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.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
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
Technological, Policy, and Organizational Issues in the Response to Biological Emergency Incidents in the US Food Supply, Kristina J. Owens
Viscoelastic Characterization and Effective Damping of a Carbon/Polyurethane Laminate, Niren Pallegonde Kumar
A Thermosiphon Loop for High Heat Flux Removal using Flow Boiling of Ethanol in Open Microchannel Manifold (OMM) with Taper, Sanskar S. Panse
Factors Affecting the Adoption of Production Digital Printing Technologies by Commercial Printers in India, Akshat Pardiwala
Implementing Partial Blind Estimation of Alamouti Space-Time Coding in Software-Defined Radios, Sai Gautham Peesapati
Validating the Operating Window Concept for Robustness on a Circuit Board Stencil Printing Process, Wagner Pereira Romito
Rectangle Visibility Numbers of Graphs, Eric Peterson
Innovation Mining: A framework for identifying components worth innovating in a system, Srikanth Peyyeti
Relationship Between Velocity of Contraction and Force Applied On Air Muscles, Aniruddha Sudhir Phatak
Regulating the Violent Past: Methods in Dark Tourism, Jean Pietrowski
How the Academy Awards Influence Audience Perception of a Film, Zoilo Pimentel
Moovy: Sensorial Communication Device, Mariana Pinheiro
Effect of Substrates in the Resistivity and Adhesion of Copper Nanoparticle Ink, Pritam Poddar
Rolling Horizon Workforce Schedule to Assign Workers to Tasks in a Learning/Forgetting Environment, Bhanu Krishna Potluri
Asset Protection in Escorting using Multi-Robot Systems, Stephen Powers
WeMingle - Meet-ups Simplified, Amith Rajagopal Kozhipuram
Tensor decomposition of multi-channel wearable sensors for Parkinson’s disease assessment, Vignesh Ramji
Icosatree Data Partitioning of Massive Geospatial Point Clouds with User-Selectable Entities and Surface Modeling, Stephen Walter Ranger
Blush: An Exploration of Empathetic Cultivation Through Technological Devices, Jordan Reading
