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 2007
Cosmetic surgery & reality television: the relationship between college students' viewing of cosmetic surgery on reality television and self-reported attitudes toward cosmetic surgery, Elizabeth Reeves O'Connor
A generalization of the Birkhoff-von Neumann theorem, Nathan Reff
Reading First Teachers' Knowledge of English Phonology and Attitudes toward Reading Instruction, Courtney Richmond
Student's perception of school climate, Jodi L. Roberts
Integrating a universal query mechanism into java, Aaron Robinson
Fin to feather, Rebecca L. Rogers
A Caza de Dientes (Hunting For Teeth), Erick Rohn
Global character of the solutions of rational difference, Halyna Romanyuk
In tension, Alicia Ross
Energy- and Area-Efficient DC-DC Converters Fabricated in Low Temperature Crystalline Silicon-on-Glass Technology, Hans Christian Rotmann
The Future of Culinary Arts Education, Jamie C. Rotter
Complexity of control of Borda count elections, Nathan Russell
On the applicability of random mobility models for swarm robot movements, Siddharth Sail
Agent Based Supply Chain Architecture For Modern Supply Chain Management, Vilesh S. Salunkhe
Investigating the effects of an on-chip pre-classifier on wireless ECG monitoring, Alexandru Samachisa
The analysis of potential space tourism market, Sandra Sankovic
An image processing technique for the improvement of Sign2 using a dual camera approach, Kanthi Sarella
Dynamic inversion of underactuated systems via squaring transformation matrix, Ryan Schkoda
The other mother: an artist's conception, Dean Schmiedel
School Psychologists' Perceived and Ideal Role in Grade Retention Decisions, Sean P. Scott
The synthesis and characterization of a novel single source beta-barium borate precursor barium (18-crown-6) dimesitylborinate, Travis M. Scott
An Alternative to the "screen baby sitter" for preschoolers, Soo Min Seo
Preternatural Fauna, Stephen J. Shachtman
Extraction of text regions in natural images, Sneha Sharma
Willingness to pay for a clear night sky: use of the contingent valuation method, Stephanie N. Simpson
A comparison of material preferences by chocolatiers and consumers, Jillian Sinclair
Optimization of a new digital image compression algorithm based on nonlinear dynamical systems, Anurag R. Sinha
Mechanical fatigue in a magnetically levitated axial blood pump, Amy Slevar
Timeless, Christopher E. Smith
GPSense: an algorithmic framework for intelligent sensing at node level in WSN, Soujanya Soni
Synchronicities 4:4, Emily M. Sperry
Enterprise network convergence: path to cost optimization, Vidhumana Sridharan
Retail refreshed, Marta Stanuszek
Ambivalence & Hope, Jeremy C. Stipano
Methodology and optimizing of multiple frame format buffering within FPGA H.264/AVC decoder with FRExt., Timothy Aaron Stotts
Remedies, Cassandra Straubing
Analyzing Metallic Gloss Using a Micro-Goniophotometer, Saara Suni
Changes in media mix for leading national advertisers (2003 - 2005), Matthew Swain
Exploring Visual Expressions to Articulate Thoughts on Human Existence, Mieko Tachibana
Computational aspects of voting: a literature survey, Fatima Talib
A reverse engineering process for mechanical engineering systems, Frank Tamarez-Gomez
GardenScapes: a harmonious approach to 3D art, Charmie Tate
Recall and comprehension of signs by high school ASL students:A Study of two movie formats for an online lexical database, Maria Tedeschi
Situational awareness in the marine towing industry, Boris Towns
Emphasizing the user in the usability study: Investigating activity theory and website navigation, Heidi Trost
JACK, Han-Yi Tseng
Online cake instructor, Jen-Chun Tseng
Online Structure, Parameter, and Utility Updating of Bayesian Decision Networks for Cooperative Decision-Theoretic Agents, Iheanyi Umez-Eronini
Print productivity: a system dynamics approach, Jorge Uribe
Fundamentals of the network neutrality debates, Tayfun Uslu
Katrina and the Federal Emergency Management Agency: A Case Study in Organizational Failure, Elaine Van Patten
Case study: Enhancing the customers product experience through package revision, Keith J. Vent
Environmental Health & Safety Management in the Wake of Sarbanes-Oxley: A Focus on the Benchmark Alcohol Beverage Industry, Diana V. Vesosky
Modeling wildland fire radiance in synthetic remote sensing scenes, Zhen Wang
Exploration of a hybrid locomotion robot, Jeffrey Webb
Beetle Blasphemy, Ferris Webby
Imaginary spaces, Daniel J. Weisbard
Quantitative analysis of infrared contrast enhancement algorithms, Seth Weith-Glushko
The Impact of variable data print on usability in design, William Wells
Live Load Stack Testing of Corrugated Shipping Containers Filled with 12 HDPE Quart Oil Bottles, Christopher Wemett
How EHS managers can influence environmental excellence within their organization, Joseph Whitaker
IEEE Compliant Double-Precision FPU and 64-bit ALU with Variable Latency Integer Divider, Ryan D. Williams
Finding Yosemite: a reflection on conservation, Jennifer Witkowski
Economic and environmental impacts of collecting waste cooking oil for use as biodiesel under a localized strategy, Christopher R. Wood
Biologically-Inspired Translation, Scale, and rotation invariant object recognition models, Myung Woo
Conservation of the BRCA1 gene, Matthew Gary Wronkowski
Genetic algorithm optimization applied to planar and wire antennas, Andrea Wyant
Turing instabilities in a S-I-R model, Hye Yon Yi
Source localization within a uniform circular sensor array, Danny Zhu
Rook polynomials for chessboards of two and three dimensions, Benjamin Zindle
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Hindsight: The Moving image and the post-photographic, John Aäsp
Dynamics and control of Tethered Satellite System, Royce L. Abel
Chemistry at the Cu-fluoropolymer Interface: Relevance to Adhesion, Daliana Gava Abreu
A comparison of web development technologies: WebObjects vs. ASP.NET, Adnan Al-Ghourabi
Tool for the identification of differentially expressed genes using a user-defined threshold, Renikko Alleyne
Polynomial time primality testing algorithm, Takeshi Aoyama
Development of deep submicron CMOS process for fabrication of high performance 0.25 nm transistors, Michael Aquilino
Sweet! Cartoons and contemporary painting, Sarah Atlee
Synthesis and Characterization of Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate (KDP) Nanocomposites., Mufadal Ayubali-Mohamedali
Molecular viewer using Spiegel, Pavani Baddepudi
Design and development of a radiation hardened color video sensor charge injection device chip, Denis A. Baiko
Graph reconstruction numbers, Jennifer Baldwin
On Chromatic Polynomial and Ordinomial, Amir Barghi
The Satisfaction of Unexpected Discoveries, Kirsten Bassion
Genetic music, Ryan Becker
Managing the ACM programming contest, Navin Bhaskar
MFS: M2MI file system, Ravi Bhatia
Security aspects in voice over IP systems, Gokul Bhupathiraju
Redefining the responsibility of pre-press file management within graphic design: How printing technology impacts our design development, Meredith A. Bielaska
Modeling holographic grating imaging systems using the angular spectrum propagation method, Thomas Blasiak
Local norms for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, Kecia A. Boncek
Tuple board: a new distributed computing paradigm for mobile ad hoc networks, Chaithanya Bondada
A study of producing smoother gradients in the flexographic process on oriented polypropylene with UV ink by varying screening techniques, gradient lengths and the surrounding, Wimonrat Boonprasit
