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Title: Improving Global Supply Chain Management (Spring 2011) IPRO 306: ImprovingGlobalSupplyChainManagementIPRO306BrochureSp11
Creator: Bakalli, Burim, Lopez, Leonardo, Edlinger, Erhan, Doshi, Dhaval, Froment, Margaux Jeanne, Greenfield, Hannah, Njoagwuali, Tuesday, Njoagwuali, Tuesday, Oduola, Oluwabanji, Pulido, Luis, Ramesh, Arya, Abad, Suzanne Razmi Heshat
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: IPRO 306 team is tasked with assisting a major plumbing manufacturer, Sloan Valve, in improving the global chain supply as well as the overall...
Show moreIPRO 306 team is tasked with assisting a major plumbing manufacturer, Sloan Valve, in improving the global chain supply as well as the overall effectiveness and efficacy of their equipment and processes. Sloan Valve has three projects with IPRO 306 will be involved, and they range in three different fields of the manufacturer. The projects which IPRO 306 will be involved are: • Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) • Cost Matrix • Green Supply Chain The Cost matrix project group seeks to develop a tool that can capture and compare the different costs the company incurs when buying parts oversees vs. domestic. Sloan's idea is to start selling their products in other parts of the world at competitive price. Some of these markets are very competitive when it comes to price. So if Sloan buys materials domestically may not be able to offer competitive pricing worldwide. By creating a cost matrix tool, the company will be able to compare costs of raw material ordered abroad versus locally and wisely decide what the best choice to pursue is. The Second project is Overall Equipment Efficiency (herein after as OEE) which will be a continuation of last semester Lean Implementation project. OEE is designed to eliminate any downtime of a machine. Through a tracking process, OEE will help eliminate downtime and efficiently determine what is causing this down time. The goal of the project is to further make the OEE process more efficient in addition to creating and perfecting a tracking system which will be able to analyze and create reports from the data that will be input into the system. The third project is the Green Supply Chain. Currently, there is no industry standard for being “green.” The goal of this project is to establish a definition of “green,” and create a cost effective, consumer appealing, way to introduce this into the Sloan Valve supply chain. After defining “green,” team members will examine and create a strategy detailing ways in which Sloan Valve can implement green initiatives into the Sloan Valve supply chain. The purpose of this document is to give a detailed overview of the project, as it is currently defined through our meetings and charters provided by Sloan Valve. This document will provide critical information about the project involving the team and its assets, team goals, conflict resolutions and more. In addition it will also provide a brief background on Sloan Valve, along with a discussion of issues facing both the company and the IPRO team. A methodology of the project will be discussed as well as key deliverables and a work breakdown structure of the project.
Sponsorship: SLOAN
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Title: Augmented Reality Technologies (Semester Unknown) IPRO 355: EVS for Construction Safety IPRO 355 Midterm Presentation Sp08
Creator: Jose, Savina, Ramsamy, Devaraj, Rusz, Vlad, Zhang, Meng, Bain, Adam, Estrada, Maximillian, Madsen, Timothy, Mizek, Jeffrey
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: In the construction industry, safety is obviously a big concern. Companies take many precautions to reduce the number of incidents that occur...
Show moreIn the construction industry, safety is obviously a big concern. Companies take many precautions to reduce the number of incidents that occur to reduce costs and save lives. As one of these precautions, construction companies purchase extra safety equipment to save the lives of workers to supplement regular required products such as hard hats. However, despite all of the safety equipment that is used, accidents still occur. For example, there was a flood in Chicago in 1992 which cost more than two billion dollars in reparations because a worker placed a wooden piling into the wrong place. Tyche Technologies will solve this problem by providing accident prevention technologies that use augmented reality (AR) to enhance the awareness of the construction worker. This additional information will let the worker know where key construction hazards are, such as the location of pipes and cables that run underground. Our team will develop a business plan and a prototype to demonstrate the feasibility of this project and attract potential sponsors/investors. The business plan will outline the market and financial feasibility of this product as well as any other problems/concerns that we foresee. The prototype will demonstrate how an AR environment can be created and relevant information uploaded and displayed to a user.
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Title: Augmented Reality Technologies (Semester Unknown) IPRO 355: EVS for Construction Safety IPRO 355 Midterm Report Sp08
Creator: Jose, Savina, Ramsamy, Devaraj, Rusz, Vlad, Zhang, Meng, Bain, Adam, Estrada, Maximillian, Madsen, Timothy, Mizek, Jeffrey
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: In the construction industry, safety is obviously a big concern. Companies take many precautions to reduce the number of incidents that occur...
Show moreIn the construction industry, safety is obviously a big concern. Companies take many precautions to reduce the number of incidents that occur to reduce costs and save lives. As one of these precautions, construction companies purchase extra safety equipment to save the lives of workers to supplement regular required products such as hard hats. However, despite all of the safety equipment that is used, accidents still occur. For example, there was a flood in Chicago in 1992 which cost more than two billion dollars in reparations because a worker placed a wooden piling into the wrong place. Tyche Technologies will solve this problem by providing accident prevention technologies that use augmented reality (AR) to enhance the awareness of the construction worker. This additional information will let the worker know where key construction hazards are, such as the location of pipes and cables that run underground. Our team will develop a business plan and a prototype to demonstrate the feasibility of this project and attract potential sponsors/investors. The business plan will outline the market and financial feasibility of this product as well as any other problems/concerns that we foresee. The prototype will demonstrate how an AR environment can be created and relevant information uploaded and displayed to a user.
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Title: Augmented Reality Technologies (Semester Unknown) IPRO 355: EVS for Construction Safety IPRO 355 Poster4 Sp08
Creator: Jose, Savina, Ramsamy, Devaraj, Rusz, Vlad, Zhang, Meng, Bain, Adam, Estrada, Maximillian, Madsen, Timothy, Mizek, Jeffrey
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: In the construction industry, safety is obviously a big concern. Companies take many precautions to reduce the number of incidents that occur...
Show moreIn the construction industry, safety is obviously a big concern. Companies take many precautions to reduce the number of incidents that occur to reduce costs and save lives. As one of these precautions, construction companies purchase extra safety equipment to save the lives of workers to supplement regular required products such as hard hats. However, despite all of the safety equipment that is used, accidents still occur. For example, there was a flood in Chicago in 1992 which cost more than two billion dollars in reparations because a worker placed a wooden piling into the wrong place. Tyche Technologies will solve this problem by providing accident prevention technologies that use augmented reality (AR) to enhance the awareness of the construction worker. This additional information will let the worker know where key construction hazards are, such as the location of pipes and cables that run underground. Our team will develop a business plan and a prototype to demonstrate the feasibility of this project and attract potential sponsors/investors. The business plan will outline the market and financial feasibility of this product as well as any other problems/concerns that we foresee. The prototype will demonstrate how an AR environment can be created and relevant information uploaded and displayed to a user.
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Title: Augmented Reality Technologies (Semester Unknown) IPRO 355: EVS for Construction Safety IPRO 355 Project Plan Sp08
Creator: Jose, Savina, Ramsamy, Devaraj, Rusz, Vlad, Zhang, Meng, Bain, Adam, Estrada, Maximillian, Madsen, Timothy, Mizek, Jeffrey
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: In the construction industry, safety is obviously a big concern. Companies take many precautions to reduce the number of incidents that occur...
Show moreIn the construction industry, safety is obviously a big concern. Companies take many precautions to reduce the number of incidents that occur to reduce costs and save lives. As one of these precautions, construction companies purchase extra safety equipment to save the lives of workers to supplement regular required products such as hard hats. However, despite all of the safety equipment that is used, accidents still occur. For example, there was a flood in Chicago in 1992 which cost more than two billion dollars in reparations because a worker placed a wooden piling into the wrong place. Tyche Technologies will solve this problem by providing accident prevention technologies that use augmented reality (AR) to enhance the awareness of the construction worker. This additional information will let the worker know where key construction hazards are, such as the location of pipes and cables that run underground. Our team will develop a business plan and a prototype to demonstrate the feasibility of this project and attract potential sponsors/investors. The business plan will outline the market and financial feasibility of this product as well as any other problems/concerns that we foresee. The prototype will demonstrate how an AR environment can be created and relevant information uploaded and displayed to a user.
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Title: Augmented Reality Technologies (Semester Unknown) IPRO 355: EVS for Construction Safety IPRO 355 Ethics Sp08
Creator: Jose, Savina, Ramsamy, Devaraj, Rusz, Vlad, Zhang, Meng, Bain, Adam, Estrada, Maximillian, Madsen, Timothy, Mizek, Jeffrey
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: In the construction industry, safety is obviously a big concern. Companies take many precautions to reduce the number of incidents that occur...
Show moreIn the construction industry, safety is obviously a big concern. Companies take many precautions to reduce the number of incidents that occur to reduce costs and save lives. As one of these precautions, construction companies purchase extra safety equipment to save the lives of workers to supplement regular required products such as hard hats. However, despite all of the safety equipment that is used, accidents still occur. For example, there was a flood in Chicago in 1992 which cost more than two billion dollars in reparations because a worker placed a wooden piling into the wrong place. Tyche Technologies will solve this problem by providing accident prevention technologies that use augmented reality (AR) to enhance the awareness of the construction worker. This additional information will let the worker know where key construction hazards are, such as the location of pipes and cables that run underground. Our team will develop a business plan and a prototype to demonstrate the feasibility of this project and attract potential sponsors/investors. The business plan will outline the market and financial feasibility of this product as well as any other problems/concerns that we foresee. The prototype will demonstrate how an AR environment can be created and relevant information uploaded and displayed to a user.
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Title: Augmented Reality Technologies (Semester Unknown) IPRO 355: EVS for Construction Safety IPRO 355 Final Presentation Sp08
Creator: Jose, Savina, Ramsamy, Devaraj, Rusz, Vlad, Zhang, Meng, Bain, Adam, Estrada, Maximillian, Madsen, Timothy, Mizek, Jeffrey
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: In the construction industry, safety is obviously a big concern. Companies take many precautions to reduce the number of incidents that occur...
Show moreIn the construction industry, safety is obviously a big concern. Companies take many precautions to reduce the number of incidents that occur to reduce costs and save lives. As one of these precautions, construction companies purchase extra safety equipment to save the lives of workers to supplement regular required products such as hard hats. However, despite all of the safety equipment that is used, accidents still occur. For example, there was a flood in Chicago in 1992 which cost more than two billion dollars in reparations because a worker placed a wooden piling into the wrong place. Tyche Technologies will solve this problem by providing accident prevention technologies that use augmented reality (AR) to enhance the awareness of the construction worker. This additional information will let the worker know where key construction hazards are, such as the location of pipes and cables that run underground. Our team will develop a business plan and a prototype to demonstrate the feasibility of this project and attract potential sponsors/investors. The business plan will outline the market and financial feasibility of this product as well as any other problems/concerns that we foresee. The prototype will demonstrate how an AR environment can be created and relevant information uploaded and displayed to a user.
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Title: Energy Efficient Lighting Design Using LEDs and Other Technologies (semester?), IPRO 337
Creator: Antol, Marcin, Bowles, Patrick, Denloye, Olasoji, Emch-wei, Colin, Ericksen, Michael, Glencoe, Anthony, Hidalgo, Carolina, Hubbard, Christian, Husain, Omar, Neiswander, Brian, Ng, Hin Hei, Nguyen, Minh, Williams, Leslie Ann
Date: 2007-05, 2007-05
Description: • Incorporation of energy efficient lighting technologies into an existing 6,000 sq ft space, thereby adding to the transformation of the...
Show more• Incorporation of energy efficient lighting technologies into an existing 6,000 sq ft space, thereby adding to the transformation of the space into a new useful zero-energy lab. • Testing and measurement of energy consuming Devices that are scaled for renewable energy systems such as photovoltaic, battery storage, and fuel cells. • Demonstration of the use of day lighting for ambient light. Demonstration of use of low energy consuming systems for task lighting and night time lighting. • Development of low energy consuming lighting systems including fixture mock ups, lamp mock ups, day lighting harvesting systems, fiber optic day light utilization systems, fixtures utilizing LED, low wattage fluorescent and direct and indirect lighting fixture design.
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Title: Augmented Reality Technologies (Semester Unknown) IPRO 355: EVS for Construction Safety IPRO 355 Poster2 Sp08
Creator: Jose, Savina, Ramsamy, Devaraj, Rusz, Vlad, Zhang, Meng, Bain, Adam, Estrada, Maximillian, Madsen, Timothy, Mizek, Jeffrey
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: In the construction industry, safety is obviously a big concern. Companies take many precautions to reduce the number of incidents that occur...
Show moreIn the construction industry, safety is obviously a big concern. Companies take many precautions to reduce the number of incidents that occur to reduce costs and save lives. As one of these precautions, construction companies purchase extra safety equipment to save the lives of workers to supplement regular required products such as hard hats. However, despite all of the safety equipment that is used, accidents still occur. For example, there was a flood in Chicago in 1992 which cost more than two billion dollars in reparations because a worker placed a wooden piling into the wrong place. Tyche Technologies will solve this problem by providing accident prevention technologies that use augmented reality (AR) to enhance the awareness of the construction worker. This additional information will let the worker know where key construction hazards are, such as the location of pipes and cables that run underground. Our team will develop a business plan and a prototype to demonstrate the feasibility of this project and attract potential sponsors/investors. The business plan will outline the market and financial feasibility of this product as well as any other problems/concerns that we foresee. The prototype will demonstrate how an AR environment can be created and relevant information uploaded and displayed to a user.
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Title: Augmented Reality Technologies (Semester Unknown) IPRO 355: EVS for Construction Safety IPRO 355 Poster3 Sp08
Creator: Jose, Savina, Ramsamy, Devaraj, Rusz, Vlad, Zhang, Meng, Bain, Adam, Estrada, Maximillian, Madsen, Timothy, Mizek, Jeffrey
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: In the construction industry, safety is obviously a big concern. Companies take many precautions to reduce the number of incidents that occur...
Show moreIn the construction industry, safety is obviously a big concern. Companies take many precautions to reduce the number of incidents that occur to reduce costs and save lives. As one of these precautions, construction companies purchase extra safety equipment to save the lives of workers to supplement regular required products such as hard hats. However, despite all of the safety equipment that is used, accidents still occur. For example, there was a flood in Chicago in 1992 which cost more than two billion dollars in reparations because a worker placed a wooden piling into the wrong place. Tyche Technologies will solve this problem by providing accident prevention technologies that use augmented reality (AR) to enhance the awareness of the construction worker. This additional information will let the worker know where key construction hazards are, such as the location of pipes and cables that run underground. Our team will develop a business plan and a prototype to demonstrate the feasibility of this project and attract potential sponsors/investors. The business plan will outline the market and financial feasibility of this product as well as any other problems/concerns that we foresee. The prototype will demonstrate how an AR environment can be created and relevant information uploaded and displayed to a user.
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Title: Augmented Reality Technologies (Semester Unknown) IPRO 355: EVS for Construction Safety IPRO 355 Poster1 Sp08
Creator: Jose, Savina, Ramsamy, Devaraj, Rusz, Vlad, Zhang, Meng, Bain, Adam, Estrada, Maximillian, Madsen, Timothy, Mizek, Jeffrey
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: In the construction industry, safety is obviously a big concern. Companies take many precautions to reduce the number of incidents that occur...
Show moreIn the construction industry, safety is obviously a big concern. Companies take many precautions to reduce the number of incidents that occur to reduce costs and save lives. As one of these precautions, construction companies purchase extra safety equipment to save the lives of workers to supplement regular required products such as hard hats. However, despite all of the safety equipment that is used, accidents still occur. For example, there was a flood in Chicago in 1992 which cost more than two billion dollars in reparations because a worker placed a wooden piling into the wrong place. Tyche Technologies will solve this problem by providing accident prevention technologies that use augmented reality (AR) to enhance the awareness of the construction worker. This additional information will let the worker know where key construction hazards are, such as the location of pipes and cables that run underground. Our team will develop a business plan and a prototype to demonstrate the feasibility of this project and attract potential sponsors/investors. The business plan will outline the market and financial feasibility of this product as well as any other problems/concerns that we foresee. The prototype will demonstrate how an AR environment can be created and relevant information uploaded and displayed to a user.
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Title: Design of a Wind Energy Module for Buildings (Semester Unknown) IPRO 323: DesignOfAWindEnergyModuleForBuildingsIPRO323FinalReportSp11
Creator: Dizon, Taylor, Mcmanus, Tom, Swanson, Jonathan, Jardim, Thiago, Husain, Nyla, Pfiffner, Lucas, Luis, Jose, Bushcott, Corey, Gonnella, Antonio, Ciciora, Edward, Hoffman, Kent, Kim, Jaeyoung
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: In recent years, interest in extracting significant amounts of electrical power from large wind turbines has increased significantly. However,...
Show moreIn recent years, interest in extracting significant amounts of electrical power from large wind turbines has increased significantly. However, as simple as these devices may look to the layman’s eye, designing a device which efficiently and reliably converts wind into electrical power represents a highly non-trivial challenge. Further complications come about when this green energy is expected to work as a module on the top or the side of a building. Extracting the maximum amount of energy from wind flows whilst transforming mechanical energy into electrical power and then feeding this energy into the electric grid of a building while sustaining minimal losses and maintaining reasonable machine production and installation costs is a fully innovative and extraordinary proposal and objective. This inter-professional project team (IPRO 323 for Spring 2011) understands that the full undertaking of this idea would last, at the very least, five to six semesters of highly efficient work and research. ? Furthermore, is the geometrical design of the entire wind turbine which, is a project in itself. Therefore, the main objective of this semester’s IPRO is designing the shape of an urban rooftop that will harness an amount of wind which will induce optimal turbine work. This part of the project will be aided through wind tunnel testing and computer assisted analysis. Once a tentative shape has been obtained, 323 IPRO progeny could evaluate the economic feasibility of the project by installing several existing or new wind turbines designs into the modular shape provided by the Spring 2011 team. Somewhat further explaining this semester’s work: On the supposition/knowledge that different inlet and outlet geometries to the wind turbine will affect the power output, this team will perform wind tunnel studies of various wind turbine inlet and outlet sections along with a wind turbine analogy (a porous plate in place of the turbine will simulate the pressure drop of a random or particular turbine, as shown by Aubrun, Loyer, Espana, Hayden and Hancock on the AIAA paper “Experimental study on the wind turbine wake meandering with the help of a non-rotating simplified model and of a rotating model”; so that the analysis can be simplified). This is in order to better understand the power output behavior of such systems in complex flow situations. These tests and analysis shall have as an outcome the conception and final design of a modular wind turbine inlet and outlet sections, which can be further analyzed with real turbine simulations to determine the viability of placing modular wind turbines on buildings. As the New Green Revolution sweeps over the world and we all become more conscious of our impacts on the environment the quest for new forms and sources of clean energy ramps up. This project intends to take the first steps on creating a new opportunity for wind power transformation in cities, a windy environment underutilized as a source of energy where it is used most.
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Title: Design of a Wind Energy Module for Buildings (Semester Unknown) IPRO 323: DesignOfAWindEnergyModuleForBuildingsIPRO323MidTermPresentationSp11
Creator: Dizon, Taylor, Mcmanus, Tom, Swanson, Jonathan, Jardim, Thiago, Husain, Nyla, Pfiffner, Lucas, Luis, Jose, Bushcott, Corey, Gonnella, Antonio, Ciciora, Edward, Hoffman, Kent, Kim, Jaeyoung
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: In recent years, interest in extracting significant amounts of electrical power from large wind turbines has increased significantly. However,...
Show moreIn recent years, interest in extracting significant amounts of electrical power from large wind turbines has increased significantly. However, as simple as these devices may look to the layman’s eye, designing a device which efficiently and reliably converts wind into electrical power represents a highly non-trivial challenge. Further complications come about when this green energy is expected to work as a module on the top or the side of a building. Extracting the maximum amount of energy from wind flows whilst transforming mechanical energy into electrical power and then feeding this energy into the electric grid of a building while sustaining minimal losses and maintaining reasonable machine production and installation costs is a fully innovative and extraordinary proposal and objective. This inter-professional project team (IPRO 323 for Spring 2011) understands that the full undertaking of this idea would last, at the very least, five to six semesters of highly efficient work and research. ? Furthermore, is the geometrical design of the entire wind turbine which, is a project in itself. Therefore, the main objective of this semester’s IPRO is designing the shape of an urban rooftop that will harness an amount of wind which will induce optimal turbine work. This part of the project will be aided through wind tunnel testing and computer assisted analysis. Once a tentative shape has been obtained, 323 IPRO progeny could evaluate the economic feasibility of the project by installing several existing or new wind turbines designs into the modular shape provided by the Spring 2011 team. Somewhat further explaining this semester’s work: On the supposition/knowledge that different inlet and outlet geometries to the wind turbine will affect the power output, this team will perform wind tunnel studies of various wind turbine inlet and outlet sections along with a wind turbine analogy (a porous plate in place of the turbine will simulate the pressure drop of a random or particular turbine, as shown by Aubrun, Loyer, Espana, Hayden and Hancock on the AIAA paper “Experimental study on the wind turbine wake meandering with the help of a non-rotating simplified model and of a rotating model”; so that the analysis can be simplified). This is in order to better understand the power output behavior of such systems in complex flow situations. These tests and analysis shall have as an outcome the conception and final design of a modular wind turbine inlet and outlet sections, which can be further analyzed with real turbine simulations to determine the viability of placing modular wind turbines on buildings. As the New Green Revolution sweeps over the world and we all become more conscious of our impacts on the environment the quest for new forms and sources of clean energy ramps up. This project intends to take the first steps on creating a new opportunity for wind power transformation in cities, a windy environment underutilized as a source of energy where it is used most.
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Title: Design of a Wind Energy Module for Buildings (Semester Unknown) IPRO 323: DesignOfAWindEnergyModuleForBuildingsIPRO323ProjectPlanSp11
Creator: Dizon, Taylor, Mcmanus, Tom, Swanson, Jonathan, Jardim, Thiago, Husain, Nyla, Pfiffner, Lucas, Luis, Jose, Bushcott, Corey, Gonnella, Antonio, Ciciora, Edward, Hoffman, Kent, Kim, Jaeyoung
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: In recent years, interest in extracting significant amounts of electrical power from large wind turbines has increased significantly. However,...
Show moreIn recent years, interest in extracting significant amounts of electrical power from large wind turbines has increased significantly. However, as simple as these devices may look to the layman’s eye, designing a device which efficiently and reliably converts wind into electrical power represents a highly non-trivial challenge. Further complications come about when this green energy is expected to work as a module on the top or the side of a building. Extracting the maximum amount of energy from wind flows whilst transforming mechanical energy into electrical power and then feeding this energy into the electric grid of a building while sustaining minimal losses and maintaining reasonable machine production and installation costs is a fully innovative and extraordinary proposal and objective. This inter-professional project team (IPRO 323 for Spring 2011) understands that the full undertaking of this idea would last, at the very least, five to six semesters of highly efficient work and research. ? Furthermore, is the geometrical design of the entire wind turbine which, is a project in itself. Therefore, the main objective of this semester’s IPRO is designing the shape of an urban rooftop that will harness an amount of wind which will induce optimal turbine work. This part of the project will be aided through wind tunnel testing and computer assisted analysis. Once a tentative shape has been obtained, 323 IPRO progeny could evaluate the economic feasibility of the project by installing several existing or new wind turbines designs into the modular shape provided by the Spring 2011 team. Somewhat further explaining this semester’s work: On the supposition/knowledge that different inlet and outlet geometries to the wind turbine will affect the power output, this team will perform wind tunnel studies of various wind turbine inlet and outlet sections along with a wind turbine analogy (a porous plate in place of the turbine will simulate the pressure drop of a random or particular turbine, as shown by Aubrun, Loyer, Espana, Hayden and Hancock on the AIAA paper “Experimental study on the wind turbine wake meandering with the help of a non-rotating simplified model and of a rotating model”; so that the analysis can be simplified). This is in order to better understand the power output behavior of such systems in complex flow situations. These tests and analysis shall have as an outcome the conception and final design of a modular wind turbine inlet and outlet sections, which can be further analyzed with real turbine simulations to determine the viability of placing modular wind turbines on buildings. As the New Green Revolution sweeps over the world and we all become more conscious of our impacts on the environment the quest for new forms and sources of clean energy ramps up. This project intends to take the first steps on creating a new opportunity for wind power transformation in cities, a windy environment underutilized as a source of energy where it is used most.
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Title: Design of a Wind Energy Module for Buildings (Semester Unknown) IPRO 323: DesignOfAWindEnergyModuleForBuildingsIPRO323BrochureSp11
Creator: Dizon, Taylor, Mcmanus, Tom, Swanson, Jonathan, Jardim, Thiago, Husain, Nyla, Pfiffner, Lucas, Luis, Jose, Bushcott, Corey, Gonnella, Antonio, Ciciora, Edward, Hoffman, Kent, Kim, Jaeyoung
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: In recent years, interest in extracting significant amounts of electrical power from large wind turbines has increased significantly. However,...
Show moreIn recent years, interest in extracting significant amounts of electrical power from large wind turbines has increased significantly. However, as simple as these devices may look to the layman’s eye, designing a device which efficiently and reliably converts wind into electrical power represents a highly non-trivial challenge. Further complications come about when this green energy is expected to work as a module on the top or the side of a building. Extracting the maximum amount of energy from wind flows whilst transforming mechanical energy into electrical power and then feeding this energy into the electric grid of a building while sustaining minimal losses and maintaining reasonable machine production and installation costs is a fully innovative and extraordinary proposal and objective. This inter-professional project team (IPRO 323 for Spring 2011) understands that the full undertaking of this idea would last, at the very least, five to six semesters of highly efficient work and research. ? Furthermore, is the geometrical design of the entire wind turbine which, is a project in itself. Therefore, the main objective of this semester’s IPRO is designing the shape of an urban rooftop that will harness an amount of wind which will induce optimal turbine work. This part of the project will be aided through wind tunnel testing and computer assisted analysis. Once a tentative shape has been obtained, 323 IPRO progeny could evaluate the economic feasibility of the project by installing several existing or new wind turbines designs into the modular shape provided by the Spring 2011 team. Somewhat further explaining this semester’s work: On the supposition/knowledge that different inlet and outlet geometries to the wind turbine will affect the power output, this team will perform wind tunnel studies of various wind turbine inlet and outlet sections along with a wind turbine analogy (a porous plate in place of the turbine will simulate the pressure drop of a random or particular turbine, as shown by Aubrun, Loyer, Espana, Hayden and Hancock on the AIAA paper “Experimental study on the wind turbine wake meandering with the help of a non-rotating simplified model and of a rotating model”; so that the analysis can be simplified). This is in order to better understand the power output behavior of such systems in complex flow situations. These tests and analysis shall have as an outcome the conception and final design of a modular wind turbine inlet and outlet sections, which can be further analyzed with real turbine simulations to determine the viability of placing modular wind turbines on buildings. As the New Green Revolution sweeps over the world and we all become more conscious of our impacts on the environment the quest for new forms and sources of clean energy ramps up. This project intends to take the first steps on creating a new opportunity for wind power transformation in cities, a windy environment underutilized as a source of energy where it is used most.
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Title: Design of a Wind Energy Module for Buildings (Semester Unknown) IPRO 323: DesignOfAWindEnergyModuleForBuildingsIPRO323FinalPresentationSp11
Creator: Dizon, Taylor, Mcmanus, Tom, Swanson, Jonathan, Jardim, Thiago, Husain, Nyla, Pfiffner, Lucas, Luis, Jose, Bushcott, Corey, Gonnella, Antonio, Ciciora, Edward, Hoffman, Kent, Kim, Jaeyoung
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: In recent years, interest in extracting significant amounts of electrical power from large wind turbines has increased significantly. However,...
Show moreIn recent years, interest in extracting significant amounts of electrical power from large wind turbines has increased significantly. However, as simple as these devices may look to the layman’s eye, designing a device which efficiently and reliably converts wind into electrical power represents a highly non-trivial challenge. Further complications come about when this green energy is expected to work as a module on the top or the side of a building. Extracting the maximum amount of energy from wind flows whilst transforming mechanical energy into electrical power and then feeding this energy into the electric grid of a building while sustaining minimal losses and maintaining reasonable machine production and installation costs is a fully innovative and extraordinary proposal and objective. This inter-professional project team (IPRO 323 for Spring 2011) understands that the full undertaking of this idea would last, at the very least, five to six semesters of highly efficient work and research. ? Furthermore, is the geometrical design of the entire wind turbine which, is a project in itself. Therefore, the main objective of this semester’s IPRO is designing the shape of an urban rooftop that will harness an amount of wind which will induce optimal turbine work. This part of the project will be aided through wind tunnel testing and computer assisted analysis. Once a tentative shape has been obtained, 323 IPRO progeny could evaluate the economic feasibility of the project by installing several existing or new wind turbines designs into the modular shape provided by the Spring 2011 team. Somewhat further explaining this semester’s work: On the supposition/knowledge that different inlet and outlet geometries to the wind turbine will affect the power output, this team will perform wind tunnel studies of various wind turbine inlet and outlet sections along with a wind turbine analogy (a porous plate in place of the turbine will simulate the pressure drop of a random or particular turbine, as shown by Aubrun, Loyer, Espana, Hayden and Hancock on the AIAA paper “Experimental study on the wind turbine wake meandering with the help of a non-rotating simplified model and of a rotating model”; so that the analysis can be simplified). This is in order to better understand the power output behavior of such systems in complex flow situations. These tests and analysis shall have as an outcome the conception and final design of a modular wind turbine inlet and outlet sections, which can be further analyzed with real turbine simulations to determine the viability of placing modular wind turbines on buildings. As the New Green Revolution sweeps over the world and we all become more conscious of our impacts on the environment the quest for new forms and sources of clean energy ramps up. This project intends to take the first steps on creating a new opportunity for wind power transformation in cities, a windy environment underutilized as a source of energy where it is used most.
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Title: Design of a Large-Scale Bridge Structure (semester?), IPRO 315: Large-Scale Bridge Structure IPRO 315 Abstract Sp07
Creator: Atewologun, Gbadebo, Barrett, Christina, Brilla, John, Fahs, David, Fong, Patrick, Froehlich, Bernard, Giana, Emiliano, Heler, Naomi, Hernandez, Daniel, Hong, Ei, Huang, Thomas, Khudeira, Mohamad, Kim, Yong-wan, Lee, Linda, Leung, Man, Mahoney, Heather, Patel, Jinit, Pershey, Robert, Polena, Sotiel, Shethwala, Fuzel, Shorette, Lucas, Stopic, Milena, Swinderski, Melissa, Thakkar, Chintan, Welsh, Lee
Date: 2007-05, 2007-05
Description: The objectives of this IPRO are to design and build a steel bridge to the specifications given by AISC and, using teamwork, to win this year’s...
Show moreThe objectives of this IPRO are to design and build a steel bridge to the specifications given by AISC and, using teamwork, to win this year’s ASCE/AISC Regional Steel Bridge Competition
Deliverables for IPRO 315: Design of a Large-Scale Bridge Structure for the Spring 2007 semester
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Title: Design of a Large-Scale Bridge Structure (semester?), IPRO 315: Large-Scale Bridge Structure IPRO 315 Final Report Sp07
Creator: Atewologun, Gbadebo, Barrett, Christina, Brilla, John, Fahs, David, Fong, Patrick, Froehlich, Bernard, Giana, Emiliano, Heler, Naomi, Hernandez, Daniel, Hong, Ei, Huang, Thomas, Khudeira, Mohamad, Kim, Yong-wan, Lee, Linda, Leung, Man, Mahoney, Heather, Patel, Jinit, Pershey, Robert, Polena, Sotiel, Shethwala, Fuzel, Shorette, Lucas, Stopic, Milena, Swinderski, Melissa, Thakkar, Chintan, Welsh, Lee
Date: 2007-05, 2007-05
Description: The objectives of this IPRO are to design and build a steel bridge to the specifications given by AISC and, using teamwork, to win this year’s...
Show moreThe objectives of this IPRO are to design and build a steel bridge to the specifications given by AISC and, using teamwork, to win this year’s ASCE/AISC Regional Steel Bridge Competition
Deliverables for IPRO 315: Design of a Large-Scale Bridge Structure for the Spring 2007 semester
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Title: Design of a Large-Scale Bridge Structure (semester?), IPRO 315
Creator: Atewologun, Gbadebo, Barrett, Christina, Brilla, John, Fahs, David, Fong, Patrick, Froehlich, Bernard, Giana, Emiliano, Heler, Naomi, Hernandez, Daniel, Hong, Ei, Huang, Thomas, Khudeira, Mohamad, Kim, Yong-wan, Lee, Linda, Leung, Man, Mahoney, Heather, Patel, Jinit, Pershey, Robert, Polena, Sotiel, Shethwala, Fuzel, Shorette, Lucas, Stopic, Milena, Swinderski, Melissa, Thakkar, Chintan, Welsh, Lee
Date: 2007-05, 2007-05
Description: The objectives of this IPRO are to design and build a steel bridge to the specifications given by AISC and, using teamwork, to win this year’s...
Show moreThe objectives of this IPRO are to design and build a steel bridge to the specifications given by AISC and, using teamwork, to win this year’s ASCE/AISC Regional Steel Bridge Competition
Deliverables for IPRO 315: Design of a Large-Scale Bridge Structure for the Spring 2007 semester
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Title: Design of a Wind Energy Module for Buildings (Semester Unknown) IPRO 323: DesignOfAWindEnergyModuleForBuildingsIPRO323Poster1Sp11
Creator: Dizon, Taylor, Mcmanus, Tom, Swanson, Jonathan, Jardim, Thiago, Husain, Nyla, Pfiffner, Lucas, Luis, Jose, Bushcott, Corey, Gonnella, Antonio, Ciciora, Edward, Hoffman, Kent, Kim, Jaeyoung
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: In recent years, interest in extracting significant amounts of electrical power from large wind turbines has increased significantly. However,...
Show moreIn recent years, interest in extracting significant amounts of electrical power from large wind turbines has increased significantly. However, as simple as these devices may look to the layman’s eye, designing a device which efficiently and reliably converts wind into electrical power represents a highly non-trivial challenge. Further complications come about when this green energy is expected to work as a module on the top or the side of a building. Extracting the maximum amount of energy from wind flows whilst transforming mechanical energy into electrical power and then feeding this energy into the electric grid of a building while sustaining minimal losses and maintaining reasonable machine production and installation costs is a fully innovative and extraordinary proposal and objective. This inter-professional project team (IPRO 323 for Spring 2011) understands that the full undertaking of this idea would last, at the very least, five to six semesters of highly efficient work and research. ? Furthermore, is the geometrical design of the entire wind turbine which, is a project in itself. Therefore, the main objective of this semester’s IPRO is designing the shape of an urban rooftop that will harness an amount of wind which will induce optimal turbine work. This part of the project will be aided through wind tunnel testing and computer assisted analysis. Once a tentative shape has been obtained, 323 IPRO progeny could evaluate the economic feasibility of the project by installing several existing or new wind turbines designs into the modular shape provided by the Spring 2011 team. Somewhat further explaining this semester’s work: On the supposition/knowledge that different inlet and outlet geometries to the wind turbine will affect the power output, this team will perform wind tunnel studies of various wind turbine inlet and outlet sections along with a wind turbine analogy (a porous plate in place of the turbine will simulate the pressure drop of a random or particular turbine, as shown by Aubrun, Loyer, Espana, Hayden and Hancock on the AIAA paper “Experimental study on the wind turbine wake meandering with the help of a non-rotating simplified model and of a rotating model”; so that the analysis can be simplified). This is in order to better understand the power output behavior of such systems in complex flow situations. These tests and analysis shall have as an outcome the conception and final design of a modular wind turbine inlet and outlet sections, which can be further analyzed with real turbine simulations to determine the viability of placing modular wind turbines on buildings. As the New Green Revolution sweeps over the world and we all become more conscious of our impacts on the environment the quest for new forms and sources of clean energy ramps up. This project intends to take the first steps on creating a new opportunity for wind power transformation in cities, a windy environment underutilized as a source of energy where it is used most.
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