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Events for November 05, 2014
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Nov 05, 2014
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 http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/firstyear/prospective/meetusc_sw.html 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) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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SWE Starts With Me!Wed, Nov 05, 2014
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
SWE would like to cordially invite you to participate in our first annual SWE Starts With Me this November!
THE CONTEST
1. Bring a friend to a SWE event!
2. Invite your friend to be a SWE member!
3. Once they become a member, complete this form.
4. Both you and your friend are entered into our Grand SWE Raffle!
5. The more friends you convert, the more times your name is entered into the Grand SWE Raffle!
THE RAFFLE
The Grand Prize of the Growing the Community Contest will be a FREE trip to SWE's Regional Conference next Spring - including access to an exclusive Career Fair and career development workshops. Other raffle prizes include: Gift Cards, SWE swag and Company Swag!
Any member that successfully grows the Community by 10 members will AUTOMATICALLY receive a FREE trip to the Regional Conference
Become a member of SWE!
Want to become a National member of SWE? If you are a member, you will be able to attend all of our chapter's huge networking events (Professional Development Night, Fall Evening with Industry), our Membership Appreciation Days and Members Retreat in addition to getting the National benefits (applying for scholarships, and attending Regional and National Conference.) If you are interested, please sign up for the SWE National Membership (USC Chapter) online at http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/index.php/membership and then send a copy of your membership receipt to Maisie Gwynne at mgwynne@usc.edu.Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers Society of Women Engineers
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USC Engineering in Guangzhou, China - Information Session
Wed, Nov 05, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
You are cordially invited to join us for an upcoming graduate engineering information session in Guangzhou, China. This event will be hosted by Viterbi School representatives Ray Xu, Director of the USC China office for the Viterbi School of Engineering.
Students who have earned or are in the progress of earning a Bachelor's degree in engineering, math, or a hard science (such as physics, biology, or chemistry) are welcome to attend to learn more about applying to our graduate programs.
Attendees will also have the chance to ask questions and receive official brochures and handout information from USC.
Location:
The Westin Guangzhou
6 Lin He Zhong Road,
Tian He District, Guangzhou
REGISTER NOWAudiences: Students with an undergraduate background in engineering, math or science
Contact: William Schwerin
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CS Colloquium: Steve Chien (JPL) - Using Constraint-based Search to Schedule Science Campaigns for the Rosetta Orbiter
Wed, Nov 05, 2014 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Steve Chien, JPL
Talk Title: Using Constraint-based Search to Schedule Science Campaigns for the Rosetta Orbiter
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: In August 2014, Rosetta (http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/) entered orbit around the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta, a European Space Agency led mission to explore the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, will be the first mission to deploy a soft lander to a comet, and to escort a comet for an extended period (over one year).
But Rosetta is also a pathfinding space mission from the perspective of Operations, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence in itâs usage of the ASPEN Artificial Intelligence planning and scheduling software for early to mid-range science activity scheduling. In my talk I first briefly discuss comets and their importance understanding the evolution of our solar system and life on Earth. Second, I describe elements of the multi- disciplinary Roseta science planning process which incorporates diverse science, geometric, engineering, and resource constraints. Finally, I describe the constraint-driven scheduling automation and how AI has much to offer not only in schedule generation, but in constraint enforcement, problem and constraint analysis, and in iterative schedule refinement.
Biography: Dr. Steve Chien is Head of the Artificial Intelligence Group and Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology where he leads efforts in autonomous systems for space exploration.
Dr. Chien was a recipient of the 1995 Lew Allen Award for Excellence, JPLs highest award recognizing outstanding technical achievements by JPL personnel in the early years of their careers. In 1997, he received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for his work in research and development of planning and scheduling systems for NASA. He is the Team Lead for the ASPEN Planning System , which received Honorable Mention in the 1999 Software of the Year Competition and was a contributor to the Remote Agent System which was a co-winner in the same 1999 competition. In 2000, he received the NASA Exceptional Service Medal for service and leadership in research and deployment of planning and scheduling systems for NASA. He is the Principal Investigator for the Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment which is a co-winner of the 2005 NASA Software of the Year Award. In 2007, he received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for outstanding technical accomplishments in the development of the Autonomous Sciencecraft deployed on the Earth Observing One Mission and the development of the Earth Observing Sensorweb. He also led the deployment of the WATCH software to operational use onboard the Mars rover Opportunity to autonomously detect dust devils and cloud formations. In 2011 He was awarded the innaugural AIAA Intelligent Systems Award, for his contributions to Spacecraft Autonomy. In 2011, he was the team co-lead for the Sensorweb Toolbox team, which was awarded Honorable mention in the 2011 NASA Software of the Year Competition. He is the principal investigator of the IPEX cubesat, which launched in December 2013, which uses onboard image processing and automated planning software. He is currently leading the deployment of ASPEN for scheduling science observations for the Rosetta mission, an ESA-led mission to explore the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
For additional information please visit: http://ai.jpl.nasa.gov/public/home/chien/
Host: Sven Koenig
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 352
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series
Wed, Nov 05, 2014 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Addis Kidane, Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Talk Title: Mechanics of Materials at Extreme Environment, at Different Time and Length Scale: A Digital Image Based Approach
Series: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series
Abstract: Understanding the failure mechanism of materials at extreme condition is essential and at the same time challenging. There have been different approaches proposed over the years to studying materials response at extremely aggressive environment, for example high pressure, ultrahigh temperature. With the advent of high speed imaging systems and computer processing power, these days, high quality images can be taken as fast as 200 million frames / sec and one can study the failure mechanisms at such a high events by carefully analyzing the digital images taken during testing. We used a digital image based approach and characterize the deformation mechanism of materials at different loading conditions, at different time and length scale and temperature. In this talk, different examples such as, shock loading of rigid foams and pre-stressed composite, local heterogeneity in polycrystalline materials and deformation of materials at temperature above 1000°C will be presented.
Biography: Addis Kidane is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina. He got his Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island in 2009 and spent 2 years at California Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral scholar before he moved to Columbia. His research interests are in the areas of failure and fracture of materials at extreme conditions, functionally graded materials, digital image based experimental analysis. He is a recipient of the 2013 Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grants, from the ASME Applied Mechanics Division and the 2014 AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award.
Host: Professor Paul Ronney
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Valerie Childress
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Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering along with UCLA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Wed, Nov 05, 2014 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Bruce Logan, Pennsylvania State University, AEESP Distinguished Lecturer
Talk Title: Microbial Fuel Technologies for Renewable Power and Biofuels Production from Waste Biomass
Abstract:
The ability of certain microorganisms to transfer electrons outside the cell has created opportunities for new methods of renewable energy generation based on microbial fuel cells (MFCs) that can be used to produce electrical power, microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) for transforming biologically generated electrical current into transportable fuels such as hydrogen and methane gases, as well as other devices to desalinate water or capture phosphorus. In this presentation, Dr. Logan will summarize key findings in the electromicrobiological studies of the exoelectrogenic microorganisms and communities that produce electrical current, and the electrotrophic and methanogenic communities that are used to produce hydrogen and methane gases. Recent advances will be highlighted on materials and architectures that are being developed to make these different types of METs more cost efficient, which are leading to them becoming commercially viable technologies.
Biography:
Professor Bruce E Logan is an Evan Pugh Professor, the Stan & Flora Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering, and Director of the Engineering Energy & Environmental Institute at Penn State University. He is the founding Deputy Editor of the new ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters, and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and a fellow of AAAS, the International Water Association (IWA), the Water Environment Federation (WEF), and the Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors (AEESP). Dr. Logan is a visiting professor at several universities including Newcastle University (England) and Tsinghua University (China), with ties to several other universities in Saudi Arabia, Belgium and China. He received his Ph.D. in 1986 from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining the faculty at Penn State in 1997, he was on the faculty at the University of Arizona
Host: Dr. Amy Childress
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
