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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Thu, Jan 31, 2013 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Larry Aft, USC Viterbi School of Engineering,
Talk Title: Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Abstract: Learn how to integrate principles of business, statistics and engineering to achieve tangible results. Master the use of Six Sigma to quantify the critical quality issues in your company. Once the issues have been quantified, statistics can be applied to provide probabilities of success and failure. Six Sigma methods increase productivity and enhance quality. As a Six Sigma green belt, you will be equipped to support and champion a Six Sigma implementation in your organization. To earn the Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, you will be required to pass the Institute of Industrial Engineer's green belt exam (administered on the final day of the course).
During this course you will have the opportunity to apply what you have learned to an actual issue you face in your organization. Prior seminar participants have reported significant savings from implementing their projects.
*A financial services organization saw $128,000 in cost savings per quarter when they reduced transaction processing rework
*A state agency reduced project cost over-runs by 28 percent
*A transportation company saved more than $875,000 per year in turnover costs by improving the employee communications process
*Reduced errors in a painting operation led to increased first pass acceptance and more than $197,000 in annual savings
*A Web developer increased annual profits by 10 percent by cutting cycle time
*A wave solder operation saw defects reduced by half and costs reduced by $60,000 per year
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-green-belt-process-improvement
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Focused on parallel and distributed computingThu, Jan 31, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA, TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: Weekly seminars given by researchers in academia and industry including senior doctoral students in EE, CS and ISI covering current research related to parallel and distributed computation including parallel algorithms, high performance computing, scientific computation, application specific architectures, multi-core and many-core architectures and algorithms, application acceleration, reconfigurable computing systems, data intensive systems, Big Data and cloud computing.
Biography: Prerequisite: Students are expected to be familiar with basic concepts at the level of graduate level courses in Computer Engineering and Computer Science in some of these topic areas above. Ph.D. students in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science can automatically enroll. M.S. students can enroll only with permission of the instructor. To request permission send a brief mail to the instructor in text format with the subject field ââ¬ÅEE 598ââ¬Â. The body of the mail (in text format) should include name, degree objective, courses taken at USC and grades obtained, prior educational background, and relevant research background, if any.
Requirements for CR:
1. Attending at least 10 seminars during the semester
There will be a sign-in sheet and a sign-out sheet at every seminar. All students must sign-in (before 2:00pm) and sign-out (after 3:00pm). The sign-in sheet will not be available after 2:00pm, and the sign-out sheet will not be available before 3:00pm.
2. Submitting a written report for at least 5 seminars
The written report for each seminar must be 1-page single line spaced format with font size of 12 (Times) or 11 (Arial) without any figures, tables, or graphs. The report must be submitted no later than 1 week after the corresponding seminar, and must be handed only to the instructor either on the seminar times or during office hours. Late reports will not be considered.
The report must summarize studentââ¬â¢s own understanding of the seminar, and should contain the following:
- Your name and submission date [1 line]
- Title of the seminar, name of the speaker, and seminar date [1 line]
- Background of the work (e.g., applications, prior research, etc.) [1 paragraph]
- Highlights of the approaches presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Main results presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Conclusion (your own conclusion and not what was given by the speaker) [1 paragraph]
Reviewing papers related to the topic of the seminar, and incorporating relevant findings in the
reports (e.g., in the conclusion section) is encouraged. In such cases, make sure to clearly indicate
the reference(s) used to derive these conclusions.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013).pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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EE 598: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH SEMINAR COURSE #3
Thu, Jan 31, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Anand Panangadan, PhD, Senior Research Associate, Electrical Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Talk Title: Adaptive Sensing for Resource Management in Distributed Sensor Networks
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: Energy conservation is an important issue in embedded sensor networks since large batteries are not practical in many real-world scenarios. The issue becomes even more critical in distributed sensor networks connected with wireless links due to the high energy cost of radio communication. In this talk, I will present the use of Markov Decision Processes (MDP) as a framework for coordinated sensing and adaptive communication between distributed sensors. The technique enables distributed sensors to adapt their sampling rates in response to changing event criticality and the availability of resources (energy) at each sensor node. The technique was developed as part of a body sensor network project at the Childrenââ¬â¢s Hospital Los Angeles for continuous mobile human health monitoring. Similar adaptive sensing methods were also applied to other distributed sensing applications such as a coastal ocean monitoring system.
Biography: Anand Panangadan is a Senior Research Associate working with Prof. Viktor Prasanna at USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Prior to this appointment, he was a Post-doctoral Affiliate at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and a Research Specialist at the Saban Research Institute of the Childrenââ¬â¢s Hospital Los Angeles. His research interests are in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and in the application of techniques from these fields to the autonomous control of networked sensors. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California Los Angeles and the B.Tech. degree in Computer science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013).pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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Microsoft Tech Fest
Thu, Jan 31, 2013 @ 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Receptions & Special Events
Please join Microsoft Engineers for an evening of informal demos of new Microsoft products and current projects. Have the opportunity to speak to engineers building our future technologies and ask questions and get answers. Come hear how skills you are learning in courses can be applied in an industry setting. Free food and raffle prizes throughout the night.
Undergrads- Be sure to drop your resume in the raffle box in RTH 218 for a chance to win a Microsoft Surface!
microsoft.com/universityMore Information: MicrosoftUSC Tech Fest 1.31.pdf
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 1st Floor Lobby
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Progressive Degree Information Session
Thu, Jan 31, 2013 @ 05:15 PM - 06:15 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Missed the first Progressive Degree info session? You are in luck! We are hosting a second information session!
The Progressive Degree Program (PDP) gives continuing USC undergraduates another path to earning a Masterââ¬â¢s degree from USC.
The main advantages to a Progressive Degree are:
1) Start graduate-level classes during your senior year
2) Reduce the units required for a Masterââ¬â¢s Degree
More Progressive Degree information can be found by attending our information session and visiting http://viterbi.usc.edu/pdp!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Graduate Admission
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Scrapbooks, Army Surplus, Comics and Other Stuff A Conversation with Graphic Storyteller C. Tyler
Thu, Jan 31, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Admission is free. Reservations recommended. To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897840
Reception to follow.
One night, the underground cartoonist C. Tyler received a phone call from her usually taciturn 90-year-old father, a World War II veteran, who suddenly wanted to unload memories of long-ago experiences which until that moment fell into what Tyler calls âthe category of âleave it the hell aloneâ or âitâs none of your goddamn business.ââ Tyler tried to capture her fatherâs memories first with a video camera and later through a trilogy of graphic novels, which expand to tell the story of her familyâs history. Sometimes she uses the printed book like a scrapbook, incorporating a yellowed news clipping documenting the childhood death of her sister, or wartime letters from her father to the woman he would marry. She incorporates maps, charts and graphs designed to explain aspects of her familyâs experience. Often they are used in a less than naturalistic manner, as when she offers a blueprint of her fatherâs surgery. Ultimately, the finished product, Youâll Never Know: A Graphic Memoir, is, as Tyler told one interviewer, about âthe stuff that gets passed down to the next generation,â with âstuffâ meant to describe material culture stored away in the basement, as well as the emotional baggage that her repressed and sometimes overbearing father passed to her generation.
In this illustrated conversation with Henry Jenkins, USC Provostâs Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts, C. Tyler will talk about comics, family memories, material culture, gender, generations and the stuff that gets exchanged between members of a family. She will dig into her family archives and share the raw materials, including the home movies and photographs, through which she reconstructed her parentsâ stories.
Organized by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Co-sponsored by the USC Gender Studies Program and the USC Comic Book Club.
Image: C. Tyler
Courtesy of Fantagraphics
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Annenberg School For Communication (ASC) - Annenberg Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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USC Graduate Engineering Information Session in England (Birmingham)
Thu, Jan 31, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
You are cordially invited to meet Senior Associate Dean- Kelly Goulis at one of our upcoming information sessions in England. Students who have earned or are in the progress of earning a Bachelor's degree in engineering, math, or a hard science are welcome to attend to learn more about applying to our graduate programs.
The Information session will include a presentation on: Master's & PhD 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.
RSVP is requested. Please register at: http://gapp.usc.edu/about/events/birmingham-info-session
Event location:
Birmingham Marriott
12 Hagley Road, Five Ways
Birmingham, B16 8SJ
For questions about these events, please contact us at viterbi.gradprograms@usc.edu.
Location: Birmingham Marriott
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Graduate & Professional Programs
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Human Powered Vehicle Challenge Informational Meeting
Thu, Jan 31, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
We will be having an ASME meeting on Thursday, January 31st, where we will be mainly discussing the Human Powered Vehicle Challenge USC ASME has taken on this semester. This is a great opportunity for those of you who are looking to get involved and learn valuable skills outside of the classroom. Come to our meeting to learn more about the project!
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
