This collection includes theses and dissertations as well as some capstone projects and Master’s projects. The Digital Institutional Repository contains most RIT theses; however, not all past works have been digitized. If you are seeking a specific thesis and do not see it here, please contact the RIT Archives Collections.
All theses and dissertations from 2010 to the present are also available to Rochester Institute of Technology faculty, students and staff from ProQuest.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Ultrafast Laser Polishing for Optical Fabrication, Lauren L. Taylor
RE-IMAGINING DOWNTOWN ROCHESTER Creation of an Equitable Urban Master Plan, Douglas Templeton
Deepfake detection and low-resource language speech recognition using deep learning, Bao Thai
App Review Analysis via Active Learning: Reducing Supervision Effort Without Compromising Classification Accuracy, Venkatesh Thimma Dhinakaran
Evaluating the performance of digital micromirror devices for use as programmable slit masks in multi-object spectrometers, Anton Travinsky
Dream Life, Menghan Tsai
Registration of Diffusion Tensor Images in Log-Euclidean and Euclidean Space, Kevin Tuttle
The Role of Programming in Interpreting LGBTQ Identities in Contemporary Art Museums, Anna Vernacchio
Audience Engagement with the Marvel Studios’ Film Black Panther: Analyzing Fan Reactions Posted on an Online Forum, Jatin Vichare
Unfold—An interactive experience on mixed reality platform to solve communication problems faced by children with ASD in the age group of 4-7 years., Akanksha Vishwakarma
Thermal Characterization of Infrared Images for Breast Cancer Detection, Solomiya Vysochanska
Modeling Composite Cytoskeletal Networks using Effective Medium Theory, Jacob Wales
Design and Production of 3D Animation Short Film “Relict”, Rundong Wang
Factors Limiting Organic Carbon Degradation by Antibiotic-Resistant Heterotrophic Microorganisms in Wastewater Contaminated Sediments, Katelyn Whitburn
Breastfeeding Discourse on Social Media, Andrea L. Whittemore
Semiconductor Nanofabrication via Metal-Assisted Chemical Etching: Ternary III-V Alloys and Alternative Catalysts, Thomas S. Wilhelm
Efficient Distribution Regression, Nicholas Wilkins
A Performance Analysis of the Meshed Tree Protocol and the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol, Peter Willis
Convection in Common Envelopes, Emily C. Wilson
Examining the Conflict Between User Experience and Software Development in Industry, Marissa K. Wilson
Biorefinery Pathways for Institutional Food Waste, Shwe Sin Win
Point Spread Function and Modulation Transfer Function Engineering, Jacob Wirth
Additives Abyss, I-Tang Wu
Conqueror, Lei Wu
Feng Shui: A Comparison of the Original Concept and Its Current Westernized Version, Shih-Jung Wu
My Experience Manifesto, Xuechun Wu
Life In The Noodles, Junnan Xia
The Legend of Whales, Bingjie Xiao
Adopt Me: An interactive video game to encourage people to adopt animals from shelters, Ying Xing
The Impact of Epidemics on Future Residential Buildings in China, Jinyan Xu
Understanding design challenges for homeless’ sleeping situation in the US., Siqi Xu
Solid Phase Synthesis of Modular Peptide-based Targeted Molecular Imaging Agents, Xinyu Xu
The Way Back Home, Bichen Yang
Crime Scene Blood Evidence Detection Using Spectral Imaging, Jie Yang
Aesthetics of Food: The Role of Visual Framing Strategies for Influence Building on Instagram, Shuhan Yang
Low-Rank Multivariate General Linear Model and One-Way Random Effect Models for Brain Response Analysis, Yidan Yang
My Guest From Afar, Yuan Yao
Characterizing bladder cancer cells by comparing general machine learning methods to convolutional neural network, Peng Nien Yin
Deep Learning Methods for 3D Aerial and Satellite Data, Mohammed A. Yousefhussien
The Impact of Visa Liberalization on Kosovo’s Migration Patterns, Urtina Zeka
Molly, Allison Zelle
How to improve the office workers’ lifestyle with emotional design, Chi Zhang
Full Circle, Hang Zhang
Efficient Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction for Pixel-wise Classification of Hyperspectral Imagery, Xuewen Zhang
Enhancing Dining Experiences through Emotional Tableware Design, Yueyue Zhang
Senso - A real-time interactive mobile system to improve users’ overall skin condition, Wenyue Zhan
Behind the Lens, Guoxiang Zhao
The Dynamic Roles of Red Blood Cell in Microcirculation, Sitong Zhou
Autocorrelation Reduction and Consistency Analysis of Correlation for Human Brain Activity Data, Xiaowen Zhou
Urban Infill – Revitalize Downtown Almaty, Kazakhstan, Madi Zhunussov
Important considerations for creative professionals when designing for users with mental health issues, Yiting Zhu
Towards an Intelligent System for Software Traceability Datasets Generation, Waleed Abdu Zogaan
Designing Emotional Content into the Mouthfeel of Food, Shahd Zubier
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Methods for the Detection of Subterranean Methane Leakage, Margot Accettura
At The Fire: An Investigation in the Transformation of Matter, Darren T. Adair
Infinite Edges, Yagmur Akarsu
Think and Stop: Share your knowledge to help others, Unez Akbar
In Sheep’s Clothing: Reflections on the Trickery of Nature, Moneerah Alayar
Alkali Activated Slag Characterization by Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-ray Microanalysis, Najat A. Alharbi
The Development of an Advanced Low Profile Retractor for Neurosurgery, Mike Allen
Bad Droid! An in-depth empirical study on the occurrence and impact of Android specific code smells, Khalid Saeed Almalki
Contemporary Arabic Calligraphy and Poetry as Geometry of True Morality, Badreyah Almuqhawi
Statistics Anxiety Towards Learning New Statistical Software, Shahd Saad Alnofaie
How We Refactor and How We Mine it ? A Large Scale Study on Refactoring Activities in Open Source Systems, Eman Abdullah AlOmar
Advances and Challenges in Software Refactoring: A Tertiary Systematic Literature Review, Mazen Alotaibi
Traditional Clothing of Kuwaiti Women, Montaha Alqattan
Convex Optimization Approach to the Optimal Power Flow Problem in DC-Microgrids with Energy Storage, Abdullah Mohammed Alzahrani
Effect of lead contaminated soils on lycopene and mineral contents of tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum), Andrea T. Amati
Recommendations for Redesign: Revising the Rochester Museum and Science Center's "Native Peoples of the Americas" Exhibit, Jess Andrews
Using Microalgae to Remediate Food and Bio-Digester Effluents from Western New York Agro Industries and Prospecting Harvested Algae Biomass for Biofuel Feedstocks, Daniel Anini Baah
Modeling of a Dynamic McKibben Style Muscle System Using Material Properties, Alexander G. Arcus
Special Interest Magazine Publishers’ Digital Strategies for Reader Engagement, Patricia Axford
The Photometric Effect of Macroscopic Surface Roughness on Sediment Surfaces, Greg Badura
How to Train Your Dog, Zihao Bai
Compelling, Fatmah Bamashmous
Terra: The Earthen Refrigerator, Priyanka Bambarkar
Anatomy of the Rotator Cuff, Shevon Barnes
Glimmer, Cody Barron
Residents' Attitudes Toward a Proposed Tourism Development in Jeddah City in Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Basendwah
Graphs with k-Uniform Edge Betweenness Centrality, Mariya Belchikova
The List, Joseph C. Bellavia
An Approximation to a Bayesian Detection Statistic for Continuous Gravitational Waves., John J. Bero IV
Development and Characterization of Novel III-V Materials for High Efficiency Photovoltaics, Zachary Shible Bittner
College Students’ Use of Digital and Traditional Media: Uses and Gratifications Approach, Kelly M. Bodine
Contractive Autoencoding for Hierarchical Temporal Memory and Sparse Distributed Representation Binding, Luke G. Boudreau
Fabrication and Analysis of Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Electrical Conductors, Andrew Robert Bucossi
A Quantum Simulation Study of III-V Esaki Diodes and 2D Tunneling Field-Effect Transistors, Patsy Cadareanu
Heaven & Earth, Nelson Caliguia Jr.
Evaluating the Profitability of Natural Gas Combustion Turbine Power Plants in the US and its Implications on Future of Natural Gas as a Bridge Fuel for Electricity Generation, Rexon Joe Carvalho
Perceptions of Non-Americans Towards American TV Series, Thaarika Charumathy Seetharaman
Stockholms: An Artifact of Kink as an Innocuous Method of Bolstering Kinkster and Fetishist Populations, Kenneth Jeremy Chen
Design for Tea, Xiaoru Chen
Velleity, Yiyun Chen
Cross Layer Routing in Cognitive Radio Network Using Deep Reinforcement Learning, Snehal Sudhir Chitnavis
Exploring High Level Synthesis to Improve the Design of Turbo Code Error Correction in a Software Defined Radio Context, Bradley E. Conn
Implementation of Soft Lithography for the Fabrication of Stacked Dielectric Elastomer Actuators for Soft Robotics, Mert Corbaci
