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- Liquefied Natural Gas Technology (Fall 2003) IPRO 304A: Liquefied Natural Gas Technology IPRO304A Fall2003 Final Presentation
- Design and model a production process for the manufacture of liquefied natural gas (LNG). Understand the economic aspects of running a facility and the worldwide market of LNG and its by products. To identify environmental and safety concerns, Sponsorship: IIT Collaboratory for Interprofessional Studies, Project Plan for IPRO 304A: Liquefied Natural Gas for the Fall 2003 semester
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- Titanium Base Alloy
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- 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
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- Flame Spraying Process
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Interactive Urban Landmark Kiosks for Memorial Walk of Martin Luther King (sequence unknown), IPRO 314 - Deliverables
- The objective of this IPRO is to help the students of Gage Park H.S. bring their vision of a memorial to a historical event into existence., Sponsorship: Gage Park High School, Deliverables for IPRO 314: Interactive Urban Landmark Kiosks for Memorial Walk of Martin Luther King for the fall 2009 semester.
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- Automated Dry Deposition Sampler
- A dry deposition sampling apparatus having at least one thin dry deposition plate with sample collection film is maintained on a support structure which is rotatable about a vertical axis and has a vane to maintain the sharp leading edge of the dry deposition plate(s) headed into the wind. Covers are positioned over the sample collection films automatically upon commencement of precipitation and are automatically moved to a position exposing the sample collection films to the atmosphere upon cessation of precipitation. The duration of exposure of the collection films to the atmosphere is timed, thus providing a dry deposition sampling apparatus which may be left unattended for long periods of time., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- ACCESS Healthcare Perinatal Care (semester 1 of unknown) IPRO 340
- Our goal was to improve ACCESS Community Health Network’s information systems that support the perinatal treatment program in order to enhance the sectors of revenue and quality of care., Sponsorship: ACCESS Healthcare, Deliverables
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- Carbon Footprint of Automobiles (Semester Unknown) IPRO 322
- The goal of the IPRO 322 team is to develop and present a “User friendly” way of identifying vehicles with respect to the emission of greenhouse gases throughout their life cycle., Deliverables
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- Equipment for Use with Magnetic Tape Records
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- AVOIDATRAK: AVOIDATRAK IPRO310 Spring2001 Final Presentation
- The team will assist an independent inventor, Mr. Julius Jones, Jr., in developing his idea for a computer game that could help wheelchair users improve their hand-eye coordination and reflexes, and which would be enjoyable, interesting, and motivating for them to play. In exploring design ideas, for the game, the team will have an opportunity to meet and confer with wheelchair bound students who this past summer successfully completed a path-breaking hike on a rugged trail in the White Mountains of New Hampshire (New York Times, August 12, 2000, p. A1). The IPRO team will work on developing computer animation models of possible scenarios for the game. This IPRO combines analysis of needs and interests of mobility-impaired individuals from perspectives of the human and social sciences (psychology, sociology, etc.) with developing ideas about how to address those needs in a meaningful way through a computer game (design, electrical and computer engineering, computer science, etc.), Sponsorship: Collaboration with the National Easter Seal Society and other organizations interested in sponsoring this project., Project Plan for IPRO 310: AVOIDATRAK for the Spring 2001 semester
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- Video Transducing Apparatus
- Monochrome and color television recording and playback circuitry for coupling of a video magnetic transducer head with a standard broadcast television receiver. The transducer head preferably includes a plurality of head units for recording respective color television signals with provision for selectively recording a monochrome signal on successive channels with the use of one only of the head units., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Bus tracker (Fall 2003) EnPRO 371: Bus Tracker ENPRO371 Fall2003 Final Presentation
- Our goal is to develop a cost effective bus tracking system based on affordable radio- frequency (RF) technology that will provide customers with reliable information, which they can use it to ensure the safety of their children., Sponsorship: NA, Project Plan for EnPRO 371: Bus Tracker for Fall 2003 semester
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- Jobsite Characteristics that Influence Improvised Decision-making on Construction Sites
- This article examines the relationship between specific construction project characteristics and the degree and speed that the foremen are able to improvise in response to disruptive events on the jobsite. Specifically, characteristics such as the number of crew members working under the supervision of a foreman, the occupancy status of the project (i.e., occupied or unoccupied) during construction, the stage of completion of the project, and the levels of turbulence, time pressure, cooperation, collaboration, and organization, were examined. Using a multilevel regression modeling approach, an analysis of 244 disruptions reported by 50 foremen was conducted to determine whether the construction project characteristics could predict more or less improvisation and faster or slower improvisation by the foreman. The findings indicate that on construction projects that are rated by the foremen as more organized, the foremen can make more modest improvised decisions to resolve a disruption, but that on construction projects that were rated by the foremen as more collaborative (i.e., involved joint decision-making), a greater degree of improvisation was deployed. In addition, it was found that on sites that were rated by the foremen as more cooperative (i.e., involved greater willingness to help each other), the foremen required more time to improvise their decisions., Sponsorship: National Science Foundation
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- THE MICHAEL REESE SITE (Semester Unknown) IPRO 359
- At one time the Michael Reese Campus was a thriving mix of famous architecture and medical centers. Recently planned to be the home of the 2016 Olympic Village, with the loss of the bid the land has been abandoned. IPRO 356 is tasked with the challenge of designing a plan to redevelop the site. Building on previous work established by IPRO’s 359 and 356, we will use the first winning anchor and master plan created for the site and develop a second anchor. This second anchor and updated master plan aims at meeting the needs of the surrounding neighborhood while bringing life back to the area., Deliverables
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- ESTABLISHING AN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH JOURNAL (Semester Unknown) IPRO 321
- By encouraging and rewarding research across all undergraduate disciplines at the university, a distinctive and enriching educational environment will be developed for undergraduate students to become leaders and innovators., Sponsorship: IIT, Deliverables
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- Hydrazine Production
- Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- A NUMERICAL-METHOD FOR DETERMINING OPTIMAL PARAMETER VALUES IN FORCED PERIODIC OPERATION
- A numerical approach for determining values of forcing parameters which maximize performance of a periodically forced system is described. Periodic solutions of the system equations plus a differential form of the time-average performance measure are computed with a shooting algorithm. A nonlinear programming package is used to solve the optimization problem. The algorithm is applied to ethylene oxidation process, using the model of a continuous stirred-tank reactor (CSTR)., Endnote format citation
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- Heat Driven Refrigeration Systen (semester 1 of Unknown), IPRO 302
- Conventional refrigeration uses a great deal of electricity, a resource scare in developing areas, and as a consequence it is not viable. However if a system that is inexpensive, reliable under local conditions, and operates with only minimal electric power from a solar cell or battery can be introduced it would be a tremendous asset. Faced with such a requirements this project addresses these issues in order to find a solution that is economically and socially feasible., Sponsorship: The American Society of Heatting, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE); The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), Deliverables
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- A MODEL OBJECT BASED SUPERVISORY EXPERT SYSTEM FOR FAULT TOLERANT CHEMICAL REACTOR CONTROL
- An expert system for real-time control of chemical processes provides an environment for coordination of process fault diagnosis, assessment of process behavior, automated controller retuning and/or reconfiguration and consequently enables fault-tolerant process control. A supervisory expert system with object-based knowledge representation and heuristic (shallow) and model-based (deep) knowledge is presented. The expert system resides on a PC/386 and communicates with the control system developed in the form of control blocks residing on a PC/286. The prototype of the expert system is developed for retuning model-based controllers to improve the behavior of a packed-bed tubular CO oxidation reactor under autothermal operation. MOBECS is a supervisory expert system designed to tailor the process control system for a tubular autothermal reactor in response to process or control system faults, and changes in the process behavior. Specific functions include process fault diagnosis, control system performance monitoring and trouble-shooting, controller tuning and control system restructuring. As this work progresses, we will also address the problems of sensor placement, state estimation and process identification. Because of the high degree of coupling and interaction between process and control system entities, objects are the best knowledge representation for a process control expert system. The class—object structures of MOBECS is divided into three orthogonal trees representing the process and control system hierarchies and the topology of the system. Using this structure, knowledge is divided into general knowledge applicable to any process or control system and knowledge that is domain specific. The general knowledge is stored in the class structures and, together with generalized rules, forms a knowledge base kernel. This permits rapid prototyping of other applications of MOBECS. Properties are defined as high as possible in the class tree structure and inherited downwards. Knowledge specific to the process is stored in the objects at the leaves of the trees. Rules form the reasoning portion of the knowledge base and contain the causal relationships, meta-knowledge and performance monitoring functions. Rules that perform general monitoring and troubleshooting are applied at the class level through pattern matching. Rule sets are linked through context relationships to identify indirect relationships to the inference engine. These relationships are used with the process topology tree to reduce the search space when a fault is detected. The process monitoring and instability detection rules have been tested by simulating the inputs to the expert system. At the present time, experimental validation of the MOBECS prototype is being undertaken. Once the MOBECS prototype has been fully tested, the knowledge base will be extended to incorporate more complex fault diagnosis, state estimation, sensor placement and controller restructuring., Endnote format citation