Office of Graduate and Professional Studies

The Office of Graduate and Professional Studies (OGAPS) maintains official records for each Texas A&M University graduate student. OGAPS serves as the primary administrative body, and overarching source of information, for graduate education.
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Analysis of Residential Building Energy Code Compliance for New and Existing Buildings based on Building Energy Simulation
(2020-11-11)Currently, the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) is the most widely-used residential building energy code in the United States. Either the IECC or IECC with amendments has been adopted by 33 states. The latest ... -
Multifunctional Energy and Power Materials for Batteries and Supercapacitors
(2020-06-23)Multifunctional energy and power systems can simultaneously store energy and accomplish a second function. Typically, the other function is structural or safety related. Both of these rely on robust mechanical properties ... -
The Political Economy of Electoral Authoritarianism: Fiscal and Financial Conditions for Elections in Dictatorships
(2020-08-06)When do dictators introduce multiparty elections? Elections can stabilize dictatorships, but not all dictatorships hold elections. Prior research has focused on explaining how elections stabilize authoritarian regimes, ... -
Description and Identification of the Echolocation Calls of Leptonycteris nivalis and Other Nectar Feeding Bats in Mexico
(2020-08-03)The conservation of nectar-feeding bats is critical for preserving arid, semi-arid and desert ecosystems, in addition to the genetic diversity of some ecologically and economically important plant species. In the northern ... -
MULTIPARTITE ENTANGLEMENT ENGINEERING FOR QUANTUM INFORMATION AND METROLOGY
(2020-08-03)Quantum entanglement is central to many quantum technologies and is an indispensable ingredient of quantum information theory. These facts make the generation, characterization and quantification of entangled states ... -
Methods and Algorithms for Process Synthesis and Intensification using Building Blocks
(2020-07-23)Process intensification is a design concept with transformative prospects for the chemical industries. It refers to any design activities that substantially improves one (or more) of several performance metrics, including ... -
Nested Parallelism with Algorithmic Skeletons
(2020-07-23)New trend in design of computer architectures, from memory hierarchy design to grouping computing units in different hierarchical levels in CPUs, pushes developers toward algorithms that can exploit these hierarchical ... -
Bioinspired Mechanical Device Generates Plasma in Water via Cavitation
(2020-07-23)Laboratory and industrial plasmas in liquid are conventionally generated by electric fields. In nature, one verified plasma generation method is the hydrodynamic flow induced cavitation by snapping shrimp. Collapsing ... -
Rapid Compositional Simulation Using Model Order Reduction and Machine Learning Technique
(2020-07-27)Fast and reliable reservoir simulation is a key for the successful decision making in integrated reservoir studies. Large and complex multiphase reservoir models usually require expensive computational infrastructure. ... -
Trophic Structure and Food Web Dynamics of Deep-Pelagic Micronekton in the Gulf of Mexico
(2020-07-22)The deep-pelagic ocean is the largest but least studied ecosystem on Earth. As natural resource extraction and fisheries expand into the deep pelagic, there is increased need for comprehensive, ecosystem-based management ... -
Improved Distance Based Upgridding for High Resolution Geologic Models
(2020-07-30)Strong heterogeneities in properties characterize subsurface reservoirs and the encapsulation of these properties play an important role in optimizing the trade-off between preservation of geologic heterogeneity and reservoir ... -
Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope and Its Application to Material Characterization
(2020-07-16)A low temperature and high vacuum compatible fiber optic interferometer was designed and constructed to debug a malfunctioning low temperature scanning tunneling microscope (LT-STM). With its help, the temperature dependent ... -
Arthropod Predation of Cordaitean Pollen Cones in Pennsylvanian Coal Balls
(2020-08-05)Pennsylvanian coal balls are concretions of permineralized peat that contain a rich fossil record of plant-animal interactions. Cordaitean leaf-mat coal balls from the Cliffland and Blackoak coal beds (Kalo Formation, Iowa) ... -
Assessing the Impacts of Land Use Change and Climate Change on Amphibians to Improve Conservation Strategies for Biodiversity and Livelihoods in the Sierra Nevada De Santa Marta, Colombia
(2020-07-31)Land use and climate change are major anthropogenic threats to biodiversity. In the tropics, over 70% of land is in some form of agricultural matrix. Amphibians are the most threatened vertebrate class. Colombia, a megadiverse ... -
Layer-by-layer assembly of mesoporous silica nanoparticle films for gas adsorption in exhaled breath analysis
(2020-07-28)Exhaled breath analysis is a non-intrusive, point-of-care monitoring technique capable of detection and diagnosis of respiratory diseases, offering rapid response and recovery rates. Detection of volatile organic compounds ... -
An Algorithm for an IoT Prawn Feeder in Conjunction with an Aquaponics System
(2020-08-12)Aquaponics has gained recognition through its food sustainability with different combinations of aquaculture and hydronics. Freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium Rosenbergii) can be bought for less than ten cents per prawn and ... -
DRYING CRACKS NETWORK IN SOILS: REMEDIAL SOLUTIONS AND 3-D ERT MONITORING
(2020-08-03)Desiccation cracking in soils is a natural phenomenon associated with soil shrinkage during water evaporation under field conditions triggered by the soil-atmosphere interactions. Desiccation crack can cause many problems ... -
Evaluating Spinach Extracts for Antimicrobial Activities Against Bacterial Foodborne Pathogens
(2020-07-23)The exploration of natural antimicrobials for food preservation has received increased attention due to consumer awareness of natural food products and a growing concern of microbial adaption to conventional preservatives. ... -
LONG-TERM BEHAVIOR OF BALLAST IN RAILWAY EMBANKMENT UNDER HIGH-SPEED TRAIN AND FREIGHT TRAIN LOADING
(2020-07-28)The behavior of the railway ballast under the operation of high-speed trains and heavy freight trains is studied in this dissertation. For this purpose, a combination of laboratory testing and numerical simulations has ... -
Segmentation Guided Image Inpainting
(2020-07-23)Deep Learning based approaches have shown promising results for the task of image inpainting. These methods have been successful in generating semantically correct and plausible inpainted images. In case of object removal, ...