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
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
Integrability of the sums of the trigonometric series 1/2 aₒ + ∞ [over] Σ [over] n=1 an cos nΘ and ∞ [over] Σ [over] n=1 an sin nΘ, John William Garrett
Electrolytic reduction of zinc from acidic sulfate solutions, Kenneth Dale Gielow
Evaluation of a cation isotopic substitution technique in conjunction with a high temperature gas pycnometer for determining the stoichiometry of materials, Michael Clair Graves
Quenching defects in aluminum plus ten atomic per cent zinc, James Thomas Grider
Inclusion theorems for boundary value problems for delay differential equations, Leon M. Hall
The concept and design of a curvilinear character generator for cathode ray tube display systems, Lawrence Edward Hanebrink Jr.
Advanced waste treatment of industrial waste waters by physicochemical processes, Michael Gay Hardie
Digested sludge dewatering on drying beds under controlled environmental conditions, Daniel James Harris
Ladder network transfer function characteristics, Thomtavanit Hatayodom
A driver-assisting control system, Roger Allen Hayes
The thermal contact resistance of lubricant films in vacuum, Garry A. Heizer
Mass fraction and the isotopic anomalies of xenon and krypton in ordinary chondrites, Edward W. Hennecke
Synthesis of active distributed RC networks via the W=e[superscript square root of s] transmission, Roy Dale Hensley
The oxidative decarboxylation of aminopolycarboxylic acids with cerium (IV) in sulfuric acid, Rita Kathleen Hessley
The design of a lightning data interface, Larry Lee Hosto
Simulation of digital computer SIMCOM, Ming-Te Hsieh
A study of early-late type S0-PCM signal bit synchronizers, Kuang-Cheng Hu
Low frequency lumped element directional couplers, Constantine Rodolph Jenkins
Anodic oxidation of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid on Pt in acid sulfate solutions, Howard Ho-Wei Jiang
Final sintering of Cr₂O₃ with minor additions of MgO and sintering of MgO with minor additions of Cr₂O₃, Gordon E. Jungquist
Phase equilibrium and thermodynamic study of lime-iron oxide solid solutions, Shin Suk Kang
A study of radiative heat transfer from a spherical layer, Hakimuddin Kalimuddin Khalil
The effect of solvents on the desorption of phenol from carbon in a water free system, William W. Knickmeyer
The skid resistance of asphaltic pavements using glass aggregates, Michael Vaughn Korth
An investigation of stress in the MONOWALL construction system subjected to racking loads, Louis Alex Kuhlmann
Interactions between selected pigment producing bacteria isolated from sewage, Leslie Alexander Lakie
An energy solution for vibration characteristics of free thin cylinders, Dale Elmer Leanhardt
Normal mode method applied to the transient longitudinal vibrations of a finite rod with material damping and viscoelastic dispersion, David Arthur Levene
A study of the dislocation instability and reverse martensitic transformation in FE-NI system, Chung Lim
Variable-threshold-mixed-weight threshold element, Cheng-Chung Liu
The integrated planning method of project planning, development and implementation, Joseph Frank Lynch
A time and frequency domain approach to the optimization of linear multivariable regulators, Eugene Charles Machacek
A triangular element for numerical solutions of axisymmetric conduction problems in cylindrical coordinates, Prafulla Chandra Mahata
