Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Students recognized for outstanding academic achievement, leadership and service

James Moore talks about the new system to synchronize LA's 4,300 traffic lights

Financial Engineering Program teaches graduate students the inner workings of global economics

Viterbi Professor Shinyi Wu uses technology to improve communication between low-income diabetics and their medical providers.

USC Viterbi Professor Stephen Lu redefines innovation at the 2013 NASSCOM India Leadership Forum.

Communications pioneer and mathematical genius Solomon Golomb receives the nation’s top honor for scientists

Viterbi School's James Moore leads a coalition of organizations in accurately predicting the national economic consequences of major bridge failures

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos Lends Expert Observations on U.S.'s "Reverse Brain Drain" Conundrum

Happy New Year Message to the Viterbi family of students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends!

Daniel Lidar, Azad Madni, and Andreas Molisch have been designated AAAS Fellows for their distinguished contributions to engineering.

Retrospective of An Inextricable Bond and the Legacy of Hughes Aircraft

USC Teamcore Group/US Coast Guard researchers are awarded the Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice at the INFORMS conference.

At his recent TEDx presentation, the USC Viterbi professor says he aims to use 3-D printers to build whole houses.

The professor discusses recent safety lapses at the Center for Disease Control's bioterrorism laboratory.

The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) began distributing the Epstein Department developed software packages June 12

SC Racing team gear up for Formula Society of Automotive Engineers competition with their stronger, faster and more reliable racecar

"The Government of Turkey should urgently update and strengthen its offshore oil drilling safety and environmental enforcement and oversight regulatory regimes."

Milind Tambe, Professor of Computer Science and Industrial and Systems Engineering, receives an IBM Faculty Award for his proposal on a computational game-theoretic approach aimed at enhancing public safety, security and welfare.

The Los Angeles Times talks to the USC Viterbi professor about the need for safety upgrades on the new Metro light-rail route.

A rousing speech by alumnus Feng Deng galvanized graduate degree recipients gathered in Galen Hall

The USC Viterbi School of Engineering has been funded by the FTA to complete a research study of the implementation of Metrolink’s new Positive Train Control (PTC) system

Two members of Viterbi’s senior class selected as members of the Order of the Torch, one of USC’s highest student accolades

Maged Dessouky's Epstein Department team calculates the contingencies: where to put lifesaving drugs and how much in each location

Milind Tambe, Professor of Computer Science and Industrial and Systems Engineering, receives the 2012 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award for his 1997 paper “Towards Flexible Teamwork".

Supported by the NASA Office of the Chief Technologist's Innovative Advanced Concepts program, Khoshnevis proposes building lunar outposts by preplanting automated construction technology on the moon.

Cyrus Shahabi hosted a day of exploration of the newest work at the Viterbi School's Integrated Media Systems Center, which he directs

The Los Angeles Times notes that the March 20 program "was the first of its kind to reach out to high-ranking officials who oversee public transit systems."

Newly named Industrial and Systems Engineering Department chair comes from success at Ohio State University

The director of the USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering noted that while the process can get a project fielded early it does have "some failure modes"

In light of a recent interim report on causes of the fatal 2009, Air France Flight 477 crash, Najm Meshkati warns aviation against complacency in the midst of advances in the industry's technology.

A story in Air Transport World recalls the prescient report about the ISE safety expert's warning that it published just three days before the June 1, 2009 Air France disaster

Expansion of the iPodia network to the subcontinent is on the agenda, as well as recruitment of USC engineering alumni as faculty

One of the Viterbi School’s most distinguished faculty members spent his 75th birthday in Beijing at an event that underlined USC's international reach

ISE's Shinyi Wu assembled a precise comparison of 91 recently tried ways to increase physical activity, from coaches to motivator phone calls to simple signs next to elevators

On ProgressiveRailroading.com, John Fenton enthusiastically discusses collaborating with the School to create the unique Rail Safety Certification Program

Viterbi School faculty and staff filled Town and Gown to hear their dean share a stirring list of accomplishments and set a lofty goal

"A nuclear accident anywhere has the potential to be a nuclear accident everywhere," writes the Viterbi School's Najmedin Meshkati in a New York Times op-ed

A report on METRANS research focuses on the algorithms to move more tons faster that the ISE professor found analyzing the Southern California rail network

The Epstein Department's Madni, whose industrial and military simulation systems changed the course of training and rehearsing for real-world situations, received the 2011 INCOSE Pioneer Award.

USC professor Naj Meshkati and colleagues help 50 Southern California commuter rail leaders study past disasters in order to learn how to prevent future ones

When John Slaughter was a kid tinkering with electronics, he told 36 incoming Viterbi freshmen, "people who were black or brown didn’t think about being engineers"

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos led a USC Engineering delegation to THU's Beijing campus, where the topic was “Green and Smart for a Sustainable Future"

Jay Kuo to head IEEE-TIFS; Azad Madni joins ranks of INCOSE Pioneers; Milind Tambe earns more kudos for multi-agent security programs; Michael Waterman receives an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University; and Alan Willner reels in another IPS award.

Senior Associate Dean Raghu Raghavendra: “The program exposes the labs, research and faculty of the Viterbi School to exceptional students"

The Northrop Grumman senior VP already had an IEEE Ramo Award and was an NAE member. But he wanted to study with Barry Boehm

Gordon Roesler and Dorit Hochbaum will work with Lockheed Martin on DARPA's ‘fractionated' orbiter

A magical day as degree candidates turn into engineers and brand new alumni.

Mann Institute Director Jonathan Lasch worked with the X PRIZE Foundation's Gianelle Veis developing the course.

Dragana Davidovic was first to be called to the podium, followed by Annie Yu, Andrea Armani, Ellis Meng, Hai Wang, Joe Qin, Angus McColl and Peter Beerel

“Railroads are a crucial component of the U.S. freight management and distribution system," writes the Epstein department former chair in a L.A. Times op-ed, "but we do not need and cannot afford a high-speed rail system for passengers.”

The Viterbi School of Engineering was in the spotlight at the Mellon Mentoring Awards Ceremony, as five deans received the event’s top honor, and three professors won individual recognition

The USC Viterbi School safety expert expresses his opinions on the developing situation at the Fukushima facilities, on Chernobyl, and California nuclear power

The noted operations research expert is installed as the Epstein Family chair in a formal ceremony.

Hundreds of teenagers from greater Los Angeles came to USC for competitions aimed at applying academic learning to hands-on projects

Maged Dessouky, James Moore and other Epstein Department faculty play key roles in the interdisciplinary center that will be recognized for excellence June 15

The Abtum team, who hope to market a tunable cellphone transceiver chip, receives $50,000 prize from the hands of benefactor Fariborz Maseeh

A USC Viterbi team is working to help California growers compete in a tough global market

Engineering+ x 3: Orna Berry, Ronald Tutor and Chengyu Fu celebrated for combination of entrepreneurship with engineering excellence

"Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor of industrial and systems engineering and civil and environmental engineering at [USC], has built a system that can deposit concrete walls without the need for forms to contain the concrete...."

His two-year term will begin June 29, 2011, at the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

Internationally recognized leaders in systems safety will create a first-of-its-kind advanced safety program

Specialists in tsunamis and nuclear safety focus on California/U.S. consequences

The outstanding Epstein Department Ph.D. candidate's "Student of the Year" prize is featured on Northwestern University's engineering website

Undergrads celebrate Engineers Week with fun and games, the Viterbi Ball and outreach to middle school students.

The April 26-27 event will explore the numerous fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of software engineering made by the Viterbi School luminary

Peers have recently honored Mel Breuer, Maged Dessouky, Solomon Golomb, Yan Jin, C.C. Jay Kuo, Daniel Lidar, Patric Muggli, and Theodore Tsotsis

The Viterbi School professor of computer science and senior associate dean for research accepted her honor at a White House ceremony January 27

Fariborz Maseeh is on hand as 15 highly competitive teams are selected to vie for the $50,000 prize

Milind Tambe will join the Soldier Systems Panel, helping the Army improve human factors studies

Neil G. Siegel, who is also a Northrop Grumman VP, wins the Simon Ramo Medal and is named an IEEE Fellow.

Elaine Chew's Music Computation and Cognition summer student KatieAnna Wolf was selected as a female finalist in the highly selective undergraduate competition

Playboy Magazine singles out "the world's first completely automated homebuilding technology," under development at the Viterbi School's Epstein ISE Department

"Preview Day" brought 200 hopefuls to campus to meet faculty, alumni and current MS & PhD candidates

REACH stands for Recruiting Engineering Achievers, and 27 prime candidates attended the program's inaugural event

Emeritus Epstein Department Professor establishes green technology research competition, open to grads and undergrads

The Viterbi School's pianist-ISE professor gave a presentation on "De-mystifying Music and Its Performance" at the IBM Research Center in Armonk, New York

Yannis C. Yortsos accepts offer of a second term as dean and re-focuses his vision for the Viterbi School

Gift Brings Ming Hsieh's total donations to USC to $85 Million

A major event brought NAE President Charles Vest and innovators, engineers, policy makers, and executives to Bovard Hall to explore engineering's promise to empower society

The donor, Fariborz Maseeh, hopes the competition will help engineers expand skill sets and become entrepreneurs

Dean Yannis Yortsos pens an oped article on the NAE Grand Challenges, the X-Prize and innovation.

The systems developed by his Viterbi School team for making police patrols unpredictable are coming into wider and wider use

In a widely used Associated Press story, Viterbi Professor Najmedin Meshkati suggests BP's investigation of the Gulf oil spill was seriously flawed.

Dean Yannis Yortsos adds two new dimensions to his vision in his first address to faculty and staff since agreeing to serve a second term as dean

The Dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering addressed the San Marino Rotary Club September 16.

Meeting to focus on global issues related to sustainability, vulnerability, health, and the "joy of living"

The Jenzabar Foundation is awarding Robyn Strumpf a Student Leadership Grant for her volunteer literacy campaign

Elaine Chew, Burcin Becerik-Gerber and Cyrus Shahabi invited to the NAE Frontiers of Engineering symposia

Undergrads from all over the world compete for grants that enable them to spend months in USC labs, mentored by Viterbi faculty including Dean Raghavendra

Dean Yannis Yortsos greets new students and parents in a series of events as the fall 2010 semester begins

James E. Moore II is the first academic elected to the Board of Directors of the California Transportation Foundation. He is also the first ever nominated.

Hillary Clinton and other State Department officials joined to congratulate the Viterbi School professor and nine colleagues for their year of service

IEEE President Pedro Ray presented the IEEE's highest award to the namesake of USC's Viterbi School of Engineering

Science reports the Viterbi School professor's appointment to a team being assembled by the NAE and the National Research Council

"Before we invest a hundred million dollars in a system like this, we ought to look at easing the barriers to jitneys and taxis downtown"

Science Applications International Corporation gift will support STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering Math) educational programs

ISE grad student Zhaohu Fan and others met with diplomats and experts including Joseph R. Donovan Jr.

The namesake of the Viterbi School leads the list of USC honorees at the June 26 ceremonies

Last year, Catherine Ricafort graduated from USC with a degree in industrial engineering. Today, she’s starring in A Chorus Line.

Viterbi School valedictorian Natasha Naik holds one of more than 2,000 new USC engineering degrees