College of Science and Engineering Projects and Theses

Revisiting Neutron Star Physics Including Finite Temperature and Density Effects on the Medium

Jaramillo, Michael; 0000-0003-4089-3643 (2020-08-17)

Neutron stars are highly compact stellar evolutionary endpoints whose formation and existence rely on a complex interplay between the overall hydrodynamic equilibrium and the local approach of quantum mechanics. The extreme ...

Modelling the Growth Of Atlantic Rangia, Rangia Cuneata, in Response to Freshwater Inflow, Trinity River Delta, Galveston Bay

Omar, Mahmoud Eid; 0000-0001-8253-2868 (2020-05-11)

Rangia cuneata, commonly known as Atlantic Rangia, is an oligohaline clam found in abundance along the northern Gulf of Mexico. Rangia cuneata was selected as one of a suite of indicator species for establishing freshwater ...

Recovery of Xestospongia muta and Agelas clathrodes Bacterial Microbiome Since the 2016 Mortality Event at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary

Peterson, Charis Ann (2020-05-28)

On July 25, 2016, divers discovered a large localized mortality event at the East Bank of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. This event killed 80% of invertebrates on the site. This sanctuary is a complex ...

VISUALIZATIONS OF HISTORIC AND COASTAL FLOODING IMPACTS AND SOLUTIONS

Halle, Mark (2020-04-27)

Flooding is one of the most deadly and costly natural disasters known to humans. While much is done to study the impacts of flooding, not enough is done to inform the public about the dangers of flooding. In a society where ...

The Effect of Surface Plasmon Resonance on Bacteria Morphology

Ortega, David; 0000-0002-3004-2688 (2020-05-09)

Cells are known to be affected significantly due to persistent exposure to electro- magnetic radiation. DNA can be damaged by electromagnetic waves in several ways that may lead to genetic changes. Cellular multiplication ...

SPECKLED WORM EEL (MYROPHIS PUNCTATUS) IN THE ESTUARINE WATERS OF TEXAS: A “DOVE TALE” OF THE ELUSIVE AMERICAN EEL (ANGUILLA ROSTRATA)

Hansen, Justin R; 0000-0001-5217-6831 (2020-05-08)

Atlantic Anguillids share unique life histories where they undergo metamorphosis as they move from deep water to near shore habitats, though their life history strategies differ slightly; some of the primary mechanisms ...

Improving Aviation Data Communication and Storage Security using Blockchain Based Approach

Zakir, Yusuf (2020-05-04)

Data Security and integrity remains a major challenge for the aviation industry data storage. Many data breaches have happened in the past which has directly caused financial loss to airlines and indirect losses to their ...

Lorentz Invariance in Loop Quantum Gravity

Her, Sou Thee (2020-04-28)

From the principle of relativity, where the laws of physics is presumed to be the same in all inertial reference frames, we have Lorentz invariance. This invariance leads to rotational and boost invariance. These invariances ...

KINEMATIC REDUNDANCY RESOLUTION FOR THE BAXTER RESEARCH ROBOT

Le, Khoa Dang; 0000-0003-4162-7523 (2020-05-05)

Robotics is a brand of science and engineering which involves many other fields such as mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and bioengineering. Robotic engineers and scientists develop machines that can substitute ...

Software Engineering for All - Why and How

Mirza, Mahrukh Sameen (2020-04-28)

A lot of the software industry has moved from the planned method of software development to an Agile development process. Agile is one of the widely used methodologies today and has several benefits over the planned method. ...

The Effects of Quantum Tunneling on the Conformational Entropy of the Cas9 Protein

Jennings, James E (2019-12-19)

The Cas9 protein is a protein that is used in bacteria to edit out viral DNA. Cas9 is very precise and is used in laboratories all over the world for the purposes of editing gene sequences. In order for Cas9 to function ...

Flood Risk and Mitigation Analysis of the Brays Bayou

Follmer, Steven (2019-12-03)

Flooding has been a problem of Houston since it was established in 1837. However, over the past 60 years Houston has gone from a city of about a 900,000 people in 1960, to over four million today. This dramatic increase ...

Classification of Cocaine Addicted Patients Using 3D to 1D Hilbert Space-Filling Curve Ordering of fMRI Activation Maps

De Leon, Jessica

In analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), transformation of the 3D brain imaging data to 1D is required for further analyses, which often includes the classification of different groups of participants. ...

IoT-Edge-Server Based Embedded System For Wide-Range Habitats

Gajjar, Archit; 0000-0002-3759-7766 (2019-06-17)

This thesis presents a hardware architecture, IoT-Edge-Server, of a diverse embedded system combining the applications of a smart city, smart building, or smart agricultural farm. First of all, we improve computation time ...

Improving Reliability and Latency of High Critical Tasks in Mixed Criticality Systems through Task Rescheduling

Karanam, Vamsi Krishna; 0000-0003-4053-2020 (2019-12-10)

A Mixed Criticality System (MCS) consists of various hardware and software components executing tasks with different criticality levels. The criticality of a task is determined by its impact on the overall system output ...

Nekton community characterization of the lower Brazos River with an emphasis on larval Atlantic Croaker, Micropogonias undulatus, trophic dynamics

Swanson, Tyler (2019-05-17)

From December 2016 – October 2017, 50 collections of 150 replicate otter and beam trawls were collected at five different sites, three different seasons, and three different flow tiers along the Brazos river estuary. A ...