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: Fab Lab (Semester Unknown) IPRO 333; Fabrication Laboratories (Fab Labs) were started as a community outreach program by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to provide digital fabrication tools for rapid prototyping to the general public. The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago (MSI) has partnered with this IPRO to further develop their existing Fab Lab. IPRO 333 has been assigned the task of working with the Fab Lab administrators to design methodologies for furthering the use of the laboratory and determining its end goals for both the museum and the community. Once these goals are established, we will support them with a list of projects that we will create and execute. By working with the lab directors to broaden the possible uses of the lab, we hope to encourage hands-on learning in local schools. This will promote membership at MSI and involve the community in science and technology programs and education. To accomplish this, we have broken into two teams, each of which will focus on a different audience. The first team will be responsible for designing and creating programs for more advanced and knowledgeable users of the equipment specific to the Fab Lab, such as the students enrolled in the Science Achievers program as well as museum members; the second team will be responsible for designing and implementing programs for less advanced users with more constrained timeframes, such as visiting families or groups of school children., 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

: 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

: 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

: 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

: Art of Wind Power (semester?), IPRO 314; Prototype design for windfarm-scale power production for local and grid use using an industrial corridor that includes Lake Michigan, the Calumet River, and brownfields within a portion of the proposed Calumet Heritage Corridor., Deliverables for IPRO 314: Art of Wind Power for the Spring 2007 semester

: The Greenhouse Project (semester?), IPRO 320; The goal of the IPRO 320 (The Greenhouse Project) team is to evaluate, improve, and utilize The Chicago Center for Green Technology’s solar greenhouse. The team will monitor the conditions within the greenhouse and use that information to find ways to improve its efficiency and functionality. In addition to making proposals to the Center for Green Technology, the team will implement some of these ideas. Ultimately, the team will plant and grow seedlings within the greenhouse. The vision for this IPRO group is to make the greenhouse fully functional and efficient., Deliverables for IPRO 320: The Greenhouse Project for the Spring 2005 semester

: Social Networking as Economic Development Strategy in US and India (Semester Unknown) IPRO 305; The course IPRO-305 is geared towards giving the students practical product development experience by addressing the problem statement provided by the workshop sponsor (and our client), Honeywell, Inc. During the course of this workshop, we will implement the formative stages of a user-centered design process by developing and prototyping design concepts based on an understanding of existing social networks in small business communities in two neighborhoods, Pilsen/Little Village in Chicago and Powai in Mumbai. The goal will be to develop product, communication or service designs that contribute to increasing prosperity and small business growth within the Chicago and Mumbai neighborhoods. This project will be undertaken in collaboration with graduate students at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-Bombay) and their Industrial Design Centre, (comparable to IIT Institute of Design), as well as staff at Honeywell in Bangalore and Minneapolis. By working on this project students, both undergraduate IPRO students and graduate IIT, Chicago’s design school students are intended to gain proficiency in remote research methods and collaborating with your contemporaries abroad on a global design project. The flavor of this effort will be a practical or professional one, working towards implementation and design refinement. At the end of this experience, all participating students should have: 1. a solid understanding of methods and artifacts necessary to conduct design research internationally 2. experience in applying design and business practices to economic development issues 3 3. a basic understanding of existing social networks in 2 small business communities and how design can help address these 4. established professional relationships with Indian designers who share a human-centered mindset 5. a portfolio-ready project, complete with a recognizable client, Deliverables

: We would like to develop a system that measures the applied torque at a bicycle crank set. In contrast to current solutions, we want to be able to retrofit our system to existing crank sets, obviating the need to abandon parts that the bicyclist already o; An estimated 2.7 million people die prematurely each year due to smoke and toxic emissions from wood burning. Around 3.1 million people died in 2002 as a result of diarrhea related diseases which are contracted from polluted water; 90% of whom were children. Out of 792 million people suffering from malnutrition, 5 million children die each year. 4 out of 5 of these 792 million people do not have access to needed fruits and vegetables. For the past four semesters, IPRO 325 has focused on helping solve problems of the world’s rural poor. This semester, the team is focused on improving last semester’s designs and developing better field manuals. Our team implemented our past projects in Sincape, Peru last semester, and we also intend to go back to look at them after a semester and implement more of our projects., Deliverables

: Increasing Computer Science Awareness (Semester Unknown) IPRO 321; Description: The project team's goal is to get high school students excited about Computer Science, and to ultimately increase the number of students in the Chicago area taking Computer Science (CS) courses in high school and college. The team will accomplish this by debunking myths and increasing the un- derstanding of what CS and computational thinking entails, explaining and providing evidence for why CS is important, and emphasizing importance of attracting women and underrepresented minorities to CS., Deliverables

: eMotion (Semester Unknown) IPRO 354; eMotion creates and offers devices that connect those that are physically apart but mentally together in a manner that is safe and simple., Deliverables

: Creating an Artificial Pancreas (Semester Unknown) IPRO 308; Insulin is a hormone released by pancreatic islet cells that interacts with cells to increase their permeability to glucose. Diabetes is an illness that is becoming more prevalent around the world and is linked with either abnormal insulin production, or utilization or both in the body. Diabetes may be classified into two groups: Type 1 and Type 2 In an individual with Type 1 diabetes, the pancreatic ß cells that normally produce insulin are nonexistent as they have been destroyed due to autoimmune response. In an individual with Type 2 diabetes there is tissue-wide resistance to insulin and usually some impairment of ß cells as well. Therefore, although insulin production may be present its functionality is impaired. Type 1 diabetes is typically treated with frequent extraneous insulin injections, depending on the prevailing blood glucose levels of the individual; however, in order to determine the glucose levels individuals subject themselves to periodic finger pricks throughout the day which is often uncomfortable and stressful. Mechanical devices for insulin delivery, also known as “artificial pancreases”, are currently available in the marketplace. However, these devices are not only highly invasive and painful, but also must be sanitized frequently to prevent infections. As a result, they are inconvenient and many diabetic patients choose not to use them. The goal of IPRO 308 is to develop an automated, non-invasive artificial pancreas that will be capable of determining blood glucose levels and administering an appropriate amount of insulin into the blood stream while causing minimal discomfort to the individual., Deliverables

: Ultra-High-Speed Market Data Ticker System (Semester Unknown) IPRO 313; The objective of IPRO 313 is to create a high performance data ticker plant for our sponsor Townsend Analytics which needs to meet or exceed certain performance requirements. Ideally, The the data ticker plant has to have a sustained optimal throughput of three million price quotes per second – the current industry state of the art - and minimize with minimal latency while maintain specific constraints. Toward this end, the team will create a proof-of-concept data ticker plant that processes real data. The initial system will be used as a baseline on which optimizations to specific components will be made. The ticker plant aggregates streaming data for numerous global financial markets and disseminates the data to thousands of users in real time. The data is used in Townsend Analytics’ RealTick® Execution Management System (EMS), its flagship institutional product for the financial services industry. IPRO 313, Spring, 2008, builds on work done in the previous semester. Last Fall, IPRO 313 conducted background research on the market data systems and outlined a basic design and performance metrics for our system. Our goal with IPRO 313 during the Spring 2008 This semester, we will is to resume system development, implement and work on performance optimize a basic market data ticker systemimprovements, enhanced functionality, and more detailed benchmarks. Using past semester result, research and development, the group will refine the design, prototype development and benchmark testing. The intent is to also provide detailed performance metrics of the system. This will enable future optimizations and algorithmic enhancements to the system in order to increase system throughput while minimizing latency and variance., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, Deliverables

: Low-Cost Water Pump Design/Testing to Serve Rural Villages (Semester Unknown) IPRO 323; The objective of IRPO 323 is to find and optimize a system to deliver drinkable water to communities that do not have easy access to water. Mainly in locating a water source accessible to the region based on geographical limitations. From there, creation of a system to draw out the water in order to meet the demands of the people based on their lifestyle. The system has to be easy to maintain, fulfill the water requirement, and is cost effective in the life of the design. However, in order to fully understand the system and its limitations a test model will be used. In order to accomplish this project in a timely manner each individual will have to learn, develop, and apply interpersonal skills, research methods, and coordination. The set objectives, therefore, are:  Evaluate water sources and water demands of the target community  Design a system for this community  Research products and costs for system components  Create a test model to better understand the system components, Sponsorship: US Environmental Protection Agency, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) and Stuart Grants, Deliverables

: Developing Innovative Design Concepts for Airflow, Energy Sustainability and Fire Protection Safety in Buildings (semester?), IPRO 336; IPRO 336’s objective is performing an original experimental study that will help to determine the effects that stack effect phenomenon has on the distribution of the pressure and the airflow movements within high rise buildings. Specifically, the effect that phenomenon has a on the movement of the fume (in case of fire) and pollutant gases, which are directly related to the safety of the inhabitants. As a part of this project, the team is planning to:  Quantify the effect of pressure variation due to stack effect on airflow diffusers  Characterize the airflow diffuser  Perform the air-tightness measurement of the building envelope  Measure the airflow, pressure difference, temperature, relative humidity and air velocity in order to determine the thermal comfort indices (PMV, PPD and others)  Deliver a descriptive report of effects that stack effect has in case of fire, and prescribe possible solutions, Deliverables for IPRO 336: Developing Innovative Design Concepts for Airflow, Energy Sustainability and Fire Protection Safety in Buildings for the Spring 2007 semester

: Audio Quality and Energy Efficiency for Mobile Devices and Intercoms (Semester Unknown) IPRO 315; Building upon the previous semesters’ work, IPRO 315 has been devoted to improving fast food drive-through order accuracy through modern technology. We divided into two teams with separate and specific goals: 1) the Wireless team implemented Shure transmitters and receivers into the server and client modules to make the connection between the restaurant and kiosk wireless, and ensured that the audio fidelity did not degrade from the wired connection, and 2) the Voiceless team designed and programmed an iPad application used to place orders within a short range of the same kiosk, ensuring a first-in-first-out queue compatible with the existing drive-through queue, 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

: Design and Market Analysis of Condensate Recycling from Commercial HVAC Systems (Semester Unknown) IPRO 346; IPRO 346 is put together to work with and assist Pentair Water Company. The main task is to collect condensate from commercial HVAC systems in attempt to quantify it and test the chemical content of it. These tasks will be completed so that a feasible use or uses can be developed for the condensate water. The use or uses will be backed by not only the collected data but market and business analysis as well. The uses for the collected condensate water and the data collected will be presented in a formal technical paper. This will include detailed information about the quantity and chemical content of the condensate. The uses proposed will be based on the amount of condensate produced and what Pentair products such as pumps and filters can be used to accomplish these uses. This will ultimately determine a „green‟ solution for condensate harvesting and will incorporate Pentair‟s existing products. The project plan is a report on the current work plan and the direction in which the IPRO is headed. This is subject to change as the summer semester progresses. It also includes a brief history and background about Pentair and condensate harvesting in general. Finally it includes a team breakdown which includes more specific tasks to be accomplished as well as a Gantt chart show the key deliverables and their deadlines., Sponsorship: Pentair, Deliverables

: Improving Communication Quality in Noisy and Distracting Environments (Semester Unknown) IPRO 343; The goal of this project is to identify and provide speech intelligibility benchmarks in different noisy environments. Being able to comprehend speech can vary depending on location and noise level of its surroundings. With that in mind, the project’s purpose for the semester will focus on analyzing and experimenting on those comprehensive speech variations that prevent intelligibility. We will then propose a viable solution for speech intelligibility improvements., Deliverables

: IPRO 344 began as an investigation into the applications of Class D amplifiers for low-power and high-quality audio devices. This semester’s IPRO will focus on integrating the Class D amplifier into a drive-through order system. In addition to the Class D; The IPRO 347 team was sponsored by Abrasive-Form, Inc. to create a paperless solution for file storing. Abrasive-Form, Inc. currently stores their job folders in filing cabinets. Documents are added to the job folder from various departments as the project circulates throughout the company. Once the project is completed, the job folder is filed into the company’s archives. To date, this has led to several problems for Abrasive-Form, Inc. As the company expands, they have to dedicate large portions of their offices to store old job folders. A lot of time is wasted as employees travel to and from storage to look up information from the old job folders. Furthermore, because there are several departments within the company that reference the job folders, they are often misplaced or lost. In addition, if there were a disaster, such as a fire, all the files would be permanently lost. In response to these problems, the IPRO 347 team has worked with Abrasive-Form, Inc. to develop an electronic content management system. Last semester, the IPRO team consulted Abrasive-Form, Inc. to determine the best possible solution for their problem. After initial consultation the team divided into subgroups to investigate possible digital content management solutions based on Abrasive Form, Inc.’s needs and wants. Four possible programs were presented to the company and, ultimately, the program SharePoint was selected. SharePoint was chosen because its features met the most of Abrasive Form, Inc.’s requirements. This semester’s job will be to create a fully working version of SharePoint from last semester’s prototype. In addition, this semester’s IPRO will also be responsible for full implementation of this working version on Abrasive-Form, Inc.’s servers and the creation of an instructional program and guide for the employees of Abrasive-Form, Inc so that the company may begin its transition to a paperless database by the end of the year., Deliverables

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