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Events for November 07, 2006
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Long Beach City College Transfer Fair
Tue, Nov 07, 2006 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Julie Samere, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admission, will be attending the LBCC Transfer Fair. Please stop by to receive more information about the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and transfer admission details.
Location: LBCC -- Liberal Arts Campus
Audiences: Prospective Transfer Students
Contact: Undergraduate Admission
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Lockheed Martin Presents: No Experience Not True!
Tue, Nov 07, 2006 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
"No 'Experience'? Not True!" So many students, when asked what work experience they have, answer with a shrug, "I don't really have any." But by looking at it differently, it turns out that they usually have a lot more than they ever realized -- or gave themselves credit for. If you don't think you have anything to offer, how will a hiring manager be able to make that leap? Come learn the three easy steps to extracting your competencies from the context, translating that into an attention getting resume, and crafting a perfect verbal message to "wow" your interviewer!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Engineering Students!
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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A Baseband, Impulse Ultra Wideband Transceiver for Low Power Applications
Tue, Nov 07, 2006 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Ian O'Donnell, UC BerkeleyAbstract: Low bit-rate, short range radios are being proposed for a variety of applications including remote sensing/control, asset tracking, security, and as a replacement for wired interconnect. While not demanding aggressive throughput, these applications do require low cost, power efficient operation and optionally the ability to perform distance measurements. Unfortunately, current radio performance is up to an order of magnitude away from these cost and power targets. However, ultra-wideband signaling using short impulses presents an attractive alternative that is well-suited to a highly integrated, low power implementation. This talk explores the system performance and power consumption trade-offs, discusses the system specification and low power circuit design, and demonstrates a low power, impulse ultra-wideband transceiver. Based on a digital correlating filter architecture, this transceiver employs the novel approach of duty-cycling the analog gain and sampling circuitry between received pulses to further reduce power consumption. A single-chip front-end design, implemented in a standard digital 0.13micron CMOS process, will be presented. The front-end is comprised of a 1-bit, 1.92Gsample/s ADC, a 50-Ohm input match, 0dB to 42dB of variable gain, programmable control logic, a sub-1-PPM trimmable 60MHz oscillator, and a pulse transmitter. Power consumption was measured at 4mW (RX) and 2mW (TX) for a 30Mpulse/s pulse rate and 0.6mW (RX) and 0.4mW (TX) for 1Mpulse/s at 1.1V. The digital backend functionality was emulated, and extracted simulations predict a power consumption of 3.8mW (tracking) and 33mW (acquisition) during reception at 30Mpulse/s and 0.1mW (tracking) and 1.1mW (acquisition) at 1Mpulse/s.Bio: Ian David O'Donnell received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993, 1996 and 2006 respectively. His master's topic was in the area of digital, low power, CMOS circuit and system design for a wireless LAN receiver as part of the InfoPad project. From 1996 to 1999 he worked at Silicon Graphics, Inc. as a digital ASIC designer, and in 1999 he joined NVIDIA, Inc. where he worked on high-speed serial design. In 1998 he returned to Berkeley at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center to investigate low cost, low power, short range radio design. His Ph.D. research focused on the demonstration of ultra low power communication through the use of impulse-based ultra-wideband signaling combined with an examination of performance and power consumption trade-offs at the system and circuit levels. In 2006 he received the Jack Neubauer Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society for the best system paper of the year.Host: Prof. Keith Chugg, chugg@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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The Central Intelligence Agency National Security Search
Tue, Nov 07, 2006 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
It's No Secret...The CIA has challenging and rewarding career opportunities!
The Central Intelligence Agency is searching for intelligent and dedicated men and women from a variety of diverse backgrounds to contribute to its' National Security mission. Representatives from the National Clandestine Service (Operations), the Directorate of Intelligence (Analysis), the Open Source Center (Foreign Media Analysis) and the West Coast Regional Recruiter will be conducting an Information Session to discuss the CIA mission, employment opportunities and the security clearance process. Feel free to bring your resume for review. Both the Directorate of Intelligence and the Open Source Center will be conducting interviews the following day.Date: Tuesday, November 7thStart Time: 6 PMLocation: Career Planning & Placement Center, Student Union Bldg. Lower Level B-3 / Trojan Presentation RoomThe event is open to all academic majors with an emphasis on students with foreign language skills, foreign travel, and an interest in foreign affairs/business. The information will be most relevant to students within 18 months of graduation. We strongly encourage graduate students to attend.Keep in mind that most all positions require U.S. Citizenship, relocation to the Northern Virginia area and a lengthy employment process that can take from six to twelve months.
Location: Gwynn Wilson Student Union (STU) - Lower Level B-3/Trojan Presentation Room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
