Wellness Workout: Mechancial Engineering Student Leads 6-Minute Yoga

Wellness Workout: Mechancial Engineering Student Leads 6-Minute Yoga

Mechanical engineering student Anna Balbach is also a certified yoga instructor. She shared this six-minute video to help peers find mental balance and strength ahead of finals.

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Can the Movement of Tiny Hairlike Structures Tell Us How Healthy We Are?

Can the Movement of Tiny Hairlike Structures Tell Us How Healthy We Are?

Researchers determine triggers for transitions between coordinated movement of organelles called cilia, identifying a potential diagnostic tool for cancer and other illnesses.

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Engineering Our Way Through a Global Pandemic

Engineering Our Way Through a Global Pandemic

USC master’s students tackle robots, masks and droplet dispersion, to better understand how to live with COVID-19.

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“Viterbi vs. Pandemics!” Lecture 4: Automation Technologies for Ensuring Human Safety during the COVID-19 Pandemic

“Viterbi vs. Pandemics!” Lecture 4: Automation Technologies for Ensuring Human Safety during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The fourth lecture in the 10-part series focuses on how automation can help enhance human productivity in industries such as manufacturing while keeping them safe during the global pandemic.

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TROJAN ENGINEERS COMBAT COVID-19 ON MULTIPLE FRONTS

TROJAN ENGINEERS COMBAT COVID-19 ON MULTIPLE FRONTS

How the USC engineering community came together to answer a global call to action

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Viterbi Researchers Create The Lightest, Smallest, Fully Autonomous Crawling Microrobot Reported To Date

Viterbi Researchers Create The Lightest, Smallest, Fully Autonomous Crawling Microrobot Reported To Date

The RoBeetle’s artificial muscle is powered by controlled catalytic combustion, a technology that has the potential to enable the development of a diverse new generation of microrobots capable of operating on land, water and air.

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What is Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering?

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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Have you ever seen a sea star run?

Eva Kanso, Zohrab A. Kaprielian Fellow in Engineering and professor in the AME department, was featured in KQED’s Deep Look into sea star motion. The transition of a sea star’s hundreds of tubular feet from a walk to a run is essential in performing functions like chasing prey. Kanso’s model provides insight that could help lead to the development of … Read More

Experiencing an Unusual Semester

Students have been taking some USC engineering classes remotely for close to 50 years, but this year it’s been taken to a whole new level. AME freshman Kaitlyn Kumar shares her experience with “Zoom University: Starting USC at Home.” Even lab classes are online. Nick Bortolon describes taking the AME 341 lab class remotely over the summer in “Mechoptronics: Becoming … Read More

AME Doctoral Student Arian Aghilinejad Awarded Alfred E. Mann Fellowship

Alfred E. Mann Innovation in Engineering Doctoral Fellowships Each year, three doctoral fellowships are awarded by the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering. Among this year’s recipients is Arian Aghilinejad, a PhD student studying mechanical engineering in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. The award honors students conducting innovative, interdisciplinary research and provides an annual stipend of $34,000. The … Read More

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Youtube: Quadruped Robots to Disinfect

Youtube: Quadruped Robots to Disinfect

Working with Professor Gupta and Professor Nguyen, students are developing semi-autonomous robots to disinfect hard to-reach spaces to protect against COVID

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Wellness Workout: Mechancial Engineering Student Leads 6-Minute Yoga

Wellness Workout: Mechancial Engineering Student Leads 6-Minute Yoga

Mechanical engineering student Anna Balbach is also a certified yoga instructor. She shared this six-minute video to help peers find mental balance and strength ahead of finals.

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