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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AME Seminar

Wed, Apr 02, 2025
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: ZHS 252
Speaker: Lihua Jin, UCLA Talk Title: Non-Equilibrium Stimuli-Responsive Soft Materials Abstract: One recent impetus of developing stimuli-responsive soft materials (SRSMs) is to use them for sensors, actuators and soft robots. In these...

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USC Viterbi Faculty Elected as American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows
USC Viterbi Faculty Elected as American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows

Two leading researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering join the ranks of AAAS fellows, one of the most prestigious honors in academia.

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Five Things You Can Do to Help Fireproof Your House
Five Things You Can Do to Help Fireproof Your House

USC Viterbi Professor Fokion Egolfopoulos on how to fireproof existing homes and build back better and safer

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