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Title: Electromagnetic Head Construction
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 1960-02-23
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: Magnetic Recording and Reproducing Apparatus
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 1956-01-03
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: A test of a 2,500 KVA turbo-generator
Creator: Grabendike, C. A.
Date: 2009, 1921
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/testof2500kvatur00grab
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Combustion Catalysis
Creator: Bradstreet, Samuel W., Rechter, Harold L.
Date: 1961-04-04
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: Neutron Detection Apparatus
Creator: Reiffel, Leonard
Date: 1962-04-10
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: RELIABILITY AND ENERGY ANALYSIS FOR EXTREME SCALE SYSTEMS
Creator: Yu, Li
Date: 2015, 2015-12
Description: Reliability and energy are two of the top major concerns in the development of today's supercomputers. To build a powerful machine while at...
Show moreReliability and energy are two of the top major concerns in the development of today's supercomputers. To build a powerful machine while at the same time satisfying reliability requirement and energy constraint, HPC scientists continue to seek a better understanding of system and component behaviors. Toward this end, modern systems are deployed with various monitoring and logging tools to track reliability and energy data during system operations. Since these data contain important information about system reliability and energy, they are valuable resources for understanding system behaviors. However, as system scale and complexity continue to grow, the process of collecting system data to extracting meaningful knowledge out of overwhelming reliability and energy data faces a number of key challenges. To address these challenges, my work consists of three parts, including data preprocessing, data analysis and advanced modeling.
Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2015
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Title: Magnetic Recording or Reproducing Device
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 1947-04-08
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation
United States Patent

Title: Oil Burner
Creator: Reba, Imants, Cooper, Paul W.
Date: 4/23/2009, 1967-05-16
Description: Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent

Title: Magnetic Modulator Head for Narrow Track Recorders
Creator: Wiegand, David E.
Date: 1958-10-07
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: Method and Apparatus for Treating Hazardous Waste or Other Hydrocarbonaceous Material
Creator: Bridges, Jack E., Sresty, Guggilam C., Taflove, Allen
Date: 2009-05-11, 1996-01-30
Description: Methods and apparatus for treating waste with radio frequency include a wall defining a radio frequency treatment chamber through which waste...
Show moreMethods and apparatus for treating waste with radio frequency include a wall defining a radio frequency treatment chamber through which waste may be passed. A source of radio frequency energy energizes the radio frequency treatment chamber to heat the waste and drive off vapors therefrom leaving solid residue to be disposed of. A guard heater and/or insulation maintains the wall at substantially the same temperature as the waste being heated by the radio frequency to prevent vapors from condensing on the waste.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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Title: RE-POSITIONING THE CHICAGO BOULEVARD SYSTEM: TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF AN ACTIVE URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE
Creator: Vadacca, Anna
Date: 2016, 2016-05
Description: How can urban infrastructures be reinterpreted based on their social potential? The thesis discusses the value that infrastructures can have...
Show moreHow can urban infrastructures be reinterpreted based on their social potential? The thesis discusses the value that infrastructures can have in relation to mobility and quality of life, in the context of the urban project, and proposes an example of how underutilized spaces, that pertains to an outdated model of the city, can be re-configured as adaptable and dynamic infrastructures. The Boulevard System of Chicago emerged during the process of “beautification” that the “City Beautiful” movement fostered in the 19th century. From being the “Emerald Necklace”, as it was known, the Boulevard System became today a fragmented infrastructure that mirrors the socio-economic segregation of Chicago neighborhoods. Within the archipelago of different urban realities of the city, the Boulevard System represents today an under-utilized urban space that reinforces the already existing urban thresholds between different urban communities. The goal of the research is to re-think the Boulevard System as a new transportation corridor, able to interact with other urban systems. The proposal for the boulevards is part of an Infrastructure Plan for Chicago that aims to propose ways inwhich different actions on infrastructure can revitalize the City. The idea is to re-activate the boulevard through a series of interventions, articulated around the re-connection of the fragmented system, as a new “ring” infrastructure, and the engagement with the surrounding specificities. The proposed Bus Rapid Transit system should offer an experience through the parks in Chicago and support its reactivation through the promotion of activities and events. Furthermore, the creation of a hub around the Garfield Green Line station is meant to propose a more engaging transit experience around the city of Chicago.
M.S. in Architecture, May 2016
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Title: TWO-LAYERED DEPTH ESTIMATION USING SEMI-GLOBAL MATCHING WITH MUTUAL INFORMATION
Creator: Zhang, Chen
Date: 2014, 2014-07
Description: Depth estimation plays an important role in three-dimensional computer vision area. Its recent development focuses on real-time application....
Show moreDepth estimation plays an important role in three-dimensional computer vision area. Its recent development focuses on real-time application. To be able to provide depth map for real-time applications like pedestrian detection and intelligent vehicles, three challenges must be overcome: 1. Real-time processing speed; 2. Insensitive to brightness change; 3. Clear boundaries and smooth surface. The thesis first describes the major steps of depth estimation, then many commonly used methods are reviewed. From them and other related real-time method, we found that the iteration based semi-global matching with mutual information has much potential to be improved. Based on that, the thesis proposed a method with two layers to provide depth map for pedestrian detection. The low resolution layer’s task is to produce a coarse depth map as quick as possible, then it helps to produce accurate mutual information distribution without iterations. The Full-resolution layer applies semi-global matching with two optional simplification schemes to speed up. The proposed method is implemented on both CPU and GPU. Experimental results and evaluation shows that it has great insensitivity to brightness changes and achieves real-time processing speed while maintaining a comparable performance with state-of-the-art real-time depth estimation methods.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2014
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Title: Ion Exchange Material from Bark and Formaldehyde
Creator: Mccully, Charles Roland
Date: 1960-02-23
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: ASSESSMENT OF THE IPR ALGORITHM FOR THE DIFFERENTIAL FUNCTIONING OF ITEMS AND TESTS FRAMEWORK
Creator: Neuhengen, Jonas M.
Date: 2013, 2013-12
Description: The Diferential Functioning of Items and Tests (DFIT) framework is a widely used test of di erential functioning. DFIT uses the Item Parameter...
Show moreThe Diferential Functioning of Items and Tests (DFIT) framework is a widely used test of di erential functioning. DFIT uses the Item Parameter Replication (IPR) algorithm to generate statistical cuto s, which relies on several simpli cations have not been formally tested. This study examines these assumptions by comparing the IPR algorithm with an extended, unsimpli ed procedure intended to represent results observed in practice. Monte Carlo simulation was used to compare cuto s between the two methods under a number of conditions. Di erences between the IPR and extended cuto s indicate that Type I error rates are conservative at the test level and in ated at the item level. Mean group di erences resulted in massive in ation. Sample size and test length had only minor inuences on error rates.
M.S. in Psychology, December 2013
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Title: Method of and an Apparatus for Counting Fibers
Creator: Davies, Reg, Karuhn, Richard F.
Date: 2009-05-09, 1974-10-24
Description: A method and apparatus are provided for distinguishing microscopic size, elongated fiber-like particles from cubically shaped, irregularly...
Show moreA method and apparatus are provided for distinguishing microscopic size, elongated fiber-like particles from cubically shaped, irregularly shaped, or spherically shaped particles in a mixture suspended in an electrically conducting liquid medium and for counting the fiber-like particles. In accordance with the method, an electrical zone sensing apparatus is provided with a screen means having microscopic openings therein of predetermined size to filter from the suspension particles having an effective area larger than the size of screen openings. Particles passing through the screen and through the sensing aperture of the zone sensing apparatus are separately sized by volume characteristics of electrical signals generated. The electrical signals having predetermined volume characteristics associated with the maximum spherical particles for passing through the screen openings are counted as non-fiber particles; whereas signals having larger volume characteristics are separately counted and designated as fibers. By the use of screens of successively smaller sizes, the larger particles including fibers having larger transverse cross sections may be successively filtered from the suspension and from reaching the sensing aperture. Therefore, smaller fibers having smaller cross-sectional area may be distinguished from particles having diameters approximating that of the smaller screen size openings.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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Title: Tests of a mechanical rectifier
Creator: Smith, Bernard M, Wolfson, William
Date: 2009, 1916
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/testsofmechanica00smit
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Bibliography: leaf 50

Title: Apparatus for Generating Odor upon Electronic Signal Demand
Creator: Rasouli, Firooz, Arastoopour, Hamid, Oskouie, Ali
Date: 2009-05-14, 2003-04-15
Description: An apparatus for generating odor including a disk having a substrate with a dispersing material retaining at least one releasable aroma...
Show moreAn apparatus for generating odor including a disk having a substrate with a dispersing material retaining at least one releasable aroma positioned with respect to the substrate. The dispersing material includes a structure, such as a plurality of openable pores, that is physically responsive to a stimulus such as heat or light. A device provides the stimulus to the dispersing material upon demand as a function of a signal, wherein the plurality of pores within the dispersing material are reversibly enlarged as a result of the stimulus.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: CONSTRUCT AND MEASUREMENT EQUIVALENCE ACROSS GENDER OF THE DYADIC ADJUSTMENT SCALE
Creator: Yap, Bonnie Joyce
Date: 2012-10-16, 2012-12
Description: The Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) is the most widely used measure of dyadic adjustment for individuals in committed relationships (Spanier,...
Show moreThe Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) is the most widely used measure of dyadic adjustment for individuals in committed relationships (Spanier, 1976). However, little research has focused on whether DAS measures the construct of dyadic adjustment in a way that is equivalent and unbiased across genders. The current study utilized matched moderated regression (MMR) to assess each item of the DAS to detect if gender differences in the relationships between item responses and the construct being measured are due to (a) factors other than the construct and (b) differences in the construct. Archival data were acquired from a previously published study (Eddy, Heyman, & Weiss, 1991). The sample was very large (N =3322) so it was divided into two replication groups in such a way that no couples were included in the same group. A number of statistically significant differences were found on items in both replication samples; however: (1) many of these items were not consistent across replicate groups; (2) Even when there was a consistent gender difference in both replication groups, the magnitude was small; (3) When all of the differences were summed across items, bias in total scale score was minimal because the direction of the biases differed across items and so cancelled out and; (4) A small gender difference may exist in preferences for demonstrations of affection. Findings suggest that there are not substantial gender bias or scale equivalence problems with the DAS. The construct of dyadic adjustment was similar in men and women. These findings are congruent results from the recent study of South and Kruger (2009) on gender differences in the factor structure on the DAS and lend support to the valid use of the DAS in studies of dyadic adjustment.
M.S. in Psychology, December 2012
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Title: COMPUTER-BASED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS IN ORGANIZATIONAL TRAINING: IMPACT OF LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND PERSONALITY
Creator: Papaioannou, Georgia-niki
Date: 2015, 2015-05
Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential effects of technology and personality on training using a computer based learning...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to investigate the potential effects of technology and personality on training using a computer based learning environment designed to improve learning through technology-delivered instruction. Data were collected from a sample of undergraduate students (N = 98), recruited from three universities (two in the US and one in Canada), who participated in both experimental days. Condition had no effect on learning outcomes, while Conscientiousness was found to be significantly correlated with academic performance. In further analyzing the relationship between personality and learning outcomes across time using a latent growth curve model results showed non-significant conclusions for the direction of the relationship for each of the Big Five. Discussion of the results and implications for practice and future research are provided. In conclusion, this study provides a basis for considering personality characteristics when designing computer-based training interventions in organizational settings.
M.S. in Psychology, May 2015
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Title: Robotic Cane Devices
Creator: Ota, Yasuhiro, Ryumae, Masaru, Sato, Keiichi, Sano, Shin
Date: 2013-04-26, 2013-04-16
Description: A robotic cane may include a grip handle, a cane body extending from the grip handle at a first end, a motorized omni-directional wheel...
Show moreA robotic cane may include a grip handle, a cane body extending from the grip handle at a first end, a motorized omni-directional wheel coupled to a second end of the cane body, a balance control sensor, and a controller module. The balance control sensor provides a balance signal corresponding to an orientation of the robotic cane. The controller module may receive the balance signal from the balance control sensor and calculate a balancing velocity of the motorized omni-directional wheel based at least in part on the balance signal and an inverted pendulum control algorithm. The controller module may further provide a drive signal to the motorized omni-directional wheel in accordance with the calculated balancing velocity. The calculated balancing velocity is a speed and direction of the motorized omni-directional wheel to retain the robotic cane in an substantially upright position.
Sponsorship: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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