Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering

Innovating the fututre of Flight and Machines

From Biology to Batteries: Professor Krishna Garikipati is Changing the Way we Use AI to Predict Patterns

From Safety to Wellness: What the AME Instructional Labs Do Differently

Speeding into a New Era of Hypersonic Flight

Welcome to the Fabulous Fluids Facility!

Evidence of Vaping’s Harmful Effects on Blood Vessels and the Left Ventricle of Heart

Carpets and Flames: Design Rules for the Morphology of Ciliated Organs

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.

Message from Department Chair Professor Paul Ronney

What is Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering?

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Featured Research

No More Needle Phobia: Personalized Medicine Just Got More Flexible

Hangbo Zhao presents findings on highly stretchable and customizable microneedles for application in fields including neuroscience, tissue engineering, and wearable bioelectronics.

Paul Newton Named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow

Viterbi AME Professor, Paul Newton, will use the fellowship to investigate cancer models

Student Project Teams

AeroDesign Team

AIAA Design/Build/Fly

USC Racing

Formula SAE

Recumbent Vehicle Design Team

ASME Human Powered Vehicle Challenge

Books

Jan. 01, 2023

Stress, Strain, and Structural Dynamics: An Interactive Handbook of Formulas, Solutions, and MATLAB Toolboxes, 2nd Edition

By Bingen Yang

Jan. 01, 2023

Elementary Vibration Analysis

By Oussama Safadi

Jan. 01, 2022

Dynamic Systems: Modelling, Simulation, and Analysis

By Bingen Yang and Inna Abramova

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Recent Publications

Aug. 01, 2023 / Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing

Development and Experimental Verification of an Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) Method for Non-Invasive Sensing

By Bozhou Zhuang, Bora Gencturk, Iman Asareh, Assad Oberai, Harisankar Ramaswamy, Ryan Meyer, Morris Good, Matthew Taubman

Jul. 15, 2023 / Chemical Engineering Journal

Flexible capacitive sensor based on Miura-ori structure

By Hong Sun, Yuxuan Sun, Chayut Buranabunwong, Xingxiang Li, Shiwu Zhang, Yong Chen, and Mujun Li

Jul. 03, 2023 / Physics of Living Systems

Spontaneous body wall contractions stabilize the fluid microenvironment that shapes host-microbe associations

By Janna C Nawroth, Christoph Giez, Alexander Klimovich, Eva Kanso, and Thomas CG Bosch

Jun. 24, 2023 / Dynamic Games and Applications

Bernstein polynomial approximation of fixation probability in finite population evolutionary games

By Jiyeon Park and Paul Newton

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Nov06Wed

AME Seminar

Wed, Nov 06, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: SSL 202
Speaker: Zachary Manchester, Carnegie Mellon University Talk Title: Composable Optimization for Robotic Motion Planning and Control Abstract: Contact interactions are pervasive in key real-world robotic tasks like manipulation and...

Nov13Wed

AME Seminar

Wed, Nov 13, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: SSL 202
Speaker: Robert Kohn, New York University Talk Title: Mechanism-based mechanical metamaterials Abstract: The design and analysis of mechanism-based mechanical metamaterials is a relatively new and rapidly growing research area. It studies...

Nov20Wed

AME Seminar

Wed, Nov 20, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: SSL 202
Speaker: Adrian Lew, Stanford Talk Title: The Art and the Science of Metal 3D Printing Abstract: This is the title of a class I teach at Stanford on metal 3D printing, and it reflects my perspective on where metal 3D printing is today:...

Dec04Wed

AME Seminar

Wed, Dec 04, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: SSL 202
Speaker: Moumita Das, Rochester Institute of Technology Talk Title: TBD Host: AME Department More Info: ame.usc.edu Webcast: usc.zoom.us