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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkWed, Mar 27, 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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Six Sigma Black Belt
Wed, Mar 27, 2013 @ 09:00 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 youâve 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 IIEâs 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 â 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 â 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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Computer Science Full Faculty Meeting
Wed, Mar 27, 2013 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Workshops & Infosessions
Details
Agenda (http://myviterbi.usc.edu/) & RSVP
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 526
Audiences: Invited Faculty Only
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Distinguished Lecture Series in Energy Informatics
Wed, Mar 27, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. John Shen, Nokia Research Center
Talk Title: Innovation a la Silicon Valley: Chronicle of NRC North America Lab
Series: Distinguished Lecture Series in Energy Informatics
Abstract: Nokia Research Center (NRC) Palo Alto Lab officially opened in November 2006. It was renamed NRC North America Lab in 2011 with the addition of teams located in Berkeley and Cambridge. The original motivation for establishing a brand new research lab in Palo Alto with a broad research agenda was to leverage the innovation spirit and research talents of the Silicon Valley to help transform Nokia from mainly a mobile phone company into a mobile internet solutions company.
In this talk, I will share the experience and insights gained in building and leading this research lab for the past six years. The talk highlights the results from a fairly diverse collection of projects. These projects span the areas of: 1) Rich Interactive Content Experience, 2) Seamless Cross-device Mobile Computing, 3) Car As a Mobile Platform, 4) Next Generation Mapping Platform, and 5) Visual Computing & Mixed Reality. I will also share my perspective on the dominant industry trends that will likely influence my future research directions.
Biography: John P. Shen is a Nokia Fellow (7th in the company) and was the founding director of Nokia Research Center - North America Lab (formerly NRC Palo Alto) with research teams pursuing a very wide range of research projects in mobility and mobile computing. Prior to joining Nokia in 2006, John was the Director of the Microarchitecture Research Lab at Intel. Prior to joining Intel in 2000, John was a tenured Full Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where he supervised a total of 17 PhD students and dozens of MS students, received multiple teaching
awards, and published two books and more than 100 research papers. One of his books, ââ¬ÅModern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processorsââ¬Â (McGraw-Hill 2005) is still being used in the EE382 Advanced Processor Architecture course at Stanford University. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at CMU Silicon Valley campus and has co-taught courses and given guest lectures at Stanford and CMU-SV.
Host: Prof. Viktor Prasanna
More Info: http://cei.usc.edu/
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
Event Link: http://cei.usc.edu/
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AME - Department Seminar
Wed, Mar 27, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Part I: Jeannette Yen; Part II: Marc Weissburg, Jeannette Yen: Director in the Center for Biologically Inspired Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology; Marc Weissburg: Professor of Biology and Co-Director of CBID in Center for Biologically Inspired Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Part I: Aquatic Propulsion and Wake Signatures at Re = [1,1000]; Part II: What Do Crabs Know, and What Can They Teach Us?
Abstract: Part I: Plankton are aquatic organisms that form the base of the aquatic food web and therefore, aquatic ecosystem balance depends on their survival. Plankton operate at intermediate Reynolds numbers, generating watery signals that can be attenuated by viscosity and confused with small-scale turbulence. Yet messages are created, transmitted, perceived and recognized. These messages guide essential survival tasks of aquatic organisms. At the small-scale where biologically-generated behavior differs from physically-derived flow, we find plankton self-propel themselves, are aware of each other, and evolve in response to the fluid environment in surprising ways.
Part II: We currently lack strategies by which we can implement autonomous chemically-guided navigation in remotely operated or fully independent vehicles. Although this ability would be useful for a variety of purposes, a primary stumbling block is we don't have robust, computationally efficient and adaptive algorithms for encoding information in turbulent chemical plumes. Animals, of course, do this extremely well. I will describe how we have used 3D laser fluorescence measurements around freely navigating animals to analyze the information content of turbulent chemical plumes and understand strategies to encode this information. I will discuss current efforts to develop adaptive and robust algorithms using biological principles and present some tests of our ideas on both hardware and simulations.
Biography: Jeannette Yen is the Director of the Georgia Institute of Technology's Center for Biologically Inspired Design (CBID). The goals of CBID are to bring together a group of interdisciplinary faculty who seek to facilitate interdisciplinary research and education for innovative products and techniques based on biologically-inspired design solutions. The participants of Georgia Tech's CBID believe that science and technology are increasingly hitting the limits of approaches based on traditional disciplines, and Biology may serve as an untapped resource for design methodology, with concept-testing having occurred over millions of years of evolution. Experiencing the benefits of Nature as a source of innovative and inspiring principles encourages us to preserve and protect the natural world rather than simply to harvest its products. Jeannette team-teaches the interdisciplinary course in biologically inspired design.
Marc Weissburg is Professor of Biology and Co-Director of the Center for Biologically Inspired Design. He is an ecologist/sensory biologist who examines the mechanisms and consequences of information transfer via aquatic chemical signals. He uses multidisciplinary approaches and field ecological investigations to study the structure of aquatic plumes and the dynamics of fluids in the marine environment and to behaviorally analyse the sensory strategies of aquatic organisms and their capability to rely on turbulent chemical plumes for guidance and navigation. He has used biological principles to devise artificial sensory processing strategies for autonomous navigation in chemical plumes. He has applied principles of ecological organization to human infrastructure in his search for more sustainable practices. He has co-taught Biologically Inspired Design for seven years to a variety of audiences ranging from undergraduates to professional engineers and scientists.
Host: Professor Spedding
More Info: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/3-27-13-yen-weissburg.shtml
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - Room 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kristi Villegas
Event Link: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/3-27-13-yen-weissburg.shtml
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2013 Albert Dorman Distinguished Lecture Series
Wed, Mar 27, 2013 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Greg DiLoreto, 2013 ASCE President
Talk Title: Making the Case for Infrastructure Investment: Highlights from the 2013 Report Card for Americaââ¬â¢s Infrastructure
Series: Albert Dorman Distinguished Lecture Series
Abstract: Just released in March, the 2013 Report Card for Americaââ¬â¢s Infrastructure provides a comprehensive look at infrastructure conditions across sixteen categories. This session offers an opportunity to get the first look at the new interactive app version of this nationally-recognized report issued once every four years. Get new information on trends in infrastructure conditions and needs including bridges, roads, and inland waterways, as well as a suite of tools and information available as part of the app to help develop tailor-made messages for your local community. A new emphasis on state and local statistics will make the report even more relevant for local decision-makers, and the online capability means that you donââ¬â¢t need a hard copy of the report to have information at your fingertips.
Biography: Gregory E. Diloreto, P.E., P.LS., D. WRE, F.ASCE
ASCE President 2013
Greg DiLoreto is the Chief Executive Officer of the Tualatin (To-wal-a-tin) Valley Water District located in metropolitan Portland Oregon. He has worked in the public works field for 34 years, 17 years as a public works director/city engineer. Mr. DiLoreto holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Oregon State University and a Masters degree in Public Administration from Portland State University. He is registered as a civil and environmental engineer and a professional land surveyor in Oregon. Mr. DiLoreto is a fellow in the American Society of Civil Engineers. He served on the ASCE Board of Direction 2004-06. He has received the 1986 ASCE Edmund Friedman Young Engineer Award, the 1995 ASCE Oregon Section Outstanding Civil Engineer Award and the 2005 ASCE Government Engineer of the Year Award. In 2003 he was inducted into the Oregon State University Academy of Distinguished Engineers.
Host: Astani CEE Department
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 526
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Visa Options for F-1 Students: Life After OPT
Wed, Mar 27, 2013 @ 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Come learn about options to remain in the U.S. and work after OPT work authorization expires. Adam Green is an experienced immigration attorney and will answer questions after the presentation.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 123
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Spotlight on Civil and Environmental Engineering for Undergraduates
Wed, Mar 27, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Student Activity
Undergraduate Students: Come hear Viterbi Alumni share about the many ways they are using their degrees in these engineering majors! This is your opportunity to connect with alumni and industry professionals, ask questions about their experiences, and learn about the work they do.
RSVP at:
https://uscviterbi.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_5C1gz8cYxAn2nv7
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi Undergraduate Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Study Nights
Wed, Mar 27, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Come out to Study Nights and conquer your procrastination!
Group Study Rooms to work with your peers, quiet study spaces available, tutors, coffee, tea and snacks.
Sponsored by The Center for Engineering Diversity and The Viterbi Academic REsource Center.
Need more information? E-mail viterbi.ced@usc.edu.Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 213
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Center for Engineering Diversity
