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Events for March 14, 2008
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Meet USC
Fri, Mar 14, 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.This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 12:00 p.m. Reservations are required for Meet USC. 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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Micro and Miniature Technologies of Advanced Energy and Thermal Systems
Fri, Mar 14, 2008 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Amir FaghriUnited Technologies Endowed Chair Professor in
Thermal-Fluids EngineeringUniversity of ConnecticutAbstract:The 21st century will see the development of a wide range of active miniaturized energy devices with application in energy management and power sources, electronic cooling, energy storage and bioengineering. Although these active devices are effective, they are often cumbersome and inefficient considering the auxiliary supporting devices such as pumps, fans, and other moving parts they require for operation. A more efficient and novel approach involves use of passive small energy and thermal devices with no moving parts. Two research thrusts will be presented in this talk. We propose a new miniature passive direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) that includes a fuel cell stack and ancillary systems with no moving parts. This system uses passive approaches for fuel storage and delivery, air breathing, water management, CO2 release, and thermal management. The performance characteristics of the passive miniature DMFC system will be presented.Increasing component densities of the integrated circuit (IC) and packaging level have led to serious challenges in thermal management problems in electric cooling. Micro heat pipes are one of the promising cooling devices because of their high efficiency, reliability and cost effectiveness. Theoretical and experimental analysis performed on micro and miniature heat pipe arrays reveals a 300% improvement in effective thermal conductivity at high heat fluxes over conventional approaches.BiographyDr. Faghri is currently the United Technologies Endowed Chair Professor in Thermal-Fluids Engineering. He was the Dean of the School of Engineering from 1998-2006, and the Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department from 1994-1998 at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Faghri developed major initiatives and incentives to promote quality research and graduate education, including establishing the Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center with significant support from the federal and state governments, as well as the private sector. Dr. Faghri has authored seven books and edited volumes, more than 260 archival technical publications (including 160 journal papers), and 11 U.S. patents. His latest textbook, Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems, was published by Elsevier in 2006. He has served as a consultant to several major research centers and corporations, including Los Alamos and Oak Ridge national laboratories, ExxonMobil, and Intel Corporation as well as serving on the boards of directors of both publicly-traded and private companies. Dr. Faghri has served as a principal investigator conducting research in the area of thermal management and multiphase transport phenomena for applications ranging from advanced cooling systems to alternative energy systems including fuel cells, solar energy systems and thermal energy storage devices. Dr. Faghri has received numerous external research contracts and grants from the National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and various industries. Dr. Faghri has received many honors and awards, including the 1998 American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA) Thermophysics Award, the 1998 American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) Heat Transfer Memorial Award and the 2005 ASME James Harry Potter Gold Medal.Dr. Faghri received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, and a B.S. with highest honors from Oregon State University.Friday, Mar. 14, 2008KAP14412:00 pm
Lunch will be servedPlease RSVP to: amundy@usc.eduLocation: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 144
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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Honors Colloquium: Revolutionizing Access to Space
Fri, Mar 14, 2008 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Lecture offered by Mr. Jeff Ward, Vice President of Avionics for Space Exploration Technologies
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Honors Program Students and all Faculty and Staff are invited to attend
Contact: Erika Chua
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An International News Monitoring Solution by Salim Roukos
Fri, Mar 14, 2008 @ 02:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Designed to address the exponential growth of broadcast information, the IBM Translingual Automatic Language Exploitation System (TALES) allows users (say an English speaker) to monitor in near real-time, foreign language news broadcasts and news websites, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. TALES currently supports Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, and English web and broadcast news monitoring. In this talk, I will describe the component technologies of speech recognition, statistical machine translation, and information extraction that are used to build the TALES speech translation application.Bio:
Salim Roukos is Senior Manager and CTO for Translation Technologies at IBM. His research areas at IBM have been in statistical machine translation, information extraction, statistical parsing, and statistical language understanding for conversational systems. Roukos received his B.E. from the American University of Beirut, in 1976, his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Florida, in 1978 and 1980, respectively. Roukos has served as Chair of the IEEE Digital Signal Processing Committee in 1988. Roukos lead the group that created IBM's ViaVoice Telephony product, the first commercial software to support full natural language understanding for dialog systems in 2000, and more recently the first statistical machine translation product for Arabic-English translation in 2003. More recently, Roukos leads the Rosetta Consortium (IBM with six leading US universities) for the DARPA GALE project for developing machine translation technology for both text and speech inputs and for developing distillation systems to answer user's requests for information.Host: Dr. Shrikanth NarayananLocation: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gloria Halfacre
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Visions and Voices
Fri, Mar 14, 2008 @ 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
University Calendar
Touching Where It Hurts: Bedside Medicine in a Technological AgeAbraham Verghese, MD, Professor and Senior Associate Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University, is a humanist and a masterful storyteller. He will review the recent history of methods of examining the body.Please visit http://web-app.usc.edu/ecal/custom/113/index.php?category=Item&item=0.863963 for additional information.
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs
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Urban Engineering and Sustainability for Infrastructure Design
Fri, Mar 14, 2008 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Heekyung PARK
Professor and Head
Department of Civil and Env. EngineeringKAISTAbstract
Generally speaking, sustainability emphasizes three principles; ‡@ recognition of limitation of
carrying capacity (environmental conservation), ‡A distributive justice (equity among inter- and
intra-generations, and inter-species), and ‡B growth, but of a different kind (allocative efficiency
from savings, technology development and re-use). Since a great deal of human activities occur
in urban areas, civil engineers have played a key role in achieving sustainability, especially, in
urban dimensions through infrastructures they plan, design, construct, operate and maintain.
Engineering is a purposeful activity. To satisfy the three principles, therefore, the objectives in
design should be set up and system boundaries should be expanded until they contain all the
objectives. Moreover, system being newly defined requires quite tough works; dealing with
complexity and uncertainty with scientific application. Although it is possible to tackle the above
requirements for urban infrastructure design from various standpoints, we will introduce our own
approach, calling it by the name of ÂgUrban Engineering and Sustainability (UES)Âh. In designing
urban infrastructures, this is to fully consider the three principles, and to effectively coordinate
various technologies. To do this, UES should be based on more integrated, organized, and
scientifically validated views. Also, its methodology is synthetic, quantitative, and flexible.
Just like other countries, Korea has been promoting sustainability, especially, in carrying out
large development projects. In spit of its efforts, it is not easy to say Âgquite successfulÂh largely
due to the unbalanced approach as shown in Fig.1. We need to change our pathway so that the
sustainable development can be achieved more smoothly and thus effectively. To do this at least
in the urban infrastructure domain, the Korea government and KAIST proclaimed new initiatives
and launched a number of R&D projects. KAIST President set a research plan recently (Suh,
2007). It focused on energy, environment, water and sustainability (EEWS) to solve global
problems in 21st Century, and then established seven KAIST Institutes (KIs). MOCT VC10 &
urban regeneration project (Fig.2): Since 2007, the urban regeneration research center headed by
the author has participated in the Urban Regeneration project supported by Korea Ministry of
Construction and Transportation. The center is in charge of developing urban infrastructure
regeneration technology for sustainable urban development with a budget of $ 44 million USD
for 7 years. In this project, we are now trying to develop technologies and systems, using the
concept of UES, to establish urban infrastructure systems just like an eco-system. For that, the
researches are driven by ten keywords; ‡@ technical innovation, ‡A high-efficiency, ‡B diversity,
‡C densification /compaction, ‡D convenience, ‡E stability, ‡F ecological conservation, ‡G
resource conservation, ‡H recycling, ‡I connectedness.
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Fig.1. Two types of pathways for sustainable development
Fig.2. Systems in the Urban Regeneration Project Unbalanced Sustainable
Nakdong River Contamination Crisis (1991)
Economy
Environment
Social
Equity
Range of
Sustainable
IMF & Green
Belt Dissolution
LeftistsÂf Fall
(2007~ ) - Uninformed & unbalanced
- Less adaptive & more rigid
- Frequent crises
- Vulnerability to uncertaintie
- Informed & balanced
- More adaptive & more flexible
- More effective
- Fit for engineering
Economy
Environment
Social
Equity
Balanced Sustainable Pathway
Regeneration of
Structural Capability
CUIRS P ackage
Urban Environmental
Regeneration
Urban Disaster Prevention
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
