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Events for June 18, 2012
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Six Sigma Black BeltMon, Jun 18, 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 - 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 - 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: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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How Asynchronous Circuits Undeniably Improve the Inter-Cluster Communication Performance of 2D and 3D MP-SoCs
Mon, Jun 18, 2012 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Abbas Sheibanyrad, TIMA Laboratory
Talk Title: How Asynchronous Circuits Undeniably Improve the Inter-Cluster Communication Performance of 2D and 3D MP-SoCs
Abstract: It is more than half a century the field of asynchronous circuits has begun to attract the attention of researchers. Since then a large number of theoretical concerns have been studied in detail. However until recently the research in this field was almost limited to some academic communities. As the research was focused almost on theory rather than practice, this logic circuit design methodology was not globally in use and few numbers of industries were interested to invest on it. Nevertheless, since early 2000 by the emergence of large-scale SoCs the figure has been changed and the Asynchronous Circuits has drawn a high level of interest from both academic and industrial minds. Nowadays one can hardly deny the advantages of using asynchronous circuits for NoCs in large systems and particularly for 3D-NoCs. In this talk I would like to elaborate on the advantages of asynchronous design on the network performance, and as a summary of our research during the last five years on asynchronous NoC and GALS systems, l show how asynchronous circuit makes the construction of large-scale inter-cluster communication infrastructure possible. Furthermore we will discuss on the design of ASPIN (a distributed asynchronous NoC) and on the advantages of asynchronous 3D-NoCs using serialized vertical links and thus on the unavoidable use of asynchronous circuits in future 3D MP-SoCs.
Biography: Abbas SHEIBANYRAD (known Hamed to friends) was born in Dezfoul, a city in southwestern Iran, in 1976. He received a bachelorâs degree in Computer Hardware Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic University. After that he held a design engineer position in the R&D section of a company manufacturing telecommunication equipments, for three years in Tehran. Hamed received a masterâs degree in Microelectronic and Integrated System Architecture from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6) in 2004. In March, 2008, from the same university (LIP6) he obtained a PhD degree on Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Electronics. After one year of postdoctoral fellowship in TIMA laboratory in Grenoble, France, since 2009 he is a CNRS (French national center of scientific research) research fellow working in SLS team of the same laboratory. His research interests include principally network-level architecture of Networks-on-Chip.
Host: Prof. Peter Beerel
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
