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Spring 2026
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The Fire Forecast: AI Model Accurately Predicts the Spread of Wildfires in Real Time
 
By combining high-resolution satellite data, terrain data and realistic fire simulations, USC Viterbi researchers have developed a reconstruction and prediction tool for making informed decisions when tackling catastrophic wildfires.
 
 
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Where Mechanical Engineers Are Made: Inside the Baum Family Maker Space
 
A tour with Paul Ronney, Chair of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, through the facility where AME students build, test, compete, and learn that sometimes your best asset isn't speed, it's reliability.
 
 
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No Brain, No Problem: What Robots Can Learn from Sea Stars
 
USC Kanso Bioinspired Motion Lab borrows a trick from nature's toolkit that can be applied to optimize robot locomotion.
 
 
 
 
 
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Where Flow Becomes Science: Inside the Fabulous Fluids Facility
 
A tour with Paul Ronney, Chair of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, through three laboratories that ask the same fundamental question: how does fluid move, and why?
 
 
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Ambitious Seniors Design and Build Solutions to the Toughest Engineering Problems
 
The annual Senior Design Showcase at the USC Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering is a chance for students to transform ideas into innovations, tackling some of the most pressing technological challenges facing industry today.
 
 
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No Time for Trial and Error: How to Speed Up the Discovery of the Next Super-Alloy
 
A 3D-printing technique co-developed at USC has enabled the rapid discovery of a new alloy that can withstand extreme heat.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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