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.
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 2014
Understanding Recurrent Disease: A Dynamical Systems Approach, Wenjing Zhang
Production and Applications of Formaldehyde-Free Phenolic Resins Using 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Derived from Glucose In-Situ, Yongsheng Zhang
Size-dependent Electroelastic Properties of Piezoelectric Nanoplates, Zhengrong Zhang
Intents-based Service Discovery and Integration, Cheng Zheng
Mechanical Pretreatment of Corncobs for Bioethanol Production by a Twin-Screw Extruder, Jun Zheng
Extracting Vessel Structure From 3D Image Data, Yuchen Zhong
Dissociating the Psychoactive Effects of Distinct Cannabis Compounds in the Mesocorticolimbic Circuitry, Jordan S. Zunder
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Numerical evaluation of aerodynamic roughness of the built environment and complex terrain, Daniel S. Abdi
Experimental investigation of wind effect on solar panels, Ayodeji Abiola-Ogedengbe
Cx43 Reduces Melanoma Growth Within a Keratinocyte Microenvironment and During Tumorigenesis in vivo, Mark J. Ableser
Static and Seismic Soil Culvert Interaction, Osama Salem A. Abuhajar
Decentralized Resource Scheduling in Grid/Cloud Computing, Ra'afat O. Abu-Rukba
Novel Control of PV Solar and Wind Farm Inverters as STATCOM for Increasing Connectivity of Distributed Generators, Mahendra AC
Assessing and Analyzing Bat Activity with Acoustic Monitoring: Challenges and Interpretations, Amanda M. Adams
Continuous Segregation and Removal of Biochar from Bubbling Fluidized Bed, Mary O. Adegboye
Study of Vertical Dense Jet Dilution in a Marine Environment, Nadeem Ahmad
Photothermal Deflection Spectroscopy of Amorphous, Nanostructured and Nanocomposite Thin Films, Muhammad Shafiq Ahmed
Climate Change and Human Rights: A Case Study of Vulnerability and Adaptation in Coastal Communities in Lagos, Nigeria., Idowu M. Ajibade
From Nizam to Nation: The Representation of Partition in Literary Narratives about Hyderabad, Deccan, Nazia Akhtar
Emissions Trading: A Policy Option for Fighting Climate Change in Africa, Gbenga Akinwande
The role of choline acetyltransferase variants in Alzheimer's disease models, Shawn Albers
Catalytic Conversion of Benzothiophene Over a H-ZSM5 Catalyst, Reactivity and a Kinetic Model, Saad A. Al-Bogami
pH Responsive Hydrogen Bonding Motif to Improve the Sensitivity of Tumor Imaging, Fatimah Mohammed Algarni
Oxygen-Free Propane Oxidative Dehydrogenation Over Vanadium Oxide Catalysts: Reactivity and Kinetic Modelling, Sameer Ali Al-Ghamdi