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Events for February 04, 2010
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Sign Up for IEEEs Student Professional Awareness Conference (S-PAC)
Thu, Feb 04, 2010 @ 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join IEEE at USC and industry representatives for an evening of dining, networking, and story-telling! S-PAC is IEEE's biggest annual networking event with the industry, where students get the opportunity to hear professional speakers from IEEE speak about how to be successful in the industry after graduation and network with industry representatives for fulltime/internship opportunities. This year's S-PAC will take place on Friday, Feb. 12th from 5-9PM at the Radisson Hotel near USC. Participating companies include Abbott Medical Optics, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Sandia National Labs and more... S-PAC is a FREE event for Viterbi students. Spaces are limited! Please sign up online by Friday, Feb. 5th and turn in your refundable $25 deposit checks to RTH 110 by 5 PM on Wednesday, Feb. 10th once you receive a confirmation email. For more information, please visit www-scf.usc.edu/~ieee or email us at ieee@usc.edu.
Location: Radisson Hotel Ballroom (540 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engin
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Seismic Performance of Concrete Bridges with Advanced Materials
Thu, Feb 04, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. M. "Saiid" Saiidi, Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universtiy of Nevada, Reno, NevadaAbstract:
Advanced materials such as shape memory alloys (SMAs) and fiber-reinforced polymers offer particular characteristics that could substantially improve the performance of civil infrastructure components and systems. A study on the performance of reinforced concrete members utilizing superelastic SMA bars in lieu of steel reinforcement has been in progress at the University of Nevada, Reno in the past nine years. Simple beam-column systems and a 110ft. long, 4-span bridge model made using SMA-reinforcement were tested under slow cyclic load and shake table test to simulate earthquakes. The bridge superstructure was supported on three, two-column piers and each column utilized a different advanced material/detail at its most critical column plastic hinges. The study is part of a extensive study funded by the National Science Foundation, Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Research. The innovative details included shape memory alloys, fibrous concrete, built-in elastomeric pads, and post-tensioning. They were intended to improve post-earthquake serviceability of bridges. The presentation will discuss the evolution of research leading to the 4-span bridge model test and summarize the highlights of the bridge model performance, analytical studies, and the relative performance of different details.
Dr. M. "Saiid" Saiidi (P.E., Fellow ACI, ASCE) is Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. His major research areas are earthquake engineering of bridges and buildings, experimental studies of bridges and components, analysis and design of reinforced concrete structures, and innovative materials in earthquake resistant structures.Dr. Saiidi has served on various important positions such as department Chair, Director of UNR Office of Undergraduate Research, founding chair of ACI Committee 341. He has more than 400 publications to his credit, and has received many awards including the UNR Foundation Professorship Award in 1997, University of Illinois Distinguished Alumni Award in 2003, Regent's 2003 Outstanding Researcher Award, and the Lemelson Innovation Award in 2004.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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US Corporate Culture Workshop - Career Fest 2010
Thu, Feb 04, 2010 @ 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
In hopes of explaining what the workforce is like to international students, the US Corporate Culture workshop will go through expectations of US companies for their employees. Topics will include dress, communication styles and the hiring process.This event is brought to you by the Viterbi School of Engineering as part of Career Fest 2010. For more information about Career Fest visit: http://careers.usc.edu/careerfest
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Dynamic Vehicle Routing for Robotic Networks
Thu, Feb 04, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
Speaker: Marco PavoneHost: Prof. Gaurav SukhatmeDate/Time: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2010, 3:30-5:00 PMLocation: SEAVER SCIENCE LIBRARY (SSL) 150Abstract: In the recent past considerable efforts have been devoted to the problem of routing robotic vehicles through spatially-localized service requests. In most of the literature on this problem the model is static in the sense that all of the relevant information is assumed to be known by a planner before the routing process begins. However, this assumption is too restrictive in many applications of interest.In this talk, we discuss dynamic routing problems in which new information becomes available sequentially over time. Specifically, we analyze a prototypical dynamic routing problem where a network of robotic vehicles must fulfill service requests whose time of arrival and location are stochastic, and whose service must begin before a deadline. The aim is to find a routing policy which ensures, with the minimum possible number of vehicles, that the probability of a request being successfully serviced before its deadline is larger than a desired value. By leveraging tools from control theory and queueing theory, we find optimal policies for the case in which requests are generated rarely, and we devise provably-correct and computationally-efficient policies for all other cases.In the last part of the talk we turn our attention to the distributed implementation of dynamic routing policies. The key idea we pursue is that of partitioning policies whereby the workspace is partitioned into a number of subregions equal to the number of vehicles, one vehicle is assigned to each subregion, and each vehicle executes a single-vehicle policy within its own subregion. First, we show that proper partitioning policies are indeed optimal. Then, we obtain distributed routing policies by designing provably correct, spatially-distributed algorithms for environment partitioning.Bio: Marco Pavone is a Ph.D. candidate in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems within the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Catania, Italy, in 2004, and received a Diploma in Computer Engineering from Scuola Superiore di Catania, Italy, in 2005. Prior to joining MIT, he worked as an Analyst for Accenture Consulting. His research interests include algorithmic and computational approaches to the design and development of decision and control architectures for complex networked and autonomous systems.
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
