This growing collection consists of dissertations, master's theses and master's reports from 1998-present submitted with their authors' permission for either open access or Michigan Tech only access.
This collection is not comprehensive prior to 2012 and represents a subset of available material. Works not found within this repository may be located by searching the Van Pelt and Opie Library catalog.
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2018
Extending Maneuverability of Internally Actuated Underwater Gliders, An Attempt to Develop an Open Platform For Research and Education, Saeedeh Ziaeefard
Optimal Control of Wave Energy Converters, Shangyan Zou
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2017
DEVELOPMENT OF A TURBULENT FLAME SPEED MODEL BASED ON FLAME STRETCH CONCEPT FOR SPARK IGNITION ENGINES, Behdad Afkhami
NOVEL BIOCOMPOSITES AND NANOFIBERS BASED ON MODIFIED BIOMASS MATERIALS TO FACILITATE GREENER APPLICATIONS, Soha Albukhari
MODELING AND SIMULATION OF THE PERISTALTIC FLOW OF NEWTONIAN AND NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS WITH APPLICATION TO THE HUMAN BODY, Samer Alokaily
DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HISTIDINE-TAGGED HPV16 L2 AND MS2-ARGININE-TAGGED RECOMBINANT PROTEINS FOR DOWNSTREAM PROCESSES, Tahiyat Alothaim
DIRECT SAMPLING METHODS FOR INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEMS, Ala Mahmood Nahar Al Zaalig
EASILY VERIFIABLE CONTROLLER DESIGN WITH APPLICATION TO AUTOMOTIVE POWERTRAINS, Mohammad Reza Amini
The Intrinsic Variability of the Water Vapor Saturation Ratio Due to Mixing, Jesse Anderson
COMBUSTION, EMISSIONS, AND PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION IN A DI/PFI-RCCI DIESEL/NATURAL GAS TURBOCHARGED ENGINE, Ehsan Ansari
Accuracy Assessment of 3D Point Clouds Generated by Photogrammetry From Different Distances, Zhongming An
Formulation and testing of biodegradable polymeric coating on zinc wires in cardiovascular stent application, Avishan Arab Shomali
CONTROL OF A POWERED ANKLE-FOOT PROSTHESIS: FROM PERCEPTION TO IMPEDANCE MODULATION, Guilherme Aramizo Ribeiro
FROM FEMALE ENGINEERING CO-OP TO CYBORG ENGINEER: PURPOSEFUL PARTICIPATION WITHIN THE BINARIES OF A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE, Kirsti M. Arko
PRESERVING THE VERNACULAR POSTINDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE: BIG DATA GEOSPATIAL APPROACHES TO HERITAGE MANAGEMENT AND INTERPRETATION, John D. M. Arnold
Search for High-Energy Gamma Rays in the Northern Fermi Bubble Region with the HAWC Observatory, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares
A 3D FEM COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE IMPACT RESPONSE BETWEEN HUMAN HEAD AND NOCSAE HEAD DUE TO FREE FALL, Amey S. Badhe
A Landscape of Water and Waste: Heritage Legacies and Environmental Change in the Mesabi Iron Range, John Baeten
ASSESSING GROWTH, YIELD, AND CARBON DYNAMICS IN UPPER GREAT LAKES JACK PINE AND HYBRID POPLAR MANAGED FOR BIOMASS PRODUCTION, Ashlee Baker Lehner
Designing a Real-time Velocity Predictor for Powertrain Optimization of Connected and Automated Vehicles, Biswajit Barik
Musical Robot Dance Freeze for Children, Jaclyn Barnes
Performance Comparison of Binarized Neural Network with Convolutional Neural Network, Lopamudra Baruah
HIERARCHICAL OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK FOR VEHICLE-TO-GRID (V2G) AND BUILDING-TO-GRID (B2G) INTEGRATION, Guna Bharati
NANOTEXTURED TITANIUM SURFACES FOR IMPLANTS: MANUFACTURING AND PACKAGING ASPECTS, Sachin Bhosle
The role of toolkit genes in the evolution of complex abdominal color patterns in Drosophila guttifera, Tillu Bollepogu Raja
Multiple Suppression from 2-D Shallow Marine Seismic Reflection Data Using Filtering and Deconvolution Approaches: A Case Study from Southwest Taiwan, Fatma Sinem Boyaci
ELECTRO-OPTIC CONTACT POLING OF POLYMER WAVEGUIDE DEVICES AND THIN FILMS, Michael Briseno
CONSENSUS-BASED PROPORTIONAL-RESONANT CONTROL OF RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATORS, Muhittin Buyuknalbant
Detecting Overpressure Zones by Using Model Based Inversion in Kupe Field, New Zealand, Timucin Cakir
Contextualizing and Rearticulating the Academic Social Media Command Center, Nathan J. Carpenter
EFFECTS OF IN-SITU LEAF-LEVEL CANOPY WARMING IN A NORTHERN HARDWOOD FOREST, Kelsey Carter
Simulation of Human Ankle Trajectory during Stance Phase of Gait, Leslie Castelino
Patterns in eruptions at Fuego from statistical analysis of video surveillance, Monica Castro-Escobar
INVESTIGATION OF THE USE OF 3-D PRINTER PLATFORM AS BUILDING BLOCK FOR RAPID DESIGN OF RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURING TOOL, Handy Chandra
ACETATE AS AN ACTIVE METABOLITE OF ETHANOL: NEURAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR IMPLICATIONS, Andrew Chapp
STUDY OF BATTERY HEALTH CONSCIOUS POWERTRAIN ENERGY MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES, Ming Cheng
MULTISCALE MODELING: THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF GRAPHENE/CYCLOALIPHATIC EPOXY COMPOSITES, Sorayot Chinkanjanarot
In-situ synthesis of NiMoO4 on Ni foam as a binder-free electrode for supercapacitor, Tawei Chiu
DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH-FIDELITY MODEL AND KALMAN FILTER BASED STATE ESTIMATOR FOR SIMULATION AND CONTROL OF NOX REDUCTION PERFORMANCE OF A SCR CATALYST ON A DPF, Venkata Rajesh Chundru
An Investigation of Historic Landscape Occupation, Transformation, and Interpretation at Windigo, Isle Royale National Park, Marley Chynoweth
EFL EDUCATION IN MAINLAND CHINA: WORD MEMORIZATION AND ESSAY WRITING AMONG HIGH SCHOOL SOPHOMORES, Rehema Clarken
DECENTRALIZED OPTIMAL EXERGY DESTRUCTION CONTROL STRATEGY FOR DC AND AC MICROGRIDS, Michael D. Cook
PERFORMANCE SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF A SIMULTANEOUS TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE PHASED ANTENNA ARRAY USING ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING AND GENETIC ALGORITHM TECHNIQUES, Ian Thomas Cummings
GUIDELINES FOR ACCESSING AND UTILIZING THE SFRES SPATIAL DATABASE, Matthew Thomas Custer
Distribution of permutation statistics across pattern avoidance classes, and the search for a Denert-associated condition equivalent to pattern avoidance, Joshua Thomas Agustin Davies
An interactive approach to teaching Discrete Structures using Alloy and POGIL, Mugdha P. Degaonkar
HETEROGENEOUS MULTI-SENSOR FUSION FOR 2D AND 3D POSE ESTIMATION, Hanieh Deilamsalehy
METHANE FLUXES AND POREWATER DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON DYNAMICS FROM DIFFERENT PEATLANDS TYPES IN THE PASTAZA-MARAÑON BASIN OF THE PERUVIAN AMAZON., Jhon del Aguila-Pasquel
EFFECTS OF POST-FIRE SALVAGE LOGGING ON COMPACTION, INFILTRATION, WATER REPELLENCY, AND SEDIMENT YIELD AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SUBSOILING ON SKID TRAILS, Iskender Demirtas
THE EFFECTS OF EARLY PRUNING ON THE NEAR-GROUND BRANCH DENSITY OF FOUR LIVE FENCING SPECIES, Aric Devens
IMPACT OF PRETREATMENT METHODS ON FAST PYROLYSIS OF BIOMASS, Yash Donepudi
ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AND IMMUNE-MODULATING EFFECTS OF RICE CALLUS SUSPENSION CULTURE AND BLUEBERRY EXTRACT ON AN IN-VITRO INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE MODEL, Kyle Michael Driscoll
EFFECTS OF SELECTIVE LOGGING ON CARBON DYNAMICS: VARIATION IN ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS AND SOIL RESPIRATION IN PRE- AND POST-LOGGING FOREST STANDS OF A MOIST TROPICAL FOREST IN GHANA, Akwasi Duah-Gyamfi
PLANNING FOR INTERMITTENT WATER SUPPLY IN SMALL GRAVITY-FED DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS: CASE STUDY IN RURAL PANAMA, Frank B. Dubasik
PERFORMANCE OF HARD DISK DRIVES IN HIGH NOISE ENVIRONMENTS, Trinoy Dutta
CO-OCCURRENCE OF NITROGEN FIXATION AND DENITRIFICATION ACROSS A STREAM NITROGEN GRADIENT IN A WESTERN WATERSHED, Erin K. Eberhard
FORENSIC ANALYSIS OF SHALLOW PRECIPITATION TRIGGERED LAHARS IN 2016 ON CONCEPCIÓN AND MADERAS VOLCANOES, OMETEPE ISLAND, NICARAGUA, Lindsay Ellingson
PALEOMAGNETIC STUDY OF THE GREENSTONE LAVA FLOW EXPOSED IN THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA, Eric J. Engel
Effects of Wildfire Severity on Early Successional Dynamics in Boreal Peatland Complexes, Elizabeth Ernst
INVESTIGATION OF CLOSE-RANGE PHOTOGRAMMETRY & SOIL STRENGTH TESTING FOR THE EVALUATION OF SOIL COMPACTION, Amaneh Eslami Kenarsari
GLYCOBIOLOGICAL STUDIES THAT CAN HELP THYROID CANCER DETECTION AND THERAPY, Ni Fan
Fluorescent Probe Development for Fructose Specific Transporters in Cancer, Joseph Fedie
RESTORING AND SUSTAINING SMALLHOLDER Kappaphycus alvarezii FARMING POST-TYPHOON HAIYAN/YOLANDA IN MOLOCABOC, CENTRAL PHILIPPINES, David C. Fenlon
Distance magic-type and distance antimagic-type labelings of graphs, Bryan Freyberg
CONSENSUS BASED DISTRIBUTED CONTROL IN MICRO-GRID CLUSTERS, Syed Ahmed Fuad
Catalytic Hydrotreatment for the Development of Renewable Transportation Fuels, LiLu Funkenbusch
The Effect of Myosync™ Supplementation on Physical Performance in Division II College Football Players, Matthew Gage
Simulation of Crack Pattern on Borosilicate Glass Cylinder on Pellet Impact, Sandesh Suresh Gandhi
Simulation of Two-Stage Anaerobic Digestion Using Extended ADM1 Model, Pranathi Gangavarapu
Gamma/Hadron Separation for the HAWC Observatory, Michael J. Gerhardt
COMBINATORIAL PROBLEMS RELATED TO CODES, DESIGNS AND FINITE GEOMETRIES, Mustafa Gezek
ASSESSMENT OF ARCTIC GRAYLING RE-INTRODUCTION POTENTIAL IN THE BIG MANISTEE RIVER, MICHIGAN., Cameron Goble
Experimental investigations of temperature controlled innovative annular flow-boiling of FC-72 in millimeter scale ducts – steady and enhanced pulsatile realizations, Patcharapol Gorgitrattanagul
SIMULATION STUDY ON EFFECT OF GAS CHARGING AND EGR IN A DUAL-FUEL ENGINE, Satyavenkata Naga Sai Sharath Gorthy
Guaranteed Rendezvous for Cognitive Radio Networks Based on Cycle Length, Li Gou
TRADITIONAL MEDICINE USE IN CHAMORRO CUÉ, GRAL. E. AQUINO, SAN PEDRO, PARAGUAY, Noah Goyke
DEVELOPMENT OF BIOINFORMATICS TOOLS AND ALGORITHMS FOR IDENTIFYING PATHWAY REGULATORS, INFERRING GENE REGULATORY RELATIONSHIPS AND VISUALIZING GENE EXPRESSION DATA, Chathura J. Gunasekara
KINETIC-THERMODYNAMIC STUDY OF ALKALI-SILICA REACTION AND MULTI-PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF FORMED GEL IN CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS, Shuaicheng Guo
SINGLE CYLINDER ENGINE STUDIES WITH IMPINGING DIRECT INJECTION FUEL INJECTOR, Ankur Gupta
INVESTIGATING MIRNA FUNCTIONS IN ARABIDOPSIS BY SHORT TANDEM TARGET MIMIC (STTM), Yiyou Gu
ON THE EQUIVALENCE BETWEEN BAYESIAN AND FREQUENTIST NONPARAMETRIC HYPOTHESIS TESTING, Qiuchen Hai
PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF BISPECTRUM MULTI-FRAME DECONVOLUTION FOR IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION, Solmaz Hajmohammadi
Controlling Properties of Agglomerates for Chemical Processes, Joseph A. Halt
DEVELOPMENT OF GENE-BASED MICROSATELLITE MARKERS IN Acer saccharum MARSH., Monica Harmon
Human Centered Design of an Open-Drum, Treadle Thresher for Quinoa Farmers in the Andes of Northern Peru, Robert A. Hayes
A Pedagogy of Witnessing: Linguistic and Visual Frames of the Dark Side in the Multimodal Classroom, Lindsay Hingst
Heterologous Expression and Purification of Full-Length Human Polybromo-1 Protein, Sarah Hopson
A HOST BOARD DESIGN FOR AN EXPERIMENT SYSTEM OF UNDERWATER WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS, He Huang
MASSIVELY PARALLEL ALGORITHMS FOR POINT CLOUD BASED OBJECT RECOGNITION ON HETEROGENEOUS ARCHITECTURE, Linjia Hu
BRUISE DETECTION IN APPLES USING 3D INFRARED IMAGING AND MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES, Zilong Hu
On Transport and Deposition phenomena in Diesel Particulate Filters using the Incompressible Lattice Boltzmann Method, Aamir Ibrahim
Drop Test Simulation of a Conformable CNG Tank by Finite Element Analysis using ANSYS, Vishal Shashikant Ingavale