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Short Course: Six Sigma Black BeltTue, Jan 27, 2015
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA,
Abstract:
Week 1: January 26-30, 2015 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Week 2: March 2-6, 2015 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Week 3: April 6-10, 2015 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Six Sigma Black Belt teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you will need in order to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. Project assignments between sessions require you to apply what youâve learned. This course is presented in three five-day sessions over a three-month period.
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Host: Professional Programs
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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CS Colloquium: Dr. Chris Paredis (NSF) - A Theoretical Framework for Systems Engineering and Design - Asking "Why?" rather than just "How?"
Tue, Jan 27, 2015 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Chris Paredis, National Science Foundation
Talk Title: A Theoretical Framework for Systems Engineering and Design - Asking "Why?" rather than just "How"?
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: An important component of the Engineering and Systems Design (ESD) and Systems Science (SYS) programs at the National Science Foundation is the development of a theoretical foundation for systems engineering and design. In this presentation, I will motivate the need for a theoretical framework and explain what it is. As an example, a model for systems engineering and design will be introduced in which the artifact development process is modeled as a search process. Unlike many models in the literature, this model provides an explanation for (rather than just a description of) current practices. Related to the need for a theoretical framework is the need for rigorous research methodology. I will therefore present some thoughts on the desired characteristics of a rigorous research methodology for systems engineering and design. The presentation will end with some logistical details about the NSF programs and an opportunity for Q&A. The overall goal is to increase the success of principal investigators when submitting proposals to the ESD or SYS programs.
Biography: Dr. Chris Paredis is Program Director for the Engineering and Systems Design (ESD) and Systems Science (SYS) programs at the National Science Foundation. He is also Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and in the H.M. Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA. He is a Woodruff Faculty Fellow and Director of the Model-Based System Engineering Center. He holds graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Paredis' research focuses on Model-Based Systems Engineering, combining aspects of decision theory, information technology, simulation, and systems theory to support the design of complex mechatronic systems. In these areas, he has published more than 140 refereed book chapters, journal articles and conference papers. He has made significant contributions to the development of the theory, methods and tools for decision making in design and systems engineering, and has developed several decision support tools using the SysML and Modelica languages. As Director of the Model-Based Systems Engineering Center, he leads a group of 11 faculty members towards the development of a next generation of systems engineering methods that are value-driven, model-based and human-centered.
Within the Object Management Group (OMG), he served on the SysML Revision Task Force and has led the development of the SysML-Modelica Transformation Specification. He was a founding board member of the North America Modelica Users' Group, and served on the working group responsible for the INCOSE "Systems Engineering Vision 2025." He is also a member of the Technical Advisory Board for Integrated Model-Centric Engineering Program at NASA/JPL, is past Chair of the ASME Computers and Information in Engineering division, and has served as Conference Chair for the 2013 Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER'13) and the 2007 Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE'07).
Dr. Paredis has served as Associate Editor for the SAE Journal of Commercial Vehicles and the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. He currently serves as co-Editor of the ASME book series, "Advances in Computers and Information in Engineering Research." He received the 2007 CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, the 2007 SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, and the 2011 ASME CIE Excellence in Research Award.
Host: CSSE
Location: Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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CAREER FEST: Preparing for the Engineering Career Fair- FOR GRAD STUDENTS
Tue, Jan 27, 2015 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Viterbi Students, make a great first impression at the Career Fair no matter what your class standing! You will learn how to optimize your time, approach employers, and prepare for this event. Graduate students will learn additional tips tailored just for their needs!
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: All Viterbi Graduate and Post Graduate Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Astani Civil and Enviromental Engineering Seminar
Tue, Jan 27, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Elia Psillakis, Deputy Rector of Academic Affairs and Research at the Technical University of Crete.
Talk Title: Environmental analytical chemistry: It is all about engineering
Abstract:
Single discipline research on critical environmental issues may encounter a bottle neck and more than one discipline is typically needed to make a breakthrough. Although interdisciplinary research often requires more resources of time, effort and imagination than single discipline research, the rewards can be substantial, in terms of advancing the knowledge base and helping to solve complex environmental problems.
This seminar aims bridging two unexpectedly far disciplines such as environmental analytical chemistry and engineering. A highly pragmatic approach to providing the engineering principles behind the analytical steps performed daily in the laboratory is adopted. I will focus on sample preparation, an integral part of the analytical process with a profound influence on both the total time required to complete the analysis and the quality of the results obtained. I will summarize several of our investigations over the past year, which aims at the detection, and the identification of the fate of both emerging and persistent organic pollutants in different environmental samples. Through case studies, I will discuss the overarching issues and challenges we face and show that environmental analytical chemistry is a powerful tool for environmental engineers studying complex natural and engineered systems.
Biography: Dr. Elia Psillakis is an Associate Professor at the School of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece. She received her degree in Chemistry from the Universitè Montpellier II Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc in France in 1994 and her PhD from the University of Bristol, U.K., in 1997. In 2007, she was awarded a Fulbright research scholarship and spent it at Caltech. Her work focuses on monitoring and studying emerging and persistent hydrophobic organic contaminants in natural and engineered aquatic environments. To date her investigations have resulted into one patent and 68 publications in ISI Journals with more than 3700 citations, an ISI h-index=34, and three âTop cited article awardsâ. Dr. Elia Psillakis is the Deputy Rector of Academic Affairs and Research at the Technical University of Crete.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Epstein Institute / ISE 651 Seminar Series
Tue, Jan 27, 2015 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jorge Nocedal, David and Karen Sachs Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University
Talk Title: Variance Reduction Optimization Methods for Machine Learning
Series: Epstein Institute Seminar Series
Abstract: The stochastic gradient method plays a central role in large-scale statistical learning, where vast amounts of data and high dimensional models are employed. This method is, however, difficult to tune and several variance reduction methods have been recently proposed to address this problem. After motivating these methods, I will propose a new variant that enjoys improved learning properties. Numerical results on problems arising in text classification, speech and image recognition will be presented.
Biography:
Jorge Nocedal is the David and Karen Sachs Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University. He obtained a B.S. degree in physics from UNAM and a PhD in mathematical sciences from Rice University. His research interests are in optimization and its application in machine learning. He has served as the Editor in Chief of the SIAM Journal on Optimization, is a SIAM Fellow, and was awarded the 2012 George B. Danzig Prize.
Host: Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
More Information: Seminar-Nocedal-2.docx
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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CS Colloquium Lecture Series: Rich Caruana (Microsoft Research) - Do Deep Nets Really Need To Be Deep?
Tue, Jan 27, 2015 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Rich Caruana , Microsoft Research
Talk Title: Do Deep Nets Really Need To Be Deep?
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: Currently, deep neural networks are the state of the art on problems such as speech recognition and computer vision. By using a method called model compression, we show that shallow feed-forward nets can learn the complex functions previously learned by deep nets and achieve accuracies previously only achievable with deep models while using the same number of parameters as the original deep models. On the TIMIT phoneme recognition and CIFAR-10 image recognition tasks, shallow nets can be trained that perform similarly to complex, well-engineered, deeper convolutional architectures. The same model compression trick can also be used to compress impractically large deep models and ensembles of large deep models down to âmedium-sizeâ deep models that run more efficiently on servers, and down to âsmallâ models that can run on mobile devices. In machine learning and statistics we used to believe that one of the keys to preventing overfitting was to keep models simple and the number of parameters small to force generalization. We no longer believe this --- learning appears to generalize best when training models with excess capacity, but the learned functions can often be represented with far fewer parameters.
The lecture can be streamed HERE
Host: Yan Liu
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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CAREER FEST: Get Connected for Maximum Job Search Success
Tue, Jan 27, 2015 @ 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Viterbi Students, join us to get tips on how to make successful connections. Attend this workshop and learn how to build relationships & connections to assist you in your academic career & in your job search. Develop the 30 Second Commercial you need to interact with employers. Discover how much networking you already do!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - RTH 211- SPACE LIMITED!
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Facebook Crush Your Coding Interview Workshop
Tue, Jan 27, 2015 @ 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Facebook Presents: Crush Your Coding Interview
Want to ace your Facebook technical interviews? If so, check out our Crush Your Coding Interview Workshop hosted by Facebook engineers. We'll go through all the tips to best prepare for any coding interview, including working through real interview questions live (so bring your laptops)!
Please bring your resumes, too (we'll have time for resume review following the presentation) and don't forget to apply online:
www.facebook.com/USCIntern
www.facebook.com/USCNewGradLocation: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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SoCal Gas Information Session
Tue, Jan 27, 2015 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Interested in a career with SoCal Gas? Both Alumni and a recruiter will be joining AIChE to come recruit YOU. Hear about their experiences and get your questions answered first hand.
Open to:
- All engineers
- Undergrad & Grad
- Full-time/Intern
Who's Coming:
- HR staff advisor/recruiter
- CHE master student that works for SoCal gas as an engineer
- Current USC senior CHE who is an intern
What you're in for:
- Information on how to apply
- Time for Q&A with HR about the process and what they're looking for
- Time to talk one on one and review YOUR resume
- Giveaways!
What to bring:
- Dress: business casual (you want to look your best for the recruiter!)
- Your resume
Around 15-30 engineers are looking to be hired!
FREE FOOD WILL BE PROVIDED
RSVP HERE
VIEW FACEBOOK EVENTLocation: GFS 107
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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Society of Women Engineers 5th General Meeting
Tue, Jan 27, 2015 @ 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come out to SWE's first general meeting of the semester! We'll be hearing from AeraEnergy's Lauren Gentile about "Networking for Dummies" (how to efficiently network with recruiters and hiring managers). FREE IN-N-OUT WILL BE SERVED! We look forward to seeing you all there!
See below for the agenda:
6:30-6:45pm: reserved for members only to get food. Non-members will be served food after.
6:50-7:00pm: SWE announcements/upcoming events.
7:00-7:30pm: speaker presentation
7:30-8:00pm: networking
To become a national member, go to http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/index.php/membership and select collegiate membership and USC chapter. Finally, send receipt of membership to Maisie at uscswe.personnel@gmail.com.Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 124
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers Society of Women Engineers
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London Graduate Information Session
Tue, Jan 27, 2015 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
You are cordially invited to meet Kelly Goulis, Senior Associate Dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering, at our information session in London.
Students who have earned or are in the progress of earning a Bachelor's degree in engineering, math, or a hard science (such as physics, biology, or chemistry) are welcome to attend to learn more about applying to our graduate programs.
The information session will include a presentation on: Master's & Ph.D. programs available at USC, how to apply, scholarships, student life, and more. Students will also have the chance to ask questions and receive official brochures and handout information from USC. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information about the event and to register, please visit the event page.Audiences: Students with a background in engineering, math or science are welcome to attend.
Contact: William Schwerin
