DEFENSE ANNOUNCEMENTS 2017-2018
The College of Graduate Studies is pleased to announce the following defenses for our Masters and Doctoral students. Announcements will be added throughout the year as they are scheduled. To have your announcement included, please fill out the Acceptance of Thesis or Dissertation for Defense form and submit it and the Intellectual Protection and Patent Sign-off form to the College of Graduate Studies no later than 15 business days before your scheduled defense.
| Candidate: | Mubashshir Ahmad |
| Degree: | Master of Science Degree in Civil Engineering |
| Title: | Assessment of Bridges with an Ohio Legal Rating Factor Greater than 1.35 to Meet Specialized Hauling Vehicle Requirements in Ohio |
| Time: | 11:00 AM |
| Date: | August 1, 2017 |
| Location: | Nitschke Hall Room 3004 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Douglas Nims |
| Candidate: | Xin Liv |
| Degree: | Master of Arts Degree in Psychology |
| Title: | The Potential Effects Alcohol Use Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder have on the Relationship between Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Suicidal Ideation |
| Time: | 1:00 PM |
| Date: | August 1, 2017 |
| Location: | University Hall Room 1610 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. John Elhai |
| Candidate: | Yuan Wang |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Manufacturing Technology Management |
| Title: | Supplier Involvement in Conventional and Sustainable New Product Development: Three Essay |
| Time: | 2:00 PM |
| Date: | August 1, 2017 |
| Location: | Stranahan Hall Room 4050 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Yue Zhang |
| Candidate: | Md Tajminur Rahman |
| Degree: | Master of Arts in Geography and Planning |
| Title: | Land Use Based Evapotranspiration Estimation of Toledo City from MOD16 Product of MODIS Satellite Imagery and Compare with Flux Measurement |
| Time: | 4:00 PM |
| Date: | August 22, 2017 |
| Location: | Snyder Memorial Room 3040 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Kevin P. Czajkowski |
| Candidate: | Rajib Dutta |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Sciences: Molecular Medicine |
| Title: | Computational Analysis of Human Genomes Reveals "Great Admixture" of Ancient Humans Leading to the Creation of Modern People who also Carry Signatures of GC-biased Gene |
| Time: | 1:00 PM |
| Date: | September 27, 2017 |
| Location: | Collier Building 1035 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Alexei Fedorov |
| Candidate: | Qiangqiang Shao |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Biology |
| Title: | Uncoupling of UNC5C with Polymerized TUBB3 in MTs is Required in Netrin-1-mediated Axoanl Repulsion |
| Time: | 9:00 AM |
| Date: | September 29, 2017 |
| Location: | Wolfe Hall 1240 |
| Major Advisor: | |
| Candidate: | Mitchell R. Dziekan |
| Degree: | Master of Science in Geology |
| Title: | Origins of Basal Sediment within Kettle Lakes in Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana |
| Time: | 1:00 PM |
| Date: | October 6, 2017 |
| Location: | Bowman-Oddy 3020 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Timothy G. Fisher |
| Candidate: | Megan Benner |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Health Education |
| Title: | Using the Self-Determination Theory to Understand Factors Influencing STNA Intent to Stay in Their Positions at For-Profit Skilled Nursing Facilities |
| Time: | 12:30 PM |
| Date: | November 1, 2017 |
| Location: | Collier 4417 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Kimberly McBride |
| Candidate: | James Marok |
| Degree: | Master of Arts in Geography and Planning |
| Title: | Social Contribution Network: Case of POSCO Steel Company |
| Time: | 12:30 PM |
| Date: | November 3, 2017 |
| Location: | Snyder Memorial 3036 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Neil Reid |
| Candidate: | Haneen Amawi |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Therapeutics |
| Title: | Optimization of Synthetic Flavonolignans to Target Embryonic Signaling in Metastatic Ovarian and Colon Cancer |
| Time: | 2:00 PM |
| Date: | November 9, 2017 |
| Location: | Collier Building 1230 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Amit K. Tiwari |
| Candidate: | Fathi Hassan Mohamed Amsaad |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering |
| Title: | A Trusted and Efficient Security Approach for the Detection of Hardware Trojans and Authentication of FPGA-based Systems |
| Time: | 1:00 PM |
| Date: | November 9, 2017 |
| Location: | Nitschke Hall 2004 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Mohammed Niamat |
| Candidate: | Yue Yu |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Physics |
| Title: | Thin Film Solar Cells with Earth Abundant Elements: from Copper Zinc Tin Sulfide to Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Halide Perovskite |
| Time: | 4:00 PM |
| Date: | November 9, 2017 |
| Location: | Research 1 Main Campus Conference A-B |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Yanfa Yan |
| Candidate: | Huai Huang |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Biology |
| Title: | Modulation of Microtubule Dynamics in Netrin Signaling |
| Time: | 2:30 PM |
| Date: | November 14, 2017 |
| Location: | Wolfe Hall 3246 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Giuofa Liu |
| Candidate: | Kiran Ghimire |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Physics and Astronomy |
| Title: | Application of Spectroscopic Ellipsometry: From Single Crystal Gd3Ga5O12 to Polycrystalline Perovskite films in Solar Cell Devices |
| Time: | 4:00 PM |
| Date: | November 15, 2017 |
| Location: | Research Complex Room 1010 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Nikolas Podraza |
| Candidate: | Prabhatchandra R. Dube |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Sciences: Molecular Medicine |
| Title: | Mechanisms of Calcification in Atherosclerosis: Role of Macrophages and the Transient Receptor Potential Canonical 3 (TRPC3) Channel |
| Time: | 9:00 AM |
| Date: | November 15, 2017 |
| Location: | Colllier Building 1200 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Guillermo Vazquez |
| Candidate: | Suneth Watthage |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Physics |
| Title: | Solution-Processed Fabrication of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites & Back Interface Engineering of Cadmium Telluride Solar Cells |
| Time: | 10:00 AM |
| Date: | November 21, 2017 |
| Location: | Research Complex Room 1010 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Michael Heben |
| Candidate: | Peng Zhang |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering |
| Title: | Optimizing Simultaneous-Isomerization-and-Reactive-Extraction (SIRE) followed by Back-Extraction (BE) Process for Efficient Fermentation of Ketose Sugars to Products |
| Time: | 9:30 AM |
| Date: | November 22, 2017 |
| Location: | Nitschke Hall 5048 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Patricia Relue and Dr. Sasidhar Varanasi |
| Candidate: | Yufu Ren |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering: Mechanical |
| Title: | Microwave Assisted Synthesis of Alkaline Earth Phosphate Coating and its Applications for Biomedical Implants |
| Time: | 1:00 PM |
| Date: | November 29, 2017 |
| Location: | Nitschke Hall 4020 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Sarit B. Bhaduri |
| Candidate: | Ashray Sadashiv Bhandare |
| Degree: | Master of Science in Engineering |
| Title: | Bio-inspired Alogrithms for Evolving the Architecture of Convolutional Neural Networks |
| Time: | 11:00 AM |
| Date: | November 30, 2017 |
| Location: | Nitschke Hall 2004 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Devinder Kaur |
| Candidate: | Vishal Vijayshankar Mishra |
| Degree: | Master of Science in Engineering |
| Title: | Sequence-to-Sequence Learning Using Deep Learning for OCR |
| Time: | 12:00 PM |
| Date: | November 30, 2017 |
| Location: | Nitschke Hall 2004 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Devinder Kaur |
| Candidate: | Butheina Hamdah |
| Degree: | Master of Arts in Political Science |
| Title: | Liberalism and the Impact on Religious Identity: Hijab Culture in the American Muslim Context |
| Time: | 2:00 PM |
| Date: | November 30, 2017 |
| Location: | Snyder-Memorial 3066 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Renee Heberle |
| Candidate: | Vinay Mutthamsetty |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry |
| Title: | Design and Synthesis of Amino Acid-based Inhibitors Against Key Enzymes |
| Time: | 4:00 PM |
| Date: | December 1, 2017 |
| Location: | Wolfe Hall 1205 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Ronald E. Viola |
| Candidate: | Stacie Dubin |
| Degree: | Master of Science in Occupational Health |
| Title: | Characterization of Noise in Nursing Homes |
| Time: | 2:00 PM |
| Date: | December 4, 2017 |
| Location: | Collier Building 4417 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. April Ames |
| Candidate: | Vidita Reddy |
| Degree: | Master of Science in Biology: Cell and Molecular |
| Title: | Role of Rnase L-Induced DRAKI in Apoptosis |
| Time: | 9:00 AM |
| Date: | December 5, 2017 |
| Location: | Wolfe Hall 1235J |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Malathi Krishnamurthy |
| Candidate: | Katie Gamby |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Counselor Education |
| Title: | Independently Licensed Professional Counselors: Experiences, Perspectives, and Processes When Referring to Complementary Health Practitioners |
| Time: | 2:00 PM |
| Date: | December 6, 2017 |
| Location: | Health and Human Services 3200 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Madeline Clark |
| Candidate: | Mohammadali Jalilian |
| Degree: | Master of Science in Chemical Engineering |
| Title: | Impact of MXD6 on the Structure and Properties of Mechanically Recycled PET Blends |
| Time: | 10:00 AM |
| Date: | December 6, 2017 |
| Location: | North Engineering 2430 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Maria Coleman and Dr. Joseph Lawrence |
| Candidate: | Shengnan Du |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Sciences: Cancer Biology |
| Title: | Novel Microtubule-Disrupting Indole-Based Chalcones that Induce Cell Death in Gioblastoma |
| Time: | 1:00 PM |
| Date: | December 7, 2017 |
| Location: | Block Health Science 436 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. William Maltese |
| Candidate: | Shahab Zekriardehani |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering |
| Title: | Evolution of Microstructure and Free Volume in Polyesters Caused by Orientation and Antiplasticizers |
| Time: | 10:00 AM |
| Date: | December 7, 2017 |
| Location: | North Engineering 2430 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Maria Coleman |
| Candidate: | Leon Horvath |
| Degree: | Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering |
| Title: | Reviewing and Evaluating Pattern-Generation and Fabrication Methodologies for an Origami Flasher |
| Time: | 10:00 AM |
| Date: | December 7, 2017 |
| Location: | Nitschke Hall 4020 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Brian Trease |
| Candidate: | Atul D. Khire |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Biology |
| Title: | Centriole Inheritance during Fertilization of Drosophila melanogaster |
| Time: | 1:00 PM |
| Date: | December 8, 2017 |
| Location: | Wolfe Hall 3246 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Tomer Avidor-Reiss |
| Candidate: | Surya Bahadur Karki |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering |
| Title: | Non-thermal Miniature Delectric Barrier Discharge Plasma for Treatment of Lung Carcinoma
Cells |
| Time: | 1:00 PM |
| Date: | December 8, 2017 |
| Location: | Nitschke Hall 5048 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Halim Ayan |
| Candidate: | Zahra Nabati |
| Degree: | Master of Science in Chemical Engineering |
| Title: | Effect of Yarrowia Lipolytica Biofilm on Corrosion Behavior of Carbon Steel in Simulated
Biodiesel Storage Tanks |
| Time: | 11:00 AM |
| Date: | December 8, 2017 |
| Location: | Nitschke Hall 3005 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Youngwoo Seo |
| Candidate: | Ngalula Sandrine Mubenga |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering: Electrical |
| Title: | A Lithium-Ion Battery Management System with Bilevel Equalization |
| Time: | 10:00 AM |
| Date: | December 12, 2017 |
| Location: | Nitschke 2008 |
| Major Advisor: | Dr. Thomas Stuart |
| Candidate: | Jessica Collier |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy in Biology (Ecology) |
| Title: | Creating a Spatially-Explicit Habitat Suitability Index Model for Multiple Life Stages of Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) in the Maumee River, Ohio |
| Time: | 9:00 AM |
| Date: | January 8, 2018 |
| Location: | Bowman-Oddy 1014 |
| Major Advisor: | Jonathan Bossenbroek |
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