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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process ImprovementFri, Feb 21, 2014
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA, 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 & Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%2526systems/six-sigma-green-belt-process-improvement
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Corporate & Professional Programs
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Raytheon's Shadow an Engineer Day
Fri, Feb 21, 2014
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Please see the following link for more details! http://sweusc.com/raytheon-shadow-an-engineer-day/
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers Society of Women Engineers
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CEE Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Feb 21, 2014 @ 04:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Arian Safari and Arsalan Heydarian, Astani ENE Ph.D. Students
Talk Title: Toxico-chemical properties of size-fractionated airborne particulate matter and implications for human health / Measuring the Impact of Personal Control and Energy Use through the Use of Immersive Virtual Environments.
Abstract: Presenter: Arian Safari
Exposure to atmospheric particulate matter (PM) has been linked to several adverse health effects, including but not limited to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases in addition to neurological disorders. There is growing literature supporting the hypothesis that one of the important pathways underlying these adverse health endpoints is the oxidative stress (e.g. ROS generation) that derives from the interaction of PM with cells. Elevated ROS levels can alter the redox status of the cell and consequently trigger a series of acute and chronic responses such as pulmonary inflammation and mitochondrial damage. This talk would focus on the PM-induced oxidative stress, its temporal and spatial variations, its relationship with chemical composition and PM emission sources and implications for toxicity assessment and human health. Moreover, a summary of the results of our recent studies in the Los Angeles south coast air basin will be discussed.
Presenter: Arsalan Heydarian
Title: Measuring the Impact of Personal Control and Energy Use through the Use of Immersive Virtual Environments.
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Recent studies have focused on increasing energy efficiency in commercial buildings through technological means (e.g., efficient HVAC systems, sensors and sensing systems). However, most studies underestimate the impact of occupants’ behavioral choices. This presentation focuses on measuring the impact of personal control and energy consumption behaviour through the use of immersive virtual environments. The presentation will focus on two main topics the (1) evaluation of human interaction within immersive virtual environments compared to the physical environments and (2) the impact of personal control on lighting use in office environments. The presentation is broken down into the following components: discussion of the problem statement, use of immersive virtual environments to study alternative designs, brief discussion of the pilot experiments, and future works.
Location: SLH 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Fri, Feb 21, 2014 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Perla Ayala, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
Talk Title: Engineering Materials to Support Tissue Regeneration
Abstract: There is increasing evidence that the efficacy of tissue regeneration is likely dependent on creating a suitable microenvironment that can support cell function. Moreover, the design of successful engineered therapies for tissue regeneration relies on discerning how cell behavior in the biological microenvironment can be modulated by chemical and physical cues. In the first part of this work, the combinatorial effect of stiffness and micro-scale topographical cues on cell proliferation and gene expression is investigated in 2D and 3D. Results demonstrate that regulation of extracellular matrix production by cells on 2D and 3D cultures can be influenced via microscale physical cues alone and highlight the role of stiffness on the physical regulation of cells. Furthermore, biocompatible microstructures are developed as injectable micro-scaffolds and as growth factor delivery devices to influence tissue regeneration in vivo after myocardial infarction in the rat model. The major objective in the development of engineered tissues is to design and create scaffolds that will properly integrate with the host tissue to support the regenerative process. In the second part of this work, a strategy for abdominal wall repair is developed by engineering a mechanically robust composite scaffold laden with human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) designed to improve therapeutic outcomes. My studies are focused on designing and fabricating engineered implantable materials that support tissue regeneration by influencing the in vivo microenvironment to direct cells to regenerative behavior.
Biography: Perla Ayala is postdoctoral research fellow at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School and an affiliate postdoctoral fellow at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Boston, MA. She received her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco in 2011 and obtained her bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering with honors from the University of California, Riverside in 2005. As an undergraduate she carried out research at UCR and did summer research internships at Cornell University and at MIT.
Host: David D'Argenio
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 100C
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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The W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquim
Fri, Feb 21, 2014 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dennis Kaspereit, Vice President-Geothermal Resources, Terra-Gen Power, LLC
Talk Title: Geothermal Power: 24/7 Renewable Energy
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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Munushian Seminar - Karl K. Berggren
Fri, Feb 21, 2014 @ 02:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Karl K. Berggren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Smarter Lithography: Top-Down Control of Nanometer-Length-Scale Self-Assembly
Abstract: The future of nanotechnology generally and the integrated circuit industry in particular depend on the ability to control and pattern complex structures at the nanometer length scale. We will discuss methods we have developed that use electron and ion beams to pattern structures at the single-nanometer length scale. However, covering large areas with nanometer-scale beams is a slow and expensive process, leading some to suggest that chemical and biological self-assembly might better address the future industrial needs in this area. The question is then, how to control self-assembly to create the kinds of flawless and arbitrary patterns the semiconductor industry now uses routinely in the fabrication of microchips? We will discuss a solution to this problem in which we pattern only a sparse structure and then using directed self-assembly of block copolymers, fill in the remaining space. The trick is to achieve a maximum of control and complexity in the final pattern with a minimum of expensive top-down lithography. The result is a surprising degree of control and perfection in patterning systems that would otherwise produce random patterns. We can even control double-layer patterns by using just a single layer of sparse electron-beam-defined posts. The methods take advantage
of the natural tendencies of the block copolymers to form ordered linear arrays, with the posts serving to guide the arrays during the assembly process. A future vision of lithography, where engineering and chemistry work together to construct complex and useful nanometer-length-scale patterns is envisioned as a result of this work.
Biography: Professor Karl K. Berggren is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, where he heads the Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication Group. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University
in 1997, where his thesis research focused on nanofabrication by using neutral atomic beams. After completing his thesis research, he became a member of the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he worked on superconductive device fabrication for superconducting analog, and digitial electronics, and quantum computation. In 2003 he joined the faculty at MIT, where his research focuses on high-resolution lithography and templated self-assembly by using electron-and ion-beams and block copolymers. He applies
novel lithographic methods to fabrication of superconductive quantum circuits, photodetectors, and high-speed superconductive electronics. He is Director of the Nanostructures Laboratory in the Research Laboratory of Electronics, and is a core faculty member in the Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL). He is also a member of the editorial board at the IOP journal Nanotechnology, an elected member of the Board of the biannual Applied Superconductivity Conference, and chair of the program committee for the 2014 Electron, Ion, Photon-Beams and Nanotechnology (EIPBN) Conference.
Host: EE-Electrophysics
More Info: ee.usc.edu/news/munushian
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
Event Link: ee.usc.edu/news/munushian
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USC Graduate Info Session in Mexico City
Fri, Feb 21, 2014 @ 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
University Calendar
Location:
Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin
Liverpool 31
Entre Berlin and Dinamarca
Colonia Juarez
Mexico, Distrito Federal
Competitive Admissions: How to Stand out to Recruiters, Scholarship, and Admissions Committees at Selective Universities (Graduate Programs)
The University of Southern California is a consistently top-ranked institution, located in the dynamic city of Los Angeles, and receives international students from 115 countries each year. USC has scholarship agreements with the Banco de México/FIDERH, and with CONACYT for PhD and Master programs, and receives Fulbright fellows every year.
Representatives will include:
Laura Hartman, Director, Graduate and International Recruitment, Viterbi School of Engineering
Adam Montgomery, USC Marshall Center for Global Supply Chain Management
Angela McCracken, Director, Global Initiatives in Mexico
Register NowAudiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Laura Hartman
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E-Week: Discover Engineering Day
Fri, Feb 21, 2014 @ 08:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
DiscoverE is a day where students from the community around USC come to Viterbi and learn about engineering and other skills to apply to and survive in college. The main event is a series of engineering design competition such as a water well and bridge. Volunteers can be expected to offer engineering advice to students, guide students from location to location, and allocate materials and give instructions to the students.
Volunteer by 2/10:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bP3koPfdd320IIi4on5SK2oweI78PaYBwR6UA5PD0uk/viewformLocation: Various (Volunteers will be told where to meet)
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi KIUEL
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E-Week: Viterbi Ball
Fri, Feb 21, 2014 @ 09:00 PM - 01:00 AM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
The grand finale to E-Week, this formal dance is an opportunity for students to listen to good music, unwind with friends, and make lasting memories of their undergraduate experience at USC.
Ticket sales will take place in the RTH Lobby from 11-2, Monday-Thursday beginning 2/3Location: TBA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi KIUEL
