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- Harvesting & Beneficial Use of Condensate from Air Conditioning Systems, Summer 2011, IPRO 346: Midterm Presentation final
- In an age where sustainability and “going green” have reached an all time high in both the media, and in politics, new initiatives are being explored more than ever before. Many of these initiatives would require drastic changes both in the way corporations do business, and in the way average citizens live their lives. However, there are initiatives which require very little change in lifestyle and business practice, and potentially represent great savings to those who choose to implement them. Like its predecessors, IPRO 346 aims to raise public awareness of the recycling and reuse of condensate produced by air-conditioning systems. This condensate is a byproduct of all AC units, and is currently sent straight to the sewer. Studies conducted by previous IPROs have not only indicated great potential for this initiative, but have also shown a great deal of public interest. Unfortunately, they have also revealed government policies and city codes which greatly restrict the use of this abundant resource. The aim of IPRO 346 is to work towards a change in these policies through the demonstration of a viable system. Members of the team equipped with a model of the systems we propose will meet with public officials, and others interested in the system, demonstrating its potential in hopes of getting policies in place which would allow such a system to be implemented. The IPRO has two main objectives: the development of a prototype and model for demonstration, and the marketing of the idea through the use of both social networks, and presentations to anyone interested. It is the aim of this team, that the accomplishment of these goals will result in both public demand for AC condensate recycling systems, and public policies which allow their use., Harvesting & Beneficial Use of Condensate from Air Conditioning Systems, Summer 2011, 346
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- Improving Energy‐Efficient and Offering Quality Audio for Mobile Devices (Semester Unknown) IPRO 344
- IPRO 344 was founded by Dr. Wong for the Fall 2007 semester with a stated long term purpose of studying and improving technologies for use in low‐power mobile audio applications. IPRO 344 had been outlined as the first in a multi‐semester project, with each subsequent semester building on the work of the previous semesters and a final objective of providing a diverse and complete toolkit for low‐power mobile audio applications. The current trends in social‐electronic integration are indicative of a level of “Ambient Computing”. That is, providing users with electronic services independent of their physical location or condition. Examples of this new form of integration can be seen in everything from cell‐phones, portable music players, portable gaming devices, laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and most recently smart‐phones. For this entire generation of new devices, one of the most critical design factors to emerge is that of power efficiency. Users are demanding smaller and lighter devices, more features and more powerful processing power, and longer battery times. Unfortunately, improvements in the power density of consumer level batteries are significantly lacking behind user demands, bringing about the increasingly urgent need for exceptionally energy‐efficient technologies upon which the next generation of devices can be built. For the scope of this semester’s IPRO, we will focus on the amplification stage of mobile audio applications. Final Signal amplification for mobile audio devices can reasonably be in the range of several watts, and can make up significant portions of a devices power budget. Furthermore,traditional amplifiers are limited by a tradeoff between low efficiencies and audio distortion. Lower efficiencies further increase power consumption, and require additional hardware to dissipate waste heat, while higher distortion levels are considered unacceptable by many users., Deliverables
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- Battery Powered Transport for Beach Launched Boats (Semester Unknown) IPRO 352
- The IPRO 352 team has investigated, experimented, and finally come up with a solution to the beach‐launched boat problem. They have worked together and designed an innovative catamaran transporter efficient enough to be operated by a single person, dramatically reducing physical labor and maximizing business potential. The team is made up of students seeking to gain professional experience in all areas of engineering, business, and design., Deliverables
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- De (semester?), IPRO 342
- IPRO 342 aims to complete the conversion of a CTA bus and a school bus from conventional vehicles to hybrid. There will be one retrofit parallel design for the CTA bus, while for the school bus there will be a new and a retrofit parallel design. All vehicle simulations and structured testing will be performed using ADVISOR, as well as other software packages available in the Power Electronics and Motor Drives Laboratory at IIT. Designed heavy-duty vehicles will be simulated and their performance as well as fuel economy and emissions under different conditions will be studied., Deliverables for IPRO 342: Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Simulation, Design, and Implementation for the Spring 2006 semester
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- Don't Be Content With Content: Crowdsourcing as Promotion and Engagement
- Presentation for The 2016 Midwest Archives Conference Annual Meeting in Milwaukee, WI (April 2016). This presentation was part of a panel titled Crowdsourcing Beyond Transcription.
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- IIT Archives Collects...Max Jakob, 2007
- Powerpoint slides created as digital capture of "IIT Archives Collects...Max Jakob" physical exhibit researched, written, and curated by Catherine Bruck, University Archivist. All images are from materials housed in the IIT Archives and may not be used without written permission of the IIT Archives. All text copyright of Catherine Bruck, University Archivist.
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- Interactive Web Site Module Design & Development for Museum of Science and Industry (Semester Unknown) IPRO 333
- This project is sponsored by the Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago, Illinois). The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) contacted Illinois Institute of Technology’s Interprofessional Projects program about enlisting a student team to develop content for its website (http://www.msichicago.org) over the course of two semesters (Fall 2007 and Spring 2008). The team has been tasked with further developing three interactive modules for the website. These modules are intended to raise scientific inquiry and support pre-existing scientific knowledge. There are three major areas of concentration for each group. Programmers, designers and content managers will aid in the development of each module. Programmers will need a proficient understanding of Flash, and the ability to utilize a mysquel and database and code in .NETcoding. Designers will be responsible for creating educationally accurate and visually appealing images. Content mangers will be required to relay clear and concise content that reflects age-appropriate and scientifically accurate curricula. MSI is currently developing a more modern and interactive website. The IPRO team will aid the museum by adding Flash modules to further interactivity. MSI provided the team with examples of successful preexisting scientific websites. These include: the Exploratorium (http://www.exploratorium.edu) and the Franklin Institute (http://www.fi.edu). These websites, and others, have been evaluated by the IPRO team and judged by their success in qualitative learning. The museum's goal is to incorporate emerging technologies, ultimately transforming the “brochure like” website into a more engaging attraction for potential museum visitors. Finalized developed modules will be incorporated into MSI's website re-launch in 2008., Deliverables
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- Transdiagnostic Emotional Vulnerabilities Linking Obsessive-Compulsive and Depressive Symptoms in a Community-Based Sample of Adolescents
- Background: Transdiagnostic emotional vulnerabilities are suspected to underlie psychopathologic comorbidity but have received little attention in adolescent emotional pathology literature. We examined distress tolerance, anxiety sensitivity, and anhedonia as concomitant transdiagnostic mechanisms that account for (i.e., statistically mediate) the covariance between adolescent obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) symptoms. Method: Data on MDD, OCD, and the three aforementioned transdiagnostic vulnerabilities were collected from a community-based sample of 3,094 9th graders in a large metropolitan area and analyzed using mixed effects modeling to evaluate mediation effects. Results: Individually and when controlling for each other, all three transdiagnostic vulnerabilities mediated the relation between OCD and MDD symptoms both before and after adjusting for demographics. Conclusions: Distress tolerance, anxiety sensitivity, and anhedonia may be unique mechanisms accounting for comorbidity between OCD and MDD symptoms in youth. Longitudinal evaluation of these candidate transdiagnostic emotional vulnerabilities in adolescent OCD-MDD comorbidity is warranted., Sponsorship: Grant sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse; Contract grant number: R01?DA033296.
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- Reflections on the History of Engineering in the United States : A Preface to Engineering Ethics
- This paper traces the history of the profession of engineering in the United States as a way to gain a better understanding of the field of engineering and of engineering ethics., Lecture at the Center for Academic Ethics and College of Engineering, Wayne State University. Detroit, Michigan. 19 November 1992
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- Davis Discussant Remarks - APPE 2010
- Remarks by Dr. Michael Davis as part of the panel "Engineering and Social Justice: What are the Difficulties, What are the Possibilities? as part of a mini conference at the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual Meeting entitled, "Engineering Towards a More Just and Sustainable World, Sponsorship: Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, National Academy of Engineering, Center for Engineering, Ethics and Society, Results from APPE Mini-Conference: Engineering towards a More Just and Sustainable World Cincinnati, Ohio March 6 – 7, 2010
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- Five Kinds of Ethics Across the Curriculum : An Introduction to Four Experiments with One Kind
- Since 1991, the National Science Foundation has made three large grants to the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology to offer workshops to help faculty integrate ethics into technical courses across the curriculum. We called what we were doing "ethics across the curriculum". This paper seeks to to explain what ethics across the curriculum represents, and what it does not represent. Namely, it is not morality across the curriculum, moral theory across the curriculum, social ethics across the curriculum, or professional ethics across the curriculum., Teaching Ethics, Vol. 4, Issue 2, pp.1-14
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- Getting an Ethics Charge Out of Current Events : Some Doubts About Katrina
- The author discusses why he believes that Hurricane Katrina, which is certainly the biggest engineering disaster in the history of the United States, is not a good case for teaching engineering ethics. This is for three major reasons. First, there is the question of what happened. Second, there is the question of what part engineers had in what happened, which decisions were theirs and which belonged to elected or appointed officials who were not engineers. Third, there is the question of what part engineering ethics had, or should have had, in the decisions engineered did make. We lack any dramatic moment such as the Challenger Disaster provided, a moment when ethics mattered in a way that is both precise and interesting., resentation at the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference. Hyatt Regency, Chicago, IL. June 20, 2006.
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- What Engineering Societies Can Do About Ethics
- This talk looks at how engineering societies can promote ethical practice and discussion about ethics among their members. After some remarks about how engineers commonly handle ethical issues that come up within organizations, especially in instances when raising ethical issues with managers such as the Challenger Shuttle Explosion, the author goes on to discuss how engineering societies can promote continuing education in ethics, hold roundtable discussions between engineers and managers, and promote open communication in workplaces., Address given at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Chicago Area Combined Section Meeting, 27 September 1988.
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- Philosophy 370 : Moral Issues in Engineering
- Syllabus of the Fall 2009 undergraduate course, Moral Issues in Engineering, taught by Dr. Vivian Weil.
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- Professionalism Among Chinese Engineers: An Empirical Study
- This is a copy of a dataset - in English and Chinese - completed in 2018 looking at concepts of professionalism. Following on the Davis, Zhang survey of 2016, this study continues to evaluate the claim that China has a profession of engineering (as defined by Davis) with a larger, better educated, demographically different pool of two hundred and twenty-nine Chinese engineers, using more specific and deeper questions about “profession”, for example, by adding the investigation of competence (the discipline of engineering)—the perceived knowledge, skill, and judgment of the interviewees as evidence of one aspect of profession. The dataset includes a copy of the questionnaire in Chinese and English, as well as both the entire dataset of surveyed individuals as well as the data from individuals who were deemed to have enough experience in engineering to be included in the final data set analyzed.
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- Professionalism Among Chinese Engineers: An Empirical Study: Questionnaire (Chinese version)
- This is a copy of a dataset - in English and Chinese - completed in 2018 looking at concepts of professionalism. Following on the Davis, Zhang survey of 2016, this study continues to evaluate the claim that China has a profession of engineering (as defined by Davis) with a larger, better educated, demographically different pool of two hundred and twenty-nine Chinese engineers, using more specific and deeper questions about “profession”, for example, by adding the investigation of competence (the discipline of engineering)—the perceived knowledge, skill, and judgment of the interviewees as evidence of one aspect of profession. The dataset includes a copy of the questionnaire in Chinese and English, as well as both the entire dataset of surveyed individuals as well as the data from individuals who were deemed to have enough experience in engineering to be included in the final data set analyzed.
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- Data Set from 2016 Survey of Chinese Engineers on Professional Ethics: Questionnaire Survey on the Occupational Cognitive Status-20160428: Questionnaire Survey on the Occupational Cognitive Status-20160428
- Raw data of a survey of Chinese engineers looking at their conceptions of professionalism and professional ethics. Collaborative project by Dr. Michael Davis of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and Dr. Hengli Zhang of the Center for Engineering Ethics Studies, Beijing University of Technology