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Events for October 13, 2006
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Meet USC (AM session)
Fri, Oct 13, 2006 @ 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 call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Meet USC (PM session)
Fri, Oct 13, 2006 @ 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 call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Viterbi Museum Open Today 12:30-2:00
Fri, Oct 13, 2006 @ 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
The Viterbi Museum is located on the 2nd Floor of RTH near the elevators. For more information please visit: http://viterbi.usc.edu/about/viterbimuseum/
Location: 2nd Floor RTH near the elevators
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jason Dziegielewski
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Fuel Cell Grade Diesel Processed by Ultrasound-Assisted oxidative Desulfurization Technology
Fri, Oct 13, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Environmental Engineering SeminarOmid Etemadi, Ph.D. Candidate
Environmental Engineering
University of Southern CaliforniaAbstractUltrasound-Assisted Oxidative Desulfurization (UAOD) process has been improved for practical use by substituting solid adsorption with solvent extraction. Therefore the advantages of both oxidative and adsorptive desulfurization have been put together for an enhanced continuous system. A tailor-made modular sonoreactor was used in a portable unit of continuous flow system with a fixed-bed adsorbent. The whole system operates at ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure. Alumina is used for removing the oxidized sulfur compounds in MGO marine logistic diesel and JP-8 jet fuel diesel. For the same sulfur removal much lower alumina is needed than the liquid solvent for extraction. For achieving a green chemistry, the recovery of the adsorbent was through calcining instead of using organic solvents for regeneration of alumina. Tests on model compounds prove the selectivity of alumina in adsorption. Scale-up tests have promising results for industrial use of the system.This presentation focuses on sulfur removal in certain diesel fuels and the results support the selective nature of oxidation and adsorption. Chromatograms from sulfur chemiluminescence detector (GC-SCD) and pulsed flame-photometric detector (GC-PFPD) show the levels of removal down to ultra-low sulfur diesel. Images from scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and results of small angle neutron scattering (SANS) for different phases of alumina clarify the characteristics of the adsorbents.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 156
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Engineering Honors Colloquium Lecture
Fri, Oct 13, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Engineering Honors Colloquium lecture given by Mr. Albert Dorman, founding chairman of AECOM Technology Corporation.
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Faculty and Honors Program Students
Contact: Erika Chua
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Material Science Seminar
Fri, Oct 13, 2006 @ 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
The Relationship Between Crystallographic Pitting and Metallic Bonding. Dr. Scott LillardMaterials Science & Technology Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico Over the past half-century numerous authors have reported relationships between pitting corrosion and crystallographic orientation (for example vs. directions). This phenomenon is commonly referred to as corrosion etch pitting and the observations associated with it can generally be divided into two categories: 1) relationships between pitting susceptibility (initiation) and crystallographic orientation and 2) relationships between pit morphology (propagation) and crystallographic orientation. The formation of corrosion etch pits in metals, both initiation and propagation, is often attributed to surface energy. Surface energy is a fairly general term used to describe dangling bonds at a free surface - more closely packed surfaces having lower surface energy as they loose the fewest number of bonds per unit area when the new surface is formed. However, this simple "hard-sphere" model of the surface does not predict experimental observations in etch pitting. This does not mean that bonding does not play a role in etch pitting, rather, that our method or calculating surface properties needs to be improved. Here, we introduce a novel materials simulation method to quantify the influence of coordination-dependent bonding on etch pitting. In our model surface properties arising from metal-metal bonding are evaluated by calculating atomic embedding energies. We will introduce this method and demonstrate its accuracy by comparing predicted pit morphologies in magnesium with those calculated in our model.Scott Lillard is a Technical Staff Member in the Materials Science & Technology Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the G.W. Whiting School of Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University in 1992. He is the author of over 50 technical publications in the field of corrosion and is on the editorial boards of Corrosion, Journal of Materials Research, and Journal of Corrosion Science Engineering and Technology. His interests include experimental research in the areas of localized corrosion, oxide films, environmental fracture, and hydrogen reaction kinetics.All first year MASC students are required to attend.Refreshments will be provided.Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce
