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Title: Intermodal Container Transport System Solutions for Chicago Region (semester?), IPRO 307: Advanced Shipping Container Transport IPRO 307 Abstract F07
Creator: Atterberry, Christine, Bartosik, Renee, Beran, Peter, Borschuk, Zachary, Dobbin, Jack, Ibardaloza, Arnold, Kollwitz, Sabine, Meyer, James, Schulz, Matt, Selinsky, Jac, Walczuk, Matt, Wisniewski, Marek
Date: 2007-12, 2007-12
Description: This IPRO will focus on the road and rail modes of transportation. Specifically, the team will investigate intermodal rail yards that...
Show moreThis IPRO will focus on the road and rail modes of transportation. Specifically, the team will investigate intermodal rail yards that specialize in transferring containers from trucks to trains, and vice versa. It will then put this knowledge to use by designing an actual intermodal rail yard for the Gary, Indiana area. The objective of this IPRO is to produce a thorough site plan for the Gary rail yard, a computer program to communicate with truck drivers, and an encompassing business plan.
Deliverables for IPRO 307: Intermodal Container Transport System Solutions for Chicago Region for the Fall 2007 semester
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Title: THE MICHAEL REESE SITE (Semester Unknown) IPRO 359: ChicagoChildrensMuseumIPRO359MidTermPresentationSp11
Creator: Malik, Ajose,, Fraser, Linnea, Liu, Fangpeng, Martinez, Jocsan, Masnaga, Masnaga,, Mcnally, William, Medina, Omar, Miller, Nathan, Nava, Fabian, Steinys, Victoria, Strandquist, Brad
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: At one time the Michael Reese Campus was a thriving mix of famous architecture and medical centers. Recently planned to be the home of the...
Show moreAt one time the Michael Reese Campus was a thriving mix of famous architecture and medical centers. Recently planned to be the home of the 2016 Olympic Village, with the loss of the bid the land has been abandoned. IPRO 356 is tasked with the challenge of designing a plan to redevelop the site. Building on previous work established by IPRO’s 359 and 356, we will use the first winning anchor and master plan created for the site and develop a second anchor. This second anchor and updated master plan aims at meeting the needs of the surrounding neighborhood while bringing life back to the area.
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Title: Building a Working Replica of Kolff's Rotating Drum (Spring 2004), IPRO 314: Kolff Rotating Drum Artificial Kidney IPRO 314 Final Report Sp06
Creator: Abbasian, Niekoo, Antoniou, Antonis, Barta, Jennifer, Britt, Tim, Crendall, Dan, Das, Abhishek, Dawe, Robert, George, Ryan, Hannah, Rebecca, Hannink, Mary, Higashi, Andrew, Inouye, Brendan, Jungels, Ryan, Lin, Grace, Ram, Justin, Shrivastava, Archita, Stumph, Shawn, Sutalo, Joseph, Turturro, Michael, Tuthill, Chris, Vasu, Kedari, Vasquez, Sam, Whiting, Aaron
Date: 2006-05, 2006-05
Description: This IPRO team has the unique opportunity to recreate, from the original plans, a working replica of the first clinically successful...
Show moreThis IPRO team has the unique opportunity to recreate, from the original plans, a working replica of the first clinically successful artificial kidney. Designed, built, and implemented in 1942, Willem Kolff’s rotating drum was the first successful extra-corporeal medical technological device. It provided a successful technological reference point for subsequent development of dialysis devices. This device literally established the field of artificial organs. There are no working models in the Western Hemisphere. Two exist in Europe both in the Netherlands.
Sponsorship: Museum of science and Industry; Paticia ward, PhD, Dept. of Science and Technology
Deliverables for IPRO 314: Building a Working Replica of Kolff's Rotating Drum for the Spring 2006 semester
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Title: Small-Scale Desalination (Semester Unknown) EnPRO 354: Small-ScaleDesalinationEnPRO354PosterSp10
Creator: Adamczyk, Paul, Au, Bonnie, Bijonowski, Brent, Fanelli, Daniel, Hoxha, Edlira, Krauszowska, Monika, Pham, Nga, Rauf, Aamir, Schlessinger, Hannah, Wolber, Brian
Date: 2010, 2010-05
Description: Freshwater is one of Earth’s most precious resources and is now increasing in scarcity. Global warming induced climate change is now changing...
Show moreFreshwater is one of Earth’s most precious resources and is now increasing in scarcity. Global warming induced climate change is now changing rain patterns and causing record drought, growing global populations are increasing demand, and the individual demand per person is increasing and human populations urbanize and adopt modern plumbing. The biggest contributor to increasing demand for water is mismanagement and pollution. However for this project we will be focusing on water quantity rather than quality.
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Title: Hyde Park Art Center Digital Facade (semester?), IPRO 306
Creator: Sherman, Mindy, Maltby, Edward, Chen, M. Leah, Djerrouf, Ryad, Haro, Blanca, Hopkins, Aaron, Joe, Yong June, Kim, Ryan, Ng, Michael, Walker, Matt
Date: 2005-05, 2005-05
Description: The scope of this project is to present a variety of solutions, determining and defining a system required to implement a digital façade for...
Show moreThe scope of this project is to present a variety of solutions, determining and defining a system required to implement a digital façade for the new Hype Park Art Center. The pioneering icon for the Hyde Park Art Center will engage neighbors and those who pass by, in addition to ideally attracting visitors from all over Chicago and beyond. The projection area will be the Art Center’s signature while serving many exhibition and studio needs by bringing art directly into the view of the community it serves. The idea is that the art created because of this façade will be a signature as well. Because of this, the façade system itself needs to accommodate many different digital art mediums to function as a blank canvas with opportunity for a creative manipulation by artists, visitors, and the Hyde Park Art Center to the full capabilities of the technology.
Sponsorship: IIT - Office of the President; IPRO Office, Tom Jacobius; Hyde Part Art Center
Deliverables for IPRO 306: Hyde Park Art Center Digital Facade for the Spring 2005 semester.
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Title: Disaster Recovery: DIY Home Building (semester?), IPRO 324
Creator: Chacko, Serena, Dakowisz, Dukasz, Diaz De Leon Orraca, Federico, Dilger, Andrew, Dolejs, Martina, Grosse, Christopher, Kim, Jung-jae, Kirsch, Joseph, Navarro, Jonathan, Peck, Edward, Ray, Monmayuri, Rios, Homero, Rogers, Eric, Rotella, James, Thompson, Sean T.
Date: 2007-05, 2007-05
Description: IPRO 324, Disaster Recovery: Do-It-Yourself Home Building, is focused on designing a building manual to aid disaster victims in building new...
Show moreIPRO 324, Disaster Recovery: Do-It-Yourself Home Building, is focused on designing a building manual to aid disaster victims in building new buildings. The objectives of this group are to continue the efforts made from the previous semester. This includes the creation of a manual illustrating how to build the design, design for handicap accessibility as a provision to the current design, to market this manual to a disaster relief organization that would be responsible for the distribution, to find a new client who would be interested in having this project built, and to find funding in order to build the design. Over the course of this semester, the team will be focusing on creating the manual and attempting to build the design at a site either in New Harmony, Louisana or Gulfport, Mississippi where potential clients are. The house at a bare minimum consists of a multipurpose room, a kitchen, and a bathroom; and will cost approximately $17,000. This is an affordable home/structure considering the cost of building a house now. The team is aware that some families are not fortunate enough to have a savings of $20,000 when these unexpected disasters occur. For this reason, it is an objective of the team to obtain funding.
Deliverables for IPRO 324: Disaster Recovery: DIY Home Building for the Spring 2007 semester
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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 PosterF08
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: Silver Nanorods As Indicators of Thermal History (Semester Unknown) IPRO 348: SilverNanorodsAsIndicatorsOfThermalHistoryIPRO348ProjectPlanSp10
Creator: Nwanga, Shirley, Dado, Mathew, Cheever, James, Mcclelland, Daniel, Lumnitzer, Matt, James, Joshua, Chiem, Edward, Colmenares, Andre, Dorr, Elena, Gomez, Fernando, Jansen, Madeline, Lazicki, Katherine, Marcha, Emmanuel, Mohaimani, Aurash, Payne, Erica, Purcell, Amberl, Raddatz, Andrew, Sever, Michael, Sizer, Charlie, Taracena, Willy, Tilman, Ryan, Vassi, Anna, Wiebe, Meghan
Date: 2010, 2010-05
Description: Silver Nanorods As Indicators of Thermal History, heat pum, NaOH,
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Title: Control of complex distributed systems with distributed intelligent agents
Creator: Tatara, Eric, Cinar, Ali, Teymour, Fouad
Date: 2007-06
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Description: Control of spatially distributed systems is a challenging problem because of their complex nature, nonlinearity, and generally high order. The...
Show moreControl of spatially distributed systems is a challenging problem because of their complex nature, nonlinearity, and generally high order. The lack of accurate and computationally efficient model-based techniques for large, spatially distributed systems leads to challenges in controlling the system. Agent-based control structures provide a powerful tool to manago distributed systems by utilizing (organizing) local and global information obtained from the system. A hierarchical, agent-based system with local and global controller agents is developed to control networks of interconnected chemical reactors (CSTRs). The global controller agent dynamically updates local controller agent's objectives as the reactor network conditions change. One challenge posed is control of the spatial distribution of autocatalytic species in a network of reactors hosting multiple species. The multi-agent control system is able to intelligently manipulate the network flow rates such that the desired spatial distribution of species is achieved. Furthermore, the robustness and flexibility of the agent-based control system is illustrated through examples of disturbance rejection and scalability with respect to the size of the network.
Endnote format citation for DOI:10.1016/j.jprocont.2006.06.008
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Title: Developing Web Based Applications (Semester Unknown) IPRO 308: DevelopingWeb-basedApplicationsIPRO308MidTermPresentationSp10
Creator: Blakey, Luke, Carmichael, Jake, Choi, Hyemin, Gopal, Shashank, Lademan, Anthony, Matusiewicz, Rick, Mutyaba, Kevin, Najarian, Christopher, O’connor, Ryan, Patel, Nirali, Sahagun, Jaime, Savage, Christopher, Svaldi, Jared, Vidutis, Mantas
Date: 2010, 2010-05
Description: Our purpose is to make the NIHL website a web-based scheduling and scoring applications that can support their annual operations.
Sponsorship:...
Show moreOur purpose is to make the NIHL website a web-based scheduling and scoring applications that can support their annual operations.
Sponsorship: Northern Illinois Hockey League (NIHL)
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Title: Innovative Maping (Semester Unknown) IPRO 303
Creator: Austerman, Aric, Ernst, Jacob, Gupta, Pallavi, Khan, Anam, Komorski, Aaron, Michael, Mark, Mochinski, Scott, Payne, Ameena, Ramirez, Ernesto, Sanborn, Peter, Sinha, Piyush
Date: 2010, 2010-05
Description: A specific site, or prominent object, of unique visual importance that a pedestrian may find useful or significant for precise navigation.
Spon...
Show moreA specific site, or prominent object, of unique visual importance that a pedestrian may find useful or significant for precise navigation.
Sponsorship: NAVTEQ
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Title: Ultra-High-Speed Market Data System (semester?), IPRO 313: Ultra High Speed Market Data System IPRO 313 Project Plan F07
Creator: Pannenko, Philip, Ramsamy, Devaraj, Buddell, Kenneth, Lenzen, Michael, Song, Yunseok, Kwak, Noh Hyup, Lim, Jong Min, Kim, Jongyon, Cho, Young, Jafarey, Usman, Tugade, Jesus Allan C., Yoon, Jong Su
Date: 2007-12, 2007-12
Description: IPRO 313’s objective is to develop a data ticker plant for our sponsor Townsend Analytics which needs to meet or exceed certain performance...
Show moreIPRO 313’s objective is to develop a data ticker plant for our sponsor Townsend Analytics which needs to meet or exceed certain performance requirements. The data ticker plant has to have a sustained optimal throughput of three million price quotes per second and minimize latency while maintain specific constraints. The ticker plant aggregates streaming data for numerous global financial markets and disseminates the data to thousand of users in real time. The data is used in Townsend Analytics’ RealTick® Execution Management System (EMS), its flagship institutional product for the financial services industry. Thus, timely and accurate data delivery is a critical component to Townsend’s product and competitive position. Through research and development, the group will have a concept of design, prototype development and benchmark testing. Additionally, the groundwork will be laid for future development of the ticker plant and additional trading-platform components.
Sponsorship: Townsend Analytics
Deliverables for IPRO 313: Ultra-High-Speed Market Data System for the Fall 2007 semester
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Title: Chicago Embroidery Company: A Living Business Case (Semester Unknown) IPRO 356: Chicago Embroidery Company A Living Business Case IPRO 356 Final Report Sp08
Creator: Correa, Jessica, Kim, Jung-jae, March, Paul, Natale, Vito, Nystrand, Tim, Puschkar, Jackie, Roman, John-paul, Wilke, Kara, Wong, Jacintha
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: Our goal for this IPRO is to update the Chicago Embroidery Co. market position in order to generate growth for the business. We expect the...
Show moreOur goal for this IPRO is to update the Chicago Embroidery Co. market position in order to generate growth for the business. We expect the company to grow to a 5 million dollar business in three years. By the end of the IPRO, we plan on having an updated website, new products for new markets, and important research data that shows which new markets will take best to patches.
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Title: A PARAMETRIC STUDY OF THE THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT WALL SYSTEMS AT VARIOUS CLIMATE ZONES
Creator: Lai, Se Yen
Date: 2013, 2013-12
Description: One of the most common energy conservative measures used is designing an air-tight and a well-insulated envelope. While there is an abundance...
Show moreOne of the most common energy conservative measures used is designing an air-tight and a well-insulated envelope. While there is an abundance of high-efficiency building envelope designs in the market which offer low thermal conductivity and high R-values as well as various studies on the thermal performance of various wall constructions, the results were often based on simplified study model and are not incompliance with the current building code. Most studies also focus on only one particular climate zone and one type of wall construction. This research aims to examine the thermal performance of different types of wall construction based on the traditional building envelope design materials in various climate zones based on insulation and air cavity placements on a non-simplified reference model that is used for construction. Study models developed are incompliance with the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers [ASHRAE] 90.1-2010 based on U.S. Department of Energy [DOE] Commercial Prototype Building Model. The thermal performance of the wall will be determined using two different methods. The first method will be using Building Energy Modeling [BEM] software where the exterior wall construction will be modified based on DOE reference models where the results for the overall annual energy consumption [AEC] will be compared. AEC results showed small differences between study models which are negligible. The second method is the Total Thermal Constant [TTC] method, where the thermal lag will be compared. The building structures that will be used are a steel-framed structure which represents a medium office and a wood-framed structure which represents a quick service restaurant. TTC results were able to determine the least favorable study model.
M.S. in Civil Engineering, December 2013
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Title: Piston and Piston Pin Manufacturing Process Improvement (Semester Unknown) IPRO 339: Piston%26PistonPinManufacturingProcessImprovementIPRO339FinalReportSp11_redacted
Creator: Akhambay, Assyl, Barrera, Edilberto, Binder, Dylan, Douh, Wahib, Seon Heo, Yun, King, Terrance, Ko, Hyunseok, Kolesnikov, Andrey, Simen, Sandrine, Perle, Collin, Truong, Guy, Ustupski, Krystian
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: The team of IPRO 339’s main objective is to assist Burgess-Norton Manufacturing Company with eliminating a persisting problem that has been...
Show moreThe team of IPRO 339’s main objective is to assist Burgess-Norton Manufacturing Company with eliminating a persisting problem that has been affecting the company for many years. Burgess-Norton Manufacturing Company is the world’s largest manufacturer of piston pins, as well as the leading producer of powder metal parts. Supplying many major car companies across the world, Burgess-Norton thrives on maintaining a high standard of quality in both their products and services. Recently there has been a change in the automobile industry that has affected the way piston pins are manufactured. These changes have brought on difficulties for the company as they must now change their product specs and adapt to the evolving market. Their main problem is the existence of nicks on the piston pins. The main goal of this IPRO team is to find a way to eliminate these nicks that occur throughout the company’s manufacturing process. This document will outline the main objectives and tasks that the team has been assigned with. Team structures, time lines and other plans are included. Also, a further company history and description of Burgess-Norton will be provided in order to make the objectives more clear.
Sponsorship: Burgess-Norton Manufacturing Company
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Title: Online batch/fed-batch process performance monitoring, quality prediction, and variable-contribution analysis for diagnosis
Creator: Undey, C., Ertunc, S., Cinar, A.
Date: 2003-10-01
Publisher: AMER CHEMICAL SOC
Description: An integrated online multivariate statistical process monitoring (MSPM), quality prediction, and fault diagnosis framework is developed for...
Show moreAn integrated online multivariate statistical process monitoring (MSPM), quality prediction, and fault diagnosis framework is developed for batch processes. Batch data from I batches, with J process variables measured at K time points generate a three-way array of size I x K x J. Unfolding this three-way array into a two-way matrix of size IK x J by preserving the variable direction is advantageous for developing online MSPM methods because it does not require estimation of future portions of new batches. Two different multiway partial least squares (MPLS) models are developed. The first model (MPLSV) is developed between the data matrix (IK x J) and the local batch time (or an indicator variable) for online MSPM. The second model (MPLSB) is developed between the rearranged data matrix in the batch direction (I x KJ) and the final quality matrix for online prediction of end-of-batch quality. The problem of discontinuity in process variable measurements due to operation switching (or moving to a different phase) that causes problems in alignment and modeling is addressed. Control limits on variable contribution plots are used to improve fault diagnosis capabilities of the MSPM framework. Case studies from a simulated fed-batch penicillin fermentation illustrate the implementation of the methodology.
Endnote format citation for DOI:10.1021/ie0208218
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Title: Sustainable Village (semester?), IPRO 301: Sustainable Village IPRO 301 Midterm Report Sp05
Creator: Higashi, Andrew, Larson, Jef, Robinson, Bezaleel, Thomas, Tony, Clair, Joseph, Ogbebor, Evans, Ninoyu, Anna, Staats, Michael, Golucki, Philip, Savona, Elena, Pimputkar, Siddha, Kiszynski, Kris, Sathyan, Anand, Kizilel, Riza
Date: 2005-05, 2005-05
Description: The team working on this project has set itself three major objectives. Firstly it strives to create a comprehensive and in-depth database...
Show moreThe team working on this project has set itself three major objectives. Firstly it strives to create a comprehensive and in-depth database containing valuable information concerning sustainability. This database should be user-friendly and intuitively presented so people who are interested in sustainability are quickly educated with the key points and have easy access to relevant and high quality references and further readings. The second objective of this project essentially consists of creating a roadmap and master plan on how to make Illinois Institute of Technology’s (IIT) Main Campus sustainable. This will be done by auditing and then benchmarking IIT to other similar projects. This roadmap and master plan will be developed with the vision that once implemented IIT will be a leader in sustainability and encourage many others to follow our track. Lastly the third objective is to create a house of the future. The house of the future has many objectives for itself. It should incorporate current design possibilities and make use of various available technologies to be sustainable and energy efficient among other things. This house should attract the public and educate them how easily sustainability can be achieved using current technology and knowledge at a competitive price.
Deliverables for IPRO 301: Sustainable Village for the spring 2005 semester
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Title: Power Measurement for Performance Bicycles (Semester Unknown) IPRO 304: PowerMeasurementForPerformanceBicyclesIPRO324FinalPresentationF10
Creator: Boomgarrd, Brian, Buhay, Elena, Carr, Ian, Gaulin, Nick, Gazda, Christopher, Gowe, Arence, Heo, Yun Seon, Mcmanus, Tom, Mertens, Scott, Onaissi, Samah, Smith, Antoinette, Wiese, Matthew
Date: 2010, 2010-12
Description: The IPRO 324 team is working to develop a system that utilizes strain gauges to measure the applied torque on the crankset of a bicycle. The...
Show moreThe IPRO 324 team is working to develop a system that utilizes strain gauges to measure the applied torque on the crankset of a bicycle. The overall goal is to develop an inexpensive and accurate tool for measuring the power output of a professional cyclist. Current devices on the market are quite expensive, require the replacement of current parts that the cyclist has invented significant money, and can still be relatively inaccurate.
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Title: Design of a Genetically Modified Food Database (Semester Unknown) IPRO 318: Food Safety, Genetically-Modified Crops and Protein Engineering IPRO 318 Poster1 Sp08
Creator: Miller, Jennifer, Chandrasekharan, Nivedita, Khiabani, Ali, De La Hoz, Andres, Kuebrich, Elizabeth, Mcclelland, Lauren, Patel, Pavan, Peavler, Jennifer, Seo, Hee, Ziegel, Kurt
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: Genetically modified crops have come to play an increasingly large role in our daily lives. Unfortunately these crops remain a mystery to much...
Show moreGenetically modified crops have come to play an increasingly large role in our daily lives. Unfortunately these crops remain a mystery to much of the general population. For some, ideas about GM crops are exciting and represent hope for new potential in science and agriculture, for others they represent potential danger, and for others there are simply many unanswered questions. Our goal this semester will be to create a new source of information about GM products and to provide information that will answer the many questions we all have about this important subject. To do this, our objectives will be to: 1. Collect background information in an unbiased and comprehensive manner about laws and regulations regarding genetically modified crops. 2. Gather information about public opinion concerning GM crops. 3. Present facts about the processes and technologies that are used in this industry. 4. Create a database of known genetically modified crops, potential allergens, and traits in order to provide future IPRO’s with a foundation of knowledge concerning GM crops.
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Title: Develping a Prototype Display for the Prenatal-to-Newborn Blood Flow System (semester?), IPRO 341
Creator: Shrivastava, Archita, Moy, Calvin, Ravella, Shalini, Pitroda, Sean, Tuthill, Chris, Thakore, Suruchi, Dunaway, Eric, Ram, Justin, Wright, Michael
Date: 2004-12, 2004-12
Description: The IPRO team has made considerable progress in creating animated computer display and an accompanying mechanical model of the substantive...
Show moreThe IPRO team has made considerable progress in creating animated computer display and an accompanying mechanical model of the substantive changes in physiology of a fetal cardiovascular system. I have included the reports from the various sub-teams.
Sponsorship: Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago (MSI)
Deliverables for IPRO 341: Develping a Prototype Display for the Prenatal-to-Newborn Blood Flow System for the Fall 2004 semester
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