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Title: Planning for Human Implantation of a Cortical Visual Prosthesis (sequence unknown), IPRO 334 - Deliverables: IPRO 334 Final Report F09
Creator: Bern, David, Chen, Shanyl, Deroo, Mary, Gorski, David, Kelly, Thomas, Leasenby, Alex, Li, Zhi, Pyrkh, Hanna, Subhani, Maham, Taneja, Aanchal
Date: 2009-12
Description: The Intracortical Visual Prosthesis is based upon that concept that by implanting a large number of subminiature electrodes within the human...
Show moreThe Intracortical Visual Prosthesis is based upon that concept that by implanting a large number of subminiature electrodes within the human visual cortex, coordinated temporal-spatial image information can be artificially communicated to the human visual cortex in the form of electrical currents, acting as a sensory substitute for normal vision.
Sponsorship: IIT Laboratory of Neural Prosthetic Research
Deliverables for IPRO 334: Planning for Human Implantation of a Cortical Visual Prosthesis for the fall 2009 semester
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Title: Small-Scale Desalination (Semester Unknown) EnPRO 354: Small-ScaleDesalinationEnPRO354MidTermPresentationtSp10
Creator: Adamczyk, Paul, Au, Bonnie, Bijonowski, Brent, Fanelli, Daniel, Hoxha, Edlira, Krauszowska, Monika, Pham, Nga, Rauf, Aamir, Schlessinger, Hannah, Wolber, Brian
Date: 2010, 2010-05
Description: Freshwater is one of Earth’s most precious resources and is now increasing in scarcity. Global warming induced climate change is now changing...
Show moreFreshwater is one of Earth’s most precious resources and is now increasing in scarcity. Global warming induced climate change is now changing rain patterns and causing record drought, growing global populations are increasing demand, and the individual demand per person is increasing and human populations urbanize and adopt modern plumbing. The biggest contributor to increasing demand for water is mismanagement and pollution. However for this project we will be focusing on water quantity rather than quality.
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Title: Magnetic Head Assembly
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 1956-09-04
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: ECONOMIC BASED CONTROL SYSTEM DESIGN
Creator: Omell, Benjamin Peter
Date: 2013, 2013-12
Description: EMPC differs from traditional MPC by directly utilizing a profit based function as the objective as opposed to a quadratic function that...
Show moreEMPC differs from traditional MPC by directly utilizing a profit based function as the objective as opposed to a quadratic function that minimizes the distance from a set point that is predetermined. However, implementation of EMPC can result in unexpected and at times pathological closed-loop behavior, including inventory creep, bang-bang actuation and instability. To address these issues, an infinite-horizon version of EMPC is developed and shown to avoid many of the performance issues observed in the finite-horizon version. First, modifications to the EMPC problem will be used for the conceptual development of the Economic Linear Optimal Controller (ELOC), which is a statistically constrained linear feedback controller. Then, pointwise- in-time constraints can be reintroduced using one of two methods; Constrained ELOC or Infinite-Horizon EMPC (IH-EMPC). We also investigate the impact of problem formulation modifications on the ELOC. The first issue is that of disturbance modeling and the second is the impact of controller sample-time. The third topic concerns incorporation of computational delay in the feedback-loop, using both full and partial state information structures. Finally an illustration of the impact of plant-model mismatch is presented. The Constrained ELOC formulation is further modified to allow for market responsive smart grid applications. In particular an Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) process with hydrogen storage will be used to demonstrate the Constrained ELOC for such applications. The ELOC will be used as a vehicle to exploit dispatch capabilities by pursuing directly the objective of maximizing revenue. The idea being that process modifications to enable dispatch capabilities will allow for a time-shift of power production away from periods of low energy value to periods of high value. An in depth discussion is provided on how energy value forecasts are incorporated into the design of the constrained ELOC. Finally, an extension of the ix ELOC to the controller embedded equipment design is provided. The work concludes with a discussion of the computational aspects of solving the ELOC problem. In particular, the impact of reverse-convex constraints inherent to the ELOC problem are discussed along with existing solution methods. The main contribution of this final chapter is a novel application of the Generalized Bender’s Decomposition (GBD) algorithm to the ELOC problem. This new approach is shown to retain global optimality, reduce computational effort (by orders of magnitude) and expand the class of problems one can solve.
PH.D in Chemical Engineering, December 2013
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Title: Regeneration
Creator: Yun, Sungkook
Date: 2012-04-24, 2012-05
Description: I want to make the senior center to allow the elderly to discover new places and new uses for them, to watch the activities of others between...
Show moreI want to make the senior center to allow the elderly to discover new places and new uses for them, to watch the activities of others between social spaces that can promote interaction among users, and to exercise like care services itself along the dynamic circulations. I also make the massing of the building that act as a landmark to bring the excitement of the welfare center not just to the users but also to passersby for regenerating people and the context as well.
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Title: POWER OPTIMIZATION IN DEEP SUBMICRON VLSI CIRCUITS: FROM SYSTEM LEVEL TO CIRCUIT LEVEL
Creator: Tong, Qiang
Date: 2017, 2017-07
Description: As VLSI technology advances to deep sub-micron regime, power consumption has become a critical concern in VLSI circuits. Therefore, power...
Show moreAs VLSI technology advances to deep sub-micron regime, power consumption has become a critical concern in VLSI circuits. Therefore, power optimization becomes mandatory in VLSI design nowadays. To reduce the power consumption, many techniques have been proposed at various levels of VLSI circuits design: system level, register-transfer level(RTL), and circuit/transistor level. This dissertation starts with a review of system level power optimization techniques. Experiments on a computer architecture simulation system have been conducted to compare the impact of different programming styles at system level on power consumption. The results could be used as an intuitive guidance for programmers with intention for implementing power-aware system. The second topic in this dissertation is a clustering based clock gating technique, targeting power reduction at RT-Level. Clock gating is an effective and popular method to reduce dynamic power in VLSI circuits, it can be applied at both RT-level and gate level. The basic idea of clock gating is to disable the clock of one or more sequential logics (majorly flip-flops) when the input data of the logic cells do not change. In this dissertation, a clustering based clock gating technique is proposed, the technique exploits activity information of each flip-flop, and clusters them into groups according to their activity correlations. As the leakage power has become a major concern in VLSI design, the proposed As the leakage power has become a major concern in VLSI design, the proposed clustering method is extended down to gate level and a clustering based hybrid clock gating and power gating technique is proposed. The technique can reduce both the dynamic power and leakage power in VLSI circuits. As process technology scaling down to deep submicron regime, bulk CMOS technology has encountered many challenges due to short channel effect (SCE), which degrades the reliability and feasibility of MOSFET devices. New technologies such as FinFET and carbon nanotube FET (CNFET) are two promising substitute solutions in the following decade to address SCE issue. Part of this dissertation presents circuit design using these new process technologies for low power VLSI circuits. More specifically, two SRAM cell designs using FinFET and CNFET devices are proposed. The new designs can improve performance while reduce power consumption.
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, July 2017
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Title: Video Playback System with Flutter Tolerant Clamping
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 2009-05-04, 1975-03-04
Description: A magnetic reproducing system for association with a color broadcast television receiver wherein a substantial degree of flutter in the tape...
Show moreA magnetic reproducing system for association with a color broadcast television receiver wherein a substantial degree of flutter in the tape drive is tolerated by the receiver circuitry and a special flutter tolerant clamping circuit is utilized for transmitting the reproduced video signal to the receiver.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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Title: Devices that Assist Blind & Visually-Impaired Individuals in Swimming and Other Exercise Activities (sequence unknown), IPRO 310 - Deliverables
Creator: Dykeman, Kimberly, Healton, Michaela, Lipman, Timothy, Ludwig, Ross, Park, Jay, Reilly, Jeffrey, Sarkar, Smita, Sirk, Phillip, Toro, Branden
Date: 2009-12
Description: The objective is to develop, test, and implement assistive technology with the community that promotes safety and improves independence of...
Show moreThe objective is to develop, test, and implement assistive technology with the community that promotes safety and improves independence of blind and visually impaired (BVI) swimmers.
Sponsorship: Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind & Visually-Impaired. Notre Dame University
Deliverables for IPRO 310:Devices that Assist Blind & Visually-Impaired Individuals in Swimming and Other Exercise Activities for the fall 2009 semester.
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Title: WIDESPAN
Creator: Ninan, Janice
Date: 2011-05, 2010-12
Description: Widespan design.Investigating the integration of windmills into longspan structure and investigating the axial forces of tension to span...
Show moreWidespan design.Investigating the integration of windmills into longspan structure and investigating the axial forces of tension to span grater spans using virtual depth concepts with slender lightweight design.
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Title: Electrical Contractor Business Development with Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Green Technologies (Semester Unknown) IPRO 338: BIMIPRO338FinalPresentationSp11
Creator: Bansal, Neha, Day, Joshua, Hamilton, James, Harbour, Zachary, Lee, Dong Kyu, Marchi, Nicola, Medellin, Oscar, Mukashambo, Marine, Panek, Mark, Yousef, Shadi
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: The IPRO497-338 Team is to continue past IPRO efforts in developing Business Strategies for Electrical Contractors through the use Building...
Show moreThe IPRO497-338 Team is to continue past IPRO efforts in developing Business Strategies for Electrical Contractors through the use Building Informational Modeling (BIM) and Green Technologies. Past IPRO’s on this subject have focused on the efficiency and benefits of BIM for electrical contracting companies. Our team however, will focus on the benefits of Business Development Strategies to improve and increase overall business– in this recession –in an ever more competitive environment. We plan to conclude our project with a “Playbook” which will present to our client proven, successful Business Development Strategies. This deliverable will help sponsor-members, from the Electrical Contractors’ Association of Chicago, to “get more work” – period.
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Title: Monitoring Safety of Railway Tank Cars (Fall 1999) IPRO 013: Monitoring Safety of Railway Tank Cars IPRO013 Fall1999 Final Report
Creator: Gupta, Kapil, Zukauskas, Elena, Patel, Jayesh, Lin, Shan
Date: 1999, 1999-12
Description: Railroad tank cars are efficient vehicles for the transport of large quantities of liquid commodities in North America. These commodities...
Show moreRailroad tank cars are efficient vehicles for the transport of large quantities of liquid commodities in North America. These commodities include foodstuffs as well as a wide range of chemicals use in the process industries. Transport Canada and the U.S. Department of Transportation collaborate in the formulation of rules and regulations for the transportation of hazardous commodities. While the incidence of non-accident release (NARs) is very small there is nevertheless a further collaborative effort by shippers and car owners alike to reduce the incidence of NARs to zero. One approach in reducing NARs is to develop a means to identify small leaks immediately, while the vehicle is in transit. The IPRO team will identify and evaluate methods for detecting small leaks using car mounted sensors and alerting the shipper of the leak automatically form remote locations. This includes consideration of how to mount sensors and telemetry devices, log data, predict unacceptable trends and incidents, and report them in a timely, reliable and cost-effective fashion. The technologies involved in the development of such a system would include characterization of target chemicals, sensors and date transmission, mounting to the tank car, evaluation of the econ0omic viability of the concepts, and identification of potential legal implications.
Sponsorship: Union Tank Car Company
Project Plan for IPRO 013: Monitoring Safety of Railway Tank Cars for the Fall 1999 semester
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Title: NATURAL AGING EFFECT ON DOUBLE AGED ALUMINUM ALLOY AA7075
Creator: Kara, Baris
Date: 2012-04-27, 2012-05
Description: The effect of natural aging (NA) on mechanical properties in double aged aluminum alloys, AA7075, was studied by means of hardness tests,...
Show moreThe effect of natural aging (NA) on mechanical properties in double aged aluminum alloys, AA7075, was studied by means of hardness tests, tensile tests and stress corrosion cracking (SCC) tests. Natural aging can strengthen AA7075 alloys after solution heat treatment, and reaching the stable condition can take years for the alloy. Double aging (DA) is very beneficial method in terms of energy savings and productivity because this method provides the peak hardness in a much shorter time compared to single aging, and DA treatment produces hardness, yield stress and tensile stress which are comparable with those produced by SA. In this study, the alloys were naturally aged for different times before double aging treatment, and the relationship between double aging treatment and natural aging treatment was observed. The results show that different natural aging times do not significantly affect the final mechanical properties of double aged alloys. Consequently, the loading time to aging furnace after solution heat treatment does not play an important role in the double aging treatment of AA7075 alloys.
M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, May 2012
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Title: Resource Consumption Awareness in the Home (semester?), IPRO 334
Creator: Cawvey, Jessica, Christensen, Carissa, Dannhausen, Anna, Fischer, Jordan, Henson, Jessica, Herrera, Stephanie, Jones, Sarah, Kestner, John
Date: 2007-05, 2007-05
Description: People are inadequately informed about their energy consumption behaviors in the home. Providing real time feedback at the point of decision...
Show morePeople are inadequately informed about their energy consumption behaviors in the home. Providing real time feedback at the point of decision making will enhance consumer awareness of energy consumption, and potentially lead to behavior modification. The IPRO 334 team will design and evaluate means of improving energy consumption awareness in the home. Team 334 will determine what metrics are most valuable to consumers and the best means to communicate that feedback.
Deliverables for IPRO 334: Resource Consumption Awareness in the Home for the Spring 2007 semester
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Title: Zero Energy Lab (Semester Unknown) IPRO 337: ZeroEnergyLabandDesigningTheIPROTeamCollaboratorySpaceIPRO337FinalPresentationF09
Creator: Akutagawa, Abraham, Babnigg, David, Braband, Jim, Chiu, Mark, Deboth, Ray, Dosky, Benton, Hamill, Nancy, Hansen, Hamill, Kawa, Konrad, Mensah, Teddy, Park, Lillian, Parkes, Brian, Patel, Jay, Reinecke, Jonathan, Shive, Clayton, Shunia, Limia, Vice, Evan, Zappala, Theresa
Date: 2009, 2009-12
Description: The goal of this IPRO is to continue the research and application of previous research into ‘Zero Energy’ techniques, while simultaneously...
Show moreThe goal of this IPRO is to continue the research and application of previous research into ‘Zero Energy’ techniques, while simultaneously evaluating an old CTA building on the IIT campus for its feasibility both as a collaboratory IPRO space and as a ‘Zero Energy’ building.
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Title: IIT Robotics Initiative (Semester 1 of Unknown), IPRO 316: IIT Robotics Initiative IPRO 316 Final Report Sp04
Creator: Patel, Shirali, Burica, Nicholas, Demarco, Eugenia, Hovde, Jonathan, Jones, Christopher, Krol, Daniel, Monis, Gabriela, Oyuela, Henry, Stachowitz, Paul
Date: 2004-10, 2004-05
Description: IPRO 316 is in the business of innovation. Divided into multiple subgroups, each working on a unique, robotics oriented endeavor, the goal of...
Show moreIPRO 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.
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Title: Assessiong and Improving Interprofessional Education at IIT (semester ?), IPRO 339: Assessing and Improving Interprofessional Edu at IIT IPRO 339 Project Plan F06
Creator: Baranggay, John, Clark, Brian, Dow, Daniel, Fung, Janel, Goulain, Jean-bapstiste, Hu, Xiao-xuan, Kibilko, Margaret, Martinov, Ivan, Oster, Josh, Young, Elizabeth, Zavala, Arthur
Date: 2006-12, 2006-12
Description: The main goal of IPRO 339 is to continue to improve upon the IPRO program experience by creating and selecting IPRO proposals and also...
Show moreThe main goal of IPRO 339 is to continue to improve upon the IPRO program experience by creating and selecting IPRO proposals and also developing teambuilding games, both of which are to adhere to the IPRO Learning Objectives of teamwork, communication, project management, and ethics.
Sponsorship: Tom Jacobius
Deliverables for IPRO 339: Assessing and Improving Interprofessional Education at IIT for the Fall 2006 semester
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Title: Design of a Hybrid electric People Transporter (semester?), IPRO 304: Hybrid Electric Fuel Cell Battery IPRO 304 Abstract F04
Creator: Langel, Steve, Smith, Alison, Weber, Ken, Lim, Dong Chul, Kraft, Rick, Lefief, Chrissy, Moy, Matt, Omolaoye, Olatunde, Ayersman, Matt, Aderangi, Vince, Prince, Mike, Bachmann, Matt, Eisenberg, David, Buresh, Rita, Piputkar, Siddha, Johnson, Steven, Taher, Tanim
Date: 2004-12, 2004-12
Description: 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...
Show moreThe 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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Title: Compact Inductor with Stacked Via Magnetic Cores for Integrated Circuits
Creator: Wang, Albert Z. H.
Date: 2009-05-19, 2007-08-28
Description: An on-chip inductor device for Integrated Circuits utilizes coils on a plurality of metal layers of the IC with electrical connectors between...
Show moreAn on-chip inductor device for Integrated Circuits utilizes coils on a plurality of metal layers of the IC with electrical connectors between the coils and a magnetic core for the inductor of stacked vias running between the coils. The magnetic core is made from a series of stacked vias which are deposited between each metal layer of the IC having a coil. The magnetic core desirably includes an array of magnetic bars comprising the magnetic core. The via material of the magnetic core may be both magnetic and electrically conductive. The magnetic and electrically conductive via material may also be used for the planar coil electrical connectors or other electrically conductive parts of the IC, or both, thereby lessening fabrication steps. Films of magnetic material may be formed at the ends of the inductor to provide a closed magnetic circuit for the inductor. A high Q factor inductor of small (e.g., transistor) size is thus obtained. The materials and processes which enable the on-chip inductor device are compatible with ordinary IC fabrication methods.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: Method of and Means for Making Magnetic Records
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 1955-02-22
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: Silver Nanorods As Indicators of Thermal History (Semester Unknown) IPRO 348: SilverNanorodsAsIndicatorsOfThermalHistoryIPRO348MidTermPresentationSp10
Creator: Nwanga, Shirley, Dado, Mathew, Cheever, James, Mcclelland, Daniel, Lumnitzer, Matt, James, Joshua, Chiem, Edward, Colmenares, Andre, Dorr, Elena, Gomez, Fernando, Jansen, Madeline, Lazicki, Katherine, Marcha, Emmanuel, Mohaimani, Aurash, Payne, Erica, Purcell, Amberl, Raddatz, Andrew, Sever, Michael, Sizer, Charlie, Taracena, Willy, Tilman, Ryan, Vassi, Anna, Wiebe, Meghan
Date: 2010, 2010-05
Description: Silver Nanorods As Indicators of Thermal History, heat pum, NaOH,
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