Vaccination is one of the most important and successful public health endeavors in human history, profoundly reducing mortalities caused by infectious diseases. In the United States, the comprehensive success of large scale pediatric immunization programs results from the collaboration of an...

This paper presents an ethical creed, which we refer to as the Hippocratic Oath for Technologists. The creed is built on three fundamental pillars: proactively understanding the ethical implications of technology for all stakeholders, telling the truth about the capabilities, advantages, and...

Two aspects of small signal analysis of power systems are investigated in this dissertation. The first part presents the eigenvalue tracking method for power system stabilizer (PSS) placement. Traditional methods for determining PSS placements are based on the analysis of the interconnected...