This decommissioned ERA site remains active temporarily to support our final migration steps to https://ualberta.scholaris.ca, ERA's new home. All new collections and items, including Spring 2025 theses, are at that site. For assistance, please contact erahelp@ualberta.ca.
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.
To retrieve all theses and dissertations associated with a specific department from the library catalogue, choose 'Advanced' and keyword search "university of alberta dept of english" OR "university of alberta department of english" (for example). Past graduates who wish to have their thesis or dissertation added to this collection can contact us at erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Items in this Collection
-
Techno-economic Feasibility of Flywheel Energy Storage System in Standalone and Hybrid Applications
DownloadFall 2021
Electrical energy storage systems are used to store electrical energy in different forms so that it can be extracted when required. For example, they are suitable for power peak shaving applications and effective integration of renewable energy into islanded microgrids. Flywheel energy storage...
-
Techno-economic feasibility of hybrid energy systems for small-scale space heating applications in Canada
DownloadSpring 2021
Given the large energy consumption for space heating demands in Canada, renewable energy heating systems are becoming increasingly more popular and more important for small scale applications. However, these face tough challenges for applicability in cold climate regions due to various physical...
-
Technologized Representations of Labour and Class from the Man in the Machine to the Machine (Wo)man in Science Fiction Film and Television
DownloadSpring 2019
This dissertation is about the implications, and iterations, of “the machine” as a tool and metaphor in science fiction (sf) — particularly within the media of film and television. Beginning with Karl Marx’s depiction of an anthropomorphized, metaphorical, and, expressly, capitalist machine in...
-
Technology Adoption by Ontario Dairy Producers: Productivity-enhancing versus Cost-minimizing Technologies
DownloadFall 2015
Under supply management, Canadian dairy producers maximize profits subject to their quota holdings. This constraint on supply effectively leads producers to solve a cost-minimization problem, which may have an effect on their use of technology. I hypothesize that Ontario dairy producers have...
-
Fall 2013
Businesses, regardless of size, require the best information available to them in order to optimize their technological plans for the future. Currently, however, large, multi-national enterprises (MNEs), along with nations, are availing themselves of a set of tools that are not being used by...