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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Crash Course: The Decisions That Brought Down United Flight 173, Julie Doran Whipple
Defining the Terroir of the Columbia Gorge Wine Region, Oregon and Washington, USA Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Hilary Whitney
Household Food Security and Food Sovereignty : Framing the Future of Hunger and Agriculture, Andrea Wilson
A Microsimulation of Novel Intersection Designs, Aman Kinfemichael Woldetinsae
Intels's Competitive Strategy for Dominance in the Phone Market, Ori Wolman
Exploring the Digital Divide, Amitabha Worcester and Savannah Ernzen
PMO Implementation for Microsoft retail, Amitabha Worcester and Jacqueline McPherson
Selecting the Best Laptop for College Graduate Students, Amitabha Worcester, Shiva Ram Reddy, Kranthi Kumar Reddy, Jacqueline McPherson, and Pratheek Chintala
Testing and Characterizing a Novel Sampling Method for Aerosols : Application of SPE for Oxidized Gas-Phase Compounds, Daniel Wright
Scalable Equivalence Checking for Behavioral Synthesis, Zhenkun Yang
Competitive Analysis on Battery Electricc Vehicle (BEV) Market: A Case Study of Tesla Motor, Chih-Jen Yu
Boeing Drone Project: Marketing Plan, Chih-Jen Yu, Yongjun Lee, Kwasi Boateng, Ritu Chaturvedi, and Pallavi Sandanshiv
Conceptual Writing on a Digital Narrative Project, Shelley Zansler
Motion Cookies - Preliminary Marketing Plan, Pei Zhang, Swati Kar, Timothy Calderwood, Pratheek Chintala, and Sridharkumar Paneerselvam
The Roman Army: Strategy, Tactics, and Innovation, Weiyi Zhou
Nonlinear Analysis and Digital Pre-Distortion of the SC-FDMA Signals in LTE Uplink System, Changwen Zhu
Time-Variant Load Models of Electric Vehicle Chargers, Nicole P. Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Code Switching Between Tamazight and Arabic in the First Libyan Berber News Broadcast: An Application of Myers-Scotton's MLF and 4M Models, Ashour S. Abdulaziz
Wearable Activity Tracker Technology Incremental Innovations and Continuous Impacts Internally, Lakshmi Achary, Nithin Yadav Nimmala Ramesh, Mufeed Yacoub, and Furkan Yildirim
Determinants of Recent Mover Non-work Travel Mode Choice, Arlie Steven Adkins
Building Communities as a Necessary Tool for Sustainability, China G. Ageros
RotoStorage Shelf Storage System, Alden Akeman, Garrett Cheadle, Jared Chin, Louis Duvoisin, Flynn Hutchinson, Paige Hval, Louie Liu, and Yiling Liu
A Comparative Assessment of Crowded Source Travel Time Estimates: A Case Study of Bluetooth vs INRIX on a Suburban Arterial, Fahad Fasha Alhajri