Welcome to the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies' Electronic Theses & Dissertation site. These pages are dedicated to help you find all the information you might require in order to format and successfully submit your graduate thesis for examination and publication electronically.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) are prepared as text-based PDF files. ETDs can contain non-text elements such as sound, video, and hypertext links. ETDs are available through Scholarship@Western, Western's digital library repository, and also released to the world-wide web with priority in many search engines, enabling scholars worldwide to locate, search, and download the University of Western Ontario's ETDs.
Benefits of ETDs (from Library and Archives Canada)
The most significant benefit is the dramatic increase (50-250%) in citation impact that results from electronic publishing. This leads to increased rewards from universities, in the form of promotion and increased salary, and from granting agencies.
Other benefits include:
- publicity for research - authors of electronic theses become more widely known and their reputations are enhanced
- easy worldwide access to your theses for colleagues and collaborators
- easy worldwide access to theses for job and grant applications
- a raised profile for research institutions
- reduced costs at the point of graduation since there is no need to have multiple copies printed.
For an overview of the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation process at The University of Western Ontario, please refer to any area from our site dedicated to supporting ETD at Western:
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Fostering Creativity: Ontario Teachers’ Perceptions, Strategies, and Experiences, Catharine M. Dishke Hondzel
An Architecture for Believable Socially Aware Agents, Arvand Dorgoly
Gender and Grade Differences in How High School Students Experience and Perceive Cyberbullying, Jeremy D. Doucette
Biofilm Control in a Fludized Bed Bioreactor (FBBR) Treating Municipal Wastewater: Optimization, Modeling, and Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Emissions, Ahmed Eldyasti
Simplified Tools for Performance-Based Design of Reinforced Concrete Frames Exposed to Fire, Salah El-Din F. El-Fitiany
The Effects Upon Students of Supplementing Aboriginal Post-Secondary Transition Programs With Traditional Cultural Activities, Karen Favell
Characterizing Stomatin-like Protein 2 and its Role in Neuron Survival, Lisa A. Foris
UTIL-DSS: Utilization-Based Dynamic Strategy Switching for Improvement in Data Centre Operation, Graham Foster
A Physical and Geochemical Characterization of Southwestern Ontario's Breathing Well Region, Candace N. Freckelton
Theory of Model Kohn-Sham Potentials and its Applications, Alex P. Gaiduk
Climate Change Impact on Flood Hazard in the Grand River Basin, Ontario, Canada, Abhishek Gaur
Development of Novel Nano-structured Materials with Low-Cost and High Stability for PEM Fuel Cell, Dongsheng Geng
Factors That Contribute To Adverse Events Involving Care- Dependent Community Dwelling Older Adults And Their Caregivers., Dorothy J. Gotzmeister
Essays in Macroeconomics of Development, Douwere Eric Grekou
Awareness of Physical Activity Levels and Sedentary Behaviour: An Assessment of Awareness of Physical Activity Levels and Sedentary Behaviour Among Parents and Children, Tripat Simran Kaur Grewal
Space, Power and the Public Library: A Multicase Examination of the Public Library as Organization Space, Matthew R. Griffis
Seasonal Decomposition for Geographical Time Series using Nonparametric Regression, Hyukjun Gweon
Micro-Mechanical Assessment of the Local Plastic Strain Invoked During a Splined Mandrel Flow Forming Operation, Meysam Haghshenas
Children's Understanding and Experience of Anger Within Their Peer Groups, Nicole J. Hamel
Cellular Adaptation of Macrophages to Anthrax Lethal Toxin-Induced Pyroptosis via Epigenetic Mechanisms, Chae Young Han
College instructors’ preparedness to teach students with learning disabilities, Kathryn D. Hansen
Smouldering Combustion for Soil Remediation: Two-Dimensional Experiments and Modelling, Tanzeer Hasan
Multi-Point Stride Coverage: A New Genre of Test Coverage Criteria, Mohammad Mahdi Hassan