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Title: University Research and the Wages of Commerce.
Creator: Davis, Michael
Date: 2006, 1991
Publisher: Notre Dame Law School
Description: This is a response to a talk given by Ralph Nader on "The Relationship Between the University and Business and Industry." The author...
Show moreThis is a response to a talk given by Ralph Nader on "The Relationship Between the University and Business and Industry." The author acknowledges that a problems do come up when universities have close ties with industry. However, the author explores the reality of these partnerships through some examples of his own experience at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Journal of College and University Law, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1991. pp. 29-38.
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Title: The Usefulness of Moral Theory in Practical Ethics: A Question of Comparative Cost (A Response to Harris)
Creator: Davis, Michael
Date: 2009, 2009
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
Description: I find myself agreeing with almost everything in Harris’s defense of moral theory except the end: moral theories can often be useful in...
Show moreI find myself agreeing with almost everything in Harris’s defense of moral theory except the end: moral theories can often be useful in resolving moral dilemmas. Both students and practitioners of practical ethics should be constantly reminded of this, because in practical ethics we need all of the help we can get. If (as it seems) these two sentences state the conclusion, Harris has committed a non sequitur. While making a good argument for the general usefulness of moral theory in practical ethics, he has not made any argument for its usefulness to students or practitioners as such. He has simply assumed that what is true of some who engage in practical ethics is true of students and practitioners in particular. In theory, of course, moral theory should be useful even to students and practitioners, helping them to identify issues they might have overlooked, to seek information they might otherwise not have thought relevant, and to formulate courses of action that might not otherwise have occurred to them. In practice, however, moral theory will seldom, if ever, be useful (or, at least, useful enough). We do not (as Harris claims) need all the help we can get in practical ethics. What we need is all the help we can get at reasonable cost. We should only invest the time and effort needed to learn and use moral theory when the investment is no greater than for an otherwise equally useful alternative. Since there is at least one equally useful alternative requiring much less investment, the time and effort students and practitioners would have to invest in moral theory will (in general) be much greater than necessary for their purposes. So, neither students nor practitioners need moral theory.
Teaching Ethics Vol. 10, Issue 1, pp. 69-78
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Title: Doing the Minimum as an Alternative to Exercising Reasonable Care in a Professional Role
Creator: Davis, Michael
Date: 2008, 2000
Description: In the second edition of ENGINEERING ETHICS:CASES AND CONCEPTS (Wadsworth, 2000), Harris, Pritchard, and Rabins distinguish three conceptions...
Show moreIn the second edition of ENGINEERING ETHICS:CASES AND CONCEPTS (Wadsworth, 2000), Harris, Pritchard, and Rabins distinguish three conceptions of professional responsibility: the "minimalist," the "reasonable care" and the "good works". Of the minimalist conception, they say (among other things) that it "holds that engineers have a duty to conform to the standard operating procedures of their profession and to fulfill the basic duties of their job defied by the terms of their employment." (p.101). In contrast, the reasonable care conception "moves beyond the minimalist view's concern to 'stay out of trouble'. (p.103) I will argue that this distinction is incoherent, that the "minimalist conception" (so defined) necessarily includes not only reasonable care but at least some of what Harris, Pritchard, and Rabins classify as "good works". I conclude with a suggestion for what they might say instead about a certain "minimalist attitude" one finds in business (though it truth, it should be called "sub-minimalist".
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Professional and Practical Ethics (A.P.P.E.), Washington, DC, February 26, 2000.
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Title: The Engineering Significance of Limit Analysis
Creator: Hodge, Philip G. Jr.
Date: 2011-05-12, 1958-04
Publisher: Department of Mechanics, Illinois Institute of Technology
Description: By definition, the limit load on a structure is the unique magnitude of the given loads under which a structure can first deform if it is made...
Show moreBy definition, the limit load on a structure is the unique magnitude of the given loads under which a structure can first deform if it is made of a rigid-perfectly plastic material. The significance of the limit load for a structure made of a real material is discussed in relation to a simple truss.
Sponsorship: Contract No. Nonr 140604
This research was sponsored by the federal government. The appropriate Department of Defense database, DTIC Online Access Controlled, was consulted prior to submission to confirm that the report has no distribution limitations and may therefore be made available to the public online.
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Title: Professionalism Means Putting Your Profession First
Creator: Davis, Michael
Date: 2007, 1988
Publisher: Georgetown School of Law
Description: Ask a lawyer what "professionalism" means and you are likely to hear that professionalism means putting your client first or acting as an...
Show moreAsk a lawyer what "professionalism" means and you are likely to hear that professionalism means putting your client first or acting as an officer of the court. Only rarely will a lawyer say that professionalism means putting justice first. Never, I think, will a lawyer even suggest that professionalism means putting your profession first. Yet this is the thesis of this paper. The paper has three parts. Section I makes certain distinctions necessary to prevent misunderstanding my thesis. Section II and III develop the thesis into a conception of professionalism. Sections IV and V use that conception to help with the most difficult of undertakings, justifying professional discipline to someone convicted of professional misconduct which harmed neither her client nor an identifiable third party.
Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. Vol. 2, Issue 1. Summer 1988. pp.341-357.
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Title: Experimental Design and Analysis data files
Creator: Seltman, Howard J.
Date: 2018-07-11
Description: Data files for use with the Experimental Design and Analysis textbook.

Title: Optimizing Cell-Free Protein Synthesis for Increased Yield and Activity of Colicins
Creator: Jin, Xing, Kightlinger, Weston, Hong, Seok Hoon
Date: 2019
Publisher: MDPI
Description: Colicins are antimicrobial proteins produced by Escherichia coli that hold great promise as viable complements or alternatives to antibiotics....
Show moreColicins are antimicrobial proteins produced by Escherichia coli that hold great promise as viable complements or alternatives to antibiotics. Cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) is a useful production platform for toxic proteins because it eliminates the need to maintain cell viability, a common problem in cell-based production. Previously, we demonstrated that colicins produced by CFPS based on crude Escherichia coli lysates are e?ective in eradicating antibiotic-tolerant bacteria known as persisters. However, we also found that some colicins have poor solubility or low cell-killing activity. In this study, we improved the solubility of colicin M from 16% to nearly 100% by producing it in chaperone-enriched E. coli extracts, resulting in enhanced cell-killing activity. We also improved the cytotoxicity of colicin E3 by adding or co-expressing the E3 immunity protein during the CFPS reaction, suggesting that the E3 immunity protein enhances colicin E3 activity in addition to protecting the host strain. Finally, we con?rmed our previous ?nding that active colicins can be rapidly synthesized by observing colicin E1 production over time in CFPS. Within three hours of CFPS incubation, colicin E1 reached its maximum production yield and maintained high cytotoxicity during longer incubations up to 20 h. Taken together, our ?ndings indicate that colicin production can be easily optimized for improved solubility and activity using the CFPS platform.
Sponsorship: NIH R15AI130988
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Title: "China's unwritten code of engineering ethics": Table list (1), China's unwritten code of engineering ethics: Table list (1)
Creator: Davis, Michael, Wei, Lina
Date: 2019-08-02, 2019-08-02

Title: Student with sculpture, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1940s
Date: 1940-1949
Description: Photograph of an unidentified Chicago School of Design or Institute of Design student applying what appears to be plaster to a constructed...
Show morePhotograph of an unidentified Chicago School of Design or Institute of Design student applying what appears to be plaster to a constructed form. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date listed is approximate.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Fostering personal finance engagement with a habit building app
Creator: Hapner, Bridget
Date: 2022-11-04
Description: Master's Project focused on developing a concept for a personal finance literacy app.

Title: Gunsaulus Hall flyer, 1952
Creator: Illinois Institute of Technology
Date: 1952-05
Description: Flyer advertising available leases for Gunsaulus Hall apartments, posted in May 1952. Gunsaulus Hall was designed by Skidmore, Owings &...
Show moreFlyer advertising available leases for Gunsaulus Hall apartments, posted in May 1952. Gunsaulus Hall was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and was constructed in 1949-1950.
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Collection: Student Housing brochures, 1948-1970

Title: Synagogue @ Place des Vosges
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1989-09
Description: Color sketch of Temple des Vosges, now known as Synagogue Charles Liché, located in the Hotel de Ribault on Places des Vosges.
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Notre Dame de Paris
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1986
Description: Color sketch of Notre Dame de Paris.
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Site Study
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1986-03
Description: Color sketch of the Eiffel Tower.
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Lewis Institute faculty group portrait, Chicago, Illinois, 1899
Date: 1899
Description: Picture of 1899 Lewis Institute faculty clipped from a newspaper in the 1920s. Those pictured include George Noble Carman (Director of Lewis...
Show morePicture of 1899 Lewis Institute faculty clipped from a newspaper in the 1920s. Those pictured include George Noble Carman (Director of Lewis Institute), John L. Bacon (later Mayor of San Diego, 1921-1927), Wallace W. Atwood (later President of Clark University, 1920-1946). Photographer and original source unknown.
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Collection: Lewis Institute records, 1827-1984

Title: Light Drawing With Folded Paper
Creator: Lerner, Nathan, 1913-1997
Date: 1940
Description: Photograph of cut and folded paper used as a means to experiment with light and shadow. Title, date, and signature inscribed on verso....
Show morePhotograph of cut and folded paper used as a means to experiment with light and shadow. Title, date, and signature inscribed on verso. Numbered img1136, 026.087.3.06, #42.1.2, and 2886? on verso of photograph.
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Collection: Nathan Lerner photographs, 1935-1980

Title: Controlling biofilms using synthetic biology approaches
Creator: Fang, Kuili, Park, Oh-Jin, Hong, Seok Hoon
Date: 2020
Description: Bacterial biofilms are formed by the complex but ordered regulation of intra- or inter-cellular communication, environmentally responsive gene...
Show moreBacterial biofilms are formed by the complex but ordered regulation of intra- or inter-cellular communication, environmentally responsive gene expression, and secretion of extracellular polymeric substances. Given the robust nature of bio?lms due to the non-growing nature of bio?lm bacteria and the physical barrier provided by the extracellular matrix, eradicating bio?lms is a very di?cult task to accomplish with conventional antibiotic or disinfectant treatments. Synthetic biology holds substantial promise for controlling bio?lms by improving and expanding existing biological tools, introducing novel functions to the system, and re-conceptualizing gene regulation. This review summarizes synthetic biology approaches used to eradicate bio?lms via protein engineering of bio?lm-related enzymes, utilization of synthetic genetic circuits, and the development of functional living agents. Synthetic biology also enables bene?cial applications of bio?lms through the production of biomaterials and patterning bio?lms with speci?c temporal and spatial structures. Advances in synthetic biology will add novel bio?lm functionalities for future therapeutic, biomanufacturing, and environmental applications.
Sponsorship: NIH-R15AI130988, NSF CBET-1917130
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Title: Engineering Escherichia coli to produce and secrete colicins for rapid and selective biofilm cell killing
Creator: Jin, Xing, An, Sungjun, Kightlinger, Weston, Zhou, Jiacheng, Hong, Seok Hoon
Date: 2021
Description: Bacterial biofilms are associated with chronic infectious diseases and are highly resistant to conventional antibiotics. Antimicrobial...
Show moreBacterial biofilms are associated with chronic infectious diseases and are highly resistant to conventional antibiotics. Antimicrobial bacteriocins are alternatives to conventional antibiotics and are characterized by unique cell-killing mechanisms, including pore formation on cell membranes, nuclease activity, and cell wall synthesis inhibition. Here, we used cell-free protein synthesis to rapidly evaluate the antibiofilm activities of colicins E1, E2, and E3. We found that E2 (with DNase activity) most effectively killed target biofilm cells (i.e., the K361 strain) while leaving nontargeted biofilms intact. We then engineered probiotic Escherichia coli microorganisms with genetic circuits to controllably synthesize and secrete colicin E2, which successfully inhibited biofilms and killed preformed indicator biofilms. Our findings suggest that colicins rapidly and selectively kill target biofilm cells in multispecies biofilms and demonstrate the potential of using microorganisms engineered to produce antimicrobial colicin proteins as live therapeutic strategies to treat biofilm-associated infections.
Sponsorship: NIH-R15AI130988
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