College of Engineering: Recent submissions
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Gated Communities and Neighborhood Livability in Doha
(2016 , Master Thesis)Gated communities are a widespread phenomenon now found in many regions around the world. A gated community is mainly characterized by a focus on physical security measures such as gates, walls, guards, and closed circuit ... -
A TWELVE-PULSE LOAD COMMUTATED CONVERTER DRIVE SYSTEM WITH VSI FOR STARTING UP AND ACTIVE POWER FILTERING IN AN LNG APPLICATION
(2016 , Master Thesis)Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) are an integral component of the industry in today’s age. VFDs provide a great range of control for electrical machines, and can be integrated in a variety of applications to meet the desired ... -
Design of High-Gain DC-DC Converters for High-Power PV Applications
(2016 , Master Thesis)Renewable energy sources are penetrating the market in an ever increasing rate, especially in terms of Wind and Solar energies, with the latter being more suitable for the GCC region. Typically, Photovoltaic (PV) strings’ ... -
Design of a Simulator for Neonatal Multichannel EEG: Application to Time-Frequency Approaches for Automatic Artifact Removal and Seizure Detection
(2016 , Master Thesis)The electroencephalogram (EEG) is used to noninvasively monitor brain activities; it is the most utilized tool to detect abnormalities such as seizures. In recent studies, detection of neonatal EEG seizures has been ... -
A NON-DESTRUCTIVE METHODOLOGY FOR LEAK DETECTION IN WATER NETWORKS USING INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY (IR) AND GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR)
(2016 , Master Thesis)Two noninvasive and nondestructive methodologies for detecting leaks in water pipes were proposed and tested. The first method combines the use of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) for accurate determination of pipe location, ... -
A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF M-LEARNING APPLICATIONS
(2016 , Master Thesis)Human-computer interaction (HCI) communities and Mobile Learning Communities (MLCs) are well aware of the challenges that mobile devices impose when it comes to conducting proper usability and user experience evaluations ... -
CAUSES OF DELAY IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
(2016 , Master Thesis)The construction industry is struggling by numerous recorded incidents of delay due to improper planning and/or implementation of required construction measures. Globally, researchers have concluded that the construction ... -
Building a Test Collection for Significant-Event Detection in Arabic Tweets
(2016 , Master Thesis)With the increasing popularity of microblogging services like Twitter, researchers discov- ered a rich medium for tackling real-life problems like event detection. However, event detection in Twitter is often obstructed ... -
INVESTIGATION OF LAMINAR FLAME SPEED OF ALTERNATIVE LIQUID FUEL BLENDS
(2016 , Master Thesis)The rapid fluctuation in oil prices and increased demand of clean fuels to reduce emissions has forced the researchers to find alternative fuels that can give the same or better overall fuel characteristics. This thesis ... -
NET ZERO ENERGY DISTRICT NZED: A STRATEGY TOWARDS ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN QATAR
(2016 , Master Thesis)In the twenty first century, there are increasing pressures on energy resources, therefore; various nations are competing to lay hands on all possible fossil fuel resources. Unfortunately, these resources are endangered ... -
Drained residual shear strength of fine-grained soils and soil-solid interfaces at low to medium effective normal stresses: Analyses and Applications
(2016 , Master Thesis)A laboratory research program was undertaken to study the large-strain shear strength characteristics of fine-grained soils under low effective normal stresses (~3 to 6 kPa). Soils that cover a wide range of plasticity and ... -
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF CROSS-LAYER DESIGN WITH DISTRIBUTED AND SEQUENTIAL MAPPING SCHEME FOR VIDEO APPLICATION OVER IEEE 802.11E
(2016 , Master Thesis)The rapid development of wireless communication imposes several challenges to support QoS for real-time multimedia applications such as video stream applications. Researchers tackled these challenges from different points ... -
INVESTIGATING SPATIAL QUALITY IN URBAN SETTINGS: THE ASSESSMENT OF WALKABILITY IN THE STREETS OF DOHA, QATAR
(2016 , Master Thesis)Walking is not the only most basic, but also the most prevalent form of transportation in cities. In the case of Doha, the capital city of Qatar, and the rapid development it is going through, urban planners are in need ... -
Segmentation of Tumor Regions in Microscopic Images of Breast Cancer Tissue
(2016 , Master Thesis)Nowadays, advances in the domain of digital pathology gave the means to replace the old optical microscopes by the Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) scanners. These scanners enable pathologists viewing conventional tissue slides ... -
HIGH PRESSURE CO2/N2 AND CO2/CH4 SEPARATION USING DENSE POLYSULFONE SUPPORTED IONIC LIQUID MEMBRANES (DPSILMS)
(2016 , Master Thesis)The separation of carbon dioxide from different sources (e.g. natural gas, flue gas, etc.) has become an important area of research. Some conventional methods of CO2 separation were used over the years including adsorption ... -
Optimal Design of a Solar Assisted Cooling System
(2017 , Master Thesis)Rapid development around the globe is fairly associated with huge consumption of energy; regardless of the continuous attempts of exploiting renewable energy resources, further investigations in renewable energy involvement ...