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- AVOIDATRAK: AVOIDATRAK IPRO310 Spring2001 Final Presentation
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- 2001, 2001-05
- Description
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The team will assist an independent inventor, Mr. Julius Jones, Jr., in developing his idea for a computer game that could help wheelchair...
Show moreThe team will assist an independent inventor, Mr. Julius Jones, Jr., in developing his idea for a computer game that could help wheelchair users improve their hand-eye coordination and reflexes, and which would be enjoyable, interesting, and motivating for them to play. In exploring design ideas, for the game, the team will have an opportunity to meet and confer with wheelchair bound students who this past summer successfully completed a path-breaking hike on a rugged trail in the White Mountains of New Hampshire (New York Times, August 12, 2000, p. A1). The IPRO team will work on developing computer animation models of possible scenarios for the game. This IPRO combines analysis of needs and interests of mobility-impaired individuals from perspectives of the human and social sciences (psychology, sociology, etc.) with developing ideas about how to address those needs in a meaningful way through a computer game (design, electrical and computer engineering, computer science, etc.)
Sponsorship: Collaboration with the National Easter Seal Society and other organizations interested in sponsoring this project.
Project Plan for IPRO 310: AVOIDATRAK for the Spring 2001 semester
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- Interactive Urban Landmark Memorial (Semester Unknown) IPRO 314: InteractiveUrbanLandmarkMemorialIPRO314FinalPresentationSp10
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- Amine, Mukarram, Antony, Claude, Chipman, Aubrey, Choi, Lien, Dykeman, Kimberly, Healton, Michaela, Jayanthy, Ashika, Lane, Frank, Mckinley, Matthew, Noorts, George, Reilly, Jeffrey, Schafer, Michael, Taylor, Joseph
- Date
- 2010, 2010-05
- Description
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This report is a summary of IPRO 314 and the work which has been completed as of spring 2010. The continuing IPRO 314 team, consisting of...
Show moreThis report is a summary of IPRO 314 and the work which has been completed as of spring 2010. The continuing IPRO 314 team, consisting of undergraduates from the Illinois Institute of Technology, is a group of diverse individuals who are undertaking the planning and development stages of a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Equal Housing Rights March Memorial, to be located on the south side of Chicago.
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- Video Transducing Apparatus
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 2009-05-04, 1975-02-04
- Description
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Monochrome and color television recording and playback circuitry for coupling of a video magnetic transducer head with a standard broadcast...
Show moreMonochrome and color television recording and playback circuitry for coupling of a video magnetic transducer head with a standard broadcast television receiver. The transducer head preferably includes a plurality of head units for recording respective color television signals with provision for selectively recording a monochrome signal on successive channels with the use of one only of the head units.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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- The Effects of Green Technology on Electrical Contractors (Semester Unknown) IPRO 338: The Effects of Green Technology on Electrical Contractors IPRO 338 Poster1 Sp08
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- Althoff, Sarah, Boonstra, David, Dilger, Andrew, Haque, Sabeen, Kamdar, Amit, Marrari, Giuseppe, Mitchell, Jason, Patel, Vrudhdhi, Saulog, Jeremy, Sin, In Seok, Standard, Steve, Wright, James
- Date
- 2008, 2008-05
- Description
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Electrical Contractors’ Association of the City of Chicago
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- Wheelchair Basketball Computer Game (Summer 2004) IPRO 306: Wheelchair Basketball Computer Game IPRO306 Summer2004 Final Presentation
- Creator
- Catalano, Vince, Powell, Ray, Citrin, Levi, Perez, Armando, Cantrell, Case, Mataruke, Bachum Y., Dhar, Niranjan, Lomax, Tiffany, Gula, Elmarie J., Moy, Calvin, Budiman, Alex, Jones, Nicholas, Kelley, Jessica
- Date
- 2004, 2004-07
- Description
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A Summer 2003 EnPRO team after reviewing the work done by previous IPRO teams and listening to wishes of both Professor Ladenson and Mr....
Show moreA Summer 2003 EnPRO team after reviewing the work done by previous IPRO teams and listening to wishes of both Professor Ladenson and Mr. Julius Jones, Jr., a Chicago independent inventor, decided that the Avoidatrak IPRO needed a new and fixed direction. That direction was that the collision avoidance game should incorporate a positive depiction of the abilities of disabled individuals in the form of a wheelchair basketball computer game. The purpose of this Summer 2004 IPRO was to do preliminary research and discover useful contacts for a Fall IPRO to begin designing Avoidatrak. Specifically, our goal was to generate a document that might be useful to the Fall IPRO team in understanding what the Avoidatrak game should and should not contain. In order to accomplish this goal, the IPRO team divided itself into two preliminary teams. Team 1 focused on the organizational and meaning that the game should incorporate, namely focusing on what disabled basketball players thought of the game and ways to make it an appealing and uplifting experience. Focus was also placed on the structure of the game, i.e. the level it is played at (locally, nationwide, international). Team 2 focused primarily on the actual game rules, strategies, and technicalities. Part of the research required was to discover what things set apart wheelchair basketball from able-bodied basketball. A consequence of coming up with rules and game play was that team 2 also contemplated various methods of interacting with the game through standard and widely available controllers.
Sponsorship: IIT Collaboratory for Interprofessional Studies in Collaboration with Julius Jones, Jr., inventor
Project Plan for IPRO 306: Wheelchair Basketball Computer Game for the Summer 2004 Semester
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- Bus tracker (Fall 2003) EnPRO 371: Bus Tracker ENPRO371 Fall2003 Final Presentation
- Date
- 2003, 2003-12
- Description
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Our goal is to develop a cost effective bus tracking system based on affordable radio- frequency (RF) technology that will provide customers...
Show moreOur goal is to develop a cost effective bus tracking system based on affordable radio- frequency (RF) technology that will provide customers with reliable information, which they can use it to ensure the safety of their children.
Sponsorship: NA
Project Plan for EnPRO 371: Bus Tracker for Fall 2003 semester
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- Power Measurement for Road Bicycles: Towards a Universal Solution (Semester Unknown) IPRO 324: PowerMeasurementsForRoadBicyclesIPRO324ProjectPlanSp09
- 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
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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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- Chicago Sister Cities China: Fuel Cell/Geothermal Sustainable Energy USX Site (Semester Unknown) IPRO 345: Fuel CellGeothermal Sustainable Energy at USX Site IPRO 345 Project Plan Sp08
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- Agose, Daisy, Bober, Eliza, Kumar, Abnishek Prabha, Leep, Nick, Yoshimura, Maruja, Yun, Suk Hwan, Lockridge, Jonathan, Chung, Yoon Sung, Dado, Mathew, Byrne, Richard, Ajigbo, Funso, Enadeghe, Gregory, Lee, Yun Jin, Hogan, Brian, Wolcott, Chris, Peavler, Jennifer, Kim, Jaehyuk, Park, Jae Hyung, Park, Won Woo, Zheng, Min, Hornero, Alex, Pelae, Raisa, Zarate, Nyah, Arnoux, Christian, Mukai, Cheryl
- Date
- 2008, 2008-05
- Description
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A. Create a working software tool that assists in the capacity of planning, decision making and accessing the economic feasibility of...
Show moreA. Create a working software tool that assists in the capacity of planning, decision making and accessing the economic feasibility of implementing an integrated fuel cell technology and geothermal energy system. B. Through a case study approach, research and evaluate the energy needed in residential homes to use as a basis for determining the algorithms employed in the software development. C. Demonstration of the viability of the integrated fuel cell and geothermal system in a specific location through the prototype testing of the database tool. D. Connect an alternative energy source for heating and cooling to the industrial world by providing an efficient way to analyze the design and economic parameters required to implement such an integrated energy system. E. Research on all parameters needed for our project’s implementation including environmental laws and regulations, permits, funding, weather, population, and energy consumption.
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- The study of an air washer
- Creator
- Armspach, Otto W., Haines, E. Wilfred
- Date
- 2009, 1917
- Publisher
- Armour Institute of Technology
- Description
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http://www.archive.org/details/studyofairwasher00arms
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology
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- Edutainment (semester?), IPRO 329: Edutainment IPRO 329 Project Plan F06
- Creator
- Abdi, Shabihul, Branicki, Konrad, Ephraim, Matthew, Kimnach, Deborah, Llyod, Joseph, Loh, Almond, Merkley, Michael, Slone, Michael, Tan, Yun, Olson, Kurt, Pierce, James, Olsen, Keith
- Date
- 2006-12, 2006-12
- Description
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IPRO 329: Edutainment is an IPRO that invests its efforts into the education and entertainment of today’s youth. This mission gives us our...
Show moreIPRO 329: Edutainment is an IPRO that invests its efforts into the education and entertainment of today’s youth. This mission gives us our name with the combination of “Educate” and “Entertainment.” The realization of these goals has come in the form of computer games.
Deliverables for IPRO 329: Edutainment for the Fall 2006 semester
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- Evolution: A holistic rejuvenation and wellness center, Chicago: Graphic Argument
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- Takle, Rameshwari
- Date
- 2012-04-24, 2012-05
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My thesis proposition is to design a center for yoga, meditation and spa. The idea is to engage architecture, hospitality and interior design...
Show moreMy thesis proposition is to design a center for yoga, meditation and spa. The idea is to engage architecture, hospitality and interior design as a medium to create a space for an overall holistic experience. I am interested in the ethereal qualities in nature and their ability to tranquilize a person’s state of mind.
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- Oak Park Energy Efficiency & Carbon Reduction (Semester Unknown) IPRO 329: OakParkEnergyEfficiencyAndCarbonReductionIPRO329PosterF10
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- Muyco, Michael, Broda, Dawid, Jardim, Thiago, Lakin, Colin, Moceri, Michael, Dexter, Eric, Kim, Tae-hoon, Lee, Seunggeun, Mohaimani, Aurash, Herman, Robert, Kungis, Andrew, Lim, Suk-hyun, Park, Minah
- Date
- 2010, 2010-12
- Description
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The overall purpose of the IPRO 329 team is to work with the Village of Oak Park in order to implement a strategic plan to educate Oak Park...
Show moreThe overall purpose of the IPRO 329 team is to work with the Village of Oak Park in order to implement a strategic plan to educate Oak Park residents in making their homes more efficient and work toward a community wide reduction of energy and water usage. In doing so, we also hope to gain valuable experience in working in a team with members with varying degrees of experience and skills.
Sponsorship: Oak Park
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- DOES NUTRITION KNOWLEDGE MODERATE THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PERFECTIONISM AND EATING DISORDER SYMPTOMATOLOGY?
- Creator
- Schwartz, Natalie
- Date
- 2017, 2017-05
- Description
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The trait of perfectionism is a psychological factor linked with the development of disordered eating, though the relation is unclear with...
Show moreThe trait of perfectionism is a psychological factor linked with the development of disordered eating, though the relation is unclear with some studies pointing to perfectionism as a predictor of eating disorder symptoms, while other studies have failed to find a statistically significant association. These discrepant findings suggest a need for understanding other factors that could be impacting the association. Research has suggested that individuals with eating disorders perform better than controls on knowledge of sources of nutrients and that while individuals with eating disorders spend more time reading about nutrition, this knowledge tends to be selective and skewed towards the aspects that maintain the eating disorder. The current study aimed to investigate the role of nutrition knowledge as a factor that may significantly influence the association between perfectionism and disordered eating attitudes. College women (N=122) completed several questionnaires related to disordered eating, nutrition knowledge, and perfectionism. The main research questions were: 1) whether perfectionism was related to disordered eating attitudes, 2) whether nutrition knowledge was related to disordered eating attitudes, and 3) whether nutrition knowledge moderated the relation between perfectionism and disordered eating attitudes. Results supported a positive association between perfectionism and disordered eating attitudes, in line with previous research. Despite a non-significant association between nutrition knowledge and disordered eating attitudes, there was found to be trend level significance (p<.07) for one moderation model. Specifically, the model assessing overall body dissatisfaction accounted for 33.34% of the variance, with a significant main effect for the level of perfectionism,suggesting the greater the degree of perfectionism traits, the greater the level of body dissatisfaction. While more research is needed to further develop an understanding of the link between perfectionism and disordered eating, nutrition knowledge is one possible avenue to explore in order to develop more effective prevention and intervention efforts.
M.S. in Psychology, May 2017
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- High School in Pignon, Haiti (semester?), IPRO 326: High School in Pignon Haiti IPRO 326 Midterm Presentation S07
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- Bailey, Nick, Diaz De Leon Orraca, Frederico, Dike, Chukwuderaa, Franklin, Casey, Goldsmith, Katherine, Hogan, Brian, Igbokwe, Chinedu, Jaromin, Sebastian, Kirsch, Joseph, Lowe, Scott, Samuels, Janina, Velichkov, Veselin, Watkins, Brett, Williams, Allisyn
- Date
- 2007-07, 2007-07
- Description
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The IPRO 326 team’s objective for this semester is to design a High School so an additional 400 children will have access to affordable...
Show moreThe IPRO 326 team’s objective for this semester is to design a High School so an additional 400 children will have access to affordable education in the remote town of Pignon, Haiti. We want to assist our partner Haiti Outreach in realizing this goal by providing them technical assistance, project management and costing tools as well as advice and guidelines that will improve their construction techniques.
Sponsorship: Haiti Outreach IIT Student Chapter
Deliverables for IPRO 326: High School in Pignon, Haiti for the Summer 2007 semester
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- THE MICHAEL REESE SITE (Semester Unknown) IPRO 359
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- Malik, Ajose,, Fraser, Linnea, Liu, Fangpeng, Martinez, Jocsan, Masnaga, Masnaga,, Mcnally, William, Medina, Omar, Miller, Nathan, Nava, Fabian, Steinys, Victoria, Strandquist, Brad
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- 2011, 2011-05
- Description
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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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- Green Leaf Community (Semester Unknown) IPRO 357: GreenleafCommunity IPRO357BrochureF10
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- Beck, Steve, Paschal, William, Snyder, Mark, Rueda, Jorge, Hegde, Namrata, Semenova, Svetlana, Xiao, Yao, Anglin, Christopher, Qaisar, Samir, Sung Shin, Woo, Yun, Joonggeun, Prokop, Samantha
- Date
- 2010, 2010-12
- Description
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Our purpose is to study the design of sustainable residential housing model designed by the Inter-professional group in the fall of 2009 and...
Show moreOur purpose is to study the design of sustainable residential housing model designed by the Inter-professional group in the fall of 2009 and determine the construction costs for the model. This along with the market analysis will set a baseline price for the average buyer of this home. Our goal is to redesign this model with the current economic market in mind and make this model of sustainable design marketable and economically feasible with use of more efficient designing and systems.
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- AN INTEGRATED DATA ACCESS SYSTEM FOR BIG COMPUTING
- Creator
- Yang, Xi
- Date
- 2016, 2016-07
- Description
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Big data has entered every corner of the fields of science and engineering and becomes a part of human society. Scientific research and...
Show moreBig data has entered every corner of the fields of science and engineering and becomes a part of human society. Scientific research and commercial practice are increasingly depending on the combined power of high-performance computing (HPC) and high-performance data analytics. Due to its importance, several commercial computing environments have been developed in recent years to support big data applications. MapReduce is a popular mainstream paradigm for large-scale data analytics. MapReduce-based data analytic tools commonly rely on underlying MapReduce file systems (MRFS), such as Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), to manage massive amounts of data. In the same time, conventional scientific applications usually run on HPC environments, such as Message Passing Interface (MPI), and their data are kept in parallel file systems (PFS), such as Lustre and GPFS, for high-speed computing and data consistency. As scientific applications become data intensive and big data applications become computing hungry, there is a surging interest and need to integrate HPC power and data processing power to support HPC on big data, the so-called big computing. A fundamental issue of big computing is the integration of data management and interoperability between the conventional HPC ecosystem and the newly emerged data processing/analytic ecosystem. However, data sharing between PFS and MRFS is limited currently, due to semantics mismatches, lacking communication middleware, and the diverged design philosophies and goals, etc. Also, challenges also exist in cross-platform task scheduling and parallelism. At the application layer, the data model mismatch between the raw data kept on file systems and the data management software of an application impedes cross-platform data processing as well. To support cross-platform integration, we propose and develop the Integrated Data Access System (IDAS) for big computing. IDAS extends the accessibilities of programming models and integrates the HPC environment with the data processing MapReduce/Hadoop environment. Under IDAS, MPI applications and MapReduce applications can share and exchange data under PFS and MRFS transparently and efficiently. Through this sharing and exchange, MPI and MapReduce applications can collaboratively provide both high-performance computing and data processing power for a given application. IDAS achieves its goal with several steps. First, IDAS enhances MPI-IO so that MPI-based applications can access data stored in HDFS efficiently. Here the term efficient means that HDFS is enhanced to support MPI-based applications. For instance, we have enhanced HDFS to transparently support N-to-1 file write for better write concurrency. Second, IDAS enhances Hadoop framework to enable MapReduce-based applications process data that resides on PFS transparently. Please notice that we have carefully chosen the term “enhance” here. That is MPI-based applications not only can access data stored on HDFS but also can continue access data stored on PFS. The same is for MapReduce-based applications. Through these enhancements, we achieve seamless data sharing. In addition, we have integrated data accessing with several application tools. In particular, we have integrated image plotting, query, and data subsetting within one application, for Earth Science data analysis. Many data centers prefer erasure-coding rather than triplication to achieve data durability, which trades data availability for lower storage cost. To this end, we have also investigated performance optimization of the erasure coded Hadoop system, to enhance Hadoop system in IDAS.
Ph.D. in Computer Science, July 2016
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- Logistics Outsourcing Tool (semester?), IPRO 319: Logistics Outsourcing Tool IPRO 319 Poster F06
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- Bae, Juhan, Cho, Hyoungtae, Christopherson, Sean, Gunal, Amol Venkat, Hacker, Maxime, Hammer, Kerstin, Mehta, Kabir, Rodriguez, Tito, Romanova-smith, Alexandra, Schwarz, Nickolay
- Date
- 2006-12, 2006-12
- Description
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The IPRO 319 team’s objective for this semester is to create a model of a distribution operation which will aid companies seeking to outsource...
Show moreThe IPRO 319 team’s objective for this semester is to create a model of a distribution operation which will aid companies seeking to outsource logistics operations. However, the team’s main objective is to create a web based application for efficient and cost-effective analysis allowing companies to determine the effectiveness of outsourcing any aspect of a warehouse. This team will also attempt to establish a strong team-working environment based on the knowledge and capabilities of each individual given their different fields of study for the successful completion of the goals presented for the IPRO group, as well as gaining useful experience and knowledge for every member
Sponsorship: Warehouse Education and Research Council; Kern Family Foundation
Deliverables for IPRO 319: Logistics Outsourcing Tool for the Fall 2006 semester
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- ESTABLISHING AN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH JOURNAL (Semester Unknown) IPRO 321
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- Desai, Sapna, Dvorscak, Mike, Mochinski, Scott, Moreno, Saul, Pilipchuk, Sophia, Roberts, Chris, Sarratt, Meagan, Shaughnessy, Ciaran, Vandegrift, Bertha, Yates, Andrew
- Date
- 2010, 2010-12
- Description
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By encouraging and rewarding research across all undergraduate disciplines at the university, a distinctive and enriching educational...
Show moreBy encouraging and rewarding research across all undergraduate disciplines at the university, a distinctive and enriching educational environment will be developed for undergraduate students to become leaders and innovators.
Sponsorship: IIT
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- Hydrazine Production
- Creator
- Gunning, Harry E., Mcdonald, Charles Cameron
- Date
- 1956-02-28
- Description
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Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent