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- Defining the Role of the 21st Century Public Library in Madison
- Creator
- Bartley, Nate
- Date
- 2011, 2011-05
- Description
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Madison, WI is dominated by two main forces; the state government and the University of Wisconsin. These two institutions are linked by State...
Show moreMadison, WI is dominated by two main forces; the state government and the University of Wisconsin. These two institutions are linked by State Street, a pedestrian and bike corridor that serves as the main public gathering space for the city. The new Central Public Library along this strip will provide a free, democratic space for all Madison citizens. Beyond collecting books and storing media, the Madison Library offers opportunities for gatherings and informational exchanges 24 hours a day.
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- Learning Company, Literacy Center, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Creator
- Gray, Aisling
- Date
- 2010-07-29
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- Apparatus and Method for In Situ Heat Processing of Hydrocarbonaceous Formations
- Creator
- Bridges, Jack, Taflove, Allen
- Date
- 2009-05-08, 1979-03-20
- Description
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The disclosure describes a technique for uniform heating of relatively large blocks of hydrocarbonaceous formations in situ using radio...
Show moreThe disclosure describes a technique for uniform heating of relatively large blocks of hydrocarbonaceous formations in situ using radio frequency (RF) electrical energy that is substantially confined to the volume to be heated and effects of dielectric heating of the formations. An important aspect of the disclosure relates to the fact that certain hydrocarbonaceous earth formations, for example raw unheated oil shale, exhibit dielectric absorption characteristics in the radio frequency range. In accordance with the system of the invention, a plurality of conductors are inserted in the formations and bound a particular volume of the formations. The phrase "bounding a particular volume" is intended to mean that the volume is enclosed on at least two sides thereof. Electrical excitation is provided for establishing alternating electric fields in the volume. The frequency of the excitation is selected as a function of the dimensions of the volume so as to establish a substantially non-radiating electric field which is substantially confined in the volume. In this manner, volumetric dielectric heating of the formations will occur to effect approximately uniform controlled heating of the volume
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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- BICYCLE CRASH ANALYSIS IN CHICAGO
- Creator
- Van Nortwick, Taylor Wade
- Date
- 2013, 2013-07
- Description
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The United States is making big plans for improvements in bicycle infrastructure. To best understand if the improvements will be successful in...
Show moreThe United States is making big plans for improvements in bicycle infrastructure. To best understand if the improvements will be successful in creating a safe network, a study was done to determine contributing factors in bicycle crashes. Bicycle and motor vehicle crash data from around Chicago between 2005 and 2011 was analyzed for significant factors in infrastructure, cyclist and motorist attributes. Temperature was used as a predictor of bicycle traffic due to the seasonality of bicycling in Chicago. It was found that more bicycles and vehicles result in higher crash rates. It was also found that on -street parallel parking, signalized, skewed and multiple legged intersections lead to higher crash rates.
M.S. in Civil Engineering, July 2013
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- Sysnthesis of a Carbon-Based Catalyst from Sludge
- Creator
- Khalili, Nasrin R., Arastoopour, Hamid
- Date
- 2009-05-14, 2002-03-26
- Description
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The synthesis of a carbon-based catalyst from sludge materials such as produced by the paper mill industry and the like is described wherein...
Show moreThe synthesis of a carbon-based catalyst from sludge materials such as produced by the paper mill industry and the like is described wherein the treated material is subjected to processing including chemical activation with an appropriate metal-based activating agent, light and humidity treatment, and pyrolysis to result in a desired carbon-based catalyst.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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- Developing Web Applications for the Northern Illinois Hockey League (sequence unknown), IPRO 308 - Deliverables: IPRO 308 Final Report F09
- Creator
- Lucchesi, Kristin, Barksdale, Dustin, Hays, Julian, Bartus, Kryzystof, Perkins, William, Savage, Christopher, Scheer, Colin, Semenov, Vladimir, Vidutis, Mantas
- Date
- 2009-12
- Description
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The NIHL is the largest hockey league in Illinois. It is also the largest youth all star hockey league in the US, serving over 300 youth teams...
Show moreThe NIHL is the largest hockey league in Illinois. It is also the largest youth all star hockey league in the US, serving over 300 youth teams and over 4,000 players. The team's purpose is to make the NIHL a web-based scheduling and scoring applications that can support their annual operations.
Sponsorship: Northern Illinois Hockey League(NIHL)
Deliverables for IPRO 308: Developing Web Applications for the Northern Illinois Hockey League for the fall 2009 semester
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- Magnetic Transducer Head Assembly
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 1956-02-28
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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- Automatic Insulin Pumps Using Recursive Multivariable Models and Adaptive Control Algorithms
- Creator
- Cinar, Ali, Oruklu, Meriyan
- Date
- 2014-04-09, 2014-04-08
- Description
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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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- Magnetic Transducing Assembly
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 1958-06-24
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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- A Video Annotation and Indexing System (sequence unknown), IPRO 327 - Deliverables: IPRO 327 Midterm Presentation F09
- Creator
- Dhagam, Karthik, Donchev, Alexander, Homawoo, Sergio, Litas, Alexander, Orlichenko, Anton, Osswald, Christian, Petsod, Jason, Rawlings, Ori, Shaffer, Joshua, Smith, Antoinette, Yates, Andrew, Yu, Hee Jeoung
- Date
- 2009-12
- Description
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Much information available on the Web is in video format. The problem with this medium is users cannot comment on particular scenes within the...
Show moreMuch information available on the Web is in video format. The problem with this medium is users cannot comment on particular scenes within the videos and there is no method of searching for specific content within the videos. The team proposes to develop a system that will allow users to make fine-grained comments on scenes within the video and then to use these comments to aid in search within videos.
Deliverables for IPRO 327: A video annotation and indexing system for the fall 2009 semester
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- Title
- Method for Producing Easily Oxidized High Melting Point Metals and Their Alloys
- Creator
- Mondolfo, Lucio F.
- Date
- 1957-08-20
- Description
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Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
- Title
- UV Transmitting Borosilicate Glass Composition and Article
- Creator
- Ali, Mir Akbar, Pincus, Alexis G.
- Date
- 2009-04-29, 1972-06-20
- Description
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Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
- Title
- ADAPTATION AND RENOVATION OF SCHULZE BAKERY TO A MIXED USE BUILDING
- Creator
- Al-guneid, Wigdan
- Date
- 5/2/2011, 2011-05
- Description
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Holding focus on techinics and strategies of development arc, a landmark building on the south side of Chicago will be re-adapted and...
Show moreHolding focus on techinics and strategies of development arc, a landmark building on the south side of Chicago will be re-adapted and transformed from a bakery to a much needed mixed use building.
Sponsorship: Waldorf, Tyler
Sponsorship: Denison, Dirk
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- MULTI-DIMENSIONAL BATCH SCHEDULING FRAMEWORK FOR HIGH-END SUPERCOMPUTERS
- Creator
- Zhou, Zhou
- Date
- 2016, 2016-05
- Description
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In the field of high performance computing (HPC), batch scheduling plays a critical role. They determine when and how to process the various...
Show moreIn the field of high performance computing (HPC), batch scheduling plays a critical role. They determine when and how to process the various jobs waiting for service. Conventional batch schedulers allocate user jobs solely based on their CPU footprints. However, for a given user job, it requires many different resources during its execution, such as power, network, I/O bandwidth, etc. Today’s job schedulers rarely take into account these resource requirements which sometimes turn out to be the Achilles’ heel of system-wide performance. In this research, we propose a multi-dimensional batch scheduling framework for high-end supercomputers. Our research aims to treat these common but often ignored resources (e.g., power, network, bandwidth) as schedulable resource and further transform each scheduling into a multi-objective optimization process. Our main contributions consist of a set of scheduling models and policies, aiming at addressing the issues in batch scheduling for large-scale production supercomputers. We evaluate our design by means of trace-based simulations using real workload and performance traces from production systems. Experimental results show our methods can effectively improve batch scheduling regarding user satisfaction, system performance and operating cost.
Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2016
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- Developing a Collaborative On-line Student Research Forum (sequence unknown), IPRO 321 - Deliverables: IPRO 321 IPRO Day 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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- Impacts of Sulfur Capture Technology in Coal Power Plants (sequence unknown), IPRO 302 - Deliverables: IPRO 302 Midterm Presentation F09
- Creator
- Contreras, Abraham, Dickman, Justin, Enadeghe, Gregory, Garcia Rodriguez, Hector, Haddad, Michael, Kyle, Ryan, Mongillo, Michael, Murphy, Ryan, Shonubi, Oluwaseun, Swillum, Bryce, Wolber, Brian, Worthon, Terrika
- Date
- 2009-12
- Description
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The IPRO team was investigating the net impact of sulfur capture technologies used in current and next generation power plants in the United...
Show moreThe IPRO team was investigating the net impact of sulfur capture technologies used in current and next generation power plants in the United States. It planned to use this knowledge to determine which sulfur capture technologies produce the greatest benefit for industry and society and to find the marketability of the sulfur byproducts created in these power plants.
Sponsorship: Sargent & Lundy, LLC
These are the deliverables for IPRO 302: Impacts of Sulfur Capture Technology in Coal Power Plants from the Fall 2009 semester.
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- Volumes of Light - A School of the Performing and Visual Arts, Brooklyn.: School of the Arts Brooklyn Board 1
- Creator
- Cabal González, Sara
- Date
- 2012, 2012-05
- Description
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The school is a proposal for high-level academic performance in the form of an art condenser that will also be used after hours to house...
Show moreThe school is a proposal for high-level academic performance in the form of an art condenser that will also be used after hours to house community art events. Thus, it will act as a catalyst for future college students and serve as a magnet for neighborhood residents. As the art disciplines require, the classroom and their respective studio are integrated and considered as the basic unit that define different volumes for each art form. The massing, orientation, and materiality bring a unique quality of light to those “volumes of light”.
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- Diffractive cross sections implemented in PYTHIA8-MBR VS LHC results, Proceedings of the XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics
- Creator
- Goulianos, Konstantin
- Date
- 2013-09-15, 2013-09-15
- Publisher
- IIT Press
- Description
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Diffractive cross sections implemented in the pythia8-mbr Monte Carlo simulation are reviewed and compared to results obtained at the Large...
Show moreDiffractive cross sections implemented in the pythia8-mbr Monte Carlo simulation are reviewed and compared to results obtained at the Large Hadron Collider.
Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
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- OPTIMAL SIGNAL TIMING DESIGN FOR URBAN STREET NETWORKS UNDER USER EQUILIBRIUM BASED TRAFFIC CONDITIONS
- Creator
- Liu, Yi
- Date
- 2015, 2015-05
- Description
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In the ever-growing travel demand, traffic congestion on freeways and expressways recurs more frequently at a higher number of locations and...
Show moreIn the ever-growing travel demand, traffic congestion on freeways and expressways recurs more frequently at a higher number of locations and for longer durations with added severity. This becomes especially true in large metropolitan areas. Particular to the urban areas, excessive crowdedness caused by inefficient traffic control also results in urban street networks operating in near or over-saturated conditions, leading to unpleasant travel experience due to long delays at intersections. As a consequence, the recurrent traffic congestion on roadway segments and vehicle delays at intersections inevitably compromise energy efficiency, traffic mobility improvement, safety enhancement, and environmental impacts mitigation. All too often, neither restraining travel demand nor expanding system capacity is desirable and practical. Conversely, effectively utilizing the capacity of the existing transportation system has been increasingly thought of as the solution to congestion relief. With respect to the urban street networks, developing effective means for urban intersection signal optimization becomes essential to reduce intersection delays. Conventional signal timing optimization methods use historical traffic data and assume that traffic flows will remains unchanged after the implementation of new signal timing plans. Traffic flows are assumed to be constant, but in fact, when signal timing plans change, travel times for some travel routes will alter, which requires drivers in the network to adjust their choice of travel routes to arrive at the destinations, and result in redistribution of traffic in the network. Therefore, the effects of interactions between signal timing plans and traffic flows need to be explicitly taken into consideration. This study introduces a new methodology that jointly considers signal timing optimization and traffic assignment in an overall analytical framework that contains model formulations under assumptions consistent with real world situations. Such a framework is well suited for applications in real world cases. Specifically, the overall optimization framework is formulated as a bilevel optimization problem. In the proposed basic model, at the upper level, a traffic signal timing optimization problem for urban network is introduced to minimize system total travel time by optimizing signal green splits. At the lower level, a static user equilibrium problem is formulated for networkwide traffic assignment. In the vehicle delay estimation, the time-dependent stochastic delay model in the 2010 Highway Capacity Manual (HCM 2010) is employed and formulated as Variational Inequality constraints, what allow the state-of-the-art MPEC solver, GAMS/NLPEC, to solve the problem for a local optimal effectively and efficiently. The bi-level optimization model is first tested using a small network (the test network) and a computational experiment using a subarea network in the Chicago central district is conducted to assess the practicality of the model formulation in real world applications. In order to import more reality to the basic model and also consider the potential system benefit that comes from different signal phasing design, an enhanced model is developed based on the basic model by employing integer and binary variables. Formulating the problem with binary variables allows for the selection of proper phasing design. Heuristic solution methods are proposed and tested using the test network.
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, May 2015
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- DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF THE KIRIE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT MODEL
- Creator
- Mendez, Thomas E.
- Date
- 2012-07-15, 2012-07
- Description
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The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRDGC) is tasked with protecting the public’s water supply and improving the...
Show moreThe Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRDGC) is tasked with protecting the public’s water supply and improving the quality of water in their service area’s watercourses. Principal in this mission are the seven wastewater treatment plants that are operated by MWRDGC. The greater Chicago area possesses a combined sewer system (CSS) that combines sanitary sewage and stormwater runoff. Because of this CSS, water reclamation plants are burdened with not only processing sewage and sanitary waste, but also stormwater runoff. As a result there can be a large variation in water quality and quantity. MWRDGC’s newest water reclamation plant is the James C. Kirie Water Reclamation Plant, which was completed in 1980. This plant operates as a nitrification plant with no separate distinct denitrification process. It is important to note that no clearly defined unit processes such as nitrification towers are utilized at the Kirie Water Reclamation Plant. Nitrification occurs primarily in the aeration basins and is currently sufficient to meet water quality standards. However, because of the current regulatory climate, stricter standards on effluent discharge are likely in the near future especially with respect to nutrients. Stricter standards on total nitrogen in effluent instead of the current ammonia limits are one such expected water quality change. As a result of this expectation, modeling modifications and processes at a treatment plant can be a key tool in adjusting to evolving standards. Because water reclamation plants vary greatly depending on their technology, influent and processes, computer modeling provides a convenient way to assess how the plant will react to dynamic changes in influent quality and still be able to meet static effluent standards. Although computer modeling has been applied to water reclamation plants for some time now, there are no clearly defined or accepted protocols for this modeling. Combined with the variation exhibited by various types of water reclamation plants, often modeling protocols must be custom created for individual plants or types of plants. What follows is a study and simulation of the Kirie Water Reclamation Plant. Simulation was used to examine wet weather events at the Kirie Water Reclamation Plant. Wet weather phenomena were explored in step-wise manner to determine the relative effects of different perturbations in influent water quality and quantity. The results show the various effects in effluent quality depending upon the variable or combination of variables deviated. Deviations in temperature and flow dominate all other variations simulated and result in the largest effect on effluent water quality. Deviations of 50% to both temperature and flow simultaneously yielded an increase in effluent BOD and NH3 at twice and six times the steady state values, respectively.
M.S. in Environmental Engineering, July 2012
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