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Events for March 15, 2013
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Mar 15, 2013
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid. Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkFri, Mar 15, 2013
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid. Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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CEE Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Charles DeVore, CEE Ph.D. Candidate
Talk Title: Damage Detection Using Substructure Identification
Abstract:
As civil infrastructure ages, occupants and users are placed at risk.
Due to limited funding, agencies are required to push structures past their original design lifetime. This creates an imperative for the civil engineering community to develop robust and accurate methods for monitoring the health of civil structures and ensuring public safety.
This goal is realized by developing methods to detect both long-term degradation and immediate post-event health assessment. New methods are required because current practice, based on subjective time- and labor-intensive visual inspection is unable to adequately meet these needs. This requires novel research to transform the current state-of-the-art of visual inspection into a new paradigm of continuous monitoring.
Substructure identification has emerged as a promising damage detection and long-term monitoring tool for civil structures. Substructure identification starts by applying a reduced order model to a portion of the structure --- analogous to a coarse finite element model --- and then forms an estimator of the reduced order behavior using response measurements from the global structure. Its benefits are increased sensitivity to common structural damage, decentralized data processing, improved statistical performance, and others. This work develops a generalized framework for formulating substructure estimators. Moreover, it develops two important predictors of estimator performance: model function curvature and an identification error analysis. This allows the analyst to develop an improved estimator and evaluate its performance.
These theoretical developments are applied to several simulations including uncertainty propagation, damage detection, and damage localization. These simulations demonstrate that substructure identification is well-suited for chain structures. Next, a controlled substructure identification procedure is described and the performance is evaluated. An active control law is developed using non-convex constrained optimization.
Experimental verification is provided by two studies. First, a two-story, bench-scale flexible structure is identified. Then, improved identification precision is provided by passive structural control. The second study uses a 12 ft, four-story, steel structure. This structure is identified and damage, caused by releasing a story-level's boundary condition, is detected. Moreover, second-floor identification is not achieved, which is correctly predicted by the identification error analysis developed herein.
Concluding remarks are provided and avenues for future work are detailed. Specifically, an active control experiment using the 12 ft structure is proposed. Semi-active control design is discussed and substructure identification estimators for frame and bridge structures are outlined.
Advisor: Dr. Erik Johnson
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209 Conference Room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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BME
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 @ 12:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Nan-Keui Chen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology Brain Imaging and Analysis Center Duke University Medical Center, NC
Talk Title: Mapping the Neuronal Connectivity Networks with High-Resolution
Abstract: Intrinsic functional connectivity refers to the spatiotemporal coherence of spontaneous, low-frequency (Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 100C
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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CENT Distinguished Speaker Series
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Chennupati Jagadish, Dept. of Electronic Materials Engineering, The Australian National University
Talk Title: Semiconductor Nanowires for Optoelectronic Device Applications
Abstract: Semiconductors have played an important role in the development of information and communications technology, solar cells, solid state lighting. Nanowires are considered as building blocks for the next generation electronics and optoelectronics. In this talk, I will introduce the importance of nanowires and their potential applications and discuss about how these nanowires can be synthesized and how the shape, size and composition of the nanowires influence their structural and optical properties. I will present results on axial and radial heterostructures and how one can engineer the optical properties to obtain high performance optoelectronic devices such as lasers, solar cells. Future prospects of the semiconductor nanowires will be discussed.
Biography: Professor Jagadish is an Australian Laureate Fellow, Distinguished Professor and Head of Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group in the Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University. He is also serving as Vice-President and Secretary Physical Sciences, Australian Academy of Science, Convenor of the Australian Nanotechnology Network (more than 1400 members) and Director of Australian National Fabrication Facility, ACT Node. He served as President of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) during 2008, 2009 and Vice-President of IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) during 2006, 2007 and currently serving as Vice-President of IEEE Photonics Society. Prof. Jagadish is an Editor of IEEE Electron Device Letters, Progress in Quantum Electronics and an Associate Editor of Applied Physics Reviews, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics and Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology and serves on editorial boards of 17 other journals. He has published more than 710 research papers (480 journal papers), holds 5 US patents, co-authored a book, co-edited five books and edited 12 conference proceedings and 10 special issues of journals. He won the 2000 IEEE Millennium Medal and received Distinguished Lecturer awards from IEEE NTC, IEEE LEOS and IEEE Electron Devices Society. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, IEEE, APS, MRS, OSA, AVS, ECS, SPIE, AAAS, IoP (UK), IET (UK), IoN (UK) and the Australian Institute of Physics. He received Peter Baume Award from the ANU in 2006, the Quantum Device Award from ISCS in 2010, IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Service Award in 2010, ANU Top Supervisor Award in 2010, IEEE Nanotechnology Council Distinguished Service Award in 2011 and Electronics and Photonics Division Award of the Electrochemical Society in 2012.
Host: Professor Dan Dapkus
Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Eliza Aceves
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W.V.T. Rusch Honors Program; Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Design and Development within Real-World Constraints
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Gabriel Torres, Director of Project Engineering and Program Manager, AeroVironment Inc.
Talk Title: Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Design and Development within Real-World Constraints
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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Guest Lecture in ISE 576 (Industrial Ecology)
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Roland Geyer, PhD, Associate Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science, UC Santa Barbara
Talk Title: Spatially Explicit LCA of Sun to Wheels Transportation Pathways in the U.S.
Abstract: In this guest lecture, Dr. Geyer will expand and enhance the traditional Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) theory and practice by coupling LCA tools with the spatial functions of geographic information systems (GIS). Integration of LCA and GIS allows assessment of two different pathways of solar energy to vehicles or ââ¬Åsun-to-wheelsââ¬Â: (1) photosynthesis biomass production to fuel/electricity production to gasoline/electric vehicle and (2) photovoltaic electricity production to electric vehicle. The research, conducted in collaboration with geographers at UCSB, compares direct land use, life cycle GHG emissions and fossil fuel requirements of different sun-to-wheels conversion pathways for every county in the contiguous U.S. The results demonstrate the importance of accounting for spatially explicit data because solar insolation and crop yields vary widely between regions.
Biography: Roland Geyer is assistant professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. In his research, he uses the approaches and methods of industrial ecology, such as life cycle assessment and material flow analysis, to assess pollution prevention strategies based on recycling, reuse, and material and technology substitution. Dr. Geyer also combines these approaches with research methods from operations management and other fields in order to study the relationship between environmental performance, economic viability, and technical and operational feasibility of pollution prevention strategies. His overarching goal is to help develop the science and knowledge necessary to reduce the environmental impact from industrial production and consumption. Prior to his current appointment, he has held positions as research fellow at the Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey, UK; research associate at the Centre for the Management of Environmental Resources, INSEAD, France; and consultant in financial risk management for AMS (now part of CGI) in Germany. Since 2000 he has worked on environmental sustainability issues with a wide range of governmental organizations, trade associations, and companies. He has a graduate degree in physics from the Technical University Berlin and a PhD in engineering from the University of Surrey.
Host: Bob Vos, PhD, and Mansour Rahimi, PhD
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mansour Rahimi
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Astani CEE Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Nastaran Bassam Zadeh , CEE Ph.D. Students
Talk Title: Optimal and reliable management of smart grids in an uncertain environment
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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CENT Distinguished Speaker Series
Fri, Mar 15, 2013 @ 11:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Chennupati Jagadish, Dept. of Electronic Materials Engineering, The Australian National University
Talk Title: Semiconductor Nanowires for Optoelectronic Device Applications
Abstract: Semiconductors have played an important role in the development of information and communications technology, solar cells, solid state lighting. Nanowires are considered as building blocks for the next generation electronics and optoelectronics. In this talk, I will introduce the importance of nanowires and their potential applications and discuss about how these nanowires can be synthesized and how the shape, size and composition of the nanowires influence their structural and optical properties. I will present results on axial and radial heterostructures and how one can engineer the optical properties to obtain high performance optoelectronic devices such as lasers, solar cells. Future prospects of the semiconductor nanowires will be discussed.
Biography: Professor Jagadish is an Australian Laureate Fellow, Distinguished Professor and Head of Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group in the Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University. He is also serving as Vice-President and Secretary Physical Sciences, Australian Academy of Science, Convenor of the Australian Nanotechnology Network (more than 1400 members) and Director of Australian National Fabrication Facility, ACT Node. He served as President of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) during 2008, 2009 and Vice-President of IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) during 2006, 2007 and currently serving as Vice-President of IEEE Photonics Society. Prof. Jagadish is an Editor of IEEE Electron Device Letters, Progress in Quantum Electronics and an Associate Editor of Applied Physics Reviews, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics and Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology and serves on editorial boards of 17 other journals. He has published more than 710 research papers (480 journal papers), holds 5 US patents, co-authored a book, co-edited five books and edited 12 conference proceedings and 10 special issues of journals. He won the 2000 IEEE Millennium Medal and received Distinguished Lecturer awards from IEEE NTC, IEEE LEOS and IEEE Electron Devices Society. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, IEEE, APS, MRS, OSA, AVS, ECS, SPIE, AAAS, IoP (UK), IET (UK), IoN (UK) and the Australian Institute of Physics. He received Peter Baume Award from the ANU in 2006, the Quantum Device Award from ISCS in 2010, IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Service Award in 2010, ANU Top Supervisor Award in 2010, IEEE Nanotechnology Council Distinguished Service Award in 2011 and Electronics and Photonics Division Award of the Electrochemical Society in 2012.
Host: Professor Dan Dapkus
Location: 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Eliza Aceves
