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- Apparatus for Forming Metal Fibers
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Apparatus for Producing Metal Powder
- Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- infoMOTO - Information Tools to Enhance the Performance and Experience of Motorcyclists, Summer 2011, IPRO 308
- infoMoto is a user-friendly and affordable aftermarket device which provides accessible feedback to the rider and mechanic as to the safety and performance of the motorcycle, which enhances the overall riding experience. Unlike existing standard equipment which provides minimal information, infoMoto notifies the user of impending malfunctions in addition to providing diagnostic information. This device may also help the designers of future models of motorcycles to head off any impeding problems, increasing the quality of their product., IPRO 308: infoMOTO for Summer 2011
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- Magnetic Transducer System with Head Engaging Slidably Supported Tape Soap Adjacent the Capstan
- A magnetic tape apparatus wherein a capstan drive assembly provides a tape path thereabout and receives a transducer head with a convex face for scanning engagement with the tape. A magnetic shield may be interposed between the capstan and the head where the capstan is of magnetizable steel. The motor, flywheel and capstan form a unitary assembly which preferably includes a bearing for the outer end of the capstan. A endless loop or reel-to-reel tape cartridge configuration may be engaged with the capstan assembly without manual threading. Idler rollers for the capstan are of configuration to tension the tape at the transducer head location, and may be interchanged to tension the tape in either direction of movement. A preferred head is operable with bias of 10 megahertz or more., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Business Development Through BIM and Other Strategies For Electrical Contractors (Semester Unknown) IPRO 338
- The IPRO 338 task is to continue from past IPRO efforts in developing business strategies for electrical contractors through the use Building Informational Modeling (BIM). While past IPROs have focused on the efficiency and benefits of BIM for electrical contracting companies. Our teams focus will be on how the benefits of using these new technologies and other business development strategies can help guide electrical contractors towards improving and increasing their overall business endeavors in a recessional and competitive environment. We plan on concluding our project with a business development module presenting key successful marketing strategies. The developed deliverable is geared towards assisting members of our sponsoring Electrical Contracting Association (ECA)., Sponsorship: Electrical Contracting Association (ECA)., Deliverables
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- Ethanol Ultra-Light Aircraft (Fall 2002) IPRO 317: Ethanol Ultra-Light Aircraft IPRO317 Fall2002 Final Presentation
- Students will continue the work of previous IPRO teams to convert a Quicksilver MXII ultralight airplane to run on E85 fuel (85% ethanol, 15% gasoline). This is technically challenging because the plane uses a 2-stroke Rotax 503 engine, where the oil must be mixed in with the fuel. After the conversion, the plane will be flight-tested. In the mean time, the plane can be flown by students to enjoy the experience of flying a personal-type aircraft. In addition to the technical aspects, the project involves developing and maintaining relationships with sponsors, public relations, and a study of the potential for ethanol in the ultralight aircraft market. This project may eventually lead to the creation of a student organization responsible for maintaining and flying the ultralight aircraft., Sponsorship: Cushing Air Field, Brandon Klein, Larry Garick, Project Plan for IPRO 317: Ethanol Ultra-Light Aircraft for the Fall 2002 semester
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- Developing Web Applications for the Northern Illinois Hockey League (sequence unknown), IPRO 308 - Deliverables
- The NIHL is the largest hockey league in Illinois. It is also the largest youth all star hockey league in the US, serving over 300 youth teams and over 4,000 players. The team's purpose is to make the NIHL a web-based scheduling and scoring applications that can support their annual operations., Sponsorship: Northern Illinois Hockey League(NIHL), Deliverables for IPRO 308: Developing Web Applications for the Northern Illinois Hockey League for the fall 2009 semester
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- Magnetic Recorder Drive Mechanism
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Marketing Strategy for Pasteurized Eggs to Create Informed Customers (Semester Unknown) IPRO 336
- The purpose of The Safety Eggsperts’ project is to research consumer egg buying behaviors, what causes these behaviors, and how these behaviors can be leveraged, with the help of buzz and other marketing tactics, to sell safe eggs., Deliverables
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- Memory Server
- A memory server provides data access as a service to clients and has a memory service architecture and components for removing data management burdens from the client processor and providing increased speed and utility for the client through aggressive prediction of client memory requirements and fast provision of data., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Particle production at large momentum transfer
- Diffractive particle production in ep collisions and coherent pp interactions is studied assuming that the color singlet t channel exchange carries large momentum transfer. The differential and total cross sections for vector meson and photon production are calculated using the non-forward solution of the LO and NLO BFKL equation at high energy and large momentum transfer and the predictions are compared with the DESY HERA data. Moreover, we estimate the rapidity distributions and total cross section for the J/Ψ and ρ production in coherent pp interactions at LHC energies. We predict large rates, which implies that the experimental identification can be feasible at the LHC., Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
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- Development of Powered Resonance-tube Actuators for Aircraft Flow Control Applications
- The present paper addresses both active-flow-control actuator technology development and the demonstration of the effectiveness of actuators that could be easily integrated into practical aircraft applications. The actuator used is an adaptation of the Hartmann oscillator. Demonstration experiments that illustrate the effectiveness of this actuator include cavity tone suppression at transonic speeds and the reduction of jet-impingement tones. The actuator concept is based on a high-speed jet aimed at the mouth of a cylindrical tube closed at the other end. The result is a high-amplitude self-sustaining fluctuating field accompanied by an intense narrowband tone, all in the region between the supply jet and the resonance tube. Using unsteady pressure sensors and flow visualization, we explored the effect of varying actuator parameters such as the spacing between the power jet and the resonance tube, supply pressure, resonance-tube depth, diameter, shape, and lateral spacing. By varying the depth of the tube, the frequency could be varied from about 1.6 kHz to over 10 kHz and amplitudes as high as 156 dB (microphone location dependent) were obtained in the vicinity of actuation. To integrate this concept into practical aircraft applications, two generations of a more complex version of this device known as the powered resonance-tube bank (PRTB) were developed and demonstrated. Results indicate that by using high-frequency excitation at 5-kHz suppression levels in excess of 20 dB were consistently obtained over a range of operating conditions in both cavity and impingement flow situations. Based on our results, we have grounds to believe that a properly designed PRTB has significant advantages over conventional actuators such as acoustic, piezo, and oscillatory microstructures.
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- Zero Energy Lab (Semester Unknown) IPRO 337
- The IPRO 337 team’s objectives for this semester are to make further progress in updating the top floor of Machinery Hall into a lab for future energy and lighting technology research. The research conducted this semester will help us transform the space into a more sustainable working environment. Since the ultimate goal is rather ambitious, our goal for this particular semester is to implement an energy plan which will become the basis off of which the future IPRO’s will continue towards the ultimate goal. We also intend to clear the space so that the developed plan can be tested., Deliverables
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- Building a Working Replica of Kolff's Rotating Drum (Spring 2004), IPRO 314
- This IPRO team has the unique opportunity to recreate, from the original plans, a working replica of the first clinically successful artificial kidney. Designed, built, and implemented in 1942, Willem Kolff’s rotating drum was the first successful extra-corporeal medical technological device. It provided a successful technological reference point for subsequent development of dialysis devices. This device literally established the field of artificial organs. There are no working models in the Western Hemisphere. Two exist in Europe both in the Netherlands., Sponsorship: Museum of science and Industry; Paticia ward, PhD, Dept. of Science and Technology, Deliverables for IPRO 314: Building a Working Replica of Kolff's Rotating Drum for the Spring 2006 semester
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- Digital Word of Mouth (semester?), IPRO 304
- The purpose of this project that will begin in Spring 2007 is to increase the "footprint" of health care workers in rural areas of India, that is, leverage the time and expertise of the workers to achieve a bigger and broader benefit to those who need health care. The basic question is how to increase the ability of health care workers to see more patients, increase their diagnostic capabilities and track patients on a regular basis within the existing rural environment, Sponsorship: Honeywell, Inc., Deliverables for IPRO 304: Digital Word of Mouth for the Spring 2007 semester
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- Cobalt-Tungsten Carbide Alloy and Process
- Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Method of Making a Tortilla Flour
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Recording Apparatus and Method for Making Duplicate Magnetic Records
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Transducer Machine
- Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent