ETDs: Virginia Tech Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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Virginia Tech has been a world leader in electronic theses and dissertation initiatives for more than 20 years. On January 1, 1997, Virginia Tech was the first university to require electronic submission of theses and dissertations (ETDs). Ever since then, Virginia Tech graduate students have been able to prepare, submit, review, and publish their theses and dissertations online and to append digital media such as images, data, audio, and video.
University Libraries staff are currently digitizing thousands of pre-1997 theses and dissertations and loading them into VTechWorks. Most of these theses and dissertations are fully available to the public, but we will, in general, honor requests by the item's author to restrict access to Virginia Tech only. See our process for Requesting that Material be Amended or Removed.
To search all Virginia Tech print and digital theses and dissertations, use the University Libraries ETD resource guide.
Materials that are restricted to Virginia Tech only may be requested via your own university or public library's Interlibrary Loan program or through the VTechWorks request form that appears when you try to access the item. You might also be able to obtain a copy of the work through ProQuest's database of theses and dissertations. If you are on a Virginia Tech campus but are unable to find the pre-1997 thesis or dissertation you are seeking in VTechWorks, you may also be able to order a physical copy from library storage. Please check the library catalog at http://www.lib.vt.edu/ for physical copies.
The guidelines that apply to Virginia Tech's graduate students as ETD authors can be found at http://guides.lib.vt.edu/ETDguide.
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Dynamics of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) towing another AUV
(Virginia Tech, 2023-04-26)This thesis proposes a method to simulate the dynamics of an autonomous underwater vehicle towing another autonomous underwater vehicle of equivalent size using a marine cable in the vertical and horizontal plane. There ... -
Joint Biomedical Event Extraction and Entity Linking via Iterative Collaborative Training
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05)Biomedical entity linking and event extraction are two crucial tasks to support text understanding and retrieval in the biomedical domain. These two tasks intrinsically benefit each other: entity linking disambiguates the ... -
Kinetic Memory: Rethinking Aging in Place
(Virginia Tech, 2023-07-21)As the average age of life expectancy continues to rise, so too has the number of elderly individuals seeking long-term care. Performing daily tasks becomes a struggle while those affected by Alzheimer's disease and dementia ... -
Northern Reach: Architecture of a Thawing Arctic
(Virginia Tech, 2023-07-21)As our climate continues to shift, it is fundamental to understanding these unprecedented changes through field research done in biomes most critically impacted. Due to the remoteness and extreme climatic nature of these ... -
Walkability: Suburban plaza Revitalization- A case study of Improving Walkability along Duke Street
(Virginia Tech, 2023-07-21)In recent years, there has been a growing recognition regarding the importance of walkability in urban design. Walking, as the most common form of physical activity, has gained recognition for its numerous benefits. While ... -
The Upper city
(Virginia Tech, 2023-07-21)This architectural thesis challenges the conventional perception of cities as horizontally sprawling realms dominated by towering edifices and skyscrapers. Inspired by Rem Koolhaas' influential book "Delirious New York," ... -
CRIU-RTX: Remote Thread eXecution using Checkpoint/Restore in Userspace
(Virginia Tech, 2023-07-21)Scaling up application performance on single high-end machines is increasingly becoming difficult due to scalability challenges of processor interconnects, cache coherence protocols, and memory bandwidth. Significant prior ... -
Same Shit, Different Day
(Virginia Tech, 2023-07-21)"Same Shit, Different Day" is a collection of three VR installations portraying short, looping animations. I am exploring routines and patterns I find myself and the people around me in to draw attention to the ways in ... -
Analyzing and Navigating Electronic Theses and Dissertations
(Virginia Tech, 2023-07-21)Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) contain valuable scholarly information that can be of immense value to the scholarly community. Millions of ETDs are now publicly available online, often through one of many digital ... -
aiWATERS: An Artificial Intelligence Framework for the Water Sector
(Virginia Tech, 2023-07-20)The ubiquity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) applications has led to their widespread adoption across diverse domains like education, self-driving cars, healthcare, and more. AI is making its way ... -
Secondary School-Based Leaders' Preferred Grading Practices and the Impact of their Preferred Grading Practices on their Respective Schools
(Virginia Tech, 2023-07-20)The practice of grading students based on classroom performance has existed for centuries. Grading practices can look different depending on the division, school, or department. This study looked at lived experiences of ... -
Focused Ultrasound Methods for the treatment of Tendon Injuries
(Virginia Tech, 2023-07-19)Tendon injuries are prevalent, debilitating and difficult to treat. Common interventions such as anti-inflammatory medication, growth factor injections and surgery are associated with short-term efficacy and long rehabilitation ... -
Understanding Interfacial Kinetics of Catalytic Carbon Dioxide Transformations from Multiscale Simulations
(Virginia Tech, 2023-07-19)Carbon dioxide (CO2), as a greenhouse gas, has shown to achieve the highest level in history, causes the global warming issue, leading to a 1.2 ℃ increase of the global average temperature. The consumption of fossil fuels ... -
Glanceable AR: Towards a Pervasive and Always-On Augmented Reality Future
(Virginia Tech, 2023-07-06)Augmented reality head-worn displays (AR HWDs) have the potential to assist personal computing and the acquisition of everyday information. With advancements in hardware and tracking, these devices are becoming increasingly ... -
Investigation of Multiphase Coupled Inductor Topologies for Point-of-Load Applications
(Virginia Tech, 2023-07-18)As a scalable, high-efficiency, and simple converter topology, an interleaved, multiphase buck converter has been widely used to power microprocessors in information industry. As modern microprocessors continuously advance, ... -
Perspectives
(Virginia Tech, 2023-07-18)The five senses are something we rely on to perceive our external world. Through an architectural sense, meditative and relaxing experiences establish themselves. How one is influenced by their surroundings a sense of self ... -
Food Supplies and Demand Reliant on Large Irrigation Dams
(Virginia Tech, 2023-07-18)Water is an integral part of agricultural practices, with agriculture being the largest user of surface water in the United States. Agriculture's reliance on surface water is strengthening as climate change and growing ... -
Fate and Transport of E. coli Through Appalachian Karst Systems
(Virginia Tech, 2023-07-17)Karst waters serve as important water sources in rural Appalachia and are well-connected to surface waters, making them susceptible to anthropogenic contamination, including by fecal indicator bacteria which represent a ... -
Dual-Use Strain Sensors for Acoustic Emission and Quasi-Static Bending Measurements
(Virginia Tech, 2023-07-17)The application of piezoelectric sensors such as the ultrasonic transducer has significantly enhanced the fields of nondestructive evaluation (NDE). Their application of piezoelectric materials allows for the sensing of ... -
Objects in Protest: Bread and Puppet Theater's (Non)Human Solidarities
(Virginia Tech, 2023-07-17)Bread and Puppet Theater's use of performing objects offers an aperture to contemplate complex assemblages that blur lines between the human and the nonhuman. Drawing upon cultural studies, feminist materialism, circus ...
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