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Azad Madni Receives Prestigious National Awards
University professor elected as AIAA honorary fellow and receives Distinguished Career Award from the Washington Academy of Sciences.
The TRASEE™ (Transdisciplinary Systems Engineering Education) paradigm at USC’s SAE program is an innovative educational approach that develops 21st-century systems engineers by integrating interdisciplinary thinking, storytelling-based learning, hands-on digital twin experiences, and dynamic assessment to prepare students for complex real-world problem solving.
TRASEE™ : Our Educational Paradigm
The USC Systems Architecting and Engineering (SAE) program prepares engineers and technical leaders to design, integrate, and manage complex systems across industries through a multidisciplinary, practice-oriented graduate education.
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USC’s Systems Architecting and Engineering program is led by distinguished faculty, industry experts, and research professionals whose deep technical expertise and real-world leadership experience drive innovation in complex systems design and provide students with mentorship grounded in practice as well as theory.
Video - Azad Madni Receives NAE’s 2023 Gordon Prize
For the second consecutive year, a USC Viterbi faculty member received the National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard M. Gordon Prize, with Azad M. Madni—systems engineering pioneer, Northrop Grumman Foundation Fred O’Green Chair in Engineering, and University Professor of Astronautical Engineering—honored for defining transdisciplinary systems engineering and creating TRASEE™, an innovative educational approach that fosters creative, out-of-the-box thinking through storytelling and role-playing.
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Jamani King and the Stimulating STEM program which focuses on AI, coding, and robotics were highlighted.
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The USC Viterbi School’s Systems Architecting and Engineering program provides graduate engineers and engineering managers with the advanced knowledge and skills necessary for conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and managing complex systems. The emphasis is both on the processes by which complex systems are conceived, planned, designed, built, tested and certified as well as the system itself. The knowledge and insights gained from the SAE program can be applied to defense, space, aircraft, homeland security, healthcare, and energy grid, transportation and other commercial industries.

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  • Call for Articles: SERC Special Issue of INCOSE INSIGHT
    SERC and INCOSE invite submissions for a special issue of INSIGHT that will trace the progress of artificial intelligence and automation in systems engineering methods, processes, tools, and applications across the decade from 2020 to a look ahead in 2030.
  • Research Highlight: Mission Engineering and Integration of Emerging Technologies
    The research team worked to provide mission engineering research expertise to better understand the impacts of adopting Agile, DevSecOps, and other industry best-practices in developing mission critical capabilities as the SSC enterprise transitions from traditional development to Agile/DevSecOps and other modern development approaches.

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Azad Madni Honored by ASME with Spirit of St. Louis Medal
Azad Madni Honored by ASME with Spirit of St. Louis Medal

Azad Madni to receive ASME’s Spirit of St. Louis Medal at 2026 ASME SSDM

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Excellence, Curiosity, Character: The Graduates of the USC Viterbi Class of 2025
Excellence, Curiosity, Character: The Graduates of the USC Viterbi Class of 2025

At the USC Viterbi undergraduate commencement ceremony, the next generation of engineers are encouraged to advance technology that solves the world’s grand challenges.

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“You Are Agents of Change”: The USC Viterbi Master’s Class of 2025
“You Are Agents of Change”: The USC Viterbi Master’s Class of 2025

At the USC Viterbi master’s commencement ceremonies, Dean Yannis C. Yortsos praised graduates on the “singular achievement” of earning their master’s degree.

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Published on February 23rd, 2017Last updated on February 26th, 2026