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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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

May. 12, 2023

An Approach to Modeling Vibrations of Systems Composed of Beams, Rigid Bodies, and Point Masses

By Henryk Flashner

Apr. 05, 2023

Frictional Locomotion of a Radially Symmetric Tripedal Robot

By Mark Hermes and Mitul Luhar

Apr. 04, 2023

On the Ignition Kernel Formation and Propagation: An Experimental and Modeling Approach

By James Shaffer, Steven Luna, Weiye Wang, Fokion Egolfopoulos, and Omid Askari

Apr. 01, 2023

Machine Learning Framework-Based Prognostic Classifier for Predicting Recurrence-Free Survival in Patients Undergoing Radical Cystectomy for Urothelial Bladder Cancer

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

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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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