The Viterbi School of Engineering is home to two National Science Foundation Engineering Research Centers (the Integrated Media Systems Center and the Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems Center), as well as the first University Center of Excellence funded by the Department of Homeland Security (CREATE--the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events).  USC is also home to the world-famous Information Sciences Institute and the Alfred Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering.  For a complete list of research centers and institutes, please go to http://viterbi/usc.edu/research/centers.

Areas of Expertise by department:

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
http://ame-www.usc.edu/
email: ame@usc.edu

Combustion and heat transfer; computational engineering and information technology; design and manufacturing; dynamical systems and controls; fluid mechanics; high-performance advanced materials; microgravity studies; multi-phase flows; nano-, micro-, and meso-scale science and devices; planetary atmospheres and magnetospheres; solid and applied mechanics.

Astronautical Engineering
http://astronautics.usc.edu
email: info@astronautics.usc.edu

Advanced spacecraft propulsion; astronautics, atomic and molecular interactions; hypersonic and supersonic flows, kinetic theory of gases and plasmas, micropropulsion devices, monte-carlo simulations of rarefied gas flows, nanosatellite applications, non-equilbrium in high-temperature gases,
plasma and material processing, processes in the heliosphere and planetary magnetospheres, space plasmas, space exploration, space sciences, space instrumentation, spacecraft technologies, statistical physics, transport in particles and radiation.

Biomedical Engineering
http://bme.usc.edu
email: bmedept@usc.edu

Bioengineering of vision; bioMEMS; computational bioengineering; biomedical modeling and simulation; diagnostic and prosthetic technologies; medical devices; medical ultrasound; neural systems engineering.

Mork Family Department of Chemical/Petroleum Engineering and Materials Science
http://chems.usc.edu
email: chedept@usc.edu; masc@usc.edu;
         peteng@usc.edu

Advanced materials; biochemical engineering; bioreactor modeling; cell culture; heterogenous materials; membrane processes and separation; molecular simulation; polymer science and engineering; porous media; reaction engineering and catalysis; statistical mechanics.
 

Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
http://www.usc.edu/dept/civil_eng/dept
email: ceedept@usc.edu

Construction management; earthquake engineering; environmental engineering; geotechnical engineering; structural engineering; transportation engineering; tsunamies and water resources.

With about $170 million annually in external research funding, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering is at the forefront of research in a ful spectrum of engineering disciplines. The Viterbi School is second in the nation in research funding per faculty member.

Computer Science
http://www.cs.usc.edu/
email: csdept@usc.edu

Artificial intelligence; computer architecture; computer graphics; computer vision; databases; games design and development multimedia; networks and security; robotics; software engineering and virtual reality.

 
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
http://ee.usc.edu
email: eesystems@usc.edu; eepdept@usc.edu

Adaptive and reconfigurable mixed signal integrated circuits; antenna networks; bio-signal processing; computer architecture; very-large-scale integration (VSLI) and computer-aided design (CAD); computer networks; control systems; high-speed switching architectures; materials development; signal, image and multimedia processing; nanotechnology; optical communications; photonics; quantum information processing.

Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
http://www.usc.edu/dept/ise/
email: isedept@usc.edu

Engineering systems design; health systems; manufacturing and automation; music cognition and retrieval; risk and economic analysis; transportation and logistics.

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