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Engineering News Summer 2016

Doctor of Philosophy Degrees Conferred in 2015-16

The School of Engineering conferred four doctorate degrees in Academic Year 2015-16, Antonis Avgoustinos Orphanou and Jeoong Sung Park in electrical engineering and Chokri Sendi and John Thomas Shepard in mechanical engineering.

Electrical Engineering:

Antonis Avgoustinos Orphanou
Thesis: Carbon Nanotube Ultra Capacitor Electrical Performance Using Molecular Dynamics Based Model
Prior Degree: M.S., University of Arizona
Advisor: Cary Yang, Ph.D.

Jeoong Sung Park
Thesis: Enhanced Wireless Video Communication System for Mobile Devices
Prior Degree: M.S., University of Southern California
Advisor: Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Ph.D.

Mechanical Engineering

Chokri Sendi
Thesis: Fuzzy Control of Flexible Multibody Spacecraft: A Linear Matrix Inequality Approach
Prior Degree: M. S., University of Colorado
Advisor: Mohammad A. Ayoubi, Ph.D.

John Thomas Shepard
Thesis: A Multi-Spatial Control Architecture for Collaborative Missions of Federated Multi-Robot Coalition
Prior Degree: M.S., Santa Clara University
Advisor: Christopher Kitts, Ph.D.

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electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, Antonis Orphanou, Jeoong Sung Park, Chokri Sendi, John Thomas Shepard, Cary Yang, Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Mohammad Ayoubi, Christopher Kitts

Chokri Sendi and his advisor, Mohammad Ayoubi
Credit: Nicole Morales