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: Enhanced Vision System for Construction Safety (Semester Unknown) IPRO 355; The purpose of our team is to save lives and prevent accidents involving construction equipment damaging underground utilities. We seek to do this by introducing the Enhanced Vision System, or EVS. The goal then for this semester is to design and build this system for displaying the location of buried utilities to the operators of construction vehicles. This includes producing a proof-of-concept prototype as well as designing the final product that we would produce. As this project is not merely an IPRO, but also an EnPRO, we are also considering how to turn this idea into a successful business venture. To this end, we will be preforming research and creating a business plan., Deliverables

: Oral History of Pilgrim Baptist Church (Spring 2003) IPRO 334: Oral History of Pilgrim Baptist Church IPRO334 Spring2003 Final Presentation; Preserve the history of Pilgrim Baptist Church, Enhance relationship between IIT and surrounding community, Interview members of the Church, Develop an annotated bibliography, Develop a website, Produce digital, video, and print versions of the interviews, Write an article on PBC for publication, Sponsorship: IIT Collaboratory for Interprofessional Studies, Project Plan for IPRO 334: Oral History of the Pilgrim Baptist Church for Spring 2003 semester

: Ghost City Chicago ( Fall 2003 ) IPRO 306: Ghost City Chicago IPRO306 Fall2003 Final Presentation; Mies' Influence on Chicago Architecture, Sponsorship: NA, Project Plan for IPRO 306: Ghost City Chicago for Fall 2003 semester

: Magnetic Transducer Head Assembly; Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Kalleidos (Spring 2011) IPRO 303; “Over the last few years there has been an explosion of different websites that allow average person to contribute different content such as pictures, comments, stories and reviews about places around them. While there are many companies that focus on aggregating such data into common stream - complexity of interpreting such data in a meaningful actionable way remains a challenge for many companies including NAVTEQ.” [Appendix B]  Identify new content from real time feeds which include 1. Points of Interest and their attribution (e.g. Hours of Operation, Languages Spoken at locale, etc…) 2. Any associated content (e.g. events, relationships to other Points of Interest (e.g. same owner, etc…)  Create visualizations based on this content - some basic examples could include 1. Hot/Not So Hot real estate areas (new construction, sales) based on agent and broker social media updates 2. High/Low crime areas based on social media stream 3. Hot/Not city zones based on number of people tweeting/updating Facebook/checking in/etc… in certain areas, parties, POIs., Sponsorship: NAVTEQ, 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

: Magnetic Transducing Assembly; Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Comparison of Brake Pedal Frictional Characteristics (Spring 2001) IPRO 313: Comparison of Brake Pedal Frictional Characteristics IPRO313 Spring 2001 Final Presentation; This project will develop new ideas for materials that can be used to improve the safety, performance and appearance of accelerator pedals used in automobiles. The team will investigate the range of feasible materials and mechanical design alternatives, as well as their economic viability. Selected concepts will be tested through a carefully designed testing program so that the performance of alternatives can be compared with confidence.The results of this project will provide important information to Daimler-Chrysler that can be used for follow-up design work; and can lead to other projects that explore new concepts for automobile components and systems. This project continues the work of a Fall 2000 IPRO team., Sponsorship: Daimler-Chrysler Corporation, Project Plan for IPRO 313: Comparison of Brake Pedal Frictional Characteristics for the Spring 2001 semester

: Method for Producing Easily Oxidized High Melting Point Metals and Their Alloys; Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: UV Transmitting Borosilicate Glass Composition and Article; Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: Longitudinal Oscillator for Cardiac Arrest Victims (semester?), IPRO 332; IPRO 332 begins an investigation of the use of mechanical shaker beds in a life-support capacity for beings with cardiac arrest. It will develop and continue research that was begun at the Miami Heart Research Institute, and will work in conjunction with researchers at IIT and the University of Chicago, Deliverables for IPRO 332: Longitudinal Oscillator for Cardiac Arrest Victims for the Fall 2006 semester

: Enhancing Psychology Research through Advanced Communications Technology (semester?), IPRO 306; The purpose of the research done in the IPRO 306 Mood Research Lab is to contribute to the body of knowledge regarding the patterns and accuracy of retrospective recall of affect in persons with Major Depressive Disorder. This will be accomplished by using Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) equipped with a standardized mood inventory to measure the recall accuracy in volunteers from the non-hospitalized, clinically depressed population and comparing it to that of volunteers from the healthy population., Deliverables for IPRO 306: Enhancing Psychology Research through Advanced Communications Technology for the Spring 2007 semester

: The 21st Century Farm (Semester Unknown) IPRO 336; US POPULATION IS OVER 300,000,000 CITIZENS. CURRENTLY 81% OF AMERICANS LIVE IN CITIES, TRANSLATING INTO ABOUT 243,000,000 PEOPLE IN AND AROUND CITY CENTERS AND GROWING. US CENSUS PROJECTIONS ESTIMATE THAT BY 2050 THE TOTAL POPULATION WILL REACH 438,000,000; WITHOUT ADJUSTMENTS TO URBAN PERCENTAGE THAT NUMBER INCLUDES ALMOST 350,000,000 PEOPLE LIVING IN A METROPOLITAN AREA., Deliverables

: New United Center Arena (semester?), IPRO 335; This project involves design of a multipurpose sporting arena to be located within the city of Chicago. The arena should seat a capacity of about 20,000 spectators and will house such sports as pro and college basketball, ice hockey, arena football, and also will be used for musical events. Assume the arena is to be located at the current location of United Center with the same amount of above ground area available for parking., Deliverables for IPRO 335: New United Center Arena for the Spring 2006 semester

: Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery and Compositions Therefor; A method is provided for microbial enhanced oil recovery, wherein a combination of microorganisms is empirically formulated based on survivability under reservoir conditions and oil recovery efficiency, such that injection of the microbial combination may be made, in the presence of essentially only nutrient solution, directly into an injection well of an oil bearing reservoir having oil present at waterflood residual oil saturation concentration. The microbial combination is capable of displacing residual oil from reservoir rock, which oil may be recovered by waterflooding without causing plugging of the reservoir rock. Further, the microorganisms are capable of being transported through the pores of the reservoir rock between said injection well and associated production wells, during waterflooding, which results in a larger area of the reservoir being covered by the oil-mobilizing microorganisms., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: Detection of Misuse of Authorized Access in an Information Retrieval System; The present invention relates to a system for detecting misuse of authorized access to a digital data gathering system by a user. User behavior is monitored as to the search queries, the search results, or both. When a valid record of normal user behavior is obtained, each new query and result for the user can be compared to the record to determine if anomalous activity has occurred., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Zinda (semester?), IPRO 352; The mission of the EnPro 352 team is to provide high-quality custom designed, custom-fitted and reasonably priced clothing to our customers. The current goal for EnPro 352–Fall 2006 is to create a professional business plan, and conduct product tests., Deliverables for IPRO 352: Zinda for the Fall 2006 semester

: Hybrid Electrolyte System; A hybrid electrolyte system for fuel cells and other electrochemical reactors comprising an acid electrolyte, a base electrolyte, and a proton permeable dense phase separating the acid electrolyte from the base electrolyte., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Composite Materials; Composite materials composed of organic and inorganic substances of the general formulation MO(O.sub.2 C--C.sub.6 H.sub.4 --CO.sub.2), wherein M is a transition metal, and a method for producing the composite materials. The structure of these materials includes at least one column of an array of transition metal oxides, the column having corner-sharing octahedra interlinked with spacer organic chelating ligands. The inorganic-organic hybrid materials are likely to exhibit properties not encountered in pure inorganic and organic substances., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Developing a document Control Sytem (Semester Unknown) IPRO 347; The IPRO 347 team is being sponsored by Abrasive Form to lead the company into a paperless form of tracking projects. Abrasive Form currently uses a paper folder, which they call the “job folder” to hold all the important documents for completing incoming projects. This job folder travels along with the pieces of the project until the project is completed. Once a project has been completed, and the final product is shipped out, the job folder for that project is then kept in an on-site filling cabinet. So far this has led to several problems for Abrasive Form. As the company is increasing in size and completing increasing amounts of projects, they have had to dedicate a large portion of their offices to the storing of old job files. Abrasive Form keeps all of their completed job folders to ensure that all liability for the company is covered, and whenever necessary throughout the lifespan of completed projects in the field, Abrasive Form is able to prove that their work was of the quality that was requested. This has also lead to a lot of time being wasted by the employees of Abrasive Form traveling to the back offices where the job folders are held to look up information. The IPRO 347 team will be helping Abrasive Form come up with a solution to this very serious problem. The solution generated thus far is to scan all the documents contained within the paper job folders into PDF form, and use a digital filing program (such as Bugzilla which is a free open source program) to organize the PDF files into sub folders, and allow for quick referencing based on critical criteria such as the job number, part number, customer name, or part number. All this information would then be contained in a single server that can be accessed on any computer throughout the company through an internal network., Sponsorship: Abrasive-Form, Deliverables

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