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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process ImprovementThu, Mar 14, 2013 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Larry Aft, 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 and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%2526systems/six-sigma-green-belt-process-improvement
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) -
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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ASBME Presents Medtronic Diabetes Site Tour
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 @ 09:00 AM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Looking for an internship this summer? ASBME has coordinated a private tour of the Medtronic Diabetes facility in Thousand Oaks, CA. Human resources is actively recruiting interns for summer 2013 and encourages all interested students to attend. We will meet outside RTH at 9:00am and should be back on campus no later than 2:00pm. The event will be capped at 15 students so sign up via the ASBME newsletter while seats are available! Don't miss out on this great opportunity!
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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CUSP Info Session with Dr. Steven Koonin
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Workshops & Infosessions
Dr. Koonin will discuss the organization, academic program, and internship opportunities at CUSP and the emerging field of ââ¬ÅUrban Informaticsââ¬Â.
More Information: Koonin info session 3-14-13.pdf
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Juli Legat
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Focused on parallel and distributed computing
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA, TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: Weekly seminars given by researchers in academia and industry including senior doctoral students in EE, CS and ISI covering current research related to parallel and distributed computation including parallel algorithms, high performance computing, scientific computation, application specific architectures, multi-core and many-core architectures and algorithms, application acceleration, reconfigurable computing systems, data intensive systems, Big Data and cloud computing.
Biography: Prerequisite: Students are expected to be familiar with basic concepts at the level of graduate level courses in Computer Engineering and Computer Science in some of these topic areas above. Ph.D. students in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science can automatically enroll. M.S. students can enroll only with permission of the instructor. To request permission send a brief mail to the instructor in text format with the subject field ââ¬ÅEE 598ââ¬Â. The body of the mail (in text format) should include name, degree objective, courses taken at USC and grades obtained, prior educational background, and relevant research background, if any.
Requirements for CR:
1. Attending at least 10 seminars during the semester
There will be a sign-in sheet and a sign-out sheet at every seminar. All students must sign-in (before 2:00pm) and sign-out (after 3:00pm). The sign-in sheet will not be available after 2:00pm, and the sign-out sheet will not be available before 3:00pm.
2. Submitting a written report for at least 5 seminars
The written report for each seminar must be 1-page single line spaced format with font size of 12 (Times) or 11 (Arial) without any figures, tables, or graphs. The report must be submitted no later than 1 week after the corresponding seminar, and must be handed only to the instructor either on the seminar times or during office hours. Late reports will not be considered.
The report must summarize studentââ¬â¢s own understanding of the seminar, and should contain the following:
- Your name and submission date [1 line]
- Title of the seminar, name of the speaker, and seminar date [1 line]
- Background of the work (e.g., applications, prior research, etc.) [1 paragraph]
- Highlights of the approaches presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Main results presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Conclusion (your own conclusion and not what was given by the speaker) [1 paragraph]
Reviewing papers related to the topic of the seminar, and incorporating relevant findings in the
reports (e.g., in the conclusion section) is encouraged. In such cases, make sure to clearly indicate
the reference(s) used to derive these conclusions.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013).pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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Astani CEE Seminar
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Jerome P. Lynch, Anne Voshel and Gerald Nudo CEE Faculty Scholar Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department of Computer Science, University of Michigan
Talk Title: Compressive Sensing in Asynchronous Wireless Sensor Networks for High-Performance Infrastructure Monitoring
Abstract: Low-cost wireless sensors have been designed for dense instrumentation in civil infrastructure systems to monitor structural responses and estimate structural conditions (i.e., automated structural health monitoring). Ongoing field deployments in operational infrastructure systems have confirmed that wireless sensors can serve as accurate and reliable alternatives to traditional tethered sensors. However, these same deployments have brought to the fore a number of technical challenges that must be adequately addressed before widespread adoption can occur. First, viable long-term energy solutions for wireless sensors remain elusive. Second, wireless communications come with limited communication bandwidths that limit the amount of data that can be communicated by the network in real-time. In this presentation, compressive sensing is explored to resolve some of the aforementioned hurdles of wireless sensor networks including energy consumption and limited communication bandwidths. Compressive sensing exploits signal sparsity in a specific domain to perform accurate signal reconstruction using a smaller set of data than that required by the traditional Nyquist-Shannon criterion. Compressive sensing presents a significant advantage to sensor networks when considering the amount of work saved in the acquisition, storage, and transmission of sensor data. In a wireless sensor network where a premium is placed on energy and transmission bandwidth, the energy efficiency of the compressive sensing framework proves to be an even more valuable asset. In this presentation, two compressive sensing strategies are proposed: compressive sensing of randomly sampled time-history data using the compressive sampling matching pursuits algorithm (CoSaMP) and compressive sensing based on bio-inspired time-frequency decomposition. In both approaches, traditional synchronous sample-transmit data acquisition strategies are abandoned for asynchronous ones. The methods proposed are applied to real structural monitoring data collected from wireless sensor networks installed in full-scale structures.
Biography: Dr. Jerome Lynch is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan; he is also holds a courtesy faculty appointment with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Dr. Lynch completed his graduate studies at Stanford University where he received his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2002, MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 1998, and MS in Electrical Engineering in 2003. Prior to attending Stanford, Dr. Lynch received his BE in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Cooper Union in New York City. His current research interests are in the areas of wireless cyber-physical systems, cyberinfrastructure tools for management of massive structural monitoring datasets, and nanoengineered thin film sensors for damage detection. Dr. Lynch has been awarded the 2005 ONR Young Investigator Award, 2009 NSF CAREER Award, 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and 2012 EMI Leonardo da Vinci Award.
Host: Dr. Erik Johnson
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209 Conference Room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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EE 598: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH SEMINAR COURSE #9
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Robert F. Lucas, Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Talk Title: Multifrontal Factorization on Heterogeneous Multicore Systems
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: When solving the sparse linear systems that arise in mechanical computer aided engineering (MCAE), and other applications, the multifrontal method is particularly attractive as it transforms the sparse matrix factorization into an elimination tree of dense matrix factorizations. The vast majority of the floating point operations can be performed with calls to highly tuned BLAS3 routines, and near peak throughput is expected. Such computations are performed today on clusters of multicore microprocessors, often accelerated by by graphics processing units (GPUs). This talk discusses how concurrency in the multifrontal computation is processed with message passing (MPI), shared memory (OpenMP), and GPU accelerators (CUDA), exploiting the unique strengths of each.
Biography: Dr. Robert F. Lucas is the Director of Computational Sciences at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and a Research Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. At ISI he manages research in computer architecture, VLSI, compilers, and adiabatic quantum computing. Prior to joining ISI, he was the Head of the High Performance Computing Research Department in the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Prior to joining NERSC, Dr. Lucas was the Deputy Director of DARPA's Information Technology Office. He also served as DARPA's Program Manager for Scalable Computing Systems and Data-Intensive Computing. From 1988 to 1998 he was a member of the research staff of the Institute for Defense Analyses's Center for Computing Sciences. From 1979 to 1984 he was a member of the Technical Staff of the Hughes Aircraft Company. Dr. Lucas received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1980, 1983, and 1988 respectively.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013) 2.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 110
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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EE Seminar
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Sophie Schirmer, Senior Lecturer a t Swansea University
Talk Title: Controlling quantum dynamics: from physical principles to quantum engineering?
Abstract: Since its discovery a century ago, quantum theory has proved hugely important in explaining many scientific phenomena and enabling new technologies from lasers to superconductors. The new frontier for quantum science and engineering is probing and coherently manipulating quantum dynamics. Systematic control of quantum dynamics is crucial for the development of novel quantum devices and applications in many areas from quantum information processing to quantum metrology and beyond. The latter goal has proved to be considerably more challenging but â as the 2012 Nobel prize in physics for example shows â much progress has been made in this area, opening the door for the development of new tools for control of quantum dynamics and quantum device design.
In the talk I will attempt to explain in basic terms what we mean by control of quantum systems and why control of quantum dynamics is important. I will give various examples and applications in physics, chemistry and biology, and explain different paradigms for quantum control and some of the theoretical tools developed for control design. The ideas and operation will be illustrated using simulations of quantum gates, information flow in quantum networks and molecular cooling.
Biography: Sophie Schirmer is a Senior Lecturer a t Swansea University. She recently completed a five-year term as an Advanced Research Fellow of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and has held positions at the University of Cambridge, Kuopio University in Finland, the Open University, and the University of Oregon, in various capacities including as Marie Curie Fellow, Research Fellow of the Cambridge-MIT Institute and Coordinator of the Quantum Technologies Group. Her research interests include nano-science at the quantum edge and quantum engineering, especially modeling, control and characterization of quantum systems and devices.
Host: Dr. Edmond Jonckheere
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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Maya Cakmak (Willow Garage): Enabling End-Users to Program General-Purpose Robots
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Maya Cakmak, Willow Garage
Talk Title: CS Colloquium: Maya Cakmak (Willow Garage): Enabling End-Users to Program General-Purpose Robots
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: Advances in robotics research and supporting technologies are enabling the development of more and more sophisticated general-purpose robots. These robots could carry out useful tasks for and with humans, in application domains ranging from elder care to manufacturing. Given the diversity of the operation environments and user needs for such robots, it is infeasible to fully program them prior to their deployment. Therefore, a key challenge is to enable end-users to program a general-purpose robot for their own unique purposes. In this talk, I will highlight some of the challenges in allowing everyday people, who have no prior experience with robots or programming, to teach new skills or tasks to a robot. I will present techniques that I have developed for addressing those challenges, focusing on mechanisms for the robot to ask questions to its user. I will demonstrate how user-studies involving real human-robot interactions can lead to alternative representations, algorithms and user-interfaces that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the robot, as well as the user experience. I will conclude with a research agenda towards long-term deployment of end-user programmable robots.
Biography: Maya Cakmak is a post-doctoral research fellow at Willow Garage. She received her Ph.D. in Robotics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012. Her research interests are at the intersection of Human-Robot Interaction and Programming by Demonstration. In particular, her research aims to develop functionalities and interfaces for personal robots that can be programmed by their end-users to assist everyday tasks. Maya's work has been published at major Robotics and AI conferences and journals, demonstrated live in various venues and has been featured in numerous media outlets.
Host: Fei Sha
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
