Department of Mechanical Engineering

Theses and Dissertations

Student Author	Faculty Advisor	Graduation Date	Title (Click the title to view)	Keywords
Daniel C. Carlson	Mark B. Colton	April, 2010	Aerial Recovery of Micro Air Vehicles	aerial recovery, unmanned air vehicles, micro air vehicles, towed cable systems, orbit estimation, orbit tracking
Mark A. Owen	Mark B. Colton	December, 2011	Aerial Rendezvous Between an Unmanned Air Vehicle and an Orbiting Target Vehicle	aerial rendezvous, vector field, path following, dubins airplane, time optimal, uav, mav
Katherine Kuykendall	Tracy W. Nelson	August, 2011	An Evaluation of Constitutive Laws and their Ability to Predict Flow Stress over Large Variations in Temperature, Strain, and Strain Rate Characteristic of Friction Stir Welding	friction stir welding, constitutive law, modeling, flow stress, stacking fault energy
Andersen, Brian S.	Todd	August, 2007	An Investigation of a Positive Engagement, Continuously Variable Transmission	CVT, transmission, meshing
Dalling, Ryan R.	Todd	May, 2008	An Investigation of Positive Engagement, Continuously Variable Transmissions	positive engagement, PECVT, meshing, embodiment, non-integer tooth problem, product development process, transmission ratio
Meaders, John Christian	Mattson	August, 2008	An Optimization-Based Framework for Designing Robust Cam-Based Constant-Force Compliant Mechanisms	constant force mechanism, compliant mechanism, robust optimization, design optimization, robust design optimization, friction
Sagers, Jason Derek	Blotter	July, 2008	Analog Feedback Control of an Active Sound Transmission Control Module	active noise control, sound transmission, active structural control, noise, barrier, transmission loss, panel, wall, single-panel, double-panel, analog, feedback
Jensen, Kimberly	Cox	April, 2008	Analysis and Design of Surface Micromachined Micromanipulators for Out-of-Plane Micropositioning	MEMS, microelectromechanical systems, micropositioning, compliant mechanisms, out-of-plane, ortho-planar, surface micromachining, thermal actuation, thermomechanical in-plane microactuator, TIM
Shurtz, Thomas	Maynes	December, 2009	Analysis of Induced Vibrations in Fully-Developed Turbulent Pipe Flow Using a Coupled LES and FEA Approach	les, turbulence, pipe, flow, turbulent, vibration, Thomas Shurtz
Stephen H. Taylor	Matthew R. Jones	August, 2011	Analytical Modeling and Optimization of a Thermoelectric Heat Conversion System Operating Betweeen Fluid Streams	energy conversion, thermoelectric, waste heat, payback time, pressure drop, heat sink, optimization
Ryan Phillip Shaw	Steven E. Gorrell	April, 2012	Application of Subjective Logic to Vortex Core Line Extraction and Tracking from Unsteady Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations	Feature Extraction, Feature Tracking, Vortex Core Lines, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Subjective Logic noabstract
Hansen, Steven	McLain	April, 2008	Applications of Search Theory to Coordinated Searching by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles	BYU, UAV, agent, unmanned, target, localization, optimal, search, rescue, camera, image, skew, calibration, detection, probability, contour, greedy, lateral, range, width, color, segmentation, point, spread, map, Koopman, Stone, Zamboni
Hall, James K.	McLain	April, 2009	Attitude Estimation and Maneuvering for Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance by Miniature Air Vehicles Document Type	miniature air vehicles, autonomous maneuvers, aircraft control, attitude estimation, MAGICC lab
Brooks, Brad	G. Jensen	December, 2009	Automated Data Import and Revision Management in a Product Lifecycle Management Environment	Product lifecycle management, product development, knowledge based engineering, engineering change management, business process modeling
William D. Gough	C. Greg Jensen	December, 2011	Automated Flow Path Design Optimization Using Mesh Morphing	optimization, mesh morphing, intake design, design automation

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Theses and Dissertations