USC Viterbi Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering

Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering

Innovating the fututre of Flight and Machines
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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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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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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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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

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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From the perspective of USC researcher Wen Chen, human history is a tale of material transformation.
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Researchers at USC Viterbi School of Engineering have developed a novel method for fabricating highly precise and stretchable electronics that conform seamlessly to the body.

Upcoming Events

Feb25Wed
AME Seminar

Wed, Feb 25, 2026
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: ZHS 252
Speaker: Ximin He , UCLA Talk Title: Bio-like Soft Materials with Life-like Intelligence Abstract: From the cellular level up to the body system level, living organisms present elegant designs to realize the desirable structures,...

Mar04Wed
AME Seminar

Wed, Mar 04, 2026
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: ZHS 252
Speaker: Andrzej Domaradzki, USC AME Host: AME Department More Info: ame.usc.edu/seminar/ Webcast: Contact Tessa at tessayao@usc.edu for the link

Mar11Wed
AME Seminar

Wed, Mar 11, 2026
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: ZHS 252
Speaker: Fabio Semperlotti, Purdue Host: Neda Maghsoodi More Info: ame.usc.edu/seminar/ Webcast: Contact Tessa at tessayao@usc.edu for the link

Mar25Wed
AME Seminar

Wed, Mar 25, 2026
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: ZHS 252
Speaker: Chang-Jin "CJ" Kim, UCLA Host: Hangbo Zhao More Info: ame.usc.edu/seminar/ Webcast: Contact Tessa at tessayao@usc.edu for the link

Apr01Wed
AME Seminar

Wed, Apr 01, 2026
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: ZHS 252
Speaker: Xian Shi, UC Irvine Host: Ray Xu More Info: ame.usc.edu/seminar/ Webcast: Contact Tessa at tessayao@usc.edu for the link

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Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering News and Media Coverage

EK works on the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team (Photo Credit: Magali Gruet/USC)

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.

A close up photo of a starfish on a beach

A study by Eva Kanso’s lab was featured.


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Published on February 23rd, 2017Last updated on February 20th, 2026