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Design-Build in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Keyword:: design-build, filed sub-bid, Massachusetts General Laws, legislation, and Alternative project delivery methods
Creator:: Sader, Roula E.
Advisor:: Salazar, Guillermo F.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2003-05-08
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Civil & Environmental Engineering

A Proposed Sustainable Sanitation System for the Zwelitsha section of Langrug Informal Settlement in Stellenbosch Municipality South Africa

Keyword:: toilet, sanitation, WaSH, sustainable, and Zwelitsha
Creator:: Muniz, Edwin
Advisor:: Jiusto, Scott and Plummer, Jeanine D.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2013-05-31
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Civil & Environmental Engineering

Making Concentric Tube Robots More Accessible: An Open-Source Platform with Easy-to-Source Components and Guided Learning Materials

Keyword:: open source, concentric tube robot, surgical robot, and continuum robot
Creator:: Bonofiglio, Kalina
Advisor:: Lewin, Greg, Fichera, Loris, and Agheli Hajiabadi, Mohammad Mahdi
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-12-08
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Robotics Engineering

Learning Modular Robotic Control via Reinforcement Learning using Attention based Global State Prediction

Keyword:: Reinforcement Learning, Legged Robotics, Communication, Modular Robotics, and Coordination
Creator:: Francis, Brian
Advisor:: Bloom, Josh and Pinciroli, Carlo
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-12-12
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Robotics Engineering

Lab vs Soil: The Transcriptome of Pseudomonas putida

Keyword:: Pseudomonas putida, Soil, Synthetic Biology, and Transcriptomics
Creator:: Voltmer, Stokley
Advisor:: Farny, Natalie
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-12-15
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

SiPA: Spider-inspired Pneumatic Actuator as a Programmable Modular Soft Robotic Building Block

Keyword:: Re-Configureable, Pneumatic, Modular, Spider-Inspired, Actuator, and Soft Robotics
Creator:: Muralt, Arnold
Advisor:: Onal, Cagdas, Telliel, Yunus Dogan, and Agheli Hajiabadi, Mohammad Mahdi
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-21
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Robotics Engineering

Pyrolytic Transformation of PFAS Precursors in AFFF when Applied for Fire Suppression

Keyword:: Thermal decomposition, Fluorotelomer, Perfluoroalkyl, PFAS, Polyfluoroalkyl, and AFFF
Creator:: Grenier, Drew
Advisor:: Bergendahl, John Andrew and Rangwala, Ali S.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-03-31
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Civil & Environmental Engineering

Quantitative Assessments of Staphylococcal Phage and Biofilm Properties for Evaluating Phage as Antibiofilm Therapeutics

Keyword:: Antimicrobial, Biophysical Properties, Biofilms, Bacteriophage, S. epidermidis, and Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM)
Creator:: Mori, Kim
Advisor:: Stewart, Elizabeth Jeanne
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-10
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Chemical Engineering

Redesign of HURON Humanoid Robot Ankle Mechanism and Weight Optimization Techniques

Keyword:: HURON, Humanoid Robot, Robotic Design, Mechanical Design, and Humanoid Ankle
Creator:: Hanscom, Aislin
Advisor:: Agheli Hajiabadi, Mohammad Mahdi
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-23
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Robotics Engineering

Impacts of Connection Stiffness on Moment Curvature in Cold-Formed Steel Design

Keyword:: Moment curvature, Cold-formed steel, Screw, Connection stiffness, and Frye-Morris
Creator:: Richardson, Jane
Advisor:: Albano, Leonard D.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-26
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Civil & Environmental Engineering

Haunting Prospects in Morocco: The Ghosts of Imider's Long Fight for Water Rights

Keyword:: Water Rights, Extractive Capitalism, and Resistance
Creator:: Santarsiero, Rachel
Advisor:: Brown, Crystal, Droessler, Holger, and Moody, Rebecca
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-26
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Social Science & Policy Studies

Effects of Resting State Functional Connectivity Networks from a Mindfulness-Based Blood Pressure Reduction Intervention

Creator:: Polcari, Justin
Advisor:: King, Jean A. and Nephew, Benjamin
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-27
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Neuroscience

Exploring Post-Secondary Student Attitudes and Behaviors of Deliberate Rest and Impacts on Academic Performance, Burnout, Self-Efficacy, and Well-being

Keyword:: Academic Performance, Well-being, Deliberate Rest, First Generation College Students, Self-Efficacy, and Burnout
Creator:: Pacheco, Paul
Advisor:: Shaw, Stacy and Ottmar, Erin R
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-27
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Learning Sciences & Technologies

Improving the User Experience and Features of PMKS+: A Web-Based Linkage Analysis Tool for Education

Keyword:: User experience evaluation, User interface design, Web-based linkage tool, PMKS+, Web-based kinematic simulator, and Planar linkage analysis
Creator:: Kadoya, Kohmei
Advisor:: Bertozzi, Nicholas, Radhakrishnan, Pradeep, Ebadi, Alireza, and Brown, David C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-05-05
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Robotics Engineering

Neuroanatomical Predictors of Suicidality in Women with Dissociative Identity Disorder

Keyword:: Subcortical volume, Predictors, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Suicidality, and Cortical thickness
Creator:: Linnell, Lilly-Beth
Advisor:: Nephew, Benjamin
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-12-08
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biology & Biotechnology

The Heights: An Educational Social Work Virtual Community

Keyword:: social work
Creator:: Boyle, Alexis
Advisor:: deWinter, Jennifer
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-10-26
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Interactive Media & Game Development

Implementing Emulated Communication Models for Hybrid and Dynamic Network Topologies

Keyword:: Mesh Networks, Network Emulation, Rural Broadband, CORE/EMANE, and MANETs
Creator:: Murphy, Joseph
Advisor:: Wyglinski, Alexander
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-12-20
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Electrical & Computer Engineering

Engaging Immigrant and Refugee Children in STEM During Out-of-School-Time Using a Multiple Research Approach

Keyword:: Immigrants, Culturally relevant content, Engagement, Refugees, and Out-of-school-time
Creator:: Damoah, Kennedy
Advisor:: Smith, Alexander D.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-08-19
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Social Science & Policy Studies

A Remote Teleoperation of the da Vinci Surgical System for Hand Disabled

Keyword:: motion capture, robotic surgical system, ROS, signal processing, remote teleoperation, and electromyography
Creator:: Yang, Kehan
Advisor:: Fischer, Gregory S.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-05-28
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Robotics Engineering

Formation-centric software interface

Keyword:: user interface, robot formations, programming, and swarm robotics
Creator:: Walia, Rohan
Advisor:: Pinciroli, Carlo
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-06-16
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Robotics Engineering

Effects of Digital Jury Moderation on the Polarization of Social Media Users

Keyword:: polarization, social media, democracy, digital citizenship, and content moderation
Creator:: Micek, Christopher
Advisor:: Solovey, Erin
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-08-08
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Computer Science

Applying Experience Design Principles to Improve Student Experience in WPI’s IMGD Program

Keyword:: Student Experience, IMGD, Experience Design, Human-Centered Design, Emergence, and Community-Building
Creator:: Matticoli, Mikel
Advisor:: Smith, Gillian Margaret
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-08-16
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Interactive Media & Game Development

Coarse Exogenous Fault Detection in Multi-Robot Systems using Variational Autoencoders and Normalizing Flows

Keyword:: multi-robot systems, variational autoencoders, fault detection, and normalizing flows
Creator:: Jawahar, Pratik
Advisor:: Pinciroli, Carlo
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-08-17
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Robotics Engineering

Effect of Inert Gas Discharge Time on Wood Crib Fires in Reduced-Scale and Full-Scale Experiments

Keyword:: discharge testing, scaling wood cribs, and inert gas
Creator:: Zimak, Jon
Advisor:: Simeoni, Albert and Puchovsky, Milosh T.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-04-27
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Fire Protection Engineering

Buoyancy Based Balloon Altitude Control

Creator:: Mohapatra, Meha
Advisor:: Popovic, Marko B.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-04-28
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Robotics Engineering

ClinicalICDBERT: Predicting Re-Admission Risk from Clinical Notes, Vital Signs and ICD Codes using BERT Models

Keyword:: hospital readmissions, ICD codes, clinical notes, vital signs, ClinicalBERT, and BERT
Creator:: Adamjee, Merzia Naeem
Advisor:: Agu, Emmanuel O.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-05-02
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Computer Science

Artistic Reflection Through Co-Creative Support Tool Curation

Creator:: Ribaudo, Daniel
Advisor:: Smith, Gillian Margaret
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-05-02
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Computer Science

The kinematics of active fluid mixing in micron-scale systems

Keyword:: Cavity Flow, Active Matters, Droplet, Mixing, and Microfluidic Device
Creator:: Chen, Yen-Chen
Advisor:: Wu, Kun-Ta
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-11-22
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Mechanical Engineering

Machine Learning Estimation of COVID-19 Social Distance Using Smartphone Sensor Data

Keyword:: PACT, COVID, proximity detection, nDCF, machine learning, and RSSI
Creator:: Semenov, Oleksandr
Advisor:: Agu, Emmanuel O. and Pahlavan, Kaveh
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-09-04
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Electrical & Computer Engineering

Interactive Media and Game Development –Media Studio

Creator:: St Fleur, Abdah A.
Advisor:: Sutter, Ralph
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-08-22
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Interactive Media & Game Development

Lyapunov-based Guidance of Underwater Autonomous Vehicles for Real Time Pollutant Source Localization

Keyword:: Underwater autonomous vehicles, Guidance, Nonlinear Dynamics, Pollutant source tracking, Advection-Diffusion PDE, and Lyapunov based control
Creator:: Torres Arosemena, Gabriel A.
Advisor:: Demetriou, Michael A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-07-02
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Mechanical Engineering

“Meng” - Live Coding in Virtual Reality

Keyword:: Live Coding, Virtual Reality, Voice Recognition Application, and Graphics
Creator:: Yan, Kai
Advisor:: Roberts, Charles Davis
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-05-04
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Interactive Media & Game Development

“Meng” - Live Coding in Virtual Reality

Keyword:: Voice Recognition Application, Graphics, Live Coding, and Virtual Reality
Creator:: Jiang, Chunzhen
Advisor:: Roberts, Charles Davis
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-05-06
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Interactive Media & Game Development

Autonomous Vision-based Control for Within-hand Manipulation using Variable Friction Fingers

Creator:: Caleb Chanthi Raj, Joshua Amrith Raj
Advisor:: Calli, Berk
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2020-08-14
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Robotics Engineering

An Experimental Framework for Outdoor E-band Millimeter Wave Transmission Evaluation

Creator:: Brown, YaYa M.
Advisor:: Wyglinski, Alexander
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-04-28
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Electrical & Computer Engineering

Effects of Exoskeleton Walking Therapy in the Distal Femur and Proximal Tibia in Individuals with Chronic Spinal Cord Injury

Keyword:: Biomechanics, Bone adaptation, and Exoskeleton
Creator:: Mattson, Nicole E.
Advisor:: Troy, Karen
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-04-29
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Development of a Customizable Bio-Mechanical Actuated Knee Orthosis for Exoskeletons Thesis

Keyword:: Rehabiliatation, Exoskeleton, Knee Orthosis, Medical Robotics, and Paraplegia
Creator:: Tacescu, Alex C.
Advisor:: Fischer, Gregory S.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-04-29
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Robotics Engineering

Aloja: Breaking IoT Software Homogeneity with Protocol Mutations

Creator:: Ren, Tongwei
Advisor:: DeCarli, Lorenzo
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-05-04
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Computer Science

Disrupting Attacker Value Propositions in Residential Networks

Keyword:: home router, residential proxy, remote access, and residential network
Creator:: Turcotte, Joseph A.
Advisor:: Shue, Craig A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-05-04
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Computer Science

Rectification of Perspective and Scale Distortion in Wound Images and Integrated Evaluation of the SmartWAnDS System

Keyword:: Scale distortion rectification, Wound analysis, Perspective distortion rectification, SmartWAnDS System, Spatial Transformation Network (STN), and Integrated Evaluation
Creator:: Raghav, Fnu
Advisor:: Agu, Emmanuel O.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-05-05
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Robotics Engineering

Making Concentric Tube Robots More Accessible: A New Open-Source Design Made of 3D-Printed and Other Easy-to-Source Materials

Keyword:: Surgical Robotics, Educational Prototype, Concentric Tube Manipulator, Open-source, Concentric Tube Robot, and 3D-Printing
Creator:: d'Almeida, Jesse F.
Advisor:: Fichera, Loris
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-05-05
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Robotics Engineering

Personas Development using Data from Electronic Health Records (EHR)

Creator:: Sankar, Gaayathri
Advisor:: Djamasbi, Soussan, Amante, Daniel J., Telliel, Yunus Dogan, and Bajracharya, Adarsha S.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-05-05
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS

Video Games for Social Change: Representation and Religion through Play

Creator:: Rakha, Tariq H.
Advisor:: Moriarty, Brian J.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-05-05
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Interactive Media & Game Development

“Meng” - Live Coding in Virtual Reality

Keyword:: Graphics, Virtual Reality, Voice Recognition Application, and Live Coding
Creator:: Liu, Jian
Advisor:: Roberts, Charles Davis
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-05-06
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Interactive Media & Game Development

PEGASUS: Powerful, Expressive, Graphical Analyzer for the Single-Use Server

Keyword:: HCI, Data Visualization, Web Development, and Cybersecurity
Creator:: Puentes, Matthew A.
Advisor:: Shue, Craig A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-05-06
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Computer Science

MIC-TOK: A Musical Live Coding Environment for Constrained Input

Creator:: Inekwe, Trusting O.
Advisor:: Smith, Gillian Margaret and Roberts, Charles Davis
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-05-06
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Computer Science

Evaluation of Drone Based Localization Via a Real-Time Emulation Environment

Creator:: Weeks-Collins, Dustin S.
Advisor:: Wyglinski, Alexander
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-05-10
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Electrical & Computer Engineering

Trans-Gravitational Robot (TGR) with Linear and Angular Momentum Control

Keyword:: Microgravity, Space Robot, Momentum Control, Quadruped Robot, Center of Mass Control, and Obstacle Avoidance
Creator:: Sanchez, Felix A.
Advisor:: Popovic, Marko B.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2020-08-12
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Robotics Engineering

Development of an Automation Platform for Fabric Manipulation and Assembly

Creator:: Briggs, Calum R.
Advisor:: Popovic, Marko B.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2020-08-16
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Robotics Engineering

Rapid prototyping of fiber-optic based micro-force sensors by two-photon polymerization

Keyword:: hearing mechanics, rapid prototyping, micro-sensors, fiber-optics, and two-photon polymerization
Creator:: Ruiz-Cadalso, Daniel A.
Advisor:: Furlong-Vazquez, Cosme
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2020-08-19
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Mechanical Engineering

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