Tuesday, April 22, 2014 | . MAD holds second iGS deVelopment seminar Sijia Wu LAYOUT EDITOR The second iOS application devel- opment seminar, held by MAD (Mobile App Development), brought a good turnout on Friday, April 18. It was led by Professor Michael Saelee from the Computer Science depart- ment, and required no previous experience with iOS application development, so any- one interested was welcome to join. The seminar was held in Stu- art Building 108, a lab equipped with fully functioning Macs, so there was no need for students to bring their own laptops. The seminar walked all participants through the creation of a complete messaging applica- IPRO 338 pa‘rticip Charles Rivas TECHNEWS WRITER Dr. Tomal’s IPRO 338 will be competing in ELECTRI International and the National Electrical Contracting Asso- ciation’s (NECA) 5th annual Green Energy Challenge! The challenge asks NECA chap- ter members to design a retrofit to improve energy efficiency for a Student Union Build— ing. Our building of choice was the famous McCormick Tribune Campus Center locat- ed directly under the steel tube. Constructed in 2003, the MTCC was built in order to accommodate student activities for the Illinois Institute of Tech— nology and Shimer College. The building was designed by famous Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, who was chosen through a competition held in 1997 through 1998. The Center carries important architectural significance due to its relationship with Mies Van Der Rohe’s vision, as it is the first planned addition to Mies’ grand design of tion. Using the platform Parse, and the Objective-C language, Professor Saelee showcased the whole process of building a mobile application and explained each step as the participants typed along. He also answered all the questions come up from the audience and made sure no one was left behind, by checking and fix— ing errors for the students. Eventually, every participant was able to build their own func- tional application and push their messages to the cloud. It was a valuable hands-on development experience for everyone who came. Alex Wall, president of Mobile App Development and a third year Electri- cal Engineering student at IIT, organized this event and facilitated the entire process the campus. The Campus Center itself directly connects to one of Mies’ buildings called The Commons. Much of Rem Koolhaas’ de- sign was influenced by satellite images of the site. Koolhaas noticed paths in the grass that had been made by students, which ended up defining the circulation inside and outside the building. Today, the MTCC has become flffi 5 by fixing nonfunctional code written by participants with his excellent troubleshoot- ing skills. “This was our second 105 Semi- nar, and it was a success. Professor Michael Saelee is an outstanding professor and from what we’ve heard, the participants couldn’t agree more,” concluded Alex after the semi- nar. He also mentioned that next semester the organization is planning on improving the format in which they teach appplication development technique as well as offering more resources and speakers. Mobile App Development, a new student organization started in February, 2014 by Alex Wall and a few other enthusi- astic coders and designers, has the purpose of preparing and exposing members to the many aspects of mobile application devel- opment by providing educational speak- a ates inNECA central for student activities and as a repre- sentation of the university itself. The next part of our challenge was to conduct an energy audit of the power and lighting systems within the building. The results from the audit were very surpris- ing. We found that the MTCC is anything but energy eflicient. Although it is a newer building, it needs some updating. After our armflfi Image courtesy of Charles Rivas ers, events and seminars and practicing the knowledge gained through developing pro— grams with real-world applications. So far the club has had two 108 seminars and a gaming tournament co-held with the Association of Computing Ma- chinery (ACM). The club also has biweekly general body meetings, in which students discuss about current progress in ongoing projects and learn about upcoming events. Currently, Mobile App Develop- ment is selling T—shirts and accepting dona— tions to raise money for necessary equip— ment and future events, like an iPad for testing, food for events, seminar speakers and much more. Please contact the club at illi- noistechmad@gmail.com for more informa- tion. Challenge audit, we were able to find the major flaws within the MTCC. To fix these flaws, we designed an energy retrofit for power and lighting sys- tems. Along with those retrofits, we plan to add in a more efficient sub-metering system and even have plans to use solar energy. With our proposed plan we can save $75,000 annually in just lighting retrofits alone. To get a more in-depth look at our IPRO’s work, come by our booth dur- ing IPRO day - Friday, April 25 2014. Look for IPRO 497—338 - Developing Insights for Energy Efficiency Improvement. This IPRO is led by Professor Daniel Tomal and Team Leader Ivan lose, the Power Team consists of Yoon Chye Lee, Ye Tian, Xuehai Shao, Yu- anbin Wang and Yanyan Iiang. The HVAC Team consists of Bri- ana Villagrana, Abbas Palgharwala, Soonen Ahua and Abhiroop Chattapadhyay. The Lighting Team consists of Sima Mustaklem, Yiyun Fan, Fengrui Yang and Ming Chen.