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Events for March 31, 2010
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Mar 31, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
University Calendar
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 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/meet_usc.html to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Admission Intern
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System of Systems:What They Are and How to Engineer Them
Wed, Mar 31, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Jo Ann Lane, Research Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, USCAbstract:
To quickly respond to changing business and mission needs, many organizations are integrating new and existing systems with commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products into network-centric, knowledge-based, interoperable, software-intensive systems of systems (SoS). Regional Area Crisis Response System – Sample SoSWith this approach, system development processes to define the new architecture, identify sources to either supply or develop the required components, and eventually integrate and test these high level components are evolving and are being referred to as SoS Engineering (SoSE). This presentation describes the results of SoS and SoSE investigations that explore the characteristics of SoSs, the corresponding SoSE challenges, and how engineering teams are addressing these challenges. In particular, it discusses:• Types of SoS• Incremental commitment and evolution• Application of lean principles• Engineering cost estimation• Engineering and management artifacts• SoS models to support SoSE• SoS test and evaluation approachesBio:
Dr. Jo Ann Lane recently completed her PhD in the USC ISE department under the guidance of Professors Barry Boehm and Stan Settles in the area of system of systems (SoS) engineering and cost modeling. As a PhD candidate, she was awarded the 2007 International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Foundation/Stevens Doctoral Award for promising research in Systems Engineering and Integration. She is currently a principal at the DoD-Stevens-USC Systems Engineering Research Center, conducting research in the area of systems engineering and system of systems engineering. In this capacity, she is working on SoS engineering cost models, SoS engineering process models, SoS test and evaluation, and innovation in systems engineering. She has published over 20 papers in the systems of systems area, several of which are widely referenced in the systems of systems literature. She is currently a member of the INCOSE and IEEE professional organizations. Prior to her current work, she was a key technical member of Science Applications International Corporation's Software and Systems Integration Group for over 20 years, responsible for the development and integration of software-intensive systems and systems of systems.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209 (Webex information is available upon request).
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Morphing Surfaces for Flow Control
Wed, Mar 31, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Beverley McKeon Assistant Professor of Aeronautics California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA ABSTRACT:In this talk I will discuss opportunities for performance enhancement of aeronautical configurations using on-demand changes to surface morphology. It is well known that surface roughness can degrade the performance of aerodynamic bodies, for example by triggering early transition of laminar boundary layers or increasing skin friction drag in turbulent ones, but can we use this knowledge to our advantage? I will describe our work interrogating the response of different receptive flow configurations to this type of actuation, through experiments and computations, and demonstrating novel ways of reconfiguring modern materials to generate "morphing surfaces", or thin skins capable of undergoing dynamic changes in surface roughness in response to low power inputs. Can we actively optimize the dimples on a golf ball for maximum range or directional correction? Not yet. ... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Beverley McKeon has been an Assistant Professor of Aeronautics in the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at Caltech (GALCIT) since 2006. Her research interests include interdisciplinary approaches to manipulation of boundary layer flows using morphing surfaces and fundamental investigations of wall turbulence at high Reynolds number. She was the recipient of a Presidential Early Career award (PECASE) in 2009 and an NSF CAREER award in 2008. Prior to joining GALCIT, she was a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow and postdoc in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London, after receiving a B.A. and M.Eng. from the University of Cambridge (1996) and Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University (2003) under the guidance of Lex Smits.
Location: Seaver Science Library, SSL Rm 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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Embracing the Power of Digital Logic for Future Mixed-Signal ICs
Wed, Mar 31, 2010 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Mike Shuo-Wei ChenAbstract:
Over the years, the main stream CMOS technology has been scaling in favor of digital circuits at an explosive speed. It imposes increasing design constraints for analog circuits, such as lower supply voltages, lower gain, leakage currents, and noise, etc. On the other hand, the future radios will demand higher complexity and tighter circuit specifications. Driven by these trends, a new design philosophy is proposed to redefine analog circuit topologies that involve an architectural rethinking, utilizing almost free digital circuits and faster device speed. In this talk, we will examine such opportunities specifically in the mixed-signal IC area. We will use phase locked loop (PLL) and analog-to-digital converter (ADC) as case studies, which are critical components to enable future complex system-on-chip (SOC) and mostly-digital system architectures. In both cases, the performance and cost are substantially improved by adopting the new design philosophy.Biography:
Mike Shuo-Wei Chen received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1998, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 and 2006, all in Electrical Engineering. Since 2006, he has been working on mixed-signal and RF circuits for WLAN radios in Atheros communications. His current research interests include analog and mixed-signal ICs, communication system designs, and signal processing techniques for circuits and systems. Dr. Chen achieved an honourable mention in Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad, 1994. He was the recipient of UC Regents' Fellowship at UC Berkeley in 2000 and Analog Devices Outstanding Student Award in 2006.
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kim Reid
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Conversations with Alumnae (by AOE & SWE)
Wed, Mar 31, 2010 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join AOE & SWE in our 3rd annual Conversations with Alumnae! Take advantage of this unique opportunity to talk with USC engineering alumnae over dinner. Anything from networking to getting a job to adjusting to a new professional environment will be discussed and students with have an opportunity to ask their own questions throughout the program.RSVP by March 26 at http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dG1jUkJ5eUwyNDdHU3NEb2RkMHhDa3c6MA
Location: Parkside Performance Cafe
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers
