USC Viterbi Hosts Honeywell Hypersonics & Emerging Technologies Industry Day
Leading industry representatives, academics and students gathered on campus to discuss the future of hypersonic technology.
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Astronautical Engineering News Back to News Archive
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Senior Design Projects Tackle Today’s Top Engineering Problems
Students in the USC Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering apply their learning to address some of the most pressing technological challenges facing industry today.
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USC Researcher Explores Human-AI Collaboration for Future Space Missions
Ulubilge Ulusoy, a PhD candidate in the USC Department of Astronautical Engineering (ASTE), researches how astronauts and AI can learn to collaborate more effectively for deep space missions.
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Undergraduate Faith Colon Wins Prestigious AIAA Scholarship
The USC Viterbi junior received the Lockheed Martin Marillyn Hewson Scholarship for excellence in astronautical engineering
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USC Student Rocket Group Shatters International Amateur Space Record
Aftershock II is believed to be the world’s first civilian-built rocket to reach an altitude of 470,000 feet.
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USC Space Engineering Students Showcase Innovation at International Conference
Students from USC’s Space Engineering Research Center present six research projects at the International Astronautical Conference in Milan, Italy.
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USC Viterbi AI Startups Thrive
Defying rollercoaster AI investment trends, startups founded by alumni and faculty at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have consistently seen success in VC funding.
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Insects, Balloons and Rockets: How One Scholarship Enables Flight
Autumn Zaretsky, Doug Peacock Scholar, seeks to push the boundaries of what is known and what can be known.
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USC Viterbi Students Present at the International Electric Propulsion Conference in France
Students attended the 38th International Electric Propulsion Conference (IEPC) held in Toulouse, France, where they presented a paper about their project to develop a low-power solid-fuel plasma thruster for de-orbiting CubeSats.
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USC Liquid Propulsion Lab is Advancing Reusable Rocket Research
The student-run team tackles the challenge of designing regeneratively cooled reusable rocket engines.
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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.
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Ph.D. Student Tackles the Environmental Impact of Spacecraft Re-Entry
José P. Ferreira, a doctoral candidate in astronautical engineering, has received the prestigious Space for Sustainability Award from the European Space Agency (ESA).
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From Dreams to Degrees: USC Viterbi Class of 2024 Graduates Shape Tomorrow, Today
At the forefront of engineering and technology, graduates like Christian Bryan redefine potential with degrees in cutting-edge fields and a commitment to lifelong exploration.
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Master’s Class of 2024: “The Best So Far”
At the USC Viterbi master’s commencement ceremonies, Dean Yannis C. Yortsos praised graduates’ resilience, ingenuity and integrity
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First-Gen Student Leads the USC Liquid Propulsion Lab
Soon to launch into a career at one of the nation’s top space companies, graduating student Danetti Martino has already gained ground as lead engineer of one of the nation’s top student rocketry labs.
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Propelled by Mentorship, an Astronautical Engineer’s Path To SuccessÂ
For graduating student Brooke Rios, the path to engineering excellence was discovered in the powerful alliances she forged along the way.
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Launching an Astronautics Startup: A Student Entrepreneur’s Journey
Graduating engineer James Austin went from small-town roots to becoming a startup founder developing a new space launch system.
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An Astronautics Polymath Discovers a Talent for Robotics
Graduating student Henry Adam was too curious to specialize early on – by allowing his interests to roam, he managed to achieve more than most goal-oriented engineers.
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Solving The Space Dilemma
USC ISI researchers are building tools to solve safety problems in space operations, and creating test beds to simulate cyberattacks in space
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AME and ASTE Students Awarded at the 2024 AIAA Conference
AME teams received 2nd and 3rd place in the Undergraduate Teams category.
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Graduate Students Present Papers at the 45th IEEE Aerospace Conference
Paper topics ranged from designs for space robots, to management of space debris, to support for astronauts conducting maintenance in space habitats.
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Professor Mike Gruntman participates in Symposium on Space Sciences and Technologies at M. S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru
Professor Gruntman helped to organize the symposium, and took part in a panel discussion where he discussed opportunities in space for students in India.
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USC Rocket Propulsion Lab is Ready to Return to Space
The stellar USC Astronautics team has now set the record for the most powerful motor ever fired by a student group – so, what’s next?
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Professor Azad Madni Awarded ASME Honorary Membership
Professor Azad Madni is awarded Honorary Membership by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
