AME Lecturer Vinay Goyal Earns NASA Honors

On May 24, Part-time Lecturer in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Vinay Goyal received three awards from NASA honoring his contributions as part of two NASA Engineering & Safety Center teams. Goyal’s efforts are aimed at ensuring the safety of human spaceflight. The awards included recognition for completing major modernization and revision to NASA Special Publication 8007 on … Read More

Professor Bo Jin Wins SME Young Researcher Award

Prof. Bo Jin of the AME department in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering has received the 2022 Sandra L. Bouckley Outstanding Young Researcher Award (age 35 or younger). The award was given by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), an association committed to advancing manufacturing and developing a skilled workforce. The medal was presented at the SME International Awards … Read More

AME 441 Students Win Top Prizes at 2022 AIAA Student Conferences

AME 441 student teams won top prizes at the 2022 AIAA Student Conferences, including 2nd, 3rd and 4th place for region VI. The student teams and projects are as follows: 2nd Place – “Water Impact of Rigid Biconic Geometries: An Experimental Investigation into Space Capsule Splashdown Events,” Vihan Krishnan, Kirin Peterson, Pinhua Guo, and Mahmood Alfayoumi, University of Southern California … Read More

AME Dr. Bo Jin Recognized with National Honor in Material and Process Engineering.

Bo Jin, USC Viterbi School of Engineering lecturer, is the recipient of the National Young Professionals Emerging Leadership Award. The award, bestowed by the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE), is given to 10 scientists under 35 for their achievements in the advanced composites field. Jin previously received SAMPE’s Regional Leadership Award (California). The 2021 award … Read More

Assad Oberai’s Research Named as of 2020 JBME Editors’ Choice Papers

Congratulations to Assad Oberai and team on earning recognition from the ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering for their paper “Recovery of Tractions Exerted by Single Cells in Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Matrices.” Only 9 out of 189 papers were selected as a 2020 JBME Editors’ Choice Paper. To read more about the research, please click here.