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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 2Atai, Ali Asghar.
- 2Belay, Tsegay
- 2Bhaduri,Swayamdipta
- 2Brenneis, Dylan
- 2Carrigy, Nicholas B.
- 2Chen, Jie
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Fall 2010
An application of ISO 10001 and ISO 10002 customer satisfaction standards to enhance students’ satisfaction in engineering courses is studied. An ISO 10001-based Code Management System (CMS) is used to improve the satisfaction of students through offering promises regarding course delivery. A...
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Spring 2018
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has been using an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to map the vast Canadian Artic seabed. The logistics of under-ice survey is currently complicated due to limited lifetime of lithium-ion batteries of AUVs. An AUV with longer endurance would allow exploration...
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Application of the IUMSS Methodology for the Standardization and Integration of Management Systems in University Research Laboratories
DownloadSpring 2022
Jaramillo Chavez, Renzo Wilfredo
The purpose of this research is to investigate alternatives for the integration of management systems standards requirements into a single management system (MS) for university research laboratories and compare the resulting MSs after standardization and integration against the initial MSs....
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Spring 2010
The purpose of this research was to study the applicability of management system standards (MSSs) in a research and development (R&D)-oriented nanotechnology setting. Since multiple quality and R&D-specific standards were found to be relevant in such environments, a methodology for the...
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Application of Thermally-Sprayed Coatings as Heat Tracers for Carbon Steel Pipes to Mitigate the Effect of Ice Accumulation and Freezing Damage
DownloadSpring 2020
The bursting of pipes due to freezing of contained liquid is considerably costly in industrial applications, resulting in over $4 billion in damage over the last decade alone in the United States. This doctoral research program attempted to study the root cause of the failure of pipes due to...
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Spring 2021
This thesis applies computer vision and machine learning techniques to three engineering projects: a self-driving vehicle, a predictive display system, and a vision-based robot manipulator joint detector. In the first project, we build a remote-controlled car and implement three core self-driving...
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Spring 2022
The rapid increase in global water and energy demand due to industrialization and population growth is a pressing challenge humankind faces today. Recent estimates indicate that due to population growth and reduction of water supplies, 40% of the global population is struggling with water...
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Assessing Colloidal Stability of Pharmaceutical Suspensions with a Shadowgraphic Imaging Method
DownloadFall 2019
The colloidal stability of pharmaceutical suspensions is an important attribute that needs to be carefully characterized in order to ensure designed product quality. In the field of respiratory drug delivery, pharmaceutical suspensions contained in pressurized metered-dose inhalers (pMDIs) are...