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 2000
Korean cultural characteristics and graphic design, Jungyun Shin
The Causes and effects of job dissatisfacation among emergency room nurses, Karen Shuptar
Spiritual sadomasochism, Michael Sims
POD, Margaret Slinker
Wavelet analysis of acoustic signals, John E. Smertneck
Landing, Rachel Smith
It's grammatical!, Kurt Stoskopf
The Tale of the firefly, Weerana Talodsuk
Concepts of science fiction in graphic design: Concepts of science fiction applied to graphic design problem solving, Nawarat Teeraprasert
An Investigation into the effect of the compression algorithm in the presence of shifting and cropping on image quality, Ornsiri Thonggoom
Adobe Acrobat image compression: An Investigation into the effects of compression in Acrobat 4.0 on image reproducibility for digital printing, Kelly Thornton
Experimental study of water droplets impinging upon a hot surface, Cong Tran
Issues of customer satisfaction: A Study of Monroe County golf courses, Tom Treat
A Graphic design primer resources for educators, Sarah Beth Tregay
Focal reducer/wide-field corrector for the C. E. Kenneth Mees telescope, Laurie Tuttle
Project Iris: Image reconstruction of the iris spectrally, Joseph Unander
Dot Gain Variation (A Study of the effects of dot gain variation to improve digital workflow for the Xeikon DCP/32D digital printing system), Voraphot Vacheravothan
The Impact of political and socio-economic strategies on crime and service in developing countries; A Focus on South Africa, Marna Van Deventer
A Study discussing the future outlook of REITs after the REIT modernization act, Amit Verma
Graphic design and ecology, Luzuozi Wang
Color tolerance: A comparison of the method of constant stimuli and the gray scale comaprison method on a CRT, David Wilbur
Patient satisfacation at visiting nurse service, Richard Williams
Development and evaluation of an intrinsic gettering process for fabrication of integrated circuits, James ii Will
Hyperspectral imaging for bottom type classification and water depth determination, Nikole L. Wilson
An Investigation into the effect of plate hardness, and surface speed differential on flexographic gear marking, Wisit Wirojrungson
Design of a wristwatch PDA, Kun-Chi Wu
Virtual Rubik's cube, Wen-bin Wu
Test thesis, xFirstname xLast
Wireless communications in the new millennium and third generation wireless networks, Oz Yakuphanogullarindan
An Investigation of thread scheduling heuristics for a simultaneous multithreaded processor, Ralph Zajac Jr
A Feminist creation myth, Evelyn Zehraoui
Non traditional quilting: A Combination of material and process, Jennifer Ziehl
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Simulation of imaging Fourier transform spectrometers using DIRSIG, Francois Alain
Data transmission in printing & publishing: A Survey of the technical issues of on-line file transfer, John Altemueller
Teamwork and decision making environment at Koo-Yoo-Hah motor company: A Case study, Siriruk Angsanant
Simulation of the formation and propagation of the thermal bar on Lake Ontario, Dilkushi Anuja de Alwis
Modeling and simulating chemical weapon dispersal patterns in DIRSIG, Peter Arnold
Guaranteed bandwidth implementation of message passing interface on workstation clusters, Ali Atalay
A Fragile balance, Monique Aviles
Jazz as inspiration, Cosmo Barbaro
Surface topography of cuneiform tablets, Monica Barbu-McInnis
An Investigation into the development of a software tool for design of book pages, David Bennett
Altered, Pamela Bentzien
Combinatorial computing approach to selected extremal problems in geometry, Alina Beygelzimer
Xerox early customer engagement process and documentation, Carmen Bottini
FOLD: The Definitive guide to folding for print publications: A Designers guide, Trish Boyle
A Paradigm for color gamut mapping of pictorial images, Gustav J. Braun
Quest for survival: What comprises and effective team, Kathleen Brayer
Mackenzie Heritage Printery: a printing museum, Shauna Bream
The Comparison of three 3D graphics raster processors and the design of another, Paul Brown
The Use of customer complaints as a positive attribute for hotel development: The Marriot Thruway Hotel, Rochester, NY, Patcharin Buranabanyat
on the edge of being, Jessica Burko
Shades, Lisa Camire
Extracting the mystery from the red rectangle, Meghan Canning
Process development and reliability of thin gate oxides, Keith Capasso
Server selection for mobile agent migration, Wayne Caro
Equine osteoarthritis: A Comparison of type 1 and type 2 conditions, Wendy Chadbourne
Genetic algorithm and tabu search approaches to quantization for DCT-based image compression, Michael Champion
Point extraction and matching for registration of infrared astronomical images, Adith Chandrasekhar
Fingerprint recognition through circular sampling, David Chang
Abstraction & Chinese aesthetics, Huei-Ri Chang
A study of matching the color of EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000 to ANSI CGATS TR 001-1995 - type 1 printing, Joel Chan
Airport design, Long-Wen Chen
The Impact of graphic design on the target audience: Designing an effective social marketing campaign, Cynthia Childs
A Guide to image preparation for multiple media, Ai-Leen Chiu
Lupita looks up, Wan Chiu
Expression of relationship in life, Hoyeon Chung
Fine arts printmaking using modern technology, Priscilla Clay
Evaluation of a custom designed plastic pallet, William Colaiaco
Sun & moon, Clifford Collier
Quantitation of yohimbine utilizing capillary electrophoresis. Method development through statistical design., Jonathan Cooper
Versatile power supply, Ian Cunningham
Managing in a post-merger/post-acquistion period in service industry: Focus on bank industry in Rochester area, Dilyara Daminova
Telephony-based email application, Perdana Darta
Team learning in a undergraduate setting in Croatia, Marvin Deitz
Properties of an aluminum based multilayered material versus package and processing performance, Eoin de Roiste
Dance as medicine, Eileen D'Esterno
An evaluation of the current state of digital photography, Charles Dickinson
A Database of typeface classification systems, Anthony Kllc Di Pietro
Theoretical investigation of the evaporation heat transfer cofficient of refrigerant R-134a in a plate heat exchanger, Vincent Donowski
Paramaterized beams as effective human lip models, Ron Dufort
Performance study of the 1911 Wright Brothers model B aircraft and propeller, Robert Egenolf
Unconstrained instantaneous center integration (ICI) algorithms, Nathan Eggleton
Up the tree, Glenn Ehlers
Asymmetric digital subscriber line technology and the future of remote access networking, Khodr El-Dakrouni
A Comparison study of input scanning resolution requirements for AM and FM screening, Kenneth Elsman
Identification of force directions created by dynamic events experienced in the international air freight distribution environment, William Enderle Jr
A Characterization of the impact of clouds on remotely sensed water quality, Ronald Fairbanks
Statistical analysis of Lake Ontario water levels, Matthew Fetzner
Telephony-based answering machine application, Army Fithry
Flow boiling heat transfer characteristics on structured surfaces, Ryan Fogarty
I am (the life of a girl), Nancy Ghertner
Behavior synthesis for high speed 3D color interpolation using VHDL, Thomas Glanville Jr
Smart decisions, Beatriz Gomez
A Cruel nature, Dylan Gottlieb
The Human race, Alex Gurevich
