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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Demonstration of Optical Microscopy and Image Processing to Classify Respirable Coal Mine Dust Particles
(Virginia Tech, 2021)Inhalation of respirable coal mine dust (RCMD) can lead to chronic lung diseases, including coal worker’s pneumoconiosis (CWP) and more severe forms such as progressive massive fibrosis. After the Federal Coal Mine Health ... -
Emotional Intimacy in Transition: Interpersonal Processes in Transgender-Cisgender Romantic Relationships
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-17)Relationships in which one partner is transgender are disproportionately challenging compared to other LGBQ+ relationships (Gamarel et al., 2014; Pulice-Farrow et al., 2017). While research has yet to examine how ... -
Degrees of Blending in Educational Buildings, Primary School for Children with Autism
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-17)Designing a school for children with Autism was a very enriching experience for me. Being a kid in a school is already a very challenging experience but for an autistic kid it can be very overwhelming. Our building codes ... -
How will well-being insights change architecture in the post-pandemic era?
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-17)The places in which we live have a direct influence on our health and wellbeing. The interest in human health and experience of a space was apparent in the work of 20th century architects such as Le-Corbusier and Alvar ... -
Pre-assessment of the Impact of Design Challenge Fabrication Modality on Engineering Self-Efficacy
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-17)The introduction of project-based learning into university engineering programs has been shown to positively benefit students that prefer a hands-on experience and give future employers assurance that recent graduates have ... -
Identification of Recharge Source Areas in a Fractured Crystalline-rock Aquifer in Ploemeur, France
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-17)Characterizing and preserving available groundwater resources within crystalline rocks is pertinent to understanding and predicting resources for ecosystems worldwide. Crystalline-rock aquifers, with favorable structure ... -
Structure Characterization and Electronic Properties Investigation of Two-Dimensional Materials
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-17)This dissertation will have three chapters. In chapter one, a comprehensive review on defects in two dimensional materials will be presented. The aim of this review is to elaborate on different types of defects in two ... -
Data-Driven Variational Multiscale Reduced Order Modeling of Turbulent Flows
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-16)In this dissertation, we consider two different strategies for improving the projection-based reduced order model (ROM) accuracy: (I) adding closure terms to the standard ROM; and (II) using Lagrangian data to improve the ... -
Reliability Evaluation of Large-Area Sintered Direct Bonded Aluminum Substrates for Medium-Voltage Power Modules
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-16)This thesis investigates techniques for prototyping and evaluation of medium voltage (MV) power module packages. Specific focus will be given to the utilization of silver sintering as a bonding method for high temperature, ... -
Machine Learning for Millimeter Wave Wireless Systems: Network Design and Optimization
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-16)Next-generation cellular systems will rely on millimeter wave (mmWave) bands to meet the increasing demand for wireless connectivity from end user equipment. Given large available bandwidth and small-sized antenna elements, ... -
Loblolly Pine Growth and Competition Response to Varied Chemical Site Preparation Treatments 14 Years After Establishment in the Piedmont of Virginia
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-16)Chemical site preparation is used to enhance the productivity of loblolly pine plantations; however, it is most often combined with other methods and/or chemical release, and has been studied little on its own. Our study, ... -
Codependence: A Novel in Essays
(Virginia Tech, 2016-06-24)The thirteen essays in this collection center on the narrator's shifting relationship to opioid painkillers and other drugs. The narrator and protagonist, Amy, begins using opioids recreationally with her boyfriend Ryan, ... -
Trauma and the PhD
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)In writing this autoethnography, I invite you to enter into my world. It is not a world that is easy, or altogether happy. In the end, though, it is a story of survival and of perseverance. Trauma touches almost every ... -
Co-production of Science and Regulation: Radiation Health and the Linear No-Threshold Model
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)The model used as the basis for regulation of human radiation exposures in the United States has been a source of controversy for decades because human health consequences have not been determined with statistically ... -
Risk Cultures, Beef Traceability, and Food Safety in the United States and Zambia
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)Understanding ways of improving the safety of food is an important area of research. In this project, I explore the history of the food safety systems in the United States and the Republic of Zambia. Focusing on the ... -
Sediment Delivery Ratios and Areas of Forest Operational Features by Physiographic Groupings in the Southeastern U.S.
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)Forests of the Southeastern United States produce approximately 12% of all the world's wood products and represent 40% of all U.S. timberland, thus emphasizing the importance of Southeast in support of the United States' ... -
The Implications of The Sharing Economy for Public Relations Theory and Practice: A Thematic Analysis of Airbnb, Uber and TaskRabbit
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)This thesis presents a public relations perspective of the sharing economy by exploring how three prominent sharing economy companies, Airbnb, Uber and TaskRabbit, communicate to form a relationship with key stakeholders, ... -
Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Actual Play Show: Author, Audience, and Adaptation
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)Though tabletop role-playing games, or TRPGs, have received some scholarly attention since the creation of Dungeons and Dragons in the 1970s, very few scholars have considered how TRPGs function as a vehicle for long-form ... -
Isolated Architecture: Finding Solidarity In Isolation
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)Throughout history, humans have stigmatized solitude. We see it as an inconvenience, something to avoid, a punishment. As a society today, we are constantly locked on to our phones, televisions, friend groups and generally ... -
Increasing Polarization of the Youth Vote
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)On July 1, 1971, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified which prohibited states from denying citizens who had attained the age of eighteen the right to vote. Having passed 96-0 in the ...
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