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The present work looks into the question of optimizing the performance of product launch decisions-in particular, the decisions of product development duration and manufacturing ramp-up. It presents an innovative model for ...

Methods are developed for passive source localization and environmental parameter estimation in seismo-acoustic waveguides by exploiting the dispersive behavior of guided wave propagation. The methods developed are applied ...

Future planetary exploration missions will require mobile robots to perform difficult tasks in highly challenging terrain, with limited human supervision. Current motion planning and control algorithms are not well suited ...

This thesis extends quantitative spectroscopy, a form of model-based reflectance and fluorescence spectroscopy, from a small area, contact-probe implementation to wide-area quantitative spectroscopic imaging (QSI) for ...

The focus of this research was to develop a process suitable for creating very high resolution conductive patterns on polymer substrates, in a way that can be scaled to high volume manufacturing. The original motivation ...

Actin is an ubiquitous structural protein fundamental to such biological processes as cell motility and muscle contraction. Our model system is the acrosomal process of the Limulus sperm which extends a 60 ýtm long actin ...

The effect of Lode angle parameter, or the third deviatoric stress invariant, on plasticity and fracture is studied using flat-grooved transverse plane strain specimens. A generalized asymmetric plasticity model for isotropic ...

Electromechanical probing applications continuously require smaller pitches, faster manufacturing and lower electrical resistance. Conventional techniques, such as MEMS based cantilever probes have their shortcomings in ...