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Title: Magnetic Recording Head
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 1944-06-13
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation
United States Patent

Title: The world's playground: final_board
Creator: Yeon, Eungju
Date: 2012-04-25, 2012-05
Description: Olympic cultural center for 2012, Korea

Title: REAL-TIME FACEDETECTION ANDRECOGNITION SYSTEM INCOMPLEX BACKGROUNDS
Creator: Zhang, Xin
Date: 2015, 2015-07
Description: This report provides a fast and reliable system for real-time face detection and recognition in complex backgrounds. Most current face...
Show moreThis report provides a fast and reliable system for real-time face detection and recognition in complex backgrounds. Most current face recognition systems identify faces under constrained conditions, such as constant lighting condition, the same background. In the real world, people need to be recognized in complex backgrounds under different conditions, such as tilted head poses, various facial expressions, dark or strong lighting conditions. Meanwhile, because of large amounts of real-time applications for face recognition, such as intelligent robot, unmanned vehicle, security monitor, the fast face recognition rate needs to be satisfied for the real-time requirement. In this project, a fast and reliable system is designed to real-time detect and recognize faces under various conditions. Frames are obtained directly from VGA camera. Image preprocessing and face detection, collection, recognition are sequentially implemented on the frames. Local binary patterns and Haar features are used for face detection and eye detection. Local binary pattern encodes every pixel of the image for texture extraction, which is several times faster than Haar feature detection. Adaptive boosting algorithm is used for selecting the best weak classifiers and cascading method divides the extracted best classifiers into several stages to enhance detection rate. Affine transformation is implemented to unify the size of detected facial images and align two eyes to the desired position for improving recognition accuracy. 3􀁵3 Gaussian filter is designed to remove noises of the pre-processed facial images. Principal component analysis (PCA) is used for face recognition, which is fast to identify high-dimensional faces with few principal components.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, July 2015
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Title: Ceramic Coated Golf Club Head
Creator: Bradstreet, Samuel W., Rechter, Harold L.
Date: 1959-10-13
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: The Brownfield Renewal Recreation Center: Final-board
Creator: Babakhanian, Rosika
Date: 5/10/2011, 2011-05
Description: This Project is an urban renewal of an abandoned post-industrial land in the calumet region located on Chicago’s far southeast. The Calumet...
Show moreThis Project is an urban renewal of an abandoned post-industrial land in the calumet region located on Chicago’s far southeast. The Calumet region was once the largest and richest wetland in lower north America, but 120 years of intensive industrialization, pollution and waste disposal tailored the ecosystem of this region and resulted in thousands of acres of brownfields.
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Title: Method for Treating Radioactive Waste
Creator: Bridges, Jack E., Sresty, Guggilam C.
Date: 2009-05-11, 1998-11-10
Description: Ion exchange resins contaminated with a radioactive component are treated by exposing the contaminated ion exchange resins to a bound radio...
Show moreIon exchange resins contaminated with a radioactive component are treated by exposing the contaminated ion exchange resins to a bound radio frequency electric field for uniformly heating them to drive off water. The dried ion exchange resins are then uniformly heated by a transversely uniform bound radio frequency electric field to a second higher temperature which chemically inactivates the functional groups of the ion exchange resins to destroy their hydrophilic property and convert them to a stabilized product for long-term safe storage.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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Title: The structural design of a three-story reinforced concrete cold storage building
Creator: Wamsley, Gage R
Date: 2009, 1920
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/structuraldesign00wams
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology;Includes folded leaves in back pocket

Title: Apparatus for Generating Odor upon Electronic Signal Demand
Creator: Rasouli, Firooz, Arastoopour, Hamid, Oskouie, Ali
Date: 2009-05-11, 1999-12-21
Description: An apparatus for generating odor upon electronic signal demand using a disk having an aroma-impregnated adsorbent and a substrate. The disk is...
Show moreAn apparatus for generating odor upon electronic signal demand using a disk having an aroma-impregnated adsorbent and a substrate. The disk is inserted into a disk drive that receives signals from a user and/or a server computer. A controller within the disk drive supplies an electric, mechanical or thermal signal to the disk, resulting in the heating of the adsorbent. The controller may also activate a blower to distribute the scent produced by the heated adsorbent and to cool the adsorbent at the end of the scent distribution cycle.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: Method and Apparatus for Orienting Magnetic Particles of a Recording Medium and Magnetic Recording Medium
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 4/23/2009, 1966-06-14
Description: Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent

Title: Method for the Construction and Utilization of a Medical Records System
Creator: Schaeffer, Anthony J., Frieder, Ophir
Date: 2012-03-20, 2009-12-01
Description: A method for the construction and utilization of a medical records system capable of providing a continuous data stream of epidemiological...
Show moreA method for the construction and utilization of a medical records system capable of providing a continuous data stream of epidemiological data to the records system via kits provided to the symptomatic population to obtain and record an epidemiological profile in a searchable database by applying data mining or automated intelligence techniques whereby, when a valid epidemiological profile is established in the database, automated diagnosis and prescription of treatment may be had for patients presenting similar symptoms. Knowledge discovery techniques may further operate on the database to provide suggested courses of treatment for a virtual class of patients, epidemic threat awareness, and knowledge of drug resistance mutations by a pathogen without direct query of the database.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology and Northwestern University
United States Patent
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Title: Moments of Understanding - Tribal Culture Center: Moments of Understanding - Tribal Culture Center (Project)
Creator: Hussain, Tanveer
Date: 2012-05-01, 2012-05
Description: The main purpose of the Tribal Cultural Center is to offer a platform for the local public, tribal country’s key leaders to communicate with...
Show moreThe main purpose of the Tribal Cultural Center is to offer a platform for the local public, tribal country’s key leaders to communicate with the goal of promoting peace and prosperity to the region. This project will help these leaders create the moments of understanding for the future of generations to come (Power of democracy). It will also help to educate and train the young tribesmen so they can contribute their knowledge to their local tribes. Architecturally, site planning, landscape design and using the traditional local materials with modern construction techniques were explored.
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Title: Electrocatalyst Compositions
Creator: Mallouk, Thomas E., Chan, Benny C., Reddington, Erik, Sapienza, Anthony, Chen, Guoying, Smotkin, Eugene, Gurau, Bogdan, Viswanathan, Rameshkrishnan, Liu, Renxuan
Date: 2009-05-14, 2001-09-04
Description: Compositions for use as catalysts in electrochemical reactions are described. The compositions are alloys prepared from two or more elemental...
Show moreCompositions for use as catalysts in electrochemical reactions are described. The compositions are alloys prepared from two or more elemental metals selected from platinum, molybdenum, osmium, ruthenium, rhodium, and iridium. Also described are electrode compositions including such alloys and electrochemical reaction devices including such catalysts.
Sponsorship: Penn State Research Foundation
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: WasteLESS Modular Housing: FINAL_BOARDS_landscape_BrodmarkleEmerson
Creator: Emerson, Melissa
Date: 2012-05-02, 2012-05
Description: This project aimed to create efficient housing for the average American with the ability to customize their home to their own needs, lifestyle...
Show moreThis project aimed to create efficient housing for the average American with the ability to customize their home to their own needs, lifestyle, and aesthetics. In addition, the feasibility of pre-fabricated portions of the home made this more realistic in terms of cost and the quickness of its construct-ability for each potential home owner.
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Title: Automatic Insulin Pumps Using Recursive Multivariable Models and Adaptive Control Algorithms
Creator: Cinar, Ali, Oruklu, Meriyan
Date: 2014-04-09, 2014-04-08
Description: A method and device for monitoring or treating patient glucose levels. The device includes a glucose sensor for measuring a glucose level of a...
Show moreA method and device for monitoring or treating patient glucose levels. The device includes a glucose sensor for measuring a glucose level of a patient, a physiological status monitoring system for measuring at least one physical or metabolic variable of the patient, and an automatic controller in communication with the glucose sensor and the physiological status monitoring system. The controller includes a prediction module for automatically predicting a future glucose level using data measured by the glucose sensor and the physiological sensor.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: In Situ Decontamination of Spills and Landiflls by Radio Frequency Heating
Creator: Bridges, Jack E., Dev, Harsh, Snow, Richard H., Taflove, Allen
Date: 2009-05-08, 1987-06-02
Description: A water-containing region at or near the surface of the earth, such as a landfill, that is contaminated with hazardous materials is...
Show moreA water-containing region at or near the surface of the earth, such as a landfill, that is contaminated with hazardous materials is decontaminated by heating the region with bound radio frequency energy from a bound-wave transmission line excitor array disposed outside the region to a temperature to boil water and thereby increase the permeability of the region. The heating is continued by dielectric heating after water has boiled from at least a portion of the region to heat the portion to elevated temperatures substantially above the boiling point of water. The materials may then be rendered innocuous in situ in a number of ways, as by pyrolysis, thermally assisted decomposition, or reaction with an introduced reagent, such as oxygen. The materials may also be driven from the region, as by distillation or by evaporation and steam drive and then collected and disposed of, as by incineration.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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Title: ENHANCED MIXING OF MULTIPLE SUPERSONIC RECTANGULAR JETS BY SYNCHRONIZED SCREECH
Creator: Taghavi, R, Raman, G
Date: 1994-12
Publisher: AMER INST AERONAUT ASTRONAUT

Title: PA 508 Student Computer Usage Survey
Creator: Ahrens, Aric G.
Date: 2010-01-19, 2010-01-19
Description: Included are a survey, and the results in graphic form. The survey was designed to find out how and where the Chinese contingent of Master of...
Show moreIncluded are a survey, and the results in graphic form. The survey was designed to find out how and where the Chinese contingent of Master of Public Administration students used computers. The focus was to determine whether they preferred to use computers on the Downtown Campus, where classes were taught, or on Main Campus, where most of the students lived.
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Title: Recording and Erase Head for Magnetic Recorders
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 2012-03-20, 1957-03-05
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: MODELING THE PERFORMANCE OF A SOLAR CHIMNEY WITH BUILT-IN PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS TO IMPROVE NATURAL VENTILATION
Creator: Khorraminejad, Aysan
Date: 2014, 2014-12
Description: The use of solar chimneys to improve natural ventilation in buildings has been shown to yield energy savings while maintaining thermal comfort...
Show moreThe use of solar chimneys to improve natural ventilation in buildings has been shown to yield energy savings while maintaining thermal comfort in some climate zones. However, one disadvantage is that the ability to control passive ventilation with solar chimneys is often limited by temporal variations of building function and diurnal weather patterns. The unique thermal properties of phase change materials (PCMs) may provide opportunities to manage some of the limitations of solar chimney strategies in buildings through the timed storage and release of thermal energy, which can aid in minimizing daytime heat gains and increasing the effectiveness of nighttime flushing by natural ventilation. This work explores the potential of PCMs combined with solar chimneys to support the passive ventilation of buildings using whole building energy simulation. Results are intended to inform architects and engineers on best practices for incorporating PCMs in buildings with solar chimneys. A model of a prototype office building designed to ASHRAE Standard 90.1 was developed in EnergyPlus and investigated in five U.S. climate zones. A total of 1023 energy simulations were performed to address the following research questions: (1) In what U.S. climate zone is the use of PCMs most appropriate? (2) Can PCMs improve night flushing ventilation when used with a solar chimney? (3) What are the optimal locations for installation of PCMs in building and solar chimney construction in order to provide optimal cooling load reductions? and (4) How do PCM properties influence cooling load reductions? Results demonstrate that the solidification and melting process of PCMs can indeed be used to prolong natural ventilation for night flushing in the evening and nighttime, particularly in climate zones with large diurnal outdoor temperature fluctuations. Results also suggest the following: (1) the optimal location for installation of PCMs in most climates is within the structure of south-facing envelope assemblies; (2) the PCM melting temperature should be equal to or greater than the zone set point temperature; (3) thicker PCMs can yield slightly more cooling energy savings than thinner PCMs; and (4) the thermal conductivity of PCMs does not appear to have a substantial influence on performance.
Ph.D. in Architecture, December 2014
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Title: Architecture and the Void: Perceptible Formlessness
Creator: Hindley, Douglas
Date: 2010-07-29

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