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Six Sigma Black BeltThu, Jan 30, 2014 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA,
Talk Title: Six Sigma Black Belt
Abstract: Course Overview
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you'll 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 you've learned. This course is presented in the classroom in three five-day sessions over a three-month period.
Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn IIE's Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate.This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.
NOTE: Participants must bring a laptop computer running Microsoft Office to the seminar.
Course Topics
* Business process management
* Computer applications
* Design of experiments (DOE)
* Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
* DMAIIC
* Enterprisewide deployment
* Lean enterprise
* Project management
* Regression and correlation modeling
* Statistical methods and sampling
* Statistical process control
* Team processes
Benefits
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
* Analyze process data using comprehensive statistical methods
* Control the process to assure that improvements are used and the benefits verified
* Define an opportunity for improving customer satisfaction
* Implement the recommended improvements
* Improve existing processes by reducing variation
* Measure process characteristics that are critical to quality
Who Should Attend
* VPs, COOs, CEOs
* Employees new to a managerial position
* Employees preparing to make the transition to managerial roles
* Current managers wanting to hone leadership skills
* Anyone interested in implementing Lean or Six Sigma in their organization
Program Fees
On-Campus Participants: $7,245
Includes continental breakfasts, lunch and all course materials. The fee does not include hotel accommodations or transportation.
Online Participant with Live Session Interactivity: $7,245
Includes attendee access codes for live call-in or chat capabilities during class sessions. Also includes all course and lecture materials available for live stream or download.
Reduced Pricing:
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE): Reduced pricing is available for members of IIE. Please contact professional@gapp.usc.edu for further information.
Trojan Family: USC alumni, current students, faculty, and staff receive 10% reduced pricing on registration.
Boeing: Boeing employees receive 20% off registration fees (please use Boeing email address when registering).
Location
Two course delivery options are available for participants, on-campus and online with interactivity:
On-Campus Course is held in state-of-the-art facilities on the University of Southern California campus, located in downtown Los Angeles. Participants attending on-campus will have the option to commute to the course or stay at one of the many hotels located in the area. For travel information, please visit our Travel section.
Overview of on-campus option:
* The ability to interact with faculty and peers in-person.
* Access to hard copy course materials.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information - up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
* If there is a conflict during any on-campus course dates, on-campus participants can elect to be an online/interactive student.
* Parking, refreshments and lunch are provided for on-campus participants unless otherwise specified.
Online (Interactivity) Course delivery is completely online and real-time, enabling interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Participants have the flexibility of completing the course from a distance utilizing USC's Distance Education Network technology. Students are required to be online for the entirety of each day's session.
Overview of online (interactive):
* Virtually participate in the course live with the ability to either ask questions or chat questions to the entire class.
* WebEx technologies provide the option to call into the class and view the entire lecture/materials on a personal computer, or to participate on a computer without having to utilize a phone line.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
Continuing Education Units
CEUs: 10.5 (CEUs provided by request only)
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Certificate of Participation is awarded to all participants upon successful completion of course.
Upon completion, participants will also receive their Institute of Industrial Engineers certification in Six Sigma Black Belt.
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
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Connecting the Campus: Establishing New Pathways for Interdisciplinary Innovation, Collaboration, and Programming
Thu, Jan 30, 2014 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Elahe Nezami, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Talk Title: Connecting the Campus: Establishing New Pathways for Interdisciplinary Innovation, Collaboration, and Programming
Abstract: The continued globalization of the world and complementary globalization of health-related services and industries demands that education likewise transform to adequately prepare students to become leaders in the fields of public health and medicine. New programs must train students in multiple disciplines to ground their healthcare knowledge in cultural, social, political, and technical expertise. Students desire and demand a broader set of skills from their training, and universities must anticipate the advances in the fields into which their graduates will enter to provide such training. Collaborating and partnering with colleagues across campus allows for the development and creation of cutting-edge education and training programs that are designed to prepare students to become future leaders of industry, even as industries merge and change and expectations of graduates’ expertise broaden. Additionally, the creation of new collaborative programs allows for the expansion of adaptive learning environments and the integration of the newest technologies and pedagogical approaches. By developing partnerships across the schools of the university, innovative new programs will graduate new innovators, and USC will remain at the fore of educational excellence. The creation of interdisciplinary programs at USC at the undergraduate and graduate level has yielded outstanding results thus far, encouraging new partnerships in new fields with high growth potential. The programs, and potential programs will be outlined and highlighted.
Biography: Dr. Elahe Nezami serves as director of the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Studies and Global Health programs at the undergraduate level, and the Master of Science in Global Medicine program at the graduate level. She is also the associate dean for Undergraduate, Masters, and Professional programs of the Keck School of Medicine of USC and co-director of the Wireless Health Technology program.
Dr. Nezami’s research examines determinants of behavioral risk factors for chronic diseases, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases. Other research projects include examination of personality characteristics in relation to cardiovascular disease, and self-medication theories of smoking. Dr. Nezami received her M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Houston and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Southern California, where she also completed a post-doctoral fellowship.
Host: Professor Sandeep Gupta
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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CS Colloquium - Stefan Scherer (ICT): Computational Behavior Analytics for Healthcare Applications
Thu, Jan 30, 2014 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Stefan Scherer, USC Institute for Creative Technologies [ICT]
Talk Title: Computational Behavior Analytics for Healthcare Applications
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: Computational Behavior Analytics aims to automatically identify, characterize, model, and synthesize individuals' multimodal nonverbal behavior within both human-machine as well as machine-mediated human-human interaction. The emerging technology of this field of research is relevant for a wide range of interaction applications, including the areas of healthcare and education. Exemplarily, the characterization and association of nonverbal behavior with underlying clinical conditions, such as depression or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), holds transformative potential and could change treatment and help improve the healthcare systems' efficiency significantly. Within this talk I will present our recent findings of automatically assessed multimodal nonverbal behaviors indicative of depression and PTSD. In particular, we can confirm and enrich present state of the art, predominantly based on qualitative and tedious manual annotations, with automatic quantitative behavior descriptors that can assist doctors in making more informed decisions. Within this context, I will focus my talk on the characterization of a speaker's voice, utilizing both prosodic and voice quality estimates. I will discuss the integration of perceptual salience in both novel multimodal machine learning algorithms, which can leverage uncertainty in the target classes, and alternative feature extraction mechanisms, that reflect human characteristics of production and perception. To conclude the talk I will highlight complementary application areas that illustrate the integration and versatility of the presented speech technology for automatic behavior synthesis and computer assisted learning.
Biography: Stefan Scherer was born on the 28th of February 1983 in Feldkirch Austria. In July 2011, he finished his doctoral studies to receive the degree of Dr. rer. nat. from the faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at Ulm University. Scherer’s thesis, entitled “Analyzing the User’s State in HCI: From Crisp Emotions to Conversational Dispositions”, received the grade summa cum laude (i.e. with distinction). During his time as a PhD student, Scherer had the opportunity to co-supervise thesis projects of several international students, co-organize lectures and seminars, participate in the graduate school of the SFB/TRR 62 (a German Research Foundation funded project), act as the speaker of the PhD students, and work at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR) in Kyoto Japan in collaboration with Prof. Nick Campbell as a visiting researcher supported by the German Exchange Service (DAAD). As a postdoctoral researcher, he had the opportunity to collect experience at the internationally renowned Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. Currently, Scherer is working as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies under the supervision of Louis-Philippe Morency. His research fields of interest are human machine interaction, social signal processing, and affective computing.
Host: Aiichiro Nakano
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Career Fair Tips (All Viterbi Students)
Thu, Jan 30, 2014 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 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.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 124
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Amazon Information Session
Thu, Jan 30, 2014 @ 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Design Team Expo: American Society of Civil Engineers Design Teams Intro
Thu, Jan 30, 2014 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
The USC American Society of Civil Engineers has four primary design teams: Concrete Canoe, Steel Bridge, Environmental, and Geotechnical. Come learn about all four and see which one you’d like to join!
Open to all students, all skill levels, all majors!Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - Main Lobby
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jake Hermle
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Design Team Expo: AeroDesign Team Lab Tour
Thu, Jan 30, 2014 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
A peek into the life of the AeroDesign Team lab and the work we do on a daily basis.
Open to all students, all skill levels, all majors!Location: Vivian Hall of Engineering (VHE) - M31
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Amy LaRue
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Design Team Expo: SC Racing Shop Tour and Team Introduction
Thu, Jan 30, 2014 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
We will have a brief introduction of the team, explaining who we are and what we do, and will then proceed to have a shop tour and tool demonstration.
Open to all students, all skill levels, all majors!Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jason Zide
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Design Team Expo: Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Intro to Robot Submarines
Thu, Jan 30, 2014 @ 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Team members will offer hands on demonstrations of USCs home made hardware and software that allows SeaBee, the Autonomous Underwater vehicle to run!
Open to all students, all skill levels, all majors!Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - Lobby
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Turner Topping
