Browsing NDSU Theses & Dissertations by Title

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    • Design for Bereavement 

      Larson, Nathan (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      This project seeks to explore how the built environment can create a healthy atmosphere for grieving the death of a loved one by examining psychological research to develop the form of the building, a space can be created ...

    • Design for Well-Being: Architecture to Reduce Health Inequity 

      Falk, Paige (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      As a society, we are faced with ever-changing healthcare costs and quality of care. Unfortunately, not everyone can access, or afford, the care that they need. Throughout the country, many people are facing illness and ...

    • Design in Rural America: Preserving the Past by Enhancing the Future, Buffalo, South Dakota 

      Lyons, Randy (North Dakota State University, 2005)
      Rural America of today is faced with major obstacles in the sense of maintaining active urban communities. Some of the factors the feed this fire are aging populations, and young people or moving away and not coming back. ...

    • Design of a Game for Cybersecurity Awareness 

      Bhardwaj, Jagjot (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      The primary objective of this paper is to use the Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy educational objectives in creating a game called Cyber Air-Strike for learning basic concepts of cybersecurity. Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy is used ...

    • Design of a Reconfigurable Pulsed Quad-Cell for Cellular-Automata-Based Conformal Computing 

      Tan, Zhou (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      This paper presents the design of a reconfigurable asynchronous unit, called the pulsed quad-cell (PQ-cell), for conformal computing. The conformal computing vision is to create computational materials that can conform to ...

    • Design of an Audio-Visual Display for Cross-Modal Experimentation 

      Myers, Gail Jeanne (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      The present paper shows the characteristics of a hardware/software display capable of presenting, at different spatial locations, multiple audio-visual stimuli in real-time. The system has been developed to provide a tool ...

    • Design of High Power Density Switched Capacitor DC-DC Converter 

      Curuvija, Boris (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      Design and implementation of high power density and high efficiency dc-dc converters has been a primary component for reducing energy cost. Traditionally dc-dc converters are composed with silicon based technology that has ...

    • Design of Polymer Materials with Lower Environmental Impact 

      Popadyuk, Andriy (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      In today’s world of emerging advanced materials, environmental impact of new technologies, as well as already well-established products, is of utmost importance. Environmental safety is as crucial as performance/price ratio ...

    • Design of Structural Vibration Control Using Smart Materials and Devices for Earthquake-Resistant and Resilient Buildings 

      Azimi, Mohsen (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      Major earthquakes in recent years have highlighted the big concern of modern seismic design concept for the resilience of buildings. The overall goals of this thesis aim to design structural vibration control using smart ...

    • Design of the Photo Album Ontology 

      Sarker, Mridula (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      At present, growing demand of the management of huge volume of web contents, especially photos, require the software tools, which can store, index and retrieve the photos from the repository more efficiently. In this ...

    • The Design of Virtual Reality Based Data Visualization and User Interface Design in a Semi-Automated Cyber-Security Research Application 

      Tipparach, Santipab (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      Virtual Reality is currently an affordable and consumer ready technology used by many in the games and interactive media industry, however unlike the user interface standards in mobile, PCs, and Macs, VR UI design can vary ...

    • Designed Desirable: Deteriorating Urban Communities Renewed 

      Hyllested, Ryan (2012)
      This thesis studies how designers and planners can create a desirable community in the deteriorating urban communities affected by urban sprawl. By its nature this project is a community planning effort. The results of ...

    • Designing a Holistic Environment for Athletic Performance: Athletics Canada High Performance Training Center 

      Naranjo Mata, Sofia (North Dakota State University, 2024)
      Sports are highly profitable, but when looking at the design of sports buildings, the spectators and owners are the primary user groups, pushing athletes to the side and compromising where they train. As athletic talent ...

    • Designing a Hypertension Management Program for Family Healthcare 

      Danielson, Danielle Marie (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      The purpose of the practice improvement project was to determine the hypertension management needs of the Family HealthCare (FHC) clinic in Fargo, ND by staff interviews, observation, and data review as well as to develop ...

    • Designing Bio-Ink for Extrusion Based Bio-Printing Process 

      Habib, MD Ahasan (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      Tissue regeneration using in-vitro scaffold becomes a vital mean to mimic the in-vivo counterpart due to the insufficiency of animal models to predict the applicability of drug and other physiological behavior. Three-dimensional ...

    • Designing Efficiently: A Focus on the User 

      Hooge, Sarah (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      Our built environment is plagued by ineffective design. Often we find we have lost sight of the purpose of our built environment as our needs and tasks have changed drastically over time. A fresh analysis of our needs and ...

    • Designing Emotion 

      Meier, Mitchell (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      This thesis revolves around the question of how can we push and use certain parts of our designs to influence people’s attitudes and reactions to create a better experience for the people who experience our designs. ...

    • Designing for a New Way of Living 

      Rausch, Megan (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      This graduate thesis explores the ideas and exploration of creating architecture as an educational instrument that will inform its occupants about a new, more environmentally-friendly way of living. The design itself becomes ...

    • Designing for Aging 

      Bergstrom, Matthew (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      The built environment must adapt to the increasing number of aged people by maintaining and improving the accessibility of the built environment. Due to improvements in medicine, as well as the aging of the baby boomer ...

    • Designing For All Seasons 

      Long Voelkner, Megann (2012)
      This design project examines how a landscape design can activate a small-scale Midwestern city’s outdoor use and tourism potential during the winter season. In the city of Bemidji, MN, the winter season can start as early ...