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- Hyde Park Art Center Digital Facade (semester?), IPRO 306: Hyde Park Art Center IPRO 306 Project Plan Sp05
- 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
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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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- New Applications for Virtual Reality Training (semester?), IPRO 316: New Applications for Virtual Reality Training IPRO 316 Midterm Report F07
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- Jeong, Ahreum, Doolittle, Erik, Mead, Erik, Roe, Ian, Stanford, Jeffrey, Kim, Jeongshik, Knopp, Kyle, Malanowski, Mark, Cantoni, Nick, Steward, Shane
- Date
- 2007-12, 2007-12
- Description
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We have quite a few objectives for this IPRO. Our first objective is to research into both industrial and mass market applications of the...
Show moreWe have quite a few objectives for this IPRO. Our first objective is to research into both industrial and mass market applications of the Product Animations technology. After this first objective, we take 2 paths. The first leads to determining a screening criterion to select the best industrial prospects. We then plan to quantify the value propositions for the prospects selected from objective 2. When this is finished, we will create a deliverable simulation example, and finally write down any and all recommendations for future work with this IPRO. The other path leads to researching the idea or design of an ASP website. After this has been implemented, we want to use a PAI example of a milkshake machine, and show this on the ASP at IPRO day.
Deliverables for IPRO 316: New Applications for Virtual Reality Training for the Fall 2007 semester
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- Crop to Cup Coffee: Building Communities through Coffee (Semester 2) IPRO 333: BuildingComunitiesThroughCoffeeIPRO333BrochreF10
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- 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
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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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- Building a Working Replica of Kolff's Rotating Drum (Spring 2004), IPRO 314
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- 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
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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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- Business Development Through BIM and Other Strategies For Electrical Contractors (Semester Unknown) IPRO 338: BusinessDevelopmentForElectircalContractorsPRO338ProjectPlanF10
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- Baughey, Ethan, Hutches, Annie, Clarke, Anthony, Castellano, Kelly, Abdel-salam, Thair, Pekalski, Tom, Larson, Tristan, Ma, Zhi, Kumontoy, Allton, Meeke, Megan, Rodriguez, Edgar
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- 2010, 2010-12
- Description
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The IPRO 338 task is to continue from past IPRO efforts in developing business strategies for electrical contractors through the use Building...
Show moreThe IPRO 338 task is to continue from past IPRO efforts in developing business strategies for electrical contractors through the use Building Informational Modeling (BIM). While past IPROs have focused on the efficiency and benefits of BIM for electrical contracting companies. Our teams focus will be on how the benefits of using these new technologies and other business development strategies can help guide electrical contractors towards improving and increasing their overall business endeavors in a recessional and competitive environment. We plan on concluding our project with a business development module presenting key successful marketing strategies. The developed deliverable is geared towards assisting members of our sponsoring Electrical Contracting Association (ECA).
Sponsorship: Electrical Contracting Association (ECA).
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- Searching for Novel Drug Targets (semester?), IPRO 318: Novel new Drug Targets IPRO 318 Poster F06
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- Kamdar, Amit, Marell, Joshua, Knox, John, Kim, Hyunsuk, Wu, Calvin, Polich, Lindsey, Stankovich, Floriann H., Patel, Vrudhdhi, Jin, Tengchuan, Desai, Ronak, Dolejs, Martina
- Date
- 2006-12, 2006-12
- Description
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IPRO 318 is entitled Novel New Drug Targets. The objective for this IPRO is to determine specific proteins that are involved in disease...
Show moreIPRO 318 is entitled Novel New Drug Targets. The objective for this IPRO is to determine specific proteins that are involved in disease pathology. The team will investigate diseases and their protein sequences in order to determine their function and whether it is suitable for drug targeting. The information collected will be created into an informational website that can be used in further IPRO semesters. With the analyzed data the team will begin testing several relevant sequences to determine drug targeting.
Deliverables for IPRO 318: Searching for Novel Drug Targets for the Fall 2006 semester
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- Crop to Cup Coffee: Building Communities through Coffee (Semester 2) IPRO 333: BuildingComunitiesThroughCoffeeIPRO333MidTermPresentationF10
- 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
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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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- Insight: Anticipating the Future, Assessing the Impact (semester?), IPRO 341: Insight IPRO 341 IPRO Day Presentation F05
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- Nick, Chillemi, Robert, Dusso, Syed, Ijaz, Jonathan, Komyathy, Alan, Patek, Sagar, Shah, Andrew, Vanloo, Ricardo, Gonzalez
- Date
- 2005-12, 2005-12
- Description
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The first objective of IPRO 341 is to develop a hypothetical model of the life cycle of emerging technologies through historical analysis. The...
Show moreThe first objective of IPRO 341 is to develop a hypothetical model of the life cycle of emerging technologies through historical analysis. The team has chosen four technologies the study of which we believe will allow us to construct a working model of the life cycle of an emerging technology. The second objective of IPRO 341 is to begin an in-depth look into emerging technologies and assess its political, social, and economic impacts. By applying our hypothetical model to the current trends of emerging technologies, we will predict the impacts that the introduction of emerging technologies will have on society as a whole. The third objective of IPRO 341 is to reassess our model after completing other research dealing with emerging technologies. Since the model we develop can only be a theoretical model, we will have to continuously revise our model depending on any new information that comes about during the development of emerging technologies. The fourth objective of IPRO 341 is to provide an overview as to the importance of researching emerging technologies; how they affect society and the importance to all stakeholders involved.
Deliverables for IPRO 341: Insight: Anticipating the Future, Assessing the Impact for the Fall 2005 semester.
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- Impact of Sulfur Capture Technology In Coal Power Plants (Semester Unknown) IPRO 302
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- Chmielewski, Don, Contreras, Abraham, Deboth, Ray, Dickman, Justin, Enadeghe, Gregory, Garza Rodriguez, Hector, Gottlieb, Myron, Haddad, Michael, Kyle, Ryan, Mongillo, Michael, Murphy, Ryan, Shonubi, Oluwaseun, Swillum, Bryce, Wolber, Brian, Worthon, Terrika
- Date
- 2009, 2009-12
- Description
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Our team will investigate the net impact of sulfur capture technologies used in current and next generation power plants in the United States....
Show moreOur team will investigate the net impact of sulfur capture technologies used in current and next generation power plants in the United States. We will use this knowledge to determine which sulfur capture technologies produce the greatest benefit for industry and society and to find the marketability of the sulfur byproducts created in these power plants.
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- Improving Electrical Efficiency With Building Information Modelling (Semester Unknown) IPRO 338: ImprovingElectricalEfficiencyWithBuildingInformationModelingIPRO338PosterF09
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- Kyung Cho, Bum, Crites, Sarah, Czapla, Sarah, Guerrero, Jose, Kim, Yoosuk, Malawski, Frank, Maloney, Michael, Pedrina, Kaleo, Qiu, Li, Yi, Jennifer
- Date
- 2009, 2009-12
- Description
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To identify ways to improve the efficiency of electrical contracting projects through new software and technology, communications, and project...
Show moreTo identify ways to improve the efficiency of electrical contracting projects through new software and technology, communications, and project management techniques, especially through Building Information Modeling (BIM) utilization.
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- Zoo Tech (Semester Unknown) IPRO 318: ZooTechIPRO318FinalPresentationSu10
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- Ahmed, Syeda, Chun, Jason, Erwin, Elaine, Garczek, Katherine, Mithun, Michael, Potacki, Amanda, Szulyk, Natalie, Callas, Kathleen, Davis, Derrick, Ferrari, Howard, Madimenos, Anastasis, Morrison, Ruth, Rojas, Diana
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- 2010, 2010-07
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The members of IPRO 318 are collaborating with the Brookfield Zoo to develop an iPhone application that will enhance the visitors’ experience...
Show moreThe members of IPRO 318 are collaborating with the Brookfield Zoo to develop an iPhone application that will enhance the visitors’ experience and interactions with the zoo environment. This application will be an educational device in addition to trip planning tool. As such, it will be broken down into two major components. First, an educational module that includes the guided inquiry system for animal identification with other informative and interesting functions (such as games, social networks, etc.). Second, the commodity module, which includes an interactive map with GPS, basic park information (such as hours, tickets, parking, etc.), and functions related to other services provided by the zoo. Additionally, it involves designing a sleek, logical, user-friendly layout. By organizing the animal database and additional information provided by the zoo, and coupling this with the tools available on the iPhone, IPRO 318 seeks to design an efficient and entertaining means of utilizing modern technology to explore the zoo and its animals. This document provides a detailed overview of the project, including the plan of action, work breakdown, project goals, background information, and the organization of the IPRO team.
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- Education and Technical Support of Prosthetics and Orthotics Education in Latin America (Semester Unknown) IPRO 309: Educational and Technical Support of Orthotics and Prosthetics Education in Latin America and the US IPRO 309 Final Presentation Sp08
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- Allen, Ross, Barlow, Elliot, Benger, Lydia, Buntain, Seth, De Nicolo, Marisa, Larue, Robert, Moore, Emily, Quandt, Gregory, Rozborski, Stefanie, Selby, Heather
- Date
- 2008, 2008-05
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There exists a strong demand for orthotics and prosthetics (O & P) in Latin America, with approximately 2.5 million people in need of this...
Show moreThere exists a strong demand for orthotics and prosthetics (O & P) in Latin America, with approximately 2.5 million people in need of this type of care. IPRO 309 was started in the spring of 2006 with the goal of helping to make this type of care more readily available. However, there are only 50 certified, and 1500 uncertified, O & P practitioners in Latin America. In order to become a certified practitioner, a student must graduate from an ISPO accredited program. Unfortunately, there is currently only one ISPO accredited program in existence in Latin America, along with several other programs that are not ISPO accredited. In October of 2004, Centro Don Bosco (Bogotá, Colombia), Don Bosco University (San Salvador, El Salvador), and the Laboratorio Gilete (Bogotá, Colombia) signed an agreement to establish the first accredited O & P education program in Colombia. Since then, Centro Don Bosco has allotted 3,500 square feet of space for the thriving faculty, classrooms, manufacturing training, and vocational workspace that are necessary for an ISPO accredited program. There are three levels of accreditation according to ISPO standards. Category III involves the design and manufacturing of orthotic and prosthetic devices, Category II includes the fabrication of the devices as well as direct patient care, and Category I includes production, treatment for patients, and research and development. The equivalent to ISPO in the United States is the American Board of Certification in Orthotics and Prosthetics (ABC). Because it is independent from the ISPO, the ABC standards of accreditation will need to be taken into account in order to carefully cross cultural and national boundaries.
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- Integration of Process Improvements (Semester Unknown) IPRO 304: IntegrationOfProcessImprovementsIPRO304FinalReportF09
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- Bauer, Jessie, Bergeron, Tony, Campen, Matt, Gruchalski, Erik, Ki Choi, Tae, Marx, Ryan, Murti, Chaitanya, Robbins, Brian, Pal Sohal, Atinder, Stenson, Amanda, Taboada, Alejandro, Zhang, Bingjian
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- 2009, 2009-12
- Description
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The goal and mission this semester is to create a procedure that can show a technician when a carbide insert breaks off of a face mill during...
Show moreThe goal and mission this semester is to create a procedure that can show a technician when a carbide insert breaks off of a face mill during operation. Completing this task will increase productivity for A. Finkl and Sons.
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- Power Measurement for Performance Bicycles (Semester Unknown) IPRO 304: PowerMeasurementForPerformanceBicyclesIPRO324FinalReportF10
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- 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
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- 2010, 2010-12
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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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- Building a Working Replica of Kolff's Rotating Drum (Spring 2004), IPRO 314: Kolff Rotating Drum Artificial Kidney IPRO 314 IPRO Day Presentation Sp06
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- 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
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- 2006-05, 2006-05
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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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- Pervasive Training (Semester Unknown) IPRO 317
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- Bailey, Preston, Bennett, Noelle, Callan, Mark, Cho, Andrew, Dasari, Sravya, Hassan, Ismail, Lutgendorf, Michael, Noorts, George, Orawiec, Paul, Peprah, Nana, Reddy, Swathi, Fatima Rizvi, Syeda, Singh, Archana
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- 2011, 2011-05
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The team for IPRO 317 is tasked with working on developing a pervasive training program. This program will integrate various psychological and...
Show moreThe team for IPRO 317 is tasked with working on developing a pervasive training program. This program will integrate various psychological and technological applications. As such the team working on this project has split into 2 groups to work on these respective applications. The idea of pervasive training addresses a dire need in the field of corporate training. This concept allows companies to put their employees through training by making them self-aware. This method of training also enables employers to train their employees with minimal disruption to productivity. Our intention is to implement this training through the employee’s hand held devices. Each employee would select a group of peer to fill out an assessment, the combination of the peer assessments, an assessment performed by the employee’s supervisor and one by the employee themselves would constitute the evaluation of employee. The employee would then receive a series of periodic e-mails to their mobile device that they would then need to respond to in order to complete this training. After a pre-designated amount of time for this training the employee will fill out a new survey and receive their results. A significant motivator for this training is that it is purely voluntary and allows the employee to receive these evaluations without their employer knowing any of the results aside from completion status. From our research team we hope to derive a set of themes by which to rate the employee as well as survey questions. What this will lead to is a group of teachable moments. These moments will be reminders for the employee based upon the results of their surveys. Once this system is derived the research team will begin a search for appropriate test organizations for us to run our trials on. While this is being done our development team will build a website to distribute and compile these surveys. This site will also send out our teachable moments and maintain this data. All of this will be done on a desktop computer that will be converted into a server. Once testing begins, this team will be responsible for assisting the test users in the survey and teaching process. These team members will provide support for any issues the users will have as well as for maintaining the website integrity during this process. Ultimately once this initial phase is done our hope is that this product will move immediately into production. Our hope is that with the success of our project this will become a new standard in the training of employees. With this being the case employers will be able to train more employees with less loss of production. Our goal is for this to be used with every employee and not just those in management.
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- Urban Heat Island Effect (Spring 2002) IPRO 328: Urban Heat Island Effect IPRO328 Spring2002 Final Presentation
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- Maddala, Venkata, Dorsz, Arkardiusz
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- 2003, 2002-05
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Ozinga is a Chicago corporation that is a prominent supplier of Ready Mix concrete products to the construction industry in Chicago and...
Show moreOzinga is a Chicago corporation that is a prominent supplier of Ready Mix concrete products to the construction industry in Chicago and surrounding areas. As part of its interest in advancing its corporate social responsibility and expanding its market opportunities, Ozinga is interested in working with an IPRO team to investigate the long-term role of concrete products, technologies, systems, processes and applications inimproving our environment. This initial IPRO project for Ozinga can have many facets, and may lead to specialized follow-on projects. Three broad areas of investigation that could evolve are: (1) opportunities for extending the use of concrete to mitigate environmental impact associated with urban warming, (2) opportunities for evaluating the management of energy associated with concrete mix and the vehicle fleet that distributes the material, and (3) opportunities for concrete mix materials and process innovation. The project team will develop a foundation for thinking about these three areas of opportunity, although it is anticipated that the initial focus would be on the first area as outlined below. A broad view of sustainable development considers the effects of removinglarge expanses of vegetation from the urban ecosystem and creating structures and systems that exacerbate urban warming problems. Parking lots, office buildings, roadways and other built systems have the negative effect of absorbing large amounts of heat. This then requires investment in cooling systems for conditioning indoor environments that consume energy and other resources; affects the quality of peoples' lives; and has a long-term negative effect on our global environment. These broad issueshave been studied by various organizations in a range of professionalcontexts, including environmental engineering, architecture, urbanplanning, government policy, atmospheric studies, etc. The construction industry itself has supported such studies, including the National Ready Mix Association,. The City of Chicago has established "green goals" to guide its planning, investment and regulatory functions. The IPRO team will investigate the types of concrete application opportunities that have been developed in the U.S. and abroad and that havebeen successful or offer significant potential for application in the Cityof Chicago. This could include expanded use of concrete commercial buildingcladding, concrete residential structures, and concrete pavements. The team will also review building codes and labor rules that may be considered to inhibit innovative and broader application of concrete mixes. There arealso issues associated with the financial, environmental and energylife-cycle cost that merit evaluation to understand the decision makingprocess associated with material selection and specification. In addition, it is important in developing a case for concrete material applications to understand the relative size and impact of each viable application in terms of environmental mitigation potential. One approach to addressing this issue is to use Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to correlate areas with significant heat absorption to the types of systems (e.g., commercial buildings, residential buildings, parking lots, roadways, etc.). Both the public and private sectors have a vested interest in developing,applying and diffusing innovative products that can have a positiveinfluence on the environment. However, in order to lay the foundation forsignificant impact by a product like concrete ready mix, it is necessary tocarefully map the decision making process that involves a range of thesecomplex variables. This can help to establish the "business case" for notonly concentrated effort by firms like Ozinga, but also for governmentagencies. This can also help to guide the modification of codes andpolicies so that they do not inhibit, but rather encourage experimentationwith and diffusion of concrete materials that can mitigate environmental impact.
Sponsorship: Ozinga Redi-Mix Corporation
Project Plan for IPRO 328: Urban Heat Island Effect for the Spring 2002 semester
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- Electrical Contractor Business Development with Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Green Technologies (Semester Unknown) IPRO 338: BIMIPRO338FinalReportSp11
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- Bansal, Neha, Day, Joshua, Hamilton, James, Harbour, Zachary, Lee, Dong Kyu, Marchi, Nicola, Medellin, Oscar, Mukashambo, Marine, Panek, Mark, Yousef, Shadi
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- 2011, 2011-05
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The IPRO497-338 Team is to continue past IPRO efforts in developing Business Strategies for Electrical Contractors through the use Building...
Show moreThe IPRO497-338 Team is to continue past IPRO efforts in developing Business Strategies for Electrical Contractors through the use Building Informational Modeling (BIM) and Green Technologies. Past IPRO’s on this subject have focused on the efficiency and benefits of BIM for electrical contracting companies. Our team however, will focus on the benefits of Business Development Strategies to improve and increase overall business– in this recession –in an ever more competitive environment. We plan to conclude our project with a “Playbook” which will present to our client proven, successful Business Development Strategies. This deliverable will help sponsor-members, from the Electrical Contractors’ Association of Chicago, to “get more work” – period.
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- Robbins Community Power (RCP) (Semester Unknown) IPRO 347: RCPIPRO347FinalReportF10
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- Abankwa, Kevin, Alhassan, Kolade, Apampa, Kunle, Bukowska, Angelika, Drecoll, Daniel, Ernst, William, Ibrahim, Suliman, Jung, Young, Kunkel, Emily, Morton, Stacy, Mulcany, Liam, Munoz, Matthew, Olorunoje, Kamaldeen, Kyeong Park, Bo, Pham, Anne, Singh, Java
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- 2010, 2010-12
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The IPRO 347 team intends to seize the opportunity given by Robbins Community Power (RCP) to improve the efficiency of the power plant. RCP...
Show moreThe IPRO 347 team intends to seize the opportunity given by Robbins Community Power (RCP) to improve the efficiency of the power plant. RCP plans to convert the facility from its original role as an incinerator into a wood biomass electricity plant. Working with RCP, the team will look at thermodynamic values to determine how to best utilize the excess heat generated from the boiler that currently radiates out the cooling towers. Additionally, the team will research and discuss possible solutions to be implemented on the 22 acre site. The intricacies that arise from the nontraditional nature of our plan require we split into two groups. One sub-team will look into exactly where the waste heat exists and the values of viable energy available in the form of steam or hot water. This team will seek interdisciplinary advice as part of the energy analysis. The second, but most influential, sub-team will predominantly be researching feasible outlets for the recovered energy. Some solutions they will pursue include supplying nearby greenhouses with CO2, providing on-site and local heat, and increasing the efficiency of the plant through drying processes.
Sponsorship: Robbins Community Power Plant
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- Web-Based Supervisor, Management and Leadership Training (semester?), IPRO 306: Web-Based Supervisor Mgmt and Leadership Training IPRO 306 Abstract F07
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- Allen, Kelleny, Chandrasekharan, Nivedita, Engel, Jeff, Greiling, Michael, Hays, Julian, Hofland, Andrew, Kadzban, Adam, Lagiglio, Michael, Lee, Florence, Mehr, Andrew, Moss, Elizabeth, Segal, Jason
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- 2007-12, 2007-12
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The primary purpose of the Interprofessional Project (IPRO) 306 team is to enable a group of students from diverse cultural, economic, and...
Show moreThe primary purpose of the Interprofessional Project (IPRO) 306 team is to enable a group of students from diverse cultural, economic, and academic backgrounds to work towards a common goal and conjointly succeed. The secondary purpose of the IPRO 306 team is to develop a topical web-based supervisory, management, and leadership program. In pursuing our objectives, we will gain familiarity and understanding of the best training methods, the most significant and universal leadership traits for organizational effectiveness, and an appreciation for our own unique strengths on an interdisciplinary team.
Deliverables for IPRO 306: Web-Based Supervisor, Management and Leadership Training for the Fall 2007 semester
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