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Six Sigma Black BeltTue, May 01, 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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Spring Study Day
Tue, May 01, 2012 @ 09:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - Lobby
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Christine D'Arcy
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Analyzing Large Wired and Wireless Networks
Tue, May 01, 2012 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Shirin Jalali, Ph.D., The Center for Mathematics of Information, California Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Analyzing Large Wired and Wireless Networks
Abstract: Emergence of the Internet and mobile wireless networks has given rise to large networks involving hundreds or thousands of users and relay nodes. While such networks have been around for a few decades, our limited resources in addition to the ever-increasing demands have pushed these networks to their limits. For instance, in cellular networks dropped calls are becoming a norm in populated areas these days. This demands for a fresh look at the problem of communication over large networks. While computing the high-dimensional capacity region of such networks is still of interest, in many cases it is more crucial to answer other fundamental questions such as the structure of capacity-achieving codes, or the amount of loss incurred by applying the existing codes. Answering these types of questions helps us strategize in terms of improving the performance of a given network, by either designing more efficient communication algorithms or redesigning the network's structure. In this talk, I will discuss some new approaches for analyzing large wired and wireless networks. In particular, I will describe new methods that allow us to answer questions about general noisy networks without computing their capacity regions. I will also explain a new hierarchical network analysis approach. For a given network, this new method enables us to find simpler networks of smaller sizes whose capacity regions provide upper or lower bounds on the capacity region of the original network. This is based on a joint work with Michelle Effros and Tracey Ho.
Biography: Shirin Jalali received her Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees from Stanford University in 2009, in Electrical Engineering and Statistics, respectively. Since then, she has been a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Mathematics of Information at California Institute of Technology. She has received her B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2002 and her M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the same institution in 2004. Her main researchinterests are information theory and statistical signal processing. She is particularly interested in problems in network information theory and universal compression, acquisition and denoising.
Host: Prof. Urbasi Mitra
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 110
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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TBPie
Tue, May 01, 2012 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 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 pie!
Location: EQUAD
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Tau Beta Pi
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Body Engineering Los Angeles End of Year Showcase
Tue, May 01, 2012 @ 04:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Our current PhD fellows will share their experiences developing and implementing, inquiry-based activities relating to innovative science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) topics.
RSVP to: http://www.usc.edu/esvp
use code: belaMore Information: EndofYear_Showcase.pdf
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Alycen Hall
