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Six Sigma Black Belt
Fri, Mar 01, 2013 @ 08:00 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: $6095
Includes continental breakfasts, lunch and all course materials. The fee does not include hotel accommodations or transportation.
Online Participant with Live Session Interactivity: $6095
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@mapp.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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Oral Defense Dissertation
Fri, Mar 01, 2013 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Hossein Ataei, CE Ph.D. Candidate
Talk Title: Effect of the Air Blast on Glazing Systems Safety:
Abstract: Glass fragments are a prime source of injury to occupants of buildings subjected to explosive events. During an air blast, window glass breaks into flying shards (or fragments) that account for civilian injuries ranging from minor cuts to severe wounds and in many cases to death.
Through balancing the safety and security of the window panels with physical appearance and cost-effectiveness, a successful blast-resistant glazing design considers the principles of a reasonable degree of protection against explosive threats based on the proposed level of security and previous lessons learned. Therefore, it is necessary to have a better understanding of the mechanics of glass panel responses to different glazing systems parameters and the blast load characteristics.
In this research, the responses of annealed glass and fully tempered glass panels subjected to air blast loadings are studied by application of the explicit finite element analysis in conjunction with fracture micromechanics principles. The window panel failure patterns and the glass crack propagation paths are investigated and analyzed using advanced finite element modeling techniques.
The results of this study indicate that the response of the window panels to blast loading cases is dependent upon the glazing material properties, window panel sizes, window framing fixity and the blast load intensities.
These findings will eventually be helpful in development of a more comprehensive flying glass injury model that uses the appropriate structural, architectural and building perimeter choices to better assess the threats that face the building occupants' safety and the civilian communities' security against the flying glass debris.
Advisor: Professor James C. Anderson
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209 Conference Room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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SWE - Eaton Corporate Luncheon
Fri, Mar 01, 2013 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Want to eat lunch with a few representatives from Eaton Corporation? Sign up with a REFUNDABLE $10 deposit in CED (RTH 210). We suggest mainly Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Industrial Engineering majors, but anyone is welcome to attend! Room TBA but it will be on campus.
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers Society of Women Engineers
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Computer Science PhD Social Lunch - Hosted by Teamcore
Fri, Mar 01, 2013 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Student Activity
Please come and join us for a lunch on this Friday, March 1st, from 12:00-1:30pm, in SSL 150. This lunch is hosted by Milind Tambe's Teamcore group, where the students of the group will give a presentation on their area as well as the group's research. Abstract follows below.
All CS faculty, staff and PhD students are invited.
Please RSVP here by Wednesday, 02/27, 4pm.
Best Regards,
The PhD Students Committee
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The Teamcore group is focused on research driven by real-world problems. Our roots are in Artificial Intelligence and within that areas of intelligent agents and multiagent systems and computational game theory: our research has dealt with systems where multiple intelligent agents interact, where these agents may be humans, software agents, virtual agents in simulations, virtual or real crowds, or robots. Given our focus on research inspired by real-world problems, typically problems of security, safety and sustainability, our collaborations cut across disciplinary boundaries. We have established strong collaborations with faculty members in Psychology, Operations Research, Civil and Environmental Engineering and several other departments at USC and elsewhere.
Key examples of this use-inspired research include our ARMOR, IRIS, GUARDS and PROTECT systems. While ARMOR is focused on a game-theoretic application for security scheduling at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), IRIS does game-theoretic scheduling for the FAMS (Federal Air Marshals service) and GUARDS for the TSA (Transportation Security Administration). PROTECT generates weighted randomized patrols and is used by the Coast Guard in the ports of Boston, New York and Los Angeles, and is currently scheduled to be used nationwide at all ports. In addition to these examples involving security, our research on sustainability involves both efficient allocation of resources for forest and fish protection as well as agent-assistants to help human reduce energy consumption. In this work, we created new algorithms for solving a class of game-theoretic games known as Stackelberg games to address efficiency concerns with existing techniques.
In this presentation, we will introduce the research field we are working on and the open problems in the field and briefly describe the applications we have developed and the underlying research over the past several years.Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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W.V.T. Rusch Honors Program; Emerging Issues for Southern California’s Water System
Fri, Mar 01, 2013 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Carlene Wong and John Bednarski, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Talk Title: Emerging Issues for Southern Californiaââ¬â¢s Water System
Host: W.V.T. Rusch Honors Program
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Christine Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs
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Astani CEE Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Mar 01, 2013 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Hadi Meidani,, Ph.D., USC-Astani Civil Engineering
Talk Title: Toward Smart Cities: Uncertainty Management for Complex Systems of Systems
Abstract: Today, cities are under extreme stress due to their growing population and ageing infrastructure. To alleviate this stress, a more efficient and sustainable management of urban systems is needed. To this end, the myriad of Big Data from sensors and mobile devices together with efficient computational tools can help improve our descriptive and predictive capacities and subsequently materialize the idea of Smart Cities. A true Smart City requires coordinating social systems, transportation networks, and water and electricity distribution systems. In this presentation, I will focus on the systems-of-systems approach for the management of Smart Cities, and describe our research contributions to the uncertainty management of these systems of systems. First, I will discuss the representation of the uncertainties in the study of systems of systems. These uncertainties can incur from inaccurate input-output models, erroneous mathematical approximations, and data incompleteness. As an example, I will describe our probabilistic model for Markov transition matrices and its application in multiscale energy demand modeling. Second, I will share our algorithmic development for efficient propagation of these uncertainties through numerical models to obtain random performance metrics. In closing, I will elaborate on how our efforts can enhance decisions related to the robust optimal management of Smart Cities
as complex systems of systems.
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Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Boeing Career Development Event
Fri, Mar 01, 2013 @ 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Rick Stephens & Scott Strode, Senior VP of Human Resources & VP of Quality and Operations, respectively, at the Boeing Company
Talk Title: Successful Career Development
Abstract: The Boeing Company is hosting an event for SUCCESFUL CAREER DEVELOPMENT. The event will feature speakers USC Alumnus Rick Stephens, Senior VP of Human Resources at the Boeing Company and Scott Strode, VP of Quality and Operations at Boeing. Come and learn how these success businessmen got to where they are today. There will be FOOD provided, so please arrive promptly at 5pm in SGM 123, the event should last until about 6:30pm.
Resumes will be accepted, so please bring edited versions to give to the Boeing Company, whether youââ¬â¢re seeking an internship or full-time offer, and dress business casual. It is important that all those who plan on attending RVSP to the Google Doc, which the link to can be found on the Facebook page. Click the event link to find it.
Host: ADT, SGT, SWE, PTS
More Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/582982725062535/?ref=2
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 123
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: SGT Sigma Gamma Tau
Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/582982725062535/?ref=2
