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Title: Capstone Design - Parking Garage (semester?), IPRO 315
Creator: Featherstone, Amanda, Ganason, Vina, Grosse, Christopher, Hiner, Ross, Jang, Young, Kazimi, Syed, Lee, Linda, Netherton, Daniel, Olson, Justin, Purpura, John, Rossman, Justin, Suik, Bradley, Thakkar, Chintan, Virani, Minaz
Date: 2006-12, 2006-12
Description: The plan for this IPRO is to develop a design for a large scale parking garage that can accommodate about 500 cars and will be located on IIT...
Show moreThe plan for this IPRO is to develop a design for a large scale parking garage that can accommodate about 500 cars and will be located on IIT’s main campus. The objective of this project is to develop a design that is applicable to today’s lifestyles, yet goes beyond the standard parking systems currently used. Features including quick handling of incoming and outgoing cars, efficiency in storage, and aesthetics are all considered in design. Basically, the aim is to develop an innovative and economical concept for parking a car.
Deliverables for IPRO 315: Capstone Design - Parking Garage for the Fall 2006 semester
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Title: Crop to Cup Coffee: Building Communities through Coffee (Semester 2) IPRO 333
Creator: Feldman, Laurie, Waterloo, Becca, Hurst, Trey, Chatterjee, Dia, Houser, Clay, Esko, Emily, Campbell, Laurel, Schmid, Miriam, Erie, Mike, Tam, Phil, Patel, Vishal, Swingler, Mark, Bloom, Ryan, Abbott, Matt
Date: 2010, 2010-12
Description: The mission of IPRO 333 is to assist the Crop to Cup Company with the design and building of an enclosure for a temporary storage facility...
Show moreThe mission of IPRO 333 is to assist the Crop to Cup Company with the design and building of an enclosure for a temporary storage facility within the vicinity of their largest producing farming zone for robusta coffee in the Mbale region of Uganda. The sponsor, along with the team, has decided that the best method for addressing the local and global needs of the farmers is to present the research and design personally. Therefore, IPRO 333 will be fundraising to help finance the forthcoming trip to Uganda to present to the farming communities.
Sponsorship: Crop to Cup
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Title: The Nomad: FINAL BOARDS
Creator: Waxali, Nadir
Date: 2012-05-02, 2012-05
Description: Inspired by a need for personal space in a fast paced, highly mobile world, the nomad project combines the mobility and strength of a pickup...
Show moreInspired by a need for personal space in a fast paced, highly mobile world, the nomad project combines the mobility and strength of a pickup truck with the convenience of a small living space. By combining a work space, kitchen, sleeping area and bathroom, this project allows this compact space to allow for the comforts of a home to be available wherever a person can travel. This exploration of the duality of interior space experiments with the folding of program space from a collapsible set of planes to a space which can be used in daily life.
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Title: Defining the Role of the 21st Century Public Library in Madison: Bartley_N_MadisonLibrary_Final_Board
Creator: Bartley, Nate
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: Madison, WI is dominated by two main forces; the state government and the University of Wisconsin. These two institutions are linked by State...
Show moreMadison, WI is dominated by two main forces; the state government and the University of Wisconsin. These two institutions are linked by State Street, a pedestrian and bike corridor that serves as the main public gathering space for the city. The new Central Public Library along this strip will provide a free, democratic space for all Madison citizens. Beyond collecting books and storing media, the Madison Library offers opportunities for gatherings and informational exchanges 24 hours a day.
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Title: Interactive Urban Landmark Kiosks for Memorial Walk of Martin Luther King (Semester Unknown) IPRO 314: Interactive landmark Memorial for Equal Housing Rights MarchIPRO314FinalPresentationF10
Creator: Barsky, Dmitry, Dragomir-daescu, Eugen, Martinich, Bojana, Boykin, Dorcas, Akhtar, Ayesha, Bobak, Tadeusz, Martinez, Jocsan, Yen Lai, Se, Cheng, Eric, Perez, Lorenzo, Berg, Garrett, Trudo, Michelle
Date: 2010, 2010-12
Description: The objective of this IPRO is to help the students of Gage Park H.S. bring their vision of a memorial to a historical event into existence;...
Show moreThe objective of this IPRO is to help the students of Gage Park H.S. bring their vision of a memorial to a historical event into existence; and to further advance the concepts and ideas developed by the previous two IPRO groups. Objectives: i. Keep student ideas and concerns prevalent in design process ii. Develop initial prototypes of memorial designs after reconnecting with the Gage Park students iii. Receive feedback from students on prototype ideas iv. Upon student approval, develop a proposed final design v. Work with school and city officials to determine a place for the memorial vi. Work with involved parties to bring the memorial to completion
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Title: Evaluating the Commercial Potential of IIT's Mercury Pollution Prevention Technology (semester?), IPRO 356
Creator: Macdougall, Chris, Nguyen, Kheim, Dabney, Matthew, Wessely, Noel, Kim, Byung, Change, Wen-ya
Date: 2005-05, 2005-05
Description: Our objective in this IPRO is to develop a business plan for Dr. Clack’s VSB technology. In developing this business plan, we are looking at...
Show moreOur objective in this IPRO is to develop a business plan for Dr. Clack’s VSB technology. In developing this business plan, we are looking at the marketing strategy, market size, finances, and competition for this product. We are also looking at the government regulations governing this type of technology, at the business risks in developing the VSB and how to market it. The last objective for this IPRO is to develop a set of objectives and a path forward for any future IPROs on this topic.
Sponsorship: Sargent & Lundy LLC.; Ed Kaplan Entrepreneurial Studies Program
Deliverables for IPRO 356: Evaluating the Commercial Potential of IIT's Mercury Pollution Prevention Technology for the Spring 2005 semester
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Title: Cure for the IKIA Syndrome : presented at IACRL 2008 conference: 08Final_Schedule
Creator: Uth, Charles, Link, Jeanne
Date: 2008-02
Description: Informal observations of a practical and creative approach piloting Blended Library Instruction for undergraduate Civil Architecture and...
Show moreInformal observations of a practical and creative approach piloting Blended Library Instruction for undergraduate Civil Architecture and Engineering students, in collaboration with faculty. At Illinois Institute of Technology students don’t receive library instruction as a required class or in tandem with a composition class. Faculty will schedule one-time sessions, which ideally should be planned with a class assignment in mind, but students are rarely engaged with a one time instruction. Many have IKIA syndrome or I Know It Already syndrome. The Millennials are a group that has integrated technology into every aspect of their lives and they assume that retrieving useful or necessary information will be easy. When they discover this isn’t the case lack of time, heightened anxiety, and increased frustration can prevent them from doing their best work. By intentionally creating a similar crisis prior to library instruction, students were more interested in what they stood to gain during pending library instruction. In this presentation we will discuss: 1) A creative means of delivering library instruction to a traditionally challenging population: engineering undergraduate students 2) Qualitative information collected via multiple assignments and interpreted in a quantitative fashion, as well as our observations. 3) A method for preparing students for library instruction that can be applied in almost any discipline without asking the instructor to sacrifice class time.
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Title: Operator Information Tool to Manage Heat Treat Furnace Parts for A.Finkl & Sons (semester?), IPRO 330
Creator: Barnard, Leland, Cappello, Bill, Chen, Zheyan, Ijaz, Syed, O'leary, Patrick, Roberts, Colleen, Schwalbach, Eddie, Tovalin, Ivan, Velten, Josef, Virani, Minaz
Date: 2006-05, 2006-05
Description:  To generate an accurate survey of temperature distribution within the furnace.  To determine a method of stacking that provides the most...
Show more To generate an accurate survey of temperature distribution within the furnace.  To determine a method of stacking that provides the most uniform temperature distribution.  To create an efficient and intuitive tracking system that allows the exact location of each part in the furnace to be recorded and catalogued for future reference.  To put this knowledge together to create a software package that can be used to quickly and easily generate a stacking sequence that will result in a proper heat treatment for each piece in the furnace each time.  To fulfill all IPRO requirements
Sponsorship: A. Finkl & Sons
Deliverables for IPRO 330: Operator Information Tool to Manage Heat Treat Furnace Parts for A.Finkl & Sons for the Spring 2006 semester
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Title: PROBING THE PAN-GENOME OF LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES
Creator: Deng, Xiangyu
Date: 2011-04-26, 2011-05
Description: Bacterial pathogens often show significant intra-species variations in ecological fitness, host preference and pathogenic potential to cause...
Show moreBacterial pathogens often show significant intra-species variations in ecological fitness, host preference and pathogenic potential to cause infectious disease. The species of Listeria monocytogenes, a facultative intracellular pathogen and the causative agent of human listeriosis, consists of at least three distinct genetic lineages. Two of these lineages predominantly cause human sporadic and epidemic infections, whereas the third lineage has never been implicated in human disease outbreaks despite its overall conservation of many known virulence factors. The genomes of 26 L. monocytogenes strains representing the three lineages are compared based on both in silico comparative genomic analysis and high-density, pan-genomic DNA microarray hybridizations. We uncover 86 genes and 8 small regulatory RNAs that likely make L. monocytogenes lineages differ in carbohydrate utilization and stress resistance during their residence in natural habitats and passage through the host gastrointestinal tract. We also identify 2,330 to 2,456 core genes that define this species along with an open pan-genome pool that contains more than 4,052 genes. Phylogenomic reconstructions based on 3,560 homologous groups allowed robust estimation of phylogenetic relatedness among L. monocytogenes strains. The pan-genome approach enables accurate co-analysis of DNA sequence and hybridization array data for both core gene estimation and phylogenomic reconstruction. Application of our method to the pan-genome of L. monocytogenes sheds new insights into the intra-species genomic diversification, niche expansion and evolution of this important foodborne pathogen.
Ph.D. in Biology, May 2011
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Title: Sustainable New City - Johor, Malaysia
Creator: Meah, Nasser Meah Bin Mahmud
Date: 2011-12-06, 2011-12
Description: The purpose of this thesis is to develop an effective design approach necessary in building a new city. The challenge is to assemble a...
Show moreThe purpose of this thesis is to develop an effective design approach necessary in building a new city. The challenge is to assemble a background observations and research that will provide an understanding of the concepts required for developing new sustainable cities. It is hopeful that the ideas and design process can also be a framework to be applied on other undeveloped land that has the potential for new cities particularly in Malaysia. The main idea is to develop a thorough understanding of how the built environment plays an important role in shaping a community as well as identifying the technology involved. It specifically addresses the central issues involved with the art of place making, which determines the success of any particular urbanity. Environment then becomes the most important factor responsible for the physical, mental, and psychological development of an urban society.
M.S. in Architecture, December 2011
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Title: New Product Evaluation and Improvement (Semester Unknown) IPRO 341: NewProductEvaluationandImprovementIPRO341Poster1Su09
Creator: Assaliyski, Marin, Attard, Ryan, Basiourski, Vitali, Dorn, Lawrence, Feldman, Laurie, Grabowski, Luke, Guerrero, Jose, Rusz, Vlad, Tchobanova, Natacha, Zellarchaffers, Priscilla
Date: 2009, 2009-07
Description: The team’s purpose is to test the current new design for Versatility Tool Works cabinet, and make suggestions for improvements if needed....
Show moreThe team’s purpose is to test the current new design for Versatility Tool Works cabinet, and make suggestions for improvements if needed. Additionally, the team’s purpose was extended to develop a next‐generation tool storage cabinet and also to identify potential new markets for the company to pursue. This will require a truly inter‐professional team to analyze everything from the engineering of the tool storage cabinet to market research of the current and potential markets.
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Title: ISOGEOMETRIC ANALYSIS VIA TRIANGULATION
Creator: Jaxon, Noah
Date: 2013-05-15, 2013-05
Description: We present a method for isogeometric analysis on a triangulation of a domain bounded by NURBS curves. In this method, both the geometry and...
Show moreWe present a method for isogeometric analysis on a triangulation of a domain bounded by NURBS curves. In this method, both the geometry and the physical eld are represented by bivariate splines in Bernstein B ezier form over the triangulation. We describe a set of procedures to construct a parametric domain and its triangulation from a given physical domain, construct Cr-smooth basis functions over the domain, and establish a rational Triangular B ezier Spline (rTBS) -based geometric mapping that Cr smoothly maps the parametric domain onto the physical domain and exactly recovers NURBS boundaries. As a result, this approach can achieve automated meshing of objects with complex topologies and allows highly localized re nement. Isogeometric analysis of problems from linear elasticity and advectiondi usion analysis are demonstrated.
M.S. in in Mechanical Engineering, May 2013
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Title: Method of Treating a Recording Medium
Creator: Richardson, Donald E.
Date: 4/23/2009, 1967-04-18
Description: Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent

Title: Greening and Reuse of Queen of Peace High School Facilities (Semester Unknown) IPRO 314: GreeningandReuseOfQueenOfPeaceHighSchoolFacilitiesIPRO314Brochure1Sp09
Creator: Alvarez, Matthew, Dralle, Kyle, Duke, Kyle, Grande, Gina, Hernandez, Leonel, Horabik, David, Lipski, Brian, Muyco, Michael, Semenova, Svetlana, Weyhe, Randall, Zakir, Naima
Date: 2009, 2009-05
Description: The problem posed at Queen of Peace High School is one of sustainability. The IPRO 314 team will focus on the reuse and greening of existing...
Show moreThe problem posed at Queen of Peace High School is one of sustainability. The IPRO 314 team will focus on the reuse and greening of existing school facilities. Three major projects currently hold latent potential for the school: the communications center, the sustainability wall, and the overall greening of the facilities. If these projects are completed correctly, they will become a catalyst for positive change. We are proposing to create a transition from library to communication center because of its isolated state in the school. The sustainability wall is two-fold in terms of benefit. It will upgrade the current windows which are lacking and will create an interesting learning tool. Greening of the entire school is the third project and includes windows, roofing, etc. to improve efficiency. Through the use of all three proposals, IPRO 314 believes in the school promotion and what enrollment it could bring.
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Title: Techno-Business Study of Water Pump Motor Technologies (Semester Unknown) IPRO 348: Techno-BusinessStudyofWaterPumpMotorTechnologiesIPRO348FinalPresentationF10
Creator: Cachero, Eunice, Colmenares, Andre, Dias, Diego, Hannink, Veronica, Jackson, Lisa, Lee, Sunho, Matariyeh, Khalid, Oberg, Jarrett, Patel, Tejash
Date: 2010, 2010-12
Description: IPRO 348 is a team of students working together for the goal of assisting Pentair with selecting a new motor to use in their water pumps that...
Show moreIPRO 348 is a team of students working together for the goal of assisting Pentair with selecting a new motor to use in their water pumps that is more economically and environmentally friendly through research and testing of potential new motor technologies.
Sponsorship: Pentair
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Title: Solid Fuel from Biomass for Cogeneration (Semester Unknown) IPRO 349: SolidFuelFromBiomassForCogenerationIPRO349ProjectPlanSp09
Creator: Brazzale, Ross, Bryne, Richard, Cheever, James, Clark, Michael, Dorr, Elena, Gibbs, Jeremy, Lazicki, Katherine, Prabha Kumar, Abhishek, Vandegrift, Bertha, Williams, Robert, Worthon, Terrika, Yi Yeap, Xin
Date: 2009, 2009-05
Description: Renewable energy is one of the most important and widely researched topics today. It is classically defined as any form of energy that comes...
Show moreRenewable energy is one of the most important and widely researched topics today. It is classically defined as any form of energy that comes from renewable sources and, for all practical purposes, cannot be depleted. This may include solar, wind, or geothermal power, as well as biomass or biofuels. When considering biomass, or any living or recently dead biological material, the chemical energy of the molecules is generally collected through the process of combustion.
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Title: Implementing The Plant: Chicago’s First Vertical Farm (Semester Unknown) IPRO 336: ImplementingThePlantChicagoIPRO336FinalPresentationSp11
Creator: Speroff, Philip, Skaar, Angela, Schmidt, Michael, Plunkett, Joel, Mocny, William, Lockom, Frank, Handzel, Katarzyna, Speroff, Philip, Schmidt, Michael, Lockom, Frank, Xiao, Yao, Viramontes, Carlos, Sansone, Nic, Millham, Joseph, Chavez, Laurel, Palau, Mariana, Ostasz, Raluca, Liu, Andrew, Kenney, Kaycee, Hallak, Joseph, Bugnar, Ioana
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: There are several types of framing that can be used on a greenhouse. The frames are made of wood, galvanized steel, or aluminum. Build-it...
Show moreThere are several types of framing that can be used on a greenhouse. The frames are made of wood, galvanized steel, or aluminum. Build-it-yourself greenhouse plans are usually for structures with wood or metal pipe frames. Plastic pipe materials generally are inadequate to meet snow and wind load requirements. Frames can be covered with glass, rigid fiberglass, rigid double-wall plastics, or plastic film. All have advantages and disadvantages. Each of these materials should be considered--it pays to shop around for ideas.
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Title: Power Measurement for Road Bicycles: Towards a Universal Solution (Semester Unknown) IPRO 324: PowerMeasurementsForRoadBicyclesIPRO324FinalReportSp09
Creator: Anupoju, Tarun, Halim, Stephanus, Kaminski, Bryan, Lam, Brian, Marcellis, Brandon, Martin, Rebecca, Odunaiya, Edumaregbemiro, Stevanovic, Stefan, Tsosie, Henrietta, Voukadinov, Ivan, Ziomek, Arkadiusz
Date: 2009, 2009-05
Description: We would like to develop a system that measures the applied torque at a bicycle crank set. In contrast to current solutions, we want to be...
Show moreWe would like to develop a system that measures the applied torque at a bicycle crank set. In contrast to current solutions, we want to be able to retrofit our system to existing crank sets, obviating the need to abandon parts that the bicyclist already owns. In principle, according to preliminary tests performed at the MMAE department, this can be done using sets of quite inexpensive strain gauges. However, being able to get accurate torque measurements will require some advanced signal processing from the strain gauges. These signals can then be transmitted wirelessly to a bicycle computer like the Edge 705 that the global positioning system corporation Garmin released last year. There is a defined wireless protocol, called ANT+Sport, which has been developed specifically for the purpose of transmitting exercise data, such as power output or heart rate, to small computers. Chipsets and development kits for this protocol are also available commercially. Therefore, our task will be to find an optimal configuration of strain gauges that will be attached to the crank set, and to develop an algorithm to process the strain gauge data in order to isolate a signal that is proportional to the applied torque. This signal will then be transmitted to the bicycle computer for display and storage.
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Title: STRUCTURAL SEISMIC PERFORMANCE EVALUATION WITH CONSIDERATION OF ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY
Creator: Romero, Daniela Zuloaga
Date: 2014, 2014-05
Description: Performance evaluation of structures has until now been based on evaluation of maximum displacements, interstory drifts, deformation patterns,...
Show morePerformance evaluation of structures has until now been based on evaluation of maximum displacements, interstory drifts, deformation patterns, ductility and other similar parameters; a relative economic loss estimation as a performance measure for the structure is the next step that follows, and is what has been investigated in this work. For this study a steel mid-rise structure was designed according to code provisions using modal spectral analysis, after which it was subjected to an Incremental Dynamic Analysis (IDA) procedure to evaluate the capacity curve of the building. The capacity analysis was then used to determine damage states and compute fragility curves. Finally, economic relative loss values were assigned to represent each designated damage state, for which the mean damage ratio was computed (in terms of economic loss relative to total replacement cost) as a function of spectral displacement.
M.S. in Civil Engineering, May 2014
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Title: Urban Margins : An Architectural Narrative: Phillips - Masters Book
Creator: Phillips, Christopher
Date: 5/4/2011, 2011-05
Description: Manhattan’s expansion is limited by its context; for decades its growth has been upward and inward. It fills the remaining gaps and leftover...
Show moreManhattan’s expansion is limited by its context; for decades its growth has been upward and inward. It fills the remaining gaps and leftover spaces in its own fabric. As time presses on, this layered context grows in density, accumulating a thickness around the alley, the fire escape, and the rooftop. By resisting the city’s tendency to stifle, one can gather these moments of Manhattan’s past, and channel the interplay of space and narrative.
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