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Khiza Mazwi Recipient of the USC Awards for Excellence in Teaching
November 20, 2009
Mork Family Department student Khiza Mazwi received the awards for excellence in teaching presented by USC Center for Excellence in Teaching on November 18, 2009.
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Andrea Armani featured in
November 18, 2009
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MFD Alumni Tailgate 2009 – November 14th
October 21, 2009
Check the information for our 1st Alumni tailgating event. Please R.S.V.P as soon as possible as the tickets are going fast!
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Iraj Ershaghi's Election to Board of Directors of the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA)
October 12, 2009
Iraj Ershaghi's unanimous election to the Board of Directors of the U.S. Department of Energy-funded Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA) is a highly significant honor and an important opportunity for Iraj and for the USC Viterbi School's Petroleum Engineering Program.
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Past AME Chair to Head ONR
October 09, 2009
Michael E. Kassner, a professor in the Viterbi School Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Mork Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, has been named Director of Research of the Office of Naval Research.
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DOE Announces up to $12.5 Million in Recovery Act Funding for New Graduate Fellowships in Science, Mathematics and Engineering
October 07, 2009
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that up to $12.5 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be awarded in early 2010 to support at least 80 graduate fellowships to U.S. students pursuing advanced degrees in science, mathematics, and engineering.
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MORK FAMILY FACULTY RECRUITING
October 06, 2009
The Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering is interested in recruiting faculty at the Associate or Full Professor level with technical expertise in Petroleum Engineering.
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Northrop-Grumman presents gift to support research in Gill Composites Center
October 05, 2009
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International Welcome Luncheon Video
September 29, 2009
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FACULTY POSITION AVAILABLE AT USC
September 29, 2009
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering is interested in recruiting faculty at all levels.
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Ted Lee Invited to Attend
September 25, 2009
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Andrea Armani Recognized in the Prestigious TR35 Listing
August 18, 2009
Andrea Armani has been named to the 2009 class of the TR35, an annual list of the world's top young innovators selected by the editors of Technology Review, the much admired MIT magazine.
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EFRC Director Earns New Honor
August 14, 2009
P. Daniel Dapkus will be awarded the International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors’s (ISCS) 2009 Welker Award at its symposium at the end of August.
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Michael E. Kassner Elected ASME Fellow
July 20, 2009
Michael E. Kassner was recently elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a distinction accorded to only about 2% of its members.
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Terence Langdon Recognized by the Czech Republic Academy of Sciences
July 14, 2009
The Czech Academy of Sciences awards its Honorary Medal, "De Scientia Et Humanitate Optime Meritis," to Terence Langdon of AME and the Mork Family Department
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Theodore T. Tsotsis Elected Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
July 13, 2009
Theodore T. Tsotsis has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in June
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Chongwu Zhou and Mark Thompson make breakthrough in bioelectronic virus detection
June 10, 2009
New device combines advances in synthetic antibody mimic proteins with advances in nanodesign
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Mork Family Department Senior Receives John Hubbard Award
May 06, 2009
USC Mexican American Alumni Association pays tribute to CE student's grit and determination
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Andrea Armani Receives Young Investigator Award
April 29, 2009
Office of Naval Research recognizes Mork Family Department faculty member for innovation in biosensor design
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MORK Facebook Group Debut
April 07, 2009
We are looking forward to your participation to our Facebook "USC MORK Alumni" group!
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Professor Langdon won the Hsun Lee Award
April 01, 2009
MORK Prof. Terence G. Langdon has recieved Hsun Lee Award.
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Prof. Armani Wins ONR Young Investigator Award
March 25, 2009
Mork Professor Andrea M Armani has received ONR Young Investigator Award.
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John Mork Receives the first Distinguished Alumni Award
March 11, 2009
John Mork was presented with the departmental Distinguished Alumni Award.
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Mork Family Student's Paper Published in
February 20, 2009
He ZHEN and Dr. Mansfeld had one paper published and cover featured on Energy & Environmental Science.
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Materials Simulations Expert Wins Best Poster Paper Prize
February 11, 2009
Student praised for "contributing to the quality and success of ... the materials research community"
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Theodore Tsotsis: Invited speaker at the University of Houston's Luss Lectures
February 11, 2009
Dr. Theodore Tsotsis, from MORK family, has been invited as speaker at "The DAn Luss Lectures".
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Elsevier Award to MORK Professors
February 06, 2009
R.Z. Valiev and T.G. Langdon have been awarded as "Most Cited Author 2005-2008".
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Students’ water filtration plan meets fundraising goal
February 02, 2009
Construction on the project in La Estanzuela, Honduras could begin within two months.
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Confronting the Climate-Energy Challenge
January 13, 2009
Harvard University geochemist Daniel Schrag keynotes Mork Department's annual Pings Lecture.
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Terence Langdon Named AAAS Fellow
January 13, 2009
Terence Langdon gets honor from leading scientific society.
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A webinar on USC fellowships in energy resources
January 08, 2009
MFD faculty in a live webinar describe new Chevron-sponsored MS fellowships in Energy Resources related areas.
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Clarence E. Foster, III BSChE '84
December 23, 2008
Dr. Clarence E. Foster, III (BSChE ’84), a transplant surgeon at UC Irvine Medical Center, spends most days saving lives in a modern Orange County hospital, but last spring he spent 90 days on the front lines in Iraq, about 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, treating soldiers and civilian casualties of the Iraqi war.
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Three Viterbi Engineers Named AAAS Fellows
December 19, 2008
Michael Arbib, Terence Langdon and Aristides Requicha share honor from leading scientific society.
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New USC Nano-Imaging Center Opens
December 17, 2008
A new facility with the latest scanning electron microscopes will position USC to become a national leader in nanoscience and energy.
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Confronting the Climate-Energy Challenge
December 15, 2008
Harvard University geochemist Daniel Schrag keynotes Mork Department's annual Pings Lecture.
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Engineers As Teachers
December 10, 2008
Undergraduate and graduate engineering students learn the value of teaching in a Viterbi School community outreach program.
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Supercomputer Rises to 7th Nationally
December 02, 2008
USC’s supercomputer becomes the country’s seventh most powerful computer system in an academic setting.
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Professor Langdon Received the 2008 Blaise Pascal Medal in Material Science
November 13, 2008
Professor Langdon was awarded 2008 Blaise Pascal Medal in Material Science at the General Assembly of the European Academy of Sciences.
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Viterbi Digital Archive Documents Origins of Communications Revolution
November 10, 2008
National Medal of Science honoree makes research and personal papers available online at USC.
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USC Salutes Andrew J. Viterbi
November 04, 2008
Top university officials gather to honor USC trustee and Viterbi School namesake for winning the National Medal of Science.
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Airbus Research Projects Take Flight
October 17, 2008
The Aerospace Institute for Engineering Research has embarked on three ambitious, collaborative projects that could benefit commercial aviation worldwide.
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Mork Student Zhijie Sun receives award from 2008 AEC/APC Symposium XX
October 15, 2008
Zhijie Sun, our Chemical Engineering Ph.D., was awarded Honorable Mention by the 2008 AEC/APC Symposium.
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What Lies Beneath
October 15, 2008
Offshore drilling has come full circle for alumnus Bob Bauer, who introduced the first floating oil rigs more than six decades ago.
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Bahman Elyassi recives AIChE Award
October 14, 2008
Our PhD student, Bahman Elyassi, won Honorable Mention in the 2008 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
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Four Trojans Inducted Into Nat'l Academy
October 09, 2008
Nikias, Yortsos, Austin and Livanos are cited for significant contributions to the field of engineering.
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Viterbi School Engineering Program Ranks 12th in World
October 09, 2008
Shanghai Jiao Tong University rankings show Viterbi School gaining ground in engineering, technology and computer science
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Mork Family Department PhD Student Receives 2008 SPE Young Member Outstanding Service Award
October 01, 2008
Karam Al-Yateem has been awarded the 2008 Society of Petroleum Engineers Young Member Outstanding Service Award during the Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition on 22 September.
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Mork Family Department PhD Student receives A.E. Mann Innovation in Engineering Fellowship
September 29, 2008
Hsiu-Sheng (Sam) Hsu, a Ph.D student in the Material Science program, has received an A.E. Mann Innovation in Engineering Fellowship.
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President Presents 2007 National Medal of Science to Dr. Andrew Viterbi
September 29, 2008
The official record of the 10 a.m. ceremony in the East Room of the White House, including a transcript of the proceedings and a video link.
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USC's Andrew Viterbi Receives National Medal of Science
September 29, 2008
President George W. Bush announced that USC trustee and namesake of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Andrew J. Viterbi is one of the recipients of the nation's highest honor for science and technology, earning the National Medal of Science for 2007.
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Viterbi State of the School
September 25, 2008
Dean Yannis C. Yortsos reports on the school's progress in annual talk to the Viterbi community
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 Call for Abstracts for the 4th Annual Mork Family Department Student Research Symposium
September 11, 2008
We Call for Abstracts for the 4th Annual Mork Family Department Student Research Symposium. Please note the important date of September 26th for abstracts submission and see details inside.
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‘Destination: The Future’ Hits Its Mark
September 10, 2008
USC Viterbi School’s $300-million fund-raising initiative surpassed its goal three months ahead of schedule, raising a total of $304 million.
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Mork Family Department Welcomes Its Largest Class Ever ( Video Inside)
September 10, 2008
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science welcomed its largest class ever of undergraduate and graduate students Sept. 5 during a special International Welcome Luncheon, which was webcast for Distance Education Network (DEN) students and the campus community.
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 Iraj Ershaghi Interviewed about Oil Expansion on National Public Radio
August 27, 2008
Iraj Ershaghi, Professor of the USC Viterbi School was interviewed on Morning Edition of National Public Radio about oil in the Los Angeles basin.
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USC's Andrew Viterbi Receives National Medal of Science
August 26, 2008
President George W. Bush today announced that USC trustee and namesake of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Andrew J. Viterbi is one of the recipients of the nation's highest honor for science and technology, earning the National Medal of Science for 2007.
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Spot Light on Science -- Questions & Answers
August 20, 2008
Dr. Priya Vashishta is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science with joint appointments in the departments of Physics and Astronomy, and Computer Science at USC, Los Angeles, CA.
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USC and Chevron Extend Partnership
August 20, 2008
The USC Viterbi School of Engineering has announced that Chevron Corporation has donated $915,000 in scholarships and training to USC students as part of the energy company’s global University Partnership Program (UPP). This is a continuation of Chevron’s long-standing relationship with USC and the Viterbi School.
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ECA Will Fund Gas Shale Research at Viterbi School
August 20, 2008
Grant will develop tools to enhance recovery of a valuable but elusive resource
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USC HPCC Supercomputer Ranks in U.S. Top 10
July 30, 2008
USC’s Center for High-Performance Computing and Communications houses the nation’s ninth-fastest supercomputer in an academic setting, according to TOP500 Supercomputer Sites, an online site that ranks the 500 most powerful computer systems in the world.
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Florian Mansfeld Interviewed in Documentary
July 17, 2008
Prof Florian Mansfeld was interviewed by Robert Hughes, the producer of the documentary "Corrosion and Degradation" that as part of the "Modern Marvels" series.
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New MORK Faculty Will Join Viterbi School of Engineering
July 16, 2008
Andrea Armani, newly appointed expert in chemical engineering will be onboard beginning this fall.
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Re-Appointment of Theodore Tsotsis as Chair of the Mork Family Department
July 02, 2008
Theodore Tsotsis has been re-appointmented as Chair of the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.
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Iraj Ershaghi Educates CNN Audiences on L.A.'s Oil Potential
June 28, 2008
Iraj Ershaghi of the Mork Family Department discussed the potential for increasing production from the 9-billion-barrel oil field that lies under Southern California.
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Terence Langdon Wins Two Top Honors
June 23, 2008
Terence G. Langdon has won the 2008 Blaise Pascal Medal for Material Science from the European Academy of Sciences (EAS), and also recently received an invitation to deliver next year's Lee Hsun Lecture at the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shenyang, China.
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Commencement 2008: Kelly Nakamura, Viterbi's Valedictorian
May 29, 2008
The science came easy to Viterbi School valedictorian Kelly Nakamura; the engineering was far more challenging. But nothing could break her ability to earn straight A's, semester after semester, even in the most demanding of chemical engineering classes, and graduate at the top of her class.
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Terry Langdon receives the  Blaise Pascal Medal of EAS- 2008
May 21, 2008
Terry Langdon receives the 2008 Blaise Pascal Medal for Material Science from the European Academy of Sciences.
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Kelly Nakamura wins the Emma Josephine Bradley Bovard Award
April 11, 2008
Kelly Nakamura wins the Emma Josephine Bradley Bovard Award awarded to the graduating student who has attained the highest GPA of all UG women at USC.
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Portia Peters Awarded NSF Fellowship
April 10, 2008
Portia Peters has been selected to receive the National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) Fellowship.
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Pings Lecture Addresses Peptide Materials Engineering
April 10, 2008
Mork Family Department hosted a new annual keynote lecture to honor the late provost and chemical engineer.
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Viterbi's Marathon Man
April 08, 2008
After 60-plus years at USC, newly retired George Chilingar isn't slowing down.
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Two Mork Professors Named to Chairs
April 08, 2008
Professors Joe Qin and Don Zhang become endowed chair holders of Fluor Professorship in Process Engineering and the Marshall Professorship in Engineering Technology, respectively.
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SPITZER LECTURE:
March 19, 2008
Spitzer lecture audio file available online for Angela Belcher, a materials chemist at MIT who studies and uses the processes by which nature makes materials in order to design novel hybrid electronic and magnetic materials.
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USC success at Fifth International Symposium on Ultrafine Grained Materials
March 19, 2008
USC managed to receive the Gold (first place) award and one of the three Silver (second place) awards at the Fifth International Symposium on Ultrafine Grained Materials.
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Prof. Terence G. Langdon's work with student Roberto Figueiredo in
March 11, 2008
Professor Terence G. Langdon's recent work with graduate student Roberto Figueiredo has been selected for inclusion in the March issue of "Materials Views" which reports new "hot topics" in the Materials Science area.
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Professor Florian Mansfeld 70th Birthday Symposium
February 28, 2008
For Professor Florian Mansfeld 70th Birthday Symposium, we have the list of speakers and times.
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Mr. Hamid Jahangiri Wins the Nico van Wingen Memorial Graduate Fellowship
February 26, 2008
Mork Fellow Mr. Hamid Jahangiri, has been selected by SPE to receive the NiCo Van Wingen Fellowship.
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USC VITERBI DEAN ELECTED TO THE NAE
February 11, 2008
Viterbi Dean Yannis C. Yortsos is named to the highest engineering professional academy.
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Chevron Sponsors Energy Fellowships
January 22, 2008
Chevron Vice President Warner Williams presented a check for $200,000 to Dean Yannis C. Yortsos of the Viterbi School of Engineering, establishing the 2008 Chevron-USC Scholarship and Fellowship Partnership Program.
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George Chilingar Honored
January 18, 2008
The Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Salute 55 years of USC excellence.
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Portia Peters won an award at Noise-Con 2007
November 27, 2007
Portia Peters won the student paper and presentation competition at Noise-Con 2007, the premier noise control engineering conference sponsored by the Institute of Noise Control Engineering.
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Professor Terry Langdon received the Albert Sauveur Achievement Award
November 15, 2007
Prof. Terry Langdon received the Albert Sauveur Achievement Award from Dr. Lawrence C. Wagner, President of ASM International, at the annual ASM meeting in Detroit, Michigan, on September 27, 2007.
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Two Professors Named to Endowed Professorships in the Viterbi School
November 04, 2007
Viterbi Dean Yannis Yortsos announced the first holders of two new endowed Viterbi School positions: Joe Qin will hold the Fluor Professorship in Process Engineering and Don Zhang receives the Marshall Professorship in Engineering Technology.
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Amit Desai was received the
November 01, 2007
Amit Desai was received the "Outstanding Student Paper Award" from The American Composites Manufacturing Association (ACMA) for his paper entitled "Hybrid Composite Phenolic Foams."
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Modernizing the Curriculum with Engineering “Degree Projects”
October 25, 2007
With funding from the National Science Foundation, the USC Viterbi School has created an innovative new model for engineering curricula that includes a nanotechnology degree.
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Viterbi School Engineering Program Ranks 12th in World
October 16, 2007
The Viterbi School of Engineering placed twelfth in the world in engineering, technology and computer science programs in the recently released 2007 Shanghai Jiao Tong University rankings of the world’s top 100 universities.
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2007 State of the Viterbi School
September 25, 2007
I am pleased to welcome you to our traditional fall luncheon and the “State of the School” address of the Viterbi School of Engineering. And I am even more pleased that so many of you could be here today – I hope you enjoyed your lunch! As is common, we will take a look back on the past year … and a look forward to what comes next.....
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Ershaghi Receives Another SPE Award
September 20, 2007
Iraj Ershaghi, professor of petroleum engineering, this fall will receive the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Western North America Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award.
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Viterbi School Announces a New Division of Engineering Education
September 18, 2007
Yannis C. Yortsos, dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, has announced the establishment of a new Division of Engineering Education to focus on undergraduate and Master’s level engineering education that would be a “crucible for new and innovative ideas.”
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Viterbi Robot Pioneer Foresees Bright Future for Medical Automatons
July 13, 2007
During the past decade robotic devices have moved out of research laboratories into clinical practice, Viterbi emeritus professor George Bekey recently told an attentive audience of biomed executives, and the prospects for further developments are excellent.
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Daniel Erwin Named New Astronautics and Space Technology Division Chair
July 12, 2007
July 10, 2007 — Daniel A. Erwin has been named chair of the Viterbi School Astronautics and Space Technology Division, succeeding Professor Mike Gruntman, who has served as division chair since 2004. Erwin’s three-year appointment became effective July 1, 2007.
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Nanotechnologist Wins Early Career Chair
July 09, 2007
Chongwu Zhou, a nanotechnology specialist who has attracted international attention for his work in creating nanowires and nanotubes, has been named the first holder of a new chair honoring highly accomplished young engineers.
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Six New Faculty To Join Viterbi School This Fall
June 25, 2007
Francisco Valero-Cuevas of Cornell University’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department; Joe Qin of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin; Andrea Hodge of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Dongxiao Zhang of the Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma; Murali Annavaram of Intel Corp., Austin, Texas; and Noah Malmstadt from th
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Another World-Class Honor for Andrew Viterbi
June 22, 2007
Andrew Viterbi, who with his wife named the USC Viterbi School, has been chosen as the inaugural co-winner of a preeminent prize in electrical engineering, the James Clerk Maxwell award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE).
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Pomp and Pageantry: Commencement Day 2007
June 05, 2007
May 11, 2007 — This day was for them. All 1,762 Viterbi School undergraduate and graduate students, assembled for a festive day of pomp and pageantry on the best day of their lives.
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David B. Wittry, 1929-2007
May 10, 2007
David B. Wittry, 78, passed away May 5, 2007 due to complications from pneumonia. Born in Iowa, and raised in Wisconsin, he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, and a PhD in Physics from Caltech in 1957. From 1959 to his retirement in 1999, he was a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Material Science Departments at the University of Southern California.
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2007 Staff and Faculty Awards
May 07, 2007
May 04, 2007 — Celebrating a year of achievements and encouraging everyone to continue building a “culture of excellence,” Dean Yannis C. Yortsos thanked faculty and staff for their exceptional service on May 1 at the annual Viterbi School Staff and Faculty Awards luncheon.
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Viterbi Student Petroleum Engineers Recognized
May 04, 2007
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science's student chapter of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) has been named Chapter of the Month for May, the national SPE office has announced.
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First William G. Spitzer Lecturer Says Nanotechnology Will Change the Rules of Medicine, Starting With Cancer
March 19, 2007
Improved understanding of nanostructures such as molecular switches will be the catalysts of dramatic changes in the understanding of disease in the coming decade, predicts nanobiologist James R. Heath.
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CiSoft Going Strong into Fourth Year
March 19, 2007
USC researchers and front-line Chevron production personnel & technology developers gathered Feb. 28-March 1 to take stock of three years of cooperation, and plan their next steps, including two "grand challenges."
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Little Big Science
February 06, 2007
It’s not as small as you think, but biomedical nanoscience may be just the right size to take on the biggest bully in human biology. We’re talking cancer with a capital C.
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Can Designer Immune Cells Stop AIDS?
January 23, 2007
As challenging as the problem has been, researchers in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering may be turning a corner. With support from a $13.9 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a multi-institutional team of scientists, including Pin Wang of the USC Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, is exploring a completely new way of manipulating the body's natural defense system.
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Dr. Nakano promoted to full professor
January 18, 2007
Five USC Viterbi School faculty have been promoted from associate to full professor, including three in the Department of Computer Science (Ramesh Govindan, Aiichiro Nakano and Milind Tambe) and one each in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Najmedin Meshkati) and the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering (Eun Sok Kim).
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Campus's Supercomputing Center Hosts National Minority Engineering Workshop
January 18, 2007
Supercomputing expert Cray Henry, director of the U.S. Department of Defense’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program, congratulated 24 talented minority engineering undergraduate students from across the country Jan. 8 for their Herculean efforts to build and demonstrate some of the myriad functions of a parallel computer on the USC campus.
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USC Trojan Family Magzine - Water & Power
November 30, 2006
from the article:"Florian Mansfeld ... USC Viterbi School of Engineering materials scientist has been working with bacteria for years, helping to pioneer a turnabout in his field. For decades, engineers knew that bacteria could and would attack metals, causing corrosion, tarnishing or rusting – three names for the same process occurring in different substances. The reaction even has a name: microbiologically-influenced corrosion (MIC)."
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Live Web Cast: RPSEA Problem Identification Forum on Wednesday Nov, 29th
November 22, 2006
In this Forum, RPSEA will be introduced as the consortium selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to manage a substantial portfolio of research in areas related to hydrocarbon recovery from ultra-deep resources, unconventional resources and mature fields. The format of the forum is intended to provide researchers input from the industry and opportunities to network and discuss future RFP possibilities.
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The 56th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students
November 12, 2006
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The Second Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium
November 06, 2006
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Professor Terry Langdon receives THERMEC Distinguished Award
September 06, 2006
Professor Terry Langdon received the THERMEC Distinguished Award at the international THERMEC-2006 Conference held in Vancouver, Canada, in July that attracted more than 1200 registered delegates representing a combination of participants from industry and academia.
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DOE-SciDAC Funding awarded to Professors Vashishta, Kalia and Nakano
August 30, 2006
Professors Vashishta, Kalia and Nakano have been awarded a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the Department of Energy¹s SciDAC (Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computation) program for a project entitled ³Hierarchical Petascale Simulation Framework for Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC)."
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Department Announces Faculty Search
August 23, 2006
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering has launched an announcement of recruiting faculty with expertise in the areas of Biochemical and Biological Engineering.
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Energy Experts Urge Transition to New Energy-Fuel Sources
June 22, 2006
The U.S. will face energy shortages in the near future if it does not transition from strictly fossil fuels to a mix of fossil fuels and renewable energy resources, said energy experts, including several from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, who participated in the first national energy symposium of its kind to be held at USC. But the recipe for the mix is still not clear.
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Dr. Ershaghi honored by Society of Petroleum Engineers
June 02, 2006
Professor Iraj Ershaghi, who worked with the Viterbi School's Distance Education Network to put the world's first Master's degree program in Smart Oil Fields Technology online, is the winner of the Society of Petroleum Engineers Education Service Award. He will receive the award at a ceremony at the organization's Sept. 25-27 convention in San Antonio, TX.
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James V. Ly wins Science as Art competition at MRS Spring meeting.
April 21, 2006
USC PhD Candidate James V. Ly won first place in the science as art competition, at the Materials Research Society Spring meeting held in San Francisco.
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100 Years of Engineering at USC Special Events
January 26, 2006
On the Celebration of 100 years of Engineering at USC, the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science will have a special program on January 26, 2006
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Two Mork Department Professors Win Honors
October 31, 2005
Iraj Ershaghi and Florian Mansfeld, both professors in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's The Mork Family Department of Florian Mansfeld Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, have both won prestigious honors from professional societies in their specialities.
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Professor Mansfeld to receive 2006 Vittorio De Nora Award
October 21, 2005
Professor Florian Mansfeld will receive the 2006 De Nora Award from the Electrochemical Society at the Spring ECS meeting held in Deven this coming May.
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Graduate Student Wins International Student Paper Contest
October 09, 2005
Graduate student Ehsan Tajer won the 1st place in the MS division at the Society Of Petroleum Engineers International Student Paper Contest.
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