emergency Maneuvering and Collision Avoidance

Supervisors: Baris Fidan / Soo Jeon


Bonghun Shin , Thursday, August 10, 2017; Room E5 3006 - 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Title: Elastography for Portable Ultrasound

Supervisors: Hyock Ju Kwon / Soo Jeon


Abhishek Raj, Thursday, August 10, 2017; Room E5 3006 - 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM

Title: Analysis of Iron-Precursor Assisted Emission Reduction in Counter-Flow Methane Diffusion Flame

Supervisors: John Wen / Eric Croiset


Blake Martin, Wendesday, August 16, 2017; Room E5 2007 - 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

Title: Continuum Modelling and Vibration Analysis of String-Hamessed Structures

Supervisor: Armaghan Salehian


Mohammad Pirani, Thursday, August 17, 2017; Room E5 3052 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Title: Reliable Vehicle State and Parameter Estimation

Supervisor: Amir Khajepour / Baris Fidan


Paola Russo, Friday, December 8, 2017; Room E5 3052 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Title: Development of Green Synthetic Approaches for the Potential Application of Carbon and Semiconductor Nanomaterials for Emerging Applications

Supervisor: Norman Zhou