Recent Graduates and their thesis topics

• Masters Thesis:  Rishabh Sandhir, "Performance Analysis of Multi-Channel 100 Gbps RZ-DQPSK Fiber Optic Transmission Systems, 2008.

• Senior Projects:  Jace Daigle, Greg Gattis, Cade Brazzil Martin Martinez, "Project Red Rover", an autonomous object avoidance robotic rover for roming the Martian surface demonstrated at the Texas Space Grant Consortium/NASA-JSC Showcase, 16 April 2007, Clearlake, Texas wining four first-place awards.

• Masters Thesis:  Deep Patel, "Multi-soliton dense dispersion-managed WDM/PMD transmission systems", 2007.

• Masters research:  Shruit Malla, "Multi-Soliton pulse interacrtions", a research paper, 2006.

• Doctoral Thesis:  Santitissadeekorn, Naritip, "A numerical method for calculating dispersion from arbitrary fiber index profile", August 2004.

• Masters Thesis: Sabharwal, Sameer, "Fiber Bragg Grating: Application to Dispersion Compensation", December 2003.

• Masters Thesis: George, Ronie, "Soliton-Effect Optical Pulse Compressor", August 2003.

• Masters Thesis: Xu, Tao, "Improved Transmission Performance by Hybrid Optical Amplification in DWDM Systems", Spring 2002.

• Special Senior Project under Lamar University research enhancement grant: Bieljeski, Bonnette, Coatney, Habibovic, McFarland, Ovcina, Sanders, and Vukovic, "Design of a Fiber Optic Laboratory", May 2002

• Masters Thesis: Escobar, David "Industrial Study of MPLS Technology", December 2001. Photo .

• Doctoral Thesis: Mou, Huiping, "Use of Raman Amplification in Advanced Fiber Optic Communication Systems", May 2001.

• Doctoral Thesis: Wang, Yuqing, "Cell-Loss Ratio Evaluation of ATM Call Admission Control Using Fast Convergent Neural Network", May 2001. 

• Doctoral Thesis: Yeh, Chung-How, "Multipath Fading on RakeReceiver Performance Used in Wireless Communications", May, 2001 (with Dr.Drazenovic). 

• Masters Thesis: Zhou, Yinchun, "A Study of Internet-Based Remote Virtual Instrumentation", May 2001 (with Dr.Porter).

Grants received

• Research in Conjunction with the next Generation Communications Systems, MCI.   
  
  Students supported under this grant:  Peggy Mou, Eugene Wang, Chun-How Yeh, Tom Xu, Benjamin Chen, David Escobar, Ronie George, Sameer Sabharwal, Golf Santitissadeekorn, Mohamed Ahmed, Richard Nero, Shruti Malla, Wai-Tai Hsu, Deep Patel
   

• Research Enhancement Grant (funded by the School of Graduate Studies and Research, Lamar University), "On the Establishment of a Photonics Laboratory".
  
     Team members:

          Graduate Students: Ronnie George and Shabbir Bagasrawala.

          Undergraduate Students: Wade Salazar, Emir Suljkanovic and Sampie Brown.

   

• Research Enhancement Grant, "Research into soliton propagation in WDM systems" .

• Study of engineering standards under ISO 9000 for application on electric power systems and controls for M & I Electric, Inc., Beaumont, Texas.

• Several grants from the Texas Space-Grant Consortium sponsored by NASA-JSC supporting Senior Projects 2003 through 2007.