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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
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- Jobsite Characteristics that Influence Improvised Decision-making on Construction Sites
- This article examines the relationship between specific construction project characteristics and the degree and speed that the foremen are able to improvise in response to disruptive events on the jobsite. Specifically, characteristics such as the number of crew members working under the supervision of a foreman, the occupancy status of the project (i.e., occupied or unoccupied) during construction, the stage of completion of the project, and the levels of turbulence, time pressure, cooperation, collaboration, and organization, were examined. Using a multilevel regression modeling approach, an analysis of 244 disruptions reported by 50 foremen was conducted to determine whether the construction project characteristics could predict more or less improvisation and faster or slower improvisation by the foreman. The findings indicate that on construction projects that are rated by the foremen as more organized, the foremen can make more modest improvised decisions to resolve a disruption, but that on construction projects that were rated by the foremen as more collaborative (i.e., involved joint decision-making), a greater degree of improvisation was deployed. In addition, it was found that on sites that were rated by the foremen as more cooperative (i.e., involved greater willingness to help each other), the foremen required more time to improvise their decisions., Sponsorship: National Science Foundation
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- THE MICHAEL REESE SITE (Semester Unknown) IPRO 359
- At one time the Michael Reese Campus was a thriving mix of famous architecture and medical centers. Recently planned to be the home of the 2016 Olympic Village, with the loss of the bid the land has been abandoned. IPRO 356 is tasked with the challenge of designing a plan to redevelop the site. Building on previous work established by IPRO’s 359 and 356, we will use the first winning anchor and master plan created for the site and develop a second anchor. This second anchor and updated master plan aims at meeting the needs of the surrounding neighborhood while bringing life back to the area., Deliverables
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- ESTABLISHING AN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH JOURNAL (Semester Unknown) IPRO 321
- By encouraging and rewarding research across all undergraduate disciplines at the university, a distinctive and enriching educational environment will be developed for undergraduate students to become leaders and innovators., Sponsorship: IIT, Deliverables
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- Hydrazine Production
- Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- A NUMERICAL-METHOD FOR DETERMINING OPTIMAL PARAMETER VALUES IN FORCED PERIODIC OPERATION
- A numerical approach for determining values of forcing parameters which maximize performance of a periodically forced system is described. Periodic solutions of the system equations plus a differential form of the time-average performance measure are computed with a shooting algorithm. A nonlinear programming package is used to solve the optimization problem. The algorithm is applied to ethylene oxidation process, using the model of a continuous stirred-tank reactor (CSTR)., Endnote format citation
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- Heat Driven Refrigeration Systen (semester 1 of Unknown), IPRO 302
- Conventional refrigeration uses a great deal of electricity, a resource scare in developing areas, and as a consequence it is not viable. However if a system that is inexpensive, reliable under local conditions, and operates with only minimal electric power from a solar cell or battery can be introduced it would be a tremendous asset. Faced with such a requirements this project addresses these issues in order to find a solution that is economically and socially feasible., Sponsorship: The American Society of Heatting, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE); The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), Deliverables
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- A MODEL OBJECT BASED SUPERVISORY EXPERT SYSTEM FOR FAULT TOLERANT CHEMICAL REACTOR CONTROL
- An expert system for real-time control of chemical processes provides an environment for coordination of process fault diagnosis, assessment of process behavior, automated controller retuning and/or reconfiguration and consequently enables fault-tolerant process control. A supervisory expert system with object-based knowledge representation and heuristic (shallow) and model-based (deep) knowledge is presented. The expert system resides on a PC/386 and communicates with the control system developed in the form of control blocks residing on a PC/286. The prototype of the expert system is developed for retuning model-based controllers to improve the behavior of a packed-bed tubular CO oxidation reactor under autothermal operation. MOBECS is a supervisory expert system designed to tailor the process control system for a tubular autothermal reactor in response to process or control system faults, and changes in the process behavior. Specific functions include process fault diagnosis, control system performance monitoring and trouble-shooting, controller tuning and control system restructuring. As this work progresses, we will also address the problems of sensor placement, state estimation and process identification. Because of the high degree of coupling and interaction between process and control system entities, objects are the best knowledge representation for a process control expert system. The class—object structures of MOBECS is divided into three orthogonal trees representing the process and control system hierarchies and the topology of the system. Using this structure, knowledge is divided into general knowledge applicable to any process or control system and knowledge that is domain specific. The general knowledge is stored in the class structures and, together with generalized rules, forms a knowledge base kernel. This permits rapid prototyping of other applications of MOBECS. Properties are defined as high as possible in the class tree structure and inherited downwards. Knowledge specific to the process is stored in the objects at the leaves of the trees. Rules form the reasoning portion of the knowledge base and contain the causal relationships, meta-knowledge and performance monitoring functions. Rules that perform general monitoring and troubleshooting are applied at the class level through pattern matching. Rule sets are linked through context relationships to identify indirect relationships to the inference engine. These relationships are used with the process topology tree to reduce the search space when a fault is detected. The process monitoring and instability detection rules have been tested by simulating the inputs to the expert system. At the present time, experimental validation of the MOBECS prototype is being undertaken. Once the MOBECS prototype has been fully tested, the knowledge base will be extended to incorporate more complex fault diagnosis, state estimation, sensor placement and controller restructuring., Endnote format citation
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- Recording and Reproducing Head for Wire Recorders
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation, United States Patent
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- Solid State Shear Extrusion Pulverization
- A process and apparatus for pulverization of natural and synthetic polymeric material by heating to a pre-melt or softening temperature below its melting point, cooling and applying high normal and shear stresses sufficient to form fine powder, and fluidizing the powder in a gas stream preventing its agglomeration. The same process and apparatus is suitable for enhancement of reactivity of polymeric and solid monomeric material to form homopolymers, copolymers, and new polymeric materials., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Gyroscope
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- ZERO ENERGY LAB (Semester Unknown) IPRO 337
- The ultimate goal of the Zero Energy Lab is to get the fourth level of machinery hall off the electrical grid. The IPRO is moving towards transforming the space into a research space for future energy and lighting technologies. Since the end goals of the Zero Energy Lab are ambitious for one semester we are proposing to address solar hot water, a golf cart used as a mobile battery bank, and window efficiency this semester. We are also hoping to learn some tuck-pointing techniques to make the space more presentable. We would like for the team to learn new things about the technologies we are researching and using. We hope to have a good hands-on experience with energy efficiency and green technologies. The team is a collaboration of students from various majors including architecture, political science, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and biophysics. Together we believe we will be able to create a cohesive end product and work well together along the way., Deliverables
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- Nonlinear Contingency Screening for Voltage Collapse
- A method for estimating the severity of generator unit outage and multi-terminal branch outage contingencies with respect to voltage collapse in large-scale electric power systems which includes the steps of estimating a post-contingency saddle-node bifurcation induced voltage collapse point of an electric power system following a set of generator unit outages and/or a set of branch outages and calculating a distance to collapse of said power system. The post-contingency voltage collapse point is determined by application of a nonlinear contingency screening method., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Magnetic Recording System Using Transducer with Flux Path
- A video transducer system comprising a magnetic head having a magnetic core with a loop magnetic signal flux path including a scanning gap, and a magnetic record medium coupled to the core at the scanning gap., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Improving Health Care Information Systems for a Community Health Network (semester?), IPRO 340
- The overall objective of IPRO 340 is to improve the quality of healthcare by improving information technology at ACCESS health care. The specific objective of the Spring 2006 semester is to help to prepare ACCESS to adopt new technology. The first main assignment of the team is to determine employees’ current computer skill levels by refining and rolling out last semester’s computer Assessment Plan. Our second main assignment is to investigate training solutions and develop the training protocol that will bring ACCESS employee’s up to date with the computer skills they will need to adopt new information technologies ACCESS plans to implement in the near future. Our last assignment is to investigate various Electronic Medical Record (EMR) functionalities and compare leading EMR vendors to support ACCESS in deciding which EMR vendor to implement throughout their network., Sponsorship: Steven Glass, CIO Access Health Network, Deliverables for IPRO 340: Improving Health Care Information Systems for a Community Health Network for the Spring 2006 semester
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- Motion Picture Film
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Differential Spool Drive
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Magnetic Analog to Digital Converter
- Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent