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Six Sigma Black BeltFri, Jul 22, 2011
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Abstract: 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 (July 18-22; August 15-19; and September 12-16, 2011).
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.
More Info: http://mapp.usc.edu/professionalprograms/ShortCourses/SixSigmaBlackBelt.htmAudiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://mapp.usc.edu/professionalprograms/ShortCourses/SixSigmaBlackBelt.htm
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Large-Scale Industrial Software Systems: Research Opportunities and Challenges
Fri, Jul 22, 2011 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Srini Ramaswamy, Industrial Software Systems, ABB Corporate Research Center, India
Talk Title: Large-Scale Industrial Software Systems: Research Opportunities and Challenges
Abstract: Software systems development is fast becoming a globalized activity and this is an increasingly major trend within all industrial sectors. Due to the many benefits of globalization, from the integration of multiple ethnic / market perspectives driven idea generation to development cost structuring, middle and small-sized software companies are now beginning to establish worldwide development campuses / partners. Thus, globalization has become an overwhelming phenomenon in the software industry and is rapidly defining the nature of software development for the 21st century. For Industrial Automation companies like ABB in emerging markets such as India, these opportunities are both exciting we well as immensely challenging. They present problems that are incredibly different from similar-sized western markets and require a significant amount of innovation and creativity to develop robust, sustainable, yet significantly low-cost solutions for such markets. In this talk, I will present an overview of ABB in India and its research activities, specifically in the areas of Industrial Communications and Industrial Software Systems.
Biography: Dr. Srini Ramaswamy transitioned from an academic to a corporate research career in 2010, as the head for Industrial Software Systems research at ABB India Corporate Research Center, in Bangalore, India. His primary role is in research team building and leadership, developing university relationships and engaging in applied research for the creation and execution of projects with transformative value for the company's power technologies and process automation business units. On the academic front, he also serves as a visiting professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and a honorary adjunct professor at the Indian Institute of Information Technology â Bangalore. His research interests are on intelligent and flexible control, behavior modeling, analysis and simulation, software stability and scalability; particularly in the design and development of complex software systems. Specific applications include real-time control issues in automation and manufacturing, data mining and distributed real-time applications. His work is motivated by the desire to understand the various requirements to build scalable, intelligent software systems with the inherent ability to successfully respond to observed and reported behavioral changes in their environment.
Host: Vice Dean Raghu Raghavendra
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 324
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center Monthly Seminar Series
Fri, Jul 22, 2011 @ 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Matteo Pellegrini Ph.D, UCLA Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Talk Title: Transgenerational Inheritance of DNA Methylation
Abstract: DNA Methylation is thought to play an important role in the regulation of gene expression and cellular differentiation. Recently it has become possible to profile the entire DNA methylome using bisulfite sequencing coupled with next generation sequencers. Using these approaches several studies have identified regions that are differentially methylated across different cell types. However, the degree to which DNA methylation is heritable across generation remains an open question. We are currently investigating how patterns of DNA methylation are preserved in parental and F1 crosses in both pants and mammals. We are also investigating the role that diet plays on transgenerational DNA methylation patterns in mice. A fuller understanding of these effects will allow us to more completely understand how the effects of environmental changes can be propagated across generations.
CSC Building 2nd Floor - Harkness Auditorium
Host: Center for Applied Molecular Medicine. IGM, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250, Los Angeles, CA. Information - contact Kristina Gerber at 323-442-3849. Pizza and beverages served for attendees at 11:45 a.m.
Location: Clinical Science Center (CSC) - Harkness Auditorium - IGM
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kristina Gerber
