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.
What is Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering?
Featured Research
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Haylee Mota Can Only See Light and Shadows. Yet She Sees So Much More.
USC Viterbi sophomore reimagines telepresence robots for the visually impaired
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Fish Don’t Dither: A New Study Investigates Danger-Evasion Tactics
New USC research on zebrafish has implications for understanding animal behavior
Student Project Teams
Recent Publications
Frictional Locomotion of a Radially Symmetric Tripedal Robot
By Mark Hermes and Mitul Luhar
On the Ignition Kernel Formation and Propagation: An Experimental and Modeling Approach
By James Shaffer, Steven Luna, Weiye Wang, Fokion Egolfopoulos, and Omid Askari
By Giovanni Cacciamani, Yifan Xue, Udu Durairaj, Sidney Roberts, Dhruv Patel, Ragheb Raad, Gus Miranda, Sarmad Sadeghi, Andrew Hung, Inderbir Gill, Mihir Desai, Peter Kuhn, Jeremy Mason, and Assad Oberai
Viterbi News
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So You’d Like a Job at the Largest Aerospace Company in the World?
Unique partnership between Boeing and USC Viterbi allows paid summer internships, tuition expenses and a full time position after graduation.
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Wide Awake and Dreaming: USC Viterbi’s 2023 Master’s Commencement Ceremonies
The class of 2023 is “the best educated, the most representative in our history.”
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Published on February 23rd, 2017
Last updated on May 10th, 2023