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Events for November 21, 2014
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SWE Starts With Me!Fri, Nov 21, 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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Transfer Day
Fri, Nov 21, 2014 @ 09:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Transfer Day is a half-day comprehensive program designed to give prospective transfer students the answers to questions about the transfer process. Transfer Day includes an hour-long Engineering Admission presentation, led by Viterbi's Transfer Admission Advisors, that will go over the admission process,recommended courses for engineers, transfer credit policy, etc.
To RSVP for transfer day visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/transfer/prospective/transferdays.htmlLocation: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) -
Audiences: Undergraduate Transfer Applicants
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Admission
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Energy Informatics Distinguished Seminar Series
Fri, Nov 21, 2014 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Marija Ilic, Carnegie Mellon University
Talk Title: Physics-Based Modeling and Control for Plug-and-Play Electric Energy Systems
Series: Energy Informatics Distinguished Seminar Series
Abstract: In this talk we consider future electric energy grids as interconnections of coupled modules, often hierarchically arranged. We first review current operating practices, and then describe how one could think of cyber design for the changing grids using simpler-to-understand mechanical representations of these systems. We discuss most of the ideas using these coupled mechanical system analogies and propose a new, physically intuitive state space model which lends itself to modular modeling and cyber design for provable performance. Once the model is established, it becomes possible to identify open control and communication problems necessary to define the information exchange among the modules (type, rate of exchange and entities exchanging this information). This modeling paradigm is illustrated for both bulk power grids and for the emerging micro-grids. Fundamentally, the problem of using coupling (interactions) between modules to support cooperative control and communications within either weakly or strongly coupled nonlinear grids is suggested as the problem presenting theoretical challenge to both control and communications design. This very difficult problem is made manageable by combining physics-based models with the cyber design objectives. It is shown how such an approach could be used to integrate fast power electronically-switched control in micro-grids to stabilize the unconventional dynamics resulting from the presence of distributed energy resources (DERs) and the variable speed drives embedded into responsive demand. The same concept can be used to control flow in delivery systems. A very tangible problem of suppressing subsynchronous control instabilities created by the interactions of power electronics controllers is illustrated using this approach.
Biography: Marija D. Ilic received her Doctor of Science Degree in Systems Science at Washington University in St. Louis, MO in 1980. She is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, with a courtesy appointment in the Public Policy Department. She is the Director of the Electric Energy Systems Group (EESG) at Carnegie Mellon. She was an Assistant Professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and tenured Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was then a Senior Research Scientist in Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, from 1987 to 2002. She has over 30 years of experience in teaching and research in the area of electrical power system modeling and control. Her main interest is in the systems aspects of operations, planning, and economics of the electric power industry. She has co-authored and co-edited a number of books in her field of interest. Her most recent book is Engineering IT-Enabled Sustainable Electricity Services: The Tale of Two Low-Cost Green Azores Islands. Prof. Ilic is an IEEE Fellow.
Host: Viktor Prasanna and the Ming Hsieh Institute
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - EEB 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
Fri, Nov 21, 2014 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Donald Paul, Executive Director of the USC Energy Institute
Talk Title: The American Energy Renaissance
Host: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jeffrey Teng
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Integrated Seminar Series
Fri, Nov 21, 2014 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Pedram Mohseni, Case Western University
Talk Title: Integrated Systems for High-Fidelit Sensing and Manipulation of Brain Neurochemistry
Biography: Hosted by Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mike Chen and Prof. Mahta Moghaddam
Organized and hosted by Masashi Yamagata
For questions or additional details, please email myamagat@usc.edu
Host: Hosted by Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mike Chen, Prof. Mahta Moghaddam, and Masashi Yamagata
More Info: http://mhi.usc.edu/events/event-details/?event_id=910785
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Elise Herrera-Green
Event Link: http://mhi.usc.edu/events/event-details/?event_id=910785
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CEE Ph. D. Seminar
Fri, Nov 21, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Farrokh Jazizadeh, CE Ph.D. Candidate
Talk Title: User-Centric Smart Sensing For Non-Intrusive Electricity Consumption Disaggregation in Buildings
Abstract: Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is a low-cost alternative to appliance level sub-metering, that leverages signal processing and machine learning techniques to estimate the power consumption of individual appliances from whole-home measurements. However, the difficulty associated with obtaining training data sets for the commonly used supervised NILM classification algorithms is a major obstacle in wide commercial adoption of the technology. The diversity of electrical load signatures (patterns of appliancesâ power draw) demands in-situ training (labeling of the signatures), which often needs to be performed by users through user-system interaction. To produce the example signatures required for training, continuous interaction with users might be required, which could reduce the success of the training process due to user fatigue. Pre-populating a training data set could potentially reduce the need for user-system interaction. A heuristic unsupervised clustering algorithm has been presented and evaluated to enable autonomous partitioning of appliances signature space (i.e. feature space) for applications in electricity consumption disaggregation without a priori information. The algorithm determines the partition of a feature space recursively to account for multi-scale nature of the binary cluster tree.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Celebration of Life - John Choma
Fri, Nov 21, 2014 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
USC VITERBI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND
USC MING HSIEH DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
INVITE YOU TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF JOHN CHOMA
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2014
CELEBRATION OF LIFE SERVICE AND RECEPTION
4:00 - 6:00 PM (Arrive between 3:30 - 3:50pm)
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
DAVIS AUDITORIUM - ANDRUS GERONTOLOGY CENTER
3715 MCCLINTOCK AVENUE
ROOM 124
LOS ANGELES, CA 90089Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 124
WebCast Link: http://geromedia.usc.edu/Gerontology/Play/a65aa35b07774498bdd20f48078809aa1d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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SWE Mentorship Outing
Fri, Nov 21, 2014 @ 04:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Come join your favorite SWEsters and get to know each other better at the first mentorship outing of the year! We will be leaving from USC around 4 pm to go the Santa Monica Pier where we will take a group picture first, and then disperse with our respective mentors/mentees. You can spend your time at the pier, grab dinner, go to the beach or go shopping at the Third Street Promenade!! We plan to leave from Santa Monica around 7:30 pm to come back to campus but you are welcome to stay as long as you would like!
Don’t forget to RSVP using the following link by Wednesday, November 19:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ot0NddoYOL8Ktt6fEM915qPIN0MMEC1HLf9lMxWAwBA/viewform?usp=send_form
Check out the Facebook page for updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/1484174235182929/?sid_reminder=1349608436710506496Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers Society of Women Engineers
