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Title: Development Plan For The Michael Reese Site (Semester Unknown) IPRO 359: DevelopmentPlanForTheMichaelReeseSiteIPRO359PosterSp10
Creator: Beardsley, Erin, Grace, Heather, Masangkay, Rodolfh, O'brien, Patrick, Van Eaton, Justin, Weissman, Kathryn, Champlin, Austin, Lockowski, Wesley, Morgenthaler, Maximillian, Salisbury, Joshua, Waisath, Nathan, Chun, Amy, Knapczyk, Robert, Nguyen, Nam, Slonski, Bryan, Wang, Ruoxi
Date: 2010, 2010-05
Description: Our team purpose is to develop a project on the site of the old Michael Reese Hospital that develops the community, brings in revenue,...
Show moreOur team purpose is to develop a project on the site of the old Michael Reese Hospital that develops the community, brings in revenue, attracts development and revitalizes the surrounding areas. Our mission is to design something that attracts people and businesses through unique and innovative opportunities, as well as to establish a community where people can grow and develop leadership.
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Title: Crop to Cup Coffee: Building Communities through Coffee (Semester 2) IPRO 333: BuildingComunitiesThroughCoffeeIPRO333BrochureF10
Creator: Feldman, Laurie, Waterloo, Becca, Hurst, Trey, Chatterjee, Dia, Houser, Clay, Esko, Emily, Campbell, Laurel, Schmid, Miriam, Erie, Mike, Tam, Phil, Patel, Vishal, Swingler, Mark, Bloom, Ryan, Abbott, Matt
Date: 2010, 2010-12
Description: The mission of IPRO 333 is to assist the Crop to Cup Company with the design and building of an enclosure for a temporary storage facility...
Show moreThe mission of IPRO 333 is to assist the Crop to Cup Company with the design and building of an enclosure for a temporary storage facility within the vicinity of their largest producing farming zone for robusta coffee in the Mbale region of Uganda. The sponsor, along with the team, has decided that the best method for addressing the local and global needs of the farmers is to present the research and design personally. Therefore, IPRO 333 will be fundraising to help finance the forthcoming trip to Uganda to present to the farming communities.
Sponsorship: Crop to Cup
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Title: J2EE Versus .NET (Fall 2003) IPRO 337: J2EE Versus .NET IPRO337 Fall2003 Midterm Report
Creator: Rami, Amit, Paspali, Edmond, Shah, Kunal, Amin, Poojag, Guinee, Roger, Vassilev, Stoyan, Bhat, Supreeth, Singhal, Divya, Patel, Hiren, Lobo, Meryl, Kurra, Rajesh, Sharma, Ruby, Mccoy, Sunita
Date: 2003, 2003-12
Description: Distributed computing has become quintessential in the business world for its ability to connect people with information and resources. Two...
Show moreDistributed computing has become quintessential in the business world for its ability to connect people with information and resources. Two available technologies that provide distributed computing are Microsoft’s .NET and Sun’s J2EE. The objective of this Interprofessional Project is threefold: 1) to study both technologies, 2) to develop and analyze a list of criteria that are important to Bank One and how they develop software, and 3) to rate each criteria, which will help Bank One make an informed technology choice between .NET and J2EE, when reengineering legacy systems. At a high level, there are significant differences between these technologies. The .NET environment offers a host of programming languages and an integrated development environment. However, applications developed in .NET are limited to running on a Microsoft Operating System. J2EE offers one language, Java, but a wide selection of development tools. Applications developed in J2EE may run on several different operating systems. Bank One will have both .NET and J2EE available for development and by using Web Services they will be able to have separate modules communicate with each other.
Sponsorship: Bank One Corporation
Project Plan for IPRO 337: J2EE Versus .NET for Fall 2003 semester
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Title: Oak Park Energy Efficiency & Carbon Reduction (Semester Unknown) IPRO 329: OakParkEnergyEfficiencyAndCarbonReductionIPRO329FinalReportF10
Creator: Muyco, Michael, Broda, Dawid, Jardim, Thiago, Lakin, Colin, Moceri, Michael, Dexter, Eric, Kim, Tae-hoon, Lee, Seunggeun, Mohaimani, Aurash, Herman, Robert, Kungis, Andrew, Lim, Suk-hyun, Park, Minah
Date: 2010, 2010-12
Description: The overall purpose of the IPRO 329 team is to work with the Village of Oak Park in order to implement a strategic plan to educate Oak Park...
Show moreThe overall purpose of the IPRO 329 team is to work with the Village of Oak Park in order to implement a strategic plan to educate Oak Park residents in making their homes more efficient and work toward a community wide reduction of energy and water usage. In doing so, we also hope to gain valuable experience in working in a team with members with varying degrees of experience and skills.
Sponsorship: Oak Park
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Title: A FAT home: A_FAT_Home
Creator: Szajna, Conrad
Date: 2012, 2012-05
Description: The aim of this thesis is to revitalize suburban subdivisions not by destroying existing typology but by using the typical cookie cutter homes...
Show moreThe aim of this thesis is to revitalize suburban subdivisions not by destroying existing typology but by using the typical cookie cutter homes as a basis for re-envisioning subdivisions. By creating key room components, existing homes can expand outward to provide additional rooms for current family members, for older generations moving back home and/or for additional rental spaces as a way to supplement income. The end result creates unique spaces and courtyards that places the resident much closer to nature.
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Title: “I’d have to vote against you”: Issue Campaigning via Twitter
Creator: Roback, Andrew, Hemphill, Libby
Date: 2012-12-03, 2013
Description: Using tweets posted with #SOPA and #PIPA hashtags and directed at members of Congress, we identify six strategies constituents employ when...
Show moreUsing tweets posted with #SOPA and #PIPA hashtags and directed at members of Congress, we identify six strategies constituents employ when using Twitter to lobby their elected officials. In contrast to earlier research, we found that constituents do use Twitter to try to engage their officials and not just as a “soapbox” to express their opinions.
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Title: Biophilic Calumet
Creator: Meder, Robert
Date: 2010-07-29

Title: Our Energy Future (Semester Unknown) IPRO 332: How Many Earths IPRO 332 Poster F08
Creator: Colburn, Charleen, Fujimoto, Haruko, Galo, Audrey, Guglielmo, Kyle, Jackson, Carlissa, Jurasits, Joseph, Ndoping, Marco, Rennard, Maile, Reynolds, Crystal, Roslund, Richard, Szpiech, Paulina
Date: 2008, 2008-12
Description: Very little unbiased information is available to the general public about energy needs, concerns, and sources. The philosophy behind IPRO 332...
Show moreVery little unbiased information is available to the general public about energy needs, concerns, and sources. The philosophy behind IPRO 332 is that people should be sufficiently educated about their own energy choices to be able think critically about the corresponding consequences. This IPRO team will build on the work underway since Spring 2007 in developing effective methods for educating high school students about energy and sustainability, expanding our outreach to junior high school students. In addition, the team will: (1) Construct a Teaching Kit to extend the reach of the program beyond the Chicago metropolitan area to provide educators with the materials they will need to present the modules on their own and tailor it to their classrooms; (2) Complete the full-scale launch of the organization’s website, www.howmanyearths.com, to enrich the learning experience, provide a professional contact interface and build a community of engaged teachers and students; (3) Execute a formal marketing plan to build awareness of our efforts, establish our brand image, promote our work, and greatly increase visibility; and (4) Pursue grants and funding with the goal of establishing a viable, long-term, not-for-profit organization.
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Title: Silver Nanoparticles Indicators of Thermal History (Semester Unknown) IPRO 317: SilverNanoParticlesIndicatorsOfThermalHistoryIPRO317PosterSp09
Creator: Schillaci, Michael, De Nicolo, Marisa, Larkin, Evan, Hammes, Katherine, Peavler, Jennifer, Wicker, Amanda, Arnoux, Christian, Ucci, Russell, Justice, Grant, Konwar, Riju, Pyciak, Mark, Yaker, Farouk, Darwish, Muhammad, Petsod, Jason, Ismail, Malisa, Adejinle, Remi, Kyle, Ryan, Apampa, Kunle, Apyan, Aram, Bijonowski, Brent, Adamczyk, Paul, Muchna, Joseph, Bednarz, Mathew, Mbaegbu, Amaka
Date: 2009, 2009-12
Description: A. The primary purpose of IPRO 317 is to prove the merit of using silver nanorods as a thermal history indicator. The extended purpose of IPRO...
Show moreA. The primary purpose of IPRO 317 is to prove the merit of using silver nanorods as a thermal history indicator. The extended purpose of IPRO 317 is to convert the production of silver nanorods from a batch process to a continuous flow process. B. To accomplish this our team will:  Gain deeper understanding of batch process.  Research continuous flow processes with an emphasis on microreactors 6  Design and simulate a continuous flow process for production of silver nanorods with the aid of a computer simulation software.
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Title: Oxygen Carrying Multiple Emulsions
Creator: Zheng, Shuming, Beissinger, Richard L., Wasan, Darsh T., Sehgal, Lakshman, Rosen, Arthur L.
Date: 2009-05-11, 1995-08-01
Description: A process is provided wherein hemoglobin, a fragile material, is formulated into high hemoglobin content water-in-oil-in-water multiple...
Show moreA process is provided wherein hemoglobin, a fragile material, is formulated into high hemoglobin content water-in-oil-in-water multiple emulsion while maintaining high yields and high oxygen exchange activity. A multiple emulsion of aqueous oxygen carrying material in oil in outer aqueous phase is suitable for provision of oxygen for oxygen transfer processes. A hemoglobin multiple emulsion in physiologically compatible oil in an outer aqueous saline solution is provided in sufficiently small droplet size to provide oxygen flow through blood vessels to desired body tissues or organs thereby providing a blood substitute.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
Sponsorship: Northfield Laboratories, Inc.
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Title: SITE-DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS STUDY OF VITREOSCILLA HEMOGLOBIN-THE ROLE OF TYROSINE (B10) AND PROLINE (E8) IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE LIGAND-BINDING SITE
Creator: Zhang, Yifan
Date: 2015, 2015-05
Description: Vitreoscilla is a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacterium which has the capability to synthesis a soluble, homodimertic hemoglobin,...
Show moreVitreoscilla is a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacterium which has the capability to synthesis a soluble, homodimertic hemoglobin, Vitreoscilla hemoglobin (VHb). The Vitreoscilla hemoglobin was the first bacterial hemoglobin discovered, and has a wide range of biological and biotechnological applications. The distal site is one of the hot spots in VHb studies because of its unique structure. The Tyrosine residue at B10 and its hydrogen bonded Proline at E8 were considered as the ligand binding functional sites in distal space of VHb according to the previous study. In this study, two single mutated and one double mutated Vitreoscilla hemoglobin at position B10 and E8 were constructed and purified. In the two single mutants, the Tyr at B10 and the Pro at E8 were mutated to Ala. In the double mutant, both of the sites were mutated to Ala. The CO di↵erence spectrum data of the mutants indicate that the ligand binding ability of the Vitreoscilla hemoglobin was not neutralized by the mutations at ProE8 and TyrB10. Circular dichroism spectrum data of the mutants is similar to the wild type Vitreoscilla hemoglobin, which means the globin secondary structure is conserved. However the micro-environment in the distal sites is changed: the IR spectrum of the carbonyl stretch bond red-shifted in the CO bound VHb double mutant. A molecular dynamic simulation was introduced in the study to o↵er some guidance for future research plans. The simulation results showed that the B10 and E8 residue mutated to Ala might reduce the flexibility of the D-region, because of the more completed C and E helix. The volume of cavity where the heme group inserts changes significantly in various mutant models, which may provide a rough explanation of the change in carbonyl stretch bond IR spectrum. Additionally, an interesting conformation of Gln E7 was found in the simulation of double mutant model.
M.S. in Biology, May 2015
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Title: DISTRIBUTED VIDEO CODING FOR RESOURCE CONSTRAINED VIDEO APPLICATIONS
Creator: Liu, Wenhui
Date: 2014, 2014-05
Description: Video coding technology has played a key role in the explosion of current multimedia society with increasing resolution and quality. Such big...
Show moreVideo coding technology has played a key role in the explosion of current multimedia society with increasing resolution and quality. Such big success is largely built on the conventional video coding paradigm where motion estimation and compensation are performed at the encoder. This asymmetry in complexity is well-suited for the applications where the video sequence is encoded once and decoded many times. However, some new emerging applications such as wireless video surveillance, wireless PC cameras and multimedia sensor networks require a low complexity encoding, while possibly a ording a high complexity decoding. Therefore, a challenging problem emerges with the new type of visual communication system is how to achieve low complexity encoding video compression while maintaining good coding e ciency. Distributed video coding (DVC) provides low complexity encoding solutions for video communication with limited computational power or energy constraints. In DVC, the source video information is independently encoded at lightweight encoders. At the decoder, all the received bitstreams are jointly exploited their statistical dependencies between them. In such a way, motion estimation and its computational complexity is shifted from the encoder to the decoder. However, DVC also has its own restrictions. The low coding e ciency remains a challenging issue for DVC compare to the conventional video coding. Although DVC is robust to channel loss due to its intrinsic feature of independent encoders and joint decoder, the error resiliency for medium to large transmission errors is weak. In this dissertation, previously proposed low-complexity DVC (LC-DVC) architecture is rstly introduced. After that, a continued work is presented to further improve quality of SI. The proposed method is called spatio-temporal joint bilateral upsampling (STJBU) based SI generation, where geometric closeness of pixels and their photometric similarity is exploited to reduce the noise while preserving the edge xiv information. Moreover, a distributed multiple description coding (DMDC) scheme is proposed by combining the multiple description (MD) coding into LC-DVC to improve its error resiliency. All the proposed schemes are well described and the ratedistortion analyses are presented in this dissertation. All these features have made the LC-DVC a great solution for resource constraints applications.
PH.D in Electrical Engineering, May 2014
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Title: Combating Underage Drinking and Driving (Semester Unknown) IPRO 351: CombatingUnderageDrinkingandDrivingIPRO351AbstractF10
Creator: Hajakian, Melene, Cartabiano, Vincent, Abbasi, Rawan, Salem, Stephanie, Macon, Briana, Graham, Stuart, Kurenty, Edinam, Mazur, Mikayla, Menezes, Sandra, Nealy, Kimberly, Svaldi, Jared, Szalko, Alex, Wong, Claire
Date: 2010, 2010-12
Description: A. The team purpose is to combat underage drinking and driving B. Application/Testing Design:  To develop i-phone applications New/Existing...
Show moreA. The team purpose is to combat underage drinking and driving B. Application/Testing Design:  To develop i-phone applications New/Existing Tech:  Develop a comparable device that will be competitive in the market Behavior and Survey:  Gather data to find out what people want (validation) or would be interested in --- our target market Finance/Marketing:  Compile details/info to create a business plan – opportunity assessment
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Title: The Michael Reese Campus: An Interprofessional Urban Development Problem (Semester Unknown) IPRO 356: TheMichaelReeseCampusIPRO356MidTermPresentationSp11
Creator: Abro, Anam, Anderson, Brieg, Bobak, Tadeusz, Brenner, Kevin, Brown, Damon, Cretiu, Peter, Cuevas, Jose, Ferrari, Howard, Jarosz, Michelle, Jeong, Hye Sun, Muyco, Michael, Spencer, Samantha
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: IPRO 356 is a team of students from multiple disciplines tasked with the goal of designing a second anchor for the Michael Reese to accompany...
Show moreIPRO 356 is a team of students from multiple disciplines tasked with the goal of designing a second anchor for the Michael Reese to accompany the planned continued care community designed by the previous semester’s IPRO. The anchor will help meet the needs of the community as well as improve the economic condition of the current surrounding area by bringing jobs, people, and revenue to the Michael Reese site. The team will help in a revitalization of Chicago’s south side.
Sponsorship: CB Richard Ellis, Jones Lang LaSalle, City of Chicago and other stakeholders
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Title: MIN- AREA RETIMING UNDER WIRE-DELAY MODEL
Creator: Luo, Tianchen
Date: 2011-05-09, 2011-05
Description: Retiming is a powerful optimization technique for synchronize sequential circuits that relocates delay unit without changing the circuit’s...
Show moreRetiming is a powerful optimization technique for synchronize sequential circuits that relocates delay unit without changing the circuit’s input-output functionality. Wire delay is significant and can no longer be ignored in deep sub-micrometer technologies. Existing algorithms solve the problem of min-area and min-period either optimal or heuristically without taking wire delay into consideration. However, those techniques cannot be applied directly to circuit with wire delay. Recent work solved the min-period problem under wire delay model. This paper proposes an algorithm that solves the problem of min-area wire retiming under fixed clock period optimally and efficiently.
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2011
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Title: Nonlinear time series models for multivariable dynamic processes
Creator: Cinar, A.
Date: 1995-11
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Description: Several paradigms are available for developing nonlinear dynamic input-output models of processes. Polynomial models, threshold models, models...
Show moreSeveral paradigms are available for developing nonlinear dynamic input-output models of processes. Polynomial models, threshold models, models based on spline functions, and polynomial models with exponential and trigonometric functions can describe various types of nonlinearities and pathological behavior observed in many physical processes. A unified nonlinear model development framework is not available, and the search of the appropriate nonlinear structure is part of the model development effort. Various artificial neural network structures and nonlinear time series model structures are presented and illustrated by developing a model from data sets generated by a series of example systems. The use of a nonlinear model development paradigm which is not compatible with the types of nonlinearities that exist in the data can have a significant effect on model development effort and model accuracy.
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Title: Synthetic Biology: Engineering a Novel Organism (semester?), IPRO 302
Creator: Allam, Emad, Bridgeman, Bryan, Chen, Hoa, Hussain, Faraz, Hutchinson, Daniel, King, Heather, Le, Thien, Lim, Soo, Liu, Lily, Mahmud, Saba, Maltby, Edward, Patel, Sid, Ramirez, Hazel, Ross, Trillian
Date: 2006-05, 2006-05
Description: Our objectives are fairly straightforward. If the genetic code can be called its own language, then we want to become fluent in it. The...
Show moreOur objectives are fairly straightforward. If the genetic code can be called its own language, then we want to become fluent in it. The current technology does not allow us the ability to “write our own novel” (i.e. make a new organism from scratch), but what we can do is write our own pamphlet. This semester, we are trying to complete our test case, which is to create a colony of Escherichia coli that flash different colors all in unison. Once we complete this task, we hope to export this system into higher organisms, such as Zebrafish (Danio rerio). We are also seeking to move forward conceptually by planning long term goals for the Ipro, such as the development of not just test cases, but new, useful organisms.
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Title: INCORPORATING INVARIANCE INTO SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE FOR DETECTION OF MICROCALCIFICATIONS
Creator: Yang, Yan
Date: 2011-11-16, 2011-12
Description: In this thesis, we explore methods for incorporating invariance into a support vector machine (SVM) classifier in detection of clustered...
Show moreIn this thesis, we explore methods for incorporating invariance into a support vector machine (SVM) classifier in detection of clustered microcalcifications (MC) in mammogram images. Unlike standard SVM, both virtual SVM and tangent vector SVM can include prior information into a trained model. We formulate MC detection as a two-class classification problem and apply these three types of SVM classifiers to this problem. The issue of dimensional reduction is considered in the tangent vector SVM, which has influence on the computational cost and complexity of the algorithm. We test and compare their performance on a set of 200 clinical mammogram images which contain a total of 5,115 MCs. In the experiments these classifiers are optimized with a training procedure for model selection. We evaluate the detection performance using both receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and free-response operating characteristic (FROC) curves. The results show that both virtual SVM and tangent vector SVM can outperform the standard SVM. The use of dimensional reduction in tangent vector SVM can effectively reduce the computational cost.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, December 2011
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Title: Elevator Control System
Creator: Schwarz, Ernst L.
Date: 1942-03-31
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation
United States Patent

Title: Method for Efficient Heat Treatment of Steel
Creator: Nash, Philip, Sista, Vivekanand, Sahay, Satyam
Date: 2012-03-20, 2011-11-29
Description: A method for heat treatment of steel and a system thereof is provided. First the steel is austenitized at a suitable temperature and then the...
Show moreA method for heat treatment of steel and a system thereof is provided. First the steel is austenitized at a suitable temperature and then the temperature is rapidly brought down to the austempering temperature. Here the cyclic austempering is carried out between two austempering temperatures by modulating the temperature with controlled heating and cooling and the controlled temperature modulation is obtained by controlling the temperature-time profile in a batch furnace or by controlling the zone temperatures in a continuous furnace. This method of cyclic austempering reduces the austempering time, reduces the energy consumption and emissions, enhances the productivity and reduces the process cost.
Sponsorship: Tata Consultancy Services, Ltd. and Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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