The Four-Legged Robot That Can Crawl, Crouch, Clean and Fight COVID
A team of USC master’s students creates a disinfection robot to use on COVID-19 prevention.
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What if Silent Heart Attacks Could be Diagnosed at Home?
USC Researchers use biofluid dynamics (hemodynamics) that can potentially detect heart attacks in patients without chest pain and lower mortality and re-hospitalization rates for heart failure patients.
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Paul Newton named AAAS Fellow
Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering joins 40 previously selected faculty members as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Wellness Workout: Mechancial Engineering Student Leads 6-Minute Yoga
Mechanical engineering student Anna Balbach is also a certified yoga instructor. She shared this six-minute video to help peers find mental balance and strength ahead of finals.
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Adapting to COVID-19: New Procedures Guiding Lab Safety for Students
Learn how the AME lab space at Biegler Hall has adjusted its space to ensure safety of its students, faculty and staff while allowing for immersive, hands-on learning.
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A 10-Day Forecast for COVID-19
USC Viterbi’s Roger Ghanem and Xiaoshu Zeng have created models which predict daily, new COVID-19 cases.
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Can the Movement of Tiny Hairlike Structures Tell Us How Healthy We Are?
Researchers determine triggers for transitions between coordinated movement of organelles called cilia, identifying a potential diagnostic tool for cancer and other illnesses.
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Imagine If Your Personal Device Worked All Day
Professor Ananya Renuka Balakrishna attempts to create batteries with longer lifespans.
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“Viterbi vs. Pandemics!” Lecture 4: Automation Technologies for Ensuring Human Safety during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The fourth lecture in the 10-part series focuses on how automation can help enhance human productivity in industries such as manufacturing while keeping them safe during the global pandemic.
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“Viterbi vs. Pandemics!” Lecture 2: Fluid Dynamics of the Spread of COVID-19
The second lecture in the 10-part series focuses on how the virus spreads in droplets and what masks are most effective
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“Viterbi vs. Pandemics!” Lecture 1: Modeling Epidemics
Inaugural lecture in 10-part series focuses on modeling epidemics as a chemical reaction process
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A Sustainable Hackathon
The 4th annual Sustain-A-Thon saw 57 students propose solutions for making the planet more livable and sustainable.
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Engineering Our Way Through a Global Pandemic
USC master’s students tackle robots, masks and droplet dispersion, to better understand how to live with COVID-19.
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Biegler Hall Gets a Makeover
The third floor Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering lab was reconfigured over the summer to offer students an interactive, yet safe experience this fall.
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Viterbi Researchers Create The Lightest, Smallest, Fully Autonomous Crawling Microrobot Reported To Date
The RoBeetle’s artificial muscle is powered by controlled catalytic combustion, a technology that has the potential to enable the development of a diverse new generation of microrobots capable of operating on land, water and air.
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USC Viterbi Sustainability Projects Receive $150,000 Funding Boost
Projects centered on precision agriculture, water modeling using AI, and smog-reducing architecture have been recognized in the USC Center for Sustainability Solutions’ latest grants.
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Walking, Climbing, Leaping Robots!
The work of USC Viterbi’s Quan Nguyen focuses on improving robot agility in legged robots so they can more easily and efficiently navigate difficult terrain
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Shockwaves Might Offer the Jolt Needed to Reach Mars
Applying shockwaves can improve conditions for fluid mixing in supersonic combustion engines, paving the way for flights at speeds five times faster than the speed of sound.
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USC Viterbi Doctoral Student Ke Xu Wins WiSE Merit Award
Xu’s research focuses on on the creation of electronics-free, entirely-soft autonomous robots.
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Helping La Peñita Through COVID-19
Travis Mendoza, ’16, came to Mexico to build a hotel; when the pandemic struck, he began to focus more on building a community.
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AI to Better Diagnose and Treat Renal Cancer and COVID-19
USC researchers are using AI to fuel more confident diagnosis of renal tumors, as well as more customized treatment for cancer patients and patients infected with COVID-19.
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USC Student Team Makes NASA RASC-AL Competition Finals
The design team will present its design on Wednesday, June 17 at 10:50 a.m. PST. Livestream will be available.
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USC Aerodesign Team Takes First Place for the Third Time at the Annual AIAA Design/Build/Fly Competition
From among 113 teams around the world, USC students came in first in the remote fly-off and also won best report at the 2019-2020 competition.
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Catching Defects Before They Multiply
USC and IBM researchers use deep learning to identify manufacturing issues before they spread, reducing wasted time, money and materials.
