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- Mobile Sanitizing Devices and Systems for Dispensing Sanitizer Solution
- A mobile sanitizing device may include a sanitizer solution dispenser module, a motorized wheel assembly, and a controller module. The sanitizer solution dispenser module may be operable to dispense the sanitizer solution. The motorized wheel includes at least one wheel and is coupled to the sanitizer solution dispenser module. The controller module includes a microcontroller and a memory, and is programmed to log a sanitization record into a sanitization history of at least one user, compare the sanitization history of the user with a sanitization standard, and control the motorized wheel assembly to cause the mobile sanitizing device to approach the user to dispense sanitizing solution to the user when the sanitization history does not meet the sanitization standard., Sponsorship: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent, Primary US Patent Classification 340/573.1, US Patent Classification 340/539.1, US Patent Classification 340/618, US Patent Classification 700/245, US Patent Classification 901/1, International Patent Classification G08B 23/00
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- Method of Making Magnetic Impulse Record Members
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Global Warming and Community Outreach (Semester Unknown) IPRO 331
- Utilize previous presentations to inform and educate the public about the cause, impact, and responses to global warming. Divide the overall issue into major aspects including the ones set by previous IPRO‟s while adding our own., Deliverables
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- Business Development Through BIM and Other Strategies For Electrical Contractors (Semester Unknown) IPRO 338
- The IPRO 338 task is to continue from past IPRO efforts in developing business strategies for electrical contractors through the use Building Informational Modeling (BIM). While past IPROs have focused on the efficiency and benefits of BIM for electrical contracting companies. Our teams focus will be on how the benefits of using these new technologies and other business development strategies can help guide electrical contractors towards improving and increasing their overall business endeavors in a recessional and competitive environment. We plan on concluding our project with a business development module presenting key successful marketing strategies. The developed deliverable is geared towards assisting members of our sponsoring Electrical Contracting Association (ECA)., Sponsorship: Electrical Contracting Association (ECA)., Deliverables
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- Green Building Design Concepts and Integration (Semester Unknown) IPRO 335
- The intent of this IPRO project is to design a “green” and innovative building using the skills and input of students studying different majors at Illinois Institute of Technology. The team has decided to design a replacement apartment building for Gunsaulus Hall on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. Innovative technologies and practices will be researched and employed to design a “green” building. The decision to design a building for the IIT campus came about because it is an area that all of the team members could relate to and have a more realistic grasp on the project. Then it was suggested that the building this project group designed would then be studied structurally by the team of IPRO 315: Design of a Large-Scale Structure. For the remainder of the semester the two groups are planning on coordinating with each other on each step of the design process., Deliverables
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- Feedback for a Flux Gate Reproducing System
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Building a Community Garden (semester?), IPRO 344
- IPRO 344 investigated methods for safe, low-cost community gardening in the urban setting. Most community gardens within large cities are sited in vacant lots that have been previously built upon. When the structures that once occupied these sites were demolished, the debris filled the basements of the structures, and was then covered by a shallow layer of nutrient poor dirt. The resulting vacant lots pose two problems for community gardening. First, the ground becomes tough and nearly impossible to manually prepare for gardening purposes. Second, the presence of lead and mercury from the paint and other construction materials has been incorporated into the soil, which can be harmful when transferred into plants which are then ingested. Since most community gardens in low-income neighborhoods do provide food, it became the aim of IPRO 344 to inexpensively grow plants which would be safe to eat in an urban community garden., Deliverables for IPRO 344: Building a Community Garden for the Summer 2006 semester
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- Application Development and Business Planning for the Motorola Timeport Wireless Device (Spring 2001) IPRO 308: Application Development and Business Pplanning for the Motorola Timeport Wireless Device IPRO308 Spring2001 Final Presentation
- What is the future of wireless communications in the university? As the wireless marketplace becomes more saturated with cellular, paging and wireless internet services, who will create the competitive advantage, and will the advantage come from shrinking the wireless laptop computer or by expanding the services of phones, pagers and personal digital assistants (PDA) to meet the all-in-one needs of future students. This IPRO focuses on several aspects of wireless technologies and will make extensive use of the Motorola Timeport two-way unified messaging device. Core topics include1) analysis of current and near-term wireless technologies and their application to the university settings, 2) creation of new university-focused, wireless applications to interactively deliver information to and from students (for example campus events, athletic schedules, interactive quizzing, student life, collaboration, enrollment services, and other web-centric information), 3) development of a complete business plan to market and distribute these two-way devices to universities. Specific tasks include evaluating the effectiveness of the Timeport wireless device in the distance learning and collaboration pilot programs that are continuing from Fall 2000, developing software using Timeport developer's kit (SDK) and participating in usability testing for the developed applications with the IPRO 304 team led by Professor Feinberg. Each student participating in this IPRO will receive a Timeport device for use in the Spring 2001 semester., Sponsorship: Motorola and SkyTel, Project Plan for IPRO 308: Application Development and Business Planning for the Motorola Timeport Wireless Device for the Spring 2001 semester
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- Laboratory Notebook 106
- Validating ozone's optimal conditions on a sucrose food matrix embedded with Bacillus Spores
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- Tension Indicating Fastener
- A bolt having a shank and integral head has a strip of photoelastic material mounted on the head for manifesting in the form of photoelastic fringes linearly related to bolt tension the bending stresses created in the head during loading of the bolt. To determine the tension in the bolt during or after loading, polarized light is directed toward the photoelastic strip and reflected light from the strip is analyzed to measure fringe order. The fringe order is related to the amount of bending stresses in the head of the bolt by a predetermined calibration curve, the bending stresses being linearly related to bolt tension., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Global Warming and Community Outreach (Semester Unknown) IPRO 331
- Evaluate and incorporate previous presentation feedback into new methods of addressing the scientific aspect of global warming. This primarily includes subdividing the issue into four major aspects that contribute to this effect. Present material to a larger and more diverse audiences, including schools, community centers, libraries, non-profit organizations, and other possibilities. Focus on solid, scientific data from credible sources that define why and how global warming is occurring, rather than discussing the politics and economics that surround the issue. Create a platform for this IPRO to continue in the future, using resources and feedback received from the current semester., Deliverables
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- Criteria for the Existence of Helical Instabilities in Subsonic Inpinging Jets
- Understanding instability modes in impinging jets is important for the design of advanced vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. Our initial experimental observations of helical modes in subsonic impinging jets were contrary to expectations based on published stability theory results. This paper focuses on the curious phenomenon of the occurrence of these, hitherto unexpected, helical modes in subsonic impinging jets and provides, both experimental and analytical proof for their existence. Past results, based on linear stability analysis, that call for an absence of helical modes in cold, subsonic impinging jets have been re-examined to reconcile new experimental data. Based on this re-examination, a new threshold Mach number has been proposed, above which helical modes are permissible. The revised theory put forth in this paper indicates that the threshold Mach number for the existence of the helical mode depends on the jet temperature and that this threshold decreases as the jet temperature increases. This threshold Mach number has been experimentally verified for unheated jets. Additionally, the experimental results reveal that the threshold Mach number also depends on the stand-off distance. Finally, it has been shown that the experimentally obtained mean Strouhal numbers for the helical mode show excellent agreement with the Strouhal number of the least dispersive wave of the same mode calculated at various Mach numbers. The results presented here offer hope for better understanding of impinging jet instability modes. (C) 2007 American Institute of Physics., http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2798804
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- Composite Surface-Wave Transducer
- A transducer for generating and detecting surface elastic waves in a piezoelectric material may include a metalic grating on the material forming one electrode of the transducer and a counter-electrode separated from the grating by a dielectric layer., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Method and Means for Producing Magnetic Record Members
- Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Iterative Video Teaching Aid with Recordable Commentary and Indexing
- A tutorial or diagnostic aid based on the representation and iterative interpretation of visual images is taught. A teaching or diagnostic session is created by overlaying an interpretation layer via a software application onto the visual image layer and synchronizing the two with the time code of the visual image. The interpretation layer allows the reviewer to identify image areas of interest by gesture and append comments thereto in real time; i.e. images or portions of images within the visual representation playback may be identified and labeled and have the concurrent commentary associated therewith. The comments are indexed and linked to a database of similar topics. The flow of the session is recorded to show the images, deictic gestures associated therewith, and commentary associated with the gestures, to enable subsequent users to playback a session and follow the flow of thought (i.e. image identification and commentary within the original session). Iterative sessions allow additional image identification and commentary to be accomplished. Additional database access through the index may further enhance a teaching session, or provide for research sessions and report generation., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Magnetic Recorder and Drive Therefor
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation, United States Patent
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- User Generated Map Content (Semester Unknown) IPRO 305
- Identify 4-5 viable community groups of 8-10 people each • Liaison with these communities and teach them to use NAVTEQ tools for generating POI map content • Collect and analyze community generated map content • Determine proper incentives for community groups, Sponsorship: NAVTEQ, Delieverables
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- Developing Technology to Transform Education in Haiti (Semester Unknown) IPRO 335
- To enable and empower Haitian children’s education through the use of sustainable energy and collaborative technology, as well as expanding our practical and professional experience through obtaining funding and grants. To create a reproducible model, intended to be applied to other similar projects around the world., Deliverables