To start, log into the Google Calendar. Navigate to google.com/calendar – log in with your full MTU e-mail address and password.

Schedule an appointment by using the “create” button, or click and drag on the calendar. Click on “Edit Event” to add more details and invite guests. To drop off final paperwork, schedule a 15 minute appointment.  For other questions, select 30 or 60 minutes. Need more help? Check out the video tutorial from Google.

Click and drag to create an event.

Type the name of the staff member you’d like to meet with in the “Guests” box. Click on the “Find a time” tab to help you schedule an appropriate time.

On the “Find a time” tab, you’ll be able to see your schedule, along with all of your guests.   Need help? Google has a tutorial on using the find a time and invitation tools.

All meetings, unless otherwise agreed upon, will take place in the Graduate School, on the 4th floor of the Administration building.

You will receive an e-mail when the appointment is accepted, unless you have changed the default settings on your account.

The Van Pelt and Opie Library is offering two, free EndNote Basics workshops for Michigan Tech graduate students on March 26 and March 28.  EndNote is citation management software which allows anyone to easily collect, organize and use their research references.

In this free library workshop participants will learn the basic skills for building a collection of citations, how to manage their collection and how to include the citations in their documents.  The workshop will also go over how to easily create bibliographies.

The sessions will be held:

• Monday, March 26 @ 12:00 – 1:30 PM
• Wednesday, March 28 @ 10:00 – 11:30 AM

Seating is limited. Please sign up today by sending and email to: libraryworkshop@mtu.edu

• Biological Sciences
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Forest Ecology and Management
• Geophysics
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Rhetoric and Technical Communication

Shawn Apostel
Doctor of Philosophy in Rhetoric and Technical Communication
Advisor: Diane L Shoos
Dissertation title: An “Army of One” to “Army Strong”: Visual Media and U.S. Army Recruitment During Bush’s “War on Terror”

Dulcinea Avouris
Master of Science in Geophysics
Co-Advisors: Gregory Phillip Waite and Simon Anthony Carn
Thesis title: Triggering of Volcanic Activity by Large Earthquakes

Ted Champagne
Master of Science in Civil Engineering
Advisor: Brian D Barkdoll
Thesis title: Physical Modeling of Air Injection as a Scour Remediation Technique Near Gated Weir Stilling Basins

Ding Chu
Master of Science in Materials Science and Engineering
Advisor: Miguel Levy
Thesis title: Optical Hysteresis of Ridge Waveguide Magnetic Garnet Films and Cavities in Two-Dimensional Magneto-Photonic Crystal Slabs

Kyle Forgette
Master of Science in Biological Sciences
Co-Advisors: Casey J Huckins and David James Flaspohler
Thesis title: The Relationship between Instream Habitat Characteristics, Emergent Insects, and Riparian Bird Communities

Patcharapol Gorgitrattanagul
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Amitabh Narain
Thesis title: The Length of the Annular Regime for Condensing Flows Inside a Horizontal Channel – The Experimental Determination of its Values and its Trends

Rohan Gumaste
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Amitabh Narain
Thesis title: Computational Simulations of Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage Systems – with Innovative and First-Principles Based Simulation for the Underlying Unsteady Melting (and Solidification) Process

Mickey Jarvi
Master of Science in Forest Ecology and Management
Advisor: Andrew J Burton
Thesis title: The Effects of a Changing Climate on Root Respiration of Woody Plants in Sugar Maple Forests and Northern Peatlands

Jordan Klinger
Master of Science in Chemical Engineering
Advisor: David R Shonnard
Thesis title: Production of Biofuel Intermediates from Woody Feedstocks via Fast Pyrolysis and Torrefaction

Jolanta Len
Master of Science in Forest Ecology and Management
Co-Advisors: Robert Edgar Froese and Eric Agestam
Thesis title: The Growth Response of Planted Red Pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) to Alternative Thinning Regimes

Mohsen Pourkhaatoun
Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Seyed Alireza Zekavat
Dissertation title: High Precision Range Estimation Techniques for Multi-Path Wireless Environments

Oskar Reynisson
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
Co-Advisors: Bruce Mork and Jeffrey B Burl
Thesis title: Development and Simulation of DSP Filters for Transformer Differential Protection

Padmanaban Sasthan Kuttipillai
Master of Science in Chemistry
Co-Advisors: Bahne C Cornilsen and Tony Neal Rogers
Thesis title: Performance Evaluation of a Novel Asymmetric Capacitor Using a Light-Weight, Carbon Foam Supported Nickel Electrode

Ganesh Sukumar
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Song-Lin Yang
Thesis title: Implementation of Monotonic Higher Order Upwind Scheme in KIVA 4

Jennifer Witting
Master of Science in Biological Sciences
Co-Advisors: Jason Robert Carter and John James Durocher
Thesis title: The Effects of Fixed Night Shift Work on 24 Hour Blood Pressure Regulation, State Anxiety Levels and Total Sleep Time

Note that this seminar will only cover the important changes with switching to Canvas. All graduate students will be loaded into Canvas this week.  If you can’t make the seminar, slides will be available online, and a blog tutorial stepping you through the submission process is currently available online.

Additionally, the Degree completion form has been recently updated.  Please discontinue using any old versions you may have previously saved.  The form adds our new programs, and has changed the binding options for theses, dissertations, and reports.

Students who have started submitting documents in Blackboard should continue to do so if they plan to graduate this semester.

Questions?  Please contact Debra Charlesworth.

First, log into Canvas by visiting http://mtu.instructure.com and logging in with your Michigan Tech ISO ID and password (the same one you use to access Banweb or your e-mail).

The Canvas log in screen. Use your Michigan Tech ID and password.

From the “Courses” menu, select the course “Graduate Candidates.” Contact Debra Charlesworth if you are not enrolled in this course.

Select the course "Graduate Candidates" after you log in.

The home page of the course contains links to resources that will help you prepare a thesis, dissertation, or report.  Click on “Modules” in the left hand menu to go to the submission modules.

Select "Modules" from the left hand navigation.

There are three modules available:  Report Submission, Thesis Submission, and Dissertation Submission.  Note that each module allows you to submit a draft or final document.  Since a draft submission is required for a thesis or dissertation, this must be submitted before the “Final” assignment will be available.  In this example, we’ll submit a draft thesis, so click on “Draft Thesis Submission.”

Select the assignment you wish to submit.

The main area of the page will contain instructions on what you need to submit, and links to helpful resources applicable to each part of the submission process.  In the upper right area, click on “Submit Assignment”

Click on "Submit Assignment"

In the submission area:

1. Click on “Browse” to navigation to a location on your computer where the document is stored.  Note that you can also link your Google Doc folder to Canvas if you use that service to store your files.
2. Click on the “+” icon if you need to “Add Another File”
3. Type comments to the Graduate School, such as the reference format you have used, in the comments box.
4. Click “Submit Assignment” when you are ready to submit.

The submission area - browse for a file (or files), add comments, and submit.

The “Submission” box in the upper right now shows that your assignment is submitted, the time it was submitted, and allows you to view the details of the submission.

The upper right will show you that you have submitted the document.

The Graduate School will e-mail you when your review is complete.  Go back to the assignment on Canvas, and you will find any text comments and attachments in the “Submission” box.

Return to your assignment to view the comments and review.

The Graduate School will only review one draft submission, and once a final submission is accepted, no changes may be made to the document.

You can revise your submission anytime before the Graduate School has begun your review by clicking on the “Re-submit assignment” link.

Revise your submission anytime before your review begins. This will delay your review.

]]> http://blogs.mtu.edu/gradschool/2012/02/23/submit-to-canvas/feed/ 0 canvas-01 canvas-02 canvas-03 canvas-04 canvas-05 canvas-06 canvas-07 canvas-08 canvas-09 http://blogs.mtu.edu/gradschool/2012/02/23/new-theses-and-dissertations-available-in-the-library-10/ http://blogs.mtu.edu/gradschool/2012/02/23/new-theses-and-dissertations-available-in-the-library-10/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:54:56 +0000 ddc http://blogs.mtu.edu/gradschool/?p=3542 The Graduate School is pleased to announce new theses and dissertations are now available in the J.R. van Pelt and Opie Library from the following programs:

• Applied Ecology
• Biological Sciences
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Forest Ecology and Management
• Forest Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology
• Geology
• Mathematical Sciences
• Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics

Adam Airoldi
Master of Science in Forest Ecology and Management
Advisor: Andrew J Burton
Thesis title: Forest-Limit Fluctuation in Response to Land Use and Climate Variability: A History of the Alpine Forest Regions Around Røros, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway and the Social and Ecological Impacts of Past Industrialization

Marcel Dijkstra
Master of Science in Environmental Engineering
Advisor: Martin T Auer
Thesis title: Mechanisms Contributing to the Deep Chlorophyll Maximum in Lake Superior

Lara Kapelanczyk
Master of Science in Geology
Advisor: William I Rose
Thesis title: An Eruptive History of Maderas Volcano Using New40Ar/39Ar Ages and Geochemical Analyses

Yang Li
Master of Science in Forest Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology
Advisor: Hairong Wei
Thesis title: Cloning and Characterization of the Genes Involved in Cambial Growth in Response to Elevated [CO2]

Chang Liu
Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematical Sciences
Advisor: Mark S Gockenbach
Dissertation title: Problems in the Classical Calculus of Variations

Seyyed Hessam Mir Shah Ghassemi
Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Co-Advisors: Reza Shahbazian Yassar and Yoke Khin Yap
Dissertation title: In-Situ Electrical, Mechanical and Electrochemical Characterizations of One-Dimensional Nanostructures

Duane Morrow
Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Co-Advisors: Tammy Lynn Haut Donahue and Gregory M Odegard
Dissertation title: Development of a Continuum Mechanics Model of Passive Skeletal Muscle

Patricia Nadeau
Doctor of Philosophy in Geology
Co-Advisors: Gregory Phillip Waite and Simon Anthony Carn
Dissertation title: Ultraviolet Digital Imaging of Volcanic Plumes: Implementation and Application to Magmatic Processes at Basaltic Volcanoes

Anthony Oxley
Master of Science in Civil Engineering
Advisor: Stanley J Vitton
Thesis title: Comparison of Three Methods for Driven Pile Capacity

Anahita Pakzad
Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Advisor: Reza Shahbazian Yassar
Dissertation title: Nanomechanics of Cellulose Crystals and Cellulose-Based Polymer Composites

Louis Pignotti
Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry
Co-Advisors: Eugenijus Urnezius and Rudy L Luck
Dissertation title: Multimetallic Complexes Based on Phosphine- and Phosphine Oxide- Appended p-Hydroquinones

Jayanth Ramamurthy
Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Bruce Mork
Dissertation title: Wind Plant Interaction with Series-Compensated Power Systems

Julio Rivera
Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Advisor: John W Sutherland
Dissertation title: A Sustainability Study of Nanomaterials Including Societal and Occupational Implications

Christopher Schwartz
Doctor of Philosophy in Biological Sciences
Advisor: Jason Robert Carter
Dissertation title: Omega-3 Fatty Acids and the Neurovascular Responses to Mental Stress in Humans

Matthew VanGrinsven
Master of Science in Geology
Advisor: Alex S Mayer
Thesis title: Estimation of Vertical Groundwater Fluxes into a Streambed through Continuous Temperature Profile Monitoring and the Relationship of Groundwater Fluxes to Coaster Brook Trout Spawning Habitat

Singaravelu Velayudham
Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry
Advisor: Haiying Liu
Dissertation title: Conjugated Polymers and their Composite Material for Sensing Applications

Gregory Vosters
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Wayne W Weaver
Thesis title: Energy and Conductance State Modeling of Power Electronic Converters for DC Microgrids

Wenge Wei
Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering
Advisor: David W Watkins
Dissertation title: Use of Hydroclimatic Forecasts for Improved Water Management in Central Texas

Kassidy Yatso
Master of Science in Applied Ecology
Co-Advisors: Catherine Sophia Tarasoff and Pekka Olavi Nygren
Thesis title: Planting and Production of Switchgrass (Panicumvirgatum L.) as a Bioenergy Crop in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Forestry
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Physics

Christopher DeDene
Master of Science in Civil Engineering
Advisor: Zhanping You
Thesis title: Investigation of Using Waste Engine Oil Blended with Reclaimed Asphalt Materials to Improve Pavement Recyclability

Kyle Earnshaw
Master of Science in Forestry
Advisor: Blair D Orr
Thesis title: The Effects of Soil Moisture, Field-Scale Toposequential Position, and Slope on Yields in Irrigated Upland Rice Fields in Flores, Comayagua, Honduras

Michael Hochscheidt
Master of Science in Civil Engineering
Advisor: Stanley J Vitton
Thesis title: Cut Slope Design for the Access to an Underground Copper Mine

Nicholas Johnson
Master of Science in Materials Science and Engineering
Advisor: Paul George Sanders
Thesis title: Processing and Mechanical Properties of Cast Aluminum Containing Scandium, Zirconium, and Ytterbium

Abdul Koroma
Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering
Advisor: Ralph J Hodek
Dissertation title: An Evaluation of the Performance and Cost-Effectiveness of Pavement Sections Containing Open-Graded Base Courses

Chee Huei Lee
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics
Advisor: Yoke Khin Yap
Dissertation title: Boron Nitride Nanotubes: Synthesis, Characterization, Functionalization, and Potential Applications

Tyler LeRoy
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Jason R Blough
Thesis title: Muffler Characterization with Implementation of the Finite Element Method and Experimental Techniques

Aashish Poudel
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Daniel Robert Fuhrmann
Thesis title: Adaptive Sensing for Target Tracking Applications

Wen Nee Yeo
Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering
Co-Advisors: Tony Neal Rogers and Bahne C Cornilsen
Dissertation title: Development and Testing of an Asymmetric Capacitor with a Nickel-Carbon Foam Positive Electrode

February 24

Use a LaTeX Template

• Learn how to format a thesis or dissertation
• Open to graduate students
• Register online to reserve a seat

March 23

Graduate Degrees

• Opportunities, expectations, advantages, and potential drawbacks
• Learn more about graduate education
• Open to undergraduate students
• Register online to reserve a seat

April 18

Get FUNDED, Get PAID, Get RECOGNIZED

• Going to Graduate School as a DOD scholar, NSF fellow, or EPA STAR
• Learn how to go to graduate school on a prestigious external fellowship/scholarship award
• Open to undergraduate and graduate students
• Register online to reserve a seat

• Applied Ecology
• Applied Natural Resource Economics
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Environmental Policy
• Forest Ecology and Management
• Geology
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

Ellis Adams
Master of Science in Environmental Policy
Advisor: Kathleen E Halvorsen
Thesis title: Nongovernmental Organization Staff Views of Global Water Privatization

Neelima Addanki
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Ossama Omar Abdelkhalik
Thesis title: Orbits Design for LEO Space Based Solar Power Satellite System

Aljaste Arvo
Master of Science in Forest Ecology and Management
Co-Advisors: Rodney A Chimner and Eric Agestam
Thesis title: Warming Alters Photosynthetic Rates of Sub-Boreal Peatland Vegetation

Benjamin Betterly
Master of Science in Applied Ecology
Advisor: John Andrew Vucetich
Thesis title: Compensatory Growth in Moose and its Relationship to Sex, Longevity, Intraspecific Competition, and Senescence

Nawaf Blaisi
Master of Science in Environmental Engineering
Advisor: Christopher L Wojick
Thesis title: Life Cycle Assessment of Trayless Dining

Suresh Bommineni
Master of Science in Chemical Engineering
Advisor: Joseph H Holles
Thesis title: Characterizations of Partially Reduced Polyoxometalate Catalysts Using Ammonia Adsorption Microcalorimetry and Methanol Oxidation Studies

Kyle Brill
Master of Science in Geology
Advisor: Gregory Phillip Waite
Thesis title: Characterization of Harmonic Tremor at Santiaguito Volcano and its Implications for Eruption Mechanisms

Darrell Cass
Master of Science in Civil Engineering
Advisor: Amlan Mukherjee
Thesis title: Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Highway Construction and Rehabilitation to Support Pavement LifeCycle Assessment

Justin Clark
Master of Science in Materials Science and Engineering
Advisor: Paul George Sanders
Thesis title: High Temperature, Low Cycle Fatigue of a Hybrid Particulate/Fiber Aluminum Metal-Matrix Composite

Jason Flietstra
Master of Science in Civil Engineering
Advisor: Theresa Marie Ahlborn
Thesis title: Creep and Shrinkage Behavior of Ultra High Performance Concrete Under Compressive Loading with Varying Curing Regimes

Valoree Gagnon
Master of Science in Environmental Policy
Advisor: Carol A MacLennan
Thesis title: Fish Contaminants through the Tribal Perspective: An Ethnography of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community’s Tribal Fish Harvest

Pubodee Ratana-arsanarom
Master of Science in Materials Science and Engineering
Advisor: Yun Hang Hu
Thesis title: Structure and Properties of Graphene Nano Disks (GND)With and Without Edge-Dopants

Brandon Swartz
Master of Science in Applied Natural Resource Economics
Advisor: Gary A Campbell
Thesis title: The Afghanistan Connection: Heroin Production, Distribution, and Consumption

• Chemistry
• Engineering Physics
• Mathematical Sciences
• Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
• Physics
• Rhetoric and Technical Communication

Amalia Anderson
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics
Advisor: Alexander B Kostinski
Dissertation title: Development of Record-Breaking Statistics for Climatological Time-Series Analysis

David Clark
Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematical Sciences
Advisor: Vladimir Tonchev
Dissertation title: Applications of Finite Geometries to Designs and Codes

Roxane Gay
Doctor of Philosophy in Rhetoric and Technical Communication
Advisor: M Ann Brady
Dissertation title: Subverting the Subject Position: Toward a New Discourse about Students as Writers and Engineering Students as Technical Communicators

Jorge Kurita Nagasawa
Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Advisor: Amitabh Narain
Dissertation title: Experimental Results on Gravity Driven Fully Condensing Flows in Vertical Tubes, their Agreement with Theory, and their Differences with Shear Driven Flows’ Boundary-Condition Sensitivities

Jiang Lu
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics
Advisor: Raymond A Shaw
Dissertation title: Dynamics of Settling Charged Particles in Turbulence: Theory and Experiments

Adan Niu
Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematical Sciences
Advisor: Qiuying Sha
Dissertation title: Statistical Methods for Identifying Gene-Gene Interactions

Archana Pandey
Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Physics
Advisor: Yoke Khin Yap
Dissertation title: PMMA-CNT Matrices for Vacuum Electronic, Biosensing and Energy Applications

Abhishek Prasad
Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Physics
Advisor: Yoke Khin Yap
Dissertation title: Functional ZnO Nanostructures for Electronic and Energy Applications

Xiang Zhang
Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry
Advisor: Shiyue Fang
Dissertation title: Synthesis of Chiral Ferrosalen Ligands and their Applications in Asymmetric Catalysis