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Title: Logistics Outsourcing Tool (semester?), IPRO 319: Logistics Outsourcing Tool IPRO 319 Poster F06
Creator: Bae, Juhan, Cho, Hyoungtae, Christopherson, Sean, Gunal, Amol Venkat, Hacker, Maxime, Hammer, Kerstin, Mehta, Kabir, Rodriguez, Tito, Romanova-smith, Alexandra, Schwarz, Nickolay
Date: 2006-12, 2006-12
Description: The IPRO 319 team’s objective for this semester is to create a model of a distribution operation which will aid companies seeking to outsource...
Show moreThe IPRO 319 team’s objective for this semester is to create a model of a distribution operation which will aid companies seeking to outsource logistics operations. However, the team’s main objective is to create a web based application for efficient and cost-effective analysis allowing companies to determine the effectiveness of outsourcing any aspect of a warehouse. This team will also attempt to establish a strong team-working environment based on the knowledge and capabilities of each individual given their different fields of study for the successful completion of the goals presented for the IPRO group, as well as gaining useful experience and knowledge for every member
Sponsorship: Warehouse Education and Research Council; Kern Family Foundation
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Title: ESTABLISHING AN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH JOURNAL (Semester Unknown) IPRO 321
Creator: Desai, Sapna, Dvorscak, Mike, Mochinski, Scott, Moreno, Saul, Pilipchuk, Sophia, Roberts, Chris, Sarratt, Meagan, Shaughnessy, Ciaran, Vandegrift, Bertha, Yates, Andrew
Date: 2010, 2010-12
Description: By encouraging and rewarding research across all undergraduate disciplines at the university, a distinctive and enriching educational...
Show moreBy encouraging and rewarding research across all undergraduate disciplines at the university, a distinctive and enriching educational environment will be developed for undergraduate students to become leaders and innovators.
Sponsorship: IIT
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Title: Hydrazine Production
Creator: Gunning, Harry E., Mcdonald, Charles Cameron
Date: 1956-02-28
Description: Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: Developing an Artificial Pancreas (semester?), IPRO 308: Artificial Pancreas IPRO 308 Project Plan Sp07
Creator: Callahan, Sean, Devgun, Jason, Ferraro, Christie, Ferrese, Anthony, Gudivada, Medhavi, Manuntag, Renen, Mashruwala, Neil, Nazim, Maje, Park, Dukmin, Patel, Alok, Patel, Bhavin, Schuh, Nathaniel
Date: 2007-05, 2007-05
Description: The objective of this IPRO is to improve the existing prototype to successfully extract interstitial fluid from pig’s skin and effectively...
Show moreThe objective of this IPRO is to improve the existing prototype to successfully extract interstitial fluid from pig’s skin and effectively measure the glucose level in the interstitial fluid through both electrical impedance and light transmittance measurement and to secure grants in order to fund the testing and further completion of the prototype.
Deliverables for IPRO 308: Developing an Artificial Pancreas for the Spring 2007 semester
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Title: SMAART (Semester Unknown) IPRO 357: SMAART IPRO357FinalReportSp11
Creator: Anderson, Aaron, Bigart, Kyle, Blakely, Luke, Chapa, Bernardo, Hagopian, Matthew, Handzhiyski, Lachezar, Harmon, Stephanie, Horchin, Marina, Jani, Arjun, Moreno, Architecture, Roseen, Michael, Sullins, Michael
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: Create a marketable home with self-sustaining, zero-energy technological systems. This home will not only be tailored to each homeowner, but...
Show moreCreate a marketable home with self-sustaining, zero-energy technological systems. This home will not only be tailored to each homeowner, but its design will be duplicable and set a new standard of energy-cost efficient housing.
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Title: DYNAMIC COHERENT ACCEPTABILITY INDICES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN FINANCE
Creator: Zhang, Zhao
Date: 2011-05-02, 2011-05
Description: This thesis presents a unified framework for studying coherent acceptability indices in a dynamic setup. We study dynamic coherent...
Show moreThis thesis presents a unified framework for studying coherent acceptability indices in a dynamic setup. We study dynamic coherent acceptability indices and dynamic coherent risk measures. In particular, we establish a duality between them. We derive representation theorems for both dynamic coherent acceptability indices and dynamic coherent risk measures in terms of so called dynamically consistent sequence of sets of probability measures. In addition, we present an alternative approach to study dynamic coherent acceptability indices and the representation theorem. Finally, we provide examples and counterexamples of dynamic coherent acceptability indices, and their applications in portfolio management.
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, May 2011
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Title: POWER ELECTRONIC INTERFACE FOR AN OFF-GRID SOLAR POWERED ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM
Creator: Mao, Yanwen
Date: 2012-10-17, 2012-12
Description: There are about 1.5 billion people in the world with no access to electricity. Of these, a significant number of people live in rural parts of...
Show moreThere are about 1.5 billion people in the world with no access to electricity. Of these, a significant number of people live in rural parts of Africa and Asia. It is very inconvenient and unhealthy for them to work or study at night with the poor light from a candle or kerosene lamp. Additionally, since they do not have a continuous or predictable supply of power, it can be significantly difficult for them to use modern electronic devices such as cell phones, computers or sometimes even basic amenities such as lights and fans. For such situations, an energy storage system powered by solar energy can be a good solution, while being environmentally friendly and easy to use. In this thesis, the design and analysis of an off-grid solar powered energy storage system is presented. It consists of a solar panel, battery pack, control circuit, bidirectional DC/DC converter, and inverter. Operation of this system can be described in terms of two modes. In the daytime, the solar panel absorbs energy from sun light; the DC/DC converter boosts the voltage to a certain value and charges the battery pack. During the nighttime, the battery pack provides energy to the circuit; the DC/DC converter boosts voltage level and the inverter inverts DC voltage to single phase AC voltage; this output of 110V AC voltage can charge cell phones, run an energy save lamp, a fan, or even power a laptop. Details of the design process, system operation, components used in the system, simulation and experimental results are explained in the thesis. The main contribution of the thesis is the development of a new off-grid solar powered energy storage system control strategy that can store solar energy in the battery and provide regular 110V AC xii voltage output to the load when needed; additionally, the implementation of the concept along with testing on an experimental set-up is discussed.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, December 2012
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Title: Developing a Collaborative On-line Student Research Forum (sequence unknown), IPRO 321 - Deliverables: IPRO 321 Midterm Presentation F09
Creator: Abhay, Anandha, Cornelius, Zachary, Corsus, Tom, De Courten-myers, Maximilian, Eberlin, Adam, Kapaldo, James, Nicholson, Bethany, Sizyuk, Yuriy, Sundberg, Stephen
Date: 2009-12
Description: ResearchWeb is meant to broaden IIT undergraduate participation beyond the existing mechanisms such as fellowships, research and reading...
Show moreResearchWeb is meant to broaden IIT undergraduate participation beyond the existing mechanisms such as fellowships, research and reading courses, and departmental projects. There is also the possibility of broadening this program to other scholarly individuals outside of the IIT undergraduate community. These individuals include IIT graduate students, students from other universities, and promising high school students. ResearchWeb is also meant to improve the transition, and perhaps promote if need be, the transition from undergraduate education to graduate education. This would be fulfilled through practical research experience.
Deliverables for IPRO 321:Developing a Collaborative On-line Student Research Forum for Fall 2009
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Title: B-SPLINE BASED ROBUST FORMULATION IN TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION
Creator: Gu, Yu
Date: 2014, 2014-12
Description: In this thesis, we extend the B-spline based density representation to robust topology optimization. The B-spline based representation has...
Show moreIn this thesis, we extend the B-spline based density representation to robust topology optimization. The B-spline based representation has been shown to have the ability of preventing checker-boards. With separate analysis and design mesh, the B-spline based filter is also competitive on computation storage compared with usual density filter. However, the current B-spline based representation is not robust where gray transitions exist. The recent proposed robust formulation highlights the manufacturability that simulates under- or over- etching designs compared with intermediate design. The robustness is demonstrated through three test cases. The minimum length control for quadratic B-splines is analytically derived with respect to knot span size and threshold. Our study about the characteristics of rectangular domain of B-spline based representation, shows that the optimized designs are comparable to those by density filter.
M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, December 2014
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Title: Transmission efficiencies of belting
Creator: Marks, Robert Edward
Date: 2009, 1919
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/transmissioneffi00mark
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Bibliography: leaf 29

Title: Opening the door to the USHMM Archives with the Intranet Mediator (semester?), IPRO 311: IIT Intranet Mediator for USHMM IPRO 311 Midterm Report Sp06
Creator: Carbon, Joseph, Odriozola, Susana, Olatunde-bello, Omolaoye, Olive, Daniel, Oster, Joshua, Rife, Carolanna, Tam, Chi
Date: 2006-05, 2006-05
Description: The main focus of IPRO 311 this semester is to improve the Mediator by making it more attractive, accessible and user-friendly. Methods to...
Show moreThe 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
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Title: Heat Driven Refrigeration Systen (semester 1 of Unknown), IPRO 302
Creator: Arkwright, Anthony, Brandt, John, Callow, Alexander, Holmes, Wendell, Kim, Keon, Martis, Isaac
Date: 2004-10, 2004-05
Description: Conventional refrigeration uses a great deal of electricity, a resource scare in developing areas, and as a consequence it is not viable....
Show moreConventional refrigeration uses a great deal of electricity, a resource scare in developing areas, and as a consequence it is not viable. However if a system that is inexpensive, reliable under local conditions, and operates with only minimal electric power from a solar cell or battery can be introduced it would be a tremendous asset. Faced with such a requirements this project addresses these issues in order to find a solution that is economically and socially feasible.
Sponsorship: The American Society of Heatting, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE); The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)
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Title: ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE VS. FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE, MARKET INEFFICIENCY AND INVESTMENTS
Creator: He, Chaohua
Date: 2014, 2014-07
Description: It is challenging to de ne corporate environmental performance or corporate nancial performance. In this study, a company is considered to...
Show moreIt is challenging to de ne corporate environmental performance or corporate nancial performance. In this study, a company is considered to have good environmental performance (namely, be green, environment-friendly or environmentally responsible) if it is among the Top 100 of the 500 US greenest companies ranked by Newsweek, or has environmental strength(s) and no environmental concern in terms of the KLD ratings. A company is regarded to have good nancial performance if it has a high raw return, Sharpe ratio, and excess (or abnormal) return over various benchmarks. Preference will be given to excess return estimated using the Carhart four-factor model [14]. A previous published longitudinal study, co-authored with my advisor [13], unveils that: 1) environmentally responsible companies tend to experience signi cantly positive abnormal performance in the long horizon (e.g. from the fourth to seventh year after being selected); 2) the value-adding e ect and the market's upward price adjustments on undervalued intangible environmental strength(s) might have resulted in the long-term outperformance. Would environmentally responsible companies still outperform during shorter horizons, such as the event period of an environmental disclosure? Using event study methodologies, this paper investigates market responses to independent Newsweek environmental disclosures by analyzing cross-sectional and time-series abnormal security returns. Results suggest that the Top 100 greenest companies tend to display signi cant abnormal returns within 4 days after a disclosure, and the signi cant abnormal returns generally persist for no more than 3 trade days. e.g., the Carhart four-factor abnormal return, with statistical signi cance, is averaged at 0.50% per day over the four disclosure events. The ndings are robust to di erentmodels of normal return, removal of outliers, elimination of confounding e ects, controlling for characteristic factors, and adjusting for cross-sectional correlation and volatility shift on test statistics using BMP-adjusted technology[56]. Signi cant abnormal returns over the event period may indicate ine ciency of the nancial market. Fama-Macbeth regressions further reveal that short-horizon abnormal returns could be explained by a spectrum of characteristic variables, green investing, arbitrage trading, and/or various psychological biases. Complementing the cited longitudinal study, a portfolio-level comparison reveals that an actively managed green portfolio outperforms an actively managed nongreen portfolio in terms of raw return and risk-adjusted measures such as Sharpe ratio, Jensen's alpha and Fama-French alpha in the long horizon. The results are robust to di erent portfolio weighting technologies and the consideration of turnover costs. In addition, the green portfolio's outperformance is driven by a bunch of small, aggressive and relatively inactive stocks that have better performance than the market predicts. No evidence shows that the ever-increasing demand on green securities leads to the green portfolio's outperformance, because green stocks are actually less actively traded. Panel regressions further indicate that long-horizon corporate economic performance positively correlates to historical corporate environmental performance.
Ph.D. in Management Science, July 2014
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Title: REDEVELOPEMENT OF THE MICHAEL REESE SINGER PAVILION (Semester Unknown) IPRO 359: RedevelopmentOfTheMichaelReeseSingerPavilionIPRO359FinalPresentationF10
Creator: Jurczak, Adam, Bouck, Ryan, Mukashanibo, Marine, Gibbons, Jennifer, Popa, Crina, Yanyshyn, Iryna, Pytel, Michael, Pistello, Steve, Dosky, Benton, Canelo, Freddy, Stellwag, Tyler, Achs, Jonathan
Date: 2010, 2010-12
Description: “Our team would like to rehabilitate the 37 acre area around what remains of the Michael Reese Hospital. Since the loss of the 2016 Olympics...
Show more“Our team would like to rehabilitate the 37 acre area around what remains of the Michael Reese Hospital. Since the loss of the 2016 Olympics the site has fallen into disrepair, our mission is to bring the site out of its ashes to become an area that will benefit Chicago and its people. We would like to use previous Ipro’s work as an anchor to fill the rest of the site creating an area that will contribute to the community.”
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Title: SUSTAINABLE, CONTROLLED, REACTION SYNTHESIS OF METALLIC WIRES AND STRIPS
Creator: Chen, Xin
Date: 2014, 2014-05
Description: The main purpose of this work is to investigate bi and tri-metallic metal com- binations as initiators which require an ability to have a self...
Show moreThe main purpose of this work is to investigate bi and tri-metallic metal com- binations as initiators which require an ability to have a self-sustaining exothermic reaction. Through the reaction, the initiator should achieve a temperature in excess of 500 C when in contact with a thermally conducting surface. Also the initiator must be in the form of a exible wire or strip of the order of one millimeter radius. There are four phases in my MS research project. First was identifying the potential candidate compounds for exothermic reaction. During this phase, I wrote a program using Mathematicar (Appendix A) to calculate the adiabatic temperature resulting from the reaction of di erent binary or ternary elemental combinations. The calculation took into account the speci c heats and any enthalpies of transformation occurring between room temperature and the adiabatic temperature. Based on the results of this program several suitable compositions were selected from three hun- dred candidates. The second phase was determining a methodology to manufacture selfCpropagating thin strips or wires. We attempted several methods including plate rolling, wire twisting, mechanical coating, chemical coating, and powder metallurgy. We successfully obtained self-propagating thin metal strips and wires using powder metallurgy methods. In the third phase, a transparent reaction box was constructed in order to provide a protective atmosphere (Ar gas) and connect to a data acqui- sition system to obtain the reaction temperature, initiation temperature and video materials of reactions. In the last phase, the reacted samples were characterized using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Backscattered Electron detector (BSE), X-ray Di raction (XRD), Di erential scanning calorimeter (DSC), etc.
M.S. in Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, May 2014
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Title: Recording and Reproducing Head for Wire Recorders
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 1948-02-10
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation
United States Patent

Title: Solid State Shear Extrusion Pulverization
Creator: Shutov, Fyodor, Ivanov, George, Arastoopour, Hamid
Date: 2009-05-11, 1995-05-16
Description: A process and apparatus for pulverization of natural and synthetic polymeric material by heating to a pre-melt or softening temperature below...
Show moreA process and apparatus for pulverization of natural and synthetic polymeric material by heating to a pre-melt or softening temperature below its melting point, cooling and applying high normal and shear stresses sufficient to form fine powder, and fluidizing the powder in a gas stream preventing its agglomeration. The same process and apparatus is suitable for enhancement of reactivity of polymeric and solid monomeric material to form homopolymers, copolymers, and new polymeric materials.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: Gyroscope
Creator: Altman, Samuel P.
Date: 1959-03-03
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: Web-based Groupware for Team Collaboration (Semester Unknown) IPRO 353: Web-Based Groupware for Team Collaboration EnPRO 353 Ethics F08
Creator: Gurnani, Sweta, Chachakis, Christopher, Narasimhan, Dev, Schweiger, James, Taboada, Alejandro, Greiling, Michael, Taboada, Alejandro, Narasimhan, Dev, Lam, Christopher, Roman, Lam, Ward, William, Cooney, Mark
Date: 2008, 2008-12
Description: The objective for IPRO 353 is to evaluate the business opportunities for commercializing iGroups. We will do this by conducting research...
Show moreThe objective for IPRO 353 is to evaluate the business opportunities for commercializing iGroups. We will do this by conducting research pertaining to primary competitors, the industry as a whole, consumers’ wants and needs, legal issues that could affect iGroups; conducting competitive analysis; developing a website to help market iGroups; and drafting a business plan and final report, which will include feasibility analysis and recommended future steps. Included in the business plan/final report will be: -description of iGroups -market and industry data -competitive analysis -list and description of applicable legal topics -financial data -website description/information -projections for income, sales, and cash flow -analysis of different business models/selected business model -final recommendations including suggested next steps
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Title: Designing Affordable Housing out of Shipping Containers for Chicago (Semester Unknown) IPRO 339: DesigningAffordableHousingOutOfShippingContainersForChicagoIPRO339Poster3Sp09
Creator: Bocanova, Veronica, Cheung, Yu, Couillais, Marc, Eliyahu, Haim, Fanelli, Daniel, Georieva, Ludmila, Iversen, Jennifer, Kerrigan, Michael, Luu, Dung, Miller, Justin, Olszowy, Krzysztof, Peroni, Joe, Prisic, Mladen, Rankin, Daniel, Siwek, Steven, Snyder, David, Spedale, Christopher, Univeros, Ana, Ustupska, Aneta, Villalpando, Rosagain
Date: 2009, 2009-05
Description: The City of Chicago has been nominated as the U.S. Bid City for the 2016 Olympic Games. If Chicago was to win the honorable tile of the Host...
Show moreThe City of Chicago has been nominated as the U.S. Bid City for the 2016 Olympic Games. If Chicago was to win the honorable tile of the Host City, one of the main challenges that the organizers will face is to provide a temporary housing for all athletes, organizers, media and spectators involved. While the athletes, coaches and other major players will be situated in Olympic village, thousands if not millions of others, will face the challenge of seeking the affordable housing for the length of stay. Our IPRO proposes economical and environmentally friendly solution to this problem. We propose to utilize thousands of old shipping containers that are abundant in Chicago area and to convert them into housing objects. These second hand products will be modified and equipped with electrical, plumbing and HVAC installations, making them aesthetically and functionally comparable to similar conventional housing objects. Following the completion of the Olympic Games, these housing containers could be easily converted into affordable permanent housing for the residents of the Chicago South side. This will allow local residentsto benefit from higher quality affordable housing without being forced to relocate from their neighborhoods. Considering that housing accommodations in Chicago during Olympics will be highly priced most of the construction costs can be covered in this manner. Our IPRO hopes to make esthetically appealing and practical permanent housing out of materials that can be recycled twice: first from the shipping containers and second from the Olympic Housing. We also plan to explore particular needs of temporary residents during Olympics and later permanent residents as well as to explore what would be the most effective transformation methods from one purpose to the other. These housing objects must appeal to many people from different cultural backgrounds, and provide them with good living conditions for a short period of time. Also, we must investigate what makes affordable housing possible and what are the mistakes that the City of Chicago made in the past with similar projects. These housing structures must be fully functional for the future permanent residents, but they also must be designed in accordance with rules and regulations by the City of Chicago Department of Buildings so that they are safe and aesthetically appealing for all of the other local residents. In conclusion, the container housing is an affordable and environmentally friendly solution to housing needs of numerous individuals involved in the Olympic events while it also provides a long term housing opportunity for the residents of the local community.
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