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- In Situ Decontamination of Spills and Landiflls by Radio Frequency Heating
- A water-containing region at or near the surface of the earth, such as a landfill, that is contaminated with hazardous materials is decontaminated by heating the region with bound radio frequency energy from a bound-wave transmission line excitor array disposed outside the region to a temperature to boil water and thereby increase the permeability of the region. The heating is continued by dielectric heating after water has boiled from at least a portion of the region to heat the portion to elevated temperatures substantially above the boiling point of water. The materials may then be rendered innocuous in situ in a number of ways, as by pyrolysis, thermally assisted decomposition, or reaction with an introduced reagent, such as oxygen. The materials may also be driven from the region, as by distillation or by evaporation and steam drive and then collected and disposed of, as by incineration., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- PA 508 Student Computer Usage Survey
- Included are a survey, and the results in graphic form. The survey was designed to find out how and where the Chinese contingent of Master of Public Administration students used computers. The focus was to determine whether they preferred to use computers on the Downtown Campus, where classes were taught, or on Main Campus, where most of the students lived.
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- Recording and Erase Head for Magnetic Recorders
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Developing Web Based Applications (Semester Unknown) IPRO 308
- Our purpose is to make the NIHL website a web-based scheduling and scoring applications that can support their annual operations., Sponsorship: Northern Illinois Hockey League (NIHL), Deliverables
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- Electromagnetic Head
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Tweeting Vertically? Elected Officials’ Interactions with Citizens on Twitter
- Enthusiasts propose that social media promotes vertical political communication, giving citizens the opportunity to interact directly with their representatives. However, skeptics claim that politicians avoid direct engagement with constituents, using technology to present a façade of interactivity instead. This study explores if and how elected officials in three regions of the world are using Twitter to interact with the public. We examine the Twitter activity of 15 officials over a period of six months. We show that in addition to the structural features of Twitter that are designed to promote interaction, officials rely on language to foster or to avoid engagement. It also provides yet more evidence that the existence of interactive features does not guarantee interactivity.
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- Comarch Software Suire Improvement (semester?), IPRO 349B
- The IPRO 349-3.2 project has as the primary objective to map four processes following the ITIL standards. While this is being done, the team will develop a series of recommendations to Comarch on how to analyze a client’s processes and design a solution for that client that complies with the ITIL guidelines. The project’s secondary objective is to do a research and case study about how other IT companies offer OSS suites that comply with the ESB methods and ensure that their customers comply with the SOX regulations., Sponsorship: Comarch, Deliverables for IPRO 349B: Comarch Software Suire Improvement for the summer 2007 semester
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- Magnetizing and Erasing Head Arrangement for Magnetic Recorders
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation, United States Patent
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- TOURNITECH IPRO332 Summer2004 Poster: Tournitech IPRO332 Summer2004 Poster
- This is the first of a two-semester phased project that will begin with technical and market feasibility study, and progress through conceptual design. The second phase is planned for Fall 2004 in order to refine the design concepts and progress through prototype development and experimentation. Mr. James Adducci is very interested in working with this team of students to explore the potential for an idea he has been developing that is related to muscle development, monitoring and control during exercise. Mr. Adducci has experience as a personal trainer and has also been studying various research publications that focus on muscle development. Combined with discussions that Mr. Adducci has had with Professor Opara, there is an opportunity to explore the potential for designing a system that is integrated with clothing in order to actively and selectively control blood pressure in the vicinity of certain muscle groups, while monitoring blood pressure and other critical parameters. As a starting point for the summer 2004 project, Mr. Adducci will share his ideas with the team for the various functional components of the smart clothing system, and the benefits of each. This includes the type of materials and the type of sensing, feedback and control functions that would be integrated to create the system that would monitor blood pressure and other critical parameters. The team will explore the state-of-the-art of wearable sensing systems, including the identification of currently available products that have similar functionality. The team will then proceed to investigate the feasibility of the concept in the context of: (a) its scientific validity and engineering constraints, (b) the availability of the enabling technologies to create a system, (c) the potential for miniaturization and economic manufacture of the system, (d) the regulatory, safety and intellectual property issues that will guide its development, and (e) other factors that may be identified. The results of this investigation will be a set of design requirements. It is anticipated that the actual development of prototypes of one or more viable design concepts will be undertaken in the fall 2004 semester., Sponsorship: James Adducci, Entrepreneur, Project Plan for IPRO 332: TOURNITECH for the Summer 2004 semester
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- Global Warming and Community Outreach (Semester Unknown) IPRO 331
- The main goal of the fall semester of IPRO 331 is to build off the previous two IPROs in terms of scientific and global data while further enhancing the knowledge of the general public throughout Chicago and the greater Chicago area. The team plans on utilizing the past data (which is presented on iGroups) and creating a more streamlined presentation that covers all of the main topics while enabling the group to add more relevant and interesting information. It is the group’s philosophy that there is no reason to re-do what past groups have done in terms of research when it is already made available. This will allow the group to focus more heavily on the main goal of community outreach. In terms of the community outreach, it is still the same goal as the previous IPROs to reach as many possible candidates as the semester allows. Another one of the group’s philosophies is that reaching as many people as possible is the key to making this semester’s IPRO successful., Deliverables
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- Winding and Reeling Mechanism
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Prototyping and User Testing of an On-Line Information Tool for Public Participation in Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects, Summer 2011, IPRO 320: PB Our Space Project Plan
- Leveraging the existing technologies currently available in the marketplace enables the IPRO to create a team-networking solution that reaches more stakeholders and provides a richer, more enhanced venue for project collaboration. The solution devised by the IPRO must be easily accessible and interactive allowing for data capture, storage, retrieval and viewing amongst an array of end-user devices. To provide a successful solution, this IPRO will storyboard the concept over the summer, prototype the concept during the fall and execute usability studies the prototype during the spring semesters., Sponsorship: Parsons Brinkerhoff, Prototyping and User Testing of an On-Line Information Tool for Public Participation in Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects, Summer 2011, IPRO 320
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- Interpenetrated Rubber Particles and Compositions Including the Same
- Modified scrap rubber particles, a method for forming the modified rubber particles and compositions including the modified rubber particles. The rubber particles are impregnated with at least one polymerizable monomer and polymerized to impregnate the rubber particles with a polymer. The impregnated polymer provides the modified rubber particles with improved properties which increase the potential uses for recycled scrap rubber. The modified rubber particles are useful in surface coatings, such as latex paint or powder coatings and can be used as a soil substitute., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Technology and Business Innovations to Improve Operations (Semester Unknown) IPRO 306
- The IPRO 306 team is tasked with assisting a major plumbing manufacturer, Sloan Valve, in utilizing current technology to create efficiencies within its current operations. Due to the scope of the project and the desire of the team to produce the greatest impact on Sloan Valve, IPRO 306 will be involved with 2 projects during the fall of 2009., Sponsorship: Steven Rodgers, Sloan Valve, Deliverables
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- Future physics: A personal view
- A personal view of the future of particle physics is presented., Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
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- Hybrid Electric Fuel Cell Battery (Semester Unknown), IPRO 304
- This project is mainly concerned with creating a hybrid electric circuit to run a wheel chair for 100 miles. The hybrid circuit should function in such a manner that during operation the wheel chair should continuously drawing power from the fuel cell but should also take power from the lithium-ion batteries during peak power demands which the fuel cell cannot fully cover. Currently no such hybrid circuit exists but is being developed on a theoretical basis., Deliverables
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- 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
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- Nozzle-Orientation Effects and Nonlinear Interactions Between Twin Jets of Complex Geometry
- In this paper we focus on understanding the behavior of twin nozzles of complex geometry in various yaw orientations. To the best of our knowledge there are no published studies addressing the effects of nozzle orientation on the coupling of twin jets of complex exit geometry. We study the behavior of 1) uniform-exit rectangular nozzles, 2) single-beveled nozzles in a codirected configuration, and 3) single-beveled nozzles in a contradirected configuration. Experiments were carried out at fully expanded Mach numbers ranging from 1.28 to 1.72. Bevel angles of 10 and 30 deg were considered, and microphones located at the nozzle exit plane quantified the coupling using both linear and nonlinear spectral-analysis methods. Nonlinear characteristics were quantified using the nonlinear interaction density metric with a cross-bicoherence cut-off threshold of 0.4. The following interesting results emerged from this study: 1) When nozzles having uniform rectangular exits are yawed, the sound-pressure levels in the internozzle region reduce as the yaw angles are increased, and, at a very high yaw angle, the symmetric coupling regime that existed at the high fully expanded Mach number range (without yaw) is replaced by an antisymmetric coupling regime in the same range. 2) Geometrically similar exits from uniform-exit rectangular nozzles and beveled nozzles in the contradirected configuration showed similar characteristics when studied using linear techniques. However, they revealed information that was hitherto unknown when studied using nonlinear spectral-analysis techniques. It is believed that the results presented in this paper will provide benchmark data to those simulating/designing complex-geometry nozzle systems.