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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Doctoral Dissertations [15108]
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Exploring Teaching Practices of the Agricultural Education at Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU)
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-29)The purpose of this study was to understand the teaching practices of the Agriculture Faculty at Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU). This study is at the intersection of the critical assessment and examination of ... -
Ecology and Climate Tolerance of Emerging Tick Disease Vectors in Central Appalachia/Southwestern Virginia
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-29)Little is known about the tick populations found within the central Appalachian/southwestern region of Virginia. The main focus of this research was to better assess local tick communities in the central Appalachian-Southwestern ... -
Changes in Stormwater Thermal Loads Due to Bioretention Cells
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-29)Trout are an important game species that provide a substantial economic impact in Virginia. Along with other cold-water fish species, trout are extremely susceptible to changes in stream temperatures. Urban development and ... -
A Future for Housing
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-30)This project seeks to propose an ideal model for housing in a future where it is no longer feasible at a lower density. It identifies several characteristics of good housing, primarily: individual response to site, ... -
iLORE: Discovering a Lineage of Microprocessors
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-29)Researchers, benchmarking organizations, and hardware manufacturers maintain repositories of computer component and performance information. However, this data is split across many isolated sources and is stored in a form ... -
Identifying and Prioritizing Critical Information in Military IoT: Video Game Demonstration
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-29)Current communication and network systems are not built for delay-sensitive applications. The most obvious fact is that the communication capacity is only achievable in theory with infinitely long codes, which means ... -
On Affective States in Computational Cognitive Practice through Visual and Musical Modalities
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-29)Learners' affective states correlate with learning outcomes. A key aspect of instructional design is the choice of modalities by which learners interact with instructional content. The existing literature focuses on ... -
Rethinking Dead Mall: Reconsidering an American vacant mall site as a seed for re-growth
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-30)The rapid urban development has impacted a great loss of natural landscape in the U.S in recent years. In the process of urbanization, the population has moved from the city centers to the edges of the Metropolitan or the ... -
Modern Interventions on a Historic Campus
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-29)This thesis is an analysis of methods by which modern interventions uphold the existing architectural fabric of a historic place, thereby establishing a connection and legitimacy that should endure for the life of both the ... -
Good practices of alumni relations professionals leading engagement programs and volunteers in colleges of agriculture at land-grant institutions
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-30)With each new cohort of directors entering the field of alumni relations in agriculture, a pattern emerges. They often are not adequately prepared to assume the responsibilities of the position. There is a perception that ... -
Economic Potential of Rare Earth Elements Within Accessory Minerals of Granitic Pegmatite Mine Tailings
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-29)Rare Earth elements (REEs) are economically important due to their critical applications within multiple industries. This study investigates the Spruce Pine district of North Carolina, testing the economic feasibility of ... -
Optimization, Learning, and Control for Energy Networks
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-30)Massive infrastructure networks such as electric power, natural gas, or water systems play a pivotal role in everyday human lives. Development and operation of these networks is extremely capital-intensive. Moreover, ... -
Dorothy Wordsworth's Distinctive Voice
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-29)The following study is interested in Dorothy Wordsworth's formation of her unique authorial identity and environmental ethos. I attend to her poetry and prose, specifically her journals written at Grasmere and her Recollections ... -
China in Africa. An assessment of China's role in developing infrastructure and providing aid to development projects. An imperialist model of governance? Or is China redefining the way we assess international relations?
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-29)"The original meaning of imperialism was a simple one: 'imperial government,' that is, empire in the classical sense (such as existed in ancient Rome, China, and Greece). In more recent times, imperialism has become ... -
Evaluating Liquefaction Triggering Potential from Induced Seismicity in Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-30)Deep wastewater injection-induced seismicity has led to over a thousand magnitude (Mw) > 3 earthquakes and four Mw>5 earthquakes in Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas (OTK) over the last ten years. Liquefaction observed following ... -
Core Entropy of Finite Subdivision Rules
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-30)The topological entropy of the subdivision map of a finite subdivision rule restricted to the 1-skeleton of its model subdivision complex, which we call textbf{core entropy}, is examined. We consider core entropy for finite ... -
Factors Affecting Heat Transfer from Firebrands and Firebrand Piles and the Ignition of Building Materials
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-30)Firebrands, small pieces of burning vegetation or debris generated by fires, are one of the primary ways wildfires ignite structures. Due to their small size, firebrands can be carried several kilometers by high winds ... -
A geologic and potential field investigation of the central Virginia Piedmont
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1980)The State Farm Antiform is a major structural feature of the eastern Piedmont of Virginia. Exposed in the core of this structure is the easternmost known outcrop of Grenville basement, the State Farm Gneiss. The eastern ... -
The Role of Architecture in Systemic Gender Inequality: National Organization for Women's Headquarters
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-28)Nowadays, the world is facing an ocean of social problems and different types of oppressions and systemic inequality from east Asia all the way to North America can be found regarding this issue. With pointing social ... -
Exploring the K–12 Teacher-Student Relationship: Strategies Teachers Use to Influence Students With Emotional Disabilities' School Experiences
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-28)This study explored the K-12 teacher-student relationship (TSR) by identifying strategies that teachers use to influence students with emotional disabilities' (EDs) school experiences socially, academically, and behaviorally ...
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