Theses and Dissertations from the Graduate School of Engineering and Management, Air Force Institute of Technology
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Reflected Laser Light as a Diagnostic Insight for Femtosecond Laser-Plasma Coupling, David S. Stiles
Adiabatic and Overall Effectiveness Superposition Theory for Upstream Phantom Cooling on a Film Cooled Leading Edge, Nathaniel J. Stout
Impact of Stochastic Travel Times on the Military Port Selection Problem: A Stochastic Programming Approach, William M. Titus
Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Solar Particle Events and Radiation of Aircrew, Haley Traub
Graph Neural Network-Based UAV Coverage Planning for Robust and Efficient 3D Environments, Gal Tsfaty
Geo-spatial Mapping of Sentiment Analysis with Transformer-Based Models, Dugan J. Turnbow
Evaluating Educational Benefits of a Custom Cyber Game: ‘HVAC Attack!’, Jillian S. Valente
Utility of Self-Sensing Damage Technology Through A2/AD Drone Combat Simulation, Sidhanth Venkatasubramaniam
Modeling and Characterization of On-Orbit Servicing Architectures for Efficient Mission Planning, Samantha Q. Vi Tang
Investigation of Neutron Inelastic Scatter Cross Sections on 16O, Molly A. Wakeling
Material Classification with Spectropolarimetric LiDAR, Alexander J. Watson
Reentry vehicle Trajectory Analysis & Performance (Re-TAP) Development and Application to SpaceX Starship, Emma L. Webb
Quantifying the Impact of Highly Corrosive Environments on FSRM Budgets and Infrastructure Condition at Air Force Bases, Justin M. Weber
Improving Zero Shot Learning by Linking Multi-label CNNs with LLMs, Michael A. Wegner
Palindrome: A Bi-Directional Multi-Object Detection Framework for Relative Navigation and Autonomous Docking, Liam A. Weinfurtner
Machine Learning Techniques to Detect Anomalies in T-38 Flight Sensor Data, Sydney M. Wekamp
Hypergame Models for Cyber Defense in a Purple Team Setting, Thomas N. Whitney
Learning To Dogfight: Proximal Policy Optimization vs. Double Deep Q Network For 2v2 Air Combat with Directed Energy Weapons in AFSIM, Caden W. Wilson
Lethality and Survivability of Autonomous Self-Sensing UAVs, Jeffrey T. Wilson
Analysis of an Army Recruiter Allocation Model (RAM), Erik J. Wittendorf
Investigation of Node Refinement Methods in Local Adaptive Kernel Based Approximation, Shelby W. Woodrum
Calibrating Airfield Pavement Asset Management for a Changing Global Climate: A Case Study at Fairchild Air Force Base, Emily L. Worthy
Understanding Avionics Maintenance Training Student Outcomes in a Student-Centered Active Learning Environment, Scott M. Wyman
Accuracy of Time Phasing Missile and Munition using the Continuous Distribution Function, Joseph Zobler