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Title: Zero CommunIITy: A Prototype for a Zero-Energy Residential Development (sequence unknown), IPRO 323 - Deliverables: IPRO 323 IPRO Day Presentation F09
Creator: Bohac, Adam, Brady, David, Bueno, Juan, Coughlin, Daniel, Depalma, Lowell, Gonzalez, Juan, Gross, Josh, Hernandez, Carlos, Iversen, Jennifer, Mckinley, Keanen, Moceri, Michael, Modi, Nishant, Wisniewski, Anthony, Zacharias, Bryan
Date: 2009-12
Description: The teams purpose is to seek a union between living comfortably and living sustainably. To design for a future Chicago‐area community, which...
Show moreThe teams purpose is to seek a union between living comfortably and living sustainably. To design for a future Chicago‐area community, which first minimizes its energy consumption and then uses the most sustainable methods to fulfill the remaining needs of the inhabitants. Ideally we will design a model community which will challenge conventions within the fields of design, planning, engineering, and everyday living. This community will also serve as an example to Chicago‐area municipalities about the benefits of sustainable planning, design, and living.
Sponsorship: Consultant from A. Epstein & Sons; Jeremy Poling
Deliverables for IPRO 323:Zero CommunIITy: A Prototype for a Zero-Energy Residential Development for the fall 2009 semester
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Title: Chicago Casino
Creator: Sholar, Scott
Date: 4/13/2011, 2011-05
Description: Transforming abandoned grain elevators while redefining the normal Casino typology. Understanding the capabilities of abandoned grain...
Show moreTransforming abandoned grain elevators while redefining the normal Casino typology. Understanding the capabilities of abandoned grain elevators and how they can be reused to create a successful design.
Sponsorship: Felsen, Martin
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Title: STUDIES IN NONEQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS
Creator: Wang, Huichao
Date: 2013-05-08, 2013-05
Description: This thesis gives a brief outline of how the microscopic representation enters into a good description of the elasticity of a fluid. We first...
Show moreThis thesis gives a brief outline of how the microscopic representation enters into a good description of the elasticity of a fluid. We first introduce the hydrodynamics by three continuity equations. Due to its macroscopic background, we point out its limitation that it does not fit well with the elastic behavior of the fluid. Therefore we introduce the microscopic description of the system. In order to connect the elasticity which is obviously involved in the non-equilibrium state of a fluid, we discuss how non-equilibrium mechanics could be related to equilibrium mechanics by the assumption that the system is not far away from equilibrium. Under this assumption, an analysis of equilibrium mechanics is necessary, and combining with the microscopic representation, we derive the generalized Langevin equation as an equation of motion of the momentum current, which is endowed with the elastic property, consistent with observations of the fluid.
M.S. in in Physics, May 2013
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Title: Multi- Generational Housing in China: Mixed-use Multi- Generational Housing in China
Creator: Liu, Ling
Date: 2011-05, 2011-05
Description: In China, too much population causes early retire age, one child policy, extremely high housing pressure, too little land for open space,...
Show moreIn China, too much population causes early retire age, one child policy, extremely high housing pressure, too little land for open space, little or no public facilities. Also, it causes the lost of many long tradition. The losing of multi- generational living is just one of them. This project is a humanistic response to the social problems.
Sponsorship: Denison, Dirk
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Title: CONSIDERING THE FORM OF TALL BUILDINGS TO ACHIEVE MINIMUM STRUCTURAL WEIGHT REGARDING ALONG WIND EFFECT
Creator: Alaghmandan, Matin
Date: 2014, 2014-07
Description: One of the most influential parameters in structural design of tall buildings, in addition to gravity loads, is the lateral load resulting...
Show moreOne of the most influential parameters in structural design of tall buildings, in addition to gravity loads, is the lateral load resulting from wind and to some extend earthquakes. Tall buildings have to be designed for a larger base shear, resulting from wind forces rather than from seismic forces; however, ductile detailing is used when needed to account for seismic demands. The wind effect occurs primarily in two main modes of action: across wind and along wind. Wind also produces three different types of effects on tall buildings: static, dynamic, and aerodynamic. Structurally, static effect is measured independent of time, while dynamic analysis takes into account the system responses to the changes through the period of time. When the building is flexible, it interacts with the wind load and affects its response, which is called aerodynamic effect. To reduce the static and dynamic impact, there are two main solutions: Architectural and Structural. Architects can mitigate wind effect on tall buildings by designing the form aerodynamically or at least by utilizing aerodynamic modifications, which are categorized in macro and micro modifications such as tapering and setback. Structural engineers can reduce wind effect by choosing and designing efficient structural systems regarding the form of the buildings such as tube systems and diagrid system. This thesis, by utilizing the architectural and structural strategies to reduce wind effect, introduces a new design method in the realm of tall buildings. An innovative design method of tall buildings calls for an integrated approach with considerations for both architectural and structural design requirements and concepts. This design method which considers integrated architectural and structural concepts to reduce the along wind effect, for this particular research, is an effort to achieve the minimum weight of the structure. This method creates an innovative computational workbench to design efficient tall buildings, regarding the along wind effect. This can be achieved by connecting an architectural parametric design procedure in AutoLisp (AutoCAD) to generate the models with different forms of modifications, a Computational Fluid Dynamics program (ANSYS) to do the CFD simulations, a structural analysis program (SAP2000) and the ParaGen visualization interface to consider and compare the results to evaluate the models regarding the criteria such as weight of the structure (ParaGen has also a Genetic Algorithm based optimization procedure that is not used in this research). In this research, the most important architectural and structural parameters of seventy-three of the tallest buildings are also studied. Based on the information gathered, the future trend in the geometry and form and also the structural design used for tall buildings can be predicted. It is necessary to mention, based on the past and current trends in architectural features and structural design of tall buildings, and also the future prediction, the required architectural and structural parameters for an innovative proposed design method can be helped. However, it is not clear whether this trend is in a right way or not, it has to be improved based on the architectural and structural efficient parameters. The research shows that a careful study of core design concepts in architectural features and structural design of tall buildings, along with an integrated approach considering various design requirements, can be an effective method in design of new generation of tall buildings.
Ph.D. in Architecture, July 2014
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Title: Cure for the IKIA Syndrome : presented at IACRL 2008 conference: Final assignment 2
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: Measurement of hadron production in Deep Inelastic Scattering, Proceedings of the XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics
Creator: Jung, H.
Date: 2013-09-15, 2013-09-15
Publisher: IIT Press
Description: Measurements of charged particle densities and K⁰s and Λ production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA are presented and compared to Monte...
Show moreMeasurements of charged particle densities and K⁰s and Λ production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA are presented and compared to Monte Carlo event generator predictions. The measurements provide sensitive tests for the initial state parton radiation process as well as for the hadronization process.
Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
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Title: ANALYSIS OF VARIATION IN MULTISTAGE MANUFACTURING PROCESS BASED ON TREE REGRESSION
Creator: Chen, Zhefu
Date: 2014, 2014-05
Description: In a multistage manufacturing process, variation propagates in the process when we produce products from stage to stage. Since there are...
Show moreIn a multistage manufacturing process, variation propagates in the process when we produce products from stage to stage. Since there are limits of reducing variation through process in traditional industrial management and it is hard to monitor the process when the engineering domain knowledge is insufficient. We investigated statistical methods based on piecewise tree regression model including: CART, Bayesian CART, Bayesian treed linear model and Bayesian treed Gaussian process to multistage manufacturing process. The difference performances between models were discussed in a wafer manufacturing process case as a result comparison. Key Words: Multistage process, variation propagation, process monitoring, piecewise tree regression
M.S. in Applied Mathematics, May 2014
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Title: Innovative Actuators for Active Flow and Noise Control
Creator: Cain, A. B., Raman, G.
Date: 2002
Publisher: Professional Engineering Publishing Ltd
Description: Active flow control (AFC) has the potential to improve the efficiency of systems that involve both internal and external fluid flow. The...
Show moreActive flow control (AFC) has the potential to improve the efficiency of systems that involve both internal and external fluid flow. The primary driver in AFC is the expectation that the control will result in significant performance benefits at the system level with all trade-offs factored in. Successful application to aircraft systems can produce lighter, stealthier, agile aircraft with increased range, payload and a muffled acoustic signature. The design of an AFC system requires knowledge of flow phenomena and the selection of appropriate actuators, sensors and a control algorithm. The present overview focuses on actuators. Examples of flow and noise control presented here are restricted to open-loop systems. Various aspects of actuator utilization include actuator output characterization, exploiting resonances (plenum, structural or aeroacoustic) to enhance actuator amplitude and the different modes of actuation. A brief description of a high-bandwidth actuator is also provided, followed by a variety of application examples including edgetone suppression, cavity noise suppression, impingement noise suppression and jet mixing enhancement. The review concludes with a description of the successful application of AFC to the exhaust plume from an aircraft engine (JT8D).
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Title: Adaptive Building Skin
Creator: Kim, Minjae
Date: 2010-05-01, 2010-05-01
Description: City is made up of diversity and density. Diverse factors make activities and different relationships in a city. These are very sensitive to...
Show moreCity is made up of diversity and density. Diverse factors make activities and different relationships in a city. These are very sensitive to other factors’ changes. Their various responses make city dynamic and finally characterize the face of a city or a town. Buildings are one of dynamic factors in a city. The building facade which determines building’s identity marks the transition between outside and inside. The facade has a strong relationship between building programs and urban activities. Their looks make a huge effect on urban environment. But buildings’ configuration is fixed once design choices are made. Buildings are conceived as a rigid objects and inflexible, unresponsive, and unsustainable. Considering that buildings are the largest contributor to the city environment, building should be responsive to changes and facade performance should be more active to building programs. Adaptive building facade will be the means that can address these challenges.
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Title: Zero CommunIITy: A Prototype for a Zero-Energy Residential Development (sequence unknown), IPRO 323 - Deliverables: IPRO 323 Brochure F09
Creator: Bohac, Adam, Brady, David, Bueno, Juan, Coughlin, Daniel, Depalma, Lowell, Gonzalez, Juan, Gross, Josh, Hernandez, Carlos, Iversen, Jennifer, Mckinley, Keanen, Moceri, Michael, Modi, Nishant, Wisniewski, Anthony, Zacharias, Bryan
Date: 2009-12
Description: The teams purpose is to seek a union between living comfortably and living sustainably. To design for a future Chicago‐area community, which...
Show moreThe teams purpose is to seek a union between living comfortably and living sustainably. To design for a future Chicago‐area community, which first minimizes its energy consumption and then uses the most sustainable methods to fulfill the remaining needs of the inhabitants. Ideally we will design a model community which will challenge conventions within the fields of design, planning, engineering, and everyday living. This community will also serve as an example to Chicago‐area municipalities about the benefits of sustainable planning, design, and living.
Sponsorship: Consultant from A. Epstein & Sons; Jeremy Poling
Deliverables for IPRO 323:Zero CommunIITy: A Prototype for a Zero-Energy Residential Development for the fall 2009 semester
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Title: STABILITY OF TUBULAR AND AUTOTHERMAL PACKED-BED REACTORS USING PHASE PLANE ANALYSIS
Creator: Chylla, R. W., Adomaitis, R. A., Cinar, A.
Date: 1987-07
Publisher: AMER CHEMICAL SOC
Description: The regions of stability and parametric sensitivity of countercurrent reactor/heat exchangers are determined explicitly in the plane of inlet...
Show moreThe regions of stability and parametric sensitivity of countercurrent reactor/heat exchangers are determined explicitly in the plane of inlet feed temperature-inlet coolant temperature. The concept of phase plane analysis is generalized to include all orders of reaction rate expressions, a broader range of system parameters, and is extended to the case of autothermal reactors. An industrial hydrocarbon oxidation reactor model and an autothermal CO oxidation reactor model have been used to illustrate and to evaluate the analysis method. The approach presented here is appealing since the region of safe inlet temperatures is determined explicitly and the region of safe operation can be optimized with respect to the reactor design parameters.
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Title: Contrails: The Evolution of an Air Force Technical Reports Digitization Project: Contrails DLC Meeting Presentation
Creator: Ahrens, Aric G.
Date: 2005-10-18
Description: A presentation given at the Fall 2005 Depository Library Council Meeting in Washington, D.C. The presentation describes the efforts to make...
Show moreA presentation given at the Fall 2005 Depository Library Council Meeting in Washington, D.C. The presentation describes the efforts to make accessible to the researchers and the public a collection of Air Force technical reports left at IIT by the Crerar Library when they moved to the University of Chicago. Covered is the period 1996-2005.
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Title: Hostile Spaces and Hostel Spaces: Re-Visioning Highway Infrastructure: Kevin_Smith Final Thesis Board 03-0f-03
Creator: Smith, Kevin
Date: 2010-07-30

Title: Adaptive control strategy for regulation of blood glucose levels in patients with type 1 diabetes
Creator: Eren-oruklu, Meriyan, Cinar, Ali, Quinn, Lauretta, Smith, Donald
Date: 2009-09
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Description: Current insulin therapy for patients with type 1 diabetes often results in high variability in blood glucose concentrations and may cause hype...
Show moreCurrent insulin therapy for patients with type 1 diabetes often results in high variability in blood glucose concentrations and may cause hype rglycemic/hypoglycemic episodes. Closing the glucose control loop with a fully automated electro-mechanical pancreas will improve the quality of life for insulin-dependent patients. An adaptive control algorithm is proposed to keep glucose concentrations within normoglycemic range and dynamically respond to glycemic challenges. A model-based control strategy is used to calculate the required insulin infusion rate, while the model parameters are recursively tuned. The algorithm handles delays associated with insulin absorption, time-lag between subcutaneous and blood glucose concentrations, and variations in inter/intra-subject glucose-insulin dynamics. Simulation results for simultaneous meat and physiological disturbances are demonstrated for subcutaneous insulin infusion.
Endnote format citation for DOI:10.1016/j.jprocont.2009.04.004
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Title: IMPROVING CRITERION-RELATED VALIDITY IN PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRES AT THE ITEM LEVEL
Creator: Dimitrov, Roger
Date: 2015, 2015-05
Description: When using a personality questionnaire for predicting behavior, criterion-related validity improvements have historically focused on improving...
Show moreWhen using a personality questionnaire for predicting behavior, criterion-related validity improvements have historically focused on improving scale level construction techniques over examining the global impact of item-level characteristics on criterion-related validity. This article investigates the impact of item-level characteristics on the criterion-related validity of the Five-Factor Model (FFM) (as a personality instrument) as a predictor of job-related behavior. Two self-report FFM measures were correlated with workplace observer ratings to derive mean validity scores for each of the FFM items. A panel of judges then rated these items on the following item characteristics: ambiguity, abstractness, comprehensibility, wording, negation, transparency and social desirability. As hypothesized, social desirability, negation, wording and transparency were correlated with criterion-related validity. Contrary to the study hypothesis, abstractness was found to be positively correlated with criterion-related validity.
M.S. in Psychology, May 2015
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Title: MAXIMIZING THE ANTI-INFLAMMATORY EFFECTS OF STRAWBERRY ANTHOCYANINS: UNDERSTANDING THE INFLUENCE OF CONSUMPTION TIMING VARIABLE
Creator: Huang, Yancui
Date: 2015, 2015-05
Description: Chronic low-grade inflammation is an emerging risk factor for chronic disease development and complication. Strawberries, rich in anthocyanins...
Show moreChronic low-grade inflammation is an emerging risk factor for chronic disease development and complication. Strawberries, rich in anthocyanins, attenuate meal-induced postprandial increases in inflammation and oxidative stress as well as improved post-meal insulin responses. Anthocyanins are considered to be responsible in part, for their health benefits. The bioavailability of anthocyanins is low and short-lived. The relationship between strawberry intake timing of consumption relative to a meal and the metabolic-, inflammatory- and oxidative stress responses that ensue are not known. Therefore, this study aimed to determine if the strawberry consumption timing would influence meal-induced oxidative-immuno-metabolic outcomes. Fourteen overweight (BMI 26 ± 2 kg/m2) healthy adults (aged 25 ± 4 years) participated in a 3-arm, placebo-controlled, crossover clinical trial. Subjects came to the research clinical on 3 different occasions for 10 hours (h) and received 3 study drinks: 2 hours before a meal, with the meal, and 2 hours after the meal. A strawberry drink was given at 1 of the 3 time points and control drinks at the alternative time points. Plasma analytes of glucose, insulin and triglycerides were measured over the 10 h along with oxidized low density lipoprotein, a marker of oxidative damage, and interleukin-6, a marker of inflammation. Results were compared between strawberry “timing” groups and with a demographically matched reference group (n=10, BMI 27 ± 2 kg/m2and aged 27 ± 4 years) that was provided only control drinks (no strawberry). Study result showed a significant reduction in postprandial blood glucose when strawberry was consumed before the meal compared to having the strawberry drink with or after the meal, p < 0.05. Compared to the reference group, eating strawberries, regardless of the consumption time, attenuated postprandial blood glucose without additional insulin, suggesting improved sensitivity. Interleukin-6was significantly lower after consuming the strawberry drink before the meal (p=0.048) and modestly lower after consuming the strawberry drink with (p=0.116) or after the meal (p=0.098) compared to the reference group. This study provides data suggesting that strawberries have a role in glycemic control and attenuating the pro-inflammatory effect of a modern diet. There may be particular advantages when consumed before a meal.
M.S. in Food Safety and Technology, May 2015
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Title: Supersonic Jet Screech: Half-century from Powell to the Present
Creator: Raman, G.
Date: 1995-08-19
Publisher: Academic Press Ltd
Description: Under certain conditions, shock-containing jets produce an intense tone referred to as screech. Screech was discovered about half a century...
Show moreUnder certain conditions, shock-containing jets produce an intense tone referred to as screech. Screech was discovered about half a century ago by Alan Powell in England. Here I recount developments in supersonic jet screech - from Powell's first observation in 1951 to now. During this period more than 200 papers have been published - many offering only incremental advances. This paper provides a concise screech resource including a historical perspective, a summary of recent developments and a critical assessment of the state of the art. Topics include modulation of instability waves by shocks, shock-cell models and screech frequency prediction models, unsteady shock motions and clues about their role in shock noise generation. also. detailed nearfield measurements and computer simulation methods now available are discussed. However, despite the advances, screech amplitude prediction remains an elusive but increasingly important goal not only due to concerns about sonic fatigue failure of aircraft structures but because knowledge gained by the study of screech can be applied to a variety of resonant flow situations, including jet impingement, cavity resonance, and closed-loop active flow control. (C) 1999 Academic Press.
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Title: DEVELOPMENT OF A PROGRAMMABLE WIRELESS NETWORK TEST BED OVER ANDROID SMARTPHONE
Creator: Zhou, Chenyang
Date: 2016, 2016-05
Description: As wireless applications are increasingly prevalent in recent years, smartphones, the link between wireless world and common life, become more...
Show moreAs wireless applications are increasingly prevalent in recent years, smartphones, the link between wireless world and common life, become more and more indispensable. Subsequently, smartphone applets become more and more complicated, protocols like 3G,LTE,4G have also been improved to satisfy people’s increasing requirement. This leads to an exponentially increase in energy consumption. However, the power of smartphone battery is limited, and thus how to improve energy efficiency and extend the life-time of smartphone battery becomes a critical issue. In wireless local area networks (WLANs), switching to low-power sleep mode to save energy is common. Power-Saving mode (PSM) was one of the standard algorithm in order to save energy. This feature allows devices to switch the WiFi on and off several times a second. However, research papers have shown that PSM is not really efficient in practice, and in many cases (e.g. multiple stations), can actually degrade performance. This sleep-scheduling algorithm, derived from GreenCall Algorithm is demonstrated to have lower packets loss rate while achieving higher energy efficiency than that of the existing GreenCall Algorithm.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2016
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Title: Devices that Assist Blind & Visually-Impaired Individuals in Swimming and Other Exercise Activities (sequence unknown), IPRO 310 - Deliverables: 310_redacted
Creator: Dykeman, Kimberly, Healton, Michaela, Lipman, Timothy, Ludwig, Ross, Park, Jay, Reilly, Jeffrey, Sarkar, Smita, Sirk, Phillip, Toro, Branden
Date: 2009-12
Description: The objective is to develop, test, and implement assistive technology with the community that promotes safety and improves independence of...
Show moreThe objective is to develop, test, and implement assistive technology with the community that promotes safety and improves independence of blind and visually impaired (BVI) swimmers.
Sponsorship: Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind & Visually-Impaired. Notre Dame University
Deliverables for IPRO 310:Devices that Assist Blind & Visually-Impaired Individuals in Swimming and Other Exercise Activities for the fall 2009 semester.
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