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 1972
Automatic Design of Switching Networks, Darryl Dhein
A handbook of intaglio techniques, David Dickinson
Documented Techniques in the Creation of Flatware, Norman Evans
Treatise on combined metalworking techniques: forged elements and chased raised shapes, Bonnie Gallagher
Pulse-Width-Modulation Control for Second Order Plants Via a Quadratic Criterion, Charles Gebo
Sculptural and functional explorations in wood and metal, Scott Gilliam
Thesis Diary: September 1971- May 1972, Bonnie Johanna Gisel
Design and Construction of a Standard Planetary Microfilming Camera Target Array (PMTA), Bruno Glavich and Richard Johnson
Treatise on Chasing and Repoussé, Genie Goldberger
Optical Measurement Techniques for Blanket Release Characteristics on Web Presses, Joseph Griggs and Ronald Sandford
Plastics in Art, Patricia Hincks
Graphic Communication Education in Maine, Howard Holinger
Landscapes in gum, Barbara Johnson
Design, Fabrication and Evaluation of a Monochromatic Sensitometer, Jay Johnson
Relaying Pannel Road 345 kV, Robert Jones
Digital Executive Control of a Hybrid Computing System, Glenn Kauffman
Printmaking: a phenomenological art, Nancy Keehn
A Method of Schlieren Alignment Stabilization Using Automatic Feedback Control, W. Lawton King
Print Quality Measurement: The Application of Instrumental Analysis to Graphic Arts, John Kuder
Landscape Forms, Colleen Kuntz
Coffee, chocolate, and liqueur sets, Carolyn Law
A Photomicrographic Method for the Detection of Oxygen Content in the Hemoglobin of the Red Blood Cell, Bruce Martin Levine and Craig Sager
Image Spread Characteristics of Vesicular Films, Ira Long and Alan Turner
Additive and subtractive color, Elizabeth Ann Maclean
The Evolution of the Crafts from Function to Pure Sculpture, Elaine Martin
Stability of Large Flexible Satellite, Manoj P. Mehta
Calibration of a Photometric Standard for Hard Dot Area measurement, Steven K. Misar
Design and Construction of a Digital Pulse Generator, David Myer
Research and Exploration of Stone Settings, Jonathan O. Parry
Audit Techniques for Data Processing Systems; An 8 Quarter Credit Hour Research Option, William Perry
The exploration of the decorative and functional use of riveting in hollow forms, David Pimentel
The Carousel: An Exploration of Etching and Drypoint Techniques Through Integration of Organic and Mechanical Symbols, Paul Porter
An Investigation of the Mechanism of Emulsion Stabilization by 4-Hydroxy-6-Methyl-1,3,3a,7-Tetraazaindene, Eddie Rising
Surface Enhancement of Handbuilt Forms, Sara Rubin
Liberated Paintings, Susan Russo
The effect of chromatic aberration in process lenses on the copying of reflection halftone dots, Burdette A. Saunders
Environmental Design, Rand Schuster
Photographic Documentation: A Personal Development and Refinement of a Photographic Approach in Making Visual Documentary Statements, Michael Robert Soluri
A Study of the Kinetics of "Lith" Development, David Turbide and Michael Williams
Statistical Separation of Objects in Shadows from Objects in Daylight in an Aerial Scene, David Valvo
The Exploration of Light as a Means of Expression in the Intaglio Print Medium, Mary Vasko
An investigation leading to the production of a nonlift tea service, David Vukelich
Graphic design on the staromat, Bruce Weinstein
Salt Glazed Clay Surfaces, Brian Williams
Wood firing, Robert Woo
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Black faces and their emotions, Margaret Anderson
Rearrangement of allylic alcohols, Herbert Barbehenn
Alkylation and arylalkylation of hydrazones, Ann Bayley
An Investigation of the Aesthetic Quality of Gloss as Produced by Overprint Varnishing, John Bechtel
Construction of a magneto-optic shutter utilizing the Faraday effect, Christian Bergerson and Richard Leary
Design of a Tactile Vocoder, Roger Carr
The Shoreline, Yosaif Cohain
An Audio Oscillator Triggering Circuit for the EG&G 501 High Speed Stroboscope; with Integrated Digital Timing, Boisey Collins
An Instrument for the Determination of Photographic Film Drying Rates, John Dahms and W. Fox
A color photometer for calibrating light sources, Harvey Gartner
Design considerations for a recording instrument to be used in conjunction with R.I.T.'s radio astronomy system, Robert D. Harned
Lusters and the slab form in raku, Richard Hirsch
My Daughter Tisha and Our Art, Catherine Jepson
The Search for the Mystic Element in Weaving, Nasrin Keyhan
A study of zoomorphic abstractions with raku sculpture, Andrew Krouse
Tone Reproduction of Small-Scale Images Using Lithographic Film Under Infectious and Noninfectious Developmental Conditions, Julian Lopez
The Effect of Flash Duration on Spectral Color-Naming, David Loshin and Edward Saunders
A Study of Latent Image Formation in Photographic Emulsions Subjected to a Combination of High and Low Intensity Exposures, George MacManus
The Synthesis and Application of Programmable Counters, James Milne
The Patient as Object, Mitchell Payne
An instrument for rapid determination of granularity in photographic film samples, Melvin E. Pollard
Analysis of color errors and their sources in a commercial color reproduction process, Sakda Siriphan
Theory of Optical Spatial Filtering and its Application to Enhance Low Contrast Fingerprint Images, Ludwig Scherlowski
Comparison of the development characteristics of a sodium thiosulfate monobath with that of a mercaptoacetic acid monobath, Richard Smith
Teilhard de Chardin's Mass on the World, Mary Stover
Variations in functional relationships between amplitude and phase images, Gilbert Tunney
Effects of packing and changes of squeeze pressure on image sharpness when printing with compressible and noncompressible blankets, Walter Twarosch
Determining the temperature of hot solid bodies by means of photographic pyrometry, using the two-filter comparison method, Edward White
Computer Application of Historical Data, Raymond Wright
Peak harmonic distortion due to quantization, On-Ching Yue
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Photographic letterforms, Frank Argento
A Study of Consumer Acceptance of a No-Loss Credit Card Verification System, Dean Arlidge
Photo Extensions by a Painter, Catherin Berger
The Pilgrimage of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Winifred Bixler
A quantitative evaluation technique for diazo coated lithographic printing plate images, after exposure, Walter Bruehs
Wet film sensitometry with an infrared scanning densitometer, Anthony Casinelli and John Hisler
Flat Monumentality, Theodora Cichy
Preparation of tetrahydroxydiboron, Terence Conklin
The Stability of a Nonlinear, Time-Varying Control System, Joseph Connolly
The Stunting of Creative and Mental Growth; or, the Evolution and Pollution of Ideas, Nelson Dodson
Familia, Maria Emerson
The Function of Flat Shape in Painting, Marla Friedrich
The Investigation of Sculptural Forms, John Frisenda
Interference Coatings, Bruno Glavich
Generation of sinusoidal test images by incoherent spatial filtering, Joel Gray
Personal Imagery and Paint, Stuart Green
Diffusion of the thiosulfate ion out of photographic film during washing, Kenneth Haring
Figurative Painting and the Photograph, Thomas Insalaco
Parasitic pleasure-craft, Anthony Jachimowicz
Decorative ceramics for architectural applications, Robert J. Jarvis
Detection of Developer By-products Using the Schlieren Method, Stephen Kelly and Ralph Simon
The modulation of sine-wave gratings at Fourier and Fresnel imaging points, Donald Kingsley
An Investigation into the Development Process of Medical X-Ray Films, Alfred Knapp and Johnny Hovis
Problems in Perception: The Role of Art in Special Education, Patricia Koch
Determination and application of Winstein-Grunwald M and Y values in bridged polycyclic systems, Rosemary Leyden
