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Six Sigma Black BeltFri, Sep 12, 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.
More Info
Host: Professional Programs
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Transfer Day
Fri, Sep 12, 2014 @ 09:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Transfer Day is a half-day comprehensive program designed to give prospective transfer students the answers to questions about the transfer process. Transfer Day includes an hour-long Engineering Admission presentation, led by Viterbi's Transfer Admission Advisors, that will go over the admission process,recommended courses for engineers, transfer credit policy, etc.
To RSVP for transfer day visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/transfer/prospective/transferdays.htmlLocation: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) -
Audiences: Undergraduate Transfer Applicants
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Admission
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AI SEMINAR
Fri, Sep 12, 2014 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Pascal Van Hentenryck, National ICT Australia (NICTA)
Talk Title: Measuring and Optimizing Cultural Markets
Abstract: Social influence has been shown to create significant unpredictability
in cultural markets, providing one potential explanation why experts
routinely fail at predicting commercial success of cultural
products. To counteract the difficulty of making accurate predictions,
``measure and react'' strategies have been advocated but finding a
concrete strategy that scales for very large markets has remained
elusive so far. Here we propose a ``measure and optimize'' strategy
that uses product quality, appeal, and social influence to maximize
expected profits in the market. Computational experiments show that
our ``measure and optimize'' strategy can leverage social influence to
produce significant performance benefits for the market. Our
theoretical analysis also proves that a ``measure and optimize''
strategy with social influence outperforms in expectation any
``measure and react'' strategy not displaying social information. In
other words, we show for the first time that dynamically showing
consumers positive social information increases the expected
performance of the seller in cultural markets, when using a ``measure
and optimize'' strategy.
Biography: Pascal Van Hentenryck leads the Optimisation Research Group (about 75
people) at National ICT Australia (NICTA). He also holds a
Vice-Chancellor Strategic Chair in data-intensive computing at the
Australian National University. Van Hentenryck is the recipient of
two honorary degrees and a fellow of the Association for the
Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He was awarded the 2002
INFORMS ICS Award for research excellence in operations research and
compute science, the 2006 ACP Award for research excellence in
constraint programming, the 2010-2011 Philip J. Bray Award for
Teaching Excellence at Brown University, and was the 2013 IFORS
Distinguished speaker. Van Hentenryck is the author of five MIT Press
books and has developed a number of innovative optimisation systems
that are widely used in academia and industry.
Host: Kristina Lerman
More Info: TBA
Webcast: TBALocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th floor large conference room
WebCast Link: TBA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kary LAU
Event Link: TBA
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
Fri, Sep 12, 2014 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Ashish Soni, Founding Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage
Talk Title: Starting a Technology Venture: Keys to Success
Host: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jeffrey Teng
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Viterbi Career Conference
Fri, Sep 12, 2014 @ 01:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Receptions & Special Events
The Viterbi Career Conference, designed specifically for Viterbi undergraduates, takes place once each fall. The conference provides an invaluable opportunity for all students, freshmen through seniors, to develop job search skills and to connect with company representatives and alumni.
More Information Can Be Found HereLocation: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) -
Audiences: All Viterbi Undergraduate Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Integrated Seminar Series
Fri, Sep 12, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mark Davis, Consultant USA
Talk Title: Foliage Penetration Radar
Abstract: Abstract: Foliage Penetration (FOPEN) Radar is a technical approach to find and characterize man-made objections under dense foliage, as well as characterizing the foliage itself. It has applications in both military surveillance and civilian geospatial imaging. This Tutorial is divided into three parts.
1) The early history of FOPEN Radar: battlefield surveillance and the early experiments in foliage penetration radar are covered. There were some very interesting developments in radar technology that enabled our ability to detect fixed and moving objects under dense foliage. An important breakthrough was the quantification of the radar propagation through foliage, and related scattering and loss effects.
2) FOPEN synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with concentration on development results from several systems. These systems were developed for both military and commercial applications, and during a time of rapid awareness of the need and ability to operate in a dense signal environment. The tutorial quantifies the benefits of polarization diversity in detecting and characterizing both man made and natural objects. Furthermore, there is a clear benefit for use of polarization in false alarm mitigation. Finally the techniques developed for ultra wideband and ultra wide angle image formation will be presented.
3) New research in Multi-mode Ultra-Wideband Radar, with the design of both SAR and moving target indication (MTI) FOPEN systems. Particular note will be taken on the benefits and difficulties in designing these ultra-wideband (UWB) systems, and operation in real world electromagnetic environments. The tutorial will illustrate new technologies that have promise for future multimode operation: the need to detect low minimum discernable velocity; and simultaneous SAR and GMTI operation.
Biography: io: Dr Mark E Davis has over 45 years experience in Radartechnology and systems development. He has held senior management positions in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Air Force Research Laboratory, and General Electric Aerospace. At DARPA, he was the program manager on both the foliage penetration (FOPEN) radar advanced development program and the GeoSAR foliage penetration mapping radar. Dr Davis wrote the text "Foliage Penetration Radar - Detection and Characterization of Objects Under Trees", published by Scitech Raleigh NC in March 2011.
His education includes a PhD in Physics from The Ohio State University, and Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University. He is a Life Fellow of both the IEEE and Military Sensing Symposia, and a member of the AESS Board of Governors and Past-Chair of the AESS Radar Systems Panel.
Hosted by Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mike Chen and Prof. Mahta Moghaddam
Organized and hosted by Masashi Yamagata
For questions or additional details, please email myamagat@usc.edu
Host: Hosted by Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mike Chen, Prof. Mahta Moghaddam, and Masashi Yamagata
More Info: http://mhi.usc.edu/events/event-details/?event_id=910775
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Elise Herrera-Green
Event Link: http://mhi.usc.edu/events/event-details/?event_id=910775
