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Browsing Student Honors Theses by Title

Browsing Student Honors Theses by Title

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  • The Darker the Skin, the Harder the Road: An Examination of India's and Brazil's Education Systems for Dalits and Pardos/Pretos 
    Oliveira, Kelsey I. (2018-04-27)
    In the pursuit of better understanding discrimination within the education systems of India and Brazil, my thesis discusses how these two countries connect, presents a brief history of their education systems, and examines ...
  • Data Analysis and Recommendations for Meeting ABET Criteria: A Report 
    Meighan, Melanie M. (2018-05-06)
    ABET, previously known as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, but now simply as ABET, observes, evaluates, and accredits colleges and universities through the Engineering Accreditation Commission.2 ...
  • Data Logging and Interactive Documentation for Engineering Department Wind Tunnel 
    Plesmid, Zachary L. (2020-05-04)
    The primary focus of this project was to improve and increase the use of Alfred University’s wind tunnel. This goal required a multifaceted approach which included confirmation that the wind tunnel functioned, creation of ...
  • Decoding Human Nonverbal Communication: Does Experience with Horses Enhance Skill Level? 
    Warren, Gabrielle Catherine Bean (2019-05-10)
    This study explored whether experience with horses affected levels of human nonverbal sensitivity. I hypothesized that individuals with more experience with horses would have a higher sense of nonverbal sensitivity. ...
  • Demons in the Vegetable Garden: a Botanical History of the Mind 
    Anderson, Nicole R. (2015-05-11)
    Before Darwin and the microscope, reality was a product of our fears, desires, and fantasies. Before modern science, nature adhered to a taxonomy of good and evil. Herbs were keys to immortality, resurrection, conception, ...
  • Design and Manufacturing of a Baja Vehicle 
    Schmidt, Richard (2017-05-04)
    Beyond being a staple of the world we inhabit, vehicles serve as a complex example of the application of many areas of engineering. This thesis describes the process of designing and creating a complex vehicle as a team ...
  • Design, Analysis and Manufacture of a Tube Chassis and Related Components for SAE Baja 
    Huber, Karl (2020-05-05)
    The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) holds yearly International Collegiate Design Series (CDS) competitions. The SAE Baja competition is the most rugged of the CDS, requiring students to design and build an all-weather ...
  • The Destiny We Should Not Be Destined To 
    Lafferty, Katherine (2022-05-07)
    During lockdown, one of the only things that was still consistently there was nature. Nearly every day I would take a hike around a local park/nature reserve. Once we were able to come back to school, the obvious thing to ...
  • The Detritus of Our Lives 
    Ita, Annie (2020-04-26)
    For my honors thesis I planned and executed a durational performance driven installation art piece. I had had this idea of spending a long time in a room and writing on the walls as an art piece swirling around in my head ...
  • Development In-Situ Platelet Reinforced Alumina 
    Jensen, David (2022-05)
    It has been shown that alumina is a strong ceramic material, but it typically exhibits poor fracture toughness. Recently, studies have found that liquid-phase sintered alumina containing an invert glass (i.e., high calcium ...
  • Development of a Two-Parameter Model to Describe Particle Size Distributions 
    Ciccarella, Mark A. (2021-05-10)
    Particle size distributions present a unique challenge for analysis and presentation and simply reporting the D50 value fails to capture any information that describes the width of the distribution. By fitting the particle ...
  • The Difference When the Sun Goes Down 
    Sammut, Dylan (2014-05-14)
    My thesis explores themes of exile and isolation, and how it affects an individual and their mindset. But I write about more than just the prisoners; I write about the guards, the Warden, relatives to the prisoners, and ...
  • A Different Way 
    Maslen, Amelia (2014-05-13)
    This body of photographic work is a symbolic narrative of my relationship with nature as a place of spiritual renewal. My past work has dealt with relationships with nature and this work is based on the renewing energies ...
  • Disidentification 
    Best, Charlie (2018-05-08)
    My thesis is primarily about the relationship between queerness and the imagination. Specifically, it is about the ability to imagine worlds or friends separate from the ‘here and now’, often using the signs and symbols ...
  • Dismissing and salvaging the metaphysics of people 
    Cheung, Conrad (2018-04-30)
    Disputes over personal identity — over the metaphysics of people — are old wars. Philosophers feud over the classic questions: What makes something count as a person? What does it take for someone at different times to ...
  • Disney's Gender Balancing Act 
    Duncan, Casey (2014-05-06)
    This project focuses on the evolution of gender portrayals in children's films. A content analysis of ten of the top fifty most popular Disney children's films was performed. The films were selected at random from Disney's ...
  • Disposition Effect of Investors - Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) 
    Opare, Helena Okaibea (2019-05-06)
    The Disposition Effect was first introduced by Hersh Shefrin and Meir Statman in their 1985 paper known as “The disposition to sell winners too early and ride losers too long: theory and evidence”. It was introduced in ...
  • Doped Bioglass Microsphere Characterization and Analysis 
    Smith, Amber (2020-05-05)
    The creation of 45S5 Bioglass® microspheres and doped silver (Ag), copper (Cu), nickel (Ni) and zinc (Zn) 45S5 Bioglass® microsphere were completed via a torch flame process. Characterization included optical microscopy, ...
  • Doping KxMNO2 Nanosheets With Copper, Nickel, and Cobalt Cations to Maximize Capacitance 
    Wallisch, Abigail E. (2019-12)
    Copper, nickel, and cobalt-doped δ-MnO2 nanosheets were synthesized using self-propagating flame synthesis and ion exchange. They were analyzed after both steps using X-Ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and ...
  • The Effect of Bioactive Glass Particle Size on Sintering 
    Hepp, Audrey (2013-05)
    45S5 is a bioactive glass that has recently shown promise as a bone tissue scaffold material. In order to be used in this manner, the glass must be sintered. Studies have shown that the sintering behavior of a number of ...

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