Institutional Repository
Array
Pages
-
- Tweet Acts: How Constituents Lobby Congress via Twitter
- Twitter is increasingly becoming a medium through which constituents can lobby their elected representatives in Congress about issues that matter to them. Past research has focused on how citizens communicate with each other or how members of Congress (MOCs) use social media in general; our research examines how citizens communicate with MOCs. We contribute to existing literature through the careful examination of hundreds of citizen-authored tweets and the development of a categorization scheme to describe common strategies of lobbying on Twitter. Our findings show that contrary to past research that assumed citizens used Twitter to merely shout out their opinions on issues, citizens utilize a variety of sophisticated techniques to impact political outcomes.
-
- Automated Shipping Container Transfer in Chicago (semester?), IPRO 307
- For the United States, substantial numbers of shipping containers must be transferred from one side of the country to the other. As the major highway and railroad crossroad, Chicago receives the bulk of this intercontinental inter-modal traffic, making it the third largest container port in the world. In many instances, containers are even moved from one railroad to another by truck, exhausting street and highway capacity. Meteoric growth in container movement is expected to continue., Deliverables for IPRO 307: Automated Shipping Container Transfer in Chicago for the Spring 2005 semester
-
- Stereophonic System
- Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
-
- Statistical Monitoring of Complex Chemical Processes Using Agent-Based Systems
- It is highly desirable to have a statistical process monitoring (SPM) system that detects the abnormalities in process operations quickly with as few missed and false alarms as possible while the process operates under various operating conditions An agent-based combined monitoring and fault detection framework is proposed in this study. In this framework, different SPM techniques compete with and complement each other to enhance detection speed and accuracy. SPM techniques from literature such as principal component analysis (PCA), multiblock PCA (MBPCA), and dynamic PCA (DPCA) techniques are implemented in this agent-based process supervision system An agent performance assessment and agent management layer provides dynamic adaptation of the supervision system and improves the performance of SPM The statistical information coming from each of the statistical techniques is summarized through a consensus mechanism The performance of the agent-based consensus mechanism using different consensus criteria is tested for system disturbances of various magnitudes The effectiveness of the proposed agent-based framework with different consensus criteria is evaluated based on fault detection times and missed alarm rates and the adaptation of the supervision system is illustrated, Endnote format citation for DOI:10.1021/ie901368j
-
- Zero Energy Home 1114 W Roscoe Ave (Semester Unknown) IPRO 317
- Design of a sustainable net zero energy building with zero carbon emission at a traditional construction cost. - Promote the use of this design as a template for other homes in the future., Sponsorship: Jimmy Eng, Deliverables
-
- Integration of multivariate SPM and FDD by parity space technique for a food pasteurization process
- Multivariate statistical process monitoring (MSPM), contribution plots, and parity space fault diagnosis (FD) techniques are used to detect abnormal operation of dynamic processes and diagnose sensor and actuator faults. The methods are illustrated by monitoring the critical control points (CCP) and diagnosing causes of abnormal operation of a pilot pasteurization plant. An empirical model of the process is developed by using subspace state space system identification methods and normal process data. The process data collected under the influence of different magnitude and duration of faults in sensors and actuators are used to validate the MSPM and FD techniques. T-2 and squared prediction error (SPEN) charts are used as MSPM charts. A parity space technique for dynamic stochastic systems and dynamic trends in contribution plots of T-2 and SPEN statistics are used for FD. The detection and FD by these techniques show significant improvements over univariate methods., Endnote format citation
-
- 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
-
- Growing Water: 31st Street Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype (Semester Unknown) IPRO 322
- 1048 million gallons of water is used in Chicago everyday. Chicago replenishes almost none of it. Although there is no water shortage currently, many believe that water will be to the next century what oil is to this century: a huge commodity. Twenty percent of the world's potable water is contained in the Great Lakes. In order to be responsible consumers of this natural resource, Chicago is looking into different plans to return water to Lake Michigan. The purpose of Growing Water IPRO is to create a prototype of an Eco-boulevard on the IIT campus that will serve as an example of practices that could be implemented across the Chicago-land area to manage and naturally purify storm water and sewage water so it can be reintroduced to Lake Michigan. These Eco-boulevards will also serve as educational facilities to inform the community about the growing scarcity of water and how to conserve this precious resource., Deliverables
-
- Improved isolation of the p-p underlying event based on minimum-bias trigger-associated hadron correlations
- Some aspects of hadron production in p-p collisions remain unresolved, including the low-hadron-momentum structure of high-parton-energy dijets, separation of triggered dijets from the underlying event (UE), the systematics of multiple parton interactions and possible systematic underestimation of dijet contributions to high-energy nuclear collisions. In this study we apply a minimum-bias trigger-associated (TA) correlation analysis to p-p collisions. We extract a hard component from TA correlations that can be compared with measured jet fragment systematics derived from e+-e− collisions. The kinematic limits on jet fragment production may be determined. The same method may be extended to A-A collisions where the role of minimum-bias jets in spectra and correlations is strongly contested., Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
-
- Process for Making Magnetic Recording Wire
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
-
- Robotics Initiative at IIT (Fall 2003) IPRO 316: Robotics Initiative at IIT IPRO316 Fall2003 Final Presentation
- Research into robotics program at other universities. Introduce robotics as a major part of the academic curriculum. Acquire knowledge and hands-on experience in constructing and understanding of robotic units via 4 main projects Scorpion, Arm, Line Tracer, Hand Chaser / Repeller, Sponsorship: IIT Collaboratory for Interprofessional Studies, Project Plan for IPRO 316: Robotics Initiative at IIT for Fall 2003 semester
-
- Innovating Process Improvements in Manufacturing Operations (Semester Unknown) IPRO 304
- The purpose of this IPRO is to develop a robust, working prototype that can automatically monitor and detect a problem with a milling machine at A. FInkl & Sons Co. This IPRO is in its fourth semester and there are two challenges remaining: (1) alerting management to the detection of broken teeth during machining; and (2) developing spatial representations of items undergoing heat treatment. However, A. Finkl & Sons has asked us to concentrate solely on the goal of finding a way to detect when a break occurs in one of the milling teeth and then alert the mechanic monitoring the machine in order to replace it. This system will involve measuring vibrations using an accelerometer or by the use of laser detection. The goal of this IPRO is to research, test, and inform A. FInkl & Sons of the best solution to invest in, therefore they can decide what is better for their company., Sponsorship: A. Finkl & Sons Co, Deliverables
-
- Reel
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
-
- Solid Fuel from Biomass for Cogeneration (Semester Unknown) IPRO 349
- Renewable energy is one of the most important and widely researched topics today. It is classically defined as any form of energy that comes from renewable sources and, for all practical purposes, cannot be depleted. This may include solar, wind, or geothermal power, as well as biomass or biofuels. When considering biomass, or any living or recently dead biological material, the chemical energy of the molecules is generally collected through the process of combustion., Deliverables
-
- Titanium Base Alloy
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
-
- Edutainment (semester?), IPRO 329
- This semester IPRO 329, Edutainment, continues placing its complete efforts toward an educational computer gaming suite targeted at fourth-grade students and the subjects these students struggle with most in school. The tentative title, Scholars of the Lost Exhibit, remains the same this semester. Work on this project began two semesters ago as the team completed their award-winning game College Pursuit. During this semester, we will continue to focus on the design, development, testing, and marketing of Scholars of the Lost Exhibit., Deliverables for IPRO 329: Edutainment for the Spring 2006 semester
-
- Using ecological momentary assessment to understand a construction worker’s daily disruptions and decisions (Working Paper)
- Capturing the momentary decisions and actions made by construction workers in response to workflow disruptions is challenging because, until now, there has not been a minimally-disruptive data collection method that allows workers to identify their decision process “in the moment.” However, an Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) method – designed to capture momentary work experiences in natural settings – can provide researchers with detailed information about the daily challenges experienced by workers during the course of performing their tasks. An explanation of the method is provided, along with examples of the types of research questions that can be addressed and appropriate analysis techniques. The EMA method is being used on a federally-funded research program in the United States that is investigating how construction workers adapt to workflow disruptions by improvising their decisions and actions. Consequently, this article demonstrates the use of the method by presenting an idiographic study of William, an electrical construction worker. The evaluation of William’s disruptions, decisions, and actions elucidated an important relationship: every one of William’s disruptions required an improvisational action in order to continue working. The EMA method opens the door to the development of new theories about rapid decisions and subsequent actions on construction sites., Sponsorship: National Science Foundation
-
- Robotics Initiative at IIT (semester?), IPRO 316
- This IPRO is dedicated to continuing the robotics initiative at Illinois Institute of Technology. There are so many ways that this group of people can accomplish that task. The importance of this overall goal is significant due to the growing use of robotics in the commercial world today., Deliverables for IPRO 316: Robotics Initiative at IIT for the Fall 2004 semester