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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 [13175]
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Masters Theses [18137]
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Undergraduate Theses [11]
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Virginia Tech ETD Resources [11]
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Recent Submissions
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Leader Development or Leader Distress? Examining the Interactive Effects of Leadership Self-Efficacy and Situational Strength on Perceptions of Stress, Performance, and Physiological Responses
(Virginia Tech, 2018)Stress is a concept that can be studied using a variety of theoretical approaches, with a focus on the individual’s perceptions, the external stressor, or the physiological reactions of stress responding. However these ... -
Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Type 1 Diabetes: The Role of Family Environment, Parental Perceived Social Support, and Children's Coping
(Virginia Tech, 2018-07-16)Children diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes face lifetime issues that will affect their health-related quality of life (HRQoL). These challenges require varied coping skills to manage the disease and a commitment to find ways ... -
Strain-based Topology Optimization of a 2D Morphing Transitional Surface
(Virginia Tech, 2018-07-13)Morphing aircraft offer many benefits. However, the design of stiff yet flexible structures still provides many obstacles to fully exploring and realizing morphing structures. Due to this, many morphing challenges remain ... -
Syrian Refugees' Access to Education in Lebanon: Obstacles to Implementation
(Virginia Tech, 2018-07-13)Since the beginning of the civil war in Syria, an estimated 11 million Syrians have fled their homes. The conflict within Syria dramatically increased population flows to neighboring countries, especially Jordan, Turkey, ... -
Differential Perception of Auditory and Visual Aspects of Emotion in 7- to 15-Month-Old Infants
(Virginia Tech, 2018)Infant-directed registers are emotion communication, conveying feelings and intentions to infants and toddlers that may facilitate and modulate attention and language learning. As infants are attracted to emotion, it is ... -
Immunology Virtual Reality (VR): Exploring Educational VR Experience Design for Science Learning
(Virginia Tech, 2018-05-14)Immunology Virtual Reality (VR) project is an immersive educational virtual reality experience that intends to provide an informal learning experience of specific immunology concepts to college freshmen in the Department ... -
Intelligent Goal-Oriented Feedback for Java Programming Assignments
(Virginia Tech, 2018-07-12)Within computer science education, goal-oriented feedback motivates beginners to be engaged in learning programming. As the number of students increases, it is challenging for teaching assistants to cater to all the doubts ... -
Design of a 15MW Solid-State Linear Transformer Driver for Gas Switch Triggering Applications
(Virginia Tech, 2018-05-02)Field-reversed configuration (FRC) research and pulsed high-energy experiments are in a need of an upgrade. Studying nuclear fusion and obtaining high energy yields for flash x-ray radiography using plasma or particles can ... -
REDD+ and Costa Rica, another form of colonialism and commodification of natural resources? An indigenous perspective
(Virginia Tech, 2018-07-11)The primary objective of the international initiative, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), is to conserve carbon by protecting forests and/or planting trees. The World Bank's Forest ... -
Population Dynamics of Threatened Piping Plovers on the Niobrara River, Nebraska
(Virginia Tech, 2018-07-11)Prairie rivers of the Great Plains, USA, provide important habitat for the federally threatened piping plover (“plover”, Charadrius melodus). Plovers nest on open to sparsely vegetated river sandbars, and their demographic ... -
Pulse 63: Live Streaming and Architectural Projection Mapping
(Virginia Tech, 2018-07-11)Pulse63 is a live streaming and projection mapping installation at architectural scale developed for Moogfest 2018, in Durham, NC. The project explores the relationship between telepresence and "superarchitecture". This ... -
Escuela sin Fronteras, School without Borders
(Virginia Tech, 2018-07-11)What is the significance of a border? The lines that separate us are also a part of the framework that define who we are, how we build and where. A border can be as small in scale as a doorway, passing a person from one ... -
The Fiscal Resilience of American Cities
(Virginia Tech, 2018-07-11)This paper brings together the concepts of fiscal health and resilience as they are understood in a contemporary context while seeking to establish whether a quantitative model of analysis can be meaningfully derived and ... -
Playtesting Educational Architecture
(Virginia Tech, 2018-07-11)Architecture and game design both have very similar goals: they both are seeking to create 3-dimensional environments that deliver an optimal user experience. In game design, these environments are simulated, whereas in ... -
Epistemic Overload as Epistemic Injustice
(Virginia Tech, 2018-07-11)Epistemic injustices are the distinctly epistemic harms and wrongs which undermine or depreciate our capacities knowers. This dissertation develops a theory of epistemic injustice and justice which accounts for excesses ... -
Development of Intelligent Exoskeleton Grasping Through Sensor Fusion and Slip Detection
(Virginia Tech, 2018)This thesis explores the field of hand exoskeleton robotic systems with slip detection and its applications. It presents the design and control of the intelligent sensing and force- feedback exoskeleton robotic (iSAFER) ... -
Development of the Mental Toughness Situational Judgment Test: A Novel Approach to Assessing Mental Toughness
(Virginia Tech, 2018)Mental toughness (MT) has been shown to predict outcomes across a variety of high-stress contexts such as athletics, the military, and the workplace. Despite this, researchers have struggled to reach consensus regarding ... -
Wireless Communications and Networking with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Fundamentals, Deployment, and Optimization
(Virginia Tech, 2018-07-10)The use of aerial platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as drones, has emerged as a promising solution for providing reliable and cost-effective wireless communications. In particular, UAVs can ... -
Understanding Use of Transport Network Companies(TNC) in Virginia
(Virginia Tech, 2018-07-09)This study deals with a) Understanding familiarity with transportation network companies (TNCs) and their use frequency b) Understanding travel choices in alcohol-related situations in Virginia. Ordered logistic regression ... -
Virginia Gravity Flow Winery: A Transformative Journey
(Virginia Tech, 2018-07-09)This thesis is embodied by the design of a new gravity flow winery on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Northern Virginia. The 100 acre site is home to an existing winery with grape vines aged over a decade. ...
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