October 2019

USC Viterbi Achieves Gender Parity in its Entering Class

Women now comprise 50% of the entering undergraduate class, a historic record for USC Engineering.

USC Viterbi has played a leading role in bringing together engineers at the Global Grand Challenges Summits, including the most recent gathering in London.

GRAND CHALLENGES

Mahta Moghaddam and Behrokh Khoshnevis inducted into to NAE on October 6, 2019

Moghaddam was elected for development of physics-based computational algorithms; Khoshnevis was elected for innovations in manufacturing and construction.

DISTINCTION

Is This the Future of Mental Health?

Maryam Shanechi, recently named to Science News Magazine's Top 10 Scientists to Watch, answers questions about her revolutionary brain-machine interfaces.

DISTINCTION

Researchers find antibiotic resistant genes prevalent in groundwater samples in Southern California

Amid the Urgency to Make Wastewater Potable, Process is Key in Determining Public Safety

RESEARCH

USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory Receives Special Honor

The AIAA recognized students from the rocket lab for being the first undergraduate student team to design, build and successfully launch a rocket into space.

DISTINCTION

USC Viterbi Researchers Awarded Nearly $2 Million by NSF's Pilot Convergence Accelerator and AccelNet Programs

Professors in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Lucio Soibelman and Burcin Becerik-Gerber will build knowledge networks.

RESEARCH

USC Student Club Harnesses AI for Social Good

The rise and rise of CAIS++, the student branch of USC's Center for AI in Society, where undergraduate students are using artificial intelligence to tackle projects with environmental and social impact.

STUDENTS

USC Viterbi Receives Three-Year NSF Grant to Train Engineers for the Future of Manufacturing

USC Viterbi and the Center for Advanced Manufacturing will develop education platform to prepare U.S. workforce for challenges, opportunities in advanced manufacturing

RESEARCH

Rising Star Honored for Early Achievements and Promise

Computer science PhD student Yixue Zhao will participate in the 2019 Rising Stars Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Workshop at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

STUDENTS

Groundbreaking Method Detects Defective Computer Chips

Technique also reverse-engineers computer chips to detect chip purpose

RESEARCH

USC Viterbi Lab Breaks Electron Emission Record

Professor Rehan Kapadia improved electron emission efficiency by ten to the power of five. How did he do it?

RESEARCH