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
The Effect of the Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies curriculum on internalizing symptoms in both a maltreated and non-maltreated sample, Elizabeth Raynor
Stirrings: Interactive tableware, Lorianne Resch
Specimen, Mary Richardson
Analyzing the United States Department of Transportation’s implementation strategy for high speed rail: Three case studies, Ryan Robinson
Cross-enterprise access control security for electronic health records: Technical, practical and legislation impact, Mark Rodzinka
Developing a government guideline for drafting concept papers : [presentation given May 22, 2012), Leonora Rrahmani
Art recording art: Creating an interactive visual document of personal experience, Ben Rubin
Procedural development of the Kosovo`s Government Annual Work Plan, Arjeta Sahiti
Evolutionary star-structured heterogeneous data co-clustering, Amit Salunke
Arthritis – An Interactive study of common rheumatic diseases, Giovanna Santoni
Establishment of the Kosovo National Tourism Organization / [presentation given November 14, 2012], Nijazi Shala
A Silicon p-i-n detector for a hybrid CMOS imaging system, Christopher Shea
Self, John Shea
Design and Simulation of a Mechanical Hand, Yateen P. Shembade
Determination of Chromaticness Difference Tolerance of Offset Printing by Means of Simulation, Jing Sheng
A Regression-based Training Algorithm for Multilayer Neural Networks, Christopher W. Sherry
Simulated trading in a two-good economy on a network, Ke Shi
Logo station: A Personal logo design application on multi-touch tablet devices, Lan Shi
Discovering the role of SERPINE2 in COPD, Swati Shimpi
Hadoop-cc (collaborative caching) in real time HDFS, Meenakshi Shrivastava
Snakey love, Linlin Si
Temperature mapping study of United States distribution systems, Ken Silverman
The implementation of the civil service law and a future merit system : [presentation given February 29, 2012], Majlinde Sinani-Lulaj
Annual revenues from Kosovo's value added tax ; [presentation given on February 29, 2012], Diamanta Skenderi
Multisensor MEMS for temperature, relative humidity, and high-g shock monitoring, Daniel Smith
Power analysis attacks on the SHA-3 candidate Grøstl, Garrett Smith
Perceptually optimized real-time computer graphics, Jeffrey Smith
Hardware neuromorphic learning systems utilizing memristive devices, Michael Soltiz
The Relationship between cross-media usage and brand recall in advertisements: A Test of customer engagement with print and digital magazine advertisements, Gabriela Sosa Lamarche
Analysis of the environmental impact on remanufacturing wind turbines, Manuel Sosa Skrainka
High pressure coolant effect on PVD coated inserts during end milling of Ti-6AL-4V, Arvind Sridharan
Electromechanical actuator bearing fault detection using empirically extracted features, Rahulram Sridhar
Bruce, the multi-function robot, Terence Stewart
A computational study of the effects of adherent leukocytes on secondary recruitment, Dhananjay Subramaniam
Design of a terrain detection system for foot drop, Christopher Sullivan
Gender equality in Kosovo's uniformed services : [presentation given August 24, 2012], Arbenita Sylejmani
A Feasibility assessment of a new navigation system for unmanned underwater vehicles with adaptive gain sliding mode differentiation, Steven Szklany
Environmental science in middle school curricula: A Pilot project in the Dominican Republic, Laura Tejeda
On Representations of integers by the quadratic form x2 − Dy2, Christopher Thomas
Skirr, Melissa Tierney
Man : Woman : Human, Maressa Tosto Merwarth
Macroinvertebrates online, Caitlin Treuting
A Visualization of a new conceptual sustainable building using green materials, Tzu-Fang Tseng
My direct reports: Office toys for young adults., YungLin Tsun
Visualizing actin regulatory proteins & the mechanoelectrical Ion channel in inner ear stereocilia, Chih-Tao Tu
Remanufacturing: the Game, Karli Tucker
Classroom habitat: Natural system of movement, Sandra Turner
Investigation of digital printing variation in a production environment, Pierre Urbain
Tech service, John Valenti
Consumer perception of inkjet printed textiles, Arianna Valentini
Two and three dimensional segmentation of multimodal imagery, Sreenath Rao Vantaram
Remnants: Within an age of digitalism, Marchelo Vera
Adaptive code division multiple access protocol for wireless network-on-chip architectures, Vineeth Vijayakumaran
Flow analysis based on role and pattern matching, Pooja Wagh
A Benchmarking assessment of known visual cryptography algorithms, Disa Walden
The Effect of interruptions on prospective memory in the emergency department, Kate Walders
What is good enough for mobile system evaluation: A Comparison of laboratory and field setting, Yao Wang
Evaluation of the press calibration methods by simulation, Yi Wang
Web-based single sign-on: an examination of security and usability, Samuel Waters
Factors contributing to the success of commercial printers, Diana Watkins
Block-scoped access restriction technique for HTML content in web browsers, Timothy Watt
Mitochondrial haplotype variation in Lake sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens (Rafinesque, 1817), of the Great Lakes Basin, Michelle Lynne Weatherell
A Study of the use of SIMD instructions for two image processing algorithms, Eric Welch
Investing in renovation and management of Kosovo’s cadastral database / [presentation given November 14, 2012], Mentor Xhemajli
Dream: A Short 3D surrealistic animation, Liwei Xia
Scanning evanescent wave lithography for sub-22nm generations, Peng Xie
The Interaction between an omnivorous mud snail and bloom-forming macroalgae is context-dependent in shallow estuaries, Charles Yarrington
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
