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- Benchmarking and Evaluation of the IPRO Program (Fall 2003) IPRO 339: Benchmarking and Evaluation of the IPRO Program IPRO339 Fall2003 Final Presentation
- The Fall 2003 project team, IPRO 339, will focus on IPRO benchmarking and market research, IPRO business strategy, IPRO marketing strategy, the automation of IPRO project management reporting and prepare to conduct the first ever IPRO leading edge technology conference.The Fall 2003 339 team will build on the work begun by students from business and engineering during the 2003 summer in benchmarking the global competition and measuring the perceptions of the IPRO Program among its constituents, namely, students, faculty, alumni and sponsors. The team will develop an external marketing and sponsor relationship strategy and create the internal processes needed to manage an aggressive and sustaining marketing program that begins in the Chicago area, but has the potential to extend to the rest of the U.S. and around the world, particularly with the involvement and support of alumni. The goal is to attract and sustain over the long term sponsoring organizations that can provide exciting and valuable project ideas that challenge students to apply their knowledge and think across professional boundaries. The spring 2004 339 team will continue the work of the fall team and develop best practices for achieving the interprofessional learning objectives within the IPRO course format in ways that engage and motivate students in stimulating and productive ways. This can include a range of supporting information and resources for teams: creating high performance teams, managing projects, leadership development, design processes, innovation and technology commercialization, ethics and social responsibility, environmental and manufacturing sustainability, and safety, security and legal issues. The team will develop and demonstrate e-learning course modules that will benefit all teams., Sponsorship: Tom Jacobius, Director, The IIT Collaboratory for Interprofessional Studies, Project Plan for IPRO 339: Benchmarking and Evaluation of the IPRO Program for Fall 2003 semester
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- Method of Making Enriched Radioisotopes by Cation Fixation
- Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Electrical Brush
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Bearing Composition
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Electromagnetic Transducer Head
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Neutron Spectrometer
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Increased Ethanol Production by Genetic Engineering of Microorganisms to Express Hemoglobin
- The present disclosure describes novel bacterial strains which express a pyruvate decarboxylase gene and at least one alcohol dehydrogenase gene from a bacteria of the genus Zymomonas and also express a hemoglobin gene from a bacteria of the genus Vitreoscilla. The pressent disclosure further describes methods for producing fermentation products with a microorganism which expresses a pyruvate decarboxylase gene and at least one alcohol dehydrogenase gene from a bacteria of the genus Zymomonas and also express a hemoglobin gene from a bacteria of the genus Vitreoscilla. Further the present disclosure describes methods for increasing production of a fermentation product comprising genetically engineering a microorganism which expresses a xylose isomerase gene to also express a hemoglobin gene from a bacteria of the genus Vitreoscilla., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Screech Tones from Rectangular Jets with Spanwise Oblique Shock-cell Structures
- Understanding screech is especially important for the design of advanced aircraft because screech can cause sonic fatigue failure of aircraft structures. Although the connection between shock-cell spacing and screech frequency is well understood, the relation between non-uniformities in the shock-cell structures and the resulting amplitude, mode, and steadiness of screech have remained unexplored. This paper addresses the above issues by intentionally producing spanwise (larger nozzle dimension) variations in the shock-cell structures and studying the resulting spanwise screech mode. The spanwise-oblique shock-cell structures were produced using imperfectly expanded convergent-divergent rectangular nozzles (aspect ratio = 5) with non-uniform exit geometries. Three geometries were studied: (a) a nozzle with a spanwise uniform edge, (b) a nozzle with a spanwise oblique (single-bevelled) edge, and (c) a nozzle that had two spanwise oblique (double-bevelled) cuts to form an arrowhead-shaped nozzle. For all nozzles considered, the screech mode was antisymmetric in the transverse (smaller nozzle dimension) direction allowing focus on changes in the spanwise direction. Three types of spanwise modes were observed: symmetric (I), antisymmetric (II), and oblique (III), The following significant results emerged: (i) for all cases the screech mode corresponds with the spanwise shock-cell structure, (ii) when multiple screech modes are present, the technique presented here makes it possible to distinguish between coexisting and mutually exclusive modes, (iii) the strength of shocks 3 and 4 influences the screech source amplitude and determines whether screech is unsteady. The results presented here offer hope for a better understanding of screech and for tailoring shock-containing jets to minimize fatigue failure of aircraft components.
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- Combined Magnetic Transducer Head and Coupling Transformer
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Steel Bridge Competition Design and Business Planning (Semester Unknown) IPRO 326
- The focus of this IPRO is to design and build a steel bridge to the specifications given by the AISC and by using teamwork. One of the goals of this IPRO is to win this year’s ASCE/AISC Regional Steel Bridge Competition, and to place in the top ten in the National Steel Bridge Competition., Deliverables
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- System for Detecting Twist and Bend in Turbine Blades
- Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Innovative Uses of Native CAD Files Progress Report June 2011
- This publication presents an literature review, progress of an environmental scan, and preliminary findings of research for the project entitled Innovative Uses of Native CAD Files., Sponsorship: Electri International
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- GREEN BUILDING DESIGN CONCEPT & INTEGRATION (Semester Unknown) IPRO 335
- Green Building design is becoming a vast topic in today’s world. As times change, and energy sources become limited and more expensive, we need to find more ways to conserve energy. This IPRO’s main goal is to research these alternative energy sources, methods, and uses; then implement them into a feasible design of our own., Deliverables
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- VIBRATIONAL CONTROL OF AN EXOTHERMIC CSTR - PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT BY MULTIPLE INPUT OSCILLATIONS
- A. Cinar et al. (1987) have shown that vibrational control of an exothermic continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) by vibrating the total flow rate modifies its behavior and leads to stabilized operation in its unstable steady-state region. Here, the effect of multiple vibrating inputs and the contribution of their phase shift are investigated. Theoretical and experimental results indicate productivity improvement and amplitude reduction in reactor temperature swings by vibrating both input flow rate and input concentrations., Endnote format citation
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- Spherodized Fluorescent Beads for Improved Roadway Pavement Marker Visibility
- Retroreflective glass or plastic beads have fluorescent properties when irradiated with ultraviolet light and are emplaced in signs in patterns indicative of alphanumeric characters, or embedded in a hot melt comprising road stripes or embedded in the road asphalt or aggregate during construction of the road, to provide effectively bright and clear indications of signs or the extent and direction of the road. The glass beads comprise spherodized soda lime, borosilicate, phosphosilicate or aluminosilicate glasses with low levels of rare-earth dopants mixed therein, such as compounds containing one of the rare earths, or lanthanides. The plastic beads may have fluorescent materials mixed therein, typically organic pigments or dyes based on coumarin and rhodamine or the like., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Porous Pavement/Hydro-gel System for Storm Water Management (Semester Unknown) IPRO 312
- The objectives of IPRO 312, are to design and demonstrate a hydrogel based, water retention and release system for implementation in various storm water reclamation scenarios while forecasting the impact of such a system, both economically and ecologically on a Chicago-land neighborhood., Deliverables
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- AudioDoc (semester?), IPRO 350
- The mission of AudioDoc is to usher in a new technology called “browsable audio” to people all around the world, which they can use to learn a new language efficiently and cost-effectively. We hope to develop the hardware and software technologies, as well as strategic business partnerships and operations, that will make AudioDoc a unique and lucrative business venture., Sponsorship: Ed Kaplan entrepreneurial Program; Attila Kondac, Deliverables for IPRO 350: AudioDocs for Fall 2006 semester
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- Automated control of high temperature short time pasteurization
- Cascade and multivariable control of a high temperature shot? time (HTST) pasteurization system were tested and compared with the performance of single-loop feedback control. Multivariable control was implemented on the basis of computations of product temperatures that yield equivalent lethality at a residence time of 15 s at 161 degrees F in the holding tube. Both cascade and multivariable controllers reduced product temperature fluctuations and overshoot compared to single-loop feedback control. Multivariable control was based on on-line computation of equivalent total lethality and it permitted operation at variable flow rates or at the most desirable temperatures for product quality and functionality. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd., Endnote format citation