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 2009
Motive and responsibility as influences on graphic design outcomes, Jackie Clements
The Music of art, Chad L. Cleveland
Effect of the internet on reading fiction books for enjoyment and potential interest in the integration of the two media, Jessica S. Cole
Temporal Awareness and Rhythmic Performance, Daniel J. Colombo
Sustainable intermodal freight transportation: applying the geospatial intermodal freight transport model, Bryan Comer
BioMeRSA: The Biology media repository with semantic augmentation, Adam Cornwell
Cosentinoworks, Daniel Cosentino
Improving Dodgson scoring techniques, Jason A. Covey
The fair information principles: a comparison of U.S. and Canadian Privacy Policy as applied to the private sector, Shane Crounse
Modeling the environmental impact of demand variability upon supply chains in the beverage industry, Jorge Y. Daccarett-Garcia
Big-screen aftershock: How 9/11 changed Hollywood’s Middle Eastern characters, Matthew Dana
A system study of sparse aperture sensors in remote sensing applications with explicit phase retrieval, Brian Daniel
Adolescent technology usage during sleep-time: does it influence their quality of sleep, attention difficulties and academic performance?, Kristin Dehmler
VHF-UHF passive filter synthesis based on acoustic resonator structures, Melissa Sefton Dempsey
Smooth flexible models of nonhomogeneous Poisson processes fit to one or more process realizations, Shalaka C. Deo
Sleep Shift, Neal Dhand
Sliding mode control applied to an underactuated fuel cell system, Daniel C. DiFiore
Fabrication of Nickel Nanodots for Application in Memory Devices, Karishma Diwan
Mathematical methods for anomaly grouping in hyperspectral images, Timothy J. Doster
Material selection for the actuator design for a biomimetic rolling robot conducive to miniaturization, Zachary S. Dotson
Mobile web resource tracking during a disaster or crisis situation, Phavanhna Douangboupha
The effect of new media on political advertising: television ads and internet ads in the 2008 presidential primary, William Dube
Recognition of human interactions using limb-level feature points, Michael David Dudley
Use of wireless sensors to improve robot lifetime for multi-threat containment, Michael D. Ellis
Implementing lean manufacturing into newspaper production operations, Marianne Engum
Scalable framework for heterogeneous clustering of commodity FPGAs, Jeremy K. Espenshade
Reactive exploration with self-reconfigurable systems, Eric Fabricant
Colors of the music, Meng-Tieh Fang
Propellant tank pressurization modeling for a hybrid rocket, Margaret Mary Fernandez
Determination of 3-dimensional deformations of the alveolar sac during simulated breathing, Joseph M. Ferrara
A New covert channel over RTP, Christopher Forbes
The Remains of the day, David Fox
VHDL modeling and synthesis of the JPEG-XR inverse transform, Peter Frandina
Preferred color correction for mixed taking-illuminant placement and cropping, Erin P. Fredericks
Assessment of K-12 educators’ awareness and need for online self-publishing services in the classroom, Vincent J. Gargiulo
The Potential impact of riparian buffer zones on sediment and phosphorus loading in two Canandaigua Lake subwatersheds, Valerie George
Shear Stress Distribution and Hemolysis Measurements in a Centrifugal Blood Pump, Matthew Nicholson Giarra
"Do you hear what I hear", Zachary Giles
Feasibility assessment of a Kalman filter approach to fault detection and fault-tolerance in a highly unstable system: The RIT heart pump, Erin Gillespie
Optimizing scalar multiplication for koblitz curves using hybrid FPGAs, Gregory Głuszek
Intelligent deployment strategies for passive underwater sensor networks, Erik Golen
Control of a magnetically levitated ventricular assist device, Arnold David Gomez
Understanding malware autostart techniques with web data extraction, Matthew Gottlieb
Design and implementation of a computational cluster for high performance design and modeling of integrated circuits, Charles J. Gruener
Development of a novel method for autonomous navigation and landing of unmanned aerial vehicles, David Grymin
Automated 3D object modeling from aerial video imagery, Prudhvi K. Gurram
Coping with relational aggression: a qualitative study, Rebecca M. Haderer
Characterization of mass transport processes to enable PEM fuel cell start-up from low temperatures, Daniel I. Harris
GPU acceleration of object classification algorithms using NVIDIA CUDA, Jesse Patrick Harvey
Hierarchical task allocation in robotic exploration, John Hawley
The potential for misleading visual communication on food packaging, Terry Ann Hayes
Computer 30 Models of Pulmonary Epithelium and Endothelium Cross Sections and Alveoli Across a Septum, Valerie Henry
A Bayesian approach to identfication of gaseous effluents in passive LWIR imagery, Shawn Higbee
Competency requirements of managers in hotels in Jamaica: The Implications of soft skills, Sharmon Hinds-Smith
Graduation Day, Isaac Holze
The Predictive utility of the model of multiple identity tracking in air traffic control performance, Ryan Hope
Testability of a swarm robot using a system of systems approach and discrete event simulation, Matthew R. Hosking
Semi-automated techniques for the retrieval of dermatological condition in color skin images, Ranxi Huang
Foufou: using multimedia to promote a new product and establish a brand identity online, Yu-Chang Huang
Apparent Horizons of N Black Holes and Black Hole Rings, Gabriela Jaramillo
A Vital environment, Taesung Jeng
Analysis of a new modulation/ multiplexing technique using mutually orthogonal chaotic waveforms, Chaitanya Jidge
What surfaces from one, Danielle Johns
Anisotropic acid catalyst displacement in a chemically amplified photoresist via application of an electric field, Ward A. Johnson
In memory of trauma, Amber Johnston
Designing for digital: skill sets needed to design for variable data, Jessica Jordan
Securing location discovery in wireless sensor networks, Wisam F. Kadhim
Design for Assembly Line Performance: The Link Between DFA Metrics and Assembly Line Performance Metrics, Krishna Kamath
Implementation of functional safety in a robotic manufacturing cell using iec 61508 standard and siemens technology, Darshana M. Kamtekar
Heart frontal section and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Robin Kang
The Seven prerequisites for life, Jon Karafin
A Study using a high-addressability Inkjet Proofer to produce amhalftone p roofs matching Kodak approval in color, screening, and subject moiré, Arvind S. Karthikeyan
Applications of Continued Fractions in Cryptography and Diophantine Equations, Aaron H. Kaufer
Direct occlusion handling for high level image processing algorithms, Carl Ryan Kelso
Adverse advertising: the impact advertisements have on webpage content retention, David P. Keppel
Recognition of human activities and expressions in video sequences using shape context descriptor, Natasha Prashant Kholgade
Chasing the moon, Yumi Kim
The relationship between hotel managers’ communication styles and subordinate employee attitudes and personal relationships, Tess Kittelberger
A Precise analysis of a class e amplifier, Brett Klehn
Scientific visualizations, Nick Kochakian
Synthesis of 5-halo-3-methoxy-salicylaldiminato nickel catalysts and their use for ethylene polymerization in organic and aqueous media, Nikhil Avinash Kolhatkar
Eating the allegory, Nicola Kountoupes
Eganwo: the graphic novel’s escape to digital media, Brian P. Kowalczyk
Gate-to-channel parasitic capacitance minimization and source-drain leakage evaluation in germanium PMOS, Raymond T. Krom
Face recognition with variation in pose angle using face graphs, Sooraj Kumar
Hyperspectral Clustering and Unmixing of Satellite Imagery for the Study of Complex Society State Formation, Justin Kwong
Cube attacks on cryptographic hash functions, Joel Lathrop
Longshi, Pei-Cheng Lee
Monitoring Reading Fluency Progress with the Use of Graphs, Emily Lewandowski
TelosRFID an ad-hoc wireless networking capable multi-protocol RFID reader system, Michael P. Lewis
Towards virtual machine integrity using introspection, Sammy Lin
The Lantern, Ting Liu
Computational analysis of ultraviolet reactors, Xiang Li
Chascript: A Chinese interactive typographic drawing application, Yiyi Lu
Applying the function and aesthetics of structure to furniture, Soohyun Lyu
