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: Method and Means for Producing Magnetic Record Members; Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: Iterative Video Teaching Aid with Recordable Commentary and Indexing; A tutorial or diagnostic aid based on the representation and iterative interpretation of visual images is taught. A teaching or diagnostic session is created by overlaying an interpretation layer via a software application onto the visual image layer and synchronizing the two with the time code of the visual image. The interpretation layer allows the reviewer to identify image areas of interest by gesture and append comments thereto in real time; i.e. images or portions of images within the visual representation playback may be identified and labeled and have the concurrent commentary associated therewith. The comments are indexed and linked to a database of similar topics. The flow of the session is recorded to show the images, deictic gestures associated therewith, and commentary associated with the gestures, to enable subsequent users to playback a session and follow the flow of thought (i.e. image identification and commentary within the original session). Iterative sessions allow additional image identification and commentary to be accomplished. Additional database access through the index may further enhance a teaching session, or provide for research sessions and report generation., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Magnetic Recorder and Drive Therefor; Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation, United States Patent

: User Generated Map Content (Semester Unknown) IPRO 305; Identify 4-5 viable community groups of 8-10 people each • Liaison with these communities and teach them to use NAVTEQ tools for generating POI map content • Collect and analyze community generated map content • Determine proper incentives for community groups, Sponsorship: NAVTEQ, Delieverables

: Developing Technology to Transform Education in Haiti (Semester Unknown) IPRO 335; To enable and empower Haitian children’s education through the use of sustainable energy and collaborative technology, as well as expanding our practical and professional experience through obtaining funding and grants. To create a reproducible model, intended to be applied to other similar projects around the world., Deliverables

: Increasing Alternative Transportation at IIT (Semester Unknown) IPRO 352; We want to celebrate the sustainable image of IIT by promoting bicycling at IIT. We want to increase awareness about the benefits of biking and how it is the most useful and the most easiest and fastest way of transportation around IIT We want to continue the efforts of IIT and its attempt to be a more environmentally friendly and sustainable campus by showing the school the advantages of bicycling at IIT. We want to promote the facts of bicycles and the benefits it will bring to the community if used in a greater capacity., Sponsorship: IIT, Deliverables

: 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

: New Product Evaluation and Improvement (Semester Unknown) IPRO 341; The team’s purpose is to test the current new design for Versatility Tool Works cabinet, and make suggestions for improvements if needed. Additionally, the team’s purpose was extended to develop a next‐generation tool storage cabinet and also to identify potential new markets for the company to pursue. This will require a truly inter‐professional team to analyze everything from the engineering of the tool storage cabinet to market research of the current and potential markets., Deliverables

: Microchannel Heat Exchanger with Micro-encapsulated Phase Change Material for High Flux Cooling; A microchannel cooler containing a slurry having a particulate liquid/solid phase change material is provided balancing the interdependent factors of microencapsulated particle size with microchannel size and shape and flow conditions for the removal of high heat flux with low space and low power requirements., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: IIT Reality - finding a Job as an IIT Grad (semester?), IPRO 333; The objective of Ipro 333 is to create a documentary capturing the experience of IIT students trying to find a job after graduation. This is going to be done through a 3 semester process in which the group must plan, film, and edit footage taken. This being semester 2, the group goal is to finish the plans and all o f the filming, leaving only the very time consuming editing to the third semester., Deliverables for IPRO 333: IIT Reality - finding a Job as an IIT Grad for the Spring 2006 semester

: Apparatus for Electrostatic Encapsulation; Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: Developing Affordable Products for the Rural Poor of the World (semester 4 of ?), IPRO 325; IPRO 325, over the past three semesters, has focused on helping solve problems that plague the world’s rural poor population. In fall 2006, the team identified the three most severe problems in which the following semesters should choose to focus. These problems fell into the general categories of water, energy and shelter., Deliverables for IPRO 325: Developing Affordable Products for the Rural Poor of the World for the Fall 2007 semester

: System for Continuous Vehicular Travel on Crossing Roadways; Systems for improved vehicular movement between first and second crossing roadways. The systems employ multiple turn roadways to permit a vehicle traveling on one of the crossing roadways to appropriately turn and continuously travel onto the other of the crossing roadway. The systems are adaptable to use in conjunction with either left side of the road vehicle movement or right side of the road vehicle movement. In addition, the systems can be adapted for use in conjunction a roadway crossing whereat at least one of the roads is for forwarded vehicle movement in only one direction., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Implementing The Plant: Chicago’s First Vertical Farm (Semester Unknown) IPRO 336; There are several types of framing that can be used on a greenhouse. The frames are made of wood, galvanized steel, or aluminum. Build-it-yourself greenhouse plans are usually for structures with wood or metal pipe frames. Plastic pipe materials generally are inadequate to meet snow and wind load requirements. Frames can be covered with glass, rigid fiberglass, rigid double-wall plastics, or plastic film. All have advantages and disadvantages. Each of these materials should be considered--it pays to shop around for ideas., Deliverables

: Techno-Business Study of Water Pump Motor Technologies (Semester Unknown) IPRO 348; IPRO 348 is a team of students working together for the goal of assisting Pentair with selecting a new motor to use in their water pumps that is more economically and environmentally friendly through research and testing of potential new motor technologies., Sponsorship: Pentair, Deliverables

: Innovative Mapping (Semester Unknown) IPRO 303; NAVTEQ, the sponsor of this project, is one of the largest digital mapping companies in the world. They are in a constant phase of self-improvement. Right now, NAVTEQ’s focus is on how to make their technology more pedestrian and community friendly. Our project has two main sections – 1. Target the majority of mobile device users, and give them an outlet to report any changes, mistakes or developments that have been overlooked by NAVTEQ. 2. Come up with a solution which enables the average map user – men and women ages 18-35, students and tourists – to address these alterations in a simple, hassle free way, Sponsorship: NAVTEQ, Deliverables

: Digital Control of Power Converters; A method of controlling a DC/DC converter to regulate an output voltage from an input voltage source that varies from a fully-charged voltage to a discharged voltage. The method introduced improves the dynamic response of the converter during transients by switching between different converter topologies to spread out voltage spikes, which are an inevitable result of transients. The invention also can improve the efficiency of the DC/DC converter by replacing higher loss modes with combination modes., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Chicago Politicians on Twitter; This paper uses data from 1,042 tweets posted by or mentioning Chicago Aldermen or Mayor Rahm Emanuel to examine how Chicago politicians use social media. Twitter provides a public communication medium in which constituents and their representatives can have two-way conversations that others can witness and record, and we used qualitative and social network methods to examine conversations between Chicagoans and representatives in city government. We coded the contents of each tweet over the two-week time period (e.g., official business, fundraising) and created representations of the social networks created by the users’ following behaviors. These networks indicate who receives politicians’ tweets and help identify the audiences for political messaging in social media. Our analysis indicates that Chicago’s Aldermen and Mayor use Twitter for social conversations more often than political ones, and that only a small number of Aldermen dominate the resulting conversation networks., Sponsorship: Social Network Research Group at IIT, IIT Graduate College

: 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

: Control of grade transitions in distributed chemical reactor networks - An agent-based approach; Supervision of distributed manufacturing processes producing different grades of a product requires intelligent reconfiguration strategies during grade transition phases to minimize off-spec production. Agent-based approaches are ideal for such problems and they provide flexible, robust, and emergent solutions during dynamically changing process conditions. Three different multi-layered multi-agent, frameworks are proposed for the supervision of grade transitions in autocatalytic reactor networks. The first framework is the centralized framework and it is useful for small-scale grade transitions where only a small region of the network needs to be reconfigured. Alternatively, the other two frameworks use a decentralized approach. The first decentralized framework implements genetic algorithms and the second one uses self-organizing heuristics and auctions for large-scale grade transitions. The case studies demonstrate that as the complexity of the reconfiguration problem increases, decentralized solutions perform more efficiently., Endnote format citation for DOI:10.1016/j.compchemeng.2008.02.008

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