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Title: Information Display System
Creator: Epstein, Max, Fryberger, David, Serafin, Robert J., Van Den Heuvel, Anthony P.
Date: 2009-04-27, 1971-11-16
Description: An information display system is provided which comprises a body of material serving as both a substrate for thin film components and a medium...
Show moreAn information display system is provided which comprises a body of material serving as both a substrate for thin film components and a medium for the propagation of Rayleigh acoustic waves along its surface. The thin film components include elements responsive to the Rayleigh waves to provide information at selected locations on the surface of the body. These components may be either the control elements or the output elements of the display system.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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Title: Integration of Process Improvement (sequence unknown), IPRO 304 - Deliverables: IPRO 304 Poster F09
Creator: Bauer, Jessie, Bergeron, Tony, Campen, Matt, Gruchalski, Erik, Choi, Tae Ki, Marx, Ryan, Murti, Chaitanya, Robbins, Brian, Sohal, Atinder Pal, Stenson, Amanda, Taboada, Alejandro, Zhang, Bingjian
Date: 2009-12
Description: A. Finkl and Sons require an effective way of detecting carbide inserts on the steel milling machine. These inserts break off due to stress...
Show moreA. Finkl and Sons require an effective way of detecting carbide inserts on the steel milling machine. These inserts break off due to stress and shape of metal and need to be replaced immediately to avoid further damage to the machine and the steel to be milled.
Sponsorship: A. Finkl and Sona
Deliverables for IPRO 304: Integration of Process Improvements for the fall 2009 semester.
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Title: Magnetic Recording and Reproducing Device with Means to Prevent Accidental Erase of Record Medium
Creator: Vagtborg, Harold A.
Date: 1949-04-05
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: INTERACTION IN THE SIXTH SENSE
Creator: Ghods, Ramin
Date: 2014, 2014-05
Description: Every experience of architecture is rooted in multi-sensory and embodied interactions with surroundings. All sensory modalities as well as...
Show moreEvery experience of architecture is rooted in multi-sensory and embodied interactions with surroundings. All sensory modalities as well as linguistic paradigms are integrated in the sensorimotor cortex of brain where mirror neurons are originated therein. Neurological understanding, on the other hand, suggests that meaning is always contextually grounded. Metaphor, in its very essence, is an expression to convey meaning to spectator. It stimulates ventra premotor cortex of brain, wherein mirror neurons activate the embodied simulation of actions, emotions, and corporeal sensations. So conceptual metaphors in everyday language are highly based on bodily interaction and encountering with surroundings. Additionally, they are also rooted in context and primordial images. Metaphor creates an interactive atmosphere in which symbolic and literal meanings are conveyed to beholders. Atmosphere is the essence of a space, in other words, understanding this atmosphere is the most crucial for understanding architecture. Spatial experiencing in its complete entirely could be taken through the emissions of atmosphere. In general, interaction in the 6th sense is focusing on a methodology of design to facilitate immediate perception of spatial settings of architecture. Far from abstraction and intellectualism, an atmosphere conveyed meaning through sensual perceptions. In this case, several modalities of architectural design, including materializes and de-materialized qualities such as light, texture, geometry, reflection, smell, sound, air, have been identified as contributing to atmosphere.
M.S. in in Architecture, May 2014
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Title: Gerry-meandering: An Assessment of the Congressional District Model of Depository Allocation (preprint): AhrensGriffinedrev1a
Creator: Ahrens, Aric G., Griffin, Luke A.
Date: 2003-06
Description: The preprint of a published article dealing with the effect of allocating Federal Depositories by Congressional district. Conclusions drawn...
Show moreThe preprint of a published article dealing with the effect of allocating Federal Depositories by Congressional district. Conclusions drawn include the fact that due to redistricting that occurs after each decennial census, over time some districts may have within their boundaries a greater number than the two depositories that Congressional district allocation was intended to produce. Likewise, over time shifting boundaries of districts have created districts that have no depositories whatsoever.
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Title: A Video Annotation and Indexing System (sequence unknown), IPRO 327 - Deliverables: IPRO 327 Project Plan 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: 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: Magnetic Recording Head
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 1944-06-13
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation
United States Patent

Title: OPTIMAL DECISION-MAKING OF INTERDEPENDENT TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT ALTERNATIVES UNDER RISK AND UNCERTAINTY
Creator: Zhou, Bei
Date: 2012-07-12, 2012-07
Description: With increasing demand for a more efficient transportation system and decreasing budget levels, transportation investment decision-making that...
Show moreWith increasing demand for a more efficient transportation system and decreasing budget levels, transportation investment decision-making that aims to select the optimal project portfolio which yields maximized overall networkwide benefits in terms of economy, society and environment has increasingly become important. This dissertation has conducted an in-depth investigation into project evaluation and project selection that are crucial steps of transportation decision-making. It begins with information search through a review of existing methods for project evaluation and selection. Several limitations of existing methods have been revealed. In particular, they are in lack of considerations in network impacts of a single investment project, interdependencies of simultaneously implementing multiple projects, and restrictions of total risk of overall benefits of selected projects within an acceptable level. Then, a new methodology is proposed for networkwide traffic assignments, project evaluation, and project selection. A state-of-art large scale transportation simulation software, the TRansportation ANalysis and SIMulation System (TRANSIMS) toolbox, is utilized to perform networkwide dynamic traffic assignments to general redistributed traffic volumes after project implementation needed as inputs for project evaluation. For project evaluation, a life-cycle cost analysis approach is developed to consider all agency costs and user costs in the service life-cycle of two primary categories of highway facilities: pavements and bridges. In order to enhance the robustness of analytical results, risk and uncertainty of input factors concerning traffic volumes, project costs, and discount rates are incorporated into the life-cycle cost computation using @Risk Palisade software, Version 5.5. For project selection, two-stage enhanced Knapsack model, hypergraph Knapsack, and two-stage hypergraph Knapsack model are proposed to choose the best sub-collection of interdependent projects to yield maximized overall benefits at various budget levels, while controlling the total risk within an acceptable level. In terms of two-stage Knapsack model, the Markowitz mean-variance model is utilized for stage-one optimization to generate minimized total risk of all projects subject to constraints of available budget and minimum benefits to be expected for individual projects. At the second stage, the Knapsack model is enhanced by adding stage-one optimization solution as one more constraint. Such a treatment could help control the total risk of overall benefits of all selected projects at a desirable level. Moreover, a hypergraph Knapsack model is introduced to capture project network impacts and interdependency relationships. In order to simultaneously address issues of networkwide project impacts, interdependencies, and total risk levels, a two-stage hypergraph Knapsack model is developed. Efficient solution algorithms are developed and coded to Frontline Solver Xpress V55 software to solve the two-stage Knapsack model, hypergraph Knapsack model, and two-stage hypergraph Knapsack model, respectively. Three computational studies are performed to apply the proposed methodology using two sets of data, including six-year data on 672 candidate projects proposed by Indiana Department of Transportation for state highway programming and 6 mega projects proposed by Illinois State Toll Highway Authority for tollway network major capital improvements. It has generally found that the use of two-stage Knapsack model could readily control the total risk of overall benefits of selected projects at a desirable level, but it may result in significant changes in the overall benefits for different budget levels where significant differences in risks are associated with individual projects. The hypergraph Knapsack model could effectively handle issues of networkwide project impacts and interdependency relationships. However, the two-stage hypergraph Knapsack model appears to be most robust in that it could simultaneously resolve the issues of networkwide project impacts, interdependency relationships, and total risks of overall project benefits, thus generating most reliable information to support rational transportation investment decision-making.
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, July 2012
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Title: SYSTEM SUPPORT FOR RESILIENCE IN LARGE-SCALE PARALLEL SYSTEMS: FROM CHECKPOINTING TO MAPREDUCE
Creator: Jin, Hui
Date: 2012-05-31, 2012-05
Description: High-Performance Computing (HPC) has passed the Petascale mark and is moving forward to Exascale. As the system ensemble size continues to...
Show moreHigh-Performance Computing (HPC) has passed the Petascale mark and is moving forward to Exascale. As the system ensemble size continues to grow, the occurrence of failures is the norm rather than the exception during the execution of parallel applications. Resilience is widely recognized as one of the key obstacles towards Exascale computing. Checkpointing is currently the de-facto fault tolerant mechanism for parallel applications. However, parallel checkpointing at scale usually generates bursts of concurrent I/O requests, imposes considerable overhead to I/O subsystems, and limits the scalability of parallel applications. Despite the doubt in the feasibility of checkpointing continues to increase, there is still no promising alternative on the horizon yet to replace checkpointing. MapReduce is a new programming model for massive data processing. It has demonstrated a compelling potential in reshaping the landscape of HPC from various perspectives. The resilience of MapReduce applications and its potential in benefiting HPC fault tolerance are active research topics that require extensive investigation. This thesis work targets at building a systematic framework to support resilience in large-scale parallel systems. We address the identified checkpointing performance issue through a three-fold approach: reduce the I/O overhead, exploit storage alternatives, and determine the optimistic checkpointing frequency. This three-fold approach is achieved with three different mechanisms, namely system coordination and scheduling, the utilization of MapReduce framework, and stochastic modeling. To deal with the increasing concerns about MapReduce resilience, we also strive to improve the reliability of MapReduce applications, and investigate the tradeoffs in the programming model selection (e.g., MPI v.s. MapReduce) from the perspective of resilience. This thesis provides a thorough study and a practical solution for solving the outstanding resilience problem of large-scale MPI-based HPC applications and beyond. It makes a noticeable contribution to the state-of-the-art and opens a new research direction for many to follow.
Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2012
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Title: Method of Analyzing Odors
Creator: Dravnieks, Andrew
Date: 2009-05-04, 1974-06-11
Description: A method of analyzing odors is provided in which an odorant sample is passed through a plurality of gas chromatographic columns having...
Show moreA method of analyzing odors is provided in which an odorant sample is passed through a plurality of gas chromatographic columns having stationary phases of differing chemical polarity. The numerical value of various subjective odor dimensions of the odorant sample which otherwise would involve subjective test panel analysis, may be determined from the retention times of the odorant sample with respect to the various stationary phase materials.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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Title: Teacher Knowledge Share (Semester Unknown) IPRO 320: Teacher Knowledge Share IPRO 320 Poster1 F08
Creator: Bern, David, Bochantin, Marike, Hartline, Julian, Mccall, Ian, Mick, Emily, Peake, Andrew, Pierce, Alison, Pindrik, Dmitriy, Quinn, Michael, Stanford, Carly, Tilatti, Michael
Date: 2008, 2008-12
Description: The goal of IPRO 320 is to create an online professional network for school teachers at the kindergarten through twelfth grade level to allow...
Show moreThe goal of IPRO 320 is to create an online professional network for school teachers at the kindergarten through twelfth grade level to allow for the sharing of ideas, lesson plans and other professionally relevant information. This is a continuing project which saw limited success in the previous semester in that a functioning web site was constructed based on surveys of public school teachers but it saw very little use. This semester, the planned approach is to build on the research generated last semester by performing additional market research with teachers. Following that, IPRO 320 will rework much of the previous web site by refining some of the features, adding additional ones as the research indicates and improving the website in general, both functionally and aesthetically.
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Title: A Mixed Use High Rise in Mumbai
Creator: Saleji, Irshad
Date: 2011-05, 2011-05
Description: C-ward is the neighborhood (in Mumbai) that was designed and developed around 1940 and thereafter there has been no or very little improvement...
Show moreC-ward is the neighborhood (in Mumbai) that was designed and developed around 1940 and thereafter there has been no or very little improvement in infrastructure, which has led to narrow street, unsafe pedestrian and limited open space. C-ward in one of the most prime real-estate location considering it right next to financial district , close to major train station and close to Shoreline. ROMF (Remaking of Mumbai Federation) has taken the initiative to develop the C-ward and the project site part of ROMF development area. City centers have always been source of density because of scarcity of land. The sensible and effective use of such land would be to build vertical (high-rise) and also to have the possibility of expansion for the future development. A mixed use high rise development diversifies the use of space within a single building structure. Combination of living, entertainment, shopping and lodging in single urban structure, helps to utilize the full potential of an urban site.
Sponsorship: Durbrow, John
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Title: Agent-based control of autocatalytic replicators in networks of reactors
Creator: Tatara, E., Birol, I., Teymour, F., Cinar, A.
Date: 2005-03-15
Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Description: Spatially distributed systems such as reactor networks hosting multiple autocatalytic species demonstrate a rich spectrum of complex behavior....
Show moreSpatially distributed systems such as reactor networks hosting multiple autocatalytic species demonstrate a rich spectrum of complex behavior. From a control systems perspective, spatially distributed systems offer a difficult control challenge because of their distributed nature, nonlinearity, and high order. Furthermore, manipulation of the network states may require simultaneous control actions in different parts of the system and may need transients through several operating regimes to achieve the desired operation. The lack of accurate and computationally efficient model-based techniques for large, spatially distributed systems results in complications in controlling the system, either in disturbance rejection or changing the operational regimes of the system. A hierarchical, agent-based control structure is presented whereby local control objectives may be changed in order to achieve the global control objective. The performance of the control system is demonstrated for several global objectives. The challenge posed is to control the spatial distribution of autocatalytic species in a network of five reactors hosting two species using the interaction flow rates as the manipulated variables. The multi-agent control system is able to effectively explore the parameter space of the network and intelligently manipulate the network flow rates such that the desired spatial distribution of species is achieved.
Endnote format citation for DOI:10.1016/j.compchemeng.2004.09.022
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Title: INFORMATION PROPAGATION DYNAMIC THROUGH VEHICLE TO VEHICLE COMMUNICATION NETWORK ON A ROAD SEGMENT
Creator: Wang, Lu
Date: 2015, 2015-12
Description: Vehicle-to-vehicle communication system enables vehicles to share various traffic information such as road surface condition, real-time...
Show moreVehicle-to-vehicle communication system enables vehicles to share various traffic information such as road surface condition, real-time traffic congestion, crashing alert or weather situation. Thus, it has a great potential to improve traffic safety, mobility and environmental sustainability. To grant this great promise, information availability plays a critical roles. Accordingly, many previous studies have investigated statistic characteristics (such as mean and variance) of information propagation (such as speed/time delay via instantaneous transmission, connectivity, etc.) integrating traffic flow features. However, few of them are able to capture the information spread dynamics based on V2V. Motivated by this view, this research seeks to develop a discrete mathematical approach to capture information coverage dynamics built upon traffic flow dynamics, which is described by discrete traffic flow dynamics, i.e., cell transmission model. The approach is entailed by developed mathematical model to capture inner-cell information propagation delay and inter-cell transmission based on the proposed information-traffic cell transmission model. The development of the proposed methodology considers a single or two piece(s) of information is (are) sequentially landed on a one-way or two-way road segment underVehicle-to-vehicle communication system enables vehicles to share various traffic information such as road surface condition, real-time traffic congestion, crashing alert or weather situation. Thus, it has a great potential to improve traffic safety, mobility and environmental sustainability. To grant this great promise, information availability plays a critical roles. Accordingly, many previous studies have investigated statistic characteristics (such as mean and variance) of information propagation (such as speed/time delay via instantaneous transmission, connectivity, etc.) integrating traffic flow features. However, few of them are able to capture the information spread dynamics based on V2V. Motivated by this view, this research seeks to develop a discrete mathematical approach to capture information coverage dynamics built upon traffic flow dynamics, which is described by discrete traffic flow dynamics, i.e., cell transmission model. The approach is entailed by developed mathematical model to capture inner-cell information propagation delay and inter-cell transmission based on the proposed information-traffic cell transmission model. The development of the proposed methodology considers a single or two piece(s) of information is (are) sequentially landed on a one-way or two-way road segment under sparse or congested traffic flow considered. Next-Generation simulation field data and Paramics simulated data are used to verify the accuracy of the experiments. Our experimental results show that the proposed model can accurately track information spread dynamics with mean absolute error less than 5% over all experiments. Key words: Vehicle-to-vehicle communication system; cell transmission model; time delay; information propagation coverage.
M.S. in Civil Engineering, December 2015
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Title: Planning the 21st Century Urban Farm: From High Rise to Neighborhood (sequence unknown), IPRO 336 - Deliverables: IPRO 336 IPRO Day Presentation F09
Creator: Bhatti, Talha, Binet, Adrien, Bredau, Jason, Chen, Emily, Davis, Jacob, Gaonkar, Gaurav, Garcia, Raul, Guerrero, Fernando, Gulling, Richard, Kagehiro, Michael, Moshfeghian, Elnaz, Nunez-gimeno, Jose, Phillips, Zachary, Plumb, Isaac, Ryan, Emily, Skaggs, Jake, Sobon, Konrad, Valmores, Travis
Date: 2009-12
Description: The purpose of this IPRO is to establish a strong foundation for the future of urban agriculture. The growing problems regarding the...
Show moreThe purpose of this IPRO is to establish a strong foundation for the future of urban agriculture. The growing problems regarding the traditional methods of agriculture, and the rate of growth of the world population, the team plans to design a method to grow food more efficiently and economically in urban areas. The team is looking at large, industrial warehouse-type buildings that have outlived their primary use, and creating a plan that utilizes these buildings to grow enough food for the surrounding communities.
Sponsorship: John Edel of Bubbly Dynamics, LLC
Deliverables for IPRO 336: Planning the 21st Century Urban Farm: From High Rise to Neighborhood for the fall 2009 semester
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Title: Zero CommunIITy: A Prototype for a Zero-Energy Residential Development (sequence unknown), IPRO 323 - Deliverables
Creator: Bohac, Adam, Brady, David, Bueno, Juan, Coughlin, Daniel, Depalma, Lowell, Gonzalez, Juan, Gross, Josh, Hernandez, Carlos, Iversen, Jennifer, Mckinley, Keanen, Moceri, Michael, Modi, Nishant, Wisniewski, Anthony, Zacharias, Bryan
Date: 2009-12
Description: The teams purpose is to seek a union between living comfortably and living sustainably. To design for a future Chicago‐area community, which...
Show moreThe teams purpose is to seek a union between living comfortably and living sustainably. To design for a future Chicago‐area community, which first minimizes its energy consumption and then uses the most sustainable methods to fulfill the remaining needs of the inhabitants. Ideally we will design a model community which will challenge conventions within the fields of design, planning, engineering, and everyday living. This community will also serve as an example to Chicago‐area municipalities about the benefits of sustainable planning, design, and living.
Sponsorship: Consultant from A. Epstein & Sons; Jeremy Poling
Deliverables for IPRO 323:Zero CommunIITy: A Prototype for a Zero-Energy Residential Development for the fall 2009 semester
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Title: Metal Cladding Process and Products Resulting Therefrom
Creator: Rostoker, William, Domagala, Robert F.
Date: 1962-10-30
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: Metal-Plastic Article
Creator: Sump, Cord H., Metcalfe, Arthur G., Troy, Walter C.
Date: 4/23/2009, 1966-01-25
Description: Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent

Title: Washington Park Center for Improvisational Music: Kellen White_Final Booklet_Spring 2010
Creator: White, Kellen
Date: 2010-07-30

Title: Challenge to the Pollution Haven Hypothesis: A Study of Northeast Asia and China
Creator: Shapiro, Matthew A.
Date: 2013, 2013
Description: This paper explores the phenomena of environmental coordination within Northeast Asia. I initially frame the discussion around claims that...
Show moreThis paper explores the phenomena of environmental coordination within Northeast Asia. I initially frame the discussion around claims that China is a pollution haven for its neighboring countries, and I look for evidence in the domestic and regional environmental institutions which challenge China’s pollution haven status. I find that that there is a science and technology-based epistemic community in Northeast Asia which provides an important theoretical response to counter the pollution haven hypothesis. As well, given its strong science and technological output, Japan is poised to assume leadership of the Northeast Asian environmental regime for at least the short- to medium-term.
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