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SHOWCASE: Meet the Artists
Mon, Apr 02, 2007 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Join us at a reception for all of the artists who submitted entries for KIUEL SHOWCASE: Art. Their work will be on display throughout the week at the Viterbi Museum however this is your chance to meet the artists themselves!For more information on SHOWCASE, visit the website.
http://viterbi.usc.edu/kiuelLocation: Viterbi Museum (2nd Floor Ronald Tutor Hall)
Audiences: Undergraduate Students & Faculty
Contact: Viterbi Student Affairs
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SHOWCASE: Open Mic Night
Tue, Apr 03, 2007 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Join us for SHOWCASE: Open Mic Night! Entries may include poetry, monologues, short readings, comedic performances, a capella & other musical performances. Sign ups begin at 5:30pm and the schedule is determined on a first come first served basis.For more information about SHOWCASE, visit the website.
http://viterbi.usc.edu/kiuel
Location: TBD
Audiences: Undergraduate Students & Faculty
Contact: Viterbi Student Affairs
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SHOWCASE: Film
Wed, Apr 04, 2007 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Join us as we screen the short films submitted as entries in SHOWCASE: Film. We will provide the popcorn!For more information about SHOWCASE visit the website.
http://viterbi.usc.edu/kiuelLocation: TBD
Audiences: Undergraduate Students & Faculty
Contact: Viterbi Student Affairs
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SHOWCASE Ceremony & Celebration
Thu, Apr 05, 2007 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Join us as we honor all of the undergraduate students & faculty who participated in SHOWCASE and announce the winners from the different categories!For more information on SHOWCASE visit the website.
http://viterbi.usc.edu/kiuelLocation: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - Patio
Audiences: Undergraduate Students & Faculty
Contact: Viterbi Student Affairs
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Last Day to Withdraw with W
Fri, Apr 06, 2007
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: VSOE
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Meet the VP of Northrop Grumman
Wed, Apr 11, 2007 @ 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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The Engineering Management Society (EMS) invites you to:What: Meet the VP of Northrop GrummanWhen: Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 5:30-7:30 PMWhere: SAL 101BIOGRAPHY: DR. CHARLES VOLK Vice President and Chief Technologist, Northrop Grumman, Electronic Systems, Navigation Systems DivisionDr. Volk joined Litton Industries' Guidance and Control Systems Division (GCS) in 1977. His initial work involved the development of a nuclear magnetic resonance gyroscope, which was a practical extension of his doctoral thesis in atomic physics. In 1980 Dr. Volk joined the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California and worked on refinement of atomic clocks
for GPS and MILSTAR programs.In 1984 he returned to Litton GCS assuming increasing levels of responsibility, and was named Vice President of Engineering. When Northrop Grumman acquired Litton Industries, Dr. Volk became the Vice President of Engineering and Manufacturing for the Western Region of Northrop Grumman's Electronic Systems Sector. He was appointed Chief Technologist for Navigation Systems Division in 2003.Dr. Volk earned a Doctorate degree in Physics from Indiana University, and his undergraduate degree in physics from Lake Forest College.Contact Tahseena Khan, EMS President, tahseenk@usc.edu, for more information.Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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The Changing Landscape of Transportation Decision Making
Wed, Apr 18, 2007 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD 2007 THOMAS B. DEEN DISTINGUISHED LECTUREProfessor Genevieve GiulianoSchool of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626, giuliano@usc.eduABSTRACT: This presentation examines the changes taking place in the way transportation policy and investment decisions are made. To provide an understanding of these changes, they are placed in the larger context of major trends in public-sector decision making: devolution, fragmentation, and privatization. The changes taking place in the transport sector are viewed as consistent with larger trends. The changes pose particular challenges in transportation because of its unique characteristics, and they have contributed to four problems: (a) preserving and enhancing system network benefits, (b) avoiding inefficient decisions, (c) solving transportation's externalities, and (d) ensuring accountability. The Alameda Corridor is used as an example of managing the new decision-making landscape. The presentation closes with thoughts on improving the transportation decision-making process.18 April at noon, second floor of Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall Lunch is provided if you RSVP to Jeanne Nguyen at jeann@usc.edu
Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - 2nd Floor
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Exponent On-Campus Interviews
Thu, Apr 19, 2007
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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If you're looking for a challenge, we're looking for you. Exponent's multidisciplinary team investigates important engineering and scientific challenges facing today's top industries. From rapid response to in-depth analysis, our consultants assist clients in solving their toughest technical issues.We're heading your way! Exponent representatives will on the University of Southern California campus for the following events: Information Session – 4/4/07, Time: 6:00 – 7:00 pm, Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall (GFS) 106On-Campus Interviews – 4/19/07To sign up, please see the University of Southern California career services center.For more information on career opportunities please visit www.exponent.comEXPONENT - Boston, Bowie, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Maynard, Miami, New York, Oakland, Orange County, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Washington DC, 888-656-EXPO
Audiences: Graduate
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Product Architecture Development as Means to Achieve Corporate Strategy
Thu, Apr 19, 2007 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Seminar: "Product Architecture Development as Means to Achieve Corporate Strategy"Dr. Katja Holtta-OttoAssistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts DartmouthABSTRACT: Product architecture related platform and modularity choices affect the product design process, supply chain, manufacturing, etc. Product architecture is the key technical influence on the overall corporate strategy at the executive level. In this talk, I'll make the case that organization architecture, outsourcing, new markets, rapid adoption of new technology, and cost positions are all largely determined by the product architecture, and I will demonstrate the means for R&D to support and enable a corporate strategy. I will review a method I developed that assesses the support a platform provides an executive corporate strategy. This necessarily involves not just one or two evaluation criteria typically used by others, but a comprehensive set. I have formed method that includes criteria from six areas: customer needs, complexity, flexibility, organization, product variety, and after sales. Depending on the executive vision for the company, a platform should assess higher or lower on different subsets of these metrics. Among the assessments, I have found that a key problem is the inability to analyze and verify the product variety demanded of a product strategy. For example, often a strategy will necessitate a modular design, where alternatives and future derivatives are made through incorporation of different sized and performing modules. I have found often it is difficult to ensure the design will work as planned since there are so many product options, sometimes millions, to model and verify. Such systems are impossible to validate through builds and tests. To address this problem I am currently developing requirements-based system-modeling method, to validate unbuilt variants through interpolation among the demonstration built units. The goal is to model system performance virtually, both in the early phases of product development and also in the final design verification phases. THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2007, GERONTOLOGY BUILDING (GER) ROOM 309, 10:00-11:00 AM
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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WIE and WiSE Program with Carol Bartz
Mon, Apr 23, 2007 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Carol Bartz, Executive Chairman of the Board for Autodesk, Inc. will be leading an interactive program on leadership with graduate and undergraduate women. Space is limited so RSVP today to hawkes@usc.edu.Carol Bartz is also the recipient of the Daniel J. Epstein Engineering Management Award, which will be presented at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering 29th Engineering Awards.
Location: Davidson Conference Center - Embassy Room
Audiences: Graduate and Undergraduate Women
Contact: Viterbi Women in Engineering
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Assessing the Implementation of the Chronic Care Model
Wed, Apr 25, 2007 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Seminar: "Assessing the Implementation of the Chronic Care Model"Dr. Shinyi WuAssociate Director, Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation, RAND CorporationABSTRACT: Chronic disease is the primary driver of demand for healthcare in the United States, but efforts to meet this demand that rely on the traditional acute care approach to treatment are costly and, often, ineffective. To address this problem, the MacColl Institute for Healthcare Improvement has developed the Chronic Care Model (CCM) to encourage an organized, proactive approach to care for individuals with chronic illnesses. The model proposes changes in six essential elements of a healthcare system: the community, the health system, self-management support, delivery system design, decision support, and clinical information systems. Because the model recommends changes in multiple components of complex systems, implementation is a significant challenge. Given this challenge, assessments of implementation are needed; only by understanding the details of what was actually done can change agents account for failure to achieve expected results or identify factors that provide the most leverage in achieving successful outcomes. In this talk, Dr. Wu will discuss two studies examining implementation of the CCM. The first, conducted in the context of a national evaluation of chronic care collaboratives, advances the study of implementation by defining a set of change activities within each of the six areas specified in the CCM and a coding system that can be used to specify three aspects of implementation: how many changes were implemented, depth of implementation, and fidelity to the CCM for the PDCA cycles tested. Relying on this system, the research team found that the extent and quality of implementation varied across the participating organizations and identified factors that accounted for the variation. The second study, now in progress, involves development of a toolkit and a practice coaching method to facilitate implementation of the CCM in safety net clinics, as these organizations may not have access to chronic care collaboratives or may find the requirements of participating in a collaborative (e.g., registration fees, travel costs, time away from work) burdensome. Incorporating models such as the CCM into the teaching and practice of industrial engineering would enable IEs to participate effectively in interdisciplinary efforts to improve the operation of healthcare systems. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2006, GERONTOLOGY BUILDING (GER) ROOM 309, 10:00-11:00 AM
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Optimization of Maintenance & Replacement Policies for a System of Heterogeneous Infrastructure ...
Wed, Apr 25, 2007 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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METRANS Seminar: "Optimization of Maintenance and Replacement Policies for a System of Heterogeneous Infrastructure Facilities"Speaker: Dr. Samer Madanat, Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), University of California, BerkeleyABSTRACT: This research addresses the determination of optimal maintenance and replacement policies for a system of heterogeneous facilities. The problem of optimizing maintenance and replacement policies at the system level is formulated in a reliability-based framework, based on policies that are optimal at the facility level. The facility-level policies are determined using a finite-state, finite horizon Markov decision process in which the state of the Markov chain contains information on the history of maintenance and deterioration.Optimality conditions for the continuous-case system-level problem are derived and explained intuitively. A numerical study shows that the results obtained in the discrete-case implementation of the solution are valid approximations of the continuous-case results. The computational efficiency of the system-level solution makes the formulation suitable for systems of realistic sizes.******Bio: Dr. Samer Madanat is the Xenel Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and the Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He received a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Jordan in 1986, and a M.S and Ph.D. in Transportation Systems from MIT in 1988 and 1991 respectively.His research and teaching interests are in the area of Transportation Infrastructure Management, with an emphasis on modeling facility performance and the development of optimal management policies under uncertainty. He has published extensively in refereed archival journals and conference proceedings.In 2000, he received the Science and Technology grant from the University of California Office of the President, an award given annually to one faculty member in the UC system. Since 2001, he has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems. Several of his former students are faculty members at universities in the US and abroad.The seminar will be at RGL 215, 12:00 Noon to 1:30 pm.Contact: Genevieve Giuliano, Sr. Assoc. Dean, Research and Technology, Director, METRANS Transportation Center, School of Policy, Planning and Development, 650 Childs Way, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626, p 213-740-3956, f 231-740-0001.
Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - 215
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Optimization of Maintenance & Replacement Policies for a System of Heterogeneous Infrastructure ...
Wed, Apr 25, 2007 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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METRANS Seminar: "Optimization of Maintenance and Replacement Policies for a System of Heterogeneous Infrastructure Facilities"Speaker: Dr. Samer Madanat, Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), University of California, BerkeleyABSTRACT: This research addresses the determination of optimal maintenance and replacement policies for a system of heterogeneous facilities. The problem of optimizing maintenance and replacement policies at the system level is formulated in a reliability-based framework, based on policies that are optimal at the facility level. The facility-level policies are determined using a finite-state, finite horizon Markov decision process in which the state of the Markov chain contains information on the history of maintenance and deterioration.Optimality conditions for the continuous-case system-level problem are derived and explained intuitively. A numerical study shows that the results obtained in the discrete-case implementation of the solution are valid approximations of the continuous-case results. The computational efficiency of the system-level solution makes the formulation suitable for systems of realistic sizes.******Bio: Dr. Samer Madanat is the Xenel Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and the Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He received a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Jordan in 1986, and a M.S and Ph.D. in Transportation Systems from MIT in 1988 and 1991 respectively.His research and teaching interests are in the area of Transportation Infrastructure Management, with an emphasis on modeling facility performance and the development of optimal management policies under uncertainty. He has published extensively in refereed archival journals and conference proceedings.In 2000, he received the Science and Technology grant from the University of California Office of the President, an award given annually to one faculty member in the UC system. Since 2001, he has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems. Several of his former students are faculty members at universities in the US and abroad.The seminar will be on Wednesday, April 25, 2007, at RGL 215, 12:00 Noon to 1:30 pm.Contact: Genevieve Giuliano, Sr. Assoc. Dean, Research and Technology, Director, METRANS Transportation Center, School of Policy, Planning and Development, 650 Childs Way, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626, p 213-740-3956, f 231-740-0001.
Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - 215
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Optimization of Maintenance & Replacement Policies for a System of Heterogeneous Infrastructure ...
Wed, Apr 25, 2007 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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METRANS Seminar: "Optimization of Maintenance and Replacement Policies for a System of Heterogeneous Infrastructure Facilities"Speaker: Dr. Samer Madanat, Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), University of California, BerkeleyABSTRACT: This research addresses the determination of optimal maintenance and replacement policies for a system of heterogeneous facilities. The problem of optimizing maintenance and replacement policies at the system level is formulated in a reliability-based framework, based on policies that are optimal at the facility level. The facility-level policies are determined using a finite-state, finite horizon Markov decision process in which the state of the Markov chain contains information on the history of maintenance and deterioration.Optimality conditions for the continuous-case system-level problem are derived and explained intuitively. A numerical study shows that the results obtained in the discrete-case implementation of the solution are valid approximations of the continuous-case results. The computational efficiency of the system-level solution makes the formulation suitable for systems of realistic sizes.******Bio: Dr. Samer Madanat is the Xenel Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and the Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He received a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Jordan in 1986, and a M.S and Ph.D. in Transportation Systems from MIT in 1988 and 1991 respectively.His research and teaching interests are in the area of Transportation Infrastructure Management, with an emphasis on modeling facility performance and the development of optimal management policies under uncertainty. He has published extensively in refereed archival journals and conference proceedings.In 2000, he received the Science and Technology grant from the University of California Office of the President, an award given annually to one faculty member in the UC system. Since 2001, he has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems. Several of his former students are faculty members at universities in the US and abroad.The seminar will be on Wednesday, April 25, 2007, at RGL 215, 12:00 Noon to 1:30 pm.Contact: Genevieve Giuliano, Sr. Assoc. Dean, Research and Technology, Director, METRANS Transportation Center, School of Policy, Planning and Development, 650 Childs Way, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626, P 213-740-3956, F 231-740-0001.
Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - 215
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Last Day of Classes
Fri, Apr 27, 2007
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: VSOE
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Stop Day
Mon, Apr 30, 2007
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Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: VSOE
