Explore our collection of open access dissertations, master's theses and master's reports from Michigan Technological University below.
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2022
RHETORIC OF SURROGACY: RE-CONSIDERING AGENCY THROUGH EMBODIED PERFORMANCE, Ann Kitalong-Will
SALT WATER INTRUSION IN WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS: ANALYSIS, SOLUTION, AND ECO-EFFICIENCY, Darud E Sheefa
SEARCHING FOR ANOMALOUS EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS USING THE PIERRE AUGER OBSERVATORY FLUORESCENCE DETECTOR, Andrew Puyleart
SELF-OSCILLATING INDUCTION HEATER, Patrick Rice
SIMULATING GROUNDWATER POLLUTANT TRANSPORT FOR REMEDIATION DESIGN, ANTRIM COUNTY, MICHIGAN, Abilynn Raetz
SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY OF NITROGEN CYCLING WITHIN AND ACROSS FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, Erin K. Eberhard
STABILITY APPROXIMATION METHOD FOR PULSE LOADS IN POWER ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS, Eduardo A. Marmol D
Study of Electric Vehicle Smart Charging and Energy Management for Vehicle-Grid Integration Systems, Zhouquan Wu
SYNTHETIC AUGMENTATION METHODS FOR OBJECT DETECTION IN OVERHEAD IMAGERY, Nicholas R. Hamilton
The Decline of Lake Superior's Woodland Caribou: A Historical GIS Analysis, Jordan W. Kelley
The Impact of Food Deprivation on Cardiovascular Physiology, Steven Philip Stelly
THE LANGUAGE OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE RHETORIC OF LIBERIAN PRESIDENTS, Tolulope Aina Odebunmi
THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION ON OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF 2D MATERIALS AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYMER COMPOSITES AT MOLECULAR LEVEL, Geeta Sachdeva
THE PHOTO-TRANSFORMATION OF FREE METHIONINE IN THE PRESENCE OF SURROGATE AND STANDARD ISOLATE DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER UNDER SUNLIT IRRADIATION, Benjamin J. Mohrhardt
THERMOMECHANICAL EVOLUTION OF A MAGMATIC SYSTEM DURING A CALDERA CYCLE: OKATAINA VOLCANIC CENTER, NEW ZEALAND, Jacob Bonessi
THE VARIABILITY OF THE SATURATION RATIO IN CLOUDS, Jesse C. Anderson
TOWARD DEEP LEARNING EMULATORS FOR MODELING THE LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE, Neerav Kaushal
TOWARDS A CIRCULAR ECONOMY: LIQUID-FED FAST PYROLYSIS OF WASTE POLYOLEFIN PLASTICS, Daniel G. Kulas
TROPHIC ECOLOGY AND MERCURY BIOACCUMULATION AMONG LAKE SUPERIOR LAKE TROUT ECOTYPES, Dalton C. Norris
UNDERSTANDING STRENGTH OF DRIED IRON ORE PELLETS, Victor Claremboux
UTILITY SCALE AGRIVOLTAICS DEVELOPMENT PROXIMATE TO MICHIGAN COMMUNITIES WITH 100% RENEWABLE ENERGY GOALS, Kabanda Herve Christian Sheja
VIRTUAL MACHINE INTROSPECTION TOOL DESIGN ANALYSIS, Justin Martin
Water Woes Worsen: Middle Rio Grande Reservoir Modeling Projects Declining Water Availability Under Climate Change Simulations, Robyn Holmes
Wireless Power Transfer In Autonomous Mobile Microgrids, Carl Greene
WORD GAMES FOR EDUCATION: INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ADDING ELABORATION TASKS TO CROSSWORDS FOR LEARNING TECHNICAL VOCABULARY, Warat Khaewratana
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2021
A COMBUSTION MODEL FOR MULTI-COMPONENT FUELS BASED ON RELATIVE REACTIVITY AND MOLECULAR STRUCTURE, Arash Jamali
A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF PROPERTIES OF CORE-SHELL NANOWIRE HETEROSTRUCTURES USING DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY, Sandip Aryal
ACTIVATION SCAVENGING OF AEROSOL : EFFECT OF TURBULENCE AND AEROSOL-COMPOSITION, Abu Sayeed Md Shawon
ACTIVE GRAVITY OFFLOADING SYSTEM WITH INFRARED TRACKING FOR ROVER TESTING, Travis Wavrunek
Advancement of full-vector variable-temperature magnetometry for rock-magnetic and paleointensity applications, Leonid Surovitskii
AGE, GROWTH, AND OTOLITH MICROCHEMISTRY OF GOLDEN TILEFISH (LOPHOLATILUS CHAMAELEONTICEPS) IN THE NW ATLANTIC, Katy Dawson
A METHODOLOGY FOR THE CREATION OF VOLCANIC GAS HAZARD MAPS USING SATELLITE-DERIVED SULFUR DIOXIDE, Sanna J. Mairet
Anaerobic Reductive Bioleaching of Manganese Ores, Neha Sharma
ANALYTICAL ASSESSMENT OF PROJECT COMPLEXITY: A GUIDE TO MANAGING PROJECTS THROUGH REDUCTION OF COMPLEXITY, Christopher VanArsdale
ANALYZING VARIATION IN DISPERSOID FORMATION IN ALUMINUM ALLOYS BY MINOR CHANGES IN HOMOGENIZATION TEMPERATURE, Brendan Treanore
An Overview of Converting Kabul’s Traffic Circles and Rotaries to Modern Roundabouts, Mohammad Anas Taeb
Anterior cruciate ligament injury incidence across sex, sport, and level: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Dana Anderson
Application of Carbon Nanotube Thermophones as Duct Noise Cancelling Speakers: Using New Technology with Old Theories, Stephania M. Vaglica
APPLICATION OF REMOTE SENSING FOR PERMAFROST MONITORING IN ALASKA, Iuliia V. Tcibulnikova
APPLICATIONS OF MACHINE LEARNING IN MICROBIAL FORENSICS, Ryan B. Ghannam
A Resolution of Grain Boundary Strengthening Mechanisms by Nanoindentation Induced Local Mechanical Response, Prasad Pramod Soman
A SOFTWARE TOOL FOR USING AN AUGMENTED REALITY SANDBOX TO CALCULATE VOLUME CHANGE, Dante Paglia
Atomistic continuum simulations for nano-indentation and compression of multi-layer graphene, Ashwini Nikumbh
ATOMISTIC MONTE CARLO SIMULATION STUDY OF PHASE TRANSITIONS IN METAL ALLOYS, Xiaoxu Guo
A TRANSDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS OF JUST TRANSITION PATHWAYS TO 100% RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY, Adewale Aremu Adesanya
AUGMENTED REALITY AS A TOOL FOR INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE EDUCATION AND INTERPRETATIONS, Garand A. Spikberg
AUXIN-INDUCED DEGRADATION OF DREAM PROTEINS, LIN-9 AND LIN-54, IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS, Karli E. Chosa
BASE-LABILE PROTECTING GROUPS FOR STEPWISE PEG SYNTHESIS, Logan D. Mikesell
Base Vibration Effects on Additive Manufactured Part Quality: A Study of 3D Printing Onboard U.S. Navy Ships, Nick Jensen
Blind Direct Walking Distance Judgment Research: A Best Practices Guide, Crystal Massoglia
CARBON CAPTURE AND UTILIZATION, Sriram Valluri
CASE STUDY OF GRAVITY-FED MOUNTAIN SPRING TAP SYSTEM IN HA LERONTI, LESOTHO, AFRICA, Sarah Peterson
CHINESE WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, Hua Wang
COBALT, MOLYBDENUM, AND NICKEL COMPLEXES, NATURAL ZEOLITES, EPOXIDATION, AND FREE RADICAL REACTIONS, Nicholas K. Newberry
COMMISSIONING AND TESTING OF A NEW DUSTY THERMAL VACUUM CHAMBER, Ben Wiegand
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BIOCIDES AND NANOPARTICLES ON BACTERIAL MICROORGANISMS, Rehab Alhajjar
COMPARING SCOOP3D AND GIS-TISSA MODELS FOR SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS IN IDUKKI, KERALA, INDIA, Stepan Pikul
CONSTRUCTION AND ANALYSIS OF GENETIC REGULATORY NETWORKS WITH RNA-SEQ DATA FROM ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA, Tessa Kriz
CONTROLS ON AUTOTROPHIC RESPIRATION, HETEROTROPHIC RESPIRATION, AND DECOMPOSITION IN NORTHERN FORESTED RIVERS, Renn Schipper
Defect Detection using Dynamic Analysis for Additive Manufactured Metals, Gita Deonarain
DEFORMATION MANIFOLD LEARNING MODEL FOR MULTI WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES, Shashank S. Pathrudkar
DENITRIFICATION AND NITROGEN FIXATION COMMONLY CO-OCCUR BUT RATES VARY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AND IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS, Kevin Nevorski
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN OXIDATION CATALYST FOR A SPARK IGNITED TWO STROKE SNOWMOBILE ENGINE, Noah Squires
Design and Testing of an Open Source Vacuum Oven for Research, Community Recycling, and Additive Manufacturing, Benjamin R. Hubbard
Detecting Surface Interactions via a Wearable Microphone to Improve Augmented Reality Text Entry, R. Habibi
DETERMINATION OF MOLECULAR MARKERS OF VACCINIUM BERRY STANDARD REFERENCE MATERIALS THROUGH DIFFERENTIAL ANALYSIS WITH ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION LC/MS, Abby Mikolitis
Deterministic and statistical methods for inverse problems with partial data, Yanfang Liu
DEVELOPING ELECTROMAGNETIC AND PHOTONIC DEVICES BY USING ARTIFICIAL DIELECTRIC MATERIALS, Saeid Jamilan
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING ALGORITHM FOR ECO APPROACH AND DEPARTURE, Vasu Goyal
Development of a Method to Model an Enclosed, Coaxial Carbon Nanotube Speaker with Experimental Validation, Suraj Prabhu
DEVELOPMENT OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE MOTION PLANNING AND CONTROL ALGORITHM WITH D* PLANNER AND MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL IN A DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT, Somnath Mondal
Development of the Carbon Nanotube Thermoacoustic Loudspeaker, Troy Bouman
Dynamic Characteristics of DC-DC Converters with Coupled and Nonlinear Magnetics, Chaitanya Inamdar
Economic Sustainability Analysis of Natural Leather Industry, And Its Alternative Advancements, Yogesh Kumar Satish Kumar
EFFECTS OF MICROPOROUS STRUCTURE ON THE ENZYMATIC CONVERSION OF BIOMASS USING A MULTISCALE MODEL, Saketh Merugu
Efficient Modeling of Random Sampling-Based LRU Cache, Junyao Yang
ELECTRICAL POWER TAKE-OFF SYSTEM DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT FOR POINT ABSORBER WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER, Xiang Zhou
ELUCIDATING PEATLAND DISTURBANCE ECOLOGY AND CARBON DYNAMICS THROUGH THE LENS OF SOIL USING INFRARED SPECTROMETRY, Dominic Uhelski
ENHANCING PEER FEEDBACK STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE TEAM EFFECTIVENESS, Amber Kemppainen
Estimating red wolf ancestry in a population of canids on Galveston Island, Texas, Tanner Barnes
EVALUATING HOUSEHOLD FOOD, ENERGY, AND WATER ENVIRONMENTALLY ORIENTED ANTI-CONSUMPTION IN THE US: TOWARD A COMPREHENSIVE THEORY SYNTHESIS, Jacob Slattery
EVALUATING LONG-TERM GROWTH AND YIELD IN UPPER GREAT LAKES REGION NORTHERN HARDWOODS CUTTING TRIALS, Maeve Draper
Evening And Overnight Cardiovascular and Arterial Stiffness Responses To Simulated Binge Drinking, Grant Thivierge
EXPLAINABLE FEATURE- AND DECISION-LEVEL FUSION, Siva Krishna Kakula
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
GAS AND HEAT FLUXES DURING MULTIPLE EFFUSIVE ERUPTIONS OF PITON DE LA FOURNAISE (RÉUNION) AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR MAGMATIC PROCESSES, Pauline Verdurme
HIGH INJECTION PRESSURE IMPINGING DIESEL SPRAY CHARACTERISTICS AND SUBSEQUENT SOOT FORMATION IN REACTING CONDITIONS, Zhihao Zhao
HIGH PERFORMANCE SPECTRAL METHODS FOR GRAPH-BASED MACHINE LEARNING, Yongyu Wang
HYDROCARBON BIODEGRADATION AND MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION IN FRESHWATER SYSTEMS AND ENRICHMENT CULTURES, Emma Byrne
Hydrodynamics of Vibrating Perforated Plates, Muhammad Usman
HYDROLOGIC INVESTIGATION OF THE CHIWAUKEE PRAIRIE (WISCONSIN) RESTORATION, Nick Potter
IMPACT OF HEMODYNAMIC VORTEX SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS ON ANALYSIS OF INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS, Kevin W. Sunderland
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