The validity of a concept inventory is imperative to its adoption by the education community. In this thesis, we evaluate the validity of the Cybersecurity Concept Inventory for assessing student knowledge of core cybersecurity ...

Neuro-dynamic programming is a class of powerful techniques for approximating the solution to dynamic programming equations. In their most computationally attractive formulations, these techniques provide the approximate ...

The use of InGaAsP alloys for optical fiber communication systems is discussed. The advantages and various types of vapor phase epitaxial growth systems are examined before looking at the open tube growth process in detail. ...

The development of high performance heterostructure transistors is essential for emerging opto-electronic integrated circuits (OEICs) and monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs). Applications for OEICs and MMICs ...

This thesis addresses two major issues in the processing and analysis of the velocity fields of fluid obtained either from experiment or from computational fluid dynamics. The first issue is recovering the velocity field ...

Over the past century, a significant amount of of research has been devoted toward understanding the acoustic features that are used as perceptual cues in human speech perception. A brief history of this research is given, ...

Single mode operation in vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers is important for sensing and communications applications. A comprehensive study of the use of a periodic array of etched circular holes in the top distributed ...

Oxide-confined Vertical-cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) at 850 nm have been widely deployed in optical data transmission as the optical transmitters. However, the data transmission capability of commercial VCSELs ...