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Title: L2E ESTIMATOR FOR THE CATEGORICAL MODEL WITH ELASTIC NET PENALTY
Creator: Wang, Yuan
Date: 2017, 2017-07
Description: The logistic regression model is an important generalized linear model for the categorical data. The maximum likelihood estimation is mostly...
Show moreThe logistic regression model is an important generalized linear model for the categorical data. The maximum likelihood estimation is mostly used in estimating the parameters of the logistic regression model. However, the maximum likelihood estimation is very sensitive to outliers which will cause the inaccuracies of the fitted parameters and model selection in high-dimensional regression. Chi and Scott (2014) demonstrated by simulation that minimizing the integrated square error or L2 estimation (L2E) is a robust method to fit 2-class categorical models. They also showed that the L2E estimation method can select the right model even in the presence of many outliers in high dimensional scenarios. In my thesis, I extended the L2E estimation method from 2-class to 3-class based on the MM algorithm by Chi and Scott (2014). Then I demonstrated the properties above for 2-class categorical models are also applicable to 3-class ones.
M.S. in Applied Mathematics, July 2017
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Title: Environmental Wood Reclamation (Semester Unknown) EnPRO 350: Environmental Wood Reclamation EnPRO 350 Final Presentation Su08
Creator: Budzinski, Catherine, Canales, Hernan, Chunuwe, Felix, Farris, Tasha, Fontes De Faria, Gabriel, Heppel, Chris, Ihmoud, Sana, Lee, Melissa, Martin, Amy, Mitchell, Victor, Patel, Avni, Rivas, Karen, Valadez, Julia, Jessica, Workman, Herman, Herman
Date: 2008, 2008-07
Description: This is the first semester of EnPro 350. Although the title suggests wood reclamation via arts and crafts, we have decided to expand the focus...
Show moreThis is the first semester of EnPro 350. Although the title suggests wood reclamation via arts and crafts, we have decided to expand the focus to reclamation via urban wood and lumber. We would like to start a business that addresses a need in the market for convenient removal of dead or infested trees in an urban setting. This encompasses all trees not located in forests or tree groves, and includes those found in urban setting. Often, the expense to remove one’s trees from his property is a time-intensive, confusing, and expensive process. We have decided to provide the service of tree health assessment, removal, processing, lumber certification, and marketing through utilizing the concept of vertical integration. Mission Statement: "To Satisfy Our Customers by Providing High Quality Wood from Urban Forests while Creating a Positive Change in the Environment"
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Title: Inflatable Greenhouse (semester?), IPRO 344: Infaltable Greenhouse IPRO 334 Abstract Sp06
Creator: Cervantes, Heidi, Ferraro, Christie, Lucid, Shannon, Teefey, Aaron, Woods, Nathaniel, Bains, Jasmeet, Ching, Neal, Langman, Michael, Mccrory, Reuben, Valdez, Oscar, Wright Iii, James, Bilderback, Matthew, Choi, David, Larson, Jeffrey, Meyer, Chad, Wang, Xiang, Carroll, Daniel, Crandell, Daniel, Lim, Eungjum, Nedrud, Joshua, Wojcik, Michael
Date: 2006-05, 2006-05
Description: The purpose of the Inflatable Greenhouse IPRO was to design an air supported structure that was cheaper than the current greenhouse solution....
Show moreThe purpose of the Inflatable Greenhouse IPRO was to design an air supported structure that was cheaper than the current greenhouse solution. The structural support of current greenhouses creates shadows that prevent an even sunlight exposure for the plants. The other issues we investigated were the cost, size, thermal control, and pest control of current greenhouse designs. The majority of the cost for a traditional greenhouse goes towards the structural support therefore an air supported structure should be significantly cheaper. The basic greenhouse design is oriented towards human occupants and is subsequently quite large. If the greenhouse was instead designed to house the plants already in the ground, just for the months that they needed shelter to grow, the cut back in size would also greatly affect the cost. We also looked into the thermal qualities of greenhouses. The very nature of a greenhouse absorbs and traps the light and heat of the sun. Without a cooling system a greenhouse can overheat and harm the plants within it. The other problem we found with current greenhouses was the pest control solution. Most greenhouses use strong chemicals that require special training for use and safety. Even the “organic” solutions use natural chemicals in concentrations considered toxic. Our goal was to design a greenhouse that would address each of these issues with a cheap and practical solution.
Deliverables for IPRO 334: Inflatable Greenhouse for the Spring 2006 semester
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Title: HawkTour (semester?), IPRO 305
Creator: Murali, Rohit, An, Sangmin, Jastrzebski, Marcin, Jenyo, Olumayowa, Kodamanchili, Richard, Dixon, Dave, Charles, Jodel, Ilea, Nicu
Date: 2005-05, 2005-05
Description: The Spring 2005 IPRO 305 team will be continuing the efforts of ongoing research at IIT in the realm of Pervasive Computing. The team will be...
Show moreThe Spring 2005 IPRO 305 team will be continuing the efforts of ongoing research at IIT in the realm of Pervasive Computing. The team will be focusing on the challenge of integrating Pervasive Computing into a specific aspect of the IIT campus. The overall vision of the IPRO 305 team is to continue efforts to develop an application called HawkTour – a virtual Illinois Institute of Technology tour guide. HawkTour will provide a completely new approach to the campus tour at IIT. The application has been designed to run on Tablet PC’s or other devices with similar computing capabilities, and provides the user with general campus information while guiding the user around campus and maintaining complete awareness of the user’s current location and intent, thereby adapting the tour to the user’s own personal preferences. The objective for this semester’s team is to refine the application and come up with a new version with an optimized content database, a more sophisticated hardware interface, improve the mapping methodology, work on the user interface and scale of the application to simpler devices such as cell phones and personal digital assistants.
Sponsorship: ekahau
Deliverables for IPRO 305: HawkTour for the Spring 2005 semester
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Title: A Recyclables Business Model for IIT (Semester Unknown) EnPRO 352
Creator: Wright, Sarah, Fraser, Linnea, Kim, Joseph, Mccabe, Mary, Goduco, Mike, Ramirez, Hugo, Vega, Daniel, O’toole, Bill, Shin, Eddie, Cumar, Raghuveer
Date: 2010, 2010-12
Description: contain the employees necessary to run and maintain the multiple programs which will be controlled by the Student Recycling Business. This...
Show morecontain the employees necessary to run and maintain the multiple programs which will be controlled by the Student Recycling Business. This business will also be in charge of creating events which will help to get the students, staff and faculty of IIT more involved in the recycling process. For prolonged success, the marketing component of any business plan is possibly one of the most essential. Within a student-run business, the need for campus support is enough motivation to implement an effective marketing strategy to advertise the products and gain an appropriate reputation. In terms of recycling, to achieve desired results for a specific objective requires that the target audience is fully informed. Thus, an awareness campaign must be introduced before any expected business success is observed. As shown by the provided data, the large diversity on campus has and most likely will always remain a unique attribute of IIT. Not only do the ethnicity and gender size vary from one category to the next, but the large demographic range (age) that is not presented due to unattainable information is also a significant factor in target marketing. Having language barriers and large generational gaps makes it difficult to impose a single marketing strategy all over campus. A successful marketing plan will overcome these obstacles with ideas that integrate all backgrounds and avoid cultural seclusion.
Sponsorship: IIT
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Title: Dry Alkali Chlorotitanates and Method of Making the Same
Creator: Schossberger, Frederic V.
Date: 1958-10-21
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: The IIT Reality: Finding a Job (semester?), IPRO 333: IIT Reality - Finding a job as IIT Grad IPRO 333 Project Plan F06
Creator: Allen, David Charles, Campana, Julia, Carlton, Kyle, Dela Cruz, Miguel, Lenzen, Paul, Mims, Megan, Olmos, Oscar, Pham, Christian, Pula, Janusz, Roberts, Ben, Woods, Carolyn J.
Date: 2006-12, 2006-12
Description: This semester IPRO 333, Video Documentary – Getting a Job after Graduation, is aiming its effort to help Illinois Institute of Technology...
Show moreThis semester IPRO 333, Video Documentary – Getting a Job after Graduation, is aiming its effort to help Illinois Institute of Technology Students get better jobs after graduation. This continuation of an earlier IPRO will strive to produce a video that presents four different challenges to be completed in the job seeking process. Students will work together in four “challenge” teams as well as three technical teams to accomplish its objective.
Deliverables for IPRO 333: The IIT Reality - Finding a Job for the Fall 2006 semester
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Title: Monitoring Safety of Railway Tank Cars (Fall 1999) IPRO 013: Monitoring Safety of Railway Tank Cars IPRO013 Fall1999 Final Presentation
Creator: Gupta, Kapil, Zukauskas, Elena, Patel, Jayesh, Lin, Shan
Date: 1999, 1999-12
Description: Railroad tank cars are efficient vehicles for the transport of large quantities of liquid commodities in North America. These commodities...
Show moreRailroad tank cars are efficient vehicles for the transport of large quantities of liquid commodities in North America. These commodities include foodstuffs as well as a wide range of chemicals use in the process industries. Transport Canada and the U.S. Department of Transportation collaborate in the formulation of rules and regulations for the transportation of hazardous commodities. While the incidence of non-accident release (NARs) is very small there is nevertheless a further collaborative effort by shippers and car owners alike to reduce the incidence of NARs to zero. One approach in reducing NARs is to develop a means to identify small leaks immediately, while the vehicle is in transit. The IPRO team will identify and evaluate methods for detecting small leaks using car mounted sensors and alerting the shipper of the leak automatically form remote locations. This includes consideration of how to mount sensors and telemetry devices, log data, predict unacceptable trends and incidents, and report them in a timely, reliable and cost-effective fashion. The technologies involved in the development of such a system would include characterization of target chemicals, sensors and date transmission, mounting to the tank car, evaluation of the econ0omic viability of the concepts, and identification of potential legal implications.
Sponsorship: Union Tank Car Company
Project Plan for IPRO 013: Monitoring Safety of Railway Tank Cars for the Fall 1999 semester
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Title: Multivariate statistical methods for monitoring continuous processes: Assessment of discrimination power of disturbance models and diagnosis of multiple disturbances
Creator: Raich, A. C., Cinar, A.
Date: 1995-11
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Description: A new methodology was reported [1,2] for integrated use of principal components analysis (PCA) and discriminant analysis in order to determine...
Show moreA new methodology was reported [1,2] for integrated use of principal components analysis (PCA) and discriminant analysis in order to determine out-of-control status of a continuous process and to diagnose the source causes for abnormal behavior. Most of the disturbances were identified with good rates of success, with a higher success rate for step or ramp type of disturbances. Quantitative tools that evaluate overlap and similarity between high-dimensional PCA models are proposed in this communication, and their implications on determining the discrimination power of PCA models of processes operating under disturbances are discussed. Diagnosis of several disturbances occurring simultaneously is also investigated. The criterion developed provide upper limits of discrimination power of various single and multiple process disturbances. The techniques developed are illustrated by assessing the process described by the Tennessee Eastman Control Challenge problem [3].
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Title: Green Leaf Community (Semester Unknown) IPRO 357: GreenleafCommunity IPRO357PosterF10
Creator: Beck, Steve, Paschal, William, Snyder, Mark, Rueda, Jorge, Hegde, Namrata, Semenova, Svetlana, Xiao, Yao, Anglin, Christopher, Qaisar, Samir, Sung Shin, Woo, Yun, Joonggeun, Prokop, Samantha
Date: 2010, 2010-12
Description: Our purpose is to study the design of sustainable residential housing model designed by the Inter-professional group in the fall of 2009 and...
Show moreOur purpose is to study the design of sustainable residential housing model designed by the Inter-professional group in the fall of 2009 and determine the construction costs for the model. This along with the market analysis will set a baseline price for the average buyer of this home. Our goal is to redesign this model with the current economic market in mind and make this model of sustainable design marketable and economically feasible with use of more efficient designing and systems.
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Title: PARAMETRIC IMAGE ESTIMATION IN ANALYZER-BASED PHASE CONTRAST IMAGING
Creator: Caudevilla, Oriol
Date: 2014, 2014-07
Description: Since the discovery of X-rays, by W.E. Roentgen in 1895, absorption-contrast imaging has been widely used in medical diagnostic, for example:...
Show moreSince the discovery of X-rays, by W.E. Roentgen in 1895, absorption-contrast imaging has been widely used in medical diagnostic, for example: mammography, chest X-ray, angiography etc. Over the last 25 years many researchers have shown that phase-contrast X-ray imaging is capable of obtaining a better contrast then classical absorption-contrast imaging. This is especially true in soft tissue imaging like mammography or at higher Xrays energies. During the past five years a significant effort has made in development of a tabletop analyzer-based phase-contrast system. In this system a perfect crystal is used to generate a quasi-monochromatic beam, which after interacting with an object is analyzed by a second perfect crystal called analyzer. The need of quasi-monochromatic beam and the low brilliance of conventional X-ray sources (CXS) has been the major limiting factor for tabletop systems. The work presents in this thesis aims to develop novel reconstruction methods for tabletop analyzer-based phase-contrast imaging (ABI) systems. The presented reconstruction methods goal is to minimize the impact of CXS low brilliance by utilizing phase-contrast image formation model and maximum or maximum-a-posteriori Poisson likelihood approach. Finally, a fast-convergent conjugate gradient optimization algorithm has been derived specifically for Poisson likelihood function maximization.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, July 2014
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Title: Magnetic Recorder and Reproducer for Video
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 1959-08-18
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: Combating Underage Drinking and Driving (Semester Unknown) EnPRO 351: CombatingUnderageDrinkingandDrivingEnPRO351AbstractSp10
Creator: Burnett, Shana, Choi, Minsung, Garfinkle, Faye, Howe, Phaedra, Jin Kim, Hyo, Macon, Briana, Perez, Alicia, Salem, Stephanie
Date: 2010, 2010-05
Description: The purpose of IPRO 351 is to create a product that discourages minors driving under the influence of alcohol that will act as an unbiased...
Show moreThe purpose of IPRO 351 is to create a product that discourages minors driving under the influence of alcohol that will act as an unbiased mediator that takes the decision of driving drunk out of the driver‟s hands. Our goal is to determine the most efficient, cost effective means to achieve this and to obtain, through surveys and continued research, a possible market that would be interested in the design.
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Title: Conceptual Design and Planning for the Environment of Chicago Area Health Clinics by Access Community Health (Semester Unknown) IPRO 340: Design of a “Green” Community IPRO 340 Ethics F08
Creator: Bellamy, Ernest, Bo, Loren, Chung, Lawrence, Dipego, Danielle, Gala, Pankti, Glover, Crystal, Howe, Phaedra, Khanna, Omaditya, Park, Jongpil, Wahlstrom Helgren, Sarah, Yu, Mary, Ziswa, Sungano
Date: 2008, 2008-12
Description: In the 21st century, medical technology is advancing at a rapid rate, thus allowing people to benefit from new treatments being developed....
Show moreIn the 21st century, medical technology is advancing at a rapid rate, thus allowing people to benefit from new treatments being developed. However, much of the underserved and underinsured public are not benefiting from the breakthroughs as one might expect. In order for the existing facilities to better serve the public, gradual transformations and upgrades must be made. This is the challenge being tackled by our IPRO: How can we realistically suggest a renovation model for existing Access Community Health Network facilities which would promote cost efficiency and technological advancement in both environmental and operational capacities? - The primary objective of this session of IPRO 340 is to deliver a five-year model for which existing Access Community Healthcare facilities can be shaped into more environmentally and operationally efficient centers for medical treatment. - In designing such a model, secondary goals include familiarization with cutting edge medical technology, modernized building flow, spatial relations, as well as the development of business process models. In addition, we plan to investigate ways in which Access Community Healthcare can enhance the level of patient experience by making peoples’ visit to their facilities more enjoyable and informative.
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Title: An Alternative Car Show: An Alternateive Vehicle Insfrastructure
Creator: Hopkins, Kyle
Date: 2010-07-29

Title: NEUTRON PRODUCTION IN THE M2 MUON BEAM LINE AT CERN
Creator: Draeger, Emily
Date: 2014, 2014-05
Description: Spallation neutrons produced from cosmic ray muons are a major source of backgrounds in underground physics experiments. Experiments have been...
Show moreSpallation neutrons produced from cosmic ray muons are a major source of backgrounds in underground physics experiments. Experiments have been done to study spallation neutron production and yield, but our understanding of these processes is still limited. There are various interactions that can produce spallation neutrons. Most of these production mechanisms are fairly well understood; much of the uncertainty in our understanding of spallation neutrons lies in mechanisms such as virtual photon exchange and the assumptions used to calculate the photonuclear cross section. Even the experiments that have been carried out do not agree with each other or theoretical calculations. Spallation neutron production mechanisms are discussed, as well as a new experiment to study spallation neutrons. The impact of this study on current and future underground physics experiments is also explored.
PH.D in Physics, May 2014
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Title: Design of a Simulator for Mechanical Loading of Garage Door Operator Systems over a Wide Temperature Range (Fall 2003) IPRO 324: Design of a Simulator for Mechanical Loading of Garage Door Operating Systems IPRO324 Fall2003 Final Report
Creator: Shan Tang, Viola Wing, Sveum, Peter, Muliere, Peter, Majnert, Tom, Lukongwa, Tonny, Lee, Donghoon, Komano, Yoshikazu, Durodola, Jimoh, Cerney, Matt, Casas, Guillermo A.
Date: 2003, 2003-12
Description: The goal of this project is to develop algorithms to be used in a virtual simulation of a garage door’s operation and to construct a working...
Show moreThe goal of this project is to develop algorithms to be used in a virtual simulation of a garage door’s operation and to construct a working prototype that functions in the Thermotron environmental test chamber in The Chamberlain Group, Inc. facility in Elmhurst in order to collect data under a range of temperatures and humidity as well as a range of loading conditions. The simulator had to be made to fit as many of the operators under test as possible inside the limited size Thermotron that is not large enough to take the operator and a full garage door.
Sponsorship: The Chamberlain Group, Inc.
Project Plan for IPRO 324: Design of a Simulator for Mechanical Loading of Garage Door Operator Systems over a Wide Temperature Range for Fall 2003 semester
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Title: Application of Solar Thermal Heating Technologies in Large Scale Buildings in the Urban Environment (semester?), IPRO 328: Solar Thermal Tech for Large Bldgs IPRO 328 Project Plan F04
Creator: Tokarz, Christopher, Pannala, Harsha, Kelley, Kristen, Sutalo, Joseph, Jeong, Jae-sun, Huber, Sean, Shah, Rajiv, Mahadevan, Sriram, Odom, Justin
Date: 2004-12, 2004-12
Description: To provide heating to the pool facility and surrounding spaces of Keating Sport Facility through the use of solar thermal collectors placed in...
Show moreTo provide heating to the pool facility and surrounding spaces of Keating Sport Facility through the use of solar thermal collectors placed in the immediate area. • To discover which form or solar collector has the highest potential payback if used. • To discover if modification of the building envelop has a potential to reduce the energy load produced by Keating Sports Facility. • To study the possibilities of using sustainable system to provide for the cooling of Keating sports facility. • To study the impact of solar thermal Technologies can have on Chicago as a whole
Deliverables for IPRO 328: Application of Solar Thermal Heating Technologies in Large Scale Buildings in the Urban Environment for the Fall 2004 semester
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Title: INTELLIGENT PROCESS-CONTROL WITH SUPERVISORY KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS
Creator: Kendra, S. J., Basila, M. R., Cinar, A.
Date: 1994-06
Description: The integration of a supervisory knowledge-based system (KBS) with a multivariable control system is examined to provide robust multivariable...
Show moreThe integration of a supervisory knowledge-based system (KBS) with a multivariable control system is examined to provide robust multivariable control of a chemical reaction process. The supervisory KBS is capable of monitoring the process to detect system faults as well as assessing control system performance. If a control system performance deficiency is detected, the KBS formulates and implements the necessary corrective controller tuning. This adaptive capability reduces the conservatism of the robust control system. The underlying mechanisms are discussed and the re-tuning ability of the KBS is illustrated by using rigorous simulations of a chemical reaction process
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Title: Personal VTOL Aircraft (semester?), IPRO 317: VTOL aircraft for the Masses IPRO 317 Poster F06
Creator: Cerra, Anthony, Howard, Jason, Misurac, Matt, Oh, Daniel, Pajak, William, Patek, Alan, Poli, David, Qadir, Mohammed, Rozier, Paul, Whittlesey, Robert
Date: 2006-12, 2006-12
Description: The first and primary objective of IPRO 317 is to continue advancing the existing prototype towards full flight worthiness. This will be...
Show moreThe first and primary objective of IPRO 317 is to continue advancing the existing prototype towards full flight worthiness. This will be achieved through several overhauls of existing parts, as well as through consultation with outside experts in the radio control field. The team will also implement many new safety features as the prototype progresses toward the ultimate goal of free flight. The second objective of this semester’s IPRO 317 is to pick up where the previous semester left off on the construction of a second prototype design. Many parts have been ordered and are awaiting assembly; however several others must be developed and fabricated. The end result of this objective will produce a second viable alternative vehicle for use in marketing the idea of a VTOL aircraft to the public. The final objective of IPRO 317 is to review and analyze the results of previous semesters regarding the objectives, design goals, and feasibility of a full-scale prototype, including any existing models. Once the design goals of the aircraft are made firm a new model will be created from parts available on the current market.
Deliverables for IPRO 317: Personal VTOL Aircraft for the Fall 2006 semester
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