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Events for September 13, 2007

• Sep

  13

  Viterbi Engineering Career Services Orientation

  Thu, Sep 13, 2007 @ 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

  Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections

  Workshops & Infosessions

  
  

  In this presentation and tour, you will get to know career services and the programs provided for undergraduate and graduate students.

  Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211

  Audiences: All Viterbi Students

  Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services

  

• Sep

  13

  Lyman Handy Colloquium Series:

  Thu, Sep 13, 2007 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM

  Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

  Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

  
  

  Speaker: Steven Bryant, UT Austin
  http://www.ices.utexas.edu/~sbryant/Old Dogs and New Tricks:
  Will Biotechnology Actually Revolutionize the Oil Industry This Time Around?The idea of using microbes to increase recovery from oil reservoirs is more than fifty years old. Proponents of microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) have long championed its advantages, but field applications have never lived up to the promise implied by those claims. In the current era of sustained high oil prices and increasing demand for hydrocarbons, operators have renewed their interest in all forms of EOR. Meanwhile, techniques for genomic engineering, metabolic engineering and biotechnology in general have developed rapidly. Can the potential of MEOR – in essence, the possibility of implementing EOR for the same price as a waterflood – be realized this time around?To answer that question, it is instructive to review the reasons for the failure of MEOR in the past. An important lesson from that review is that a multidisciplinary perspective is absolutely necessary for this application. We then consider an example of MEOR that works and has yielded an economic success in the field. Here the lesson is a common one in engineering: simpler processes are more robust. However, efforts to establish a mechanistic understanding of the successful process raise more questions than they answer. These questions turn out to relate to a much broader theme: how life forms have managed to adapt to an extraordinary range of conditions on this planet. Recognizing these issues provides insight into what is feasible and what is improbable for oilfield applications of biotechnology.

  Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Petra Pearce

  

• Sep

  13

  General Body Meeting

  Thu, Sep 13, 2007 @ 07:00 PM - 08:15 PM

  Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations

  Student Activity

  
  

  Come to NSBE's 2nd General Body Meeting of the year! If you missed the first you can get caught up on all that NSBE has planned. This week we have a special presentation by USC's own Jeremiah Givens and Nimaako Brown. Come for the FREE DINNER and stay for the information.

  Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 101

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)