ETDs: Virginia Tech Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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Virginia Tech has been a worldwide 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 also currently digitizing thousands of pre-1997 theses and dissertations and loading them into VTechWorks. As of February 2017, 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.
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 [12751]
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Masters Theses [17871]
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VT ETD Resources [11]
Documentation about creating and formatting VT ETDs.
Recent Submissions
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Genetic Engineering of Functional Large Amyloid Fibers
(Virginia Tech, 2016-01-29)"Template" and "adder" proteins can be genetically encoded to produce large amyloid fibers when mixed together. Escherichia coli is used to clone a "template" protein, Gd20, which will cooperatively self-assemble with two ... -
Dynamics of Micro-Particles in Complex Environment
(Virginia Tech, 2017-07-21)Micro-particles are ubiquitous in microsystems. The effective manipulation of micro-particles is often crucial for achieving the desired functionality of microsystems and requires a fundamental understanding of the particle ... -
RTL Functional Test Generation Using Factored Concolic Execution
(Virginia Tech, 2017-07-21)This thesis presents a novel concolic testing methodology and CORT, a test generation framework that uses it for high-level functional test generation. The test generation effort is visualized as the systematic unraveling ... -
New vs Old: New Architecture of Purpose in Old Settings.
(Virginia Tech, 2017-07-20)New architecture will invariable be placed next to the old architecture because cities and human settlements last for generations and as humans and tribal species we invariably congregate and build new buildings to live-in, ... -
The Animal Life
(Virginia Tech, 2017-07-20)My interest in animals takes me in the following direction: In order to (attempt) to understand different animals, and use them as partners in looking at the world and at myself, I'll employ speculative extrapolation, ... -
Innovative Self-Centering Connection for CCFT Composite Columns
(Virginia Tech, 2016-01-27)Concrete filled steel tubes are regarded as ideal frame members in seismic resisting systems, as they combine large axial and flexural capacity with ductility. The combination of the two materials increases the strength ... -
The conjured drawings of Carlo Scarpa: a magic-real inquiry into architectural representation
(Virginia Tech, 2016-01-27)This dissertation proposes a theory of architectural representation based on a close examination of Carlo Scarpa's drawing practices at the Brion cemetery located in San Vito d'Altivole, Italy. Informed by the literary ... -
A High Temperature Wideband Low Noise Amplifier
(Virginia Tech, 2016-01-27)As the oil industry continues to drill deeper to reach new wells, electronics are being required to operate at extreme pressures and temperatures. Coupled with substantial real-time data targets, the need for robust high ... -
A High Temperature Wideband Power Amplifier for a Downhole Communication System
(Virginia Tech, 2016-01-27)As the oil industry continues to drill deeper to reach previously untapped wells, the operating environments for electronic systems become harsher, especially due to high temperatures. It is essential to design electronic ... -
Bio-Inspired Trailing Edge Noise Control: Acoustic and Flow Measurements
(Virginia Tech, 2017-05-09)Trailing edge noise control is an important problem associated mainly with wind turbines. As turbulence in the air flows over a wind turbine blade, it impacts the trailing edge and scatters, producing noise. Traditional ... -
Game-Aided Education for Transportation Engineering: Design, Development, and Assessment
(Virginia Tech, 2017-05-04)Transportation engineering is a wide area that covers different topics including traffic planning, highway design, pavement design, traffic safety, and traffic control. Certain concepts in those topics are challenging and ... -
Efficient Operation of Diesel Generator Sets in Remote Conditions
(Virginia Tech, 2017-07-19)Diesel engine and generator sets (gensets) have been extensively used for standby and remote power generation over the past hundred years. Due to their use for standby power, these diesel gensets are designed to operate ... -
Young People's Attitudes on Art Infusion Advertising on Social Media: Focus Groups with Chinese Students
(Virginia Tech, 2017-07-19)In China, advertisements posted by online influencers on social media platforms have become a new trend of marketing. Through the lenses of art-infusion theory and the entertainment overcoming resistance model, this study ... -
Post-Orogenic Exhumation and Glacial Erosion on the Flanks of the North Atlantic
(Virginia Tech, 2017-07-19)Many passive margins experience pulsed exhumation events late in their history as a result of plate boundary distal geodynamic mechanisms or climatic events. The onset of late Cenozoic glaciation, often associated with ... -
Performance Measurement and Analysis of Transactional Web Archiving
(Virginia Tech, 2017-07-19)Web archiving is necessary to retain the history of the World Wide Web and to study its evolution. It is important for the cultural heritage community. Some organizations are legally obligated to capture and archive Web ... -
Continuum Sensitivity Analysis for Shape Optimization in Incompressible Flow Problems
(Virginia Tech, 2017-07-18)An important part of an aerodynamic design process is optimizing designs to maximize quantities such as lift and the lift-to-drag ratio, in a process known as shape optimization. It is the goal of this thesis to develop ... -
Irrigator Responses to Changes in Water Availability in Idaho's Snake River Plain
(Virginia Tech, 2017-07-18)Understanding irrigator responses to previous changes in water availability is critical to building effective institutions that allow for efficient and resilient management of water resources in the face of potentially ... -
Smartphone Privacy in Citizen Science
(Virginia Tech, 2017-07-18)Group signature schemes enable anonymous-yet-accountable communications. Such a capability is extremely useful for modern applications such as smartphone-based crowdsensing and citizen science. A prototype named GROUPSENSE ... -
The Language of Ethical Encounter: Levinas, Otherness, and Contemporary Poetry
(Virginia Tech, 2017-07-18)According to philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas, alterity can exist only in its infinite and fluid nature in which the aspects of it that exceed the human ability to fully understand it remain unthematized in language. Levinas ... -
Development of Advanced Internal Cooling Technologies for Gas Turbine Airfoils under Stationary and Rotating Conditions
(Virginia Tech, 2017-07-18)Higher turbine inlet temperatures (TIT) are required for higher overall efficiency of gas turbine engines. Due to the constant push towards achieving high TIT, the heat load on high pressure turbine components has been ...
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