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Events for the 5th week of August
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Aug 30, 2010
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://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx 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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Oral Defense Dissertation
Mon, Aug 30, 2010 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dongyu Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate, Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Talk Title: Controlled Susbstructure Identification for Shear Structures
Abstract:
Abstract:
Shear structure models are widely used to model the dynamics of building structures; therefore, developing the techniques, which can accurately identify the parameters of a shear structure, plays a vital role in establishing efficient and reliable structural health monitoring systems for building structures.
In this dissertation, applying the âdivide and conquerâ strategy of substructure identification (SI), a series of innovative SI methods for shear structure are developed. A shear structure is divided into many two-story standard substructures. An ingenious induction identification procedure is applied to identify the parameters of the whole structure from top to bottom inductively. Numerical simulation results verify that these substructure identification methods provide accurate identification results.
One of the most important features of these SI methods is that the analytical results of the identification error is obtained, which demonstrates that the identification accuracy is simply controlled by the structural responses near the substructure natural frequency. This important discovery provides the ability to easily improve the identification accuracy by accordingly changing the substructure responses via specially designed structural control systems. Several controlled substructure identification methods were proposed, using different structural control systems to improve the accuracy of the SI methods. Moreover, since the accuracy of the proposed controlled SI methods directly depends on the close-loop controlled structural responses rather than on the control systems themselves, these controlled SI methods are proved to be quite robust to possible control system errors.
To overcome the limitations of the previous SI methods, a loop substructure identification method is proposed which makes use of the dynamic equilibrium of only one standard substructure to formulate a loop identification sequence and identify all parameters of that substructure once for all. Compared with the previous SI methods, the loop SI method is able to perform the structural identification of any part of a shear structure with only three floor acceleration responses; more importantly, the loop substructure identification can be carried out with knowing the structural mass information.
Furthermore, a new approach is proposed to extend the SI methods originally developed for shear structures to more realistic but complex frame structures. The study shows that the proposed approach is able to accurately structural damage of columns in a frame structure
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Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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BME 533 - Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Aug 30, 2010 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TZUNG HSIAI, MANBIR SINGH, MICHAEL BAUDRY, VASILIS MARMARELIS,
Talk Title: Faculty Research in Biomedical Engineering
Host: Department of Biomedical Engineering
Location: Harold E. and Lillian M. Moulton Organic Chemistry Wing (OCW) - 132
Audiences: BME graduate students, Faculty, contact department if interested (213-740-7237)
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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USC Robotics Society Informational Meeting
Tue, Aug 31, 2010 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
If you are interested in becoming a member of the USC Robotics Society, please join us for an informational session and learn about what we do! The session will be held Tuesday, August 31st at 6:00pm in the Hedco Neuroscience Building (HNB) Room 100. You will have a chance to meet our members, go on a lab tour, and ask questions! We will have our robots present to showcase.
We are comprised of two primary robotics teams: the Underwater Robotics Team and the Aerial Robotics Team.
We have several new support teams this year including:
Business Management Team
Events Planning Team
Public Relations Team
Web Development Team
We are open to ALL STUDENTS FROM ALL MAJORS!
Find out more information at http://www.uscrs.orgLocation: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC Robotics Society
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SWE's First General Meeting
Tue, Aug 31, 2010 @ 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come to SWE's first general meeting to find our more about the exciting events happening this semester, apply to become a member, meet other members and the Officer Council, and eat some FREE food. Hope to see you there!
Location: Social Sciences Building (SOS) - B46
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers
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On Campus Freshmen Admission Interviews continue...
Wed, Sep 01, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Personal Admission Interviews are available to freshmen applicants throughout the Fall practically every weekday until December 10, 2011. Freshman applicant interviews are not required as part of the admission process, however we would like to meet as many of our applicants as possible. All interview appointments are scheduled online.http://viterbi.usc.edu/admission/freshman/interviews/
Audiences: Freshmen Applicants for Fall 2011
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Sep 01, 2010 @ 01:00 AM - 01:00 AM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
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 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit http://usconnect.usc.edu/ 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: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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1st AGC General Meeting
Thu, Sep 02, 2010 @ 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
If you are interested in becoming a member of the Associated General Contractors come to our first general meeting this THURSDAY September 2nd at 5:30pm in front of KAP Hall. We will be serving dinner, so fear not you will not have to pick between eating and coming to our meeting. Take this chance to meet our Executive Board, other members, older students, and make a new friend. Everyone is invited!
Just a quick reminder, AGC is the premier construction organization on campus. We are a professional club, whose primary goal to help our members gain knowledge of the contracting industry and build their network.
Annually we send 6 undergraduate and 2 graduate teams to Reno, NV to compete in the Associated Schools of Construction Student Competition. The competition aids the members to gain real life construction experience and demonstrate their talents and knowledge to representatives from the top companies.
For the past 16 years, AGC has hosted the Construction Management Symposium at USC. This will be the 17th year, and plan to hold the symposium in the new Ronald Tutor Campus Center. Symposium is a professional sit down dinner with a educational program. Members get to mingle with over 200+ company representatives at the reception, then have dinner with a company of their choice, while listening to a major Keynote Speaker talk about the year's topic.
We also host philanthropy and social events throughout the year, as well as job walks and information sessions with companies.
Please come out on Thursday and check out our website!
www.uscagc.com
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Events USC AGC
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Sep 03, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
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 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit http://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx 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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BIOMED Research Symposium: Medical Challenges, Engineering Solutions
Fri, Sep 03, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 01:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
BIOMED: Medical Challenges, Engineering Solutions, taking place on September 3rd from 11:20-1:30pm (check in at 11am) is a beginning-of-the-year luncheon meant to introduce incoming and current students of any background to medical issues that face our world today. This event is focused primarily on research and becoming familiar with the current range of work being pursued. If you are looking for a research position, this is the perfect way to interact with several professors all in one setting. We will have an introductory speaker from the Keck School of Medicine, Dr. Richard Roberts discuss the major issue of personalized medicine, and have follow up speakers from Viterbi and Keck who will discuss how such issues are being solved right here in the studentsâ âown backyardâ of USC. As such, this event should also prove to be especially useful to incoming students who have an interest in medicine or research but want to know more about what it means to be put into application. Continuing students will benefit as well, as we will be inviting numerous professors to the luncheon who are solving other issues of medicine and health so that students may interact and network with them for research positions, or simply social purposes in a relaxed environment over a sit-down lunch. Students will also have the opportunity to network with peers who share their same interest across varying disciplines.
So join in, get your feet wet, and kick off the year with BIOMED!
To sign up, please visit: http://viterbistudents.usc.edu/asbme/events/biomed.htm and click on "Register today" or email asbme@usc.edu.Location: Town & Gown (TGF) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Tie Dye with Alpha Omega Epsilon
Fri, Sep 03, 2010 @ 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Interested in Alpha Omega Epsilon, the professional and social engineering sorority?Come join us for a fun night of Tie Dying! We'll provide shirts and food!
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - Lobby
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Elizabeth Clark
