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- Video Transducing Electric Circuits
- Monochrome and color television recording and playback circuitry for coupling with a standard broadcast receiver. Recording signals supplied to the recording head without further amplification, and with circuitry for maintaining a good visual display during recording, and circuitry for phase correction and pulse modification. Playback circuitry for reduced thermal noise, phase correction and improved response. Frequency modulation sound on video track., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Reinforced Porous Ceramic Bone Prosthesis
- A structural member having a core of porous material permitting fluid flow and an outer layer of composite material having rigid matrix with reinforcing material embedded therein. The member finds its primary use in prosthetics., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Constant Speed Drive for Magnetic Record Members
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- MORE Life Project (Semester Unknown) IPRO 362
- The objective of IPRO 362 is to understand the environment in which disaster victims are found and the human needs involved. Additionally, understanding the medical standards of sanitation, sterility and environmental control conditions that are expected in an operating room are all central to developing a humancentered design. In order to be able to ensure the success of the M.O.R.E. Life project, design needs to focus on the following: MEDICAL PERSONNEL •Provide the necessary tools and equipment which medical personnel need in order to perform medical interventions •Identify and provide a surgical environment satisfying necessary sanitary, given the environmental limitations in a disaster relief situation. STRUCTURE/PORTABILITY •Work to make the mobile operating room (M.O.R.E) design as compact as possible, while still keeping sanitary standards as high as possible. FILTRATION •Design an effective filtration system that will allow for environmental control within the structure. •Address sanitation by taking into account airborne pathogens can be filtered out of the air. POWER •Design an energy-efficient power system for the mobile operating theatre, considering alternative energy sources. DESIGN •Create and refine a design for the operating theatre, including a carrying case. •Replicate standard operating room conditions in the mobile version. •Conduct a market analysis to identify key stakeholders, advantages and disadvantages of existing products and current costs., Deliverables
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- Operation Smooth Brews (Semester Unknown) IPRO 345
- Operation Smooth Brew's mission is defined by working closely with Euclid Beverages to analyze its status quo warehousing processes and introduce sufficient enhancements to them., Deliverables
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- Improving Health Care Information Systems for a Community Health Network (semester?), IPRO 340
- Assess the referral process and assess the perceptions and feelings of employees involved in the referral process. Determine if any changes need to be made to the referral process and see what can be done to make the referral process easier and less stressful for the employees involved., Sponsorship: Steven Glass, CIO Access Health Network, Deliverables for IPRO 340: Improving Health Care Information Systems for a Community Health Network for the Fall 2006 semester
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- Fab Lab (Semester Unknown) IPRO 333
- Fabrication Laboratories, or Fab Labs, were started as a community outreach program by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and provide digital fabrication tools for rapid prototyping to the general public. The Museum of Science and Industry has partnered with this IPRO to further develop the Fab Lab at their site. IPRO 333 currently works with the administration in the Fab lab of MSI to design materials and activities for increasing the use of the laboratory. IPRO 333 aims to broaden the possible uses of the lab, promote membership at the museum, and increasing participation by the community in science and technology programs at the museum., Sponsorship: Fabrication Laboratories, or Fab Labs, Deliverables
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- Rapid Manufacturing of Casters (semester?), IPRO 312
- The objective of this IPRO is to investigate techniques for rapidly and effectively manufacturing casters to satisfy “rush orders” for special casters. Conventional manufacturing is based on part-specific tooling suitable for high-volume, planned production. Attempting to insert special “rush orders” into such an operation is very inefficient and expenses., Sponsorship: Colson Associates, Deliverables for IPRO 312: Rapid Manufacturing of Casters for the Spring 2006 semester
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- Helper Monkey Technologies Inc (semester?), IPRO 354
- ENPRO 354 pursues the design development program of Helper Monkey Technology (HMT). In this initial stage, the members of IPRO 354, or HMT, will research into marketing, products, and operations factors and resources; then apply facts and figures to assimilate into the concept of HMT; verifying assumptions and employing the most concrete results to confirm the validity and profitability of HMT. The products of the research and cyclical assimilation and testing will contribute to composing a solid business plan, and a firm “Investors Pitch.”, Deliverables for IPRO 354: Helper Monkey technologies Inc for the Fall 2006 semester
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- EverFamily (Spring 2001) IPRO 351: EverFamily IPRO351 Spring2001 Final Presentation
- EverFamily is an Internet company dedicated to bringing families closer together via the versatility of the Internet and the power of human memories. Using a developing technology known as C.A.R.E. (Context Aware Remembrance Engine), the EverFamily website expects to not only attract first-time users but to also turn them into lifetime users., Sponsorship: IIT Internal R&D in conjunction with the Ed Kaplan Entrepreneurial Studies Program, Project Plan for IPRO 351: EverFamily for the Spring 2001 semester
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- Cure for the IKIA Syndrome : presented at IACRL 2008 conference
- Informal observations of a practical and creative approach piloting Blended Library Instruction for undergraduate Civil Architecture and Engineering students, in collaboration with faculty. At Illinois Institute of Technology students don’t receive library instruction as a required class or in tandem with a composition class. Faculty will schedule one-time sessions, which ideally should be planned with a class assignment in mind, but students are rarely engaged with a one time instruction. Many have IKIA syndrome or I Know It Already syndrome. The Millennials are a group that has integrated technology into every aspect of their lives and they assume that retrieving useful or necessary information will be easy. When they discover this isn’t the case lack of time, heightened anxiety, and increased frustration can prevent them from doing their best work. By intentionally creating a similar crisis prior to library instruction, students were more interested in what they stood to gain during pending library instruction. In this presentation we will discuss: 1) A creative means of delivering library instruction to a traditionally challenging population: engineering undergraduate students 2) Qualitative information collected via multiple assignments and interpreted in a quantitative fashion, as well as our observations. 3) A method for preparing students for library instruction that can be applied in almost any discipline without asking the instructor to sacrifice class time.
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- Magnetic Recorder Head Assembly
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Intermodal Container System Solution (Semester Unknown) IPRO 307
- Chicago is the third largest intermodal freight hub in the world. Joliet, being so close, makes a great place as a depot to intercept much of Chicago’s goods, it is also far enough away to avoid further congestion in the city. Currently one hub exists in Joliet (Elwood BNSF), another is being developed (Centerpoint), and one is being proposed off of Lorenzo road. Our sponsor, Mi-Jack, has asked us to come up with solutions to make these freight hubs more efficient., Deliverables
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- Refuelable Electric Vehicle (Semester Unknown) IPRO 313
- In light of the global sustainability movement, several mainstream ideas and designs for low to zero carbon emission vehicles have been developed. In the case of all electric vehicles (EVs), Li-Ion batteries seem to be the favored technology due to their high energy density relative to competing energy storage technologies. Despite its superiority to other batteries, it still lacks the energy density to practically achieve comparable range to a fossil fuel powered car, and faces additional challenges in terms of refueling and infrastructure development. Therefore, technologies are needed to ease this demand and possibly supplement it. IPRO 313 has undertaken the task of using Zinc as an electrochemical fuel. The design is based on a Zinc-Air fuel cell developed by John F. Cooper of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) [1]. The design allows the zinc to be provided as < 1 mm sized pellets in a saturated solution of KOH. Using Zinc as a fuel means that exhausted fuel, ZnO, can be recycled. The fact that the metal is recyclable lends this technology to requiring a minimum of new material to sustain the transportation infrastructure. Most importantly, in comparison to current refueling mechanisms, Cooper et. al showed that a battery can be refueled in less than 10 minutes [2] making it a good competitor in the current and emerging eco-friendly vehicle market of which the IPRO plans to build on. So far the IPRO has designed and constructed one prototype and conducted pressure drop experiments. The plans now are to improve the current ZAFC design and investigate the relationship between the electrolyte flow rate and the energy output. Once the single ZAFC has been tested and is providing the output needed, several more will be constructed and put together in an array to supplement the primary battery pack used to provide instantaneous power to the electric engine. Subsequently, the team will begin working on the staple of the project which is to design a mechanism which will refuel the ZAFC array by replacing the old electrolyte and zinc solution with a fresh electrolyte and zinc to all cells., Deliverables
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- Residential Rain Water Harvesting (Semester Unknown) IPRO 344
- There is evidence that people have been harvesting rainwater since 4000BC. The Roman Empire developed an intricate infrastructure to direct water to be used for irrigation and sanitary purposes. For the most part, modern society has abandoned the practice of harvesting rainwater because water sources have been plentiful and inexpensive. Residents have become accustom to turning on the tap and receiving potable water from their Municipal Authority or a free standing well. Essentially rainwater is undervalued and as such has not been given the priority it deserves. This circumstance is rapidly changing as fresh water is becoming more difficult to acquire. Municipalities are raising the price of water, adding regulations to restrict its use and promoting the rapid growth of investment in „green‟ lifestyle solutions. These actions are increasing public awareness of the need to reduce our “water footprint” and a willingness to invest in conservation systems. In urban settings, two-thirds of the water provided by municipalities goes to residential properties. In a typical single family home, 70 percent of the water used annually is used in toilets and outside the home for lawn irrigation, gardens, washing cars, swimming pools etc. These applications could successfully utilize non-potable water, if a reliable source existed for capturing and recycling it in a convenient and affordable way. This IPRO will develop and test a system targeted at homeowners for rainwater harvest., Deliverables
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- Cure for the IKIA Syndrome : presented at IACRL 2008 conference: revised_assignment1for approval
- Informal observations of a practical and creative approach piloting Blended Library Instruction for undergraduate Civil Architecture and Engineering students, in collaboration with faculty. At Illinois Institute of Technology students don’t receive library instruction as a required class or in tandem with a composition class. Faculty will schedule one-time sessions, which ideally should be planned with a class assignment in mind, but students are rarely engaged with a one time instruction. Many have IKIA syndrome or I Know It Already syndrome. The Millennials are a group that has integrated technology into every aspect of their lives and they assume that retrieving useful or necessary information will be easy. When they discover this isn’t the case lack of time, heightened anxiety, and increased frustration can prevent them from doing their best work. By intentionally creating a similar crisis prior to library instruction, students were more interested in what they stood to gain during pending library instruction. In this presentation we will discuss: 1) A creative means of delivering library instruction to a traditionally challenging population: engineering undergraduate students 2) Qualitative information collected via multiple assignments and interpreted in a quantitative fashion, as well as our observations. 3) A method for preparing students for library instruction that can be applied in almost any discipline without asking the instructor to sacrifice class time.
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- Design of Web Site Enhancements to Serve Targeted Industrial End User Segments (Spring 2001) IPRO 314: Design of Web Site Enhancements to Serve Targeted Industrial End User Segments IPRO314 Spring2001 Final Presentation
- The goal of this IPRO project is to continue the development of a web site begun with a Spring 2000 IPRO team for General Motors Electro-Motive Division, a world-class supplier of medium-speed diesel engines for locomotive, power generation, marine propulsion, and land/offshore drilling applications in more than seventy-five countries. The purpose of this project is to enhance the corporate web site to support users with different security levels (public pages, customer restricted pages, company restricted pages) and to support pages that have information specific to each customer as user. The following tasks are to be addressed as part of this project: (1) define the technical requirements necessary to support a multi-level user access site and a configurable "my page" site; (2) define the structure and process required to manage and update online documentation to accommodate information specific to the end user; (3) define the structure and process required to issue and manage user IDs; (4) design a web page that can be customized by the end user based on the information the end user is interested in; and (5) provide a functional website framework that incorporates the objectives listed above. At the conclusion of the project the team will provide (a) a technical requirements document, (b) a process flow chart for managing user-specific updates and user IDs, and (c) a functional web site framework that supports several layers of information protection., Sponsorship: GM-EMD, Project Plan for IPRO 314: Design of Web Site Enhancements to Serve Targeted Industrial End User Segments for the Spring 2001 semester
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- Densifying Magnesia
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Sloan Valve Company (sequence unknown), IPRO 306 - Deliverables
- Sloan Valve manufactures and distributes commercial valves and plumbing fixtures globally. The IPRO team will work to improve the 'procure to pay' process and also assist in the development of a new warehouse management module., Sponsorship: Sloan Valve Company, Deliverables for IPRO 306: Sloan Valve for the fall 2009 semester.