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Design And CFD Analysis Of The Intake Manifold For The Honda CBR250RR Engine
The scope of this project is to improve reliability issues on a turbocharged Honda CBR250RR engine and boost the performance by redesigning the intake manifold - one of the key components of this engine package. The engine ... -
Design And Construction Of A Fast Spectrometer For Fourier Domain Optical Coherence Tomography
(Biomedical Engineering, 2007-08-23)A fast spectrometer capable of operating at 27.8 KHz is designed and calibrated to work in the wavelength range of 700-900 nm, to perform Fourier Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (FD-OCT). The OCT system is based on ... -
Design And Control Of A Smart Bed For Pressure Ulcer Prevention
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-07-22)This work details the design, simulation, and experimental testing of a mechanically actuated smart hospital bed for the prevention of pressure ulcers in hospital patients. The smart hospital bed, or Smartbed, is designed ... -
DESIGN AND DEMONSTRATION OF AN INERTIAL-STABILIZED SINGLE-AXIS HEADLAMP FOR MOBILE SYSTEMS
(2023-12-18)The introduction of adaptive headlamps has added left and right movement of the headlamps to enhance the vision of the driver during a turn at night. Adaptive headlamps also allow up and down motion of headlamps in either ... -
Design And Development Of A General Purpose Embedded Acquisition System For Transportation Applications
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-10-11)The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) uses many different instruments for quality assurance of new and existing pavements. These instruments measure the different characteristics of the pavement such as the ... -
Design and Development of a Virtual Reality Training Platform for Fiber-reinforced Composite Manufacturing
(2023-05-04)This study presents the design and development of a virtual reality (VR) training platform for manufacturing fiber-reinforced composites, a sophisticated and high-demand material in various industries. Due to the high costs ... -
Design And Development Of Embedded DSP Controllers For Power Electronic Applications
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Power applications like motor drives, inverters have complex algorithms that can be used to improve their efficiency. More often reduced manufacturing cost takes precedence over better efficiency. DSPs with their high ... -
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF FLEXIBLE MEMS-BASED pH SENSOR FOR AGRICULTURAL AND BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
(2018-12-05)The purpose of this study is to demonstrate a novel method of using a flexible MEMS-based pH sensor for agricultural and biomedical applications. The first part of the thesis involves demonstration of the capability of our ... -
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF REAL-TIME SINGLE AND DUAL-WAVELENGTH DCS SYSTEMS TO STUDY SKELETAL MUSCLE BLOOD PERFUSION AND OXYGEN METABOLISM
The aim of this study was to utilize Diffused Correlation Spectroscopy (DCS) to design and develop real-time single and dual wavelength systems and assess the physiological impacts of exercises on blood perfusion. The study ... -
Design And Evaluation Of A Chemical Reactor For The Pyrolysis Wood Pellets
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-07-22)Currently there is interest in converting waste biomass into valuable products, such as fuels and specialty chemicals. However, the product composition, yield, the energy required to run the reaction, and the required ... -
Design And Evaluation Of An Immnunoevasive Carbon Nanotube Sheet-collagen Composite Neural Electrode
(Biomedical Engineering, 2014-12)Currently, long term neural interfacing is hindered by instability of the neural electrode-tissue interface. Many modes of electrode failure have been reported, though the tissue response to the foreign electrode body is ... -
DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF HMP KINASE ANALOGS AS THIAMINE PATHWAY INHIBITORS
(2016-08-15)Current bacterial chemotherapy faces an overwhelming reduction in efficacy due to an increase in bacterial resistance; resulting in a higher clinical demand for novel therapeutics and the investigation for their respective ... -
DESIGN AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF HYDROSTATIC THRUST AIR FOIL BEARING
(2018-05-25)Oil-free bearing technology has several advantages over conventional oil-lubricated bearings. These advantages include high-speed operation, reduced weight, and increased reliability. Consequently, oil-free technology is ... -
DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF GERMANIUM-BASED GUIDED-MODE RESONANCE INFRARED REFLECTORS AND GOLD-BASED NANOCAVITY PLASMONIC ARRAYS
(2019-05-08)Design, fabrication, and measurement techniques for germanium-based guided-mode resonance infrared wideband reflectors and applications of guided-mode resonance devices for sensing and measurement applications are presented. ... -
Design And Fabrication Of Guided-mode Resonance Devices
(Electrical Engineering, 2015)Guided-mode resonance (GMR) effect based on waveguide grating structure has been attracting plenty of attention in recent years due to its abundant application in energy, information technology, and sensors. This dissertation ... -
Design And Fabrication Of Guided-mode Resonant Tunable Optical Filters
Tunable optical filters have many applications in optical communication, multispectral and hyper-spectral imaging, bio-sensing, and display application. In optical communication, tunable optical filters (TOF) are used ... -
Design And Fabrication Of Iridium Oxide-based Multi-electrode Array For Biomedical Applications
Multi-electrode array (MEA) has emerged as one of the most important and common tools to monitor physiological and biological signals. Advanced micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and innovative nanofabrication ... -
Design And Fabrication Of Microfluidic Photoelectrochemical Reactors For Efficient Conversion Of Carbon Dioxide To Liquid Fuel
(Mechanical Engineering, 2014-12)The world's energy demand is expected to increase dramatically over the next few decades. At the same time the availability of cheap fossil fuels is expected to decrease. In addition to the increase in energy cost, the use ... -
Design And Fabrication Of Optically-pumped Guided-mode Resonance Surface-emitting Lasers
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)This dissertation describes the design and fabrication of guided-mode resonance (GMR) structures and their applications to laser devices. These include tunable Ti:Sapphire lasers as well as semiconductor lasers with ... -
Design And Fabrication Of Piezoelectric Micro Generator Using Laser Micromachining And MEMS Technique
(Materials Science & Engineering, 2008-09-17)An energy harvesting device based on PbPb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3-Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3 ceramics was fabricated by using laser micromachining technique. It was found that the laser machining process did not have a significant effect ...