Defense Announcements
2/26/2021 | Changwon Son, PhD, Industrial Engineering
1:00pm, Virtual, Room Online Zoom, College Station
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
A Multifaceted Approach To Understanding Resilience of Incident Management Teams
College of Engineering
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Chair: Farzan Sasangohar
Co-chair: S. Camille Peres
| Direct Link: http://ogaps.tamu.edu/Defense-Announcements#da1556
2/26/2021 | Eduardo Gandara Garcia, DrPH, Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences
2:00pm, Zoom, Room Zoom, Zoom
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
ASSESSING FACILITATORS AND BARRIERS OF CONDUCTING ADULT HEALTH PROGRAMS WITHIN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHURCH AND RE-EXAMINING RELIGIOUS BASED CONSTRUCTS USING ITEMS FROM THE RELIGION, HEALTH, AND AGING SURVEY
Public Health
Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences
Chair: Jim Burdine
Co-chair: Wen Luo
| Direct Link: http://ogaps.tamu.edu/Defense-Announcements#da1551
2/26/2021 | Krisa Camargo, PhD, Toxicology
3:00pm, VIDI, Room 105, College Station
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Sampling Strategies, Methodologies, and Modeling within Galveston Bay and the Houston Ship Channel
Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
Chair: Weihsueh Chiu
Co-chair: Thomas McDonald
| Direct Link: http://ogaps.tamu.edu/Defense-Announcements#da1561
3/1/2021 | Branden Passons, MS, Nuclear Engineering
3:30pm, Zoom, Room https://tamu.zoom.us/j/97302782088?pwd=T0kwc2NwemVzK3FqZldyYVo0YXNGZz09, Online
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Design and Performance Analysis of a Mobile, Land-based Micro-reactor for Domestic Military Energy Production
College of Engineering
Nuclear Engineering
| Direct Link: http://ogaps.tamu.edu/Defense-Announcements#da1573
3/2/2021 | Yash Bharatbhushan Parikh, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
9:30am, Zoom, Room Online, College Station
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Analyses of Property-Graded SS 316L Bulk Structures Processed by Selective Laser Melting
College of Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Hong Liang
Co-chair: Mathew Kuttolamadom
| Direct Link: http://ogaps.tamu.edu/Defense-Announcements#da1553
3/2/2021 | Woo Chul Chung, PhD, Ocean Engineering
10:00am, On-Line (Zoom-https://tamu.zoom.us/j/96648978917?pwd=d2JBWWV5T2svS3V5dlJCZUwzNEVudz09), Room On-Line (Zoom-https://tamu.zoom.us/j/96648978917?pwd=d2JBWWV5T2svS3V5dlJCZUwzNEVudz09), College Station
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Development of Offshore Structures (Mooring/Riser) Performance Assessment and Monitoring using Computer Simulations and Numerical Sensors
College of Engineering
Engineering
Chair: MooHyun Kim
Co-chair: Robert Randall
| Direct Link: http://ogaps.tamu.edu/Defense-Announcements#da1548
3/2/2021 | Hsu-Cheng Cheng, PhD, Chemistry
1:00pm, via Zoom, Room TBA, via Zoom
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF PLASMONIC GOLD NANOSTRUCTURES AND SEMICONDUCTING LEAD-HALIDE PEROVSKITE QUANTUM DOTS
Chair: Dong Hee Son
Co-chair: Matthew Sheldon
| Direct Link: http://ogaps.tamu.edu/Defense-Announcements#da1560
3/3/2021 | Zhitian Xie, PhD, Ocean Engineering
9:30am, Online (Zoom meeting), Room Online (Zoom meeting), Online (Zoom meeting)
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Improvement of wave structure interaction calculation with applications to the shallow water, maneuvering in waves and optimization
College of Engineering
Engineering
| Direct Link: http://ogaps.tamu.edu/Defense-Announcements#da1559
3/3/2021 | Kunal Gupta, PhD, Civil Engineering
12:00pm, Virtual Zoom meeting, Room Online, College Station
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
FOULING OF MICROFILTRATION MEMBRANES DURING FILTRATION OF WASTEWATER EFFLUENT FOR WATER REUSE: MECHANISMS, EFFECTS, AND CONTROL
College of Engineering
Civil Engineering
Chair: Shankar Chellam
Co-chair: Kunal Gupta
| Direct Link: http://ogaps.tamu.edu/Defense-Announcements#da1566
3/4/2021 | Raven Allison, MS, Entomology
9:30am, Virtual, Room Virtual, Virtual
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Potential Insect Deterrence in a Tri-Species Cotton Hybrid
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Entomology
Chair: David Kerns
Co-chair: Charles Suh
| Direct Link: http://ogaps.tamu.edu/Defense-Announcements#da1544
3/5/2021 | Kate Von Ness, MS, Geography
9:00am, Virtual, Room (Zoom), College Station
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Quantifying the Effects of Moisture Change on the Spectral Signatures (350-2500nm) of Arctic Mosses, Liverworts, and Lichens
| Direct Link: http://ogaps.tamu.edu/Defense-Announcements#da1576
3/5/2021 | Junho Yang, PhD, Statistics
1:00pm, Blocker, Room Zoom, College Station
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
A NEW SPECTRAL METHOD IN TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
Chair: Suhasini Subba Rao
Co-chair: Mikyoung Jun
| Direct Link: http://ogaps.tamu.edu/Defense-Announcements#da1562
3/8/2021 | Katherine Elizabeth Beall, MS, Geography
11:00am, Virtual, Room (Zoom), College Station
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Using a Bayesian Network Framework to Predict Permafrost Thaw in the Arctic
Chair: Julie Loisel
Co-chair: Zenon Medina-Cetina
| Direct Link: http://ogaps.tamu.edu/Defense-Announcements#da1549
3/8/2021 | Lauren Nancy Fedenia, PhD, Horticulture
12:00pm, Zoom, Room Zoom, Zoom
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
ENVIRONMENTAL AND GENETIC CONTROL OF BLACK PERICARP TRAITS IN SORGHUM
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Horticultural Sciences
| Direct Link: http://ogaps.tamu.edu/Defense-Announcements#da1571
3/10/2021 | Umer Hussain, PhD, Sport Management
10:10am, Gilchrist Building , Room (Zoom Online), College Station
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Unconventional Means to Enhance Muslim Women’s Inclusion in Sports
Education and Human Development
Health and Kinesiology
Chair: Dr. George Cunningham
| Direct Link: http://ogaps.tamu.edu/Defense-Announcements#da1565
3/11/2021 | Monika Manohar Daryani, MS, Computer Science
1:00pm, Zoom, Room Zoom, Zoom
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Bait-And-Switch reviews: An Investigative Case Study and Detection of hijacked off-topic reviews on e-commerce listings
College of Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Chair: James Caverlee
Co-chair: Theodora Chaspari
| Direct Link: http://ogaps.tamu.edu/Defense-Announcements#da1564
3/12/2021 | Chen Liang, MS, Computer Science
11:00am, Online on ZOOM, Room N/A, College Station
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Interactive System for Adaptive Design Exploration and Measurement Support
College of Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
| Direct Link: http://ogaps.tamu.edu/Defense-Announcements#da1563
4/13/2021 | Mengxi Yu, PhD, Chemical Engineering
9:00am, Virtual - Zoom Meeting, Room Virtual - Zoom Meeting, Virtual - Zoom Meeting
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Identification of Weak Signals using Data Mining
College of Engineering
Chemical Engineering
| Direct Link: http://ogaps.tamu.edu/Defense-Announcements#da1545