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Events for September 07, 2007
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Community College Counselor Conference (Transfer Admission)
Fri, Sep 07, 2007 @ 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Community College Counselors are invited to spend the day at USC learning about our admission policies, academic programs, and student services. If counselors are interested in learning more about transferring into engineering at USC, there will be a one-hour presentation on the Viterbi School, transfer requirements, and the admission process.Please call Julie Samere at (213) 740-4530 for more details.
Location: USC University Park Campus
Audiences: CA Community College Counselors
Contact: Admission & Student Affairs Division
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Lunar Lander Interview
Fri, Sep 07, 2007 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Interviews for the next generation vehicle development and flight testing of a lunar lander prototype vehicle. Undergraduate and graduate, all engineering majors encouraged to apply. If interested, please email David Barnhart (barnhart@isi.edu) and cc Joseph Kunc (kunc@usc.edu) with attached one-page resume. Students will be competitively selected and will be expected to participate in actual construction and integration of vehicle.
Location: ASTD Conference Room, RRB
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: LEAPFROG Lunar Lander/AIAA
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Meet USC (AM session)
Fri, Sep 07, 2007 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
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. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/events/meet_usc/ to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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WIE & CED GAMEDAY
Fri, Sep 07, 2007 @ 11:30 AM - 01:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Join the Center for Engineering Diversity (CED) and Women in Engineering (WIE) as we kick off the school year with good food & drinks, as well as all of your favorite GAMES! We'll have everything from Twister to Connect Four so bring your inner child and get ready for some FUN! This event is open to all CED and WIE members!
No RSVP required...just come and have fun!Location: E Quad
Audiences: Undergraduate women and CED members
Contact: WIE & CED
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Meet USC (PM session)
Fri, Sep 07, 2007 @ 12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
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. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/events/meet_usc/ to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Honors Colloquium: The International Geophysical Year-- Igniting a Revolution in American Science
Fri, Sep 07, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Lecture offered by Dr. Erik Conway, JPL Historian for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Honors Program Students and all Faculty and Staff are invited to attend
Contact: Erika Chua
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Application on Biopolymers on Mercury Waste Treatment:....
Fri, Sep 07, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Adsorption of Chitosan Hydrogel Granule with Heavy MetalsSpeaker:
Prof. Chang-Chin Kwan
Providence University, TaiwanAbstract:
Heavy metal pollution in aquatic systems is a pervasive and extremely serious problem. The high cost for cleanup tends to increase. A selective, high-capacity adsorbent process is developed to recover the heavy metals, thus minimizing fouling. Biopolymers such as chitosan and sodium polyglucosamine can be used separately or together for the adsorption studies. A practical example is that at pH 5, the maximum capacity for mercury is 0.4% to 7mg of sodium polyglucosamine per gram of beach sand. Furthermore, a capsule delivering system using chitosan and tripolyphosphate was made. The microcapsules were prepared by emulsification/internal gelification method. The release behavior of Vitamin E from these microcapsules was investigated in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) and hydrophobic medium. Results indicated that the release of Vitamin E is slow but with higher concentrations of chitosan and TPP solutions, a convenient method to encapsulate active ingredients in microcapsules for 10 hours in aqueous PBS solution or 7 hours in the lipo-system can be developed.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 156
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Exploring Delay Tolerant Applications
Fri, Sep 07, 2007 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: Prof. Mehul Motani, National University of SingaporeABSTRACT: Handheld devices such as mobile phones and PDAs have evolved into multi-functional platforms with significant computational, storage and networking capabilities. Device manufacturers are also embedding tiny sensors into these devices for environmental and personal health monitoring. The natural question in this context is how to share the data stored on these devices. In delay tolerant applications, query propagation and information access is via opportunistic exchange of information amongst mobile devices in proximity of one another.In this talk, we will explore the design space of delay tolerant applications. Understanding user interactions is essential to designing efficient algorithms and enhancing user experience. We will describe experiments carried out on campus to glean human contact patterns and the lessons learned. To effect information exchange, mobile devices need to become aware of other devices in their environment. This device discovery process is energy intensive and motivates the need for energy efficient contact probing mechanisms. We will discuss recent results on the design of algorithms which offer a favorable trade-off between energy and performance.BIO:
Mehul Motani is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He graduated with a PhD from Cornell University. Prior to that, he was a member of technical staff at Lockheed Martin in Syracuse, New York for over four years. Recently he has been working on research problems which sit at the boundary of information theory, communications and networking, including the design of wireless ad-hoc and sensor network systems. He was awarded the Intel Foundation Fellowship for work related to his PhD in 2000, won the Telecom Italia prize at Simagine 2003 and advanced to the Semifinals at Startup@Singapore 2005. He has been on the organizing committees for ISIT 2006 & 2007 and the technical program committees of MobiCom 2007, Infocom 2008, SECON 2008 and other conferences. He participates actively in IEEE & ACM/Sigmobile and has served as the secretary of the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors.Host: Urbashi Mitra, ubli@usc.eduLocation: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Welcome Back Beach Bonfire
Fri, Sep 07, 2007 @ 05:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join IEEE and ACM for an evening at Dockweiler Beach. Come learn about both organizations, hear about upcoming events, enjoy free food & have fun!Please RSVP to ieee@usc.edu by Wed., Sept. 5 if you can attend. Furthermore, if you can drive, please mention so and the number of seats in your car.Finally, meet in front of RTH at 5:00 P.M. to carpool over to Dockweiler Beach.
Location: Dockweiler Beach
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: IEEE & ACM
