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Events for October 03, 2007
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Meet USC (AM session)
Wed, Oct 03, 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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Minor Student Social
Wed, Oct 03, 2007 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Technology & Applied Computing Program (TAC)
Receptions & Special Events
Any students in the 5 ITP minors are welcome to join the department faculty and staff for lunch. This will be a great chance to connect with peers and discuss future opportunities for study with faculty.Please RSVP through the following website: http://itp.usc.edu/minor_student_social
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 160
Audiences: Students in ITP Minors - RSVP requested
Contact: Sarah Holdren
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Preparing for the Engineering Career Fair
Wed, Oct 03, 2007 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Make a great first impression! Learn how to optimize your time, approach employers and prepare for the recruiting event of the semester.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 109
Audiences: All Engineering Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Meet USC (PM session)
Wed, Oct 03, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 04:00 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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Student Assessment and Engineering Education
Wed, Oct 03, 2007 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker:
Gisele Ragusa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
University of Southern California,
Rossier School of EducationAbstract:Research in engineering education has received increased attention from the National Science Foundation and other governmental agencies in the past three years. Academic rigor, powerful pedagogy and attention to outcome-based student assessment have been on the forefront of agencies and scientific research funding sources connected to engineering education. Both the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) agree that student assessment must be tied to outcome-based curriculum that includes career-based application. Accordingly, the NSF has established numerous engineering education competitions for universities including Engineering Education Programs (EEP), Nanotechnology Undergraduate in Engineering programs (NUE), Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Research Experience For Teachers, (RET) Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement programs (CCLI), and Engineering Education Centers (EEC). These funding initiatives provided opportunities for schools of engineering and schools of education to collaborate on building powerful educational programs with quantifiable outcomes in engineering education. This presentation provides a overview of relevant ways of planning and quantitatively assessing student learning in engineering education. Efforts will be made to connect educational psychology principles with engineering education in the presentation and to tie these principles to ABET accreditation. Assessment tools and planning mechanisms will be discussed. Opportunities for open dialogue about engineering education and associated NSF fundable research will be provided.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - reilian Hall 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Some System Issues in Healthcare Information Systems: A Focus on Process
Wed, Oct 03, 2007 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Seminar"Some System Issues in Healthcare Information Systems: A Focus on Process"Nelson King, PhDOlayan School of Business, American University of Beirut, LebanonABSTRACT: Healthcare information systems (HIS) are intended to improve healthcare delivery through computerization that is aimed at reducing process variability. Dr. King shows how attention to process is necessary to forsee unintended consequences and mitigate their impact on an HIS implementation. These consequences reflect the coming together of a social and technical system. Case studies representing different levels of analysis are used for illustration: e-prescribing, indoor positioning systems, clinical workflow, and hand-held nursing tools. The field of industrial and systems engineering has much to contribute to the design of information systems through a systems perspective and the study of human and organizational factors. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2007, KAPRIELIAN HALL (KAP) 167, 3:30-4:30 PMBIOGRAPHY: Nelson King is an assistant professor in information systems at the Olayan School of Business - American University of Beirut (AUB). His research focuses on the social and technical implications of process change in the introduction of healthcare information systems. He studied at the University of Southern California where he obtained his PhD from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and conducted his post-doctoral research in medical imaging informatics with the Department of Radiology. Dr. King worked for over 20 years as a systems engineer in natural resources, aerospace, and information technology before starting his academic career. His healthcare research has been published in E-service Journal, Academic Radiology and the Journal of Digital Imaging. He has also published information systems articles in MIS Quarterly, Information Resources Management Journal, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 167
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Microscopic Mechanisms of Deformation in Amorphous Solids
Wed, Oct 03, 2007 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Mo Li Associate Professor School of Materials Science and EngineeringGeorgia Institute of Technology While the fundamental deformation mechanisms in crystalline materials, namely, the dislocation-based process, have long been understood and put into use, our understanding of the microscopic deformation mechanisms in amorphous solids still remains in its infancy despite tremendous efforts made in the past forty years. Amorphous solids contribute to a large fraction of materials used today, including metallic glasses and amorphous semiconductors, granular matters, and many geological materials. They are characterized by metastability and the lack of long-range order, which poses great challenges for experimentalists as well as theorists to have a detailed understanding of how deformation occurs at the atomic or molecular level. In this talk, I will give a brief introduction to the mechanical properties of amorphous solids and in particular, metallic glasses with special emphasis on shear localization or shear banding. I will present the results from extensive atomistic modeling of the changes in the local atomic structure, volume, and mechanical properties in several model systems subjected to various external loadings. The results led us to the establishment of a new model, an extended Ginzburg-Landau theory. We conclude, from these studies, that the microscopic deformation mechanism in amorphous metals is through the process starting from local volume change and then local shear softening to the final breakdown. The implications derived from this study and its applications to other disordered systems such as granular matters and nanocrystalline materials will be briefly mentioned. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mo Li received his Ph.D. in applied physics in 1994 from California Institute of Technology. He joined Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York after a brief stays as a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech and the Argonne National Laboratory. From 1998 to 2001 he was an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University. Currently he is an associate professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on mechanical properties of amorphous solids and nano-scaled materials, phase transitions in metastable systems, interfaces, and statistical physics and its applications. The approaches used in his research are a blend of those from statistical physics, solid state physics, materials science, metallurgy, mechanics and computational methods. His research focuses on algorithm development, simulation, and theoretical analysis.
Location: Stauffer Science Lecture Hall, Rm 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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Ernst & Young Meeting / Information Session
Wed, Oct 03, 2007 @ 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
The Information Systems Association (ISA) will be hosting Ernst & Young!WHAT: Ernst & Young Meeting/Information SessionWHEN: Wednesday, 3 October 2007TIME: 6:30 PMWHERE: HOH 304You do not need to be a member to attend. These meetings are FREE and open to all USC students and majors. Don't forget: Free Catered Food!It's not too late to become a member! Come to this week's meeting for more information or visit the ISA website at www.uscisa.net. Please contact Paul Choi at paulbcho@usc.edu with any questions or for more information.Paul B. Choi, VP of Membership, Information Systems Association
Location: H. Leslie Hoffman Hall Of Business Administration (HOH) - 304
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
