Masters Theses
This collection contains theses written in partial fulfillment of the master's degree, from 1900 to the present.
The first masters degree was awarded in Chemistry, to V. H. Gottschalk; his thesis was titled The Determination of Aluminium. Most recently, popular masters disciplines have included Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Geological Engineering, Petroleum Engineering and Nuclear Engineering.Theses and dissertations previously submitted in print will be digitized with permission of the author or copyright holder. Missouri S&T Library and Learning Resources encourages graduates to provide this permission so that their work can reach the widest possible audience. If you would like to grant this permission, please use this Form or go to your thesis in Scholars' Mine and click on the Share My Thesis button. Theses and dissertations will be digitized as time allows and will not become immediately accessible.
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Theses from 1972
Design and analysis of a phase-locked loop suitable for synchronization of an optical receiver, Douglas Wayne Dreisewerd
An experimental study of power systems, Nguyen Quang Duoc
A study of three methods which solve a suboptimum control problem on an iterative analog computer, Joseph Camp Finney
Development of a sampling system and characterization of stormwater runoff from a small urban area, William Clark Ford
Computerized registration for high schools, Kenneth Lee Fore
Gas-to-particle conversions of SO₂-NO₂-H₂O-air gas mixtures under specific UV irradiation, James Leonard Fowler
Effect of glass aggregates upon abrasiveness of asphaltic mixtures, Dwarka Prasad Gupta
The effects of intense sound levels and steady flow on the propagation of plane-waves in air, Wuu Hao
Managerial appraisals - a systems view, James Thomas Hatlan
High pressure water jet cutting of rock, Richard Lee Henry
Investigation of a new type of cloud condensation nuclei counter: the thermal quench chamber, Donald Arthur Hess
Experimental study of neutron reflection from a cylindrical surface, Dale Lee Holtzscher
Design and test an operational amplifier speed transducer, Tung-Ming Huang
A study of plane wave filter analysis with flow, Thomas Valle Huber
A study of some complexometric titrations in nonaqueous solvents, Ngo The Hung
Thermal expansion of nickel and iron, and the influence of nitrogen on the lattice parameter of iron at the Curie temperature, Jinn-Wen Hwang
The electric field strength dependence of neutron-induced defects in silicon P-N junctions, Paul Edward Johnson
Fitting discrete probabilistic frequency distributions to disturbed traffic flow at an unsignalized urban intersection, Horst Walter Kaminsky
Use of glass separated from municipal refuse in asphaltic concrete, Thomas Eugene Keith
A study of the effect of drilled holes on the concentration of elastic stresses around a notch, Glenn Michael Kmecz
Calculation of buildup factors for multilayer slab shields using the Monte Carlo method, John Paul Kuspa
Mechanism of UAL₃ to UAL₄ transformation, Ling Ping Lee
Characterization and staged lagoon treatment of swine feedlot waste, Abraham H. Loudermilk Jr.
Analysis and measurement of a Zener diode voltage-reference, Armond C. Maxeiner
A geochemical reconnaissance of Puerto Rican beach sands, Louis Meinecke III
Experimental studies of supporting wire disturbances in the near viscous wakes of slender supersonic bodies, Kenneth Anthony Mirly
A study and design of a cardiac interbeat interval timer system, Richard William Mooney
A sensitive temperature measuring system, Larry Dean Morris
Structural test and analysis of a Vierendeel steel and concrete composite girder, Melvin Crews Oestreich
Computer-aided circuit optimization including the adjoint method of calculating network sensitivities, John Walter Olson
The morphology of the cellular precipitation reaction in a Pb-3.0 wt% Sn alloy, Federico Sequeda Osorio
A comparison of analytical and experimental approaches in determining the thermoelastic stresses around a cylindrical inclusion of elliptical cross-section, Kenneth Byron Oster
Wind tunnel modeling of the atmospheric boundary layer, Sreemanth Pagadala
Laboratory studies using diffused oxygen and air for hypolimnion reaeration, Chin-Ming Pai
Application of transmission matrices to describe transverse vibrations of non-uniform Bernoulli-Euler beams, Dean Irle Parker
The steady-state response of a fluid-filled beam near resonance, Niranjan Jayantibhai Patel
Measurement of turbulence in an annular jet, George Philip
Data compression design considerations for airborne test vehicles, Kenneth Carlyle Pittman
A study of right turn on red at signalized intersections, Ronald Duane Rains
A study of the system lithia - silica, Roy Richard Ramey
Thermal stresses and movements in bridges, Joseph Charles Reynolds
An investigation of stage I fatigue crack growth in FCC, BCC, and HCP metals, Marion Anthony Russo
An analysis of single wire earth return (SWER) system for rural electrification, Balwinder Singh Samra
Drift velocity measurements of various materials floating on water waves, Paul Keith Scherrer
An accurate digital instrument to measure reactor period, Ernest Wayne Scott
A comparison of Liapunov functions used to determine power system stability for multimachine power systems, Kiritkumar S. Shah
High speed magnetically supported vehicles for reducing transportation's degradations of the environment, Pravinchandra Shukla
On the complex index of refraction for liquids, Juan Guillermo Ochoa Sierra
Studies of neutron capture produced rare gas isotopes in rocks and minerals containing chlorine, selenium and tellurium, David E. Sinclair
Computer simulation of the primary recoil spectra and damage cross section of Fe₃Al using ENDF/B II data, Daniel Willard Smith
Performance comparison of receivers designed to combat intersymbol interference due to specular multipath, George H. Smith
The analog simulation of heat transfer devices for the smoothing of a fluctuating fluid temperature, Le Thai Son
Design and preliminary testing of a rotary internal combustion engine, Frank Darrell Statkus
A hardware and software interface between a magnetic tape unit and a Nova mini-computer, Thomas Dean Steury
Phase transformations in the system ZrO₂-CaO, Damri Sukhotanang
Parametric analyses of regenerative steam power cycles, Vallabh Vithalbhai Vaghani
Analysis of a substitute for the impact damper to damp near-resonant mechanical vibrations, Nguyen Khanh Van
Adsorption of dichromate at the air-solution interface, Josephine Juch Wang
The analysis of an axially symmetric submerged membrane shell, Walter Earl Wehmeyer
Digital registration of stereo images using the fast Fourier transform, Victor Francis Wilreker Jr.
A study on the lateral placement of automobiles due to restrictions on two-lane rural highways, Warren Chip Woods
A study of FMFB demodulator operation in the presence of radio frequency interference and Gaussian noise, Terry D. Wormington
Theses from 1971
Characteristics of and suggested improvements in communication laboratory equipment at University of Missouri-Rolla, William Edgar Abernathie
Frequency division using cascaded phase-locked loops, Curtis B. Abshier
Mechanical properties of low carbon martensite, Allen L. Affolter
The effect of 15% MnO on the phase relations in the system CaO-FeO-SiO₂ at 1450ºC, Aquil Ahmad
Development of an elastic-plastic finite element program with the initial strain approach, Vernon Dale Allen
Stability and synthesis of transfer functions rational in W = e to the power of the square root of T (s² + bs + c) and omega = the square root of T (s² + bs + c), James Fred Archer
Freshwater losses to the sea and water level decline in northwest Libya, Mohammed Ahmed Attiga
A kinetic study of the reductive abilities of four polyaminocarboxylic acids (EDTA, CDTA, DTPA AND NTA) towards cerium(IV) in perchloric acid media, Salem Ahmed Attiga
Factors affecting the ductility and microstructure of Ti-6Al-6V-2Sn titanium alloy weldments, Michael John Ball
The design of a high temperature thermoelectric generator element using silicon carbide, John Talmage Barrow Jr.
The halogen and uranium content of sedimentary rocks, tektites, impact glasses, and obsidians, Victor J. Becker Jr.
Magnetic properties of ceramic ferrites developed for use in fractional horse power a.c. motors, Ram Saran Bhatia
Feed drive design for numerically controlled machine tools, Subash Bhatia
Shop level maintenance of inertial platforms without a surveyed site, Max E. Bott
An experimental determination of the effect of the axisymmetric turbulent wake on the pressure distribution on a sphere, Martin Gardner Bowin
A step-wise gray approximation of the radiative absorption coefficient for an isothermal hydrogen plasma, Keith Harlan Browne
A closed form method for predicting the history of circular orbit altitude decay of a near-earth satellite including the effect of a dynamic atmosphere, John Copley Buchholtz
Design of a semi-automatic transmission, Yogendra Prahladray Buch
An empirical method of correlating compressibility factors of nitrogen - helium - hydrocarbon systems, Terry Wayne Buck
A laboratory study of the transmission of signals through solid material with possible application to seismic communication, Ronald Willis Carter
Two component heat pipe, Surapol Chandsawangbhuvana
Calculation of eddy current loss of a disc, Kou Quen Chang
Thermal expansivity and refractive index determinations for some hydrosol systems and their similarity to properties ascribed to "anomalous" water, Gerald Wayne Chappue
Some factors affecting the results in cyclic triaxial tests, Suresh Kumar Chaudhary
A comparison of computer codes for fast neutron dosimetry by the foil technique, Jau Wen Chen
Intrinsic viscosities of linear polyethylene, Joseph Shing Chiang
A measurement of the capture coefficient and of the vapor pressure of CO₂ from 69ºK to 80ºK, Michel Louis Chouarain
The influence of member length on thermal contact resistance in a vacuum environment, Larry Martin Cooper
Ground water of the Uncompahgre Valley Montrose County, Colorado, Ted William Craig
Shear properties of an organic soil and the same soil with the organic matter removed, David Eugene Daniels
Analysis of factors affecting station capacitor bank switching transients, M. Davarpanah
The use of semiconductor memories in drug dispensing, James John De Largy
Effects of flat and elongated particles upon properties of mixtures containing glass aggregates, John Dean Doyle
A study of a nitrogen heat pipe, Jay Dudheker
Design and preliminary testing of a thermomechanical rock fragmentation apparatus, Gary Earl Fenton
Distribution, petrology, and environment of the St. Louis-Ste. Genevieve transition zone in Missouri, Donald Howerton Fielding
Alkali mobility and mechanical relaxation in mixed-alkali silicate glasses, James W. Fleming Jr.
A digital computer simulation of a rural two-lane highway, D. Jay Frankenfield
