ETD Award Winners - 2006
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) consortium is pleased to announce this year's award winners. The awards recognize students who have written exemplary electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). These ETDs demonstrate new dimensions of scholarship being explored by individuals who have made significant contributions to the worldwide ETD movement.
The Awards Program includes several categories of appreciation. The Innovative ETD Award recognizes student efforts to transform the genre of the print dissertation through the use of innovative software to create cutting edge ETDs. Use of renderings, photos, video and other multimedia objects that are included in the electronic document were considered as part of the innovation of the work. The Innovative Learning through ETDs Award recognizes a student whose professional life has been enhanced by the ETD process. Finally, the ETD Leadership Award recognizes members of the university community whose leadership and vision has helped raise awareness of the benefits of ETDs, and whose efforts have improved graduate education through the use of ETDs. The awards will be presented at the ETD 2006 Symposium, to be held this year in Quebec City, Canada, 7-10 June 2006.
ETD Award Winners
Innovative ETD (pdf format)
Howard Camp / Measurements of the Time Evolution of Coherent Excitation. Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Kansas State University, U.S.A.
File description: 8 files; pdf, avi movies.
URL: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/73
Evan D. Dorn / Universal Biosignatures for the
Detection of Life. Doctor of Philosophy in Computation and Neural
Systems, California Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
File description: 15 files; pdf, mpeg movie, xls spreadsheets, tar compressed data files.
URL: http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05272005-071800
Christopher Spaw / 1219 Colorado. Master of Architecture, Kansas State University, U.S.A.
File description: pdf in architectural format.
URL: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/78
Innovative ETD (open format)
Tim Broadwater / www.Didartic.com: Activating the
Didactic, Self-Reflective Fairytale through Hypermedia as a Model for
the Art Education Activist. Master of Arts in Art Education, West
Virginia University, U.S.A.
File description: 52 files; pdf, gif, html; virtual art exhibit presented as a video game.
URL: https://eidr.wvu.edu/etd/documentdata.eTD?documentid=4350
ETD Leadership
Sharon Reeves. Director, National Library and Archives of Canada. Mrs Reeves has been instrumental in formulating the national ETD consortium for Canadian university libraries and for implementation of the "Theses Canada" portal. URL: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html.
Angela McCutcheon. Director, ETD Program, Ohio University, U.S.A. Ms McCutcheon has developed an automated office system and new training materials for the OU ETD program. The new office automation system allows the ETD office to collect, retrieve, and report on all ETD student information with ease, including identifying the current status, ETD release dates, copyrights, publication delays, and other status inquiries. URL: http://www.ohio.edu/graduate/etd.cfm.
The NDLTD wishes to express its sincere gratitude for the generous sponsorship of the ETD Awards Program by Adobe Systems, Inc. Additional information about the NDLTD is available at http://www.ndltd.org/
23 May 2006
John H. Hagen, NDLTD Board Member and Awards Committee Chair