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 2016
Techno-Environmental Analysis of Generating Animal Feed from Wasted Food Products, Melissa Hall
Video QoS/QoE over IEEE802.11n/ac: A Contemporary Survey, Rebeen R. Hama Amin
Toothdoll, Xiaodong Han
The Design and Implementation of GRIT-T: RIT's Next-generation Field-Portable Goniometer System, Justin D. Harms
[CODE PREMONITION]™: A 2D animation experience featuring DUIK technology, Jason E. Harris
Investigation of methods for machine learning associations between genetic variations and phenotype, Amanda M. Hartung
Policy Recommendations for Economically and Socially Valuable Asteroid Mineral Resource Exploitation Activities, Anthony Hennig
Cardiac Inter Beat Interval and Atrial Fibrillation Detection using Video Plethysmography, Jairo Hernandez Guzman
Using Statistical Analysis to Improve Data Partitioning in Algorithms for Data Parallel Processing Implementation, Manuel E. Hidalgo Murillo
PEN+: An Emotional expression device and a mobile application for emotional health, Mi-hee Hong
A Validation Study of Gearing and Musculoskeletal Performance in Simple Biological Systems through Theoretical and Experimental Methods, Jenna Marie Hopkins
An Empirical Demonstration of the Probabilistic Upper Bound of the Adaptive Boosting Test Error, Paige Houston
Structuring Statistical Tests for Validating Encryption: An Array-based Approach, Kevin Hoyt
Spirituality & Young Adults Work Performance, Kirstijan Hrdzic
Intelligent Lighting System for Health, Qunxi Huang
Ecologically Inspired Metrics for Rare Earth Element Critical Material Systems, Berlyn Jo Hubler
Features and Algorithms for Visual Parsing of Handwritten Mathematical Expressions, Lei Hu
Development of a System Model for an Indirect Passive Solar Dryer with Experimental Validation, Samantha Huselstein
Patient History Elicitation and Diagnostic Decision Making, Nicholas Iuliucci
Advance Android PHAs/Malware Detection Techniques by Utilizing Signature Data, Behavioral Patterns and Machine Learning, Suyash Jadhav
Prediction of the Frictional Characteristics of Halogen-Free Ionic Liquids in Elastohydrodynamic Point Contacts., Karthik Janardhanan
Joint Source-Channel Coding Optimized On End-to-End Distortion for Multimedia Source, Ebrahim Jarvis
Observing Behavior of Fluid Flow through Carbon Nanotube Arrays, Anna T. Jensen
I, exist. Exhibition Identity Branding: Conveying the Doctrine of Existentialism, Xuan Jiang
Characterization and Reduction of Noise in Manifold Representations of Hyperspectral Imagery, Can Jin
Schroedinger Eigenmaps for Manifold Alignment of Multimodal Hyperspectral Images, Juan Emmanuel Johnson
On Identification of Nonlinear Parameters in PDEs, Raphael Kahler
Development of a Graduate Course on the Transition to Internet Protocol Version 6, Venu Gopal Kakarla
Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Over Open Microchannels With Tapered Manifold, Ankit Kalani
Engineered Emitters for Improved Silicon Photovoltaics, Ronak A. Kamat
A Study on Process, Strength and Microstructure Analysis of Low Temperature SnBi-Containing Solder Pastes Mixed with Lead-free Solder Balls, Sakthi Cibi Kannammal Palaniappan
Phenotypic studies of pho13Δ in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Courtney Kellogg
Development of a Voice-Controlled Human-Robot Interface, Warat Khaewratana
Scottsville, Soheil Khosravinejad
Applications of Renewal Theory to Pattern Analysis, Hallie L. Kleiner
Heart Valve Mathematical Models, Paula Kolar
Equipoise: An Animated Short Film About Positiveness and Negativity., Gung-Kai Koo
A Metallomics Study on Protein function assignment Using ProMOL, Venkata Aditya Kovuri
Low-Resource and Fast Elliptic Curve Implementations over Binary Edwards Curves, Brian Koziel
Provisions of Maternity Leave in the Republic of Kosovo: Impact on Private Sector and Employment, Nida Krasniqi
Harvesting a Sustainable Energy Future: Examining the effect of chemical composition on the electromechanical properties of polymer gel beads, Kaushik Kudtarkar
The Case of Villa Benfica: Retrofitting a Multifamily Building in a Hot and Humid Climate For Energy Efficiency, Carolina Kuhner Camara dos Santos
Learning Robust and Discriminative Manifold Representations for Pattern Recognition, Sriram Kumar
Men in Vogue: A Visual Analysis of the Male Gender on American Vogue Covers, Connor Lamb
Shallow Etch Recipe Design using DOE for Silicon Waveguides, Ankur Lamoria
Directly comparing synthetic and real binary black hole coalescence sources with numerical solutions of Einstein’s equation, Jacob A. Lange
Mechanical and Physical Characterization of Foams made of Gelatinized Starch and Pre-polymer Polyurethane, Baxter J. Lansing
Development of Nanosphere Lithography for Semiconductor Device Applications, Xing Lei
Partial Aborts for Transactions via First Class Continuations, Matthew Le
Helios, Minh D. Le
Developing a Measurement System to Assess Line Profile Retention in 3D Printing, Heng Li
Mining Knowledge Bases for Question & Answers Websites, Eduardo Coelho de Lima
Reconfigurable Model for RISC Processors, Thiago Pinheiro Felix da Silva e Lima
A Study of Sintered Copper Porous Surfaces for Pool Boiling Enhancement, Felix Liu
Sitting Cane Design: For Older People, Qi Liu
Personalities of the Chinese Zodiac, Tang-Hsuan Liu
Love Sip, Tianshu Liu
Address, Xiao Li
Evolutionary Weights for Random Subspace Learning, Andre Lobato Ramos
Third Eye, Nadine Longmore
The Uncanny Valley The Effect of Removing Blendshapes from Facial Animation, Ameya Lonkar
DigiTabs: Share. Learn. Play, Alfredo Lopez
Vital Construction, Shan Lu
Clearance Analysis of 3D Printed Assemblies Using Fused Filament Extrusion, Kshitij Luthria
Frequency Doubling of RF-Over-Fiber Signal Based on Mach Zehnder Modulator, Mohamed Maafa
Modeling the Radar Return of Powerlines Using an Incremental Length Diffraction Coefficient Approach, Douglas Macdonald
Scare Tactics, Tiago Martines, Gabriel Ortega, Karan Sahu, Lucas Pereira Vasconcelos, and Henrique Silva Chaltein de Almeida
Augmented Reality HUDs: Warning Signs and Drivers’ Situation Awareness, Zachary McDonald
The Analysis of Consumers’ Affective Responses to Brand Presentation, Awareness, and Loyalty: A Contemporary Development in Selecting Media Channels, Jessica F. McGinn
Detection of Anomalous Vehicle Loading, Troy McKay
Anomaly Detection Using Predictive Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory Units, Jefferson Ryan Medel
Tribological Study of Textured Surfaces created using Modulation Assisted Machining for Steel-Aluminum Contact, Paarth Mehta
Recovering Eleanor Roosevelt's Voice: The Exhibition of Prospects of Mankind, Kellie S. Menzies
Identification of Hyperelastic Anisotropic Properties in Vascular Biomechanics Based on In-‐ Vivo and In-‐Vitro Measurements, Nikhil Meshram
Modelling of Information Flow and Resource Utilization in the EDGE Distributed Web System, Bryan Thomas Meyers
Circular economy and system thinking framework in design; Food system design, Mehrafza Mirzazad Barijugh
KARMA: Design for Social Impact Toolkit, Vineet Mishra
A New Model-Free Sliding Mode Control Method with Estimation of Control Input Error, Raul Mittmann Reis
A Mathematical Formalization of Hierarchical Temporal Memory's Spatial Pooler for use in Machine Learning, James W. Mnatzaganian
Candelaria Hot Dog, Alexander Montoya
Live-Action and Animated Disney Films: An Analysis of Themes and Family Structures Over Time, Meghan Moran
Limitation of Invasive Plant Colonization by Native Shrubs During Forested Wetland Restoration, Kaitlyn E. Moranz
Re-thinking the Urban Form of Social Housing in Brazil: A Search for Urban Sustainability, Lis Moreira Cavalcante
Discovery, Cloning, Expression, Purification, and Characterization of Phosphoglycolate Phosphatase from Staphylococcus aureus, Isreal Moreno
Thesis Inquiry & Process: Something About Reality, Blayke Mackenzie Morrow
Knowledge-based Decision Making for Simulating Cyber Attack Behaviors, Stephen Frank Moskal
A Search Engine for Finding and Reusing Architecturally Significant Code, Ibrahim Jameel Mujhid
Cyclotomic Polynomials in Ring-LWE Homomorphic Encryption Schemes, Tamalika Mukherjee
Optical Flow and Deep Learning Based Approach to Visual Odometry, Peter M. Muller
Augmentation of Experimental Design Using Statistical Power, Anil Nair
Short-Term Retention of Location-Identity Bindings for Complex Objects, Alexander Nalbandian
Electrical Double Layer Potential Distribution in Nanoporous Electrodes from Molecular Modeling and Classical Electrodynamics Analysis, Evan Marshall Ney
A New Algorithm for Computing the Square Root of a Matrix, John Nichols
Propagation of Sensor Noise in Navigation Equations and High Accuracy Dynamic Calibration of Sensors, Timothy A. Nichols
Oral Hygiene System Design, Jianlin Nie
Fusion of Mini-Deep Nets, Sai Prasad Nooka
Implicating E. coli PAL in the pathogenesis of Gram-Negative sepsis, Bethany R. Novick
Dilemma, Yeliz Okdem Ates
Image Description using Deep Neural Networks, Ram Manohar Oruganti
