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Events for February 25, 2005
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E-Week: Banner Competition
Fri, Feb 25, 2005
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations are competing in the E-Week Banner Competition. The winning categories include the Most Creative, Most Engineering-Spirited, and Most Eye-Catching! Our panel of judges consists of representatives from VSoE Student Affairs. If you would like to participate, please email Sophia, President of the Viterbi Student Council (sophiafa@usc.edu) by Friday, February 18th!
Location: E-Quad
Audiences: All USC Undergraduates, Faculty, and Staff
Contact: Viterbi Student Organizations
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E-Week: 9th Annual Corporate Luncheon
Fri, Feb 25, 2005 @ 11:30 AM - 02:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Corporate representatives from companies such as Honeywell, Stuart Karten Design, Amgen, Terumo Medical, and many more are coming to meet with all of you and answer any questions you may have about their company while dining over lunch at the Radisson Hotel. If you would like to attend, please go to RTH 110 to sign up at the front desk with a $20 fully-refundable deposit (cash or check) ready.For more information, check out
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~asbme/corpl05/corpl05.htmlLocation: Radisson Hotel (next to USC)
Audiences: All USC Undergraduates, Faculty, and Staff
Contact: Viterbi Student Organizations
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The Future of Watershed Planning
Fri, Feb 25, 2005 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SEMINARThe Future of Watershed PlanningPresented by:Mark Horne
Technical Director
EIP Associates
Los Angeles, CAAbstractTraditionally focused on water quality, watershed plans are evolving. In a land with limited water supplies, increasing urban growth pressures, and high public expectations for natural resource preservation—watershed plans will increasingly become the vehicle to address these issues. Water quality concerns, expressed as Total Maximum Daily Loads may result in compulsory implementation plans at the watershed scale. City and county planning departments are being encouraged to treat water in a comprehensive fashion in their General Plans. Regional management of water supplies appears to be the focus of interest at the state level. If these trends intersect, what will be the shape of future watershed plans, and can engineers, planners and regulators learn to work together?Friday, February 25, 2005
1:00 – 2:00 PM
Kaprielian Hall, 156Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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E-Week: Future Technologies Speaker
Fri, Feb 25, 2005 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: All USC Undergraduates, Faculty, and Staff
Contact: Viterbi Student Organizations
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Parylene as a New MEMS Material and its Applications
Fri, Feb 25, 2005 @ 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Presented by:Prof. Yu-Chong TaiProfessor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering,CaltechAbstract:This seminar will review the research on parylene MEMS material, technology and applications that is performed at the Caltech MEMS Lab. Parylene is widely available through a unique room-temperature, pinhole-free and conformal CVD deposition method. This benign parylene preparation process makes it a suitable technology for post-CMOS integration. Material wise, parylene has a low melting temperature around 300oC, but it is rather inert and biocompatible. We have shown that it is straightforward to make parylene thin films with a tensile intrinsic stress by controlling the last thermal steps. This feature allows free-standing parylene MEMS structures in many designs. As a result, we have successfully developed a multi-layer parylene MEMS technology including buried metal layers and have demonstrated various parylene MEMS applications including microstructures, microsensors and actuators. I will cover many parylene applications such as parylene-based filters, neurocages, flow sensors, pressure sensors, accelerometers, bolometers, valves, pumps, etc. It is my belief that the brightest future of parylene MEMS is for fully integrated functional systems. To this point, I will discuss two examples of retinal implants and HPLC-based labs on-a-chip.Refreshments will be served at 2:30pmAll first-year MASC students are required to attend
Location: Vivian Hall of Engineering (VHE) - 217
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: YUN TAO
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Convincing Touching of Rigid Virtual Environments
Fri, Feb 25, 2005 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Convincing Touching of Rigid Virtual EnvironmentsDaniela ConstantinescuPh.D. Candidate
Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of British Columbia, VancouverABSTRACTTouching of virtual objects entails exchange of energy with a virtual environment via force interactions. Convincing touching of computer models is potentially useful in a large number of applications. For example, engineers could discover design flaws sooner by operating virtual prototypes; doctors could practice surgery on virtual brains; and the popularity of computer games would increase even further if users could touch the virtual characters and objects. However, few examples of force interaction with virtual environments have been demonstrated to date. This is because physically realistic exchange of energy is challenging to guarantee at the high frequencies required by our sense of touch. This talk presents an approach for physically-motivated energy transfer between users and virtual environments comprising rigid objects. Three features distinguish the proposed approach from prior work. First, the approach allows users to feel collisions. Collisions enhance the perceived rigidity of virtual objects and the stability of the interaction. Second, the approach permits unrestricted operation of virtual linkages. Users can hold linkages from any link and can move then through singularities. Third, the approach caches data provided by any commercial simulation engine on the force control microprocessor. It then uses the cached data to transfer energy via interaction torques in addition to interaction forces. Hence, the approach provides a general-purpose force interface to interactive virtual environments. Software developers may lack understanding of the energy transfer involved in touching computer models. Nonetheless, the interface enables them to add realistic forces to interactive virtual worlds. The talk discusses the methods developed in the proposed approach.Location: (GER) 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Shah Nirav
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E-Week: Viterbi Ball
Fri, Feb 25, 2005 @ 05:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
You are cordially invited to attend the First AnnualViterbi BallFriday, February 25th 20055:00 pm - 11:30 pmThe Proud Bird RestaurantTransportation ProvidedIn celebration of National Engineers Week, this event includes a
three-course dinner, student-choice recognition awards, musical
entertainment and dancing. Nominate your fellow engineering students,
faculty and staff for Viterbi Student Recognition Awards and sign up
to attend in RTH 110 by FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18th 2005 at 5:00 pm. A $10
(cash/check) payment is required upon sign-up.Location: The Proud Bird Restaurant (Meet in E-Quad)
Audiences: All USC Undergraduates, Faculty, and Staff
Contact: Viterbi Student Organizations
