Thesis Defense Announcements(term-131) 
 
 
 
​Title ​Department
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​Synthesis of Nanostructured Semiconductors via Pulsed Laser Ablation in Liquids and their Characterization ​Physics ​25/12/2013
​Water Hammer Modeling and Analysis for Khobar-Dammam Water Transmission Ring Line ​Civil & Environmental Engg ​25/12/2013
​Experimental Investigation of Tube Rupture Under Boiler Dynamic Operating Conditions ​Mechanical Engineering ​25/12/2013
​Observer Based H-{infinity} Control for Uncertain Nonlinear Networked Systems with Packets Dropouts ​Systems Engineering ​24/12/2013
​Thixoforging of Aluminum Nano-composites Synthesized by Ultrasonic Stir Casting ​Mechanical Engineering ​24/12/2013
​AHP and DEA Hybrid Model for Performance Measures Aggregation and Ranking of Decision Making Units ​Systems Engineering ​24/12/2013
​Exprimental Investigation and Numerical Modeling of Two-Dimensional Chloride Diffusion in Concrete ​Civil & Environmental Engg ​24/12/2013
​Nano-scale Plasmonic Resonators for Bio-sensing ​Electrical Engineering ​24/12/2013
​Optimal Operation and Economic Impacts of Energy Storage System in Distribution Network ​Electrical Engineering ​24/12/2013
​SINR Evaluation for Practical Coordinated Multi-Point Networks ​Electrical Engineering ​23/12/2013
​Design and Optimization of Carbon nano-tubes Production and Chemical Vapor Disposition Reactor ​Chemical Engineering ​23/12/2013
​On the Stability of Some Systems of Thermoelasticity Type III ​Dept of Mathematics & Stat ​23/12/2013
​Performance Evaluation of IPV6 BGP based Solutions for Malicious ISP Blocking ​Computer Engineering ​23/12/2013
​Experimental Investigation and Modeling for Heat of Hydration in Mass Concrete ​Civil & Environmental Engg ​23/12/2013
​Approximate Lie Symmetries ​Dept of Mathematics & Stat ​23/12/2013
​A Study of Certain Fin Equations Using Lie Symmetry Analysis ​Dept of Mathematics & Stat ​23/12/2013
​Control Algorithms for Distributed Networked Industrial Systems ​Systems Engineering ​23/12/2013
​Evaluation of Sulfur Foamed Asphalt for Local Soil Stabilization ​Civil & Environmental Engg ​23/12/2013
​Effect of Casting Temperature and Curing Regime on Mechanical Properties and Durability of Concrete ​Civil & Environmental Engg ​23/12/2013
​Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Multi-Machine Power System ​Electrical Engineering ​23/12/2013
​Evaluation of Sulfur Modified Asphalt for Road Construction ​Civil & Environmental Engg ​23/12/2013
​Integration of Multivariate Statistical Process Control and Engineering Process Control ​Systems Engineering ​22/12/2013
​Production-Inventory with Finite Production Rate, Stock Level Dependant Demand and Variable Holding Cost with Quantity Discounts ​Systems Engineering ​22/12/2013
​Transmission Amplitude Variation with Offset ​Earth Sciences ​22/12/2013
​Effect of Nano Clay on Oil Well Cement Properties for High Pressure and Temperature Applications ​Petroleum Engineering ​22/12/2013
​Robust Estimator in Modern Power System Networks ​Electrical Engineering ​22/12/2013
​Image Processing Based Contamination Level Monitoring of High Voltage Insulators ​Electrical Engineering ​22/12/2013
​Development of a novel hybrid storage system for aqua ammonia solar absorption refrigeration cycle ​Mechanical Engineering ​22/12/2013
​Low Complexity Scalable Behavioral Modeling of RF Power Amplifiers with Memory Effects ​Electrical Engineering ​19/12/2013
​A Study of Stabilization/Solidification of Oil-contaminated Soils ​Civil & Environmental Engg ​19/12/2013
​Challenges of Adopting Social Computing in Global Software Development ​Information & Computer Science ​19/12/2013
​Effect of Input Correlation on (Normalized) Adaptive Filters ​Electrical Engineering ​19/12/2013
​Evaluating the EDoS-Shield Mitigation Technique Using an Experimental Testbed ​Computer Engineering ​19/12/2013
​Study of Polymer-Surfactant Interactions for Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery in Carbonate Reservoirs ​Chemical Engineering ​​18/12/2013
​Sedimentological Heterogeneity of the Late Ordovician Glacio-fluvial Sarah Formation, Al-Qaseem Area, Saudi Arabia ​Earth Sciences ​18/12/2013
​​A New Minimization Technique of the Error in Short-Channel MOSFET Circuits Resulting from Carrier Mobility Reduction ​​Electrical Engineering ​18/12/2013
​Group Classification of Poisson Equation on Surfaces of Revolution ​Dept of Mathematics & Stat ​18/12/2013
​PMCMG: Project Management Challenges Model for Global Software Development ​Information & Computer Science ​18/12/2013
​Quality of Service Provisioning in Bio-Sensor Networks ​Computer Engineering ​18/12/2013
​Two dimensional J-matrix approach to Quantum scattering ​Physics ​18/12/2013
​Synthesis and Characterization of Nitrogen Doped Carbon Electrocatalysts for Fuel Cells and Air Batteries Energy Conversion System ​Chemistry ​​18/12/2013
​​Local and non-local Linearization of scalar second order ODEs in the normal form ​Dept of Mathematics & Stat ​18/12/2013
​Design and Fabrication of Immunochromatographic Strip Biosensor for Breast Cancer Protein Biomarkers Analysis ​​Chemistry ​17/12/2013
​​Sedimentological and Petrophysical Characterization of Sarah Formation with the Aid of GIS, Central Saudi Arabia ​Earth Sciences ​17/12/2013
​​Fundamental Studies of Dust Fouling and Mitigation Approaches for PV Modules ​Mechanical Engineering ​​17/12/2013
​The Design of Finite Impulse Repsonse (FIR) Wavefield Extrapolation Filters ​​Electrical Engineering ​17/12/2013
​Sensitivity-based Upscaling for Large-Scale Reservoir Model History Matching ​​Petroleum Engineering ​16/12/2013
​GLOBFACT: A Success Factor Framework for Project Management Success in Global Software Development ​​Information & Computer Science ​16/12/2013
​​Ce/W Oxides modified Mesoporous Carbon supported Pt-Pd catalysts for ormic Acid Fuel Cell: Synthesis, Characterization and Evaluation ​Chemical Engineering ​16/12/2013
​​Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Uplink Coordinated Multi-Point Communications in Cellular Systems Using Ray Tracing Techniques ​Electrical Engineering ​16/12/2013
​Optimization of Vertical Placement of Horizontal Wells in Mature Carbonate Reservoirs ​Petroleum Engineering ​15/12/2013
​​An Enhanced Mitigation Technique for Economic Denial of Sustainability (EDoS) Attack ​​Computer Engineering ​12/12/2013
​Using Security Robustness Analysis for Early Stage Validation of Functional Security Requirements ​Information & Computer Science ​11/12/2013
​Communication Free Charging Management of Electric Vehicles under Grid Constraints ​Electrical Engineering ​10/12/2013
​Production of Sustainable Concrete Using Indigenous Saudi Natural Pozzolan ​Civil & Environmental Engg ​09/12/2013
​Prompt Gamma Analysis of Hydrogen, Carbon, Oxygen and Nitrogen in Bulk Samples ​Physics ​05/12/2013
​​A Realistic Analysis of Recursive Time Synchronization Protocol (RTSP) and Flooding Time Synchronization Protocol (FTSP) ​Computer Engineering ​02/12/2013
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​Construction Engg & Management ​02/12/2013
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​Electrical Engineering ​02/12/2013
​Numerical and Experimental Analysis on Thermal Stress Measurement of Spiral Welded Pipes ​​Mechanical Engineering ​27/11/2013
​Modification of Styrene-Methyl Methacrylate Copolymer Using Microwave Irradiation in the Presence of Graphene ​Chemical Engineering
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​25/11/2013
​Models of Fractional Diffusion in Radial-Composite Reservoirs ​Petroleum Engineering ​25/11/2013
​Modeling, Simulation and Control of Directional Steering System ​Systems Engineering ​21/11/2013
​Determination of Trace Level Haloacetic Acid, Perchlorates and Chlorophenols in Water Samples Using Microextraction Techniques ​Chemistry ​21/11/2013
​Effectiveness of Project Teams and Their Impacts on the Performance of Saudi Construction Projects ​Construction Engg & Management ​20/11/2013
​Study on Integrated Electrokinetics-adsorption Remediation Technique for Simultaneous Removal of Heavy Metals and Organics from Sodic Soil: Effects of Operating Parameters ​Civil & Environmental Engg ​20/11/2013
​Optimal Aggregator Bidding Strategies for Vehicle to Grid using Fuzzy Optimization ​Electrical Engineering ​19/11/2013
​Modeling, Simulation & Control of Photovoltaic Reverse Osmosis Desalination System ​Systems Engineering ​19/11/2013
​Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Modeling of Solar Steam Methane Reformer and Design of an Integrated Novel Solar Collector ​​Mechanical Engineering ​18/11/2013
​​RF Power Amplifiers Behavioral Modeling and Predistortion ​Electrical Engineering ​17/11/2013
​​Development of Laser Induced Break down Spectroscopy for detection of toxic elements in cosmetic products ​Physics ​14/11/2013
​Solid Acid Catalyst for Selective Synthesis of 2-Phenyldodecane ​Chemical Engineering ​11/11/2013
​​Performance Improvement of a Vapor Compression Air Conditioning System by Condensate and Fresh Water Source ​​Mechanical Engineering ​11/11/2013
​Study of Long Term Service Degradation of Boiler Superheater Tubes and its Effects on Remaining Life Predictions ​Mechanical Engineering ​10/11/2013
​Characteristics of Young Drivers Involved in the Road Accidents in Dammam Metropolitan Area ​Civil & Environmental Engg ​06/11/2013
​​The Effect of Local School Traffic on Congestion of Urban Network ​Civil & Environmental Engg ​04/11/2013
​RF Power Amplifiers Behavioral Modeling and Predistortion ​Electrical Engineering ​31/10/2013
​Improvement of Eastern Saudi Soils Utilizing ​Civil Engineering ​​30/10/2013
​Development of Automated On-site Analytical Methods for Water Analysis ​Chemistry ​24/10/2013
​Diethylbenzene Production via Ethylbenzene Disproportionation and Ethylation Reactions over HZSM-5 Catalysts: Effect of Si/Al Ratio ​Chemical Engineering ​07/10/2013
​Calibration and Validation of PARAMICS Microscobic Simulation Model for The Local Traffic Condition in Saudi Arabia ​Civil & Environmental Engg ​​03/10/2013
​Chemistry ​02/10/2013
​​Electrical Engineering ​​01/10/2013
​Document Analysis and Script Identification ​Information & Computer Science ​​01/10/2013
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Alkaline-eart Metal Oxides in Mitigating Vanadium-induced Hot Corrosion of Yttaria-stabilized Zirconia​
Mechanical Engineering
​25/09/2013
Mechanical Engineering  
 25/09/2013​
Civil & Environmental Engg
 
16/09/2013