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Unmanned Aerial Systems (Semester Unknown) IPRO 312
Unmanned Aerial Systems (Semester Unknown) IPRO 312
The use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance as well as in search and rescue is rapidly expanding in both civilian and military applications at an unprecedented rate which was not foreseen a decade ago. Accordingly, there are significant job opportunities in this field and it is expected that this will continue to grow in the next decade. However, the design of UAS is truly an interdisciplinary task as it requires an excellent team work with expertise in diverse areas ranging from aircraft design to autonomous flight, video and data transmission to visual object recognition, the operation of ground station such as real time data analysis and antenna tracking as well as legal/policy aspects of UAS flight operations., Deliverables
Hafnium Base Alloy (Iridium)
Hafnium base alloy containing between about 15 and about 35 weight percent tantalum and between about 2 and about 20 weight percent iridium. The alloy may also contain aluminum, silicon or chromium as additional alloying agents., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
Process for the Preparation of Ozonates and Compositions Resulting Therefrom
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
Grain Refinement of Beryllium with Tungsten Carbide and Titanium Diboride
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
Cure for the IKIA Syndrome : presented at IACRL 2008 conference: List of failures
Cure for the IKIA Syndrome : presented at IACRL 2008 conference: List of failures
Informal observations of a practical and creative approach piloting Blended Library Instruction for undergraduate Civil Architecture and Engineering students, in collaboration with faculty. At Illinois Institute of Technology students don’t receive library instruction as a required class or in tandem with a composition class. Faculty will schedule one-time sessions, which ideally should be planned with a class assignment in mind, but students are rarely engaged with a one time instruction. Many have IKIA syndrome or I Know It Already syndrome. The Millennials are a group that has integrated technology into every aspect of their lives and they assume that retrieving useful or necessary information will be easy. When they discover this isn’t the case lack of time, heightened anxiety, and increased frustration can prevent them from doing their best work. By intentionally creating a similar crisis prior to library instruction, students were more interested in what they stood to gain during pending library instruction. In this presentation we will discuss: 1) A creative means of delivering library instruction to a traditionally challenging population: engineering undergraduate students 2) Qualitative information collected via multiple assignments and interpreted in a quantitative fashion, as well as our observations. 3) A method for preparing students for library instruction that can be applied in almost any discipline without asking the instructor to sacrifice class time.
Fab Lab: Creating Design-to-Prototype Learning Modules at the Museum of Science and Industry (sequence unknown), IPRO 333 - Deliverables
Fab Lab: Creating Design-to-Prototype Learning Modules at the Museum of Science and Industry (sequence unknown), IPRO 333 - Deliverables
The primary objective of IPRO 333 is to partner the knowledge and ideas of young engineers, architects, and scientists at IIT with the resources of the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) in Chicago. This partnership endeavors to help the museum's Fabrication Laboratory (Fab Lab) maximize its potential as a resource for museum guests, young and old, as well as for IIT students, staff, and faculty., Sponsorship: Museum of Science and Industry. Steven Willis- Director, Fabrication Lab, Deliverables for IPRO 333: Fab Lab: Creating Design-to-Prototype Learning Modules at the Museum of Science and Industry for the fall 2009 semester
Statistical monitoring of multivariable dynamic processes with state-space models
Industrial continuous processes may have a large number of process variables and are usually operated for extended periods at fixed operating points under closed-loop control, yielding process measurements that are autocorrelated, cross-correlated and collinear. A statistical process monitoring (SPM) method based on multivariate statistics and system theory is introduced to monitor the variability of such processes. The statistical model that describes the in-control variability is based on a canonical-variate (CV) stare-space model that is an equivalent representation of a vector autoregressive moving-average rime-series model. The CV state variables obtained from the state-space model are linear combinations of the past process measurements that explain the variability of the future measurements the most. Because of this distinctive feature, the CV state variables are regarded as the principal dynamic directions A T-2 statistic based on the CV state variables is used for developing an SPM procedure. Simple examples based on simulated data and an experimental application based on a high-temperature short-time milk pasteurization process illustrate advantages of the proposed SPM method.
Video Transducing Apparatus
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
Particle production sources in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC
A nonequilibrium statistical relativistic diffusion model (RDM) with three sources is applied to the analysis of charged-hadron distributions in Au–Au collisions at RHIC energies, in Pb–Pb collisions at the current LHC energy of 2.76 TeV, and in p–Pb at 5.02 TeV. The relative sizes of the particle production sources at RHIC and LHC energies are investigated in pseudorapidity space as functions of incident energy. The midrapidity source that arises mostly from gluon-gluon collisions becomes more important than the fragmentation sources as the energy increases from RHIC to LHC., Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
Enhancing the Reliability and Performance of Paper Shredders (Semester Unknown) IPRO 321
Enhancing the Reliability and Performance of Paper Shredders (Semester Unknown) IPRO 321
Spring semester 2007, the Manhattan Group came to IIT seeking advice regarding the improvement of their paper shredder. The paper shredders are manufactured in China and sold across the world, including the United States, under the Royal brand name. Each year, over a million paper shredders are sold. Consumers want paper shredders that are quiet and long lasting and are available at the lowest possible price. The Manhattan Group has asked us once again, the students of IPRO 321 and Professor Maurer, for the fourth straight semester to seek potential methods and problems in their shredder. These include improving the sound reduction, the gear optimization, and other features. The MMAE lab and machine lab will be used extensively for gear, sound, and material testing and design. Software resources, sound measuring equipment, and EE equipment will be used as well. Potential legal and/or ethical issues will involve patents and idea ownership. Since this a sponsored IPRO, all discoveries will be property of Mr. Seth Lewis and the Manhattan Group. This potentially could be an issue where this IPRO will be unable to provide necessary information to the IPRO office regarding work and progress due to ethics., Deliverables
Sustainability Planning of IIT Buildings (semester?), IPRO 320
Sustainability Planning of IIT Buildings (semester?), IPRO 320
The objective of IPRO 320, Sustainability Planning of IIT Buildings, is to contribute to the problem solving necessary to implement energy efficiency improvements in existing buildings and to the central steam and electric systems. Alternate possibilities for energy use in context with their building type and surroundings will be discovered through research of other university buildings at the University of Chicago, Loyola University, and IIT. This research will then be used in finding alternate forms of energy generation to secure the sustainability of the IIT campus., Deliverables for IPRO 320: Sustainability Planning of IIT Buildings for the Fall 2006 semester
Disaster Recovery:  DIY Home Building (semester?), IPRO 324
Disaster Recovery: DIY Home Building (semester?), IPRO 324
IPRO 324, Disaster Recovery: Do-It-Yourself Home Building is focused on designing a building manual to aid disaster victims in building new buildings. The objectives of this group are to design a simple but adequate floor plan, create a manual illustrating how to build this design, and to market this manual to a disaster relief organization that would be responsible for the distribution of this manual., Deliverables for IPRO 324: Disaster Recovery - DIY Yourself Home Building for the Fall 2006 semester
Cessation of Screech in Underexpanded Jets
In significantly underexpanded jets, screech inherently ceases to exist. This paper studies screech cessation in a supersonic rectangular jet and provides an explanation for its occurrence. Experimental data are presented for fully expanded Mach numbers, M-j, ranging from 1.1 to 1.9. Screech becomes unsteady beyond M-j = 1.65 and ceases to exist beyond M-j = 1.75. The reason for this cessation has remained a mystery, and this paper examines three suspects: (i) the theory of a frequency mismatch between screech tones and the band of the most-amplified jet instability waves, (ii) the notion that Mach disk formation disrupts the shock-cell structure and weakens the screech-producing shocks, and (iii) the idea that acoustic feedback and receptivity diminish at high levels of underexpansion. A thorough interrogation of experimental data shows that (i) is not the main cause of screech cessation here, (ii) plays an insignificant role, and (iii) appears to have been largely responsible for screech cessation. Cessation occurs because feedback to the jet lip is diminished due to excessive expansion of the jet boundary. Further, since the jet lip now reflects and scatters low intensity sound, the end result is poor receptivity at the initial shear layer. This theory is substantiated by the re-activation of screech when the nozzle lip thickness is made larger than the expanded jet boundary. Finally, increasing lip thickness is seen to produce a systematic shift (to higher M-j) of the onset of cessation. The results of this study are of direct relevance to the sonic fatigue problem in aircraft structures, because understanding screech helps prevent such damage.
Video Disc Transducer System and Method
A video disc record having a spiral video record track which can provide reproduced video signals with a desired frame rate such as thirty frames per second while the disc record is rotated at a very low speed such as two revolutions per minute. A preferred transducer machine uses a pulsed light source to supply successive light images to a video camera readout. Control signals are recorded on helical control tracks so that reproduction thereof facilitates the generation of a desired standard video signal from the video camera., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
Self-Regulating Class E Resonant Power Converter Maintaining Operation in a Minimal Loss Region
A self-regulating Class E/resonant power converter includes a power switching device which is gated on at each transition between negative and positive half cycles of the load current by drive signals generated by a drive circuit, the rate at which the drive signals are generated being controlled by a zero crossing detector which monitors the load current and adjusts the frequency of the drive signals in correspondence with changes in the time between successive negative-to-positive zero crossings of the load current such that the power switching device continues to be switched on at substantially zero voltage, zero slope conditions to maintain the power converter operating at the optimal Class E frequency., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
Piston and Piston Pin Manufacturing Process Improvement (Semester Unknown) IPRO 339
Piston and Piston Pin Manufacturing Process Improvement (Semester Unknown) IPRO 339
The team of IPRO 339’s main objective is to assist Burgess-Norton Manufacturing Company with eliminating a persisting problem that has been affecting the company for many years. Burgess-Norton Manufacturing Company is the world’s largest manufacturer of piston pins, as well as the leading producer of powder metal parts. Supplying many major car companies across the world, Burgess-Norton thrives on maintaining a high standard of quality in both their products and services. Recently there has been a change in the automobile industry that has affected the way piston pins are manufactured. These changes have brought on difficulties for the company as they must now change their product specs and adapt to the evolving market. Their main problem is the existence of nicks on the piston pins. The main goal of this IPRO team is to find a way to eliminate these nicks that occur throughout the company’s manufacturing process. This document will outline the main objectives and tasks that the team has been assigned with. Team structures, time lines and other plans are included. Also, a further company history and description of Burgess-Norton will be provided in order to make the objectives more clear., Sponsorship: Burgess-Norton Manufacturing Company, Deliverables
Emotional reactions to variations in contract language
This article introduces a theory of emotion-driven behavior in construction contracting and provides support for this theory by presenting the quantitative results of a study on the emotional reaction of individuals to the language in contract clauses. Four different versions of the standard Delay Clause found in most construction contracts were extracted from four different contracts and were presented to a group of 27 individuals. Participants rank ordered the clause versions from 1 (most negative) to 4 (most positive). Overall, Clause Version 2 was ranked as having the most negative contract language, with nearly 75% of the participants ranking it as most negative. In contrast, Clause Version 4 was ranked as having the most positive contract language, with over 50% of the participants ranking it as most positive. Participants likewise selected negative emotion words to describe their reaction to Clause Version 2 and positive emotion words to describe their reaction to Clause Version 4. The findings suggest that contract clauses that contain negative language do tend to generate negative emotional reactions while positive contract language do tend to generate positive emotional reactions.
Assisting Blind and Visually Impaired Swimmers (semester?), IPRO 310
Assisting Blind and Visually Impaired Swimmers (semester?), IPRO 310
This objective of this IPRO is to develop devices to aid visually impaired persons swim. The team has chosen to work on two separate devices to accomplish this task. One approach is to use a passive device, which is located in the pool, to guide the swimmers through the lane. A picture of the latest version of the device is pictured below in figure 1 with several key features identified., Deliverables for IPRO 310: Assisting Blind and Visually Impaired Swimmers for the Fall 2007 semester
Study of pp interactions at high multiplicity at U-70
The E190 Experiment is aimed at the search for collective phenomena in a quark-gluon system and a hadron system. It is carried out at U-70 in IHEP, Protvino. The evidence of Bose-Einstein condensation of pions has been confirmed with a twofold increasing of sampling at a level of 7 standard deviations. We study soft photon (smaller than 60 MeV) yield by using of an electromagnetic calorimeter with low energy threshold. In the gluon dominance model we explain multiparticle production by the active gluons. In this model the estimation of the contribution of charge exchange has been obtained., Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
Sustainability Planning of IIT Buildings (semester?), IPRO 320
Sustainability Planning of IIT Buildings (semester?), IPRO 320
The main objectives of this project are to gather Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning performance data (Temperature, Humidity, Air Speed, Light) of each building on campus and to analyze it to provide feasible solutions to the problems found., Deliverables for IPRO 320: Sustainability Planning of IIT Buildings for the Summer 2006 semester

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