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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkMon, Apr 30, 2012
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
Mon, Apr 30, 2012 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Larry Aft, Professional Programs
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: Professional Programs
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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WiFi-Nano : Reclaiming WiFi Efficiency through 800 ns slots
Mon, Apr 30, 2012 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Krishna Chintalapudi, Microsoft Research
Talk Title: WiFi-Nano : Reclaiming WiFi Efficiency through 800 ns slots
Abstract: The increase in WiFi physical layer transmission speeds from 1~Mbps to 1 Gbps has reduced transmission times for a 1500 byte packet from 12 ms to 12 us. However, WiFi MAC overheads such as channel access and acks have not seen similar reductions and cumulatively contribute about 150~$\mu s$ on average per packet. Thus, the efficiency of WiFi has deteriorated from over 80% at 1~Mbps to under 10% at 1~Gbps. WiFi-Nano, allows WiFi to to use 800 ns slots to significantly improve WiFi efficiency. Reducing slot time from 9 us to 800 ns makes backoffs efficient, but clear channel assessment can no longer be completed in one slot since preamble detection can now take multiple slots. Instead of waiting for multiple slots for detecting preambles, nodes speculatively transmit preambles as their backoff counters expire, while continuing to detect premables using self-interference cancellation. Upon detection of preambles from other transmitters, nodes simply abort their own preamble transmissions, thereby allowing the earliest transmitter to succeed. Further, receivers speculatively transmit their ack preambles at the end of packet reception, thereby reducing ack overhead. We validate the effectiveness of WiFi-Nano through implementation on an FPGA-based software defined radio platform, and through extensive simulations, demonstrate efficiency gains of up to 100%.
Biography: I am a researcher in the Mobility, Networks, and Systems group at Microsoft Research India. Prior to joining MSR I was a Senior Research Engineer at Bosch Research and Technology Center in Palo Alto, CA, USA. I graduated from University of Southern California with a PhD in Computer Science in 2005. My advisor was Prof. Ramesh Govindan. I obtained my Masters in Electrical Engineering from Drexel Univerity in 1999 and my B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University in 1997. My research interests broadly lie in the area of wireless networking systems. In the past I have worked on various aspects of wireless sensor networks, WiFi, Cognitive and WhiteSpace Networking and indoor localization of mobile devices.
Host: Urbashi Mitra, x0-4667, ubli@usc.edu
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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TBPizza
Mon, Apr 30, 2012 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come join us in polishing the bent before graduation. The Bent will be in the center of the graduation ceremony, so we want to make sure it looks nice! TBP Seniors can also pick up their stoles for graduation (you must have 5 stole points). You can also pick up your certificates and pins if you never received them. There will be FREE pizza!
Location: EQUAD
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Tau Beta Pi
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar
Mon, Apr 30, 2012 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Shengli Chen, integrated PoroMechanics Institute, the University of Oklahoma
Talk Title: Poroelastoplastic analytical solution of a cylindrical cavity in saturated rock formation
Abstract: The cavity expansion/contraction theory has wide applications in the areas of in-situ testing such as pressuremeter and piezocone penetrations, underground excavations and tunnel constructions in soil and rock, and wellbore instability in the oil and gas industry. In this research, a class of exact analytical solutions have been developed for the tunnel excavation/wellbore drilling problems in elastoplastic rock masses subjected to non-isotropic initial stresses, using the cavity contraction method and under both drained and undrained conditions. To provide realistic predictions of the rock behaviour, especially for the shale formation, the critical state-based modified Cam Clay and bounding surface models were adopted in the analyses. The uniqueness and novelty of the proposed analytical approach lies in the fact that the cavity boundary value problem is formulated within the Lagrangian description according to which both the constitutive relations and the equilibrium equation are described in terms of individual material particle. It is therefore possible to capture the evolution of the stress components and pore pressure/void ratio for any material point throughout the tunnel excavation/wellbore drilling processes, from elastic phase to elastoplastic and even failure phases of the deformation.
Numerical simulations were also conducted with the use of ABAQUS software. A user defined material subroutine (UMAT) has been developed and implemented into ABAQUS for the bounding surface model (Dafalias & Herrmann, 1980). The predictions from the ABAQUS analyses are generally in excellent agreement with the analytical solutions developed for both modified Cam Clay and the bounding surface models. The results show clearly that the stress history (overconsolidation ratio) has significant influence on the stress and pore pressure distributions as well as the development and progress of the plastic/elastic zones around the cavity.
Host: Astani CEE
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Cassie Cremeans
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CSCI 101 Final Review Session
Mon, Apr 30, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
If you are enrolled in CSCI 101, prepare for your final exam by attending VARC's review session on Monday, April 30, from 7-9 p.m. in GFS 116. The session will be led by Alec Winetrob, one of our CSCI tutors. No need to RSVP, just sign in when you arrive!
The Viterbi Academic Resource Center (VARC) houses the Peer Tutoring and Supplemental Instruction (SI) programs, as well as consultants from the Engineering Writing Center. VARC designed to provide additional academic support to undergraduate engineering students.Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 116
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Christine D'Arcy
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CSCI 102 Final Review Session
Mon, Apr 30, 2012 @ 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
If you are enrolled in CSCI 102, prepare for your final exam by attending VARC's review session on Monday, April 30, from 8-10 p.m. in WPH 106. The session will be led by Nakul Joshi, one of our CSCI tutors. No need to RSVP, just sign in when you arrive!
The Viterbi Academic Resource Center (VARC) houses the Peer Tutoring and Supplemental Instruction (SI) programs, as well as consultants from the Engineering Writing Center. VARC designed to provide additional academic support to undergraduate engineering students.Location: Waite Phillips Hall Of Education (WPH) - 106
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Christine D'Arcy
