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: Cardiovascular Display for Pre and Post Natal (semester 1 of unknown), IPRO 341; IPRO 341 worked with the science and exhibit development staff of the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) to develop a working prototype of a cardiovascular display of blood flow from a pre to postnatal system. MSI is currently developing a number of new human physiology and health displays., Sponsorship: Museum of Science and Industry, Deliverables

: Assessing and Improving Interprofessional Education at IIT (semester ?), IPRO 339; The goal of IPRO 339 team is to create and select IPRO proposals, develop online training materials for IPRO Learning Objectives and develop teamwork building games., Sponsorship: Tom Jacobius; Mike Cama; Rebecca Peel; Abhinav Pamulaparthy, Deliverables for IPRO 339: Assessing and Improving Interprofessional Education at IIT for the Spring 2006 semester

: Apparatus and Method for Encapsulating Pancreatic Cells; An apparatus and method for coating micron-sized or sub-micron-sized particles such as living cells. The coating apparatus includes an encapsulation chamber enclosing a two-layer water-oil system for coating each islet cell with an aqueous polymeric coat. Islets together with an aqueous polymer solution are fed by a feed device that utilizes the principle of hydrodynamic focusing in order to ensure encapsulation of individual islets. The polymer in the aqueous coat is subsequently crosslinked by being exposed to laser light to produce structurally stable microcapsules of controllable thickness of the order of tens of microns. Encapsulated islets are removed from the encapsulation chamber by a valveless pump and recovered by filtration or centrifugation., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: AISC 2003 Student Steel Bridge Competition (Spring 2003) IPRO 310: AISC 2003 Student Steel Bridge Competition IPRO310 Spring2003 Final Presentation; The annual steel bridge competition is sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Students will design and construct a steel bridge based on specifications provided by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC). For design analysis, a computer program such as SAP 2000 may be used. After the design is finalized, students will develop shop drawings of the bridge and connection details using AUTOCAD. Fabrication of the bridge is based on theses drawings. The team will participate in a competition held on campus of a university in the Great Lakes region and judged based on AISC criteria. A team that competes successfully can benefit from students from several disciplines beyond civil engineering since there are significant tasks involving marketing, fundraising,preparing documentation, and organizing and delivering a compelling presentation., Sponsorship: ASCE, STS, IHC, KENNY, TURNER, ARLINGTON STEEL, Project Plan for IPRO 310: AISC 2003 Student Steel Bridge Competition for Spring 2003 semester

: Information Display System; An information display system is provided which comprises a body of material serving as both a substrate for thin film components and a medium for the propagation of Rayleigh acoustic waves along its surface. The thin film components include elements responsive to the Rayleigh waves to provide information at selected locations on the surface of the body. These components may be either the control elements or the output elements of the display system., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: Magnetic Recording and Reproducing Device with Means to Prevent Accidental Erase of Record Medium; Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Our Energy Future: Lessons in Sustainability (Semester Unknown) IPRO 332; Ipro 332 is in its sixth and concluding semester and has become a well established project. The strong work of previous semesters’ teams has given the current team a good base to start from in furthering our goal of energy consumption. This semester the goals were to expand upon the modules that have already been made, explore the creation of a new module and market our modules within the community., Deliverables

: Gerry-meandering: An Assessment of the Congressional District Model of Depository Allocation (preprint): AhrensGriffinedrev1a; The preprint of a published article dealing with the effect of allocating Federal Depositories by Congressional district. Conclusions drawn include the fact that due to redistricting that occurs after each decennial census, over time some districts may have within their boundaries a greater number than the two depositories that Congressional district allocation was intended to produce. Likewise, over time shifting boundaries of districts have created districts that have no depositories whatsoever.

: Magnetic Recording Head; Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation, United States Patent

: Homeland Security Vulnerability Assessment Tool (Fall 2003) IPRO 373: Scoping Health Care Informatics IPRO372%3A472 Fall2003 Final Presentation; This IPRO is designed to support the Department of Homeland Security national security initiatives as outlined by the United States Government. The goal is to design a project that supports homeland security compliance guidelines. For example, depending upon interests of the group, a software program could be developed containing a matrix of risk and preventive factors which could be used to assess how well an organization meets Homeland Security Guidelines. Items might involve public policy, computer technology, facilities, transportation, communications, EPA, security, water and air. The need to protect our facilities and people in the Chicago area given recent terrorist activities and the frequent, heightened state of alerts is critical. A well-defined homeland security project can help in contributing to the initiative of establishing homeland readiness.This hands-on project will afford students the opportunity to research an apply concepts of transportation, mechanical, electrical, power, economics, and especially computer technology and engineering to homeland security., Sponsorship: IIT Collaboratory for Interprofessional Studies, Project Plan for IPRO 373: Homeland Security Vulnerability Assessment Tool for Fall 2003 semester

: Method of Analyzing Odors; A method of analyzing odors is provided in which an odorant sample is passed through a plurality of gas chromatographic columns having stationary phases of differing chemical polarity. The numerical value of various subjective odor dimensions of the odorant sample which otherwise would involve subjective test panel analysis, may be determined from the retention times of the odorant sample with respect to the various stationary phase materials., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: Agent-based control of autocatalytic replicators in networks of reactors; Spatially distributed systems such as reactor networks hosting multiple autocatalytic species demonstrate a rich spectrum of complex behavior. From a control systems perspective, spatially distributed systems offer a difficult control challenge because of their distributed nature, nonlinearity, and high order. Furthermore, manipulation of the network states may require simultaneous control actions in different parts of the system and may need transients through several operating regimes to achieve the desired operation. The lack of accurate and computationally efficient model-based techniques for large, spatially distributed systems results in complications in controlling the system, either in disturbance rejection or changing the operational regimes of the system. A hierarchical, agent-based control structure is presented whereby local control objectives may be changed in order to achieve the global control objective. The performance of the control system is demonstrated for several global objectives. The challenge posed is to control the spatial distribution of autocatalytic species in a network of five reactors hosting two species using the interaction flow rates as the manipulated variables. The multi-agent control system is able to effectively explore the parameter space of the network and intelligently manipulate the network flow rates such that the desired spatial distribution of species is achieved., Endnote format citation for DOI:10.1016/j.compchemeng.2004.09.022

: Zero CommunIITy: A Prototype for a Zero-Energy Residential Development (sequence unknown), IPRO 323 - Deliverables; The teams purpose is to seek a union between living comfortably and living sustainably. To design for a future Chicago‐area community, which first minimizes its energy consumption and then uses the most sustainable methods to fulfill the remaining needs of the inhabitants. Ideally we will design a model community which will challenge conventions within the fields of design, planning, engineering, and everyday living. This community will also serve as an example to Chicago‐area municipalities about the benefits of sustainable planning, design, and living., Sponsorship: Consultant from A. Epstein & Sons; Jeremy Poling, Deliverables for IPRO 323:Zero CommunIITy: A Prototype for a Zero-Energy Residential Development for the fall 2009 semester

: Metal Cladding Process and Products Resulting Therefrom; Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Metal-Plastic Article; Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: Challenge to the Pollution Haven Hypothesis: A Study of Northeast Asia and China; This paper explores the phenomena of environmental coordination within Northeast Asia. I initially frame the discussion around claims that China is a pollution haven for its neighboring countries, and I look for evidence in the domestic and regional environmental institutions which challenge China’s pollution haven status. I find that that there is a science and technology-based epistemic community in Northeast Asia which provides an important theoretical response to counter the pollution haven hypothesis. As well, given its strong science and technological output, Japan is poised to assume leadership of the Northeast Asian environmental regime for at least the short- to medium-term.

: Method of Making Magnetic Recording Heads; Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Electromagentic Transducer Head; Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Method and Apparatus for Rendering Medical Materials Safe; Infectious medical materials is rendered innocuous by heating heterogeneous medical materials having wet and dry portions with a radio frequency electric field. The medical materials are exposed to the radio frequency electric field in order to heat the medical waste. The medical waste may include sorted medical or veterinary waste which after heat treatment may be shredded and recycled., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, Sponsorship: Held, Jeffery S., Sponsorship: Sharp, James W., United States Patent

: Map Reporting Component for Reports and CDN XL (semester?), IPRO 349D; IPRO 349 2.1 is focused on creating a prototype of a map reporting component that will be used as an addition to the ComArch Report Book software. The Report Book is a bundle of software used for data analysis that is not built in Excel. ComArch Report Books are used to analyze transactional data, as well as profit control data. For example, it interprets data collected from transactions at stores through the register data gathered during the day, but can also help companies analyze why profit margins are different in different regions, Sponsorship: Comarch, Deliverables for IPRO 349D: Map Reporting Component for Reports and CDN XL for the Summer 2007 semester

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