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The Viterbi School has 30 NAE members, 7 NAS members, and 8 AAAS members. Learn More >>
   

The USC Viterbi School of Engineering has eight academic departments, one division, and several programs serving approximately 1,900 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students, utilizing state-of-the-art laboratories, classrooms, and live high-speed Internet broadcast systems. Of 165 faculty members,  30 are members of the National Academy of Engineering and many have won National Science Foundation Career Awards. The School is also a national leader in engineering research, with annual external expenditures of over $170 million.

 
 
The Viterbi School provides unique undergraduate and graduate programs to qualified students leading to academic degrees in engineering; extends the frontiers of engineering knowledge; stimulates and encourages in its students qualities of scholarship, leadership, and character; serves the city, the state, the nation and the world by providing for the continuing education of engineers; and to provide professional engineering leadership in the solution of community, regional, national and global problems.
 
The Viterbi School offers academic programs leading to the Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
 
 
 
 

Academic News

High Marks for USC-IIT Kharagpur Exchange Program
July 16, 2008
Students in this year's USC-IIT Kharagpur summer exchange program said the hands-on work was valuable and, in some cases, helped them decide whether to pursue an advanced degree.
<I>Spotlight on Science</I> Interviews Mork Department's Priya Vashishta
July 08, 2008
The first issue of the new electronic newsletter produced by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency features a Q&A with the director of the USC Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and Simulations, both on his work creating supermaterials and on general WMD defense basic research priorities.
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Viterbi School's InfoLab
July 07, 2008
A recent report describes how CS Professor Cyrus Shahabi is successfully adapting his Progressive Data Analysis (ProDA) system, which applies signal processing ideas to data processing problems, to the software giant's computing platforms.
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