Fast Company: Meet the USC (Viterbi) Rocket Club that Shattered a World Altitude Record
This profile story details the history of RPL, includes mention alumni space startups as well as SERC as part of the USC Viterbi space ecosystem.
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Department of Aerospace & Mechanical EngineeringMedia Coverage
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NBC: Bright Spot–USC Students Launch Rocket
USC RPL students were featured on local NBC news for their recent record-breaking launch.
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Space.com: USC students set world record with high-flying rocket launch (video) News
The launch of Aftershock II was highlighted.
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WKTY: Better Living
Research by Niema Pahlevan’s lab about the adverse effects of vaping was featured.
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GOOD: Here’s how Jack Black’s mother helped design a system that saved Apollo 13 astronauts
Alumna Judith Love Cohen was highlighted.
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LA Business Journal: Flying Forward: Ampaire Buys Companies, Moves Its HQ
Adjunct professor Marty Bradley commented on the impact the company could make in the industry.
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The Guardian: A starfish: a disembodied head walking about on its lips
Research by Eva Kanso’s lab was highlighted.
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Forbes: Why Embodied AI For Manufacturing Applications Is Different From Digital AI
SK Gupta contributes a piece with recommendations to reduce risk with embodied AI used in manufacturing.
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National Academies: Reviving the Los Angeles River: Engineering Alongside Nature and Society
Mitul Luhar contributed a piece on the tools and interdisciplinary collaboration needed to address LA river restoration and why this is an important project.
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ABC 7: Predicting a wildfire’s next move? USC researchers using AI to forecast fire’s likely path
Research by Assad Oberoi and colleagues was featured.
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Paul Newton Named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
Viterbi AME Professor, Paul Newton, will use the fellowship to investigate cancer models
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Linkedin News: Important Factors to Consider When Selecting a College
SK Gupta wrote a column for Linkedin stating that entrepreneurship, network, global perspective and convergence are key attributes that university students should seek.
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Manufacturing Today : Pioneering AI Mastery for Industry 5.0 Manufacturing
SK Gupta was interviewed about opportunities for students to learn about manufacturing and the future of the industry
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Forbes: How Robot Use In Manufacturing Can Impact Environmental Sustainability
SK Gupta contributed a piece that includes “guidelines to fully exploit the sustainability benefits of robotic automation.”
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Spectrum News 1: The future of Southern California’s aerospace industry
Spectrum News 1 featured Geoff Spedding regarding the history and future of aerospace industry
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CBS: USC and UCLA Clash at The Coliseum
CBS Sports interviewed the students at USC Racing before their race against UCLA
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Speedway Digest: USC, UCLA Formula SAE will compete on LA Coliseum Track
As part of NASCAR’s event, USC Racing students to drive on track for 2nd year in a row
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CNN: These robot engineers are inspired by cats (and dogs)
The labs of Francisco Valero-Cuevas and Quan Nguyen were featured in on “Techfor Good” segment on robots and biomimcry
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Times of India: Both course and extracurricular activities impact choice of university abroad
AME Master’s student and competitive sailor Upamanyu Dutta was interviewed about his decision to attend USC.
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The Time Machine
USC Viterbi alumni are helping to build the most powerful space telescope ever that will unlock the secrets of the universe, including whether we’re alone.
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CBS This Morning: First In-Person University Park Commencement in 2 Years
Recent graduate Mario Pinto spoke about Engineering Plus and the interdisciplinary experience at USC.
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USC School of Architecture: Associate Professor Mitul Luhar Wins Substantial Grants for LA River Project
The LA River Project, which includes USC faculty partners from across the university, aims at collaborative, innovative infrastructure redesign of LA’s 52-mile channel.
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LA Times: Who is driving that bot?
SK Gupta was interviewed about the need for delivery robots
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Manufacturing News: Forward-Thinking Education Trains Future Innovators
The practical and research experience offered by CAM was featured
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31 Questions with Kaitlyn Kumar: The Mechanics of Motion
31 Questions with USC Viterbi Mechanical Engineering Sophomore and Ballerina Kaitlyn Kumar.
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NBC4: NASCAR and USC Racing Take Over the Coliseum
USC Racing was featured on NBC for their once-in-a-lifetime test drive in the LA Coliseum ahead of NASCAR’s event
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The Big Switch - Columbia University: Clearing the Air: Transforming Aviation
Engineer Alejandra Uranga imagines airplanes in a net-zero future.
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USC Viterbi News : AME 2021 Student Showcase
USC Viterbi seniors share their final projects for AME 441 with faculty and industry professionals at annual event
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CBS News: SpaceX Launches the First All-Civilian Space Crew
CBS News featured Garrett Reisman SpaceX’s launch of the first all-civilian space crew on a three-day mission.
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AME Student Life: Reimagining the Interactive Classroom
How two professors in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering built engaging freshman experiences during a global pandemic.
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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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KQED: Starfish Gallop With Hundreds of Tubular Feet
Research by Eva Kanso regarding how starfish move was featured.
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Popular Mechanics: We Can Get to Mars Faster
Research by Ivan Bermejo-Moreno and Xiangyu Gao on how engineers could possibly mix jet fuel with shockwaves to travel through space faster was featured
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SpaceX Makes History & Along With It, Continues the Trojans’ Legacy in Space
Contributions of USC Viterbi students, researchers and alumni to the groundbreaking next chapter of space travel
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USC Viterbi magazine: SpaceX Made History Today. Meet Some of the Trojan Engineers Behind That History.
USC Viterbi magazine article: SpaceX “employs more engineers from USC Viterbi than from any other school.”
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SME: SK Gupta Named One of the 20 Most Influential Professors in Smart Manufacturing
Gupta’s group develops smart robotic assistants to increase human productivity in manufacturing applications. These smart assistants are capable of programming themselves from task descriptions, learning from the observed performance, safely operating in the presence of uncertainty, appropriately calling for help during the execution of challenging tasks, and interacting with humans in a user-friendly manner.
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Forbes: In Coronavirus Fight, Robots Report For Disinfection Duty
SK Gupta was interviewed about the ADAMMS-UV robot that researchers at CAM developed to disinfect hard-to-reach spaces
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Adobe Spark: 5 Scientific Achievements Accomplished Remotely
How USC Viterbi researchers innovated, disrupted, and engaged new frontiers from a distance
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DEN@Viterbi: Going the Distance: USC Viterbi Provides Distance Education During COVID-19
What Happens When All Students Become On-Line Students? Look to the Engineers.
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Memo from Dean Yortsos: Facing the COVID-19 Challenge
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Student Advising Resources during COVID-19
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Updates
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2019 AME Senior Project Showcase
USC Viterbi Seniors Show off their final projects for AME 441, testing concepts learned with over 35 real-life applications.
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WIRED: A ROCKET BUILT BY STUDENTS REACHED SPACE FOR THE FIRST TIME
A USC team won the collegiate space race by sending a rocket above the Kármán line, the imaginary boundary that marks the end of Earth’s atmosphere.
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Scientific American: Simulating Evolution to Determine the Fastest Wing
Geoffrey Spedding was quoted on how humans draw inspiration from nature — bird wings and fish fins — to build faster wings for flight.
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New Atlas: Bee+ micro-scale robot flyer gets four wings flapping
The Bee+ project from the Autonomous Microrobotic Systems Laboratory was featured.
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MIT Technology Review: A tiny four-winged robotic insect flies more like the real thing
Flying robots are more agile with four wings than two. Engineers halved the weight of a crucial component to make that possible.
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USC Viterbi News: “Oh, The Places You’ll Go!”
From engineering rockets that break records to solving global crisis and launching start-ups, the Class of 2019 is going places
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USC Viterbi News: “A Ph.D. Is Our Call to Action”
USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s 2019 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards ceremony
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The Atlantic: Why Your Vacuum Clogs but a Manta Ray Doesn’t
Eva Kanso was quoted on feeding habits of the manta ray.
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Viterbi Magazine: Surviving a Day on Venus
Jonathan Sauder, USC Viterbi alumnus and lecturer and JPL engineer, brings back old technology to make new discoveries
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Viterbi Magazine: Recreating Reality
VRSC founder Jake Green uses virtual reality to reshape our world and inspire future generation
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Viterbi Flickr: USC Manufacturing Day
On Oct 5th, USC’s Center for Advanced Manufacturing opened its doors to local industry members and high school students. The center’s researchers showcased their work and high-tech equipment.
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Wired: Kelly Slater’s Artificial Surf Pool Is Really Making Waves
The world’s premier surfer has joined forces with Prof. Fincham to create an artificial wave in the middle of the California desert.
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Quartz: The flying-car future is coming, even if no one can agree on when
Prof. Spedding was quoted on the potential for flying cars and the companies that are developing them.
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NPR: Need To Track A Submarine? A Harbor Seal Can Show You How
Using lessons learned from harbor seals and artificial intelligence, Prof. Kanso may be on to a new way to track enemy submarines
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Daily Beast: Platypus Venom Could Treat Diabetes
Research by Yang Yang and Yong Chen was highlighted on how the structure of lobster claws could be replicated to produce concussion-proof helmets for athletes.
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Swarthmore College: Valero-Cuevas Receives Honorary Degree from Swarthmore
Francisco Valero-Cuevas was awarded an honorary degree from his alma mater, Swarthmore College for his scientific contributions. He spoke at Swarthmore’s commencement ceremony on May 27, 2018
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NSF: Engineering smarter robotic boats for safer, cheaper work on the water
From conducting bridge inspections to search and rescue missions, future unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), currently being developed by Professor SK Gupta in collaboration with Florida Atlantic University, will help humans with dangerous or repetitive work
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Watch the Viterbi Satellite Commencement Ceremonies Streaming
Ph.D. on 5/10 at 9am PDT, Undergraduate on 5/11 at 11am PDT, Graduate on 5/11 at 3pm PDT, Computer Science Graduate on 5/11 at 6:30pm PDT
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Nature: Turbulence Control: Peace in the pipeline
Professor Mitul Luhar on a solution for friction caused by turbulence in pipe flows.
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Scientific American: New Airplane Design Could Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Working with MIT, Viterbi Assistant Professor Uranga’s design could save up to 66 percent in fuel and fly by 2035
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Happy Thanksgiving
From the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and it’s Center for Advanced Manufacturing – led by brilliant Professor SK Gupta, of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and of Computer Science
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The Fresno Bee: It’s the Perfect Surfer Wave – in the Middle of Nowhere and 100 Miles from any Ocean
Research by Adam Fincham to develop a machine that produces the perfect surfing wave was mentioned.
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Medical Press: New App Replaces Ultrasound with Smartphone Camera to Measure Heart Health
Assistant Professor Niema Pahlevan, alongside engineers at Caltech, design an app that utilizes the camera on your smartphone to noninvasively provide detailed information about your heart’s health.
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Nature Physics: Soft materials: A remedy for thinning hair
Assistant Professor Mitul Luhar explains how the “hair” within the bodies of living systems responds to fluid flow
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CBSLA: Total Solar Eclipse To Offer Great Learning Opportunity Monday
Professor Michael Kezirian and aerospace students, making up the USC-NASA Solar Eclipse Balloon Team, are launching a High Altitude Balloon in Idaho Falls to study the Total Solar Eclipse.
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KUKA: “Advanced Robotic Finishing” Named Finalists of the KUKA Innovation Award
A team of students and staff from USC’s Center for Advanced Manufacturing, led by the center’s Director S.K. Gupta, awarded for their work on the automation of finishing processes.
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AIAA: USC Overcomes Crash To Win AIAA’s Remote Aircraft Competition
USC students bounced back from a crash to eke out a win in the 2017 AIAA Design Build Fly contest.
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Los Angeles Times: Here’s where small companies can access robotics, 3-D printers and a sharp workforce
The LA Times featured CAM as a resource to educate students and to provide support to companies seeking to participate in innovation in manufacturing
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The Planetary Society: Old documents shine new light on NASA’s plan to send a solar sail to Halley’s Comet
Carl Berglund, Viterbi alumnus and retired JPL engineer, worked on the world’s first solar sail.
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CBSLA: USC Graduate Students Work To Improve Drone Technologies
Experimental work of department Chair Geoff Spedding and his Ph.D. students on small scale aerodynamics, applicable to small drones
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Department of Defense: USC Viterbi’s Center for Advanced Manufacturing to be LA hub for DOD Robotics Grant
SK Gupta to lead research effort
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The Huffington Post: The Immigration Tide
An op-ed by Bodgan Marcu on the importance of integration for a successful immigrant experience featured.
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Bloomberg: Kelly Slater Built the Perfect Wave. Can He Sell It to the World?
Kelly Slater tests Adam Fincham’s wave pool and attempts to market it to the world.
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MedicalResearch.com: Breast Cancer Survival Strongly Depends On Where First Metastases Develops
Professor Paul Newton discusses his latest research on breast cancer.