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Events for October 24, 2012
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkWed, Oct 24, 2012
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
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. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) -
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen Students and Families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Wed, Oct 24, 2012 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Larry Aft, USC Viterbi School of Engineering,
Talk Title: Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Abstract: Learn how to integrate principles of business, statistics and engineering to achieve tangible results. Master the use of Six Sigma to quantify the critical quality issues in your company. Once the issues have been quantified, statistics can be applied to provide probabilities of success and failure. Six Sigma methods increase productivity and enhance quality. As a Six Sigma green belt, you will be equipped to support and champion a Six Sigma implementation in your organization. To earn the Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, you will be required to pass the Institute of Industrial Engineer's green belt exam (administered on the final day of the course).
During this course you will have the opportunity to apply what you have learned to an actual issue you face in your organization. Prior seminar participants have reported significant savings from implementing their projects.
*A financial services organization saw $128,000 in cost savings per quarter when they reduced transaction processing rework
*A state agency reduced project cost over-runs by 28 percent
*A transportation company saved more than $875,000 per year in turnover costs by improving the employee communications process
*Reduced errors in a painting operation led to increased first pass acceptance and more than $197,000 in annual savings
*A Web developer increased annual profits by 10 percent by cutting cycle time
*A wave solder operation saw defects reduced by half and costs reduced by $60,000 per year
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-green-belt-process-improvement
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Astani CEE Oral Dissertation Defense
Wed, Oct 24, 2012 @ 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Hyoung-Jin Kim, Ph.D. Civil Engineering Candidate
Talk Title: Numerical and Experimental Study on Dynamics of Unsteady Pipe Flow Involving Backflow Prevention Assembly
Abstract:
When control valves at the end of pipeline close simultaneously, two pressure waves are generated at each end and propagating toward to the other end. Those waves continue to go back and forth along pipelines until they are damped out to next steady states. This study provides information on the computer simulation of a rapid transient event called water hammer. The energy loss term due to friction in the unsteady model consists of quasi-steady contribution and unsteady contribution. For the present model, an equivalent friction coefficient is used to replace the quasi-steady friction coefficient, inclusive minor energy loss factors. The unsteady component has been related to the combination of the instant acceleration and instant convective acceleration. The numerical results of the present model are compared with the experimental records. The computer results based on the unsteady friction 1D model was successful to follow general trends of water hammer phenomena, corresponding with sudden changes in flow. This study later extends to the dynamic characteristics of backflow prevention assemblies under rapid transient condition. A numerical program for rapid transient pipe flow interconnected with a backflow prevention assembly has been developed using a coupling model and numerically solved by the method of characteristics.
Advisor: Professor Jiin Jen Lee
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 335
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Want to Get Away? Graduate Programs at Stanford
Wed, Oct 24, 2012 @ 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Drop by with your questions about pursuing graduate degrees at Stanford University. Pick up a quick snack and meet Marcelo Worsley, PhD student in the Learning Sciences and Technology Design program where his research centers around identifying ways to leverage artificial intelligence to characterize learning in self-regulated learning environments.
Marcelo holds a BS in Chemical Engineering, a BS in Spanish (both from Stanford), and am pursuing an MS in Computer Science, in addition to the PhD in Education.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 210
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Center for Engineering Diversity
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Softly Defined Networking
Wed, Oct 24, 2012 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Gordon Brebner, Distinguished Engineer, Xilinx Labs
Talk Title: Softly Defined Networking
Abstract: Software Defined Networking (SDN) has been described as the hope and hype for the future of networking. Definitions vary, but one research direction is to separate the control plane from the data plane, introducing abstractions that can provide a global network view, a description of required behavior, and a model of packet forwarding. While the worthy goal is to address ossification of the Internet, the âSâ for âsoftwareâ in SDN perhaps unintentionally ossifies views of the respective roles of hardware and software. Specifically, it introduces an inbuilt assumption that there is relatively dumb switching hardware for high-Â‐speed packet forwarding, and relatively intelligent software running on processors for lesser-Â‐speed networking control. Programmable logic technology offers scope for âsoft hardwareâ, with the potential to blur the distinctions between traditional roles. However, such technology must prove both its ability to deliver the necessary high performance and its ability to be programmed in a high-Â‐level manner. In this talk, I will overview research that has been addressing these issues successfully, and will discuss its potential impact on the evolving view of SDN.
Biography: Dr. Gordon Brebner is a Distinguished Engineer at Xilinx, Inc., the worldwide leader in programmable logic platforms. He works in Xilinx Labs in San José, California, USA, leading an international group researching issues surrounding networked processing systems of the future. His main personal research interests concern dynamically reconfigurable architectures, domain-Â‐specific languages with highly concurrent implementations, and high performance networking and telecommunications, with also a historical interest in computational complexity. He has authored numerous papers and the book Computers in Communication, and holds many patents. Prior to joining Xilinx in 2002, Gordon was the Professor of Computer Systems at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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AME - Department Seminar
Wed, Oct 24, 2012 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Arun Shukla , Simon Ostrach, Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Rhode Island
Talk Title: Dynamic Response of Sandwich Composites Subjected to Shock Loading
Abstract: This lecture will present studies on the response of novel engineering layered materials to extreme dynamic loadings. In particular, the talk will focus on the behavior of sandwich composite materials to shock loading. A shock tube facility was utilized to apply blast loadings to simply supported plates of sandwich composite materials. Pressure sensors were mounted at the end of the muzzle section of the shock tube to measure the incident and the reflected pressure profiles during the experiment. This data was used to evaluate the energy transferred and the impulse imparted to the sandwich structure. Three high speed digital cameras along with 3D digital image correlation technique were utilized to capture real time deformation of sandwich composites, as well as the development and progression of damage in them. Based on physical observations better sandwich panels were designed for blast mitigation.
Biography: Arun Shukla obtained a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur and his Master of Science and Doctorate degrees from the University of Maryland, all in Mechanical Engineering. He joined the University of Rhode Island in 1981 as a faculty member and currently serves as the Simon Ostrach Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering. He has also served as the Clark. B Millikan Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology, Visiting Professors at the Indian Institute of Technology and Texas A&M Universities and as Design Engineer at Voltas Limited.
He is a Fellow of the Society for Experimental Mechanics, American Academy of Mechanics and American Society for Mechanical Engineers. He was elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2011. He has received the Frocht, Lazan, Taylor and Tatnall Awards and Murray Medal from the Society for Experimental Mechanics. At the University of Rhode Island, he is a recipient of the Simon Ostrach First Endowed Professorship Award, the Vincent and Estelle Murphy Faculty Excellence Award, Distinguished Engineering Professor Award, the University's Scholarly Excellence Award, the Albert E Carlotti Faculty Excellence Award and the University's Outstanding Research Achievement Award. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT, Kanpur in 2009.
In 2003, he served as the President of the Society for Experimental Mechanics. He has served as the Technical Editor of the journal Experimental Mechanics. He has also served the National Research Council, on the United States National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Along with his many graduate students and post docs, Professor Shukla has published more than 300 papers in refereed journals and proceedings. He has also co-authored and edited 5 books, and has delivered numerous plenary and keynote lectures.
Host: Professor Eliasson
More Info: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/10-24-12-shukla.shtml
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - Room 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
Event Link: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/10-24-12-shukla.shtml
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The New York Times Feminist Reading Group With Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden
Wed, Oct 24, 2012 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Admission is free.
Refreshments will be provided.
Since this project was first performed at Dispatch Bureau in New York in 2009, The New York Times Feminist Reading Group has met periodically to discuss current events and feminist issues raised by that dayâs issue of the New York Times. Participants are welcome regardless of whether they have read, skimmed or even just glanced at that dayâs paper. The discussion begins informally with news items or questions raised by participants, and ranges widely from investigations of specific articles or images, to editorial choices and ad placements, to the larger questions of the business of newspapers and contemporary media in general. The New York Times Feminist Reading Group is organized and facilitated by writer Jen Kennedy and artist Liz Linden, who have been collaborating on projects that investigate contemporary usages of the word feminism since 2008. Their projects include town-hall meetings, feminist book swaps, video and sound works and pilot press, their DIY feminist publishing house.
About the Artists:
Jen Kennedy is a Montreal-based writer. Her work has been published in a number of journals, including C Magazine, Image [&] Narrative, FUSE and the Journal of Critical Studies in Business & Society. Kennedy attended the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2008 to 2009, and is currently a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellow at Binghamton University. She received her BA and MA in visual arts from the University of Western Ontario.
Liz Linden also attended the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2008 to 2009. She received her BA from Yale University and studied photography at the Ãcole nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France. Linden has been awarded several grants and international residencies, including a DaNY grant from the Danish Arts Council and residencies at Capacete in Rio de Janeiro, Gertrude Contemporary in Melbourne and unitednationsplaza in Berlin. (Official website)
Kennedy and Linden have been collaborating since 2009 on a multidisciplinary project that explores the semantics of contemporary feminism. They have received grants from the Department of Cultural Affairs/Brooklyn Arts Council and the Puffin Foundation. Their work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum and the Brooklyn Museumâs Sackler Center for Feminist Art, as well as at numerous other venues.
Organized by the USC Roski School of Fine Arts.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Forum Room, 4th Floor
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory Information Session
Wed, Oct 24, 2012 @ 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: BS, MS, PhD
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Writing Workshop for International Students
Wed, Oct 24, 2012 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
This Writing Workshop will focus on skills and techniques to successfully write papers for WRIT 140, WRIT 340 and other GEs. Come to this workshop to meet with faculty and graduate assistants from the Engineering Writing Program. Bring your questions and we will help!
Immediately following the workshop, we invite you to have dinner with domestic students about their experiences with writing and any tips they may have.
Writing Workshop for International Students
Wednesday, October 24th
5-6 pm
RTH 211
FREE Dinner @ Parkside Dining Hall
6 pmLocation: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Undergraduate International Students
Contact: Jenny Vazquez-Akim
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A Night with Professor Spedding
Wed, Oct 24, 2012 @ 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Geoffrey Spedding, professor and chair of the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department, will be talking about his varied academic interests and adventures, which range from zoology to aerospace engineering, and how they may fit together. Come enjoy some free food and get to know Professor Spedding and how he came to be at USC. This is an event you won't want to miss! All interested are welcome :) the more the merrier!
Location: Robert Glen Rapp Engineering Research Building (RRB) - 208 (Laufer Library)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: SGT Sigma Gamma Tau
