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Short Course: Six Sigma Green Belt for Process ImprovementThu, Dec 11, 2014
DEN@Viterbi, Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk Title: TBA
Abstract: This program, an introductory course in Six Sigma, will give you a thorough understanding of Six Sigma and its focus on eliminating defects through fundamental process knowledge. Topics covered in addition to DMAIIC and Six Sigma philosophy include basic statistics, statistical process control, process capability, financial implications and root cause analysis.This program is offered both in the classroom and online.
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Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Eberhardt Rechtin Keynote Lecture
Thu, Dec 11, 2014 @ 02:00 AM - 04:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Neil Siegel, Sector Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Northrop Grumman
Talk Title: âApplying Systems Engineering to Improve Healthcareâ
Abstract: Systems engineering has proven effective at creating solutions to important societal problems that include a complicated mixture of technical, cost, legal, and social constraints. The healthcare system would seem to be a candidate for benefiting from the application of systems engineering; Dr. Siegel discusses avenues for approaching this problem.
USC Davidson Conference Center (DCC)
2:00-3:30 PM Seminar, DCC Board Room
3:00-4:30 PM Reception, 2nd Floor Lobby
Biography: Neil Siegel, Ph.D., is sector vice-president & chief technology officer at Northrop Grumman. He has been responsible for the creation of many first-of-their-kind, large-scale, high-reliability systems for Government and civilian uses. A USC alumni, he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the IEEE, an INCOSE-certified expert systems engineering practitioner, and the recipient of the Simon Ramo Medal for systems engineering, among many other awards and honors.
Host: Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
More Information: 2014 Rechtin Announcement-Siegel.pptx
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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DEN@Viterbi Online Information Session
Thu, Dec 11, 2014 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
DEN@Viterbi, Executive Education
Workshops & Infosessions
USC Viterbi School of Engineering DEN@Viterbi (Distance Education Network) strives to meet the needs of engineering professionals, providing the opportunity to advance your education while maintaining your career and other commitments. By breaking down geographical and scheduling barriers, DEN allows you to take your classes anytime and anywhere.
Join this information session to learn more about the 40+ graduate level programs and continuing education offerings available completely online.
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Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Zhisheng Niu Seminar
Thu, Dec 11, 2014 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Zhisheng Niu, Tsinghua University
Talk Title: How Densely should the Traffic Base Stations be Deployed in Hyper-Cellular Networks?
Abstract: One of the key approaches to make the mobile communication networks more GREEN (Globally Resource-optimized and Energy-Efficient Networks) is to have the cellular architecture and radio resource allocation more adaptive to the environment and traffic variations, including making some lightly-loaded base stations (BSs) go to sleep. This is the concept of so-called TANGO (Traffic-Aware Network planning and Green Operation) and CHORUS (Collaborative and Harmonized Open Radio Ubiquitous Systems) published by the author earlier. To realize this, a new cellular framework, named hyper-cellular networks (HCN), has been proposed, in which the coverage of control signals is decoupled from the coverage of data signals so that the data coverage can be more elastic in accordance with the dynamics of traffic characteristics and QoS requirements. Specifically, the traffic base stations (TBSs) in HCN can be densely deployed during peak traffic time in order to satisfy the capacity requirement, while a portion of TBSs can be switched off or go to sleep mode if the traffic load is lower than a threshold in order to save energy. A fundamental question then arises: how densely should the TBSs be deployed in order to balance the QoS requirements and the energy consumption in hyper cellular networks?
In this talk, we characterize the optimal TBS density for both homogeneous and heterogeneous hyper cellular networks to minimize network cost with stochastic geometry theory. For homogeneous cases, both upper and lower bounds of the optimal TBS density are derived. For heterogeneous cases, our analysis reveals the best type of TBSs to be deployed for capacity extension or to be switched off for energy saving. Specifically, if the ratio between the micro TBS cost and the macro TBS cost is lower than a threshold, which is a function of path loss and their transmit power, then the optimal strategy is to deploy micro TBSs for capacity extension or to switch off macro TBSs (if possible) for energy saving with higher priority. Otherwise, the optimal strategy is the opposite. Based on the parameters from EARTH, numerical results show that in the dense urban scenario, compared to the traditional macro-only homogeneous cellular network with no TBS sleeping, deploying micro TBSs can reduce about 40% of the total energy cost, and further reduce about 20% with TBS sleeping capability.
Biography: Zhisheng Niu graduated from Northern Jiaotong University (currently Beijing Jiaotong University), Beijing, China, in 1985, and got his M.E. and D.E. degrees from Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan, in 1989 and 1992, respectively. After spending two years at Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, he joined with Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1994, where he is now a professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering, deputy dean of the School of Information Science and Technology, and director of Tsinghua-Hitachi Joint Lab on Environmental Harmonious ICT. He is also a guest chair professor of Shandong University. His major research interests include queueing theory, traffic engineering, mobile Internet, radio resource management of wireless networks, and green communication and networks.
Dr. Niu has been an active volunteer for various academic societies, including Director for Conference Publications (2010-11) and Director for Asia-Pacific Board (2008-09) of IEEE Communication Society, Membership Development Coordinator (2009-10) of IEEE Region 10, Councilor of IEICE-Japan (2009-11), and council member of Chinese Institute of Electronics (2006-11). He is now a distinguished lecturer (2012-13) of IEEE Communication Society, editor of IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, associate editor-in-chief of IEEE/CIC joint publication âChina Communicationsâ, standing committee member of both Communication Science and Technology Committee under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China and Chinese Institute of Communications (CIC), and vice chair of the Information and Communication Network Committee of CIC.
Dr. Niu received the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from Natural Science Foundation of China in 2009 and the Best Paper Awards (with his students) from the 13th, 15th and 19th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communication (APCC) in 2007, 2009, and 2013, respectively. He is now the Chief Scientist of the National Basic Research Program (so called â973 Projectâ) of China on "Fundamental Research on the Energy and Resource Optimized Hyper-Cellular Mobile Communication System" (2012-2016), which is the first national project on green communications in China. He is now a fellow of both IEEE and IEICE.
Host: Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Andreas Molisch
More Info: http://mhi.usc.edu/about/news/2014/12/01/distinguished-visiting-fellow-zhisheng-niu/
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Elise Herrera-Green
Event Link: http://mhi.usc.edu/about/news/2014/12/01/distinguished-visiting-fellow-zhisheng-niu/
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MFD - Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Graduate Semina
Thu, Dec 11, 2014 @ 11:15 AM - 01:50 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ruijie Liu, PhD, Enhanced Oil Recovery Flagship; Upstream Technology, BP America Inc.
Talk Title: On Development of Geomechanics Cap Model and Its Application to Modeling Reservoir Compaction and Sand Production
Abstract: Oil and gas operators make huge investment in onshore and deepwater facilities that require efficient removal of
hydrocarbons. Significant cost overruns due to non-productive time resulting from wellbore damage and massive
sand production problems. Geomechanics modeling has been providing a powerful analytical tool to petroleum
engineers for better reservoir management. The Drucker-Prager plasticity model is the most popular geomaterial
constitutive law employed in many commercial geomechanics simulators. It is mainly used to model shear-dominated
problems but unable to predict reservoir compaction behaviors. For many reservoirs with soft rocks, the compaction
effect is the leading cause for formation failure and massive sand production during depleting operations.
Geomechanics cap plasticity theories have been proposed for describing both shear and compaction behaviors of
geomaterials. This talk focuses on finite element development on the Pelessone geomechanics cap plasticity model.
The work targets to achieve quadratic convergent rates for solving nonlinear geomechanics problems. This has been
done through deriving and implementing a consistent cap material integrator. The performance of the developed cap
model is demonstrated through solving a near oil well problem. The prediction on sand production curves following
reservoir compaction is also presented.
Biography: Dr. Ruijie Liu is the senior reservoir simulation specialist at Enhanced Oil Recovery Flagship, Upstream Technology,
BP America Inc. His responsibility is developing BP in-house massive parallel computer code for solving multiphase
flow problems with billion cells at pore-scale using rock micro-CT image data. Before joining BP in 2012, he had
worked in ANSYS as the distinguished R & D engineer for more than 7 years. In ANSYS, he developed numerous
nonlinear material models including geomechanics cap model. He is also a major developer for ANSYS coupled
elements and computational frameworks for fracture propagation. He received his PhD from The University of Texas
at Austin in 2004. His current research interests are coupled reservoir dynamics with geomechanics, hydraulic
fracturing, pore-scale modeling, parallel computing for extremely large scale petroleum systems.
In his spare time, he enjoys playing tennis and walking his chocolate lab.
Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 210
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ryan Choi
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Astronautical Engineering Seminar
Thu, Dec 11, 2014 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Astronautical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: David Reese, Aerospace Corporation
Talk Title: Future Developments in Solid Propellant Technology
Abstract: Solid rocket motors are a key enabling technology for military and space launch applications. Current
propellants are based primarily on ammonium perchlorate (AP), which is a favored oxidizer thanks to its
unique ability to control burning rate, safe processing characteristics, and high performance. However,
much remains to be understood about the combustion dynamics of AP-based propellants: due to the short
temporal and spatial scales, high temperatures, and extreme pressures present in a solid rocket motor
chamber, it has been all but impossible to employ traditional combustion diagnostics to characterize this
environment. This talk will begin with a discussion of recent advances in the understanding of the
fundamentals of AP propellant combustion in motor-like environments enabled by new high speed and
high power laser diagnostic techniques.
Despite its advantages, however, AP carries with it a chlorine atom, which causes the exhaust products to
form hydrochloric acid smoke, unfavorable from both tactical and environmental standpoints. Potential
replacements for AP have been rejected as unsuitable due to their low performance, unstable combustion,
or unsafe handling characteristics. However, recent advances in a few molecular families appear
promising, particularly the nitrate esters, in which the 2008 discovery of a new solid material called SMX
has led to exciting developments in chlorine-free propellant compositions. The second half of this talk
will discuss results of experiments with ammonium perchlorate replacements, with a focus on SMX.
By combining modern diagnostic technology with recent advances in synthesis, entire new capabilities for
solid rocket motors may soon be realized.
Biography: Dr. Reese was an undergraduate in the first four-year ASTE B.S. class at USC, where he was co-founder
of the Rocket Propulsion Laboratory. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. at Purdue. His dissertation was
Combustion of SMX and SMX Propellants. He joined the Aerospace Corporation after graduation in
2014.
Host: Dan Erwin
Location: Vivian Hall of Engineering (VHE) - 217
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Dan Erwin
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DEN@Viterbi Online Information Session
Thu, Dec 11, 2014 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
DEN@Viterbi, Executive Education
Workshops & Infosessions
USC Viterbi School of Engineering DEN@Viterbi (Distance Education Network) strives to meet the needs of engineering professionals, providing the opportunity to advance your education while maintaining your career and other commitments. By breaking down geographical and scheduling barriers, DEN allows you to take your classes anytime and anywhere.
Join this information session to learn more about the 40+ graduate level programs and continuing education offerings available completely online.
RSVP NOWAudiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
