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.
To browse dissertations and theses by academic department or program, please go to the Colleges and Departments page.
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Power distribution design for high-density packages, Ghanshyam Nayak
Picasso: The use of network delay compensation to improve the response of a Tele-robotic application, Sara North
Images with meaning: a critical study of the Polish Poster Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology Archives and Special Collections, Kristin O'Loughlin
Understanding business consortium approaches to privacy: What does the Customer Profile Exchange Specification truly mean for personal privacy?, JoEllen Osburn
Precious, Amy O'Shaughnessy
Analysis of accident cost and comparison with available research, Michael Osterhaudt
Systems integration using Siemens' PC based automation technology, Adwait Palsule
An Investigation into the sources of vehicle tire noise, John Paoff
Dependence of VCO jitter on coupled noise, Harikrishna Parthasarathy
Photometric stability and subpixel sensitivity of a back-illuminated CCD, Albert Piterman
A Child's 1st Interactive Travel Guide: To Exploring the Culture of Western Europe, Julie Popken
Development of a travel web site on a corporate internet, Deborah Prosinski
Evaluation and optimal design of spectral sensitivities for digital color imaging, Shuxue Quan
Global dynamic E-marketplaces, and their role in the internet-based economy, Mehdi Rafi
Providing telecommunication to the tea plantations in Bangladesh, Anika Rahman
A Self regenerating diesel emissions particulate trap using a non-thermal plasma, Bryce Rampersad
Deep structures wet etched into lithium niobate using a physical mask, Andrew Randles
Packaging process: When should it occur, Paula Raney
Text and image, David Reed
A Demonstration in communication and task completion between two autonomous robots, Adam Renzi
Found sound: Music from non-traditional sourttce, Jonathan Rodgers
Simultaneous multithreading: Operating system perspective, Vyacheslav Rubinfine
Manifestations of a social addiction: forms of despair and desire, Jose Santisteban
Aisimam - An Artificial immune system based intelligent multiangent model, Srividhya Sathyanath
Efficient Utilization of Fine-Grained Parallelism using a microHeterogeneous Environment, William L. Scheidel
Information Technologies for the Healthcare Delivery System, Gary Scialdone
Reflection, Melissa Sciera
Automatic indoor/outdoor scene classification, Navid Serrano
Actuate, Tracy Shell
Friends, family, and fiction, Derica Sonnon
Intelligent life, Jeff Spoonhower
Optimal design of a 2.4 GHz CMOS low noise amplifier, Sharmila Sridharan
Heat transfer, pressure drop, and dissolved gas effect during flow boiling in microchannels, Mark Steinke
Vehicle simulations of fuel economy for an automatic transmission and a ratio limited continuously variable transmission, Hemant Suthar
Reconstructing the Boundary of a Web Document, James Sweet
True nature, Thawatpong Tangsajjapoj
Passive amplitude-modulated microwave backscatter modulation system, Aaron Thompson
Design verification of expansion joints using finite element, Khoi Trinh
Dynamic surface: An Extrapolation of biodesign, Aniket Vardhan
Mythological explorations, Christi Veitch
Study of aberrations of stepper lenses in-situ using phase shifting point diffraction interferometry, P. Venkataraman
The Assessment of language delays in preschoolers with the differential abilities scales, Tracey Walenta
Expressions of duality, Daniel White
Feasibility study of a permanently implanted prosthetic hand, Matt Williams
A Global sensitivity analysis of photochemical models used for predicting tropospheric ozone, Daniel Wimer
Support vector machines for image and electronic mail classification, Matthew Woitaszek
In between, Stephanie Wratten
See a new movie: Concepts of the future movie theater, TseHsin V. Yang
Effectiveness of OPC for systems integration in the process control information architecture, Philips Zachariah
A Parallel implementation of an mpeg-2 encoder using message-passing, Jennifer Zenner
Danny, George Zimmet
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Information sharing architecture using internet's XML and SOAP, Puskar Adhikari
Synchronous communication tools: Enabler for the deaf and/or hard-of-hearing colleagues, Yael Agriss
Hydroboration of 4-phenyl-1-butene with rhodium trichloride, a catalytic approach, Ahmad Al-Dheiby
Proof-of-concept: Three dimensional pipe surface reconstruction from 2D laser scanned image, Matthew Altman
Art, architecture and graphic design, Peter Amis
Familial dichotomy, Suzan Atesoglu
A Very low bit-rate speech recognition system, Matthew Baecher
Part one: Pitch, problems and process; Part two: Chasing a relationship, Russell Baron
Design for public service, Cristine Beckley
Career decision making in learning disabled/ gifted high school students, Kristin Belknap
The Effect of software requirements analysis on project success and product quality, Vera Berenbaum
Dynamic torsional modeling and analysis of a fluid mixer, Joel Berg
Bearing distribution packs of the pharmaceutical products in dynamic lab and in the real distribution environment, Ivan Berljak
"New work", Joe Bialkowsky
The Impact of visual syntax on reading comprehension, Rebecca Biddle
Modeling of plume dispersion and interaction with the surround of synthetic imaging applications, Jonathan Bishop
Kithengee of the treehouse, Michael Blackburn
Design history and the human experience, Lisa Bodenstedt
Comparison of tissue classification using spin-echo and fast spin-echo MRI imaging, Marvin Boonmee
Travel reservation process evaluation, Amy Bowles
A Methodology of process, Belinda Bryce
Reading progress and inclusion: Are they related?, Kristi Bullwinkle and Tracy Thomas
Rhodium trichloride promoted hydroboration of alenyl nitriles and alkenyl chlorides, Anvar Buranov
Texture characterization in DIRSIG, Christy Burtner
Sculpture to wear (metaphorically); Sculpture to wear as jewelry; Sculpture that wears jewelry, Juan Caballero-Perez
In Search of a better bottom line; Ethnicity in the workplace, Stephen Callari
Free agency and the organization, Gregg Chalmers
SmarTrav: A Digital handheld device for travelers, John Chang
The Box, SunHee Chang
Breath--Sound of time and space, Seung-Yean Cho
Using Java powered iButton to replace student ID card, Yu-Hui Cho
Intimate ceremony: Ceramic bath accessories, Kelly Clark
A bridge's link, Stephanie Lanphier Collins
Heavy-atom quenching of 9-ethylcarbazole in heterogeneous matrices: Micelles and latexes, Paul Conrow
Numerical investigation of three dimensional viscous, incompressible flow about a sphere and an ellipsoid, Glenn-Mari Cosmiano
Kara Crombie, Kara Crombie
Policy driven security architectures for eBusiness, Marcus Cutts
Robust ideals, Kelli Damron
Voice over IP, Amit Datta and Paul Zam
The optical properties of varnishes and their effects on image quality, Collin Day
Evaluation and rationalization methodology for the acquisition of packaging capital equipment and services, Craig E. Densmore
Text segmentation of the Archimedes Palimpsest using remote sensing techniques, Charles Dickinson
The Effect of rhodium reagents upon the hydroboration and thermal isomerization of quadricyclane, Dana DiDonato
Desired absence: A Woman's perspective, Heather Dominick
