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 Ph.D. Candidate Gets Honorable Mention in the American College of Cardiology’s 2023 Young Investigator Award in Basic & Translational Science

We are thrilled to congratulate Rashid Alavi, Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. candidate, for his Honorable Mention in the American College of Cardiology’s 2023 Young Investigator Award in Basic & Translational Science. This is in outstanding recognition of his work on the development of Instantaneous Detection of Myocardial Ischemia Using Physics-based Machine Learning Methodology. This award recognizes “young scientific investigators of promise, upon whom progress … Read More

Hangbo Zhao Receives 2023 Delcie R. Durham Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award

Hangbo Zhao, Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (AME), has been awarded a 2023 Delcie R. Durham Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). This is in outstanding recognition of Dr. Zhao’s research contributions to the manufacturing of micro/nano composite surfaces, three-dimensional (3D) multifunctional structures, and functional devices. Hangbo Zhao is an assistant professor … Read More

Celebrating the renovation and historical significance of the Dryden Wind Tunnel

The Dryden Wind Tunnel (DWT) is central to AME’s expertise in experimental aerodynamics and fluid mechanics. Originally constructed in the 1930s and brought to USC in 1975, the wind tunnel is considered among the best of its kind at a university, producing excellent air flow qualities from air speeds of 2 to 35 meters per second (4.5 to 78 miles … Read More

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So You’d Like a Job at the Largest Aerospace Company in the World?

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

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