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- Three-Dimensional Supercapacitors and Batteries with High Energy Densities
- A three-dimensional electrode architecture for a supercapacitor and/or battery characterized by high power density and high energy density includes at least one at least one negative electrode and at least one positive disposed in an interpenetrating manner. Also disclosed are corresponding or associated three-dimensional supercapacitors or batteries as well as methods for making the same., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Lugenia Burns Hope Center (Spring 2001) IPRO 303: LugeniaBurns
- In this project, students will help the staff of the Lugenia Burns Hope Center develop the leadership capacities of the people of Bronzeville.Working behind the scenes in this non-profit organization as web masters,document designers, information managers, business consultants, and project coordinators, students will not only have the opportunity to learn more about this historic, African-American community but also play a role in itsrevitalization. The Hope Center was established in 1994 and is located on the main campus of IIT, at 34th and State. For the past five years, the center has offered classes and workshops for emerging leaders in Bronzeville. At this time, the Center wishes to recruit more students, to track its graduates and learn more about the graduates current work in the community. Students will help the staff reach these goals in three ways: by developing a database ofalumni, creating profiles of the graduates as community leaders, and designing promotional material about the Hope Center in the form of a brochure, a newsletter, and an interactive, multi-media web site. This work would be framed by a business plan that outlines previous achievements of the Hope Center and forecasts goals for the next 3E years. Because the Center lacks the resources that would enable them to complete these tasks on its own, it welcomes all IIT students with interests in leadership, community development, and African-American history., Sponsorship: IIT Internal R&D, Project Plan for IPRO 303: Lugenia Burns Hope Center for the Spring 2001 semester
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- Automatic Insulin Pumps Using Recursive Multivariable Models and Adaptive Control Algorithms
- A method and device for monitoring or treating patient glucose levels. The device includes a glucose sensor for measuring a glucose level of a patient, a physiological status monitoring system for measuring at least one physical or metabolic variable of the patient, and an automatic controller in communication with the glucose sensor and the physiological status monitoring system. The controller includes a prediction module for automatically predicting a future glucose level using data measured by the glucose sensor and the physiological sensor., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Refined Permission Constraints Using Internal and External Data Extraction in a Role-based Access Control System
- The present invention can enable increasing refinement of role-based permission to access data within a Role Based Access Control (RBAC) controlled computer system by enabling constraints to be written on the role-based permissions. The constraints may utilize each and every type or combination of subject, object, or environment information extracted from sources internal or external to the controlled computer system and may evaluate the content or context of the information extracted to enable refined and dynamic access after the role permission assignment and immediately before every access grant without the reassignment of roles., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent, Primary US Patent Classification 707/783, International Patent Classification G06F 17/30
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- Design of a Hybrid electric People Transporter (semester?), IPRO 304
- The main objective and purpose of this IPRO is to create a hybrid system using a hydrogen PEM fuel cell and Lithium-Ion batteries to power a wheel chair so that it will be capable of transporting one person for at least 100 miles without experiencing any major difficulties., Deliverables for IPRO 304: Design of a Hybrid electric People Transporter for the Fall 2004 semester
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- Electromagnetic Transducer Head Assembly
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Gerry-meandering: An Assessment of the Congressional District Model of Depository Allocation (preprint): AhrensGriffinedrev1
- 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.
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- BUOY (Semester Unknown) IPRO 310
- This IPRO is working on the problem of creating an assistive device that will help blind and visually impaired (BVI) individuals exercise in a swimming pool and elsewhere with increased independence and also to present this technology to the community in a way that is usable to them. In the interest of achieving both of these goals the team has organized its structure into a technology team and a communication team, so that once the device has been created the methodology for teaching the community to use it will already be tested and approved., Deliverables
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- Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
- A peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing system is provided with an enhanced search method for a client node therein. A search from the client contains a primary search of metadata words and a secondary search of content file keys taken from the primary search results. The results of the secondary search are then used to rerank the results of the primary search before the client displays the results of the search to the user. Metadata distribution schemes can also be used to further enhance the utility of the system. Enhanced P2P file searching accuracy is thus provided. Applications for selective peer-to-peer communication may further be employed., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- ACCELPharma (semester?), IPRO 353
- AccelPharma intends to enable pharmaceutical and biotech companies to reintroduce withdrawn drugs to the market place through the development, validation, and deployment of personalized medicine models. It differentiates itself by being one of the only companies to correlate side effects of drugs to certain genetic mutations for a broad range of effects. AccelPharma expects to break even and begin to achieve positive revenues after only the second sale., Deliverables for IPRO 353: ACCELPharma for the Fall 2006 semester.
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- Stencil Screens
- A blank for forming a stencil screen for silk screen or electrostatic stencil printing is disclosed. The screen includes a resilient, high tensile strength, porous substrate such as a monofilamentary nylon or stainless steel 200-mesh screen. A light radiation absorbent, self-combustible, ink-resistant, ink-impervious and tough film is applied to the screen, suitably a combustible black nitrocellulose film or a black cellulose ether film containing finely dispersed nitrate or perchlorate. The film is selectively removed by directly pulsing high-intensity light of over 10 joules per square inch for a short duration of 1 to 50 milliseconds in the form of an image pattern to ignite and completely combust the film only in said areas during the duration of the pulse., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Combating Underage Drinking and Driving (Semester Unknown) IPRO 351
- A. The team purpose is to combat underage drinking and driving B. Application/Testing Design: To develop i-phone applications New/Existing Tech: Develop a comparable device that will be competitive in the market Behavior and Survey: Gather data to find out what people want (validation) or would be interested in --- our target market Finance/Marketing: Compile details/info to create a business plan – opportunity assessment, Deliverables
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- Advances in Understanding Supersonic Jet Screech: Review and Perspective
- Screech tones are produced by imperfectly expanded jets under certain conditions. This paper provides an overview of developments in the field of supersonic jet screech. The overview includes a historical background, summary of recent developments, and a critical assessment of our current understanding of screech. The subject material has been categorized as described in the table of contents given below. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd.
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- Magnetic Recorder with Pressure Shoe for Record Members
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent, United States Patent
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- Magnetic Transducer System and Method
- A magnetic transducer head having a coupling gap of controllable effective longitudinal dimension. In one embodiment a gap spacer of magnetic material is energized by bias current and/or signal current during recording while being deenergized during playback to provide a larger coupling gap for recording than for playback. Recording gap size may be controlled dynamically, or a very high frequency bias current such as 100 mhz may be supplied to the magnetic gap spacer. A magnetic head may have a zero gap dimension when the magnetic gap spacer is deenergized to prevent any substantial residual external field. An electro-magnetic transducer head with the electric circuit portion including a path through the electrically conductive magnetic corepiece at the transducer gap, thus concentrating the gap field and mininizing core losses at very high bias or signal frequencies., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Continuous Antisolvent Crystallization Process and System Using Plug Flow Reactors
- A process and system for continuous crystallization of a compound using antisolvent addition in which a solution is prepared with an organic compound and a solvent. An antisolvent is added to the solution in a continuous plug flow system comprising at least one process module. The antisolvent can be added in multiple addition points such that the overall amount of antisolvent added to the continuous plug flow reactor remains fixed. The multiple addition point technique provides every process module with an equal volume of antisolvent. Finally, crystals are recovered from the slurry upon exiting the system. Preferably, the mean crystal size is less than 100 μm., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent, Primary US Patent Classification 117/68, US Patent Classification 117/69, US Patent Classification 117/70, International Patent Classification C30B29/54
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- Nickel Base Alloys and Process for their Manufacture
- Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF PERIODIC FEEDBACK-CONTROL SYSTEMS
- Periodic feedback is a control strategy implemented by fast zero-average oscillations in the parameters of the control law. It is well known that time invariant feedback control offers no means for zeros relocation. Periodic feedback allows zeros relocation in an asymptotic sense, resulting in improved closed loop characteristics, such as increased gain margins., Endnote format citation
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- Electro-Osmotic Production of Hydrocarbons Utilizing Conduction Heating of Hydrocarbonaceous Formations
- An electro-osmotic method for the production of hydrocarbons utilizes in situ heating of earth formations having substantial electrical conductivity. A particular volume of an earth formation is bounded with a waveguide structure formed of respective rows of discrete elongated electrodes in a dense array wherein the active electrode area and the row separation are chosen in reference to the deposit thickness to avoid heating barren layers. Electrical power is applied at no more than a relatively low frequency between respective rows of electrodes to deliver power to the formation while producing relatively uniform heating thereof and limiting the relative loss of heat to adjacent regions to less than a predetermined amount. At the same time the temperature of the electrodes is controlled near the vaporization point of water to maintain an electrically conductive path between the electrodes and the formation. A heat sink is provided by supplying aqueous liquid electrolyte to space between the electrodes and the adjacent formation, thereby maintaining the temperature thereat no greater than about the boiling point of water and maintaining a conductive path between said formation. A d.c. polarized potential is applied to enhance flow of reservoir fluid into a preselected row of electrodes, and collected reservoir fluids are removed from the electrodes in the preselected row., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Content Provision for Wireless Devices (Spring 2001) IPRO 356: Content Provision for Wireless Devices IPRO356 Spring2001 Final Presentation
- Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), cellular phones, and other wireless devices represent the new paradigm for personal communication and interactivity. This project would involve the creation of an application (or series of applications) that would enable secure access to corporate databases via these devices. Hence, individuals such as consultants working in remote locations can submit timesheets, access corporate knowledge centers etc. While salespeople or contractors can access inventory nformation, request inventory or service conveniently, without the hustle involved in, for example, booting up a laptop, dialing into the corporate network and then performing these tasks. The end result may be a lightweight corporate portal that can be accessed using these wireless devices. This project will give students an opportunity to explore new media devices other than those already being studied in the curriculum (i.e., PCs, and application development for PCs). This will also provide students, specifically within engineering, with insight into the new wireless standards currently being tested, e.g. GSM vs. CDMA vs. TDMA vs. 3G technology, for content provision on cellular phones., Sponsorship: IIT Internal R&D in conjunction with the Ed Kaplan Entrepreneurial Studies Program, Project Plan for IPRO 356: Content Provision for Wireless Devices for the Spring 2001 semester