Browsing Engineering (Faculty of) by Supervisor "Golab, Lukasz"
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Analyzing the Usage Patterns of Electric Bikes
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-15)Electric bicycles (e-bikes) are growing as an energy efficient alternative to public transportation, and cars. However, their adoption in North America has not increased at the same rate as in other countries like Germany, ... -
Gender Differences in Engineering: A Data-Driven Study
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-27)The gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) is well known. Not only do fewer women apply to and earn engineering degrees, but also more women leave engineering programs and careers. Past ... -
Job description mining to understand undergraduate co-operative placements
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-05)Co-operative education has become popular worldwide. In this thesis, we use a text mining methodology to analyze over 17,000 co-op job postings in order to understand the co-op market in a large post-secondary institution. ... -
Localization and Counting of Indoor Populations on a University Campus using Wi-Fi Connection Logs and Floor Plans
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-17)The localization and counting of persons in indoor spaces is an area of extensive research. Indoor population metrics can inform energy conservation, health and safety, security, resource optimization, and location-aware ... -
Social media mining to investigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-16)The COVID-19 pandemic created a global crisis with devastating social and economic impacts. Firstly, public health measures for COVID-19, such as social distancing affected how we work and study. Secondly, this crisis ... -
Text Mining to Understand Emotion Triggers
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-15)In computational linguistics, most sentiment analysis builds binary classification models on customer reviews data to predict whether a review is positive or negative. In this thesis, we go a step further and build ... -
TimeFabric: Trusted Time for Hyperledger Fabric
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-01)Since the advent of Bitcoin in 2008, the interest in blockchain technology has surged tremendously. Numerous applications have been proposed in the field of finance, healthcare, and supply chain over the last decade. And, ...