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Showing 1 to 20 of 1420 for “"Electrical and computer engineering"”.
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Improving the freshman electrical and computer engineering lab
This thesis covers the challenges of creating and maintaining an introductory engineering laboratory. The history of the University of Illinois Electrical and Computer Engineering department’s introductory course, ECE 110, is recounted. The current state of the course, as of Fall 2008, is discussed …
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Engaging with the Invisible: STS Groundwork in an Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
… of groundwork in Engaged Science, Technology, and Society (STS) research. Engaged STS scholars reframe STS knowledge and move it beyond the traditional scope and boundaries of the field. They use various methods such as critical participation, making and doing, situated interventions, and …
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The Influences of First-Year Engineering Matriculation Structures on Electrical and Computer Engineering Students' Self-Efficacy
While first-year engineering (FYE) programs have grown dramatically over the last 30 years, they take a variety of different structures. However, few if any, researchers and FYE program developers has considered how program structure, and specifically matriculation, impacts retention – an issue …
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Skeletonization, thinning and thickening algorithms and their applications to Arabic characters.
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1988 .T455. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.A.Sc.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1988.
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Analysis and synthesis of one and two-dimensional recursive digital filters.
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1974 .S45. Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-13, Section: A. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1974.
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Linear lumped and distributed system identification with cubic splines.
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1973 .B26. Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-13, Section: A. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1973.
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EFFECTIVENESS OF LOW-FREQUENCY PARAMETERS FOR AUTOMATIC SPEAKER VERIFICATION.
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1977 .V55. Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 38-04, Section: B, page: 1834. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1977.
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Acoustic model adaptation for recognition of dysarthric speech
… Item was in collections: Dissertations and Theses - Electrical and Computer Engineering (ID: 446) Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois (ID: 204) No. of bitstreams: 2 Sharma_Harsh.pdf: 1379121 bytes, checksum: b2a1fb0a7a0ffcfd122981352b0a74cf (MD5) license.txt: 4061 bytes, …
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Mismatched divergence and universal hypothesis testing
… Item was in collections: Dissertations and Theses - Electrical and Computer Engineering (ID: 446) University of Illinois Dissertations and Theses (ID: 204) No. of bitstreams: 3 Huang_Dayu.pdf.txt: 77576 bytes, checksum: 24d221d5653b56f115a407da421bec70 (MD5) Huang_Dayu.pdf: 327190 bytes, …
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An hybrid architecture for multi-layer feed-forward neural networks.
… neural networks have the capability to classify and generalize, which are not achievable with other methods. The complete exploitation of their potential to full limit requires efficient hardware implementation. The two main problems of hardware realization; easy long term storage of synaptic …
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Multi-dimensional pre-programmed and learned fine motor control for a humanoid robot
One of the biggest questions in modern electrical and computer engineering is that of computational intelligence. Can an artificially created mechanism, such as a humanoid robot, become intelligent, adaptable, and possess the ability to learn to classify the world in terms of language as humans do? …
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Adaptive noise cancellation using multichannel lattice structure.
… to the situation in which the reference signal and noisy primary signal are collected simultaneously. The coefficients of the multichannel multiple regression transversal filter are modified adaptively according to the backward prediction error vector generated from the multichannel adaptive …
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Rethinking Maximum Likelihood Estimation
… most popular method for estimating parameters, and show how my proposed method mitigates bias, reduces overfitting and the overrepresentation of high frequency events, increases the representation of low frequency data, is more stable in a MAD setting. This thesis details how this method can be …
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Silicon carbide as a photoconductive switch material for high power applications
This research work discusses the effort at the Electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department at the University of Missouri Columbia (UMC) in developing this technology through simulation and experiments with SiC material. Specifically, the rationale for employing extrinsic photoconductivity, …
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Algorithm design for smart vision sensors.
… on the correlation analysis method for images and can be implemented to find the 2-dimensional position of a target. In particular, the problem of finding the deviations along both X and Y directions is formulated as a matching process between the saved template, which represents the reference …
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Development of an advanced aluminum thermal analysis system for the characterization of the 319 aluminum alloy solidification process.
… of the 319-aluminum cooling curve are described and related to specific metallurgical properties. Variations in the cooling curves represent changes within the solidification of the alloy and are correlated to changes in the metallurgical properties. In the present work, an aluminum thermal …
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Built-In Schemes for Test Pattern Generation and Fault Location
… Udar, for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, presented on May 4, of 2011, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: BUILT-IN SCHEMES FOR TEST PATTERN GENERATION AND FAULT LOCATION MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. D. Kagaris In this dissertation, we studied the …
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Challenges of achieving zero energy education buildings
… significant impacts on the environment, economy, and society. Buildings account for 40% of the total energy consumption in the U.S. To improve the energy efficiency of buildings, the use of zero energy buildings (ZEB) has increased in recent years. The main objective of this research study is to …
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Characterizing and Improving the Non-Collaborative and Collaborative Localization Problems
… formulation of the non-collaborative and collabo- rative position location problems. For the non-collaborative problem, characterization encompassing the number of minima and the causes thereof is provided. Based on these efforts, we propose an improvement to the existing modified …
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A comparative study of neural network algorithms.
… for Optical Character Recognition application and a Multi-layer Feed forward neural network is trained using a Fast training algorithm. Then the fast training algorithm is compared with the delta rule training algorithm. The various neural network models studied in this thesis are Hopfield, …
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