Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, 1957, History

Committee: Robert W. Twyman (Advisor) Subjects: History

Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, 1957, History

Committee: Robert W. Twyman (Advisor) Subjects: History

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Toledo, 2021, History

The present study traces the influences of women students, and the “woman question,” on Western Reserve College during its most critical period of transformation during the Gilded Age. In addition, I also aim to build a second, parallel story: the creation of one of the pioneer coordinate colleges for women in the United States: the Western Reserve University's College for Women. I argue that women students and the question of their presence at Western Reserve College were a significant and integral force behind institutional and campus environment changes in the last quarter of the 19th century, and propelled the transformation of the college into an urban university. Women's presence left traces on at least four critical areas: the campus environments, the college's relationship with the surrounding educational network, institutional change and college reform, and town-gown dynamics. The attempts to accommodate the “woman question” led to the major shifts in co-educational and coordinate approaches as Western Reserve College transformed itself from a small liberal arts college into an urban university. With this study, I join revisionist interpretations of the history of women's presence in colleges and universities in the Gilded Age, employing a lens that looks at women as an axis of institutional change.

Committee: Kim Nielsen Ph.D. (Committee Chair) Subjects: Education; Gender; Higher Education; History; Urban Planning; Womens Studies

MLS, Kent State University, 1968, Graduate College / Department of English

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Committee: Paul A. Noon (Advisor) Subjects: Library Science

Master of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 2018, EECS - System and Control Engineering

Managing the solar PV power generation, battery charging and discharging cycles, and load scheduling onboard a spacecraft is an essential task of space travel. This process is currently managed by mission control on earth, as most manned space flight take place in lower earth orbit. In deep space travel, however, the communication delay and bandwidth limitations between the space vehicle and the earth can be a significant constraint. This requires autonomous power management onboard the spacecraft without engaging mission control on earth. This research project uses Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) to solve the electric generation and load scheduling problem onboard spacecrafts during deep space missions. The problem formulation is required to be reliable and robust, and the solution performance (MIP gap and time convergence) will also need to be good. In this project, a hypothetical spacecraft has been modeled. Using the CPLEX solver via the AIMMS modeling platform, we create a program that manages the electrical loads onboard the spacecraft over a 24-hour study period with 10-minute scheduling intervals. With over 8,000 decision variables (including both continuous and integer types), the program converges to an optimal solution with outstanding performance. This project has been sponsored by the Power Division at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

Committee: Mingguo Hong (Committee Chair); Gregory Lee (Committee Member); Behnam Malakooti (Committee Member) Subjects: Engineering

BS, Kent State University, 2008, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of History

During the uneasy years predating the American Civil War, self-proclaimed prophets and messengers of God traveled the frontier proclaiming their interpretations of truth as revealed through Protestant Christianity. As they attempted to convert the nation, they conceived American utopias which, constructed within a sacred history of Christianity, played an important role in redefining the religion in North America. As part of the process of establishing these utopias, individuals interested in the conversion of society utilized and revised the “New Haven” theology of Yale College, from which would emerge a reconstructed concept of “sanctification” in Oberlin, Ohio. These individuals would use this theology to form the basis for their attempts to reform society, applying religious meaning to social action. In Lorain County, Ohio, we can observe these changes in religious thought and practice as numerous “religious virtuosi” carried out social action which they considered to be bound to a sacred history. In tandem with social action would come ecclesiastical conflict, tearing the New England Plan of Union asunder. This thesis is interested in how reformers' attempts to create heaven on earth would result in conflict highlighted by a series of events which would ultimately change the religious landscape of the county as it contributed to and reflected the changing face of religion in America.

Committee: David Odell-Scott PhD (Advisor); Guy E. Wells PhD (Advisor); Leonne Hudson PhD (Committee Member); Leslie Heaphy PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: American History; History; Religious History

Master of Sciences (Engineering), Case Western Reserve University, 2014, EMC - Mechanical Engineering

To better understand the behavior of wind turbines placed in an urban environment, a study was performed to characterize the wind availability and performance of a 100-kilowatt Northern Power Systems wind turbine installed at Case Western Reserve University. It was found that the annual average wind speed was 4.0m/s, generating net energy of 67MWh at a rate of 8.0kW. It was also found that the winds rarely reach the required 15m/s for the turbine to output at its rated capacity. The winds that do reach 15m/s or faster exist only in short gusts, prevalently during the Winter 2011 and Spring 2012 months. Additionally, in studying the turbine performance, it was found that the turbine has a maximum efficiency of 65-70% relative to the Betz Limit, at a wind speed of approximately 6.75m/s.

Committee: Iwan Alexander (Advisor); Jaikrishnan Kadambi (Committee Chair); Paul Barnhart (Committee Member) Subjects: Aerospace Engineering; Energy; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering

Master of Arts in History, Youngstown State University, 2010, Department of Humanities

Mount Hope Cemetery, on the East Side of Youngstown, is surrounded by neighborhoods that started as rural outposts to a city, then expanded during the city's industrial age. Anchored to demographic statistics, event timelines, and national trends, cemeteries are a solid historic document. Mount Hope Cemetery reflects trends of the United States, in general, and the industrial rise of Youngstown, in particular.At the height of Youngstown's steel-based economy, the communities adjacent to Mount Hope became urban, working class neighborhoods. The ethnicity of the community started as a mixture of German, Italian and Slovakian cultures with a small contingent of African Americans. Subsequently, the population shifted to predominantly African American, with a significant Hispanic contingent. The decline of Mount Hope, as an active and fully maintained cemetery, mirrored the decline of the surrounding neighbors. Chapter One details the physical layout of the cemetery, and follows its history of ownership. Legal records, deeds, wills and topographic evidence are the foundation of Chapter One. Chapter Two is a detailed study of Mount Hope's interred. Information from headstones, grave markers, coupled with grave orientation and location, put each of the interred in proper context during the life of the cemetery. Chapter Three focuses on the neighborhoods adjacent to Mount Hope. Demographic changes in the neighborhoods were reflected by representation in the cemetery itself. Chapter Three documents the cemetery through categorization and grouping like elements within the cemetery. Chapter Four, the final chapter, is a look into the lives and circumstances of individuals interred in Mount Hope selected at random.

Committee: Martha Pallante PhD (Advisor); Donna DeBlasio PhD (Committee Member); Thomas Leary PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: African Americans; History

Master of Science (MS), Ohio University, 2001, Environmental Studies (Arts and Sciences)

Given the practical difficulties to manage large protected areas in poor countries, the present study addresses the possibility of preserving small forest remnants by involving local actors in their management. The study area embodies the highlands of the volcanic complex Chonco-San Cristobal-Casitas in western Nicaragua, where a Nature Reserve was established in 1983 with the aim of protecting the remaining patches of deciduous dry forest. The methodology included aerial photography interpretation to evaluate changes in forest cover during the past four decades, interviews of the forest holders to how they value and manage the forest, and forest samples on their properties to assess the state of species diversity. The findings revealed a clear trend of forest reduction and fragmentation over the past decades, and a significant alteration of tree species composition in the remaining forest stands due to human-caused fires and selective logging. When these disturbances are moderate and infrequent, they prevent the best competitors from dominating the other tree species, thereby enhancing species diversity in the forests. A careful exploitation of woods might hence contribute to their preservation. A series of recommendations are put forward to motivate peasants and coffee farmers to manage species diversity, since they are the two main forest owners in the Nature Reserve.

Committee: Brad Jokisch (Advisor) Subjects:

MA, Kent State University, 2013, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of History

The Students for a Democratic Society was the largest New Left organization in the United States during the 1960s. The organization gained momentum through the Civil Rights Movement and the anti-war movement and eclipsed other student organizations of the time. As the organization's numbers swelled to roughly 15,000 officially registered members by the mid-1960s, SDS became known for its increasing radicalism. By 1970, SDS had split into various factions, the most famous being the Weathermen, who promoted the violent overthrow of the American government. Utilizing the semiotic theories of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin, this thesis compares and contrasts three SDS chapters active in Northeast Ohio during the late 1960s and early 1970s to explore how SDS used heteroglossic language and carnivalesque techniques to create an identity that challenged—both symbolically and physically—the unitary language of the established university administrations. Although different in location, prestige, and student enrollment, the campuses of Kent State University, Case Western Reserve University, and John Carroll University experienced SDS's carnivalesque and heteroglossic tactics at varying levels of intensity. By using the theories of Bakhtin, this thesis provides a new angle to SDS studies and protest movements.

Committee: Kenneth Bindas PhD (Advisor); Wunderlin Clarence PhD (Committee Member); John Jameson PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: History; Language; Linguistics; Modern History; Religion