When Robots, 3-D Printers and Teenagers Collide

High schoolers attend USC Viterbi’s Center for Advanced Manufacturing Open House

USC Viterbi Receives Three-Year NSF Grant to Train Engineers for the Future of Manufacturing

USC Viterbi and the Center for Advanced Manufacturing will develop education platform to prepare U.S. workforce for challenges, opportunities in advanced manufacturing

USC Viterbi’s SURE Program Offers Undergraduates Research Training Alongside Top Faculty

Sophomores and juniors from across the nation participate in cutting-edge research and get a taste for Trojan life

Up, Up and Away!

L.A. Youth Gain Hands-On Engineering Experience at Three-Day Camp Hosted by the USC Viterbi Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Swimming like a Shark

USC Viterbi Assistant Professor Mitul Luhar Develops an Algorithm to Optimize Surfaces for Fast, Frictionless Motion in Water and Air

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.

Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering @SC

Featured Research

The world’s top deepfake artist: ‘Wow, this is developing more rapidly than I thought.’

Speaking at the MIT Technology Review’s EmTech conference, Hao Li shares his thoughts on the future of deepfake technology.

Twin tunnels under the Sepulveda Pass could tame L.A. traffic

Henry Koffman was quoted about the importance of the Sepulveda Pass

Student Project Teams

AeroDesign Team

AIAA Design/Build/Fly

USC Racing

Formula SAE

Recumbent Vehicle Design Team

ASME Human Powered Vehicle Challenge

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USC Viterbi Student Judy Loyd Featured in USC News

Read about USC mechanical engineering freshman Judy Loyd: her background as a gymnast and dancer; her ambition as an engineer. Her mantra: leave no problem unsolved. Full story here.

Passing the Baton: AME Master’s Student Sophia Singh Honors 2019 Graduates

As Sophia Singh, a USC Viterbi master’s student studying aerospace engineering, prepares for graduation, she recalls the last major milestone in her academic career: her high school graduation. Earlier this month, she returned to her former high school, Villa Joseph Maria High School in Pennsylvania, to honor the 2019 senior class. Leading the procession of graduates through the halls of … Read More

Will Cell-Cell Communication Be the Key to Fighting Cancer?

AME Ph.D. graduate Jeffrey West and his advisor, AME Professor Paul Newton propose statistical mechanics based models to describe the growth of cancer tumors. The models include states for individual tumor cells along with cell-cell communication and, by varying certain assumptions, they predict various tumor growth laws used in the literature. Their paper appeared in the Proceedings of the National … Read More

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