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- High School in Pignon, Haiti (semester?), IPRO 326: High School in Pignon Haiti IPRO 326 Midterm Presentation S07
- Creator
- Bailey, Nick, Diaz De Leon Orraca, Frederico, Dike, Chukwuderaa, Franklin, Casey, Goldsmith, Katherine, Hogan, Brian, Igbokwe, Chinedu, Jaromin, Sebastian, Kirsch, Joseph, Lowe, Scott, Samuels, Janina, Velichkov, Veselin, Watkins, Brett, Williams, Allisyn
- Date
- 2007-07, 2007-07
- Description
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The IPRO 326 team’s objective for this semester is to design a High School so an additional 400 children will have access to affordable...
Show moreThe IPRO 326 team’s objective for this semester is to design a High School so an additional 400 children will have access to affordable education in the remote town of Pignon, Haiti. We want to assist our partner Haiti Outreach in realizing this goal by providing them technical assistance, project management and costing tools as well as advice and guidelines that will improve their construction techniques.
Sponsorship: Haiti Outreach IIT Student Chapter
Deliverables for IPRO 326: High School in Pignon, Haiti for the Summer 2007 semester
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- Jobsite Characteristics that Influence Improvised Decision-making on Construction Sites
- Creator
- Kleps, Stephen M., Menches, Cindy
- Date
- 2013-10-07, 2013-10-07
- Description
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This article examines the relationship between specific construction project characteristics and the degree and speed that the foremen are...
Show moreThis article examines the relationship between specific construction project characteristics and the degree and speed that the foremen are able to improvise in response to disruptive events on the jobsite. Specifically, characteristics such as the number of crew members working under the supervision of a foreman, the occupancy status of the project (i.e., occupied or unoccupied) during construction, the stage of completion of the project, and the levels of turbulence, time pressure, cooperation, collaboration, and organization, were examined. Using a multilevel regression modeling approach, an analysis of 244 disruptions reported by 50 foremen was conducted to determine whether the construction project characteristics could predict more or less improvisation and faster or slower improvisation by the foreman. The findings indicate that on construction projects that are rated by the foremen as more organized, the foremen can make more modest improvised decisions to resolve a disruption, but that on construction projects that were rated by the foremen as more collaborative (i.e., involved joint decision-making), a greater degree of improvisation was deployed. In addition, it was found that on sites that were rated by the foremen as more cooperative (i.e., involved greater willingness to help each other), the foremen required more time to improvise their decisions.
Sponsorship: National Science Foundation
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- THE MICHAEL REESE SITE (Semester Unknown) IPRO 359
- Creator
- Malik, Ajose,, Fraser, Linnea, Liu, Fangpeng, Martinez, Jocsan, Masnaga, Masnaga,, Mcnally, William, Medina, Omar, Miller, Nathan, Nava, Fabian, Steinys, Victoria, Strandquist, Brad
- Date
- 2011, 2011-05
- Description
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At one time the Michael Reese Campus was a thriving mix of famous architecture and medical centers. Recently planned to be the home of the...
Show moreAt one time the Michael Reese Campus was a thriving mix of famous architecture and medical centers. Recently planned to be the home of the 2016 Olympic Village, with the loss of the bid the land has been abandoned. IPRO 356 is tasked with the challenge of designing a plan to redevelop the site. Building on previous work established by IPRO’s 359 and 356, we will use the first winning anchor and master plan created for the site and develop a second anchor. This second anchor and updated master plan aims at meeting the needs of the surrounding neighborhood while bringing life back to the area.
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- Green Leaf Community (Semester Unknown) IPRO 357: GreenleafCommunity IPRO357BrochureF10
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- Beck, Steve, Paschal, William, Snyder, Mark, Rueda, Jorge, Hegde, Namrata, Semenova, Svetlana, Xiao, Yao, Anglin, Christopher, Qaisar, Samir, Sung Shin, Woo, Yun, Joonggeun, Prokop, Samantha
- Date
- 2010, 2010-12
- Description
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Our purpose is to study the design of sustainable residential housing model designed by the Inter-professional group in the fall of 2009 and...
Show moreOur purpose is to study the design of sustainable residential housing model designed by the Inter-professional group in the fall of 2009 and determine the construction costs for the model. This along with the market analysis will set a baseline price for the average buyer of this home. Our goal is to redesign this model with the current economic market in mind and make this model of sustainable design marketable and economically feasible with use of more efficient designing and systems.
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- 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
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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
Deliverables for IPRO 319: Logistics Outsourcing Tool for the Fall 2006 semester
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- 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
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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
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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
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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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- 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
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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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- POWER ELECTRONIC INTERFACE FOR AN OFF-GRID SOLAR POWERED ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM
- Creator
- Mao, Yanwen
- Date
- 2012-10-17, 2012-12
- Description
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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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- A NUMERICAL-METHOD FOR DETERMINING OPTIMAL PARAMETER VALUES IN FORCED PERIODIC OPERATION
- Creator
- Ozgulsen, F., Adomaitis, R. A., Cinar, A.
- Date
- 1992-02
- Publisher
- PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
- Description
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A numerical approach for determining values of forcing parameters which maximize performance of a periodically forced system is described....
Show moreA numerical approach for determining values of forcing parameters which maximize performance of a periodically forced system is described. Periodic solutions of the system equations plus a differential form of the time-average performance measure are computed with a shooting algorithm. A nonlinear programming package is used to solve the optimization problem. The algorithm is applied to ethylene oxidation process, using the model of a continuous stirred-tank reactor (CSTR).
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- 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
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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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- B-SPLINE BASED ROBUST FORMULATION IN TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION
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- Gu, Yu
- Date
- 2014, 2014-12
- Description
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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
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http://www.archive.org/details/transmissioneffi00mark
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Bibliography: leaf 29
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- 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
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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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- 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
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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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- REDEVELOPEMENT OF THE MICHAEL REESE SINGER PAVILION (Semester Unknown) IPRO 359: RedevelopmentOfTheMichaelReeseSingerPavilionIPRO359FinalPresentationF10
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- 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
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“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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- SUSTAINABLE, CONTROLLED, REACTION SYNTHESIS OF METALLIC WIRES AND STRIPS
- Creator
- Chen, Xin
- Date
- 2014, 2014-05
- Description
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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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- A MODEL OBJECT BASED SUPERVISORY EXPERT SYSTEM FOR FAULT TOLERANT CHEMICAL REACTOR CONTROL
- Creator
- Basila, M. R., Stefanek, G., Cinar, A.
- Date
- 1990-05
- Publisher
- PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
- Description
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An expert system for real-time control of chemical processes provides an environment for coordination of process fault diagnosis, assessment...
Show moreAn expert system for real-time control of chemical processes provides an environment for coordination of process fault diagnosis, assessment of process behavior, automated controller retuning and/or reconfiguration and consequently enables fault-tolerant process control. A supervisory expert system with object-based knowledge representation and heuristic (shallow) and model-based (deep) knowledge is presented. The expert system resides on a PC/386 and communicates with the control system developed in the form of control blocks residing on a PC/286. The prototype of the expert system is developed for retuning model-based controllers to improve the behavior of a packed-bed tubular CO oxidation reactor under autothermal operation. MOBECS is a supervisory expert system designed to tailor the process control system for a tubular autothermal reactor in response to process or control system faults, and changes in the process behavior. Specific functions include process fault diagnosis, control system performance monitoring and trouble-shooting, controller tuning and control system restructuring. As this work progresses, we will also address the problems of sensor placement, state estimation and process identification. Because of the high degree of coupling and interaction between process and control system entities, objects are the best knowledge representation for a process control expert system. The class—object structures of MOBECS is divided into three orthogonal trees representing the process and control system hierarchies and the topology of the system. Using this structure, knowledge is divided into general knowledge applicable to any process or control system and knowledge that is domain specific. The general knowledge is stored in the class structures and, together with generalized rules, forms a knowledge base kernel. This permits rapid prototyping of other applications of MOBECS. Properties are defined as high as possible in the class tree structure and inherited downwards. Knowledge specific to the process is stored in the objects at the leaves of the trees. Rules form the reasoning portion of the knowledge base and contain the causal relationships, meta-knowledge and performance monitoring functions. Rules that perform general monitoring and troubleshooting are applied at the class level through pattern matching. Rule sets are linked through context relationships to identify indirect relationships to the inference engine. These relationships are used with the process topology tree to reduce the search space when a fault is detected. The process monitoring and instability detection rules have been tested by simulating the inputs to the expert system. At the present time, experimental validation of the MOBECS prototype is being undertaken. Once the MOBECS prototype has been fully tested, the knowledge base will be extended to incorporate more complex fault diagnosis, state estimation, sensor placement and controller restructuring.
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- Recording and Reproducing Head for Wire Recorders
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 1948-02-10
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation
United States Patent