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- Fab Lab (Semester Unknown) IPRO 353
- For this semester IPRO 353’s purpose is to generate a steady public interest in the Fabrication Laboratory (Fab Lab) that is located in the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) by reaching out to a target user base of retirees, inventors, craft hobbyist, and students. Feedback collected from these user groups will be used to create and establish a feasible program that sets out requirements for qualified users, provides new users with tutorials (or workshop), and implements a schedule for steady use of the Fab Lab by qualified users. The program will include a volunteer force such as a group of community service students trained in the lab that can oversea activities in the Fab Lab., Deliverables
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- Chicago Sister Cities China: Fuel Cell/Geothermal Sustainable Energy USX Site (Semester Unknown) IPRO 345
- A. Create a working software tool that assists in the capacity of planning, decision making and accessing the economic feasibility of implementing an integrated fuel cell technology and geothermal energy system. B. Through a case study approach, research and evaluate the energy needed in residential homes to use as a basis for determining the algorithms employed in the software development. C. Demonstration of the viability of the integrated fuel cell and geothermal system in a specific location through the prototype testing of the database tool. D. Connect an alternative energy source for heating and cooling to the industrial world by providing an efficient way to analyze the design and economic parameters required to implement such an integrated energy system. E. Research on all parameters needed for our project’s implementation including environmental laws and regulations, permits, funding, weather, population, and energy consumption., Deliverables
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- Design of Coal Desulfurization Processes to Improve the Environment (semester?), IPRO 346
- The objective of this IPRO is to choose an appropriate method (or combination of multiple methods) for desulfurizing coal before combustion takes place in a furnace for energy production. Three methods will be researched in order to find the best way of desulfurization- physical, chemical, and biological. Whichever method(s) is found to be the most effective at removing sulfur from coal will be chosen. After this decision the group will move forward and design the process equipment; later an economic assessment will be done to cost the equipment. All of the group’s goals will be completed within this semester., Deliverables for IPRO 346: Design of Coal Desulfurization Processes to Improve the Environment for the Fall 2006 semester.
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- Combined Erasing and Recording Magnetic Transducer
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Electrostatic Encapsulation
- Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Design of a Large Scale Structure (Semester Unknwon) IPRO 315
- The purpose of this IPRO is to design a 22 story hotel located in the western suburbs of Oakbrook, IL. The group will use their skills in Architectural, Structural, and Mechanical engineering to efficiently design this structure., Deliverables
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- Pressure Sensitive Paint Demonstrates Relationship Between Ejector Wall Pressure and Aerodynamic Performance
- This paper provides an example of the application of Pressure Sensitive Paint (PSP) to complex internal suspersonic flows and demonstrates the relationship between ejector wall pressure and aerodynamic performance. Details of such jet mixer-ejector nozzles are relevant to jet noise reduction programs. Several ejector configurations with straight, convergent, and divergent side walls were used in our experiments. The side-wall that was painted with PSP was also instrumented with an array of 156 pressure taps connected to Electronically Scanned Pressure (ESP) modules, enabling simultaneous measurement of "true" reference pressures. The PSP results agreed very well with the "true" reference pressures and also provided a detailed map of the complicated pressure patterns that could not be detected using the pressure taps. Finally, we also demonstrated the direct relationship between ejector side-wall pressure distribution and ejector performance characteristics such as exit mean flow uniformity, pumping, and thrust augmentation.
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- Failure Prediction Modeling of Power Plant Emission Control Systems (Semester Unknown) IPRO 303
- The main goal of IPRO 303 is to investigate how SmartSignal’s modeling technology can provide value in detecting problems on environmental systems: The main objectives that SmartSignal would like for the team to investigate are: · What are the regulatory drivers – changes in laws/regulation occurring at various points in time? Are the regulations fleet-wide or regionally specific? Can credits be traded? Etc. · What types of systems are being deployed to remove what pollutants? Describe different sub-types and configurations within a type of system, and how common they are. · How much instrumentation is available on these systems, and what signals are measured (temperature, pressure, chemistry analysis, etc.)? How much diversity is there in the levels of available instrumentation? IPRO 303 Spring’09 13th February 2009 IPRO303 Project Plan Page 2 of 7 · What are the failure and performance degradation problems that occur? How common are they? What are the ramifications of these problems – outages, derates, having to burn more expensive fuel or turn up the “peaking” generation units that are more expensive to run, etc.? · How can the available instrumentation be used to remotely monitor and detect developing problems?, Sponsorship: SmartSignal, Deliverables
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- Method and Means for Controlling High Frequency Voltage in Magnetic Recorder Heads
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation, United States Patent
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- Portable and Secure Medical Data Management System (semester?), IPRO 304
- The goal of this project is to design software to support the secure use of portable memory as a medium for transferring secure data. Envision yourself carrying around sensitive data (e.g., passwords, account numbers) on a flash drive that: 1. is secure from unauthorized access, and 2. will not attack another machine on installation (e.g., with a virus). A flash drive is initialized to contain user data as well as an application that allows these data to be manipulated in a consistent way by various entities. Depending on the entity, different data are visible and changeable., Deliverables for IPRO 304: Portable and Secure Medical Data Management System for the Fall 2006 semester
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- Assistive Robotics Team (Semester Unknown) IPRO 334
- The Assistive Robotics Team (IPRO 334) is faced with the problem of creating a prototype for a robot meant to be used in a hospital setting or assisting the elderly. The robot should be modular so that future improvements and applications can be easily added. The focus of the team will be on the mobility and the interface modules of the robot. Other modules may be designed and prototyped throughout the course of the semester., Deliverables
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- Applying Rapid Prototyping Techniques to Production Tooling (semester?), IPRO 312
- This IPRO was started as a Rapid Prototyping project in the semester of spring 2006. The main goal was to make casters in a short time period for the caster manufacturing company Colson Associates. As the project advanced, the team realized that the real objective of this IPRO was to: ‘Investigate techniques for rapidly and effectively manufacturing casters to satisfy “rush orders” for special casters.’, Deliverables for IPRO 312: Applying Rapid Prototyping Techniques to Production Tooling for the Fall 2006 semester
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- Church & School Energy Efficiency and Financing Program (sequence unknown), IPRO 328 - Deliverables
- The Fall 2009 IPRO 328 team envisions the development and ultimately execution of a volunteer program which would facilitate the implementation of energy saving improvements in a church and/or parochial school within the surrounding neighborhoods of IIT campus., Sponsorship: Vince Cushing of Clean Urban Energy, Deliverables for IPRO 328: Church & School Energy Efficiency and Financing Program for the fall 2009 semester
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- Assisting Cardiac Arrest Patients (Semester Unknown) IPRO 319
- Sudden Cardiac Arrest is a leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for an estimated 325,000 deaths each year according to the Heart Rhythm Foundation. Cardiac arrest is different from a typical heart attack because it involves a complete stopping of the heart. Brain injury is likely to occur if the cardiac arrest is untreated for more than 5 minutes and a person cannot be revived after 10 minutes of no action. This is because the arrest sets off a chain of metabolic reactions, which leads to swelling of the brain tissue. Cardiac arrest results in ischemia reperfusion injury, which is when circulation is restored and high levels of oxygen rich blood rushes back into the brain causing brain damage. Decreasing the metabolism of the victim may result in a decrease of ischemia reperfusion injury. Reducing the oxygen level that enters the body when the victim revives and slowly increasing this level may also reduce reperfusion injury. However, current procedures dictate that 100% oxygen be given to cardiac arrest victim., Deliverables
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- Misuse Detection (semester?), IPRO 311
- The main problem the IPRO addressed was that of insider misuse. Contrary to popular belief, the largest threat facing companies on a technology level is not intrusion, but rather insider misuse. Insider misuse is a relatively new area of research in the field of Computer Science, which is one of the reasons it’s a relatively unheard of problem. In addition to that, due to intense media bias towards intrusion, people are blissfully unaware of the problem of insider misuse. Ethically, it’s an interesting problem. Companies already closely monitor user activity, but any infringement on perceived privacy in the workplace generally sends everyone flustering left and right. The IPRO had to personally evaluate if we felt the necessary invasion of privacy was worth the overall result which is a more secure and profitable business. Companies can decide which approach they would like to take, but it’s hard to believe that a company would choose one that wouldn’t help to prevent a loss of money., Deliverables for IPRO 311: Misuse Detection for the Spring 2007 semester
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- Magnetic Head and Method of Making Same
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Method of Adjusting a Magnetic Head
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Opening the door to the USHMM Archives with the Intranet Mediator (semester?), IPRO 311
- The main focus of IPRO 311 this semester is to improve the Mediator by making it more attractive, accessible and user-friendly. Methods to improve the Mediator include making the necessary adjustments after user studies were made, creating public relations materials and creating a user manual., Deliverables for IPRO 311: Opening the door to the USHMM Archives with the Intranet Mediator for the Spring 2006 semester