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Events for January 23, 2008
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Meet USC
Wed, Jan 23, 2008
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. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/events/meet_usc/ to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Prospective Undergraduate Transfer Advisement
Wed, Jan 23, 2008
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
USC Viterbi Admission Counselors will be available for in-person or telephone advisement appointments for students interested in transferring into engineering at USC for Fall 2008. Counselors will be available to answer questions about the application and admission process, coursework selection, preparation for engineering, financial aid, and more! Please call (800) 526-3347 or email viterbi.admission@usc.edu to schedule an appointment.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall 110
Audiences: Prospective Undergraduate Transfer Students
Contact: Admission & Student Affairs Division
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Writing Effective Resumes
Wed, Jan 23, 2008 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Does your resume highlight the skills that will land an interview? Learn how to create a resume that will serve as the marketing tool that will get your foot inside industry's door!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 109
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Modeling Critical Infrastructures with Networked Agent-based Approaches
Wed, Jan 23, 2008 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker:
Dr. Robert J. Glass,
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Complex Adaptive Infrastructures and Behavioral Systems
National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center
Sandia National LaboratoryCritical Infrastructures are formed by large numbers of components that interact within complex networks. As a rule, infrastructures contain strong feedbacks either explicitly through the action of hardware/software control, or implicitly through the action/reaction of people. Individual infrastructures influence others and grow, adapt, and thus evolve in response to their multifaceted physical, economic, cultural, and political environments. Simply put, critical infrastructures are complex adaptive systems.Our general approach to modeling such systems distills the system of interest to a network (or multiple networks) of nodes and connections with a set of tailored interaction rules (static to adaptive) for each. Combined with drives and dissipations we can evaluate how general features, such as network connectivity and interaction rules, or specific perturbations such as a hurricane, can influence system failure (often cascading failure) and the choice of mitigation strategy once a cascade begins. Examples will be drawn from recent work that applies our general approach to areas as diverse as community mitigation for pandemic influenza (e.g., bird flu), congestion and cascades in coupled large value payment systems (e.g., foreign exchange coupled US and Euro systems, trillions of $ per day), and hurricane induced perturbations to US petrochemical supply chains.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Active Control of Separated Flow
Wed, Jan 23, 2008 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
AEROSPACE & MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT"Active Control of Separated Flow"Lou CattafestaAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringUniversity of FloridaAbstract:Flow separation incurs a large amount of energy loss and limits the performance of many flow-related devices (e.g., airfoils, diffusers, etc.). Researchers have been trying to mitigate or eliminate flow separation for over a century because of its large potential payoff in practical applications. Numerous active separation control strategies have been attempted on civil and military aircraft and underwater vehicles with varying degrees of success. However, most of the active control approaches are open-loop in nature because of their simplicity but are often time-consuming and expensive. This talk discusses two novel adaptive feedback control approaches designed to reattach a massively separated flow over a NACA airfoil with minimal control effort using piezoelectric synthetic jet actuators and various sensors for feedback. One approach uses an adaptive feedback disturbance rejection algorithm in conjunction with a system identification algorithm to develop a reduced-order dynamical systems model between the actuator voltage and unsteady surface pressure signals. The objective of this feedback control scheme is to suppress the pressure fluctuations on the upper surface of the airfoil model, which results in reduced flow separation, increased lift, and reduced drag. A second approach leverages various flow instabilities in a nonlinear fashion to maximize the lift-to-drag ratio using a constrained optimization scheme – in this case using a static lift/drag balance for feedback. Detailed experiments are described to elucidate the baseline uncontrolled and controlled flow physics, and various technical challenges are addressed and discussed in detail.Biographical Information:Lou Cattafesta is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. His primary research interests are active flow control and aeroacoustics. Prior to joining UF in 1999, he was a Senior Research Scientist at High Technology Corporation in Hampton, VA, where he was the group leader of the Experimental and Instrumentation Group. His research at NASA Langley focused on supersonic laminar flow control and pressure- and temperature-sensitive paint measurement techniques. At that time, he became involved in active control of flow-induced cavity oscillations, which provoked his current research interests in active flow control and aeroacoustics. More information regarding his research can be found at http://www.img.ufl.edu. Dr. Cattafesta has co-authored 4 papers that have received AIAA best conference paper awards and 6 US Patents and more than 100 journal and conferences papers. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA and long-time member of the AIAA Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee.
Location: Seaver Science LIbrary Room 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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Viterbi Summer Oversease Info Session
Wed, Jan 23, 2008 @ 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
An information session for students interested in learning more about this program as well as the requirements for admission will be held on Wednesday, January 23rd at 5 p.m. in RTH 211. You do not need to RSVP for this information session. Details about the program are now also available online at http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/overseas/. Please contact Viterbi Admission and Student Affairs at 213-740-4530 with any questions.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs
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SWE General Meeting: Games Night
Wed, Jan 23, 2008 @ 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join SWE as we kick off the Spring semester with games and food! Come find out what we have in store, relax, and catch up with female engineers while playing Apples to Apples, Taboo, and other awesome games. Free Bistango's will be provided!
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: SWE
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Recruitment - Spring 08
Wed, Jan 23, 2008 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
CALLING ALL WOMEN ENGINEERS!!!
-Need help with that killer homework?
-Want to make friendships and memories to last a lifetime? Join AOE! USC's only professional and social ENGINEERING SORORITY! To find out more come to our events: 1/23: Info Night
1/24: Games and Pinkberry!
1/25: Bowling!
1/28: Professional Night Dinner
1/29: Frame Painting & Ice Cream ***All events FREE! meet @ 7pm in front of Tommy Trojan. Visit our website:www-scf.usc.edu/~aoeLocation: Meet In Front of Tommy Trojan
Audiences: All Women in Engineering (undergrad and graduate)
Contact: Alpha Omega Epsilon
