Theses and Dissertations

The sociological interpretation of Herman Melville's Benito Cereno is based upon criticism discussed of the social implications of Melville's story.

The Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Statistic is sensitive to the particular partitioning scheme used to divide the hypothesized distribution into cells, viz., number of cells, cell width, and the minimum number of expectancies required per cell. This sensitivity is due to the fact that different partitionings produce different groupings of the random observations and the calculated expected frequencies on which the Chi-Square test statistic is derived.

Previous research documents that racial minorities confronted with stereotype-confirming ingroup members during interracial interactions experience meta-perceptual concerns, anxiety, increased motivation to disprove stereotypes, and decreased desire for interracial contact.

An experimental investigation of natural convection heat transfer within horizontal cylindrical annuli was undertaken as the first step in a study of internal cooling of satellite vehicles.

Two unsymmetrical plate girders made of A36 steel were tested. Each plate girder had six panels tested under statically applied loading. The test preparations, the test set-up, the testing nprocedure and the test results are described and discussed.

The space hopper simulator project drew its origin from a partnership with Penn State University to compete in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition. Lehigh University is tasked with the exploring the guidance, navigation and control (GN&C) system of the hopper spacecraft. To simulate the dynamics and flight behavior of the concept, Earth-based multirotor flying platforms were developed with the end goal of executing the hopping maneuver.The overall project has been ongoing for more than 5 years and went through several major revisions to fix flaws discovered in the previous design.