USC Viterbi Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering

Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering

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USC Kanso Bioinspired Motion Lab borrows a trick from nature's toolkit that can be applied to optimize robot locomotion.
Shang-Hua Teng, S.K. Gupta and Massoud Pedram receive the prestigious honor in recognition of their contributions to innovation, invention and technology.
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Innovation detects cancer cells in blood samples (liquid biopsies) in as little as 10 minutes and identifies hard-to-find cells without humans in-the-loop
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The renovation of USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Dryden Wind Tunnel celebrates the phenomenon of "beautiful flow."
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What if cancer treatment could be made more effective and less toxic - not by inventing new drugs, but by rethinking the timing strategy of existing therapies?
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USC Viterbi Professor Fokion Egolfopoulos on how to fireproof existing homes and build back better and safer

Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering @ USC

Aerospace and mechanical engineers design and build unique, complex mechanical-optical-electronic (mechoptronic) systems, ranging in scale from the International Space Station to microscale electric generators and pumping systems.

A broad range of engineering science research is critical to developing novel, complex mechoptronic systems. As a consequence, aerospace and mechanical engineers conduct extensive basic and applied research within and crossing their usual disciplinary boundaries, they also synthesize research from many other disciplines.

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AME Seminar

Wed, Feb 11, 2026
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No Brain, No Problem: What Robots Can Learn from Sea Stars
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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Ambitious Seniors Design and Build Solutions to the Toughest Engineering Problems
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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Published on February 23rd, 2017Last updated on February 4th, 2026