The Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research and Publications Series is comprised of books and articles published by Marquette University's electrical and computer engineering faculty.
Submissions from 2019
Computationally Efficient Optimization of a Five-Phase Flux-Switching PM Machine Under Different Operating Conditions, Hao Chen, Xiangdong Liu, Nabeel Demerdash, Ayman M. EL-Refaie, Zhen Chen, and Jiangbiao He
Microscale direct measurement of localized photothermal heating in tissue-mimetic hydrogels, Benyamin Davaji, James E. Richie, and Chung-Hoon Lee
FreeLabel: A Publicly Available Annotation Tool Based on Freehand Traces, Philipe A. Dias, Zhou Shen, Amy Tabb, and Henry P. Medeiros
Computationally Efficient Strand Eddy Current Loss Calculation in Electric Machines, Alireza Fatemi, Dan M. Ionel, Nabeel Demerdash, Dave A. Staton, Rafal Wrobel, and Yew Chuan Chong
A Light Weight Smartphone Based Human Activity Recognition System with High Accuracy, Md. O. Gani, Taskina Fayezeen, Richard James Povinelli, Roger O. Smith, Muhammad Arif, Ahmed Kattan, and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
Statistical algorithm for nonuniformity correction in focal-plane arrays, Majeed M. Hayat, Sergio N. Torres, Ernest Armstrong, Stephen C. Cain, and Brian Yasuda
Survey of Insulation Systems in Electrical Machines, Rasul Hemmati, Fan Wu, and Ayman M. EL-Refaie
Investigation of Fault-Tolerant Capabilities in an Advanced Three-Level Active T-Type Converter, Ramin Katebi, Jiangbiao He, and Nathan Weise
High-Sensitivity Magnetic Sensors Based on GMI Microwire-SAW IDT Design, Akila Khatun, Florian Bender, Fabien Josse PhD, Arnold Kweku Mensah-Brown, and R. Dyche Anderson
Novel Test Fixture for Characterizing MEMS Switch Microcontact Reliability and Performance, Protap Mahanta, Farhana Anwar, and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
A Review of Electrical Machine Optimization Methods with Emphasis on Computational Time, Qingqing Ma, Hao Chen, Ayman M. EL-Refaie, and Yue Sun
Low-Cost Interior Permannent Magnet Machine with a Blend of Magnet Types, Qingqing Ma, Ayman M. EL-Refaie, and Bruno Lequesne
Nematic Liquid Crystal Composite Materials for DC and RF Switching, Mohiuddin Munna, Farhana Anwar, and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
SDN Testbed for Evaluation of Large Exo-Atmospheric EMP Attacks, Diogo Oliveira, Nasir Ghani, Majeed M. Hayat, Jorge Crichigno, and Elias Bou-Harb
Direct-to-Patient Survey for Diagnosis of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo, Heidi Richburg, Richard J. Povinelli, and David Friedland
Towards Fully Additively-Manufactured Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines: Opportunities and Challenges, Fan Wu and Ayman M. EL-Refaie
Submissions from 2018
H.264 Video Decoder Implemented on Fpgas Using 3×3 And 2×2 Networks-On-Chip, Ian Barge and Cristinel Ababei
Remote Vibration Estimation Using Displaced-Phase-Center Antenna SAR for Strong Clutter Environments, Justin B. Campbell, Francisco Pérez, Qi Wang, Balasubramaniam Santhanam, Ralf Dunkel, Armin W. Doerry, Thomas Atwood, and Majeed M. Hayat
Foreword Special Section on Electrical Contacts, Ronald A. Coutu Jr. and Ravi Mahajan
Foreword: Special Section on Electrical Contacts, Ronald A. Coutu Jr. and Ravi Mahajan
Efficient Interconnectivity Among Networks Under Security Constraint, Pankaz Das, Rezoan A. Shuvro, Mahshid Rahnamay-Naeini, Nasir Ghani, and Majeed M. Hayat
Apple Flower Detection Using Deep Convolutional Networks, Philipe A. Dias, Amy Tabb, and Henry P. Medeiros
Multispecies Fruit Flower Detection Using a Refined Semantic Segmentation Network, Philipe A. Dias, Amy Tabb, and Henry P. Medeiros
Prior Day Effect in Forecasting Daily Natural Gas Flow from Monthly Data, Maral Fakoor, George F. Corliss, and Ronald H. Brown
Uncertainty Aware Mapping of Embedded Systems for Reliability, Performance, and Energy, Wenkai Guan, Milad Ghorbani Moghaddam, and Cristinel Ababei
Analytical Formulas for Mean Gain and Excess Noise Factor in InAs Avalanche Photodiodes, Erum Jamil, Majeed M. Hayat, and Gordon A. Keeler
Efficiency Improvement of Fault-Tolerant Three-Level Power Converters, Ramin Katebi, Jiangbiao He, Waqar A. Khan, and Nathan Weise
Experimental Validation of External Load Effects for Micro-Contacts under Low Frequency, Low Amplitude Alternating Current (AC) Test Conditions, Protap Mahanta, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., and Dushyant Tomer
Performance Comparison of Phase Change Materials and Metal-Insulator Transition Materials for Direct Current and Radio Frequency Switching Applications, Protap Mahanta, Mohiuddin Munna, and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Short-Term Load Forecasting of Natural Gas with Deep Neural Network Regression, Gregory Merkel, Richard James Povinelli, and Ronald H. Brown
Do NIR Spectra Collected from Laboratory-Reared Mosquitoes Differ from Those Collected from Wild Mosquitoes?, Masabho Peter Milali, Maggy T. Sikulu-Lord, Samson Sifael Kiware, Floyd E. Dowell, Richard J. Povinelli, and George F. Corliss
Investigation of LSTM Based Prediction for Dynamic Energy Management in Chip Multiprocessors, Milad Ghorbani Moghaddam, Wenkai Guan, and Cristinel Ababei
Deep Convolutional Particle Filter with Adaptive Correlation Maps for Visual Tracking, Reza Jilil Mozhdehi, Yevgeniy Vladimirovich Reznichenko, Abubakar Siddique, and Henry P. Medeiros
Detection and Quantification of Multi-Analyte Mixtures Using a Single Sensor and Multi-Stage Data-Weighted RLSE, Karthick Sothivelr, Florian Bender, Fabien Josse PhD, Edwin E. Yaz, and Antonio J. Ricco
Automatic Segmentation of Trees in Dynamic Outdoor Environments, Amy Tabb and Henry P. Medeiros
A Phase Change Material for Reconfigurable Circuit Applications, Dushyant Tomer and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Electronically Tuned Phase Transition in Germanium Telluride (GeTe) Cells for Memory and RF switch Applications, Dushyant Tomer and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
An Electron‐Rich Calix[4]arene‐Based Receptor with Unprecedented Binding Affinity for Nitric Oxide, Denan Wang, Lena V. Ivanova, Maxim V. Ivanov, Saber Mirzaei, Qadir K. Timerghazin, Scott A. Reid, and Rajendra Rathore
Field Oriented Sliding Mode Control of Surface-Mounted Permanent Magnet AC Motors: Theory and Applications to Electrified Vehicles, Xin Wang, Max Reitz, and Edwin E. Yaz
Coupled State-Dependent Riccati Equation Control for Continuous Time Nonlinear Mechatronics Systems, Xin Wang, Edwin E. Yaz, and Susan C. Schneider
Submissions from 2017
Working on a Start-Up: A Case for An Applied Entrepreneurship Oriented Course for Senior Undergraduates, Cristinel Ababei
A Novel Real-Time Non-invasive Hemoglobin Level Detection Using Video Images from Smartphone Camera, Golam Mushih Tanimul Ahsan, Md. O. Gani, Md Kamrul Hasan, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, William Chu, Mohammad Adibuzzaman, and Joshua Field
Data Improving in Time Series Using ARX and ANN Models, Hermine Nathalie Akouemo Kengmo Kenfack and Richard J. Povinelli
Jaw Rotation in Dysarthria Measured With a Single Electromagnetic Articulography Sensor, Jeffrey Berry, Andrew Kolb, James Schroeder, and Michael T. Johnson
Improving Daily Natural Gas Forecasting by Tracking and Combining Models, Ronald H. Brown, David J. Kaftan, Jarrett L. Smalley, Maral Fakoor, Sarah J. Graupman, Richard J. Povinelli, and George F. Corliss
On-Chip Detection of Gel Transition Temperature using a Novel Micro-Thermomechanical Method, Tsenguun Byambadorj, Erfan Dashtimoghadam, Mohamadali Malakoutian, Benyamin Davaji, Lobat Tayebi, James E. Richie, and Chung-Hoon Lee
When Will MEMS Switches be Ready for Commercial Products?, Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Special Section on Electrical Contacts, Ronald A. Coutu Jr. and Ravi Mahajan
Micro-Contacts Testing Using a Micro-Force Sensor Compatible with Biological Systems, Ronald A. Coutu Jr. and Dushyant Tomer
A Patterned Single Layer Graphene Resistance Temperature Sensor, Benyamin Davaji, Hak Dong Cho, Mohamadali Malakoutian, Jong-Kwon Lee, Gennady Panin, Tae Wong Kang, and Chung-Hoon Lee
Load Balancing with Energy Storage Systems Based on Co-Simulation of Multiple Smart Buildings and Distribution Networks, Shaun Duerr, Cristinel Ababei, and Dan M. Ionel
CMOS Approach to Compressed-domain Image Acquisition, Javad Ghasemi, Manish Bhattarai, Glauco R.C. Fiorante, Payman Zarkesh-Ha, Sanjay Krishna, and Majeed M. Hayat
Detection theory for accurate and non-invasive skin cancer diagnosis using dynamic thermal imaging, Sebastian E. Godoy, Majeed M. Hayat, David A. Ramirez, Stephen A. Myers, R. Steven Padilla, and Sanjay Krishna
A Current-Dependent Switching Strategy for Si/SiC Hybrid Switch-Based Power Converters, Jiangbiao He, Ramin Katebi, and Nathan Weise
A Fault-Tolerant T-Type Multilevel Inverter Topology With Increased Overload Capability and Soft-Switching Characteristics, Jiangbiao He, Ramin Katebi, Nathan Weise, Nabeel Demerdash, and Lixiang Wei
Image-Based Multi-Target Tracking through Multi-Bernoulli Filtering with Interactive Likelihoods, Anthony B. Hoak, Henry P. Medeiros, and Richard J. Povinelli
Low-Noise Speed-Optimized Large Area CMOS Avalanche Photodetector for Visible Light Communication, Md. Mottaleb Hossain, Sagar Ray, Jeng Shiuh Cheong, liang Qiao, Aina N.A.P. Baharuddin, Mona Mostafa Hella, John P.R. David, and Majeed M. Hayat
An efficient and cost effective FPGA based implementation of the Viola-Jones face detection algorithm, Peter Irgens, Curtis Bader, Theresa Lé, Devansh Saxena, and Cristinel Ababei
An Efficient and Cost Effective FPGA Based Implementation of the Viola-Jones Face Detection Algorithm, Peter Irgens, Curtis Bader, Theresa Lé, Devansh Saxena, and Cristinel Ababei
An Advanced Three-Level Active Neutral-Point-Clamped Converter With Improved Fault-Tolerant Capabilities, Ramin Katebi, Jiangbiao He, and Nathan Weise
PVDF-TrFE Electroactive Polymer Based Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMs) Structures, William G. Kaval, Robert A. Lake, and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
PVDF-TrFE Electroactive Polymer Mechanical-to-Electrical Energy Harvesting Experimental Bimorph Structure, William G. Kaval, Robert A. Lake, and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Multi-View Face Recognition From Single RGBD Models of the Faces, Donghun Kim, Bharath Comandur, Henry P. Medeiros, Noha M. Elfiky, and Avinash Kak
THz Metamaterial Characterization Using THz-TDS, Christopher H. Kodama and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Optimization of the Bowtie Gap Geometry for a Maximum Electric Field Enhancement, Mohamadali Malakoutian, Tsenguun Byambadorj, James Richie, and Chung Hoon Lee
Modeling Dormant Fruit Trees for Agricultural Automation, Henry Medeiros, Donghun Kim, Jianxin Sun, Hariharan Seshadri, Shayan A. Akbar, Noha M. Elfiky, and Johnny Park
Deep Neural Network Regression as a Component of a Forecast Ensemble, Gregory Merkel, Richard J. Povinelli, and Ronald H. Brown
Deep Neural Network Regression for Short-Term Load Forecasting of Natural Gas, Gregory Merkel, Richard J. Povinelli, and Ronald H. Brown
Dynamic Energy Management for Chip Multi-processors under Performance Constraints, Milad Ghorbani Moghaddam and Cristinel Ababei
Clutter Suppression via Hankel Rank Reduction for DFrFT-Based Vibrometry Applied to SAR, Francisco Pérez, Balu Santhanam, Ranlf Dunkel, and Majeed M. Hayat
Performance Testing and Analysis of Synchronous Reluctance Motor Utilizing Dual-phase Magnetic Material, Patel B. Reddy, Ayman M. EL-Refaie, Min Zou, Di Pan, James P. Alexander, Nidhishri Tapadia, Kevin Grace, Kum-kang Huh, and Frank Johnson
Observation and Understanding of the Initial Unstable Electrical Contact Behaviors, Wanbin Ren, Nan Jiang, Cheng Chang, Shengjun Xue, Yu Chen, and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Optimization of patch antennas via multithreaded simulated annealing based design exploration, James Richie and Cristinel Ababei
Optimization of Patch Antennas via Multithreaded Simulated Annealing Based Design Exploration, James E. Richie and Cristinel Ababei
Modeling Micro-Porous Surfaces for Secondary Electron Emission Control to Suppress Multipactor, J. M. Sattler, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., R. Lake, T. Laurvick, T. Back, and S. Fairchild
Axially Uniform Magnetic Field-Modulation Excitation for Electron Paramagnetic Resonance in Rectangular and Cylindrical Cavities by Slot Cutting, Jason Walter Sidabras, James Richie, and James S. Hyde
Predicting Multiple Target Tracking Performance for Applications on Video Sequences, Juan Esteban Tapiero Bernal, Henry Medeiros, and Robert H. Bishop
Optimizing Cloud-Service Performance: Efficient Resource Provisioning via Optimal Workload Allocation, Zhuoyao Wang, Majeed M. Hayat, Nasir Ghani, and Khaled B. Shaban
Submissions from 2016
Open Source Digital Camera on Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Cristinel Ababei, Shaun Duerr, Joe Ebel, Russell Marineau, Milad Ghorbani Moghaddam, and Tanzania Sewell
Arduino to the Rescue: Swaying Undecided Freshmen Engineering Students to Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cristinel Ababei and Susan C. Schneider
Investigation of Polymer–Plasticizer Blends as SH-SAW Sensor Coatings for Detection of Benzene in Water with High Sensitivity and Long-Term Stability, Pintu Adhikari, Laura Jeanne Alderson, Florian Bender, Antonio J. Ricco, and Fabien Josse
Probabilistic Anomaly Detection in Natural Gas Time Series Data, Hermine Nathalie Akouemo Kengmo Kenfack and Richard J. Povinelli
Robust H∞ Dynamic State-Feedback Control for Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems via LMI-Based Regional Eigenvalue Assignment, W. Alexander Baker Jr., Susan C. Schneider, and Edwin E. Yaz
Design of FerroElectric MEMS energy harvesting devices, Noah T. Blach, Robert A. Lake, and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
H∞-Property of the Continuous-Time Extended Kalman Filter, Jennifer L. Bonniwell, Susan C. Schneider, and Edwin E. Yaz
H∞-Property of the Discrete-Time Extended Kalman Filter with Uncertain Measurements, Jennifer L. Bonniwell, Susan C. Schneider, and Edwin E. Yaz
Measuring and Modeling Apple Trees Using Time-of-Flight Data for Automation of Dormant Pruning Applications, Somrita Chattopadhyay, Shayan A. Akbar, Noha M. Elfiky, Henry Medeiros, and Avinash Kak
Thermal Management Using MEMS Bimorph Cantilever Beams, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., R. S. LaFleur, J. P.K. Walton, and Lavern A. Starman
Benefits of Considering More than Temperature Acceleration for GaN HEMT Life Testing, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., Robert A. Lake, Bradley D. Christiansen, Eric R. Heller, Christopher A. Bozada, Brian S. Poling, Glen D. Via, James P. Theimer, Stephen E. Tetlak, Ramakrishna Vetury, and Jeffrey B. Shealy
Improved Sensitivity MEMS Cantilever Sensor for Terahertz Photoacoustic Spectroscopy, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., Ivan R. Medvedev, and Douglas T. Petkie
Enhancing the thermal performance of temporary fabric structures for the advanced energy efficient shelter system, Justin E. Eshleman, Robert A. Lake, and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Large-Scale Design Optimization of PM Machines Over a Target Operating Cycle, Alireza Fatemi, Nabeel Demerdash, Thomas W. Nehl, and Dan M. Ionel
Fast Multi-Objective CMODE-Type Optimization of PM Machines Using Multicore Desktop Computers, Alireza Fatemi, Dan M. Ionel, Nabeel Demerdash, and Thomas W. Nehl
Optimal Design of IPM Motors With Different Cooling Systems and Winding Configurations, Alireza Fatemi, Dan M. Ionel, Nabeel Demerdash, and Thomas W. Nehl
A Computationally Efficient Method for Calculation of Strand Eddy Current Losses in Electric Machines, Alireza Fatemi, Dan M. Ionel, Nabeel Demerdash, Dave A. Staton, Rafal Wrobel, and Yew Chuan Chong
RSM-DE-ANN Method for Sensitivity Analysis of Active Material Cost in PM Motors, Alireza Fatemi, Dan M. Ionel, Nabeel Demerdash, Steven J. Stretz, and Thomas M. Jahns
Design Optimization of Spoke-Type PM Motors for Formula E Racing Cars, Alireza Fatemi, Dan M. Ionel, Mircea Popescu, and Nabeel Demerdash
Analysis of Performance Resilience for Discrete-Time Systems With Both Multiplicative and Additive Control Gain Perturbations, Fan Feng, Susan C. Schneider, and Edwin E. Yaz
Transient Analysis of Analyte Desorption Due to Thermal Cycling with Varying Pulse Duration, Patrick Getz, Christopher Carron, Stephen M. Heinrich, Fabien Josse, and Oliver Brand
MEMS-Based Terahertz Photoacoustic Chemical Sensing System, Nathan Glauvitz, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., Ivan R. Medvedev, and Douglas T. Petkie