Professor Barry Boehm will serve as director of research of the nation's first University Affiliated Research Center focused on Systems Engineering

Viterbi School faculty and administrators traveled to Mexico City to initiate a collaborative agreement with the National Autonomous University of Mexico

Michael Arbib, Terence Langdon and Aristides Requicha share honor from leading scientific society.

Maria Todorovska of the USC Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has been named "a prominent woman in civil engineering" in an international journal.

Freshman Academy students dive into a challenging assignment to learn basic concepts in engineering and applied sciences.

Representatives of 17 different interactive entertainment companies watched presentations from Viterbi and CNTV student teams on a wide range of platforms.

A new facility with the latest scanning electron microscopes will position USC to become a national leader in nanoscience and energy.

The working prototype points the way to a broad range of possible applications including ultrathin 'e-paper' displays

Harvard University geochemist Daniel Schrag discusses the energy choices society faces in addressing global climate change in the Mork Department’s annual Pings Lecture.

ISI will be part of a new national Center for Genomic Studies on Mental Disorders, funded by a five-year, $42.4-million grant.

New research by an Epstein Department specialist finds that the capacity of the L.A. ports could be increased and area big-rig trip volume reduced by moving cargo processing inland.

For five semesters now, the Viterbi School has offered extra support for freshmen and sophomores facing intimidating engineering final exams.

Wei-Min Shen returned from the 26th Army Science Conference with an award plaque for research that created an improved "self-healing" linkage system for his SuperBot modular robot system.

S.D. Shibulal, co-founder and chief operating officer of Infosys Technologies, Ltd., spent a full day meeting with Viterbi people - the dean, BOC members, faculty, researchers and students.

The 'Bekey tribe' of faculty and research scholars gathered recently to celebrate the legacy of a giant in robotics.

Epstein Department recommendations significantly cut O.R. downtime in three Southern California safety net hospitals, allowing "many more hours of surgery per year" in the same facilities.

Against a tough field with 71 strong entries from Southern California and Nevada, four USC teams coached by David Kempe achieved good scores

Firdaus Udwadia, professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, has been recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers for his outstanding contributions as journal editor.

To compete for top engineering students, the Viterbi School's globalization programs emphasize education and research opportunities around the world.

The Epstein Department's Yong Chen believes "digital manufacturing" using Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) technology can take off -- if the right software can be created.

Analysis of toxins carried on particulates indicates health threat posed by conflagrations like the November 2008 California wildfires may be underestimated by officials.

USC's participation in the Southern California ShakeOut drill let campus participants practice what they should do in the event of a major shake-up in Los Angeles.

The first in a series of conferences 'to promote the renaissance of large urban areas' sparks discussions of innovative research, technology and planning for mega growth.

Andrew J. Viterbi, USC trustee and benefactor of the Viterbi School, makes his research and personal papers available online at USC.

The software-for-the-disabled effort started by one Viterbi School grad student and now co-directed by another won first prize in the annual USC Stevens Institute student competition.

A two-day conference on many urban issues that impact megacities will feature prominent faculty, industry and public officials.

Madhu Thangavelu’s long-running class in space architecture uses current NASA studies and ongoing projects as the jumping off point for creative alternatives

Students get a chance to meet Microsoft software developers and learn about careers and new product lines at a mid-semester 'TechFest' on campus.

Top university officials gather to honor USC trustee and Viterbi School namesake for winning the National Medal of Science.

Matthew O'Donnell, dean of engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, discusses a promising new approach for ultra high resolution imaging at BME's third annual keynote address.

A handy new iPhone application created by talented USC computer science sophomore David Hodge is already making waves among the NorCal commuter crowd.

An ISE researcher is applying engineering principles to medical services delivery, beginning with a effort to help safety net clinics care for the chronically ill.

The Viterbi School of Engineering moved from 12th to 11th in the world in engineering, technology and computer science programs in the recently released 2008 Shanghai Jiao Tong University rankings.

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos, Provost C.L. Max Nikias and two distinguished executives with Viterbi School ties were honored in a ceremony welcoming them into the National Academy of Engineering

A three-year award from the National Cancer Institute will support development and testing of a novel ultrasound probe for the detection of prostate cancer.

BME researcher will lead one of the four initial projects planned by a new Engineering Research Center for Technologies for Successful Aging with Disability.

Computer science graduate Oussama Mellouli won the gold in the 1500-meter freestyle swimming competition at this year's Olympic Games in Beijing.

Francisco Valero-Cuevas will lead a four-year study on "Reverse Engineering the Human Hand," funded by the NSF's Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation Office.

Comprehensive coverage of the award of the 2007 National Medal of Science to USC Trustee and Engineering School namesake Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi, including the White House ceremony and preceding black-tie reception.

ISI division director John Wroclawski is part of a $12 Million NSF effort to build a "Global Environment for Network Innovations."

The success of the CREATE-funded "keep the bad guys guessing" computer scheduling program at LAX brings Federal Air Marshals to USC to explore its use in their operations.

Wanda Austin, president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, delivers Epstein Department's second annual Rechtin Keynote Lecture, named after a founding father of systems architecting and engineering.

Scott Easley has joined the Viterbi School full-time as GamePipe Assistant Director.

Structural engineering experts from all over the world converged on Tutor Hall to share the latest developments in the state of their art — and pay tribute to the Viterbi School pioneer who made fundamental contributions to it.

The Viterbi School co-hosts a two-day summit with the Competitiveness Crisis Council, Rossier School and USC Stevens Institute to address strategies for addressing the shortage of science and engineering-bound students in California.

Students and parents discovered the fun of being engineers at a Saturday Tech Fair, held in partnership with the Education Crisis Summit.

For more than a decade, Barry Boehm's graduate software engineering class has looked for challenges not just from textbooks, but from clients in the community.

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos reports on the school's progress in his annual talk to the Viterbi School.

A Viterbi guitarist/computer scientist graduate student working with Viterbi pianist/systems specialist Elaine Chew has built and tested a songwriting system that can create a musical accompaniment in the style of any chosen performer.

A two-week non-residential summer camp reaches out to exceptional high school sophomores and juniors from educationally disadvantaged communities.

The Mork Family Department welcomed its new and returning students to campus with an International Welcome Luncheon and webcast made available to Distance Education students.

V.P. Subrahmanyam "Subu" Goparaju of Infosys Technologies and Viterbi School Dean Yannis C. Yortsos joined in a toast September 5 to launch the company's first-ever research center outside of India.

A 10 percent increase in contributions to this year's fundraising initiative sent a strong message of support and commitment to surrounding communities.

An outstanding group of students from China's premier engineering school worked one-on-one with leading Viterbi School faculty on research destined to advance technology and benefit society.

Researchers came from all over the world to attend the first workshop totally dedicated to an emerging scientific modeling technique the University and the Viterbi School have played a key role in developing.

Sina Golshany is the first-ever Viterbi School student to place in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aircraft Design Competition.

The world's largest manufacturer of construction equipment will support continuing research on system aiming to build full-scale houses in hours.

The Mork Department's Kristian Jessen will lead an effort to develop tools to enhance recovery of a valuable but elusive resource.

President George W. Bush has announced that USC trustee and namesake of the Viterbi School of Engineering Andrew J. Viterbi is one of the recipients of the nation's highest honor for science and technology.

Viterbi School Dean Yannis C. Yortsos addressed the topic of "Meeting and Managing Rising Student Expectations" at the 2008 Student Affairs Conference.

Civil engineering professor, traveling with a U.S. delegation, reported that some cities in earthquake-damaged region would be better off relocating than rebuilding.

USC professors of computer science and electrical engineering will use their awards to foster collaboration and promote courseware and curriculum innovation.

Former USC NCAA Champion Ous Mellouli, a Viterbi School graduate, walked away with the gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

The energy giant gives $915,000 in scholarships and training to USC students as part of its global University Partnership Program (UPP).

Speaking about identity security earlier this month, Chertoff also met with university officials, including Dean Yortsos and CREATE Director Detloff von Winterfeldt.

Shri Narayanan of the Ming Hsieh Department and Laurent Itti of the Computer Science Department are the latest recipients of this prestigious award.

The USC Viterbi School was selected as one of 33 recipients of a 2008 HP Labs Innovation Research Award, which is designed to encourage open collaboration with HP Labs resulting in mutually beneficial, high-impact research.

ASME Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Conference recognizes Epstein faculty member for outstanding scholarship.

A $5.9 million grant will keep one of the Viterbi School's longest running research success stories running for at least another five years.

A team of physicians and faculty from Keck and the USC Viterbi School will join Childrens Hospital in a new study to understand blood flow in people with sickle cell anemia.

A Hsieh Department graduate student has applied the classic tool for eliminating dead-end possibilities in data reception to qubit communications

Undergraduate engineering students fulfill course requirements while getting a taste of Rome's timelessness, turbulent history and engineering marvels in overseas study program.

Professor P. Vijay Kumar's EE-Systems team took the best paper prize at a recent conference on Distributed Computing Systems.

A team from the Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute will structure data to allow health scientists to quickly and consistently test hypotheses.

Early research by the USC Interaction Laboratory confirms that children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) often interact more easily with mechanical devices and robots than with unfamiliar people

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.

The Viterbi School's summer MESA science-mathematics-physics institute brings the laws of gravity, motion and celestial orbits into focus for middle and high school teachers.

Newly appointed faculty in electrical engineering, chemical and materials science, astronautics and civil engineering will join the professorial ranks beginning this fall.

As many as five outstanding seniors studying electrical or biomedical engineering at the San Luis Obispo college will this fall be able to speed their paths to USC MS degrees through the new Viterbi Integrated Masters of Science Program

In a new paper called "Math and Music: The Perfect Match," pianist/computational engineer Elaine Chew proposes applications of the increasingly powerful discipline of Operations Research to the ancient art of pitched and rhythmic sound.

Andrea Hodge has received a $175,000 two-year grant to carry on advanced research in a sophisticated manufacturing process used to coat targets with thin films of various materials.

Viterbi contributes expertise and leadership to the university's High Performance Computing Center

The Aerospace Institute for Engineering Research has embarked on three ambitious, collaborative aerospace research projects that could benefit commercial aviation worldwide.

Keith Chugg's prize honors his achievements in textbook writing, teaching, research and student guidance

An industrial and systems engineering student will examine the safety issues involved in the design of a new Expo Light Rail crossing near Dorsey High School.

Research center's business director brings together Army, industry, academia and a foundation to create a lab-bench-to-marketplace competition judged by a blue-ribbon panel

How do you keep a potential half-billion social networkers current? A Viterbi School expert tackles the growth problems of one of the world's largest computing systems.

George Bekey drew on his vast experience in a wide range of engineering disciplines in his speech at the recent IEEE SOSE conference in Monterey, California

A distinguished radar and communications technologist in the Ming Hsieh Department has been appointed professor emeritus in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the field.

Nikias, Yortsos and Golomb journey with him to Helsinki to be part of events honoring the School's namesake and three illustrious colleagues.

Terence G. Langdon has won a 2008 Blaise Pascal Medal for Material Science from the European Academy of Sciences, and will deliver the Lee Hsun Lecture at a Chinese Academy Institute of Materials Science

Professor Ellis Horowitz will serve as interim chair of the Viterbi School's Department of Computer Science.

Three Viterbi School doctoral students will have their careers generously supported for three years as recipients of Alfred E. Mann Innovation in Engineering Doctoral Fellowships.

The giant Bangalore-based IT company will partner with the Viterbi School to create a Center for Research & Education in Advanced Software Technologies on the USC campus

The Viterbi School's Yan Xiao, on sabbatical in China, has created a prototype of a sturdy, quick-to-build bamboo house designed to help the vast number of people made homeless by the May 12 Sichuan earthquake.

The organizers of the mammoth 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation were all from the Viterbi School CS Department. An ISI robotics team took a top prize and a USC specialist in nanorobotics won a prestigious Pioneer Award.

Monica De Los Santos, director of Student Services in the Viterbi School's Admission and Student Affairs Office, has won the USC Outstanding Academic Advising Award.

Aristides A.G. Requicha, holder of the Viterbi School's Gordon Marshall Chair, was honored for his career achievements May 23 at the world's largest gathering of robotics and automation researchers.

Ming Hsieh professor Alan Willner to helm renowned publication in the optics field.

Electrical engineer Michael Johnson moves from regional chair to national Vice-Chairperson of the National Society of Black Engineers, continuing his upward trajectory and high level of involvement both within and without the school of engineering

"Seven years ago we set a very lofty target...I am extremely pleased to tell you that as of the end of this March, our fundraising total stood at $300,955,609 in cash and pledges."

Parents, siblings, children and friends — some from across the globe — cheer 1,860 newly minted Viterbi School graduates, who have now become part of USC's global Trojan family.

Byeong Ho Gong and Chan K. Song were the first Viterbi Distance Education Network students to win M.S. degrees while studying outside the U.S.

Microtechnology pioneer shares some personal experiences in risk taking, perseverance, competition and the role of money.

The Viterbi School's Distance Education Network's largest-ever graduating class marked a 30 percent increase over 2007 — which had been 30 percent above 2006.

Ken Klein (BSMEE'82), benefactor of the Klein Institute of Undergraduate Engineering Life urges the Class of 2008 to follow their passion in life.

Chemical engineering senior Kelly Nakamura was not only at the top of her class, but the Emma Josephine Bradley Bovard Awardee for having the highest GPA of all graduating senior women at USC.

DemoDay6: Viterbi students demonstrate their original interactive games to industry representatives in the latest installment of what has become an instant USC tradition.

A computer science graduating senior will represent the Viterbi School in university's main commencement ceremony.

The Viterbi School graduating senior, Trojan basketball player and new Rhodes Scholar will be a salutatorian in the university's May 16 commencement ceremony.

Two prize-winning Hsieh department specialists hope to break a bottleneck that has long limited computing systems that use light - photons - instead of electronics for processing.

The School celebrates legendary scientist and engineer Simon Ramo, co-founder of TRW; an industry leader; and a Viterbi School alumna at its yearly engineering awards ceremony.

Graduating seniors and student leaders were recognized for their exceptional achievements in a special Viterbi Awards ceremony held on campus.

Bart Kosko of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering was one of three recipients of an excellence award from the USC Faculty Senate.

In January, Ed Maby and Adam Fincham's students were given a two-word assignment: "Smart Surfboards." By May, they'd gone surfing.

A USC presidential scholar and top ISE student wins a research grant to study human factors in airport safety at LAX.

The Ming Hsieh Department professor is a leader in the field of robust control.

Christopher Leung, John McArthur and Ramnath Shenoy are 2008 Viterbi recipients of USC Student Recognition Awards.

Sonny Astani Department alumnus Sung Woo Lee has been named president of Kookmin University, a leader in information technology in South Korea.

Two industrial and systems engineering undergraduates have received 2008 Science and Engineering Fellowships from the Rose Hills Foundation to support their research in aviation and railway safety.

Dean Yortsos recognizes exceptional teaching, research and service in the Viterbi School in his annual "State of the School" speech and awards luncheon.

An internationally known USC civil engineer, Abdel-Ghaffar specialized in the analysis and monitoring of long span flexible bridges.

Egypt has its great pyramids; Viterbi now has its micropyramids

Noted civil engineer Jean-Lou Chameau delivers the inaugural lecture for the Astani Department’s new Dorman Distinguished Lecture series.

Six engineering faculty are recognized for mentoring that made a difference in lives of fellow faculty and/or students.

Faculty and students meet with NRC representative to discuss changing priorities as global energy demands increase.

The professor emeritus was recognized for his significant contributions, scholarly writings and teaching awards in the area of oil and gas field development.

The Viterbi School and Seoul National University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to begin collaborative programs in digital communications, image and video signal processing and other areas of electrical engineering.

University officials from the Shanghai institution have entered into a new partnership with the Viterbi School to develop collaborative student and faculty research programs.

The Viterbi school's cyberdefense lab partnership wins an American Council for Technology (ACT) national award

Engineering faculty and deans from USC and China's pre-eminent technical research institution will share ideas on the University Park campus beginning April 30.

Biomedical engineering students present their work at the 12th Annual Fred S. Grodins Graduate Research Symposium.

Assistant Professor Konstantinos Psounis wins “Best and Most Compelling Presentation and Demonstration” at Stanford University workshop on the future of the Internet.

“Becoming Part of California’s Rebuilding” was the theme of this year’s USC-Associated General Contractors 14th Annual Symposium at the Galen Center.

The new agreement will allow the institutions to develop collaborative academic programs, exchanges and internships.

Viterbi undergraduates and faculty show off their artistic talents during the second annual spring art festival, sponsored by KIUEL.

The Viterbi School's Mork Family Department hosts a new annual keynote lecture to honor the late provost and chemical engineer.

The Viterbi School is playing a $5.9 million part in a DARPA research effort to develop a sophisticated decision-aid system that can be deployed in the field.

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos receives the 2008 Western North America Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award from the Society of Petroleum Engineers Western North America Region.

Chongwu Zhou has helped create a brilliant, luminous active matrix display, the first ever made using transparent transistors and circuits.

Viterbi graduate students are honored for poster displays at The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society’s annual conference in New Orleans.

More than 180 researchers from USC, Chevron and allied organizations gathered on the University Park campus for the biggest-ever meeting on using IT for "smart" oil production.

The Society of Petroleum Engineers has named Viterbi graduate student Hamid Jahangiri as recipient of the Nico Van Wingen Fellowship, an honor that bears the name of a former USC faculty member.

In just over one year, Christopher Leung has brought together a volunteer student programming effort, supported by industry, that may soon have working software products

Daniel J. Epstein lecturer and active IIE Los Angeles president Ted Mayeshiba honored with select post as Fellow at the international engineers' organization.

Massoud Dessouky's upcoming installation as a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers follows best paper and excellence in teaching awards.

David Kempe is part of an elite national group of junior faculty members who will receive up to $300,000 to fund their research.

A five-year grant will advance the engineering professor's work to produce a new measurement technique for the development of next-generation microfluidic devices.

A new EPA-funded investigation will examine the amount of coarse particle pollution in specific parts of the Los Angeles Basin.

A new facility for undergraduate students allows students create projects and get hands-on experience turning ideas into physical objects.

The Viterbi School professor of electrical engineering is known for his cutting edge research to improve and miniaturize particle accelerators.

Women In Engineering (WIE) Connect 2008 introduces girls to a bright future in science and technology.

A computer program to protect airports by making police operations more unpredictable performs well in recent trials.

The Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering professor wins the IEEE’s inaugural Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing Outstanding Service award, as well as a Best Paper award.

USC Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, C. L. Max Nikias, will receive the Clifford C. Furnas Award.

Jack Wolf, invited speaker for the Viterbi Distinguished Lecture, chronicled the evolution of audio storage from the days of Thomas Edison to the present.

More than 500 Viterbi School undergraduates achieved a grade point average of 3.5 or higher in the Fall 2007 semester.

Viterbi Professor Geoff Spedding reports in today's Science magazine how bats, like insects, are able to hover in mid-air.

Viterbi School engineering students host a new community outreach program for middle schools, a Career Fair and an industry dinner seminar during this year's national E-Week celebration.

The Viterbi School's Chris Kyriakakis recently staged Karlheinz Stockhausen’s piano duet Mantra, at Disney Hall, utilizing the immersive audio technology he developed at USC. Mechanical Engineering junior Ilya Golosker, an editor of Illumin online magazine, attended.

The faculty member has won a three-year grant for his novel approach to solving delay problems in ad-hoc wireless networks.

The Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute is collaborating with UCLA's Center for Embedded Networked Sensing on a project aimed a putting networked sensors into the hands of a wide spectrum of non-specialist new users.

Introduced by Hsieh Department Electrophysics Chair P. Daniel Dapkus, UCSB's Herbert Kroemer spoke on "Heterostructures: From Physics to Devices and Back (A Personal Perspective)."

Angela Belcher, a materials chemist at MIT, presented this year's Spitzer keynote lecture Jan. 20 on hybrid electronic and magnetic materials to Mork Department faculty, students and colleagues.

Celebrated robotics, computer science, electrical engineering and biomedical engineering pioneer George Bekey, a university professor emeritus in the Viterbi School, will receive the USC Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award.

USC Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs C. L. Max Nikias is among the 65 new members elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Yannis C. Yortsos named to the highest engineering professional academy.

Alexis Livanos, Wanda Austin and John Martin have close Viterbi connections

The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems has just named its Best Student Paper Award after Pragnesh Jay Modi, who spent six years in ISI's Intelligent Systems Division.

When Santa Anita unveils its newly surfaced race track on Feb. 9, jockeys, trainers, owners and horses will thank Sonny Astani Department Chair Jean-Pierre Bardet for coming to the rescue.

In a novel experiment, a USC biomedical engineering professor examines the intricate circuitry between precision hand manipulation skills and specialized neural circuits in the brain.

Two researchers from the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering present a chip that can detect radio frequency signals coming from 49 distinct angles; applications range from search and rescue to biomedical imaging.

A Viterbi School paper presented at last year's IEEE International Solid State Circuits Symposium has been voted the best of the 125 papers from the event, the major annual meeting in the subject.

The researcher becomes the fifth faculty member in the Sonny Astani Department to receive a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.

Costas Synolakis's review concludes that the 2004 Indian Ocean catastrophe was far from the worst possible in the area - and notes that warning systems are still lagging.

Solomon W. Golomb of the Ming Hsieh Department has added to what may be USC's longest list of faculty honors with his appointment January 17 as Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics.

Moore is elected vice president and president-elect of the Transportation Science and Logistics Society and will receive the Pioneer Educator Award from the Orange County Engineering Council.

Actor Alan Alda shares some tips with Viterbi School engineering students on the art of public speaking.

USC researcher Constantinos Sioutas develops new technologies and exposure methods to investigate the link between air pollution and heart disease

USC faculty will work with colleagues at Korea Aerospace University in Seoul and Inha University in Incheon.

At a brief January 17 ceremony, Chevron Vice President Warner Williams presented a check for $200,000 to Dean Yannis C. Yortsos of the Viterbi School of Engineering, establishing the 2008 Chevron-USC Scholarship and Fellowship Partnership Program.

The former director and chief operating officer of the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at USC who was on the biomedical engineering faculty and a member of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Board of Councilors was 73.

New study reveals dramatic improvements in patient flow at large safety net hospitals, based on the principles of industrial and systems engineering.

More than 120 experts from four continents assembled at USC for the first-ever conference on quantum error correction. The technique, first proposed in 1995, may be the key to computers with extraordinary capabilities.

Tomlinson Holman, the Hsieh department faculty member whose THX system revolutionized sound in movie theaters, has again been recognized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his contributions to audio recording and reproduction.

Citation notes Lidar's "contributions to the theory of decoherence control of open quantum systems for quantum information processing, especially the decoherence free subspace method."

Simon Ramo, the “R” in TRW and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering, has accepted to an offer to join the faculty of the Viterbi School’s Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering.

The National Academy of Engineering member says that knowledge alone will not bring happiness, satisfaction or meaningful lives.