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Events for February 20, 2007
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CIA: Security Clearance Granted
Tue, Feb 20, 2007 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
What is required to obtain a high level U.S. Government security clearance? This workshop will provide an overview into how the security clearance process works and what you need to know before applying. The presentation will cover what factors are considered during the clearance process and what factors could be issues in obtaining a Top Secret security clearance.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Interface Object Model Framework for Systematic Model-Based Interface Management
Tue, Feb 20, 2007 @ 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
Civil Engineering Seminar - USC-CEE Construction Management Faculty Candidate"Interface Object Model Framework for Systematic Model-Based Interface Management"Qian (Victoria) ChenPh.D. Candidate, Dept. of Building Construction, Virginia TechABSTRACT: Various interface issues significantly lower overall project performance and implicitly hinder industrialization of construction. Ignored by traditional project management, interface management (IM) is now regarded by researchers and practitioners as critical to the success of multidisciplinary construction projects. Several challenging problems associated with IM include: 1) how to build a holistic understanding of interface issues in the current built environment for developing all-around IM solutions; 2) how to define and present interface information in a unified, accurate, and efficient way to improve information sharing and implementation among IT applications; and 3) how to resolve interrelated interface issues as a whole to optimize the performance of IM in a project. These problems have neither been well studied nor resolved in the construction management literature. This research is aimed at enhancing overall performance of a project delivery process by improving interface information modeling through systematic model-based interface management. Specifically, this research conducts multi-perspective interface-related analysis to identify comprehensive cause factors for interface issues, and creates an Interface Object Model (IOM) framework that presents the basic data structure and contextual relationships of interface information. This conceptual research also develops a systematic model-based strategy incorporating IOM, project processes, and other IT tools to perform more effective and efficient IM in an integrated project delivery environment. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2007, 2:30–4:00 PM, KAPRIELIAN HALL, ROOM 203
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 203
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Interface Object Model Framework for Systematic Model-Based Interface Management
Tue, Feb 20, 2007 @ 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker:
Qian (Victoria) Chen,
Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Building Construction, Virginia Tech,Abstract: Various interface issues significantly lower overall project performance and implicitly hinder industrialization of construction. Ignored by traditional project management, interface management (IM) is now regarded by researchers and practitioners as critical to the success of multidisciplinary construction projects. Several challenging problems associated with IM include: 1) how to build a holistic understanding of interface issues in the current built environment for developing all-around IM solutions; 2) how to define and present interface information in a unified, accurate, and efficient way to improve information sharing and implementation among IT applications; and 3) how to resolve interrelated interface issues as a whole to optimize the performance of IM in a project. These problems have neither been well studied nor resolved in the construction management literature. This research is aimed at enhancing overall performance of a project delivery process by improving interface information modeling through systematic model-based interface management. Specifically, this research conducts multi-perspective interface-related analysis to identify comprehensive cause factors for interface issues, and creates an Interface Object Model (IOM) framework that presents the basic data structure and contextual relationships of interface information. This conceptual research also develops a systematic model-based strategy incorporating IOM, project processes, and other IT tools to perform more effective and efficient IM in an integrated project delivery environment.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - rielian Hall 203
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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The Mechanics of Cell Migration and the Cytoskeleton
Tue, Feb 20, 2007 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Juan Carlos del Alamo Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentUniversity of California at San DiegoSan Diego, CA Motility of eukaryotic cells is essential for many biological processes such as embryonic development or tissue renewal, as well as for the function of the immune and nervous systems. If misregulated, motility plays an important part in diverse diseases such as cancer, osteoporosis, and mental retardation. Cell migration over surfaces is an integrated chemical and physical process involving the cytoskeleton and its mechanical interaction with the substrate through discrete adhesion regions. Precise quantitative knowledge of the bio-physical processes involved in cell migration is limited. Better measurements are needed to ultimately build models with predictive capabilities. The free-living soil amoeba Dictyostelium has proven to be a valuable model system for the investigation of cell motility with extensive similarities to higher eukaryotes in general, and leukocytes in particular. We present an improved force cytometry method and apply it to the analysis of the dynamics of the chemotactic migration of the amoeboid form of Dictyostelium discoideum. Our explicit calculation of the adhesion force field takes into account the finite thickness of the elastic substrate and improves the accuracy and resolution compared to previous methods. This enables us to quantitatively study the differences in the mechanics of the migration of wild-type and mutant cell lines up a chemoattractant gradient. The time evolution of the elastic energy exerted by the crawling cells on their substrate is quasi-periodic and can be used as a simple indicator of the different phases of the cell crawling cycle. We find that the period of the elastic energy cycle correlates strongly with the mean velocity of migration regardless of cell type. Furthermore, we show that when cells adhere to the substrate, the exert opposing pole forces that are orders of magnitude higher than the force required to overcome the resistance from their environment.
Location: Von Kleinsmid Center (VKC) Room 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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Talk: Kathleen Allen, USC Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
Tue, Feb 20, 2007 @ 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
What makes a great idea for commercialization? Kathleen Allen talks about technology and how to build a business out of it.
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Graduate
Contact: EGSA
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Technip Information Session
Tue, Feb 20, 2007 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Current Engineering Undergraduate/Graduate Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
