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 2026
An Investigation on Downwind Impacts of the Keweenaw Peninsula on Lake-Effect Snow Events, Thomas M. Pavell
FLUCTUATION OF ORGANOCHLORINE CONCENTRATIONS IN BULL SHARKS AT DIFFERENT LIFE STAGES, Mackenzie R. Phillips
DEVELOPMENT AND CALIBRATION OF A 2-D DIESEL OXIDATION CATALYST FILTER (DOCF) MODEL WITH SPATIALLY VARYING WASHCOATS USING SPACIMS AND ENGINE LOADING DATA, Thomas K. Price
THE LIVING DEAD: EVIDENCE FOR Hg BIOAMPLIFICATION AMONG EMACIATED LAKE SUPERIOR LAKE CHARR, Presley S. Rasanen
FAT BIRDS: HOW HUMAN MEDICAL DEVICES REVEAL PATTERNS OF STARVATION AND REFUELING IN A POPULATION OF SONGBIRDS, Elisa Resendiz
OPEN SOURCE TOOLS FOR ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH, Alex P. Riebe
CONNECTED AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE ENERGY SAVINGS BY MODE BLENDING, ROUTE PLANNING, AND CHARGE PLANNING, Andrew L. Robare
Modular Synthesis of Conjugated Aromatic Systems via Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions, Joden Russell Robinson
NEXT GENERATION NON-ENZYMATIC GLUCOSE SENSING FOR WEARABLE TRANSLATION, Rourke
Multi-Level Energy Optimization for Connected and Automated Vehicles: From Cooperative Multi-Vehicle Control to Individual Powertrain Management, Pruthwiraj Santhosh
METHODOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FOR EVALUATING RELATIVE HEAT CHECKING RESISTANCE OF OPEN-DIE FORGE TOOLING, Jack F. Schaller
Using Automotive Lidar to Reduce the Energy Consumption of an Ego Autonomous Vehicle, Logan P. Schexnaydre
Diet and Foodways in the Coalwood District, James B. Schwaderer
OIL AGGLOMERATION AS A METHOD FOR SEPARATION OF MIXED MATERIALS FROM SPENT LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES, John K. Sewoekpor
FROM SURFACES TO BIOTHERAPEUTICS: UNDERSTANDING THE MECHANISMS OF VIRUS INACTIVATION, Vaishali Sharma
Inference in Motion: Memory-Centric Co-Design for Large Language Models, Jiangqiu Shen
Bayesian Analysis of Nominal Outcomes with Missing Values Using Multinomial and Multivariate Multinomial Probit Models, Suwash Silwal
INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF AQUAPORIN-4 IN OREXIN SYSTEM-MEDIATED SYMPATHOEXCITATION AND BLOOD PRESSURE CONTROL, Derrick Simet
A TUNABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING – ESTABLISHING GELATIN AND NANOFIBERS FOR 3D CELL CULTURE, Edward James Sloan III
RAPID AUSTENITE RESTORATION THROUGH NON-PARTITIONING TRANSFORMATION IN MEDIUM-MN STEEL, Rebekah A. Smith
SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCY ASSESSMENT OF COASTAL POWER SYSTEMS AGAINST STORM HAZARDS, Saeed Sohrabi
Potential of Stamp Sands as Cemented Tailings, Samuel Sukaria
STATISTICAL LEARNING METHODS FOR GENE REGULATORY NETWORK ANALYSIS AND HIP FRACTURE RISK PREDICTION, Shuo Sun
VALUING LIFE AND LOSS: GENRE ANALYSIS OF INSURANCE CLAIMS PROCESSING IN GHANA, Cornelius Fuumaale Suom-Kogle
MECHANISTIC FOUNDATIONS AND SAFETY ASSESSMENT OF DRY-MECHANICAL RECYCLING OF CHARGED LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES, John Louis Szczap
MODELING, STABILITY, CONTROL, AND PROTECTION OF GRID-FORMING INVERTERS UNDER FAULT RIDE-THROUGH CONDITION, Shipra Tiwari
Mapping Historical Neighborhoods with Geospatial Viewshed Buffers, James B. Townsend
NOVEL VAN DER WAALS HETEROSTRUCTURES: SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND APPLICATIONS, Join Uddin
AQUEOUS IRON ELECTROWINNING: FROM ELECTROLYTE ENGINEERING TO THE UNEXPLORED POTENTIAL OF ACETATE SYSTEMS, Chodwell N. Verenga
SOLVENT-TARGETED RECOVERY AND PRECIPITATION (STRAP): FEEDSTOCK PRE-PROCESSING AND HANDLING, DISSOLUTION, CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATION AND NONDISSOLVED SOLIDS DRYING, Zachary E. Wagner
Minimizing Snow Loss on Fixed Tilt Solar PV Installations Through Frame Material Selection and Installation Layout, David B. Wallis
SPECULATION-CENTRIC PARALLELIZATION FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE FINITE STATE AUTOMATA PROCESSING ON GPUS, Yuguang Wang
TARGETED AND SCREENING BASED APPROACHES TO ANALYZE DRM TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSOR COMPLEX ACTIVITY IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS, Emily Washeleski
EVALUATING WILLOW ESTABLISHMENT WITH BIOCHAR FOR REMEDIATION OF MINE WASTE SOILS: AMENDMENT PH DETERMINES PLANT BIOMASS AND METAL MOBILITY, Madeline R. Webb
HUMAN LOCOMOTION ON SNOW: A CASE FOR THE BICYCLE, Kyle W. Wehmanen
CHANGE POINT ANALYSIS IN HIGH-DIMENSIONAL DATA USING RANDOM PROJECTIONS, Yi Xu
Robust Autonomous Driving in Winter Weather: Perception and Integrated Control Under Adverse Conditions, Yiming Yang
ANALYTICAL AND DATA-DRIVEN MODELING AND CONTROL OF NONLINEAR POINT ABSORBER WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS WITH APPLICATION TO CONE–CONE BUOY GEOMETRIES, Houssein Yassin
ON THE VIBRATIONAL DYNAMICS OF WIND TURBINE BLADES: THE OSCILLATORY RESPONSE TO GUST PULSES, AND THE PHYSICAL MECHANISMS BEHIND THEM, North A. Yates
NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF A SIMPLE, LOW-ENERGY LUNAR VOLATILE SEPARATION TECHNOLOGY, Eleanor L. Zimmermann
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2025
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION FOR HEATING AND COOLING: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE RURAL NORTH, Nelly Aghaei
CYANINE-BASED DUAL-EMISSION SENSOR FOR RATIOMETRIC NAD(P)H IMAGING IN CELLS, RENAL TISSUES, AND ENTIRE ORGANISMS, Peter Agyemang
Built Simulacra: Digital Media and Cultural Representation of Tourist Imaginaries in Online Reviews of Hotels and Casinos in Las Vegas, Ayodele James Akinola
EFFECTIVENESS, COHERENCE, AND JUSTICE IMPLICATIONS OF CLEAN ENERGY POLICIES IN THE UNITED STATES, Josephine Amponsem
ANSI Z97 Impact Testing of Thin Glass, Justin P. Anthony
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF FLUORESCENT PROBES FOR SENSING AND BIOIMAGING OF NAD(P)H, INTRACELLULAR VISCOSITY, AND SO2, Dilka Liyana Arachchige
IRON ORE TAILINGS REPROCESSING BY ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION PLUS TWO STAGES FROTH FLOTATION, Vincent Bailey Arohunmolase
Review of Geologic Hydrogen, Theo Asumah
ANALYSIS OF LAVA FLOW PATHS USING REMOTE SENSING AND GEOMORPHOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES, Oluwatosin Oluyemisi Ayo
Stability and Resonance of Cylindrical Wave Energy Converters, Gregory M. Ballen
Water and Fuego: An Interdisciplinary Characterization of Lahar Activity on Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala, Gustavo A. Bejar Lopez
THE ANIMATED FRONTIER: FLUCTUATIONS OF POWER ACROSS TIME AND SPACE IN FLOWS OF U.S. AND JAPANESE ANIMATED MEDIA, Kendall Belopavlovich
RISK OF OAK WILT EXPANDING NORTHWARD: EXAMINING NITIDULIDAE VECTOR COMMUNITIES AND HOST PHENOLOGY BEYOND THE CURRENT DISEASE RANGE, Kathleen E. Bershing
METHODS IN STATISTICS, MACHINE LEARNING, AND DEEP LEARNING FOR COMBINING MULTI-OMICS DATASET, Md Mutasim Billah
EXAMINING THE ROLE OF PLANT GENOME SIZE AND POLYPLOIDY IN SHAPING ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI SYMBIOSES, Abbigail J. Blackwell
ESTERASE-DEPENDENT RED-TO-BLUE FLUORESCENCE COLOR CHANGE IN COUMARINS: SMALL FLUOROPHORES FOR LIVE DEAD CELL SENSING, Giovanna R. Bobnock
INVESTIGATION OF ACOUSTIC ATTENUATION METHODS AS A NOISE CONTROL DEVICE IN HYDRAULICS, Sophia R. Bollin
IN-SITU REDUCTIVE BIOLEACHING OF MANGANESE ORES, Palas Kamlakar Borkar
INVESTIGATING DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL VULNERABILITY TO WILDFIRE: A CASE STUDY OF WESTERN MONTANA, Ella Brodowski
IDENTIFYING PATTERNS IN AVIAN PLASMA METABOLITES FOR USE IN COMPARING BETWEEN-SITE DIFFERENCES IN HABITAT QUALITY, Katherine A. Brouwer
THERMIONIC EMISSION COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN OF RARE-EARTH HEXABORIDE CATHODES IN AN OXYGEN ENVIRONMENT, Sophia G. Brylinski
ENERGY EQUITY IN INDIA’S RENEWABLE ENERGY TRANSITION: A POLICY DESIGN AGENDA, Aritra Chakrabarty
EXPLORING THE ROLE OF BRAIN-DERIVED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES IN SALT-SENSITIVE HYPERTENSION, Xinqian Chen
MEASURING OCCUPANT CONTROLLED VENTILATION AND COOKING FREQUENCY TO AID IN MODELING ENERGY PERFORMANCE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN HOMES, Jacob J. Chizek
NICKEL SUPERALLOY COMPOSITION AND PROCESS OPTIMIZATION FOR IMPROVED WELDABILITY, Anna Cole
Leveraging Product and Process Characteristics Across the Concrete Pavement Life Cycle to Integrate Global Warming Potential into Project Procurement Processes, Michelle Annette Cooper
HOLISTIC ENERGY EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF ELECTRIFIED OFF-HIGHWAY MATERIAL HANDLER: FROM DRIVE CYCLE CHARACTERIZATION TO POWERTRAIN, HYDRAULIC, AND THERMAL SYSTEM PERFORMANCE, Alexander Czarnecki
A DOMAIN-ADAPTED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FRAMEWORK FOR MINING SAFETY ANALYTICS: FROM LATENT PATTERN DISCOVERY TO AUTOMATED INFORMATION EXTRACTION, Abid Ali Khan Danish
GROWTH, SURVIVAL, AND HERBIVORE BROWSING PREFERENCES OF SEEDLINGS PLANTED IN BLACK ASH STANDS OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN, Seth W. Davenport
Near Memory Accelerators for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search, Yifu Deng
DESIGN OF ALUMINUM-COPPER ALLOY WITH SCANDIUM IN SOLUTION, Austin M. DePottey
Sensing Tap Location Using an Array of Acoustic Sensors, Fan Ding
Engineering Electrochemical Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for Next-Generation Biosensing, Grace L. Dykstra
MATERIAL OPTIMIZATION OF THERMIONIC EMITTERS FOR OPERATION IN OXYGEN-CONTAINING ATMOSPHERES, Seth A. Eacker
ESTIMATING UNCONFINED COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH (UCS) OF ROCKS FROM MEASUREMENT WHILE DRILLING (MWD) DATA, Can Erdem
THE ROLE OF REMOTE SENSING AND GIS TECHNIQUES IN ANALYSIS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES IN JANUARY 2025, Sara Fitzgibbon
CORTICAL ACTIVATION PATTERNS IN A RAPID MOTOR DECISION-MAKING TASK IN YOUNGER AND OLDER ADULTS: AN fNIRS STUDY, Melanie P. Frias Veras
TEST STAND DEVELOPMENT: AN ANALYSIS OF EXCAVATION FORCES WITHIN A SIMULATED LUNAR ENVIRONMENT, Faith D. Gaertner
IMPROVED LONGEVITY OF ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANTS BY ADHESION OF PARYLENE C TO TITANIUM ALLOY PASSIVATION LAYERS VIA THE MULTICOMPONENT APPROACH TO SOLID SURFACE ENERGY, Matthew T. Graham
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF NOVEL FORCE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM FOR TRACTION FORCE MICROSCOPY, Samuel E. Haarman
DIAGNOSTIC LABOR OPERATION REIMAGINED THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING AND STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION, Jody J. Hand
PATIENT HANDLING INTERVENTIONS AND THEIR ROLE IN REDUCING MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS AMONG HEALTHCARE WORKERS, Ashley L. Hawke
COMBINING DNA METABARCODING AND STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS TO EXAMINE DIET AND ECOLOGY IN UNIQUELY ADMIXED GHOST WOLVES, Lilian M. Heinzel
KEWEENAW HEARTLANDS: BUSINESS CONSIDERATIONS IN RECREATION PLANNING, Courtney A. Hohnholt
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SILVICULTURAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH NORTHERN WHITE-CEDAR (THUJA OCCIDENTALIS) SEEDLING REGENERATION IN HARVESTED LOWLANDS, Victoria J. Hunter
RENEWABLE ENERGY’S IMPACT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS – A CASE STUDY FROM AFRICA, Bashiru Ibrahim
Michigan's EV Policies and Energy Justice, Vincent Edache Idoko
Towards Developing GLUT2 Specific Probes for Biochemical and Biomedical Applications, Abdelrahman Ismail
SLUG/ANNULAR FLOW BOILING HEAT TRANSFER EVENTS IN SMOOTH AND STRUCTURED RECTANGULAR MICROCHANNELS, Hanry Issavi
MULTISCALE COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY STUDIES OF THE CATALYTIC MECHANISMS OF NON-HEME FE(II)/2-OXOGLUTARATE-DEPENDENT OXYGENASES, Simahudeen Bathir Jaber Sathik Rifayee
DEVELOPMENT OF NEAR-INFRARED PROBE FOR THE DETECTION OF NADH AND NAD(P)H IN LIVE CELLS AND D. MELANOGASTER LARVAE, Sophia J. Jaeger
BARBIE VLOGGER AS TEEN INFLUENCER FOR LITTLE GIRLS, Brilynn A. Janckila
DEGRADATION OF POLYMERS AND POLYMER COMPOSITES IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS, Ben T. Jewell