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Six Sigma Black BeltFri, Jan 31, 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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How Small Can One Shrink A Laser?
Fri, Jan 31, 2014 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jacob B. Khurgin, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: How Small Can One Shrink A Laser?
Abstract: Recently there has been a surge in activity devoted to development of the nano-scale lasers, in particularly the lasers employing surface-plasmon polaritons in metal dielectric structures (“spasers”). In my talk I will review the recent effort and present a theory that would clearly outline the fundamental limits of how small can the nano-laser actually be. First I will show that in order to go beyond diffraction limit one absolutely must use metallic structures with associated loss. Then I will show that the lasing threshold of the single mode metal-semiconductor nano-laser (spaser) is determined only by the photon absorption rate in the metal and exhibits very weak dependence on the composition, shape, size (as long as it is less than half-wavelength) and temperature of the gain medium. This threshold current is on the order of a few tens of micro-amperes for most semiconductor-metal combinations which leads to unattainably high threshold current densities for a substantially subwavelength laser (spaser). I will also discuss the coherence properties of nano-laser, and the modulation speed, which is comparable to that of a standard VCSEL. Therefore, in my view, surface plasmon emitting diodes, (SPED’s), operating far below “spasing” threshold may be a more viable option for the chip scale integrated nanophotonics.
Biography: Jacob B. Khurgin had graduated with MS in Optics from the Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics in St Petersburg, Russia (now called something else) in the previous millennium (1979), and shortly thereafter, in 1980 he had emigrated to US, where, to his own greatest surprise, he almost immediately landed what at a time seemed to be a meaningful job with Philips Laboratories of NV Philips in Briarcliff Manor, NY. There for 8 years he worked with various degrees of success on miniature solid-state lasers, II-VI semiconductor lasers, various display and lighting fixtures, X-ray imaging, and, more important, on small appliances such as electric shavers and coffeemakers (for which he holds 3 patents). Simultaneously he was pursuing his graduate studies at Polytechnic Institute of NY (nowadays elevated to NYU School of Engineering) where he had received PhD in Electrical Engineering in Jan. 1987. In Jan. 1988, prompted by a promotion to a Department Manager, Khurgin’s industrial career came to an abrupt end, and he had joined the ECE department of Johns Hopkins University, where, despite his ever present reservations about that place, he had settled down and is currently a Professor. His research topics over the years included an eclectic mixture of optics of semiconductor nanostructures, nonlinear optical devices, lasers, optical communications, THz radiation, microwave photonics, cavity optomechanics, slow light propagation, and rudimentary condensed matter physics. Currently he is working in the areas of mid-infrared lasers and detectors, phonon engineering for high frequency transistors, disorder in condensed matter physics, plasmonics (or lack of such), coherent secure optical communications, and silicon photonics. His publications include 6 book chapters, one book edited, 240 papers in refereed journals and 28 patents. Prof Khurgin had held a position of a Visiting Professor in an array of institutions of variable degrees of repute â Princeton, UCLA, Brown, Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris), Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) , EPFL (Lausanne), and so on. Prof. Khurgin is a Fellow of American Physical Society and Optical Society of America.
Host: Alan Willner, willner@usc.edu, x04664
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 539
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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AI Seminar- Kiri Wagstaff: "Automated data prioritization and explanation for scientific discovery of Martian minerals, exoplanets, and more"
Fri, Jan 31, 2014 @ 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Kiri Wagstaff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory-NASA
Talk Title: "Automated data prioritization and explanation for scientific discovery of Martian minerals, exoplanets, and more"
Series: Artificial Intelligence Seminar
Abstract: Inundated by terabytes of data flowing from telescopes, microscopes, DNA sequencers, etc., scientists in various disciplines have a need for automated methods for prioritizing data for review. Which observations are most interesting or unusual, and why?
I will describe DEMUD (Discovery by Eigenbasis Modeling of Uninteresting Data), which iteratively prioritizes items from large data sets to provide a diverse traversal of interesting items. By modeling what the user already knows and/or has already seen, DEMUD can focus attention on the unexpected, facilitating new discoveries. Uniquely, DEMUD also provides a domain-relevant explanation for each selected item that indicates why it stands out. DEMUD's explanations offer a first step towards automated interpretation of scientific data discoveries.
We are using DEMUD in collaboration with scientists from the Mars Science Laboratory, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Kepler exoplanet telescope, Earth orbiters, and more. It provides scalable performance, interpretable output, and new insights into very large data sets from diverse disciplines.
This is joint work with James Bedell, Nina L. Lanza, Tom G. Dietterich, Martha S. Gilmore, and David R. Thompson.
Biography: Kiri L. Wagstaff is a senior researcher in artificial intelligence and machine learning and a tactical activity planner for the Mars rover Opportunity at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Her research focuses on developing new machine learning and data analysis methods, particularly those that can be used for in situ analysis onboard spacecraft such as orbiters, landers, rovers, and so on. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University and an M.S. in Geological Sciences from the University of Southern California. She received a 2008 Lew Allen Award for Excellence in Research for work on the sensitivity of machine learning methods to high-radiation space environments and a 2012 NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement award for work on transient detection methods in radio astronomy data. She is passionate about keeping machine learning relevant to real-world problems and is co-editing a special issue of the Machine Learning journal on Machine Learning for Science and Society.
http://www.wkiri.com/
Host: Yolanda Gil
More Info: http://www.wkiri.com/
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=71ff3718d56e4345b89699a0433dc6d81dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=71ff3718d56e4345b89699a0433dc6d81d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://www.wkiri.com/
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The W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquim
Fri, Jan 31, 2014 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Lt. Gen. Larry James, Deputy Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Talk Title: Engineering the Future: Innovations and Opportunities: a View from JPL
Host: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Christine Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs
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ASME Lab Tour
Fri, Jan 31, 2014 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
ASME will be taking a tour of Professor Veronica Eliasson's laboratory! If you would like to attend, please fill out the following form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1AIhWBLkExVqzC7pjSb8TiCAE0xzoqweXwJLrg4gWY7E/viewform
Meet at Laufer Library (RRB 208) at 1pm. We hope to see you there!
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
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Integrated Systems Seminar Series - Spring 2014
Fri, Jan 31, 2014 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mark Field, Teledyne
Talk Title: Low loss millimeter-wave switches based on the Vanadium Dioxide Metal - Insulator - Transition
Abstract: A new ultra-low-loss and broad band millimeter wave switch technology based on the reversible metal/insulator phase transition of vanadium dioxide has been developed. We report having fabricated series configured, single-pole single-throw (SPST) switches having measured S-parameters from DC to 110 GHz. The on-state insertion loss is 0.2 dB and off-state isolation is 21 dB at 50 GHz. The resulting impedance contrast ratio, ZOFF / ZON, is greater than 500:1 at 50 GHz (i.e. cut-off frequency fc ~ 40 THz). As a demonstration of the technology's utility, we also present the results of a 2-bit real time delay phase shifter incorporating a pair of VO2 SP4T switches. This switch technology's high impedance contrast ratio combined with its compactness, ease of integration, and low voltage operation make it an enabler of previously unachievable high-performance millimeter wave FPGAs.
Biography: Mark Field was awarded a bachelors degree in physics and theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, in 1986, and a masters degree in microelectronics and computer engineering from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom. In 1988 he returned to Cambridge University to study for a Ph.D., performing research into single electron devices in the semiconductor physics group at the Cavendish laboratory under Professor Michael Pepper. Dr. Field earned the Ph.D. in experimental physics in December 1991 and was awarded a research fellowship at Trinity Hall Cambridge.
In 1996 he moved to the University of California at Santa Barbara, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Professor David Awschalom on magnetic force microscopy of nanoscale magnets. Dr. Field subsequently joined Symyx Technologies, a startup company in Santa Clara California, where he worked on combinatorial materials science, using high throughput synthesis and measurement to discover new magnetic materials. In October 2000 Dr. Field joined Teledyne Scientific (formerly Rockwell) in Thousand Oaks California as a senior scientist. His currently interests include nanoscale electronics and phase change materials.
Host: Hossien Hashemi, Mike Chen, Mahta Moghaddam, Sushil Subramanian
More Info: http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/integrated-systems/
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Sushil Subramanian
Event Link: http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/integrated-systems/
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Design Team Expo: Rocket Lab Tour and Hands On Building Demo
Fri, Jan 31, 2014 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Tour of Rocket Lab facilities and an opportunity to participate in the hands on build process for vehicles flying later this semester.
Open to all students, all skill levels, all majors!Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jordan Noone
