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- Hall Element Magnetic Transducer
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Apparatus for Elecrostatic Encapsulation
- Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Advanced Shipping Container Transportation System Solutions (semester?), IPRO 307
- The main objective of the IPRO 307 team in the Spring 2007 semester is to completely design a modern intermodal yard for the city of Gary, Indiana. It will be capable of handling the forecasted increase in container movement over the next decade while decreasing the demand placed on existing intermodal facilities in Chicago and northwest Indiana. Several intermediate goals must be met in order to accomplish this objective, which include: Selecting the site and planning the physical layout of the Gary yard which maximizes efficiency and minimizes any negative effects on the surrounding areas, Making recommendations concerning the appropriate number, size, and type of cranes capable of handling the predicted capacity, and Developing a demonstration of software capable of tracking containers and trucks both within the yard and regionally, Deliverables for IPRO 307: Advanced Shipping Container Transportation System Solutions for the Spring 2007 semester
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- Social Network Analysis for Pace Suburban Bus Stakeholders (semester?), IPRO 321
- The Communication Design Workshop is an IPRO and is cross-listed with this main campus program. The sponsor is Pace, a successful and forward looking suburban Chicago bus company serving a six county market the size of Rhode Island. The focus of the workshop is to identify factors that will help Pace retain riders. Retention is a significant issue as it has direct financial implications and Pace does not know why they lose riders. Communication issues may be part of the retention problem. Pace will share existing research with us — we will extend and supplement this work., Sponsorship: Pace, Deliverables for IPRO 321: Social Network Analysis for Pace Suburban Bus Stakeholders for the Spring 2005 semester
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- Magnetic Recorder
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- VIBRATIONAL CONTROL OF CHEMICAL REACTORS - STABILIZATION AND CONVERSION IMPROVEMENT IN AN EXOTHERMIC CSTR
- Vibrational control is an open-loop control strategy implemented by fast zero-average oscillations in the input variables of a system. It has been previously shown that vibrational control of an exothermic reaction in a CSTR, introduced via oscillations in the input flow rate, modifies the dynamic behavior of the reactor and enables its stabilized operation in the unstable steady-state region. In the present paper it is shown that simultaneous vibrations in input flow rate and concentration lead, in addition to a reduction of the amplitude of oscillations in reactor temperature and/or increase in reactant conversion. It is also shown that the phase shift between the vibrations of the two input variables affects the behavior of the system as well as the amplitude, the frequency and the form of forcing functions., Endnote format citation
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- Method for the Production of Metallic Heat Transfer Bodies
- Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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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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- Nanopore Stochastic Sensing of Biomarkers
- A method and system for sensing or characterizing a biomarker, such as a proteolytic enzyme or nucleic acid. The system comprises a nanopore sensor to determine a current modulation of a sample including a biomarker, and a predetermined substrate or nucleic acid probe current modulation signature for comparison to a current signature from the nanopore sensor. The nanopore sensor includes a nanopore membrane between two fluid compartments, and a power supply in electrical contact with the membrane to provide an electric potential difference between the fluid compartments. A detector is used to detect an electrical current through the nanopore as the polypeptide substrate, or components thereof, transits the nanopore under an applied electric potential difference between the first and second fluid compartments. The result is a rapid, label-free method for the sensitive and accurate measurement of biomarker activity by real-time monitoring of the ionic current modulations arising from the substrate peptide-protease interactions or nucleic acid hybridization in the nanopore., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Statistical monitoring of multistage, multiphase batch processes
- The monitoring of intermediate phases of production is as important as monitoring and control of the final stage. Here a framework is proposed for monitoring overall process performance at the end of each batch., Endnote format citation
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- Impact of Sulfur Capture Technology In Coal Power Plants (Semester Unknown) IPRO 302
- Our team will investigate the net impact of sulfur capture technologies used in current and next generation power plants in the United States. We will use this knowledge to determine which sulfur capture technologies produce the greatest benefit for industry and society and to find the marketability of the sulfur byproducts created in these power plants., Deliverables
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- Magnetic Recorder with Pressure Shoe for Record Members
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Pervasive Training (Semester Unknown) IPRO 317
- The team for IPRO 317 is tasked with working on developing a pervasive training program. This program will integrate various psychological and technological applications. As such the team working on this project has split into 2 groups to work on these respective applications. The idea of pervasive training addresses a dire need in the field of corporate training. This concept allows companies to put their employees through training by making them self-aware. This method of training also enables employers to train their employees with minimal disruption to productivity. Our intention is to implement this training through the employee’s hand held devices. Each employee would select a group of peer to fill out an assessment, the combination of the peer assessments, an assessment performed by the employee’s supervisor and one by the employee themselves would constitute the evaluation of employee. The employee would then receive a series of periodic e-mails to their mobile device that they would then need to respond to in order to complete this training. After a pre-designated amount of time for this training the employee will fill out a new survey and receive their results. A significant motivator for this training is that it is purely voluntary and allows the employee to receive these evaluations without their employer knowing any of the results aside from completion status. From our research team we hope to derive a set of themes by which to rate the employee as well as survey questions. What this will lead to is a group of teachable moments. These moments will be reminders for the employee based upon the results of their surveys. Once this system is derived the research team will begin a search for appropriate test organizations for us to run our trials on. While this is being done our development team will build a website to distribute and compile these surveys. This site will also send out our teachable moments and maintain this data. All of this will be done on a desktop computer that will be converted into a server. Once testing begins, this team will be responsible for assisting the test users in the survey and teaching process. These team members will provide support for any issues the users will have as well as for maintaining the website integrity during this process. Ultimately once this initial phase is done our hope is that this product will move immediately into production. Our hope is that with the success of our project this will become a new standard in the training of employees. With this being the case employers will be able to train more employees with less loss of production. Our goal is for this to be used with every employee and not just those in management., Deliverables
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- Electromagnetic Head Construction
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Urban Heat Island Effect (Spring 2002) IPRO 328: Urban Heat Island Effect IPRO328 Spring2002 Final Presentation
- Ozinga is a Chicago corporation that is a prominent supplier of Ready Mix concrete products to the construction industry in Chicago and surrounding areas. As part of its interest in advancing its corporate social responsibility and expanding its market opportunities, Ozinga is interested in working with an IPRO team to investigate the long-term role of concrete products, technologies, systems, processes and applications inimproving our environment. This initial IPRO project for Ozinga can have many facets, and may lead to specialized follow-on projects. Three broad areas of investigation that could evolve are: (1) opportunities for extending the use of concrete to mitigate environmental impact associated with urban warming, (2) opportunities for evaluating the management of energy associated with concrete mix and the vehicle fleet that distributes the material, and (3) opportunities for concrete mix materials and process innovation. The project team will develop a foundation for thinking about these three areas of opportunity, although it is anticipated that the initial focus would be on the first area as outlined below. A broad view of sustainable development considers the effects of removinglarge expanses of vegetation from the urban ecosystem and creating structures and systems that exacerbate urban warming problems. Parking lots, office buildings, roadways and other built systems have the negative effect of absorbing large amounts of heat. This then requires investment in cooling systems for conditioning indoor environments that consume energy and other resources; affects the quality of peoples' lives; and has a long-term negative effect on our global environment. These broad issueshave been studied by various organizations in a range of professionalcontexts, including environmental engineering, architecture, urbanplanning, government policy, atmospheric studies, etc. The construction industry itself has supported such studies, including the National Ready Mix Association,. The City of Chicago has established "green goals" to guide its planning, investment and regulatory functions. The IPRO team will investigate the types of concrete application opportunities that have been developed in the U.S. and abroad and that havebeen successful or offer significant potential for application in the Cityof Chicago. This could include expanded use of concrete commercial buildingcladding, concrete residential structures, and concrete pavements. The team will also review building codes and labor rules that may be considered to inhibit innovative and broader application of concrete mixes. There arealso issues associated with the financial, environmental and energylife-cycle cost that merit evaluation to understand the decision makingprocess associated with material selection and specification. In addition, it is important in developing a case for concrete material applications to understand the relative size and impact of each viable application in terms of environmental mitigation potential. One approach to addressing this issue is to use Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to correlate areas with significant heat absorption to the types of systems (e.g., commercial buildings, residential buildings, parking lots, roadways, etc.). Both the public and private sectors have a vested interest in developing,applying and diffusing innovative products that can have a positiveinfluence on the environment. However, in order to lay the foundation forsignificant impact by a product like concrete ready mix, it is necessary tocarefully map the decision making process that involves a range of thesecomplex variables. This can help to establish the "business case" for notonly concentrated effort by firms like Ozinga, but also for governmentagencies. This can also help to guide the modification of codes andpolicies so that they do not inhibit, but rather encourage experimentationwith and diffusion of concrete materials that can mitigate environmental impact., Sponsorship: Ozinga Redi-Mix Corporation, Project Plan for IPRO 328: Urban Heat Island Effect for the Spring 2002 semester
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- Magnetic Recording and Reproducing Apparatus
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Combustion Catalysis
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Neutron Detection Apparatus
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Magnetic Recording or Reproducing Device
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation, United States Patent