Unlocking the Secrets of the Smallest Dwarf Planet
JPL Engineer and Adjunct USC Viterbi Professor Ryan Park confirms that dwarf planet Ceres is water-rich and geologically active.
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USC Viterbi Offers Two New Short Courses: “Viterbi vs. Pandemics!” and “Sustainable Energy”
Both lecture series launch the week after Labor Day, offering students a comprehensive faculty coverage of COVID-19 and a series on sustainable energy with Dean Yortsos
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USC Wins First Place in the AIAA Small Satellite Student Competition
USC Viterbi students design an ionic electrospray thruster to help fill in the propulsion gap for small satellites.
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One Giant LEAPFROG For Humanity
USC students and researchers at ISI SERC are building a lunar landing flight vehicle as part of NASA’s Artemis program.
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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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The 2020 Undergraduate Student Awards
Motivated to engineer a better world for all humanity, USC Viterbi celebrates graduates who have pursued academic excellence and impacted their communities.
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Trojan Students Sweep the Boeing Innovation Challenge
USC teams take the first three places in the prestigious competition, with USC Viterbi students leading the way.
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USC Viterbi Listed Again Among the Nation’s Top 10 Engineering Graduate Programs
Annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report also keep USC Viterbi among the top five private engineering schools
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Rocket Handles New Features with Poise
The record-breaking student-led USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory launched its latest vehicle, Poise, to test a new propellant, recovery system and more.
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Is There Life on Mars? With the Right Tools, There Could Be.
A team of USC students is one of 10 finalists awarded $10K to build a water extraction tool for NASA’s Moon to Mars challenge.
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“What If the Space Race Had Never Ended?” A Q&A With Garrett Reisman
New series “For All Mankind” explores alternate history of NASA with guidance from USC Viterbi professor of astronautics
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“I Want To Leave The World A Better Place Than I Found It”
Kevin Moran, astronautical engineering transfer student and U.S. Navy veteran has his eyes set on fusing engineering with humanitarian work
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USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory Receives Special Honor
The AIAA recognized students from the rocket lab for being the first undergraduate student team to design, build and successfully launch a rocket into space.
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In Space or in the Classroom, Fun is a Top Priority
Garrett Reisman’s USC micro-seminar convenes incoming undergraduates to help navigate expectations and pressures and mitigate stress
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Azad Madni Receives 2019 ASME CIE Leadership Award
Azad Madni, executive director of the USC Viterbi Systems Architecting and Engineering Program, receives the 2019 ASME CIE Leadership Award.
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USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory Shatters Student Altitude Record
Traveler IV is reportedly the first entirely student-designed and built rocket to pass the Kármán line into outer space
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Dan Erwin Appointed New Chair for USC Viterbi Department of Astronautical Engineering
Professor Dan Erwin to assume the leadership role of the Department of Astronautical Engineering beginning in July.
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Ready for Launch: Students Deliver USC’s Third CubeSat Satellite
USC Viterbi students get hands-on with spacecraft hardware, successfully delivering a CubeSat mini-satellite for launch into Earth’s low orbit.
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2018 AME Senior Project Showcase
Undergraduate students enrolled in AME 441A show off their semester’s work
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Students 3D print rocket engine
The Liquid Propulsion Lab successfully tested the world’s first 3D printed rocket engine made entirely on campus
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From the Persian Gulf to the Red Planet
Jonathan Yoke, Navy veteran and astronautical engineering graduate student, prepares for Mars at USC
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Are We Ready to Leave Low Earth Orbit?
“First Man” screening event celebrates Neil Armstrong (M.S. ’70), spotlights Trojan space pioneers and “the next giant leap” in space exploration
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What powers deep space travel?
Master’s student spends summer modeling nuclear generators for space expeditions
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IEC3 Camp Teaches Middle School Girls about Careers in Aerospace Engineering
The USC Viterbi outreach program premiered its second annual STEM education camp for middle school girls, featuring major voices from aerospace engineering