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 2014
Evaluation of MOSFETs for Terahertz Detector Arrays, Gregory J. Fertig
Glint Avoidance and Removal in the Maritime Environment, Colin M. Fink
The Undertow, Rachel Foley
At A Rate of Speed, Justin Fondrie
Perceptual Modeling and Reproduction of Gloss, Adria Fores Herranz
Waste Cooking Oil-to-Biodiesel Conversion for Institutional Vehicular Applications, David Elliot Frank
Implementation of Cross-training for Multi-shift Worker Allocation, Aditya Gandhi
3D Illustration of Environments from the Chinese Legend "The Journey To The West", Fei Gao
Surface Treatments to Reduce Leakage Current in Homojunction In0:53Ga0:47As PIN Diodes for TFET Applications, Abhinav Gaur
Digital Chaos: Exploring Relationships Between Technological Advancement and Visual Experience, Kevin Giaquinto
Design for Slow Living, Siyang Gong
Raine Azure, Lucas Gonzalez
Unmentionable: Socio-Structural Discrimination of Incontinence; Engendering Dignity by Design, Brendan Charles Gordon
Experimental Performance Study of a Lab-Scale Hydrokite System, Shriya Gosavi
The Homeless Bird: A Motion Graphics Narrative About Deforestation and Animals., Kyle Griffin
Kinesthetic Empathy, Danielle Haendiges
Voxel-Based LIDAR Analysis and Applications, Shea T. Hagstrom
Mr. Perfect, Ruosi Han
Mood Watcher: Interactive Visual Guide to Increasing Awareness of Mood Disorders, Ziyan Han
Alive, Heran Hao
Supervised Material Classification in Oblique Aerial Imagery Using Gabor Filter Features, Michael L. Harris
Optimal strategies for sustainable household organic material management in the city of Rochester, NY, Joseph Cameron Hebda
Traversing Truth and Decay, Zak Helenske
Impact of an Academic Success Class on Probationary Students, Nathan Hendrickson
Metacognition and Decision-Making Style in Clinical Narratives, Limor Hochberg
Tidy Guide – A Beginner’s Guide to an Organized Home, Katie Hollenbeck
The Export Potential of Kosovo's Natural Resources and their Impact on the Kosovo Economy, Arif Hoti
When the Distance Is Too Much, Nicholas Hruby
Wing Chun: Introducing Basic Wing Chun Kung Fu Using Instructional Multimedia, Li Han Huang
Live in the Moment: The Essence of Life, Ta-Wen Huang
Cross Media Communication Planning for Small Businesses, Rockie A. Hunter
Magical Landscape, Eunoh Hur
MINUS 25 Betty Tyson, Taunja Isaac
Pool Boiling Enhancement Through Improved Liquid Supply Pathways Over Open Microchannels, Arvind Jaikumar
The Use of Visual Metaphors in Print Advertisements, Lisa M. Janos
Silicon Doping Profile Measurement Using Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy, Chih-Yu Jen
Printing Standards: A 2010 Survey Report, Søren Tapdrup Jensen
About Me, Wenyao Jia
Omnidirectional Control of the Hexapod Robot TigerBug, Christopher B. Johnson
Bandwidth Requirements of GPU Architectures, Benjamin C. Johnstone
A Portrayal of Biomechanics in Avian Flight, Kelly M. Kage
Toy Library: Nurturing Talent-Learning Through Play, Prachi Kapadia
Blast-Off: Determining glioblastoma GOI sequence conservation across model organisms, Joseph K. Kaplan
Investigating the interaction between positions and signals of height-channel loudspeakers in reproducing immersive 3d sound, Antonios Karampourniotis
Design and Cryptanalysis of a Customizable Authenticated Encryption Algorithm, Matthew Joseph Kelly
Robust Quasi-LPV Controller Design via Integral Quadratic Constraint Analysis, James C. Kempsell Jr.
Drowsy Cache Partitioning for Multithreaded Systems and High Level Caches, Samantha Rose Kenyon
Meaningful Objects Through Process-Oriented Form Research, Heechan Kim
MOOKKOORI, Myungsuk Kim
Capturing the Effects of Public Opinion Polls on Voter Support in the NY 25th Congressional Election, Heather Knappen
Assembling 3D Objects with Artificial Spatial Intelligence, Eugene Koon
Development of SRADE tool and analysis of quality scores of the reads of Next-Generation Sequencing data, Chaitanya Krishna Kotha
Computational Investigation of Potential Failure Modes in Arterial Hemodynamic Flowpath, Praveen Kumar Koya
Effect of Herbivory on the Growth and Competitive Ability of Reed Canary Grass (Phalaris arundinacea), Lisa A. Kratzer
Gesture Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models Augmented with Active Difference Signatures, Himanshu Kumar
A Brain Computer Interface for Interactive and Intelligent Image Search and Retrieval, Shitij P. Kumar
Immigration Restriction Then, Immigration Restriction Now; The Politics of IQ, Alexandra L. Kummerow
Mapping of Memories, Yoonjee Kwak
Watt Community Rowing Center High-Performance Athletes Yield High-Performance Architecture, Allison Marie LaChance
An Atrial Activity Based Algorithm for the Single-Beat Rate-Independent Detection of Atrial Fibrillation, Steven J. Ladavich Jr.
Kosovo’s Verification Procedure for Diplomas issued by Private Providers of Higher Education, Mirushe Dalipi Latifaj
Investigating Digital Publishing Trends Within the Consumer Magazine Industry, Sarah E. Lawrence
Nowhere: A kinetic typography motion graphic about the pursuit of happiness, I-Cheng Lee
Reflections, Sooja Lee
The Development of a Performance Assessment Methodology for Activity Based Intelligence: A Study of Spatial, Temporal, and Multimodal Considerations, Christian M. Lewis
Characterization of the Ren4 resistance locus through the integration of de novo assembly, expression analysis, and Genotyping-by-Sequencing data, Jacquelyn A. Lillis
Probability of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Commercialization as a result of Participating in the Navy's Transition Assistance Program, Erick W. Littleford
X, Xiaoyu Liu
Over Bed Table Service System Design Aging design practice through research in a nursing home, Yu Liu
Unbalanced Workload Allocation in Large Assembly Lines., Christian E. Lopez
Analysis of KECCAK Tree Hashing on GPU Architectures, Jason Michael Lowden
An Extension of the Hull White Model for Interest Rate Modeling, Xiao Lu
More Than a Library: An Outline for an Integrated Marketing Communications Campaign, Erica MacArthur
Dictionary Attacks and Password Selection, Tarun Madiraju
Aligning Carbon Fibers in Micro-Extruded Composite Ink, Chaitanya G. Mahajan
Compensation of Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Image Field Edge Effects Through Optical Proximity Correction, Chris Maloney
TravelMacedonia: A Solution for the Discovery of Macedonia as a Place of Travel, Violeta Mangovski
Reliable and Fault-Resilient Schemes for Efficient Radix-4 Complex Division, Niranjan Manoharan
Plastic Glory, Ihab Mardini
Progress in Energy Storage Technologies: Models and Methods for Policy Analysis, Schuyler W. Matteson
Variability in the phenolic content of invasive and non-invasive emergent wetland plants, Melissa M. Maurer
Statistical Methods for Signal Processing with Application to Automatic Accent Recognition, Zichen Ma
Software/Hardware Tradeoffs in the Speedup of Color Image Processing Algorithms, James P. Mazza
re÷belief, Raymond McCarthy Bergeron
The LifePump: A Strategy for Introducing Affordable Clean Water to the Developing World, Kristin McGeorge
Parts of a Whole, Hsiang-Lu Meng
Analysis of the Correlation Between Media Consumption Behavior and Cultural Adaptation of International Students in the United States, Solange M. Mercedes Checo
Temperature Evaluation of NoC Architectures and Dynamically Reconfigurable NoC, Aniket Dilip Mhatre
Pattern Repeat, Brendan Miller
Studies Toward the Synthesis of a Novel Diastereomerically Pure Cyclopropyl N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligand for Asymmetric Catalysis, Brandon T. Milliken
Color Managing for Papers Containing Optical Brightening Agents, R. Scott Millward
Accelerated Object Tracking with Local Binary Features, Breton Lawrence Minnehan
Le Couple, Junran Mo
Recovering the History of Graphic Design: The Voice & Vision of Elaine Lustig Cohen, Megan Moltrup
The Moment, Ho Moon
Modern Islamic Motif Design: Developing New Arabesque Motifs by Mixing Styles, Shuruq Nahhas
