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Lean Green BeltTue, Apr 23, 2013 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA,
Talk Title: Lean Green Belt
Abstract: Course Overview
This three-day course provides an in-depth understanding of lean enterprise principles and how to apply them within your organization. Your lean journey begins with a series of interactive simulations that demonstrate how each lean concept is applied and its impact on the process. Mapping the process flow and identifying the activities that add value from the customer's perspective is the cornerstone of this class. The class is then given a scenario and the students simulate the conversion from traditional to lean in a practical hands-on environment. The course also provides a structure for how to manage a lean process for continuous improvement. Participants will learn how to structure their organizations to support and continuously improve a lean process. Participants will also fully understand how to implement 5S within their plants and how to begin reducing setup time using the SMED process.
Course Topics
5S and muda
Point of use
Pull
SMED
Value-added
Value stream mapping
SMED
7 Wastes
Visual Workplace
Benefits
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
Create and improve a lean process
Implement 5S to develop a safe, clean working environment
Map the process flow and identify activities that add value
Reduce setup time using the SMED process
Who Should Attend
Engineers new to a managerial position
Engineers preparing to make the transition to managerial roles
Current managers wanting to hone leadership skills
Program Fees
On-Campus Participant: $1,545
Includes continental breakfasts, lunch and all course materials. The fee does not include hotel accommodations or transportation.
Online Participant with Live Session Interactivity: $1,200
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@gapp.usc.edu for further information.
Trojan Family: USC alumni, faculty, and staff receive a 10% discount on registration.
Location [back to top]
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.
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 with 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 by phone or type questions via the ââ¬Åchatââ¬Â function 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: 2.1 (CEUs provided by request only)
The USC Viterbi School of Engineering Certificate of Participation is awarded to all participants upon successful completion of the course.
The USC Viterbi School of Engineering Certificate of Completion and the Institute of Industrial Engineering certification in Lean Green Belt will be awarded to those participants that pass the assessment on the final day of the course.
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/lean-green-belt
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) -
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/lean-green-belt
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Viterbi-School of Social Work Retreat
Tue, Apr 23, 2013 @ 11:30 AM - 04:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: ,
Talk Title:
Abstract: Interested faculty should contact Vice Dean Mataric as soon as possible.
Host: Maja Mataric
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 526
Audiences: See details
Contact: Maja Mataric
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Student Seminar Series - Chuan Wang (UC, Berkeley)
Tue, Apr 23, 2013 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University Calendar
Speaker: Chuan Wang, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley and 2010-11 MHI Ph.D. Scholar
Title: Carbon Nanotube Macroelectronics: Applications in User-Interactive Electronic Skin
Abstract:In this talk, I will discuss the recent advancements in solution-based processing of high-purity semiconducting carbon nanotube networks, which has led to macro-scale fabrication of thin-film transistors (TFTs) with excellent yield, high performance, small device-to-device variation, and extreme bendability on mechanically flexible substrates. The superior mobility, room-temperature processing, and long term air-stability show the immense promise of the solution-processed carbon nanotubes as a competitive TFT technology platform for low-cost high-performance flexible electronics. A wide range of electronic components including digital logic circuits, radio-frequency transistors, and active-matrix backplane have been demonstrated using the carbon nanotube TFTs. Going further, I will present the heterogeneous integration of three distinct electronic components (TFTs, large-area sensor networks, and organic light-emitting diodes) on a single piece of skin-like substrate for a fully functional electronic system. The system functions as a user-interactive electronic skin (e-skin) that is capable of spatial and temporal mapping of a wide range of stimuli and provides instantaneous response through a seamlessly integrated AMOLED display. The enabled interactive e-skin represents a new class of smart macro-scale electronics which can be laminated on virtually any object while providing sophisticated human-surface interfacing at an unprecedented level. The presented platform could find a wide range of applications in robotics, interactive input devices, automotive control panels, smart wallpapers, and medical and health monitoring devices.
Bio: Dr. Chuan Wang is currently a postdoctoral scholar in Prof. Ali Javey's research group at University of California, Berkeley. After receiving his B.S. in Microelectronics from Peking University in 2005, he joined University of Southern California in 2007 working as a research assistant in Prof. Chongwu Zhou’s research group and received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2011. During his graduate studies, he pioneered in the field of using purified semiconducting carbon nanotubes and CVD-grown horizontally aligned carbon nanotubes for high-performance thin-film transistors, integrated circuits, display electronics, and RF electronics. Dr. Wang's current focus areas of research include flexible electronics, stretchable electronics, roll-to-roll printed electronics, and RF electronics using various types of nanomaterials including carbon nanotubes, graphene, 2D III-V nanomembranes, and layered dichalcogenides. He has authored and co-authored 29 journal papers with 475 citations and a total impact factor of 291 as of 03/05/2013. Most of his papers are published in high impact journals including Nature Communications, Chemical Society Reviews, Nano Letters, and ACS Nano.
Ming Hsieh InstituteMore Information: 4.23 Chuan Wang.pdf
Location: 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Danielle Hamra
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CEE Oral Dissertation Defense
Tue, Apr 23, 2013 @ 01:29 PM - 03:30 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Chanin Chuen-Im, Ph.D. Candidate, USC-Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Talk Title: A Coastal Development Idea for Gulf of Thailand to Improve Global Trades
Abstract: For a long time since ancient history international trade was used to exchange capital, goods, and service. There are several modes of transportation but people have been using marine transport as a main transportation mode for certain types of good and commodities in global trades. The pioneers of marine transports in Greek, Roman, and China used sea routes to sell and buy goods for their respective kingdoms. Until now more than 80 percent of transporting goods around the world is still by sea even though the speed of sea transportation is much slower compared to air or ground transportation. Since the most disadvantage of marine transport is its slow speed, what can be done to decrease the time of transportation by sea.
Suez Canal connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, and the Panama Canal connecting Caribbean Ocean and the Pacific Ocean are the best examples of the man-made canals that show the necessity and the importance of what the alternative sea routes could do. This dissertation study presents a new route of Man-made canals that could make the shipping faster and more effective for Asian Region (between Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean).
At the present time, transportation between Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean are mainly from the existing three routes : Malacca Route, Sundra Route, and Lombok Route. By introducing a man-made canal herein called ââ¬ÅSiam Canalââ¬Â which will be located in Thailand. Siam Canal which connects the Andaman Sea and Gulf of Thailand can shorten the travel distance between Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean up to 3,500 kilometers or 7 days of travel time.
This dissertation research presents preliminary study of Siam Canal which will include the proposal of Siam Canal, the potential benefits using Siam Canal, the initial design of the proposed Siam Canal, environmental problems, and the economic and engineering feasibility study of the proposed Siam Canal. Environmental impacts due to the construction of the ââ¬ÅSiam Canalââ¬Â are addressed. The wave and tide condition, before and after the construction of the ââ¬ÅSiam Canalââ¬Â are simulated by a finite element numerical model for the Gulf of Thailand region.
Adviser: Prof. Jiin Jin Lee
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Epstein Institute / ISE 651 Seminar Series
Tue, Apr 23, 2013 @ 03:45 PM - 05:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Brian Denton, Associate Professor, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Talk Title: "Optimization of On-line Appointment Scheduling"
Series: Epstein Institute Seminar Series
Abstract: Many service systems provide appointments to customers in advance of their arrival. However, because service times are uncertain, the amount of time to allot to customers, and the amount of daily capacity to allocate for services are challenging decisions. In many service systems, appointment scheduling is further complicated by the fact that the exact number of customers to be scheduled is not known in advance. Instead, customers request appointments sequentially over time, and appointments are quoted on-line. Therefore it is necessary to make these on-line scheduling decisions in such a way that schedules are adaptable to variation in customer demand over time. In health care delivery systems, achieving this balance is particularly important because of the high cost of resources, including human and physical resources. In this context, uncertainty in demand arises due to the inherently uncertain nature of urgent care and the potential for patient no-shows. In this presentation we describe how stochastic programming models can be used for dynamic sequencing and scheduling of appointments. We describe several types of appointment scheduling problems and relevant models. In each case we discuss properties of the optimal solutions and ways to exploit model structure to improve the computational efficiency of decomposition-based solution methods. Numerical experiments based on empirical data from outpatient procedure centers are used to draw insights into optimal sequencing and scheduling decisions, as well as the performance of the solution methods. Finally, this talk will conclude with a discussion of future research directions related to planning and scheduling of health service systems.
Biography: Dr. Brian Denton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at University of Michigan. Previously he has been a Professor at North Carolina State University in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, a Senior Associate Consultant at the Mayo Clinic in the College of Medicine, and a Senior Engineer at IBM. He is currently a Fellow at the Cecil Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His primary research interests are in optimization under uncertainty as it relates to applications in health care delivery and medical decision making. He has won the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) Service Section Best Paper Award (2010), the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award (2008), the INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize (2005), the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Outstanding Publication Award (2005), and the Canadian Operations Research Society (CORS) Best Paper Award (2000). He is a Past President of the INFORMS Health Applications Section (2009) and he is currently serving as Secretary of INFORMS (2012-2013). He has co-authored more than thirty scientific articles and holds over twenty patents with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He completed his doctorate in Management Science at McMaster University, his M.Sc. in Physics at York University, and his B.Sc. in Chemistry and Physics at McMaster University in, Ontario, Canada.
More Information: Seminar-Denton.doc
Location: Von Kleinsmid Center For International & Public Affairs (VKC) - Room 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Study Nights
Tue, Apr 23, 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) - 111
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Center for Engineering Diversity
