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 2012
Color charm: Interactive color theory & color reflection, Chia-Huei Yen
Three-dimensional quantification and visualization of vascular networks in engineered tissues, Mohammed Yousefhussien
The Blanket: Play for social and creative development, Monica Zagarra
An Approach to detecting crowd anomalies for entrance and checkpoint security, Holly Zelnio
Verifying the conformance of CMY offset inks to ISO 2846 by means of a graduated gage, Enqi Zhang
The Current state of paying for digital news content, Haizhen Zhang
Changes in reading behavior among ereader adopters, Lingya Zhang
Hey! Beijing: China Special Series: Promoting the Internet Travel Program of Beijing with Motion Graphics, Pengxiao Zhao
An Investigation of ink usage in offset process printing, Jiayi Zhou
Pablo & The Artists: a mobile game for art education, Yixiong Zhou
Virtualization and shared Infrastructure data storage for IT in Kosovo institutions, Gani Zogaj
Using GIS databases to simulate night light imagery, Joshua Zollweg
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Modeling the capacitive behavior of coplanar striplines and coplanar waveguides using simple functions, Jeffrey Abbott
Narrative drawers: Reconsidering familiar precedents of drawer furniture, David Adams
Real-time data acquisition, transmission and archival framework, Piyush Agarwal
Spectacles, Molly Agnew
Effects of group apology and reparation after breach of psychological contract, Anthony Alongi
Fabrication and life cycle assessment of organic photovoltaics, Annick Anctil
Security of the SHA-3 candidates Keccak and Blue Midnight Wish: Zero-sum property, Liliya Andreicheva
Dynamical processes near the super massive black hole at the galactic center, Fabio Antonini
Lasing behavior of an active NIM-PIM directional coupler, Riffat Ara
Factors that contribute to success of probationers: Probation officers’ point of view, Brittany Archambeau
Optical-pulse generation and compression using a comb-driven gain-switched laser diode and chromatic-dispersion compensator, Sumeeta Arora
A Comparative Study For Cold Chain Packaging Options., Pooja Ashokan
Immanent beauty, Jenamarie Bacot
Unhinged, Gayane Bagdasaryan
Scapes, Masa Bajc
Effect of temperature on the in-plane permeability of the gas diffusion layer of a PEM fuel cell, Rupak Banerjee
Computing Hilbert Functions using the Syzygy and LCM-lattice methods, Maria Barouti
Development of a deep submicron fabrication process for tunneling field effect transistors, Michael Barth
Parathyroid hormone and cell signaling in bone remodeling, Christina Battista
Combating counterfeit goods entering Kosovo : [presentation given on November 16, 2011], Zana Batusha
An Analysis of open security issues of Android interfaces to cloud computing platforms, Corey Beres
Illustrative neighborhood redevelopment, Bradley Bethel
An assessment of road traffic safety in Kosovo : {presentation given on September 6, 2011], Mentor Bislimi
TangiPaint: Interactive tangible media, Anthony Blatner
Analog integrated circuit design in ultra-thin oxide CMOS technologies with significant direct tunneling-induced gate current, Eric Bohannon
Are American women turning to reusable and greener menstrual products due to health and environmental pollution concerns?, Ann Borowski
Distance metric learning for medical image registration, Zois Boukouvalas
Personalized print in Europe, Jeanette Bredsten
The Hyper-log-chromaticity space for illuminant invariance, Samuel Brisebois
Presettlement Forest Composition in the Connecticut Tract of Western New York, Evelyn Brister
Turing instability in discrete replicator systems, Alex Bryce
Service level agreements and virtual machines, Jordan Caminiti
Inventory 03 21 -06 20, Maria Casanovas
An Analysis of flow-based routing, Jennifer Casella
An Analysis of VP8, a new video codec for the web, Sean Cassidy
Application of non-invasive flow measurement techniques for quantitative analysis of a biomedical device, Amit Chainani
Beauty of Taiwan, Yu-Chung Chang
Reproducing wooden and marble patterns using multi-channel ICC profile, Saurabh Chaturvedi
Burning bright, Mei-Yu Chen
The Twelve animals: An Interactive guide to the Chinese zodiac signs, Yanzi Chen
New amusement rides: Platforms for parents and children to share fun, Ming Chiang
Sola in nature, YeonHee Choi
An Investigation of facial rigging for animation, Patrick Clarke
The Specter of nature, Stephanie Clark
Representation and recruitment: A Three-part analysis of the police hiring process within New York state, Michelle Comeau
Experimental study of pool boiling heat transfer enhancement over microchanneled surfaces, Dwight Cooke
Reading on the internet: The Presentation of online news articles and its relationship to reader’s recall and comprehension, Kristen Curtze
Evaluation of water transport in PEMFC gas diffusion layers using image analysis, Michael Daino
Parallel implementation of maximum parsimony search algorithm on multicore CPUs, Andrew Darling
Efficient collision resolution protocol for highly populated wireless networks, Ruslan Dautov
Spherical distance metrics applied to protein structure classification, James DeFelice
Consumers' self-image response to gender portrayal in advertising images, Rebecca Delaney
Opportunities to Foreign Investment in Kosovo : [presentation given on September 6, 2011], Sytrime Dervisholli
Towards integrating chalcogenide based phase change memory with silicon microelectronics, Archana Devasia
Determining a relationship between design characteristics and the end-of-life disposition of cellular phones, Ashley DeVierno
Error sentinel: A Rule-based spreadsheet program for intelligent data entry, error correction, and curation, Kyle Dewey
Vaccine wastage reduction in immunization sessions through vaccine vial size optimization, Aswin Dhamodharan
Numerical investigation of fluid flow and heat transfer effects in minichannels and microchannels under h2 boundary condition, Viral Dharaiya
Distribution patterns of river otters, Lontra canadensis, within Monroe County, New York, Darren Doherty
Studies toward the total synthesis of Trocheliophorolide A, Stephanie Dorn
Project TIPS: A Review of Rochester's law enforcement-community collaborative, Gregory Drake
Markov chain Monte Carlo on the GPU, Michael Dumont
Photon manipulation in silicon nanophotonic circuits, Ali Elshaari
Page layout analysis and classification in complex scanned documents, Mustafa Erkilinc
Electro-optic adaptive microlens, Dale Ewbank
Automatic registration of multi-modal airborne imagery, Xiaofeng Fan
Towards a human centered economy, Joseph Featherall
iRead: An Application for enhanced reader navigation on e-reading tablet devices, Sarah Fedigan
Real-time software electric guitar audio transcription, Xander Fiss
Sans entre nous, Nancy Flemm
An Analysis of multimodal sensor fusion for target detection in an urban environment, Brian M. Flusche
Athletes who tweet: Differences in audience perceived credibility between journalists and athlete's twitter accounts, Christine Foster
Zappers and zingers, Adam Francey
A Thermoelectric generation subsystem model for heat recovery simulations, Andrew Freedman
Feasibility of a non-invasive wireless blood glucose monitor, Benjamin Freer
Correlating IPv6 addresses for network situational awareness, Jason Froehlich
Kikimasu (Listen), Andrew Frueh
The Vehicle routing problem with a volunteer workforce, Leonardo Gala
An Analysis of the factors influencing paper selection for books of reproduced fine art, Brian Gamm
Kosovo Security Force Post 2012 / [presentation given on May 17, 2011], Sinan Geci
Freight transportation and the environment: Using geographic information systems to inform goods movement policy, Arindam Ghosh
Tractatus, Rodrigo Gonzalo Encinar
