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Title: The Engineering Significance of Limit Analysis
Creator: Hodge, Philip G. Jr.
Date: 2011-05-12, 1958-04
Publisher: Department of Mechanics, Illinois Institute of Technology
Description: By definition, the limit load on a structure is the unique magnitude of the given loads under which a structure can first deform if it is made...
Show moreBy definition, the limit load on a structure is the unique magnitude of the given loads under which a structure can first deform if it is made of a rigid-perfectly plastic material. The significance of the limit load for a structure made of a real material is discussed in relation to a simple truss.
Sponsorship: Contract No. Nonr 140604
This research was sponsored by the federal government. The appropriate Department of Defense database, DTIC Online Access Controlled, was consulted prior to submission to confirm that the report has no distribution limitations and may therefore be made available to the public online.
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Title: Professional Responsibility for Harmful Actions
Creator: Curd, Martin, May, Larry
Date: 2009, 1984
Publisher: Kendalll/Hunt Publishing Company
Description: This module discusses the professional responsibility for harmful action, and the legal and moral duty of due care to avoid harming others or...
Show moreThis module discusses the professional responsibility for harmful action, and the legal and moral duty of due care to avoid harming others or risking their harm. The module discusses the relations and differences between legal and moral duty to avoid causing harm, and the differences between intentional and unintentional harm. The author uses examples and cases to illustrate different types of negligence that can occur in the engineering profession, and includes commentary and discussion questions. Includes a bibliography of related materials and legal cases.
Sponsorship: Exxon Education Foundation
The Module Series in Applied Ethics was produced by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions in under a grant from the Exxon Education Foundation. This series is intended for use in a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs in such areas as science and/or technology public policy, and professional ethics courses in engineering, business, and computer science.
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Title: Professionalism Means Putting Your Profession First
Creator: Davis, Michael
Date: 2007, 1988
Publisher: Georgetown School of Law
Description: Ask a lawyer what "professionalism" means and you are likely to hear that professionalism means putting your client first or acting as an...
Show moreAsk a lawyer what "professionalism" means and you are likely to hear that professionalism means putting your client first or acting as an officer of the court. Only rarely will a lawyer say that professionalism means putting justice first. Never, I think, will a lawyer even suggest that professionalism means putting your profession first. Yet this is the thesis of this paper. The paper has three parts. Section I makes certain distinctions necessary to prevent misunderstanding my thesis. Section II and III develop the thesis into a conception of professionalism. Sections IV and V use that conception to help with the most difficult of undertakings, justifying professional discipline to someone convicted of professional misconduct which harmed neither her client nor an identifiable third party.
Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. Vol. 2, Issue 1. Summer 1988. pp.341-357.
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Title: The Landings in North Africa November 1942
Creator: Moran, Charles
Date: 1993, 1993
Publisher: Naval Historical Center, Dept. of the Navy,

Title: Risk-Benefit Analysis Concerning Public Safety and Health
Creator: Sagoff, Mark
Date: 2009, 1985
Publisher: Kendalll/Hunt Publishing Company
Description: This module looks at the use of risk-benefit analysis to answer questions engineers often face when making decisions about public safety and...
Show moreThis module looks at the use of risk-benefit analysis to answer questions engineers often face when making decisions about public safety and health. It explains how risk-benefit analysis can be used in answering questions such as “how safe is safe enough?” and then defends the thesis that this form of analysis cannot provide answers to questions about public safety and health. While risk-benefit analysis offers guidance for policy decisions, it does not provide an adequate basis for reaching or for justifying these decisions. The module looks at the ethical basis and free market justification of this form analysis, and then looks at the practical methods that risk-benefit analysis employs and the difficulties faced in using these methods, such as the predictability of harmful events occurring, and the human factor. Includes bibliography of related materials.
Sponsorship: Exxon Education Foundation
The Module Series in Applied Ethics was produced by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions in under a grant from the Exxon Education Foundation. This series is intended for use in a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs in such areas as science and/or technology public policy, and professional ethics courses in engineering, business, and computer science.
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Title: Some Paradoxes of Whistleblowing
Creator: Davis, Michael
Date: 2006, 1996
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
Description: By "paradox" I mean an apparent- and in this case, real-inconsistency between theory (our systematic understanding of whistleblowing) and the...
Show moreBy "paradox" I mean an apparent- and in this case, real-inconsistency between theory (our systematic understanding of whistleblowing) and the facts (what we actually know, or think we know, about whistleblowing). What concerns me is not a few anomalies, the exceptions that test a rule, but a flood of exceptions that seem to swamp the rule. This paper has four parts. The first states the standard theory of whistleblowing. The second argues that the standard theory is paradoxical, that it is inconsistent with what we know about whistleblowers. The third part sketches what seems to me a less paradoxical theory of whistleblowing. The fourth tests this new theory against one classic case of whistleblowing, Roger Boisjoly's testimony before the presidential commission investigating the Challenger disaster (the "Rogers Commission"). I use that case because the chief facts are both uncontroversial enough and well-known enough to make detailed exposition unnecessary. For the same reasons, I also use that case to illustrate various claims about whistleblowing throughout the paper.
Business and Professional Ethics Journal, Vo. 15, No.1. pp.3-19.
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Title: Technology Assessment : A Historical Approach
Creator: Cameron, Rondo, Millard, A.j.
Date: 2009, 1985
Publisher: Kendalll/Hunt Publishing Company
Description: This module discusses the unique role engineers play in technology assessment; or the “process of discovering the potential benefits and risks...
Show moreThis module discusses the unique role engineers play in technology assessment; or the “process of discovering the potential benefits and risks of new technologies, weighing the social gains against the social costs, and then taking steps to influence the rate and direction of technological change.” This module deals with the ethical decisions of James Watt and his assessment of the steam engine, and Thomas Edison and his assessment of electricity. The module then looks at the more modern example of nuclear power, and shows the problems that arise when engineers fail to properly access the moral and ethical issues raised by the technologies they develop. Includes discussion questions and an annotated bibliography of related materials.
Sponsorship: Exxon Education Foundation
The Module Series in Applied Ethics was produced by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions in under a grant from the Exxon Education Foundation. This series is intended for use in a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs in such areas as science and/or technology public policy, and professional ethics courses in engineering, business, and computer science.
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Title: Unscrambling Ethics for Managers
Creator: Weil, Vivian
Date: 2005, 1988-04-26
Description: Though people tend to wonder what there is to talk about when discussing business ethics, many conversations with business faculty at IIT have...
Show moreThough people tend to wonder what there is to talk about when discussing business ethics, many conversations with business faculty at IIT have lead the author to believe that ethics is large part of business practice. The author explores why business people can be timid when talking about ethics and discusses three major questions surrounding this topic. One, is it possible to teach ethics to people who are no longer children, two, how do you spot ethical problems, and 3, how can you approach ethical problems.
Talk delivered to Frontenac Company Seminar, Carefree Colorado, April 26, 1988.
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Title: Whistleblowing : Ethical and Legal Issues in Expressing Dissent
Creator: Peterson, Farrell, Dan James C.
Date: 2009, 1986
Publisher: Kendalll/Hunt Publishing Company
Description: This module discusses the history of whistleblowing and some of the ethical ethical dilemmas faced by whistleblowers, including the...
Show moreThis module discusses the history of whistleblowing and some of the ethical ethical dilemmas faced by whistleblowers, including the conflicting values of loyalty to one’s employer and protecting the public good, clashes between professional judgment and organizational authority, and the legal aspects of whistleblowing. It also includes a summary of the Browns Ferry Case (Weil, 1977) and discussion questions. Includes annotated bibliography of related materials.
Sponsorship: Exxon Education Foundation
The Module Series in Applied Ethics was produced by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions in under a grant from the Exxon Education Foundation. This series is intended for use in a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs in such areas as science and/or technology public policy, and professional ethics courses in engineering, business, and computer science.
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Title: AN ACCELERATING COUETTE FLOW IN NEK5000: APPLICATIONS IN OCEANOGRAPHY AND MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS
Creator: Miksis, Zachary M.
Date: 2017, 2017-05
Description: Nek5000 is a highly scalable spectral element code used in a broad array of problems in computational fluid dynamics. In this thesis, we focus...
Show moreNek5000 is a highly scalable spectral element code used in a broad array of problems in computational fluid dynamics. In this thesis, we focus on applying the code to a model problem of an accelerating Couette flow, or a hydrodynamic flow between two plates, of which the top plate is accelerating and the bottom plate is stationary, and verifying the numerical methods as applied to this problem. We obtain an analytical solution to the hydrodynamic flow problem, and use this to analyze the effects of changing time step length, the size of the computational mesh, and the computational polynomial order on the accuracy and stability of Nek5000. Additionally, we discuss the addition of an applied magnetic field to the hydrodynamic Couette flow, and provide a formulation for an exact solution to this magnetohydrodynamic problem that can be used to further verify Nek5000 in a similar fashion to the hydrodynamic problem.
M.S. In Applied Mathematics, May 2017
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Title: The City in the Landscape: Alfred Caldwell's Broader Perspective on Urban Design
Creator: Jones, Kristin, Garcia-Requejo, Zaida
Date: 2020, 2020
Publisher: Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València
Description: Alfred Caldwell was among the first full- time American professors Mies van der Rohe hired at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Many...
Show moreAlfred Caldwell was among the first full- time American professors Mies van der Rohe hired at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Many have admired Mies’s architecture since the 1920s, and know that his ideas were also transmitted as a professor, first at the Bauhaus in Europe and then as Director of the Department of Architecture at IIT. Caldwell, a practicing landscape architect and protégé of Jens Jensen, is perhaps less widely known, but was a major influence on IIT’s program especially in the areas of construction, landscape, and architectural history. Caldwell completed a Master of Science in City Planning with a thesis entitled The City in the Landscape: A Preface for Planning, which can be considered a manifesto of both his professional ideas and IIT’s planning pedagogy. In addition to his own works, Caldwell collaborated with Mies and architect Ludwig Hilberseimer, Director of City and Regional Planning at IIT and former Head of Building Theory at the Bauhaus, on the design of built works which left behind artifacts representing the ideal of “the city in the landscape.” This communication examines the broader perspective on urban design influenced by the symbiotic disciplines of architecture, city-regional planning and landscape as manifested in the individual and collaborative built work and pedagogy of Caldwell, Hilberseimer, and Mies.
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Collection: EAAE-ARCC International Conference & 2nd Valencia International Biennial

Title: From positivism to conventionalism: Comte, Renouvier, and Poincaré
Creator: Schmaus, Warren
Date: 2019, 2019
Publisher: Elsevier

Title: INFORMATION QUALITY: RESTRUCTURING THE MODERN ACADEMIC LIBRARY FOR RESEARCH ACCURACY
Creator: JURKOWSKI, ODIN L.
Date: 1997-05
Description: Information overload causes problems in accessing information and is becoming more prevalent as technology allows us to store greater amounts...
Show moreInformation overload causes problems in accessing information and is becoming more prevalent as technology allows us to store greater amounts of information, and as researchers produce ever more specialized knowledge. This thesis will begin with a discussion of this overload followed by an examination of statistics gathered at Illinois Institute of Technology (which support the trend of increased interlibrary loan transactions and the rise in information availability). Following a review of the literature in library and information science, psychology, and linguistics, this thesis will discuss some of the solutions to this problem. First, access may be improved by transforming the storage of information from traditional print resources to electronic. Considering the restrictions of the present vendor supplied print resources, the limitations due to present copyright law, and cost comparisons between print and electronic subscriptions, we find a distinct advantage to future electronic access. This access can be improved through the use of electronic journals, full-text/image databases, and virtual libraries. Second, the searching capabilities of information systems can be improved in order to narrow information into more accurate search results. This can be done by advanced indexing, adding value, relevance and ranking, citation analysis to direct the patron towards improved search results, and by taking advantage of hypertext capabilities in order to ease navigation through information systems.
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Title: SELECTING AN EFFECTIVE DELIVERY METHOD FOR MULTIMEDIA-BASED DISTANCE EDUCATION
Creator: BURIAN, ARNOLD
Date: 1998-05

Title: TESTING COMPUTER INTERACTION TECHNOLOGY AND METHODS WITH CHILDREN
Creator: FROEHLICH, THORSTEN
Date: 2007-07
Description: Deploying educational computer games for children in schools requires understanding of usability. Usability of computer hardware as well as...
Show moreDeploying educational computer games for children in schools requires understanding of usability. Usability of computer hardware as well as the game user interaction is a major concern of this research. The aim of this thesis is to compare the usability of mice and touchpads, as well as test graphics tablets, with third and fifth grade students. Each of these technologies' usability is measured using drag and drop, point and click, and click-only interaction by measuring time to complete tasks and error rate. For this purpose, 142 students participated in a quantitative usability test conducted in five Chicago-area elementary schools. Students played a custom-designed computer game asking them to solve mathematical problems appropriate for their level of education. The main purpose of the game was to create a realistic workload for users. The game tracked students' interactions by recording on-screen cursor movements. Statistical analysis of variance (a = 0.01) of usability showed no significant difference using point and click compared to drag and drop. There was no significant difference between using mice and touchpads. However, because students had no prior experience using graphics tablets, tablet use could not be learned within ten minutes. Finally, usability was found to increase with students' age. Further, when the movements were analyzed for patterns, statistical analysis revealed that workload had a significant influence on usability. Two patterns emerged: hovering with the cursor to find answers on screen, and evading screen areas where accidental dropping of an item could result in an incorrect answer. Although students employing these patterns require more time than reported in previous research, workload had never been considered as a significant factor before. In conclusion, schools can deploy either desktop computers commonly using mice or notebook computers commonly using touchpads because usability does not differ significantly. Workload is the important factor on usability, and thus when developing and usability testing specific games, the users' workload has to be observed. In addition, game designers should consider supporting both drag and drop and point and click. Finally, when testing games, children should be exactly the age of the target audience for accurate results.
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Title: THE FRONT VOWELS BEFORE R OF THE NORTH-CENTRAL STATES
Creator: HARTMANN, ERIKA
Date: 1981-05

Title: INCORPORATING DATABASE EDUCATION INTO THE GRADUATE TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION CURRICULUM
Creator: GEHRS, GORDON SCOTT
Date: 2008-05
Description: The purpose of this study was to identify if there existed a need for database education in technical communication programs. This was...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to identify if there existed a need for database education in technical communication programs. This was achieved using a two part approach: Jobs data was collected from three major search engines and the results plotted showing a roughly 20% requirement for techcomm positions to have some database knowledge and skill. Then the data was further striated by which techcomm positions were expected to have which skills. The jobs data was also supported by the database skills taught in computer science education, and that of information technology. Next, twelve graduate programs were analyzed for their database educational requirements to show that the need for database skills was not being met in techcomm graduate programs. Finally course content was proposed for five new database courses: OS and Networking Basics, Introduction to Databases, Database Design, and Using Databases. A single course outline is proposed for programs wishing to implement the material more easily.
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Title: EVALUATION OF IMPLEMENTING SGML AT ENDEAVOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Creator: STENGLEIN, KRISTEN R.
Date: 1996-04
Description: With large amounts of information for multiple outputs being stored on computers, companies need an effective method of creating, storing, and...
Show moreWith large amounts of information for multiple outputs being stored on computers, companies need an effective method of creating, storing, and re-using information. This proposal investigates whether the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is the best method to achieve these goals for a small company.
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Title: EVALUATION IF COMPLETENESS, COMPREHENSION AND CREDIBILITY ON AN E-HEALTH WEB SITE
Creator: MASTARONE, GINNIFER L.
Date: 2007-05

Title: THE EFFECT OF MOOD INDUCTION ON ADOLESCENT SPEECH BEHAVIOR
Creator: LAWRENCE, HALCYON
Date: 2010-12
Description: An experiment was conducted to determine if a sad mood induction procedure using music and self-imagery would produce sad speech in...
Show moreAn experiment was conducted to determine if a sad mood induction procedure using music and self-imagery would produce sad speech in adolescents. The participants were asked to rate their perceived positive and negative affect and they were recorded. reading speech materials. Results indicate that although participants perceived a change in mood from neutral to sad, none of the baseline acoustic correlates of sad speech were identified in their recordings. These results suggest that either participants were not induced into a sad mood by this procedure or that the method of self-reporting is an inadequate assessment for this age group, signaling that more effective ways to measure mood for adolescents should be investigated. Additionally, since most studies on sad speech use actors, the results may indicate that acted speech provides significantly different correlates from emotionally-induced speech. Finally, a similarly valenced mood may have been induced instead of sadness (e.g. "calmness") which possesses different acoustic correlates from sad speech. Whilst the findings suggest that there is need for further research on these issues, this experiment demonstrates that mood inducement procedures (MIPs), primarily used in the field of psychology, can be applied in other domains. For example, MIPs conducted in online environments could provide useful insights into how mood affects users' online behaviors.
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