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Events for January 24, 2008
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Prospective Undergraduate Transfer Advisement
Thu, Jan 24, 2008
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
USC Viterbi Admission Counselors will be available for in-person or telephone advisement appointments for students interested in transferring into engineering at USC for Fall 2008. Counselors will be available to answer questions about the application and admission process, coursework selection, preparation for engineering, financial aid, and more! Please call (800) 526-3347 or email viterbi.admission@usc.edu to schedule an appointment.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall 110
Audiences: Prospective Undergraduate Transfer Students
Contact: Admission & Student Affairs Division
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The Office of Overseas Studies Study Abroad Fair
Thu, Jan 24, 2008 @ 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Come and speak with program representatives, alumni, and our staff --- find out where you can spend an exciting semester or year abroad!With over 50 programs to choose from, the Office of Overseas Studies invites you to explore all the possibilities.Confirmed Attendees: * School for Field Studies (SFS) * Boston University (BU-Madrid) * CIEE *Syracuse University (Florence Program) * Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) * USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies (Catalina Semester) * Costa Rica Summer Semester *US Peace Corps * USC Marshall School of Business * USC Annenberg School for Communication * USC School of Policy, Planning, & Development *STA Travel ***Plus tables for all other geographical areas: Asia, UK and Europe, Australia/NZ, Africa, The Middle East, Spain, and Latin America
Location: Trojan Residence Hall (TRO) - usdale Parkway (in front of Alumni Park)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs
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The Office of Overseas Studies Study Abroad Fair
Thu, Jan 24, 2008 @ 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Come and speak with program representatives, alumni, and our staff --- find out where you can spend an exciting semester or year abroad!With over 50 programs to choose from, the Office of Overseas Studies invites you to explore all the possibilities.Confirmed Attendees: * School for Field Studies (SFS) * Boston University (BU-Madrid) * CIEE *Syracuse University (Florence Program) * Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) * USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies (Catalina Semester) * Costa Rica Summer Semester *US Peace Corps * USC Marshall School of Business * USC Annenberg School for Communication * USC School of Policy, Planning, & Development *STA Travel ***Plus tables for all other geographical areas: Asia, UK and Europe, Australia/NZ, Africa, The Middle East, Spain, and Latin America
Location: Trojan Residence Hall (TRO) - usdale Parkway (in front of Alumni Park)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs
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Microsoft Jobcuzzi
Thu, Jan 24, 2008 @ 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
A stunt of Microsoft's "Hey, Genius!" recruiting campaign is the Pi R Squared Prize Grab: an inflated ball pit with prizes hidden among the balls. Participants can win a Zune, among other Hey Genius swag items and prizes!
Location: E-Quad
Audiences: All Engineering Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Exploring the Bio-Nano Interface for Recognition and Assembly of Electronic Materials
Thu, Jan 24, 2008 @ 12:45 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Graduate SeminarbyDr. Jennifer N. ChaIBM Almaden Research Center
San Jose, CA Abstract: As nanoelectronic device features shrink towards a critical limit, new research directions have been sought to resolve the resultant technological issues in a cost-effective manner. The ability of Nature to synthesize and assemble materials with high fidelity and precision has provided a potential means of overcoming these formidable challenges. Over the past few years, there have been numerous and extensive efforts to both understand the biological mechanisms for building inorganic and organic architectures and use biological systems to assemble nanoscale materials. New applications of current genetic engineering techniques have also been developed to overcome the difficulties of interfacing biology with non-biological substrates, enabling the use of biomolecular systems for addressing particular challenges in nanoelectronics. The first part of this talk will highlight some of the mechanisms of biomineralization and will in particular focus on the way biosilicates are both synthesized and assembled in Nature. One of the inherent reasons to understand how inorganic materials are produced in living systems is that all of these processes occur under ambient conditions, even those materials that are produced industrially under high temperature and pressure or at extreme pH. I will describe the mechanism by which one biological organism synthesizes highly ordered silica structures at neutral pH and how one can apply these mechanisms to biomimetic approaches using synthetic block copolymers. The understanding of how to chemically control both nucleation and growth of oxides at the nanometer scale led to the synthesis of highly-ordered, two-dimensional nanopatterned ceramic thin films that were used as nanoscale etch masks for producing nanoparticles of phase change materials.A significant amount of research at IBM has also been devoted to exploring nanowires and single walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as alternatives to silicon technology. Despite the unique electronic and physical properties of CNTs, however, there exist numerous technological challenges; in particular, the production of entirely semiconducting CNTs of a single or narrow range of band-gaps. The second part of this talk will focus on our recent efforts at the use of DNA to disperse CNTs and bio-combinatorial libraries to discover unique amino acid sequences that can bind a subset of dispersed CNTs. Specific biomolecular recognition of particular nanomaterials that demonstrate unique physical characteristics may impact applications ranging from nanoelectronics to nanomedicine. Thursday, January 24, 2008
Seminar at 12:45 p.m.
OHE 122
The Scientific Community is Cordially Invited.
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce Sapir
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A Multiscale Characterization and Analysis Methodology for Ductile Fracture in Heterogeneous Metalli
Thu, Jan 24, 2008 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Somnath Ghosh,Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ohio State UniversityHeterogeneous metallic materials e.g. cast aluminum alloys or metal matrix composites are widely used in automotive, aerospace, nuclear and other engineering systems. The presence of precipitates and particulates in the microstructure often affect their failure properties like fracture toughness or ductility in an adverse manner. Important micromechanical damage modes that are responsible for deterring the overall properties include particulate fragmentation, debonding at interfaces and ductile matrix failure due to void initiation, growth and coalescence, culminating in local ductile failure. The complex interaction between competing damage modes in the presence of multiple phases makes failure and ductility prediction for these materials quite challenging. While phenomenological and straightforward micromechanics models have predicted stress-strain behavior and strength of multi-phase materials with reasonable accuracy, their competence in predicting ductility and strain-to-failure, which depends on the extreme values of distribution, is far from mature. To address the needs of a robust methodology for ductility, the work will discuss a comprehensive multi-scale characterization based domain decomposition method followed by a multi-scale model for deformation and ductile failure. Adaptive multi-scale models are developed for quantitative predictions at critical length scales, establishing functional links between microstructure and response, and following the path of failure from initiation to rupture. The work is divided into three modules. (i) Multi-scale morphology based domain partitioning to develop a pre-processor for multiscale modeling, (ii) Enriched Voronoi Cell FEM for particle and matrix cracking leading to ductile fracture and (iii) Macroscopic homogenization continuum damage model for ductile fracture. Finally a robust framework for two-way multi-scale analysis module is the coupling of different with different inter-scale transfer operators and interfaces is developed.Bio-SketchDr. Somnath Ghosh is the John B. Nordholt Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Ohio State University. He received his M.S. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University and PhD from the University of Michigan. His research interests include multiple scale modeling in spatial and temporal domains, failure and fatigue modeling in heterogeneous materials and structures, Computational nanotechnology, etc. He is a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008), US Association of Computational Mechanics (2007), ASM International (2006) and ASME (2002). In 2007, the Ohio State University awarded him the University Distinguished Scholar award. He got the National Science Foundation Young Investigator award of NSF in 1994. He was an elected member of the executive council of the US Association of Computational Mechanics (USACM) from 2002-2006 and is the Chair of USACM’s Materials Modeling committee. The US Association of Computational Mechanics has chosen him to be the organizer of the 10th US National Congress of Computational Mechanics in 2009.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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How to Survive A Technical Interview - Presented by Microsoft
Thu, Jan 24, 2008 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Are you a first time interviewee or have you ever wondered about what a technical interview is like? If so, stop by for an informal presentation with a Microsoft Recruiter to gain some tips to survive a technical interview.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Current Engineering Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Recruitment - Spring 08
Thu, Jan 24, 2008 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
CALLING ALL WOMEN ENGINEERS!!!
-Need help with that killer homework?
-Want to make friendships and memories to last a lifetime? Join AOE! USC's only professional and social ENGINEERING SORORITY! To find out more come to our events: 1/23: Info Night
1/24: Games and Pinkberry!
1/25: Bowling!
1/28: Professional Night Dinner
1/29: Frame Painting & Ice Cream ***All events FREE! meet @ 7pm in front of Tommy Trojan. Visit our website:www-scf.usc.edu/~aoeLocation: Meet In Front of Tommy Trojan
Audiences: All Women in Engineering (undergrad and graduate)
Contact: Alpha Omega Epsilon
