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The Virginia Tech Calibration System
… who likely implement different synchrophasor technologies to perform the phasor estimations. The current synchrophasor standard, the IEEE C37.118-2005 Synchrophasor Standard, covers adequately the steady-state characterization of PMUs but does not specify transient condition requirements. The …
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Restructuring athletic graduation analysis at Virginia Tech
… athletes, with at least a 2.0 QCA, who departed Virginia Tech between 1975 and 1985. An additional purpose was to determine why these athletes left. There were seventy eligible participants who received questionnaires via mail. Forty questionnaires were returned, of which, thirty one were usable. …
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The Vertical Integration of Mechatronics at Virginia Tech
… in the mechanical engineering curriculum at Virginia Tech. It reports the details of an experimental strategy to integrate mechatronics at an early level in the education of engineers. A proposal was submitted to and accepted by the NSF/SUCCEED coalition to fund this experiment. Through this …
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Updating and Automating the Virginia Tech Single-Plate Interferometer
… difficulties and to improve the accuracy of the Virginia Tech interferometer setup, the software has been revamped into a black box design removing the need to handle the code directly. Furthermore, the software has been made to be platform independent by implementing the algorithms using the …
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The Virginia Tech Phasor Data Concentrator Analysis & Testing System
… objectives, functions and tests requirements. Virginia Tech has developed a PDC Test System under these guidelines and as per the requirements of the PJM Synchrophasor Systems Deployment Project. This thesis focuses on the testing tools developed and the procedures implemented in the Virginia …
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An Addition to the Virginia Tech School of Architecture
… that houses the College of Architecture on the Virginia Tech campus. Cowgill Hall is located on the north edge of campus, on a direct northern axis with the centerline of the campus drill field, which is the heart and center of the Va Tech Blacksburg campus. Cowgill Hall is a 4 story concrete …
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Terraced Landscape: A School Building Design in Virginia Tech
… create a new middle landscape on the campus of Virginia Tech.
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An Untapped Resource: Virginia Tech African American Alumni Engagement
A university has many valuable internal and external publics. It is beneficial for an institution to build, maintain, and leverage its relationships with both internal and external constituency groups. Examining the body of literature on relationship management can provide insight into previously …
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The Role of Virginia Tech in Human Capital Formation
Virginia Tech contributes significantly to social and economic progress at the regional, state and national levels through its teaching, research and public service activities. The study is motivated by the current debate on the appropriate level of support for higher education in Virginia's …
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Public Pumping: The Nursing Mom's Support Program at Virginia Tech
The Lactation Support Program at Virginia Tech, renamed the Nursing Mom's Support Program, was established in 1999 when a group of women through the Women's Center and Work/Life Resources publicized a private concern about expressing milk. While the basic goal was to create a universal opportunity …
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Student Satisfaction with the Cooperative Education Program at Virginia Tech
… Education component of Career Services at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is undergoing a Business Process Re-engineering to develop the "Best Cooperative Education" program. The components considered in this process are the employers, the students, the staff, and the …
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Community Solidarity and Well-Being after the Virginia Tech Shootings
In the aftermath of the rampage at Virginia Tech, the community experienced a surge of social solidarity. Using a longitudinal study of 478 students, this thesis examines the impact of attitudinal solidarity on well-being nine months after the shootings. In particular, this study focuses on the …
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Transmission line simulation for transient network analyser at Virginia Tech
A general purpose cascaded pi section representation of a transmission line for a Transient Network Analyzer was designed. The pi sections modeled single and double circuit lines at 34.5, 69, 138, 345 and 765 KV levels. Representations of mutual impedances produced by nontransposition and mutual …
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A Distributed Software Framework for the Virginia Tech Ground Station
… beyond a single ground station. Since the Virginia Tech Ground Station (VTGS) will have many concurrent processes running across multiple servers, it was necessary to apply the actor model in order to simplify the design of the system. The purpose of this thesis is to describe the developed …
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Motivation and Needs of On-line Learners at Virginia Tech
There has been a phenomenal growth in distance education since it's early days as correspondence study. Computers and the tools that go along with them, help to bridge the gap between physically separated people. Computers allow for resource sharing, decentralization, and limitless opportunities …
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The Virginia Tech FlatSat: A platform for small satellite testing
… the cost for future satellite missions at Virginia Tech.
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'ParkinVT', A Concept Mobile Application for Improved Parking at Virginia Tech
… which designs for improved parking in Virginia Tech. This study covers all standard procedures of application design. First, the study of 'ParkinVT' started with the research of the background, equipment, and current parking regulations of Virginia Tech. Second, reviews of two existing …
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Evaluation of Rainwater Harvesting on Residential Housing on Virginia Tech Campus
… impacts of RWH on residential housing on Virginia Tech campus in southwestern Virginia in regards to potable water offset, energy conservation, stormwater mitigation, carbon emission reduction, and financial savings. Potential rainwater collection was estimated from three simulations used …
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Virginia Tech Business College Alumni Reflect on Literature in their Lives
… Over the past fifty years, however, Virginia Tech's literature requirements for business majors have gradually diminished to none. The twelve participants who were interviewed in this qualitative study were all business majors who graduated from Virginia Tech before 1990, when the …
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Identifying career orientations of female, non-managerial employees at Virginia Tech
… sample for this study was 156 women employed at Virginia Tech who had participated in the University's Employee Career Development Program between 1980 and 1988. Career orientations of these women were identified using Derr's (1986) Career Success Map Questionnaire. The women also completed a …
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