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 2025
LINKING MOLECULAR STRUCTURE EVOLUTION TO MECHANICAL DEGRADATION DURING ENVIRONMENTAL AGING IN CONVENTIONAL AND RECYCLABLE EPOXY SYSTEMS, Ben T. Jewell
QUANTIFYING SO₂ EMISSIONS FROM EXPLOSIVE EVENTS OF THE 2021 LA SOUFRIÈRE ERUPTION USING DSCOVR/EPIC, Yuxi Jin
LIGHT ABSORBING AEROSOL INTERACTIONS WITH WARM CLOUDS, Shreya Joshi
Indigenous-Industrial Heritage: Centering Indigenous Voices in Minnesota's Iron Range, Larissa A. Juip
Quantum van der Waals Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications, Jeff Kabel
HYBRID MIXTURES OF FACTOR ANALYZERS FOR HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA, Kazeem Abiodun Kareem
MOLECULAR DYNAMICS MODELING OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES, Khatereh Kashmari
GREAT LAKES AND ITS REGIONAL CLIMATE IN THE FUTURE, Miraj Bhakta Kayastha
MOLECULAR MODELING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS FOR ACCELERATING POLYMERIZATION AND PYROLYSIS STUDIES, Joshua D. Kemppainen
CHARACTERIZATION OF KRYPTON PERFORMANCE IN A LABORATORY 300 W MAGNETICALLY SHIELDED HALL-EFFECT THRUSTER, Jacob Henry Knott
DEVELOPING A GRAPHQL MESH FEDERATED API GATEWAY: RAPID INTEGRATION OF NEW ENDPOINTS INTO A PREDEFINED SCHEMA, Noah Kolczynski
Using Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy to Measure Atmospheric Water Vapor Concentrations, Daniel Koshar
PROXIMAL SEISMIC TRACKING OF PYROCLASTIC DENSITY CURRENTS AT VOLCÁN DE FUEGO, GUATEMALA, Jacob A. Krier
UNDERSTANDING THE THERMODYNAMICS AND MASS TRANSFER OF VIRUSES IN AQUEOUS TWO-PHASE SYSTEMS, Seth A. Kriz
Stepper Motor Load Estimation Using a Neural Network, Soham S. Kulkarni
PHASE-FIELD METHOD OF FRACTURE IN FIBER-REINFORCED POLYMER COMPOSITES: THEORY, MODELING, AND VALIDATION, Akash Kumar
Three-Sided Skyline Counting Queries, Suruchi Kushwaha
Direct Methane Capture via Aerobic Methanotrophs, Waaseyaaban Landgren
GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS FOR URBAN RESILIENCE: GREEN SPACE, FLOOD SUSCEPTIBILITY, AND WETLAND RESTORATION POTENTIAL, Jessica LaReaux
Kangaroo: Dynamic Fusion of Branch Instructions in a Pipelined Uniprocessor, Sarah E. Larkin
DAM IT ALL: A MULTI-SCALAR INVESTIGATION INTO THE ECOLOGICAL ROLE AND FUNCTION OF BEAVER DAMS, Kenneth Larsen
Heuristic Approaches for Coordination of Heterogeneous Robotic Systems in Harvesting Automation with Size Constraints, Hyeseon Lee
On graph decompositions: Exploring the stars and stripes problem with odd n-stars, Jehyun Lee
A SEISMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF GROUND DEFORMATION FROM METEOTSUNAMI AND SEICHE ACTIVITY ON LAKE MICHIGAN, Bryan Lowney
FINDING ANTIPATTERNS ACROSS LANGUAGES WITH ABSTRACT SYNTAX TREES, Daniel T. Masker
A VISION BASED AUTONOMOUS UAV REALTIME OIL SPILL SAMPLING, Innocent Mateyaunga
METHOD FOR ASSESSING GASOLINE POWERED INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE EXHAUST ACCUMULATION WHEN IDLING IN ENCLOSED SPACE BY AUTOMATIC SHUT OFF, Eamon McClintock
Utilizing Biometrics and Blockchain for Enhanced Security of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Data Sharing, Amaturrahman Raihanah Medlock
DEVELOPMENT OF A PROTOTYPE FOR AN EARLY ALERT SYSTEM THAT MEASURES STRAINS IN TIMBER ROOF TRUSS MEMBERS, Caleb Kwadwo Osei Mensah
INITIAL FUNGAL DECOMPOSER COMMUNITY DETERMINES WOOD-DERIVED CARBON IN DISCRETE SOIL CARBON POOLS IN ASPEN CLEARCUTS, Theresa K. Meyer
ENERGY TRANSITIONS IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES: MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT TO ADDRESS ENERGY BURDENS AND AIR POLLUTION, Nyasha Milanzi
ULTRASOUND SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY: DEVELOPMENT OF TISSUE MODELS AND INVESTIGATION OF SHEAR WAVE VARIABILITY, Emily J. Miller
ENHANCED MOIRÉ TECHNIQUE FOR REMOTE SENSING OF GROUND MOTION INTEGRATING ACTIVE CONVOLVED ILLUMINATION AND DEEP LEARNING, Adrian Ali Moazzam
From Riches to Ruin: An Exploration of the Conglomerate Mining Company's Compressor House, Jill T. Muraski
"An Ancient Vanished Race:" Industrial Mythistory and the Alternative Archaeology of Lake Superior Copper, Donovan C. Murphy
INTERACTIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF OPTICAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM IN MAGNETO-OPTICAL MATERIAL, Seth R. Nelson
STUDY OF TWO-PHASE VOID FRACTION IN A RECTANGULAR CHANNEL USING CAPACITANCE SENSOR, Peter Ngoc Nguyen
DISTRIBUTING COMPOSITION: RHETORICAL AGENCY IN FIRST-YEAR WRITING, Elizabeth Novotny
LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF RENEWABLE HYDROCARBON FUELS PRODUCED BY THE NEW COOL GAS TO LIQUID (COOL GTL) PROCESS, Elochukwu Okoye
ASSESSING ACTIVATORS OF CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS GERMLINE EXPRESSION USING AN RNA INTERFERENCE SCREEN, Ryleigh A. Parsons
Batteryless NFC-Enabled Wireless Sensor Node: Design, Optimization, and Implementation, Rishin Patra
MACHINE LEARNING DESIGN AND EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTION OF RECYCLED ALUMINUM ALLOYS WITH MAGNESIUM AND IRON, Skylar Patten
DEVELOPMENT AND VERIFICATION OF TESTING PLATFORM FOR TORQUE VECTORING CONTROLLER, Nicholas Petersen
TRIBOELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF LUNAR REGOLITH, Hannah Peterson
TRANSIENT THERMAL FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION FOR PROCESS MODELING IN WIRE ARC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, Satya Sai Kumar Pilli
INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR SYNERGISTIC OPTIMIZATION OF VEHICLE DYNAMICS AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN CONNECTED AND AUTOMATED VEHICLES, Aman Poovalappil
NUMERICAL MODELLING AND CO-OPTIMIZATION OF GASOLINE FUELS FOR GASOLINE COMPRESSION IGNITION USING MULTI COMPONENT APPROACH, Ashwin Karthik Purushothaman
MODIFIED CATECHOL-BASED POLYMERIC BIOMATERIALS FOR ANTIVIRAL, ANTIBACTERIAL, AND HEMOSTATIC APPLICATIONS, Seyedehfatemeh Razaviamri
ROTTEN THROUGH THE CORES: WHAT DECOMPOSITION CAN TELL US ABOUT CARBON CYCLING, Eileen C. Reeves
MICROBIAL INACTIVATION AND SPRAY DRYING FOR THE RECOVERY OF SINGLE-CELL PROTEIN FROM CHEMICALLY DECONSTRUCTED POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE, Reeba Elizabeth Reji
GENERALIZING MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION TASK WITH EFFICIENT DEEP LEARNING MODELS, Abel A. Reyes-Angulo
SUGAR MAPLE (ACER SACCHARUM MARSH.) TREE-RING GROWTH AND CARBON STABLE ISOTOPE RESPONSES TO NITROGEN AND CLIMATE, Libbie Ring
ECOLOGICAL FACTORS THAT DICTATE THE OCCURRENCE OF UNIQUE BIOTA ON GRANITE BEDROCK GLADES, Ryne D. Rutherford
DEVELOPING INEXPENSIVE SENSORS THAT CAN DETECT ROOF COLLAPSE FROM SNOW LOADS, Edward Sandy
RELICT PONDEROSA PINE MORTALITY AND FUELS STUDY IN THE BOB MARSHALL WILDERNESS, MONTANA, USA, Laura K. Schimmel
FROM CONSCIENTIOUS FRENCH CANADIAN TO ENTERPRISING AMERICAN: MAKING MEMORY & MEASURING SOCIAL MOBILITY OF FRENCH CANADIANS 1880-1940, Brooke S. Schwaderer
MICROWAVE ASSISTED SYNTHESES AND CHARACTERIZATIONS OF NEAR-INFRARED RATIOMETRIC PROBES FOR MITOCHONDRIAL pH DETECTION AND MONITORING, Ronald J. Schwandt
FINE ROOT AND ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNCTIONAL TRAITS OF QUERCUS RUBRA POPULATIONS FROM ACROSS A LATITUDINAL GRADIENT, Emma L. Shedd
REVIEW AND DEVELOPMENT OF CENTRALIZED ENGINEERING TOOL FRAMEWORKS TO ENHANCE PRODUCTIVITY AND BRIDGE GAPS IN CURRENT ENGINEERING PROCESSES, Elijah M. Sierra
Linear response of driven non-Hermitian photonic systems, Lucas R. Simonson
COMMUNITY DIVERSITY AND MAKEUP AFFECT THE CAPACITY FOR BIOCONVERSION OF CHEMICALLY DECONSTRUCTED PET PLASTIC WASTE INTO BIOMASS, Hunter Stoddard
Novel Statistical Methods for Multiple Phenotype and Gene Based Association Tests, Megh Raj Subedi
SMALL MAMMAL DIET AS AN INDICATOR OF LYME DISEASE AND THE ROAD TO ENDEMICITY IN MICHIGAN’S UPPER PENINSULA, Jacqueline E. Suits
Bayesian Alloy Design with Additive Synthesis, Michael R. Sulwer
EVALUATING CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS FOR BUCKTHORN CLASSIFICATION IN SHADOWED ENVIRONMENTS, Moses Tangwam
CLIMATE PLANNING, ENERGY SOVEREIGNTY, AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE PERCEPTIONS AMONG MICHIGAN’S TRIBAL NATIONS, Alexis Belle Tater
PROCESS TO DESIGN AND ANALYZE DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT TEST FIXTURES (PDADYE), Cora J. Taylor
Examining Student and Faculty Perspectives on Hidden Curriculum in Computing Education, Joseph R. Teahen
BRIDGING INDIGENOUS AND WESTERN KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS: CENTERING OJIBWE PERSPECTIVES FOR JUST FOREST-CLIMATE FUTURES, Tran Thi Mai Anh
Examining Video-Based Learning in Higher Education, Kay (Catherine) L. Tislar
Computational Hemodynamic Analysis of Pre-treatment Type A and Type B Aortic Dissections, Khadiza Tun Suha
STUDYING THE HADRONIC NATURE OF ULTRA-HIGH-ENERGY GAMMA-RAY EMISSION USING WIDE-FIELD-OF-VIEW INSTRUMENTS, Rhiannon M. Turner
COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS FOR PROTEIN CLASSIFICATION IN METAGENOMES, Fawad Ullah
COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF AORTIC AND ATRIAL FLOWS, Brennan J. Vogl
The Combinatorics of Integer Partitions Enumerated by some Exotic Weights, Hunter Waldron
MICROBIAL HYDROCARBON DEGRADATION AND CARBON CYCLING IN MARINE AND FRESHWATER SEDIMENTS: A COMPARATIVE METAGENOMIC ANALYSIS, Yogita M. Warkhade
Schaper numbers, palindrome partitions, and symmetric functions, with applications to characters of the symmetric group, Karlee J. Westrem
FROM PLASMONICS TO SUPERFLUORESCENCE: ENGINEERING LIGHT- MATTER INTERACTIONS FOR QUANTUM OPTICAL PHENOMENA, Aaron J. Wildenborg
PERFORMANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF WASTE GLASS ASPHALT IN COLD REGIONS, Kai Xin
Effects of Spatial Variability on Bearing Capacity of Deep Soil Mixing Columns, Kipkorir Y. Yano
BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES FROM CATECHOL OXIDATION, Zhongtian Zhang
STATISTICAL METHODS FOR JOINT ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE TYPES OF PHENOTYPES IN GENETIC STUDIES, Meiling Zhou
BOUND PRESERVING DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHODS FOR EULER EQUATIONS AND NONEQUILIBRIUM FLOWS, Fangyao Zhu
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2024
A MULTI-LOSS WASSERSTEIN GAN FRAMEWORK FOR GEOSTATISTICAL SIMULATION, Charles O. Addai
EARLY SCREENING OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE THROUGH VERBAL COMMUNICATION AND USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS (LLMS), Venkatanand ram Addepalli
ESTABLISHING A TWO-COLOR FLUORESCENCE PROBE ASSAY FOR THE SIMULTANEOUS SCREENING OF GLUT5 AND GLUT2 FRUCTOSE TRANSPORTERS IN LIVE CELLS, Oluwanifesimi Mary Afolabi
BAYESIAN INFERENCE OF LONGITUDINAL BINARY AND ORDINAL DATA UTILIZING MULTIVARIATE PROBIT MODELS, Sunyoung Ahn
Exploring the Molecular Pathways of Cell Death Induced by PDE3 Modulators, Aqsa Ahsan
ENHANCING STUDENTS’ USER EXPERIENCE WITH A CODE CRITIQUER, Laura E. Albrant
EXPLORING CONSEQUENCES OF STATUTORY LAW THROUGH LIGHTWEIGHT MODELING, Joshua T. Alele-Beals
Investigating Microphysical Variability and Entrainment in Clouds Using Airborne Digital Holography, Machine Learning, and Large Eddy Simulations, Nithin Allwayin