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 2021
DEFORMATION MANIFOLD LEARNING MODEL FOR MULTI WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES, Shashank S. Pathrudkar
Metagenomic Identification and Classification of the Mercury-Methylating Gene hgcA in Response to Water Table and Plant Functional Group Manipulations in Peat Soil, Madeline Peterson
CASE STUDY OF GRAVITY-FED MOUNTAIN SPRING TAP SYSTEM IN HA LERONTI, LESOTHO, AFRICA, Sarah Peterson
COMPARING SCOOP3D AND GIS-TISSA MODELS FOR SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS IN IDUKKI, KERALA, INDIA, Stepan Pikul
THE INFLUENCE OF DECREASED AMBIENT LIGHTING ON REACTIVE BALANCE MECHANISMS IN YOUNG ADULTS, Jessica Pitts
HYDROLOGIC INVESTIGATION OF THE CHIWAUKEE PRAIRIE (WISCONSIN) RESTORATION, Nick Potter
WHEN DARKNESS DESCENDS: A NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF MATERNAL RESILIENCE FOLLOWING HURRICANE MARIA, Sara Potter
Development of a Method to Model an Enclosed, Coaxial Carbon Nanotube Speaker with Experimental Validation, Suraj Prabhu
An Exploration of the Practice of Engineering as Experienced Through the Capstone Course, Mary Raber
To Examine the Effects of Exercise & Instructional Based Interventions on Executive Functioning, Motor Learning & Emotional Intelligence Abilities Among Older Adults, Lavanya Rajesh Kumar
RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION METHOD FOR COMPUTATIONAL PHOTONICS, Seyed Mostafa Rezaei
SEISMOTECTONIC INTERPRETATION OF AN EXPANSIVE SET OF EARTHQUAKE FOCAL MECHANISMS FROM FIRST MOTIONS AND AMPLITUDE RATIOS ON THE YELLOWSTONE PLATEAU, Cristhian Salas Pazmiño
THE APPLICATION OF LEAKY WAVE ANTENNAS FOR MEDICAL HYPERTHERMIA TREATMENT AND BEAMFORMER IN FMCW AUTOMOTIVE RADAR SYSTEMS, Masoud Sarabi
Economic Sustainability Analysis of Natural Leather Industry, And Its Alternative Advancements, Yogesh Kumar Satish Kumar
CONTROLS ON AUTOTROPHIC RESPIRATION, HETEROTROPHIC RESPIRATION, AND DECOMPOSITION IN NORTHERN FORESTED RIVERS, Renn Schipper
TOWARDS SYSTEMS ON CLOTH: THE DESIGN, MANUFACTURING, AND VALIDATION OF OPEN-SOURCE EMBROIDERED RESISTORS, Somerset Schrock
Impacts of forest tax programs on property tax rates in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Northern Wisconsin, Elsa Schwartz
IMPROVING THE TEMPORAL ACCURACY OF TURBULENCE MODELS AND RESOLVING THE IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES OF FLUID FLOW MODELING, Kyle J. Schwiebert
REGIONAL IMPACTS OF INVASIVE SPECIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE ON BLACK ASH WETLANDS, Joseph Shannon
Anaerobic Reductive Bioleaching of Manganese Ores, Neha Sharma
ACTIVATION SCAVENGING OF AEROSOL : EFFECT OF TURBULENCE AND AEROSOL-COMPOSITION, Abu Sayeed Md Shawon
The Motivation To Volunteer: Understanding Volunteer Motivation at United States Industrial Heritage Museums and Organizations, Cooper Sheldon
FUNCTIONAL GENETIC APPROACHES TO PROVIDE EVIDENCE FOR THE ROLE OF TOOLKIT GENES IN THE EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX COLOR PATTERNS IN DROSOPHILA GUTTIFERA, Mujeeb Olushola Shittu
PHASE-FIELD FRACTURE MODELING FOR INTERLOCKING MICRO-ARCHITECTURED MATERIALS, Shubham Sinha
Volcan de Fuego: A Machine Learning Approach in Understanding the Eruptive Cycles Using Precursory Tilt Signals, Kay Sivaraj
EVALUATING HOUSEHOLD FOOD, ENERGY, AND WATER ENVIRONMENTALLY ORIENTED ANTI-CONSUMPTION IN THE US: TOWARD A COMPREHENSIVE THEORY SYNTHESIS, Jacob Slattery
STUDY ON COOPERATIVE COLLISION-FREE LOCAL PATH PLANNING FOR WHEELED MOBILE ROBOTS, Vasishtha Sohani
TUNING LONGITUDINAL BANDGAPS USING COMPLIANT BISTABLE METASTRUCTURAL DESIGNS, Akshay Soma
A Resolution of Grain Boundary Strengthening Mechanisms by Nanoindentation Induced Local Mechanical Response, Prasad Pramod Soman
AUGMENTED REALITY AS A TOOL FOR INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE EDUCATION AND INTERPRETATIONS, Garand A. Spikberg
Autonomous Vehicle Obstacle Avoidance Maneuvers: Analytical and Experimental Development of Friction Surface Dependent Path Planning and Control, Nathan D. Spike
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN OXIDATION CATALYST FOR A SPARK IGNITED TWO STROKE SNOWMOBILE ENGINE, Noah Squires
THE EFFECT OF NUTRITION ON LONGEVITY AND FERTILITY IN DIVERSE DROSOPHILA: A TOR-MEDIATED PROCESS, Tessa E. Steenwinkel
IMPACT OF HEMODYNAMIC VORTEX SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS ON ANALYSIS OF INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS, Kevin W. Sunderland
Advancement of full-vector variable-temperature magnetometry for rock-magnetic and paleointensity applications, Leonid Surovitskii
An Overview of Converting Kabul’s Traffic Circles and Rotaries to Modern Roundabouts, Mohammad Anas Taeb
APPLICATION OF REMOTE SENSING FOR PERMAFROST MONITORING IN ALASKA, Iuliia V. Tcibulnikova
Evening And Overnight Cardiovascular and Arterial Stiffness Responses To Simulated Binge Drinking, Grant Thivierge
Modeling and Numerical Simulations Of The Michigan Tech Convection Cloud Chamber, Subin Thomas
ANALYZING VARIATION IN DISPERSOID FORMATION IN ALUMINUM ALLOYS BY MINOR CHANGES IN HOMOGENIZATION TEMPERATURE, Brendan Treanore
INVESTIGATING REDOX CHEMISTRY OF GRAPHITE, IRON OXIDE & IRON SURFACES, Mikhail Trought
ELUCIDATING PEATLAND DISTURBANCE ECOLOGY AND CARBON DYNAMICS THROUGH THE LENS OF SOIL USING INFRARED SPECTROMETRY, Dominic Uhelski
Hydrodynamics of Vibrating Perforated Plates, Muhammad Usman
Application of Carbon Nanotube Thermophones as Duct Noise Cancelling Speakers: Using New Technology with Old Theories, Stephania M. Vaglica
CARBON CAPTURE AND UTILIZATION, Sriram Valluri
ANALYTICAL ASSESSMENT OF PROJECT COMPLEXITY: A GUIDE TO MANAGING PROJECTS THROUGH REDUCTION OF COMPLEXITY, Christopher VanArsdale
REGENERATION PATTERNS IN SILVICULTURAL OPENINGS OF WESTERN GREAT LAKES NORTHERN HARDWOOD FORESTS 15-24 YEARS POST-HARVEST, Matthew S. VanderMolen
GAS AND HEAT FLUXES DURING MULTIPLE EFFUSIVE ERUPTIONS OF PITON DE LA FOURNAISE (RÉUNION) AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR MAGMATIC PROCESSES, Pauline Verdurme
Integer Partitions Under Certain Finiteness Conditions, Tim Wagner
CHINESE WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, Hua Wang
HIGH PERFORMANCE SPECTRAL METHODS FOR GRAPH-BASED MACHINE LEARNING, Yongyu Wang
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEAR-INFRARED FLUORESCENT PROBES FOR SENSING pH, HYPOXIA AND PEROXYNITRITE, Shulin Wan
ACTIVE GRAVITY OFFLOADING SYSTEM WITH INFRARED TRACKING FOR ROVER TESTING, Travis Wavrunek
Novel Methods in Computational Imaging with Applications in Remote Sensing, Adam Webb
NOVEL NEW MODELING PROCEDURE FOR INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY WITH NONLINEAR CONNECTIONS, Steven Whitican
COMMISSIONING AND TESTING OF A NEW DUSTY THERMAL VACUUM CHAMBER, Ben Wiegand
Mapping Michigan's Historic Coastlines, Ryan A. Williams
TORREFACTION OF MIXED SOLID WASTE, Zhuo Xu
Efficient Modeling of Random Sampling-Based LRU Cache, Junyao Yang
Comparison of Path Planning Approaches of Autonomous Vehicles for Obstacle Avoidance Application, Duo Zhang
Lithium-ion Battery Recycling Using Mineral Processing Methods, Ruiting Zhan
HIGH INJECTION PRESSURE IMPINGING DIESEL SPRAY CHARACTERISTICS AND SUBSEQUENT SOOT FORMATION IN REACTING CONDITIONS, Zhihao Zhao
ELECTRICAL POWER TAKE-OFF SYSTEM DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT FOR POINT ABSORBER WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER, Xiang Zhou
DISCRETE ELEMENT SIMULATION OF ASPHALT MIXTURE FROM MODELING TO APPLICATION, Xiaodong Zhou
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2020
Life History Variation in Migratory Salmonid Populations, Christopher Adams
HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING TO PREDICT THE RESPONSE OF CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE, Rukayat Bukola Adeosun
INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF EXPLANATION ON REPAIRING TRUST IN AI DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS FOR RE-DIAGNOSIS, Lamia Alam
DYNAMIC TESTING: AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO DEFECT IDENTIFICATION IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED PARTS, Aimee Allen
MULTISCALE MODELING OF CARBON FIBERS/GRAPHENE NANOPLATELETS/EPOXY HYBRID COMPOSITES FOR AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS, Hashim Al Mahmud
EFFECT OF COBALT IN THIN WALL DUCTILE IRON AND SOLID SOLUTION STRENGTHENED FERRITIC DUCTILE IRON, Alejandra I. Almanza
LIPEMIA LEVELS ANALYSIS FROM HUMAN BLOOD SAMPLES, Zainab Ibrahim Alshoug
VIRUS-LIKE PARTICLE VACCINE MANUFACTURING FROM YEAST, Ananya Ananya
INNOVATIVE SUSTAINABLE WOOD PRESERVATIVES FROM PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY BYPRODUCT, Raisa Carmen Andeme Ela
SYSTEMS ANALYSIS FOR SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT OF BIOGAS AND BIO-CH4 PRODUCTION FROM FOOD WASTE AND DAIRY MANURE MIXTURES IN THE US, Sharath Kumar Ankathi
Dynamic Dependency Collapsing, Görkem Aşılıoğlu
Sensitivity and Uncertainty Quantification of Continuum and Stochastic Bond Dissociation Kinetics Based Cohesive Laws, Rishabh Awasthi
Sub-Sampled Matrix Approximations, Joy Azzam
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CREATE WINDFALL OF OPPORTUNITY FOR ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT OF MIXED NORTHERN HARDWOODS, Elizabeth Montgomery Barnes
3D PRINTING OF IRON OXIDE INCORPORATED POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE SOFT MAGNETIC ACTUATOR, Rasoul Bayaniahangar
EXPLORING SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY OF FRUCTOSE TRANSPORTERS EN ROUTE TO GLUT SPECIFIC PROBES FOR BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS, Vagarshak Vigenovich Begoyan
IMPLEMENTATION OF A CHANNEL-AWARE ROUTING PROTOCOL IN THE NETWORK SIMULATOR FOR UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION NETWORKING, Adesoji Bello
TECHNO-ECONOMIC AND LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF INNOVATIVE ROUTES TO CHEMICAL PRODUCTS, Kaled Bentaher
The Stained Glass of Knowledge: On Understanding Novice Mental Models of Computing, Briana Christina Bettin
LIFE CYCLE INFORMATION MODELS WITH PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS TO FACILITATE THE USE OF LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT OUTCOMES IN PAVEMENT DESIGN DECISION-MAKING, Chaitanya Ganesh Bhat
OPTICAL DISPERSION RELATIONS FROM THREE-DIMENSIONAL CHIRAL GOLD NANOCUBES IN PERIODIC ARRAYS, Manpreet Boora
SOIL SUSTAINABILITY OF FOREST BIOENERGY FEEDSTOCKS ACROSS THE AMERICAS, Michelle Brill
ROCK MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF THE L5 ORDINARY CHONDRITE DAULE, Katie E. Bristol
DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF EURASIAN WATERMILFOIL WITH MULTISPECTRAL DRONE-ENABLED SENSING, Colin Brooks
Nanofiber Scaffolds as 3D Culture Platforms, Stephanie Bule
RAIN GENERATED LAHARS PRIOR TO THE 2018 CATASTROPHIC ERUPTION OF FUEGO VOLCANO, GUATEMALA, Claudia Buondonno
PHYSICAL MODELING OF THE KRAUKLIS WAVES: INSIGHTS FROM TWO EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUSES, Haitao Cao
QUANTIFYING WATER RECHARGE AND WATER USE IN HAND DUG WELLS: A CASE STUDY OF THIAWOR, SENEGAL, WEST AFRICA, Celine Carus
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE FLOW CHAMBER FOR SHEAR FLOW MECHANOTRANSMISSION STUDIES, Mohanish Chandurkar
A CYTOKINE-INDUCED PLATELET-TYPE PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE (PFKP) REGULATING GLUCOSE-STIMULATED INSULIN SECRETION, Xinqian Chen