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Events for November 28, 2005

  • Meet USC (AM session)

    Mon, Nov 28, 2005 @ 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 Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

    Contact: Viterbi Admission

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  • Polycrystalline modeling of fcc materials under changes in strain path

    Mon, Nov 28, 2005 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars



    Speaker:Irene Beyerlein
    Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Los Alamos, NM 87545, USAAbstractStudies show that when the load path is changed, the stress-strain behavior of a polycrystalline metal highly depends on the texture (the distribution of crystallographic orientations of the crystals) and microstructures that developed during the pre-straining. Particularly when the pre-strains are large, texture and microstructural evolution within individual crystals become heterogeneous, potentially inducing noticeable changes in the macroscopic flow response when the direction of loading is changed. At Los Alamos, we are developing a constitutive model for fcc materials under strain path changes, including reversals of the applied load (leading to a drop in yield stress, the so-called Bauschinger effect) and straining in directions normal to the pre-strain (leading to an increase in yield stress, a cross-effect). The model accounts for both texture evolution and several microscale mechanisms responsible for the possible directional anisotropy in the single crystals. These mechanisms include the formation of dislocation microstructures preferentially on slip planes, localized destruction of such microstructures generated by channeling dislocations activated in subsequent strain paths, and the release of polar dislocations when slip is locally reversed. We apply this model to predict the response under Bauschinger tests, in which the direction of axial loading is reversed. As a more complex example, we also apply our model to predict the subsequent flow stress in pure copper processed by equal channel angular extrusion (ECAE), a process which imposes severe plastic shear strains.

    Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 203

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Evangeline Reyes

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  • Sight restoration: technology, biology and behavior - Seminar Series

    Mon, Nov 28, 2005 @ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

    Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Ione Fine, PhD
    Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine, USC"Sight restoration: technology, biology and behavior "

    Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132

    Audiences: Graduate

    Contact: Darryl Hwang

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  • Meet USC (PM session)

    Mon, Nov 28, 2005 @ 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 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 Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

    Contact: Viterbi Admission

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  • Measuring knowledge work and knowledge worker productivity

    Mon, Nov 28, 2005 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

    Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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    SPEAKERYuri W. Ramirez
    M.B.A, PhD candidate
    Department of Industrial Engineering
    University of Wisconsin-Madison ABSTRACT This research uses industrial engineering techniques to create applications
    for the measurement of knowledge work and knowledge worker
    productivity. This particular project identifies different groups of knowledge
    workers by using a framework that assigns knowledge worker scores
    (KWS). Using industrial engineering tools to create a dependent variable
    that describes the knowledge worker and that allows us to differentiate
    between them is the key to enable scientific research in the field, creating
    endless opportunities to explore how the type of knowledge worker
    correlates different independent variables. Scientific knowledge on
    knowledge worker could save companies millions of dollars in terms of
    training, increased productivity, and effective recruitment and retaining for
    example.

    Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Ronak Shah

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  • Cypress Semiconductor Information Session

    Mon, Nov 28, 2005 @ 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections

    Workshops & Infosessions


    Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.

    Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101

    Audiences: Graduate/Undergraduate Engineering Students

    Contact: Viterbi Career Services RTH 218

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