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.

Prof Florian Mansfeld was interviewed by Robert Hughes, the producer of the documentary "Corrosion and Degradation" that as part of the "Modern Marvels" series.

Andrea Armani, newly appointed expert in chemical engineering will be onboard beginning this fall.

Theodore Tsotsis has been re-appointmented as Chair of the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.

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.

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.

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.

Terry Langdon receives the 2008 Blaise Pascal Medal for Material Science from the European Academy of Sciences.

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.

Portia Peters has been selected to receive the National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) Fellowship.

The Mork Family Department hosted a new annual keynote lecture to honor the late provost and chemical engineer.

After 60-plus years at USC, newly retired George Chilingar isn't slowing down.

Professors Joe Qin and Don Zhang become endowed chair holders of Fluor Professorship in Process Engineering and the Marshall Professorship in Engineering Technology, respectively.

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.

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.

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.

For Professor Florian Mansfeld 70th Birthday Symposium, we have the list of speakers and times.

Mork Fellow Mr. Hamid Jahangiri, has been selected by SPE to receive the NiCo Van Wingen Fellowship.

Viterbi Dean Yannis C. Yortsos is named to the highest engineering professional academy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Amit Desai was received the "Outstanding Student Paper Award" from The American Composites Manufacturing Association (ACMA) for his paper entitled "Hybrid Composite Phenolic Foams."

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.

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.

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.....

Iraj Ershaghi, professor of petroleum engineering, this fall will receive the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Western North America Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

The 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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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).

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.

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)."

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.

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.

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)."

The 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Graduate student Ehsan Tajer won the 1st place in the MS division at the Society Of Petroleum Engineers International Student Paper Contest.