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Title: Developing a Collaborative On-line Student Research Forum (sequence unknown), IPRO 321 - Deliverables: IPRO 321 IPRO Day Presentation F09
Creator: Abhay, Anandha, Cornelius, Zachary, Corsus, Tom, De Courten-myers, Maximilian, Eberlin, Adam, Kapaldo, James, Nicholson, Bethany, Sizyuk, Yuriy, Sundberg, Stephen
Date: 2009-12
Description: ResearchWeb is meant to broaden IIT undergraduate participation beyond the existing mechanisms such as fellowships, research and reading...
Show moreResearchWeb is meant to broaden IIT undergraduate participation beyond the existing mechanisms such as fellowships, research and reading courses, and departmental projects. There is also the possibility of broadening this program to other scholarly individuals outside of the IIT undergraduate community. These individuals include IIT graduate students, students from other universities, and promising high school students. ResearchWeb is also meant to improve the transition, and perhaps promote if need be, the transition from undergraduate education to graduate education. This would be fulfilled through practical research experience.
Deliverables for IPRO 321:Developing a Collaborative On-line Student Research Forum for Fall 2009
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Title: Impacts of Sulfur Capture Technology in Coal Power Plants (sequence unknown), IPRO 302 - Deliverables: IPRO 302 Midterm Presentation F09
Creator: Contreras, Abraham, Dickman, Justin, Enadeghe, Gregory, Garcia Rodriguez, Hector, Haddad, Michael, Kyle, Ryan, Mongillo, Michael, Murphy, Ryan, Shonubi, Oluwaseun, Swillum, Bryce, Wolber, Brian, Worthon, Terrika
Date: 2009-12
Description: The IPRO team was investigating the net impact of sulfur capture technologies used in current and next generation power plants in the United...
Show moreThe IPRO team was investigating the net impact of sulfur capture technologies used in current and next generation power plants in the United States. It planned to 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.
Sponsorship: Sargent & Lundy, LLC
These are the deliverables for IPRO 302: Impacts of Sulfur Capture Technology in Coal Power Plants from the Fall 2009 semester.
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Title: Volumes of Light - A School of the Performing and Visual Arts, Brooklyn.: School of the Arts Brooklyn Board 1
Creator: Cabal González, Sara
Date: 2012, 2012-05
Description: The school is a proposal for high-level academic performance in the form of an art condenser that will also be used after hours to house...
Show moreThe school is a proposal for high-level academic performance in the form of an art condenser that will also be used after hours to house community art events. Thus, it will act as a catalyst for future college students and serve as a magnet for neighborhood residents. As the art disciplines require, the classroom and their respective studio are integrated and considered as the basic unit that define different volumes for each art form. The massing, orientation, and materiality bring a unique quality of light to those “volumes of light”.
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$Diffractive cross sections implemented in PYTHIA8-MBR VS LHC results$

Title: Diffractive cross sections implemented in PYTHIA8-MBR VS LHC results, Proceedings of the XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics
Creator: Goulianos, Konstantin
Date: 2013-09-15, 2013-09-15
Publisher: IIT Press
Description: Diffractive cross sections implemented in the pythia8-mbr Monte Carlo simulation are reviewed and compared to results obtained at the Large...
Show moreDiffractive cross sections implemented in the pythia8-mbr Monte Carlo simulation are reviewed and compared to results obtained at the Large Hadron Collider.
Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
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Title: OPTIMAL SIGNAL TIMING DESIGN FOR URBAN STREET NETWORKS UNDER USER EQUILIBRIUM BASED TRAFFIC CONDITIONS
Creator: Liu, Yi
Date: 2015, 2015-05
Description: In the ever-growing travel demand, traffic congestion on freeways and expressways recurs more frequently at a higher number of locations and...
Show moreIn the ever-growing travel demand, traffic congestion on freeways and expressways recurs more frequently at a higher number of locations and for longer durations with added severity. This becomes especially true in large metropolitan areas. Particular to the urban areas, excessive crowdedness caused by inefficient traffic control also results in urban street networks operating in near or over-saturated conditions, leading to unpleasant travel experience due to long delays at intersections. As a consequence, the recurrent traffic congestion on roadway segments and vehicle delays at intersections inevitably compromise energy efficiency, traffic mobility improvement, safety enhancement, and environmental impacts mitigation. All too often, neither restraining travel demand nor expanding system capacity is desirable and practical. Conversely, effectively utilizing the capacity of the existing transportation system has been increasingly thought of as the solution to congestion relief. With respect to the urban street networks, developing effective means for urban intersection signal optimization becomes essential to reduce intersection delays. Conventional signal timing optimization methods use historical traffic data and assume that traffic flows will remains unchanged after the implementation of new signal timing plans. Traffic flows are assumed to be constant, but in fact, when signal timing plans change, travel times for some travel routes will alter, which requires drivers in the network to adjust their choice of travel routes to arrive at the destinations, and result in redistribution of traffic in the network. Therefore, the effects of interactions between signal timing plans and traffic flows need to be explicitly taken into consideration. This study introduces a new methodology that jointly considers signal timing optimization and traffic assignment in an overall analytical framework that contains model formulations under assumptions consistent with real world situations. Such a framework is well suited for applications in real world cases. Specifically, the overall optimization framework is formulated as a bilevel optimization problem. In the proposed basic model, at the upper level, a traffic signal timing optimization problem for urban network is introduced to minimize system total travel time by optimizing signal green splits. At the lower level, a static user equilibrium problem is formulated for networkwide traffic assignment. In the vehicle delay estimation, the time-dependent stochastic delay model in the 2010 Highway Capacity Manual (HCM 2010) is employed and formulated as Variational Inequality constraints, what allow the state-of-the-art MPEC solver, GAMS/NLPEC, to solve the problem for a local optimal effectively and efficiently. The bi-level optimization model is first tested using a small network (the test network) and a computational experiment using a subarea network in the Chicago central district is conducted to assess the practicality of the model formulation in real world applications. In order to import more reality to the basic model and also consider the potential system benefit that comes from different signal phasing design, an enhanced model is developed based on the basic model by employing integer and binary variables. Formulating the problem with binary variables allows for the selection of proper phasing design. Heuristic solution methods are proposed and tested using the test network.
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, May 2015
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Title: DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF THE KIRIE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT MODEL
Creator: Mendez, Thomas E.
Date: 2012-07-15, 2012-07
Description: The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRDGC) is tasked with protecting the public’s water supply and improving the...
Show moreThe Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRDGC) is tasked with protecting the public’s water supply and improving the quality of water in their service area’s watercourses. Principal in this mission are the seven wastewater treatment plants that are operated by MWRDGC. The greater Chicago area possesses a combined sewer system (CSS) that combines sanitary sewage and stormwater runoff. Because of this CSS, water reclamation plants are burdened with not only processing sewage and sanitary waste, but also stormwater runoff. As a result there can be a large variation in water quality and quantity. MWRDGC’s newest water reclamation plant is the James C. Kirie Water Reclamation Plant, which was completed in 1980. This plant operates as a nitrification plant with no separate distinct denitrification process. It is important to note that no clearly defined unit processes such as nitrification towers are utilized at the Kirie Water Reclamation Plant. Nitrification occurs primarily in the aeration basins and is currently sufficient to meet water quality standards. However, because of the current regulatory climate, stricter standards on effluent discharge are likely in the near future especially with respect to nutrients. Stricter standards on total nitrogen in effluent instead of the current ammonia limits are one such expected water quality change. As a result of this expectation, modeling modifications and processes at a treatment plant can be a key tool in adjusting to evolving standards. Because water reclamation plants vary greatly depending on their technology, influent and processes, computer modeling provides a convenient way to assess how the plant will react to dynamic changes in influent quality and still be able to meet static effluent standards. Although computer modeling has been applied to water reclamation plants for some time now, there are no clearly defined or accepted protocols for this modeling. Combined with the variation exhibited by various types of water reclamation plants, often modeling protocols must be custom created for individual plants or types of plants. What follows is a study and simulation of the Kirie Water Reclamation Plant. Simulation was used to examine wet weather events at the Kirie Water Reclamation Plant. Wet weather phenomena were explored in step-wise manner to determine the relative effects of different perturbations in influent water quality and quantity. The results show the various effects in effluent quality depending upon the variable or combination of variables deviated. Deviations in temperature and flow dominate all other variations simulated and result in the largest effect on effluent water quality. Deviations of 50% to both temperature and flow simultaneously yielded an increase in effluent BOD and NH3 at twice and six times the steady state values, respectively.
M.S. in Environmental Engineering, July 2012
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Title: Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery and Compositions Therefor
Creator: Bryant, Rebecca S.
Date: 2009-05-08, 1990-03-06
Description: A method is provided for microbial enhanced oil recovery, wherein a combination of microorganisms is empirically formulated based on...
Show moreA method is provided for microbial enhanced oil recovery, wherein a combination of microorganisms is empirically formulated based on survivability under reservoir conditions and oil recovery efficiency, such that injection of the microbial combination may be made, in the presence of essentially only nutrient solution, directly into an injection well of an oil bearing reservoir having oil present at waterflood residual oil saturation concentration. The microbial combination is capable of displacing residual oil from reservoir rock, which oil may be recovered by waterflooding without causing plugging of the reservoir rock. Further, the microorganisms are capable of being transported through the pores of the reservoir rock between said injection well and associated production wells, during waterflooding, which results in a larger area of the reservoir being covered by the oil-mobilizing microorganisms.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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Title: Detection of Misuse of Authorized Access in an Information Retrieval System
Creator: Frieder, Ophir, Grossman, David Adam
Date: 2012-03-20, 2007-11-20
Description: The present invention relates to a system for detecting misuse of authorized access to a digital data gathering system by a user. User...
Show moreThe present invention relates to a system for detecting misuse of authorized access to a digital data gathering system by a user. User behavior is monitored as to the search queries, the search results, or both. When a valid record of normal user behavior is obtained, each new query and result for the user can be compared to the record to determine if anomalous activity has occurred.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: Urban Hybrid House
Creator: Machado, Beatriz Ferreira Pinto
Date: 5/4/2011, 2011-05
Description: The aim of this project is to develop a cluster of hybrid houses in Evanston designed to produce energy and reduce resources consumption in...
Show moreThe aim of this project is to develop a cluster of hybrid houses in Evanston designed to produce energy and reduce resources consumption in comparison to the houses surrounding it. The project goals are to demonstrate performance improvement. Maximize sun exposure and the interaction between the houses and its gardens. To raise awareness that it is possible to live in a more environmentally friendly unit without hardship is another purpose of the project.
Sponsorship: Denison, Dirk
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Title: Power Measurement for Road Bicycles: Towards a Universal Solution (sequence unknown), IPRO 324 - Deliverables: IPRO 324 Poster F09
Creator: Adrianzen, Luis, Allen, Ross, Antonio, Chris, Callan, Mark, Claxton, Sara, Diesse, Patrick, Gaylord, Matthew, Herbert, Greg, Shaffer, Dan, Wegrzyn, Celeste
Date: 2009-12
Description: The goal of the IPRO is to try to find an inexpensive, but accurate way of measuring the power output of a rider on a bicycle. Problems with...
Show moreThe goal of the IPRO is to try to find an inexpensive, but accurate way of measuring the power output of a rider on a bicycle. Problems with systems currently available are: some products are not compatible with all bike systems causing the need to purchase new parts, the cost of the available products is expensive, and some of the available measuring systems are not very accurate.
Deliverables for IPRO 324: Power Measurement for Road Bicycles: Towards a Universal Solution for the fall 2009 semester
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Title: Hybrid Electrolyte System
Creator: Smotkin, Eugene S., Mallouk, Thomas E., Ward, Michael D., Ley, Kevin L.
Date: 2009-05-11, 1998-12-08
Description: A hybrid electrolyte system for fuel cells and other electrochemical reactors comprising an acid electrolyte, a base electrolyte, and a proton...
Show moreA hybrid electrolyte system for fuel cells and other electrochemical reactors comprising an acid electrolyte, a base electrolyte, and a proton permeable dense phase separating the acid electrolyte from the base electrolyte.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: HIGH RISE BUILDING: plan and perspective
Creator: Sun, Yanfang
Date: 2012-05-08, 2012-05
Description: MIXED USE HIGH RISE BUILDING DESIGN COMBINING WIND TURBINE, IN ORDER TO FIND A SUSTAINABLE WAY TO USING CLEAN ENERGY

Title: SYSTEM-ON-CHIP ARCHITECTURES FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING AND COMMUNICAnONS
Creator: Niu, Sufeng
Date: 2012-04-30, 2012-05
Description: System-On-Chip (SOC) is one of the most popular Computer Aided Design (CAD) methodologies in electronic system design. In this research, SOC...
Show moreSystem-On-Chip (SOC) is one of the most popular Computer Aided Design (CAD) methodologies in electronic system design. In this research, SOC design is investigated in two different types of applications: i) low cost and power efficient applications; and ii) high performance computing applications. To explore low cost and power efficient design, a microcontroller based wireless medical system is investigated. Two wireless communication protocols for medical applications and patient monitoring are analyzed. In addition, the ZigBee stack developed by TI and a medical amplifier are discussed. For high performance SOC applications, implementations of several matrix operations are examined. An improved fixed-point hardware design of QR decomposition is introduced and optimized for Xilinx FPGAs. A Givens Rotation algorithm is implemented using a folded systolic array and the CORDIC algorithm. This approach is highly suitable for high-speed FPGAs or ASIC designs. It is found that the Xilinx XC5VLX110T FPGA is capable of running the QR decomposition at 246MHz.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2012
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Title: Composite Materials
Creator: Khan, M. Ishaque
Date: 2009-05-14, 2002-05-07
Description: Composite materials composed of organic and inorganic substances of the general formulation MO(O.sub.2 C--C.sub.6 H.sub.4 --CO.sub.2), wherein...
Show moreComposite materials composed of organic and inorganic substances of the general formulation MO(O.sub.2 C--C.sub.6 H.sub.4 --CO.sub.2), wherein M is a transition metal, and a method for producing the composite materials. The structure of these materials includes at least one column of an array of transition metal oxides, the column having corner-sharing octahedra interlinked with spacer organic chelating ligands. The inorganic-organic hybrid materials are likely to exhibit properties not encountered in pure inorganic and organic substances.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: OPTIMAL BIDDING STRATEGY FOR HYDRO UNIT
Creator: Zhu, Renchen
Date: 2013-04-30, 2013-05
Description: The bidding price for the renewable energy is very different from some traditional energy, like gas, coal and so on, because when we produced...
Show moreThe bidding price for the renewable energy is very different from some traditional energy, like gas, coal and so on, because when we produced the renewable energy, the only cost is the generator unit cost, for example, wind power, water power and so on. People never need to pay the fuel price for the solar, water or wind. So here come one question how can we decide the energy price for these power. As we all know, the bidding price decided the profit for the generating company. Nowadays, more and more researches have been done in this field for every company want a good price to earn the highest profit. But for the renewable energy, they are different from the traditional energy which price is determined by the fuel price. So how to decide the bidding price of the renewable energy will be a good topic and question for us. To solve this problem, I will try to use an idea called minimum the imbalance in order to maximum the profit for those owners. This idea first has been applied in the wind unit. For my thesis, I will apply this idea to the hydro unit both with the storage and without storage. For each part, I will use some data to test. By these testing, the result will show this bidding strategy will be better.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2013
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Title: High Performance Green Homes (sequence unknown), IPRO 317 - Deliverables: IPRO 317 Poster F09
Creator: Bhat, Adnan, Campbell, Brittanie, Cink, Jefferey, Gutstein, Yehuda, Hadi, Shuaib, Hafdi, Kamal, Hasan, Hasan, Kenig, Elezar, Lipski, Brian, Lollino, Luca, Margolis, Jordan, Nigamatzyanov, Tagir, Patel, Hiren, Patel, Neal, Shehada, Hazem, Toops, Melissa, Trauner, Crystal, Zgourdah, Mourad
Date: 2009-12
Description: The purpose of this project is to show how a team committed to helping people help save the world can leapfrog today's best designs. As...
Show moreThe purpose of this project is to show how a team committed to helping people help save the world can leapfrog today's best designs. As opposed to the tradition of minimum design standards that just meeting the building code, highest practical design standards are the focus. True sustainability is the goal of this project, including; Zero Carbon Emissions, Net Zero Energy, 100% Solar Power, 10 times the traditional design life, 1/10th the maintenance, rot proof, termite proof, fire proof, hurricane and earthquake resistant. The project team, using cutting edge technology, will develop all aspects of a start-up design and build company to promote High Performance Green Homes. This project will provide a great opportunity for IIT students to experience a challenging and interesting project and to significantly contribute to a better world.
Sponsorship: Jimmy Eng
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Title: THERMODYNAMICS AND PHASE EQUILIBRIA OF HEUSLER ALLOYS
Creator: Chung, Yoonsung
Date: 2011-09, 2011-07
Description: Heusler compounds are of great interest for their properties such as shape memory, thermoelectric, ferromagnetic and spin polarization effects...
Show moreHeusler compounds are of great interest for their properties such as shape memory, thermoelectric, ferromagnetic and spin polarization effects that could lead to new mechanical and electronic devices. Currently, the study of Heusler alloys is focused on their electronic and magnetic properties, but the high temperature thermodynamic properties of these compounds have not been covered as much. A thorough knowledge of the thermodynamic properties and phase equilibria is required for developing this kind of alloys. This thesis is part of a systematic investigation of the thermodynamics and phase equilibria of ternary Heusler alloy systems. In this work, the high temperature reaction calorimeter was used to obtain the standard enthalpy of formation of compounds in the Ni2XSn (X = Ti, Zr, Hf, V and Nb) and Ni2TiX (X = Ga and In) ternary systems. It was confirmed the compound Ni2TaSn does not exist in the Heusler structure A Setaram Ligne 96 drop calorimeter was used to measure the heat content of Ni2TiSn as a function of temperature. Phase equilibria and crystal structures of Ni2TiSn, Ni2TiGa and Ni2TiIn were determined using XRD, SEM and EDS.
M.S. in Materials Science & Engineering, July 2011
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Title: Automatic Insulin Pumps Using Recursive Multivariable Models and Adaptive Control Algorithms
Creator: Cinar, Ali, Oruklu, Meriyan
Date: 2014-04-09, 2014-04-08
Description: A method and device for monitoring or treating patient glucose levels. The device includes a glucose sensor for measuring a glucose level of a...
Show moreA method and device for monitoring or treating patient glucose levels. The device includes a glucose sensor for measuring a glucose level of a patient, a physiological status monitoring system for measuring at least one physical or metabolic variable of the patient, and an automatic controller in communication with the glucose sensor and the physiological status monitoring system. The controller includes a prediction module for automatically predicting a future glucose level using data measured by the glucose sensor and the physiological sensor.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: Method and Apparatus for Electrostatic Recording and Reproducing
Creator: Richarson, Donald E.
Date: 1964-12-01
Description: Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent

Title: Orthotics and Prosthetics in Latin America (sequence unknown), IPRO 309 - Deliverables: IPRO 309 Final Report F09
Creator: Ashley, Trevor, Claxton, Matt, Conover, Stephen, Gotanco, Francis, Mathai, Alexander, Nizich, Adam, Park, Yong, Quikr, Kerry, Ray, Monmayuri, Vasquez, Raul
Date: 2009-12
Description: The overall goal of our IPRO team is to create a program for delivering orthotics and prosthetics that is sustainable. This will be...
Show moreThe overall goal of our IPRO team is to create a program for delivering orthotics and prosthetics that is sustainable. This will be accomplished by improving the quality of the product by increasing availability of funding, improving cost effectiveness of prosthetics, and promoting awareness of treatment available.
Deliverables for IPRO 309: Orthotics and Prosthetics in Latin America for the fall 2009 semester.
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