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Six Sigma Black BeltThu, Sep 11, 2014
DEN@Viterbi, Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBD,
Abstract: Event Dates:
Week 1: July 7 - 11, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Week 2: August 11 - 15, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Week 3: September 8 - 12, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you will 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 youââ¬â¢ve learned. This course is presented 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 USC and IIE's 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.
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Host: Professional Programs
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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PhD Defense- Andrew Goodney
Thu, Sep 11, 2014 @ 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
University Calendar
Multipulse Acoustic Tomography
PhD Candidate: Andrew Goodney
Date: Thursday Sept. 11th, 11am
Location: EEB132
Committee:
Dr. Young H. Cho (chair)
Dr. Shanghua Teng
Dr. Bhaskar Krishnamachari (outside member)
Abstract:
Water temperature sensing in the marine environment is an important task motivated by use of the oceans for industrial purposes, national defense and ecological research. Scientists and engineers desire real-time, high resolution temperature maps so that the dynamic nature of underwater processes can be tracked and understood with high fidelity. Point sensors, which only sense in one location, require dense deployments of sensor nodes to provide high resolution water temperature maps and thus spatial resolution is constrained by the cost of deploying additional nodes. Robotic boats and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) can sample at high spatial resolutions, however they can only sample at one location at a given time. Therefore such water craft can miss dynamic water temperature events that might occur in the area of interest, but not directly at the current location of the robot or AUV. These water craft are also known for being fabulously expensive, with a per unit costs on the order of $100k.
Point sensors can be deployed as underwater wireless sensor network where the communication links are formed through the water using acoustic modems. Our initial work for this dissertation made the observation that since speed-of-sound in water is dependent on the water temperature, the acoustic communications links could be used for sensing between the nodes by measuring the time-of-flight for a signal between two nodes. Known as acoustic tomography, this technique had previously been applied in the ocean with internode distances measuring 100's to 1000's of kilometers. In order to implement acoustic tomography with a sensor network we developed two novel and highly precise time-of-flight measurement techniques on top of a novel coding scheme that allows underwater sensor networks to combine data and sensing transmissions.
Acoustic tomography increases the resolution of water temperature maps over those drawn from just point sensors by reconstructing the sound-speed field located between the sensor nodes by using the time-of-flight data for signals sent between the nodes. However, current travel-time tomography techniques make the assumption that for each node pair only one data point can be observed: the average speed-of-sound along the path between the nodes. The resolution of a reconstruction is thus limited by the number of paths that cross through an area of interest, and therefore to increase the resolution of an acoustic tomography system more nodes must be added in strategic locations, which may not always be possible due to cost and/or other limitations.
Our third contribution, and the topic of todays defense talk is a travel-time acoustic tomography technique that breaks the "average assumption." With our technique we are able to derive a spatial distribution of water temperature along each acoustic path, and the spatial resolution of the distribution is not limited by node density, but by the time-of-flight measurement precision. In today's talk I will introduce the technique, which we call multipulse acoustic tomography, and show that if a stream of bidirectional pulses (signals) is sent between two nodes, subtle differences in time-of-flight can be used to build a spatial distribution of temperature along the acoustic path. We show through simulation that the technique works under a set of conditions and constraints that resembles those found in our maria testbed. We also show that the technique improves the resolution and accuracy of reconstructions by disambiguating data that would otherwise pose a problem for traditional acoustic tomography techniques. Finally, multipulse tomography generalizes to any travel-time tomography domain and we discuss how it could have important applications in other fields such as power grid monitoring
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Lizsl De Leon
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Lyman L. Handy Colloquia: Vasilios I. Manousiouthakis (UCLA)
Thu, Sep 11, 2014 @ 12:45 PM - 01:50 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Vasilios I. Manousiouthakis, UCLA Chemical Engineering
Talk Title: Attainable Region (AR) for Reactor Networks and General Process Networks Definition, Motivation, Background, Quantification
Series: Lyman L. Handy Colloquia
Abstract: TBA
Host: Prof. Tsotsis
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ryan Choi
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NL Seminar- Towards automatic extraction of experimental data from scientific papers [Intern final talk]
Thu, Sep 11, 2014 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Eunsol Choi & Matic Horvat, University of Washington and Cambridge
Talk Title: Towards automatic extraction of experimental data from scientific papers [Intern final talk]
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Many areas of science have experienced rapid growth in the amount of scientific literature published. For example, there are approximately 400 new papers published each year in the area of Machine Translation. As such amount of new data is virtually impossible to processes by a single researcher, a new tool is needed that would help researchers explore existing and discover new MT literature. To address this problem we built an approach for automatic extraction of experimental data from scientific papers that populates a database enabling structured queries.
Biography: Eunsol Choi is a PhD student at the University of Washington, advised by Prof. Luke Zettlemoyer. Prior to UW, she studied mathematics and computer science at Cornell University.
Matic Horvat is a PhD student at University of Cambridge researching integration of semantics and Statistical Machine Translation. He is originally from Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he completed a BSc in Computer Science in 2012. He continued with a masters in Advanced Computer Science at University of Cambridge, graduating in 2013.
Host: Aliya Deri and Kevin Knight
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
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Viterbi Progressive Degree information session
Thu, Sep 11, 2014 @ 05:15 PM - 06:15 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
The Viterbi Graduate Admission team is hosting a Progressive Degree information session next week!
When: Thursday, Sept 11 @ 5:15pm
Where: Ronald Tutor Hall (RTH) 211
All undergraduate students thinking about pursuing a MS degree through USC should attend.
Questions? Email the Viterbi Graduate Admission team at: viterbi.pdp@usc.eduLocation: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Alexandra Garabedian
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LEAD WITH YOUR STRENGTHS- Presented by Gallup
Thu, Sep 11, 2014 @ 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Use Gallupâs strengths solutions to be more engaged, more productive, and happier.
Gallup Strengths-based Leadership Workshop
This workshop will enable you to begin understanding your own strengths and how to apply them successfully to develop strong leadership skills. Three key takeaways from this workshop:
• Investing in your strengths
• Maximizing your team
• Understanding why people follow
This one and half hour workshop is designed for Viterbi students interested in learning more about their personal strengths and developing leadership skills. This workshop is being offered FREE of charge.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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SHPE General Body Meeting &INROADS Resume Workshop
Thu, Sep 11, 2014 @ 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Workshops & Infosessions
Looking to polish your resume and develop your professional skills as you begin to look for employment? If so, then come by for SHPE's second General Body Meeting as we partner up with NSBE to host INROADS' Resume Workshop. Aside from prepping our members for employment, they have also aided several of our members in getting internships with companies as prestigious as Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. So come join us and get your search for employment started the right way!
Location: VPD 105
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
