What If Airplanes Could Repair Their Own Damage?
USC researchers 3-D-printed the next-generation of high strength, lightweight structures that can autonomously heal impact damage.
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Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering News Back to News Archive
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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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Reducing the Environmental Impact of Desalination and Wastewater Treatment
USC Viterbi Ph.D. student Sophia Plata, the first woman in her family to attend college, works to meet the challenge of access to clean water.
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A Future Sound “Computer”?
USC researchers create smart materials that can mimic electrical devices by triggering different responses to sound.
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Some Wastewater Reuse Processes Can Lead to Undesired Byproducts
Potable water reuse is a boon for sustainability, but USC researchers warn of potentially toxic byproducts.
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In A Season Of Giving, This Student Start-up Is Transforming The Way We Give
Duet is the world’s first student-built micro-philanthropy platform designed to connect donors with refugees and local stores in a more personalized and dignified way
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Changing a 150-year-old paradigm
USC Researcher Discovers a New Approach to Stabilize Spinning Systems by Simultaneously Injecting and Removing Energy
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MIT Technology Review Names USC Viterbi Ph.D. Student One of “The Top Innovators Under 35” in the Middle East and North Africa
The award recognizes Ghena Alhanaee for her work to prevent a regional catastrophe by providing a linked emergency response plan across the Persian Gulf
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Can a Building Help Thwart The Next Active Shooter?
Researchers have designed a virtual environment to test how building features in schools and offices help or hurt occupants during active shooter incidents.
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Researchers demonstrate antibiotic-resistant genes are well removed by purification used to recycle wastewater but final quality is influenced by environmental factors
A team led by Assistant Professor in the USC Viterbi Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Adam Smith has found that purified water returned to Southern California aquifers for storage and reuse blends with antibiotic-resistant bacteria already found in the aquifer, adding key data to the conversation on how we reuse water.
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USC Viterbi Researchers Awarded Nearly $2 Million by NSF’s Pilot Convergence Accelerator and AccelNet Programs
Professors in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Lucio Soibelman and Burcin Becerik-Gerber will build knowledge networks in key fields to advance design, development and operation of national infrastructures.
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Lessons Within the Rubble
How two USC professors are mining historic disasters to build educational infrastructure reframing how we approach natural disaster preparation.
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Using 3-D Printed Mother-of-Pearl to Create Tough New Smart Materials
USC researchers are drawing inspiration from mollusks to build lightweight, strong materials for wearable technology and more.
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Meet The Trojan Engineer Helping Chinese Cities Bounce Back After Disaster
Nan Li, Ph.D. ’14, was named a 2018 top “Innovator under 35” in China by MIT Technology Review for his work in resilient cities
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USC Viterbi Announces its 2019 NSF CAREER Award Winners
USC Viterbi Professors Pierluigi Nuzzo, Kelly Sanders and Mahdi Soltanolkotabi receive highly competitive National Science Foundation awards for their leadership and novel research.
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The Future of Artificial Intelligence Comes Alive in Our Buildings
The Center for Intelligent Environments launches to advance human-centered building design and operation to increase well-being, safety, and even joy at work and beyond
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A “Post-Antibiotic World?”
Antibiotic resistance is spreading from wastewater treatment plants
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2019 Alumni Awards
The Sonny Astani Department celebrates their alumni’s accomplishments
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Broke your shoe? What if it could repair itself?
USC Viterbi faculty and students develop a 3D-printed material that can repair itself all on its own.
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The Fleischer Prize in Green Technology
USC Viterbi Students encouraged to apply
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Students investigate a microscopic community
Undergraduates in an environmental engineering microbiology course use brand-new lab space to study their own microbiomes
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USC Hosts the 4th Annual Le Val Lund Lecture
In honor of Le Val Lund, Jr., ASCE, USC and Caltech hold an annual lecture on lifeline infrastructure and community resilience and award an individual who greatly contributes to this field. This year, the event was held at USC.
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USC Viterbi Selected as Partner Institution for State Department’s Diplomacy Lab
USC Viterbi leads initiative to bring research and technology innovation to foreign policy challenges
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Piezoelectric Membranes for Water Filtration
Researchers optimize new method of cleaning filtration membranes used in wastewater treatment
