USC Viterbi Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering

Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering

Innovating the fututre of Flight and Machines

Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering @ USC

Aerospace and mechanical engineers design and build unique, complex mechanical-optical-electronic (mechoptronic) systems, ranging in scale from the International Space Station to microscale electric generators and pumping systems.

A broad range of engineering science research is critical to developing novel, complex mechoptronic systems. As a consequence, aerospace and mechanical engineers conduct extensive basic and applied research within and crossing their usual disciplinary boundaries, they also synthesize research from many other disciplines.

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Mar26Wed
AME Seminar

Wed, Mar 26, 2025
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: ZHS 252
Speaker: Manan Arya, Stanford University Talk Title: Origami Wrapping Patterns: Out of the Plane and towards Spacecraft Applications Abstract: Origami wrapping patterns take flat sheets of material and wrap them around a central hub....

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AME Special Seminar

Thu, Mar 27, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Location: OHE 406
Speaker: Vickie Webster-Wood, Carnegie Mellon University Talk Title: Biomimetic, Biohybrid, and Biodegradable: Robots for a sustainable future Abstract: In the last century it was common to envision robots of the future as shining metal...

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Published on February 23rd, 2017Last updated on March 20th, 2025