Augmented ETDs

Augmented ETDs

Mcmillan, Gail

Graduate students have taken advantage of the various electronic theses and dissertations systems to enhance their capstone projects with supplemental files since the earliest days of ETDs. In 1997 when Timur Oral was required to submit his digital thesis to the Graduate School at Virginia Tech, " A Contemporary Turkish Coffeehouse Design Based on Historic Traditions, " it was augmented by two QuickTime movies. Along with the text, the PDF of his thesis contains many drawings and colorful pictures, but these now-primitive digital videos convey the atmosphere of a coffeehouse-everything but the coffee aroma. Recently the discussion of ETDs and their supplementary files has gained momentum. In\n

2016