ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 I would like to thank my family for their support and Dr. James P. Heaney for his

invaluable guidance and contributions to this thesis. Additionally, Mr. Scott Knight

worked on an earlier version of this analysis. Dr. Joong G. Lee and Dr. Robert Knight

provided valuable review and suggestions. I would like to acknowledge the cooperation

from Mr. Cary White and Dr. Jaime Graulau-Santiago in preparing various SFWMM

scenarios under tight deadlines. I would like to thank my supervisory committee

members (Dr. John J. Sansalone and Dr. Robert L. Knight) for their valuable review of

this thesis.