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- Web-Based Supervisor, Management and Leadership Training (semester?), IPRO 306
- The primary purpose of the Interprofessional Project (IPRO) 306 team is to enable a group of students from diverse cultural, economic, and academic backgrounds to work towards a common goal and conjointly succeed. The secondary purpose of the IPRO 306 team is to develop a topical web-based supervisory, management, and leadership program. In pursuing our objectives, we will gain familiarity and understanding of the best training methods, the most significant and universal leadership traits for organizational effectiveness, and an appreciation for our own unique strengths on an interdisciplinary team., Deliverables for IPRO 306: Web-Based Supervisor, Management and Leadership Training for the Fall 2007 semester
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- Monitoring of multivariable dynamic processes and sensor auditing
- Industrial continuous processes are usually operated under closed-loop control, yielding process measurements that are autocorrelated, cross correlated, and collinear. A statistical process monitoring (SPM) method based on state variables is introduced to monitor such processes. The statistical model that describes the in-control variability is based on a canonical variate (CV) state space model. The CV state variables are linear combinations of the past process measurements which explain the variability of the future measurements the most, and they are regarded as the principal dynamic dimensions. A T-2 statistic based on the CV state variables is utilized for developing the SPM procedure. The CV state variables are also used for monitoring sensor reliability. An experimental application to a high temperature short time (HTST) pasteurization process illustrates the proposed methodology., Endnote format citation
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- AXISYMMETRICAL JET FORCED BY FUNDAMENTAL AND SUBHARMONIC TONES
- A circular jet was excited simultaneously by two harmonically related tones. The results of this excitation on jet behavior are reported for three pairs of Strouhal numbers [St(D) = f*D/U(j) = 0.2 and 0.4, 0.3 and 0.6, 0.4 and 0.8]. For each case, the initial phase difference between the two tones was varied in steps of 45 deg for one full cycle, and the amplitude of the fundamental and subharmonic tones was varied independently over the range of 0.1-7.0% of the jet exit velocity. Several results of this study agreed with other published findings, such as a critical amplitude or the fundamental being required for subharmonic augmentation and the initial phase difference being critical in determining whether the subharmonic is augmented or suppressed. In addition, the detailed documentation or several aspects of this phenomenon, measured in the same experimental facility in a controlled manner, brought out two important points that had eluded previous researchers. First, at high levels of the fundamental and subharmonic forcing amplitudes, the subharmonic augmentation is independent of the initial phase difference. Second, two-frequency excitation is indeed more effective than single-frequency excitation in jet mixing enhancement. Higher spreading rates seem to go along with higher subharmonic levels.
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- Power Management for Multi-module Energy Storage Systems in Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicles
- An electric energy storage system (EESS) for providing a power management solution for a multi-subsystem energy storage in electric, hybrid electric, and fuel cell vehicles. The EESS has a controller that determines when to draw power from each subsystem as needed by the vehicle., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Nanoparticle Based Thermal History Indicators
- An indicator composition for determining a thermal or chronological history during shipping or storage of a product. The composition includes a plurality of nanoparticles dispersed throughout a matrix. The nanoparticles turn color while dispersed in the matrix as a function at least one of time and temperature., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- A modular simulation package for fed-batch fermentation: penicillin production
- Simulation software based on a detailed unstructured model for penicillin production in a fed-batch fermentor has been developed. The model extends the mechanistic model of Bajpai and Reuss by adding input variables such as pH, temperature, aeration rate, agitation power, and feed flow rate of substrate and introducing the CO2 evolution term. The simulation package was then used for monitoring and fault diagnosis of a typical penicillin fermentation process. The simulator developed may be used for both research and educational purposes and is available at the web site: http://www.chee.iit.edu/ similar to control/software.html., Endnote format citation
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- Liquefied Natural Gas Technology (Fall 2003) IPRO 304A: Liquefied Natural Gas Technology IPRO304A Fall2003 Final Presentation
- Design and model a production process for the manufacture of liquefied natural gas (LNG). Understand the economic aspects of running a facility and the worldwide market of LNG and its by products. To identify environmental and safety concerns, Sponsorship: IIT Collaboratory for Interprofessional Studies, Project Plan for IPRO 304A: Liquefied Natural Gas for the Fall 2003 semester
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- Titanium Base Alloy
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Automatic Insulin Pumps Using Recursive Multivariable Models and Adaptive Control Algorithms
- A method and device for monitoring or treating patient glucose levels. The device includes a glucose sensor for measuring a glucose level of a patient, a physiological status monitoring system for measuring at least one physical or metabolic variable of the patient, and an automatic controller in communication with the glucose sensor and the physiological status monitoring system. The controller includes a prediction module for automatically predicting a future glucose level using data measured by the glucose sensor and the physiological sensor., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Flame Spraying Process
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Interactive Urban Landmark Kiosks for Memorial Walk of Martin Luther King (sequence unknown), IPRO 314 - Deliverables
- The objective of this IPRO is to help the students of Gage Park H.S. bring their vision of a memorial to a historical event into existence., Sponsorship: Gage Park High School, Deliverables for IPRO 314: Interactive Urban Landmark Kiosks for Memorial Walk of Martin Luther King for the fall 2009 semester.
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- Automated Dry Deposition Sampler
- A dry deposition sampling apparatus having at least one thin dry deposition plate with sample collection film is maintained on a support structure which is rotatable about a vertical axis and has a vane to maintain the sharp leading edge of the dry deposition plate(s) headed into the wind. Covers are positioned over the sample collection films automatically upon commencement of precipitation and are automatically moved to a position exposing the sample collection films to the atmosphere upon cessation of precipitation. The duration of exposure of the collection films to the atmosphere is timed, thus providing a dry deposition sampling apparatus which may be left unattended for long periods of time., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- ACCESS Healthcare Perinatal Care (semester 1 of unknown) IPRO 340
- Our goal was to improve ACCESS Community Health Network’s information systems that support the perinatal treatment program in order to enhance the sectors of revenue and quality of care., Sponsorship: ACCESS Healthcare, Deliverables
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- Carbon Footprint of Automobiles (Semester Unknown) IPRO 322
- The goal of the IPRO 322 team is to develop and present a “User friendly” way of identifying vehicles with respect to the emission of greenhouse gases throughout their life cycle., Deliverables
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- Equipment for Use with Magnetic Tape Records
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- AVOIDATRAK: AVOIDATRAK IPRO310 Spring2001 Final Presentation
- The team will assist an independent inventor, Mr. Julius Jones, Jr., in developing his idea for a computer game that could help wheelchair users improve their hand-eye coordination and reflexes, and which would be enjoyable, interesting, and motivating for them to play. In exploring design ideas, for the game, the team will have an opportunity to meet and confer with wheelchair bound students who this past summer successfully completed a path-breaking hike on a rugged trail in the White Mountains of New Hampshire (New York Times, August 12, 2000, p. A1). The IPRO team will work on developing computer animation models of possible scenarios for the game. This IPRO combines analysis of needs and interests of mobility-impaired individuals from perspectives of the human and social sciences (psychology, sociology, etc.) with developing ideas about how to address those needs in a meaningful way through a computer game (design, electrical and computer engineering, computer science, etc.), Sponsorship: Collaboration with the National Easter Seal Society and other organizations interested in sponsoring this project., Project Plan for IPRO 310: AVOIDATRAK for the Spring 2001 semester
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- Video Transducing Apparatus
- Monochrome and color television recording and playback circuitry for coupling of a video magnetic transducer head with a standard broadcast television receiver. The transducer head preferably includes a plurality of head units for recording respective color television signals with provision for selectively recording a monochrome signal on successive channels with the use of one only of the head units., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Bus tracker (Fall 2003) EnPRO 371: Bus Tracker ENPRO371 Fall2003 Final Presentation
- Our goal is to develop a cost effective bus tracking system based on affordable radio- frequency (RF) technology that will provide customers with reliable information, which they can use it to ensure the safety of their children., Sponsorship: NA, Project Plan for EnPRO 371: Bus Tracker for Fall 2003 semester