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: Solid Fuel from Biomass for Cogeneration (Semester Unknown) IPRO 349; Renewable energy is one of the most important and widely researched topics today. It is classically defined as any form of energy that comes from renewable sources and, for all practical purposes, cannot be depleted. This may include solar, wind, or geothermal power, as well as biomass or biofuels. When considering biomass, or any living or recently dead biological material, the chemical energy of the molecules is generally collected through the process of combustion., Deliverables

: Titanium Base Alloy; Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Edutainment (semester?), IPRO 329; This semester IPRO 329, Edutainment, continues placing its complete efforts toward an educational computer gaming suite targeted at fourth-grade students and the subjects these students struggle with most in school. The tentative title, Scholars of the Lost Exhibit, remains the same this semester. Work on this project began two semesters ago as the team completed their award-winning game College Pursuit. During this semester, we will continue to focus on the design, development, testing, and marketing of Scholars of the Lost Exhibit., Deliverables for IPRO 329: Edutainment for the Spring 2006 semester

: Using ecological momentary assessment to understand a construction worker’s daily disruptions and decisions (Working Paper); Capturing the momentary decisions and actions made by construction workers in response to workflow disruptions is challenging because, until now, there has not been a minimally-disruptive data collection method that allows workers to identify their decision process “in the moment.” However, an Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) method – designed to capture momentary work experiences in natural settings – can provide researchers with detailed information about the daily challenges experienced by workers during the course of performing their tasks. An explanation of the method is provided, along with examples of the types of research questions that can be addressed and appropriate analysis techniques. The EMA method is being used on a federally-funded research program in the United States that is investigating how construction workers adapt to workflow disruptions by improvising their decisions and actions. Consequently, this article demonstrates the use of the method by presenting an idiographic study of William, an electrical construction worker. The evaluation of William’s disruptions, decisions, and actions elucidated an important relationship: every one of William’s disruptions required an improvisational action in order to continue working. The EMA method opens the door to the development of new theories about rapid decisions and subsequent actions on construction sites., Sponsorship: National Science Foundation

: Robotics Initiative at IIT (semester?), IPRO 316; This IPRO is dedicated to continuing the robotics initiative at Illinois Institute of Technology. There are so many ways that this group of people can accomplish that task. The importance of this overall goal is significant due to the growing use of robotics in the commercial world today., Deliverables for IPRO 316: Robotics Initiative at IIT for the Fall 2004 semester

: Wire Reel and Holding Means; Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation, United States Patent

: Cure for the IKIA Syndrome : presented at IACRL 2008 conference: assignment_3; 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.

: IIT Robotics Initiative (Semester 1 of Unknown), IPRO 316; IPRO 316 is in the business of innovation. Divided into multiple subgroups, each working on a unique, robotics oriented endeavor, the goal of the IPRO is to explore and develop robotics while gaining an understanding of robotic systems and functionality and exposing the IIT community to the extensive capabilities of such robots and the necessity of understanding them., Deliverables

: Laboratory Notebook 119; This laboratory notebook relates to the " Thermal Inactivation of Ricin in phosphate buffer system and orange juice" project with Britt Burton-Freeman as the Principle Investigator.

: Flexible Worm Drive; Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: Green Leaf Community (Semester Unknown) IPRO 357; Our purpose is to study the design of sustainable residential housing model designed by the Inter-professional group in the fall of 2009 and determine the construction costs for the model. This along with the market analysis will set a baseline price for the average buyer of this home. Our goal is to redesign this model with the current economic market in mind and make this model of sustainable design marketable and economically feasible with use of more efficient designing and systems., Deliverables

: Method and Apparatus for Distributed Queue Digital Data Transmission Employing Variable Length Data Slots; A data transmission and receiving network includes a plurality of nodal apparatus for sending and receiving digital data in variable length data slots. The nodal apparatus includes a storage device for maintaining a conflict resolution queue representative of nodal apparatus sending simultaneous requests for transmission causing a collision during a control minislot. The nodal apparatus also includes a transmission queue stored in the storage device. The transmission queue is indicative of nodal apparatus that have successfully transmitted during a minislot and are thus queued for transmission of data in data slots. The apparatus includes a transmitter for sending a variable length data slot signal comprising digital data in response to the state of the transmission queue. The nodal apparatus also includes a receiver for receiving a variable length data slot signal., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Diagnosis of process disturbances by statistical distance and angle measures; Disturbance and fault diagnosis techniques that rely on statistical methods traditionally utilize distance based discrimination functions. Complementary information is contained in the angular relations between data clusters representing process operations under various disturbances. A novel disturbance diagnosis approach is presented based on angle discriminants. The diagnosis method is successful in cases where distance based discrimination is not very accurate. The methodology is illustrated by diagnosing various disturbances in the Tennessee Eastman process and compared with the diagnosis utilizing distance based algorithms., Endnote format citation

: Contrails Digital Initiative from a Documents Librarian Point of View: Contrails NIDL 2015; A presentation covering the period 1996-2015 with regards to the the Contrails Digital Initiative (fka Wright Air Development Center Digital Collection). Covered are the conception of the project, features of the website over time, technological changes affecting the project, interactions with government officials over the content, changes in the project model based on changes in shallow web indexing algorithms of search engines, and plans for the future. Presented at the Spring 2015 meeting of the Northeastern Illinois Documents Librarians, on May 15th, 2015 in the Cherry Room of Paul V. Galvin Library on IIT's Main Campus.

: Emotion (Semester Unknown) IPRO 354; eMotion creates and offers devices that connect those who are physically separated but emotionally connected in a simple and safe manner., Deliverables

: Developing a Tool Crib Management System & Feed Mechanism for Semi-Automated Welding Process (sequence unknown), IPRO 347 - Project Plan; Smith & Richardson, Inc. manufactures hundreds of different metal parts using a variety of stamping and welding equipment. There are two projects that are to be undertaken by the IPRO team: first to identify methods and programs that can be used to create a cohesive and easy to navigate database for machine shop tool storage and to implement that system so that it meshes with an existing computer system; second to identify methods, materials, and systems that can be used to automate a manual sorting and placement process and to achieve a working prototype of the mechanism., Sponsorship: Smith & Richardson, Inc. (Geneva, Illinois), Project Plan for IPRO 347: Developing a Tool Crib Management System & Feed Mechanism for Semi-Automated Welding Process for the fall 2009 semester.

: Shock-induced Flow Resonance in Supersonic Jets of Complex Geometry; Jets with complex shock-cell structures exist in numerous technological applications. This paper describes a fundamental study of shock-induced flow resonance (commonly referred to as "jet screech") in supersonic jets with spanwise nonuniform shock-cell structures. Experiments that involve flow visualization and detailed mapping of the near field reveal unsteady aspects of shock-induced flow resonances, mode transitions, and directivity of the radiated noise. The following important results about the role of spanwise nonuniform shock-cells emerged: (1) It is possible to have two coexisting, independent feedback loops at nonharmonically related frequencies and different spanwise modes. (2) The same type of spanwise asymmetric mode was produced by two entirely different source configurations. (3) Nozzle geometry significantly altered the intensity and directivity of screech and broadband shock noise. The results presented here provide considerable insight into the fluid dynamics and acoustics of jets with spanwise oblique shock-cell structures and provide grounds for believing that shock-induced noise can be controlled by tailoring nozzle geometry. (C) 1999 American Institute of Physics. [S1070-6631(99)00103-8].

: Digital Control of Motor Drives; A digital controller is easily implemented for variable speed or torque control of an electric motor or generator by using a comparator to determine a choice of control state outputs., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Welding Apparatus; Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: IPRO 325: Bison Books; Sponsorship: Bison Gear and Engineering

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