Master of Science in Engineering Theses
A Sample of MSE Theses in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Aaron Freidenberg '09 "Comparison of Moment Frame Systems Using Incremental Dynamic Analyses"
Jesse Hindle '09 "Pier 40: A Social and Structural Analysis of Manhattan's Largest Pier"
Kieran Kelly-Sneed '09 "Design and Engineering of Domes: A Historical Exploration of Their Form"
Xin Li '09 "Variables Influencing Dissimilatory Ferric (oxy)hydroxide Reduction: Surface Area and Ion Substitution"
Raghav Pant '09 "Advances in Artificial Ground Motion Generation"
Jennifer Pazdon '09 "Towards the Revitalization of Shell Structures: Design and Analysis of a Prototype for Hyperbolic Paraboloid Shell Construction"
Emily Roche '09 "Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct: Analysis, Replacement and Conceptual Design"
Emma Bassiein '08 "Adapting the Push-Pull Method to Measuring in Situ Reaction Kinetics in Wetlands"
Kimberley Bowman '08 " A New BSE-EDX Method to Quantify Mineral Abundance and Accessibility in Sandstones"
Dallas Dissmore '08 "A Framework for Probabilistic Modeling of Structural Response to Earthquake Ground Motions"
Edward Segal '08 "The Thin Concrete Shells of Jack Christiansen"
Kathleen Kelly '08 " The I-35 Bridge : Collapse, Replacement and Redesign"
Ashley Thrall '08 "A Comparison of the Work of Gustave Eiffel and Othmar Ammann: The Maria Pia and Bayonne Bridges"
Trenton Franz '07 "Ecohydrology of the Upper Ewaso Ngiro River Basin, Kenya"
Kent Gordon '07 "Aesthetic possibilities in design build structures"
Olivier Abellan '07 "Transport and solidification in porous matrices: an application of the phase field method"
Powell Draper '06 "Felix Candela and the Chapel of Lomas de Cuernavaca"
David O'Connell '06 "Response spectrum analysis of long period moment resisting frames"
Rebecca R. Jones '06 "Long Span Barrel Shell Roof Structures"
Michael Raymond Bauer '06 "The Skyscraper as structural art: A Chicago tradition arrives in New York"
Shawn Josef Woodruff ’05 “A critical analysis of recently built pedestrian bridges”
Abigail Sarah Faulkner ’05 “Soil biogeochemistry in carbon dioxide-saturated conditions”
Nicole Jessica Leo ’04 “CFRP prestressing: a new technology for the Jersey Shore”
Monica De Jesus Rivera ’04 “Organic functional group and elemental quantification of ACE-Asia submicron aerosol aboard the research vessel Ronald H. Brown”
Kristi Ann Miro ’04 “The permanence of prestressing”
Gregory T. Hasbrouck ’04 “The development of partial prestressing and its application to bridges”
Bin Wang ‘03 “Finite element analysis of cyclic simple shear test”
Rachel G. Reina ’03 “Enzyme-catalyzed chlorination of organic molecules in model and natural systems”
Nan Ding ’03 “Enterprise risk management: applications in software development and data security”
Maria Louise Chesnut ’03 “Experimentation with form: thin shells from Anton Tedesko to Heinz Isler”
Fenghua Wen ’02 “North American land data assimilation system (LDAS) warm season modeling”
Lori Kay Fallon ’02 “Evaluating the potential of NASA’s global precipitation mission (GPM) based precipitation observations for flood prediction in large basins”
Ryan M. Woodward ’02 “A nonlinear history of American prestressing”
Sinead Caitriona Mac Namara ’02 “Glen Canyon and Hoover Dams”
Richard A. Ellis Jr. ’02 “Overcoming the premium for height: Innovations in tall buildings: Ideas and works of Fazlur Rahman Khan and composite high rise construction”

