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.

Check the information for our 1st Alumni tailgating event. Please R.S.V.P as soon as possible as the tickets are going fast!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering is interested in recruiting faculty at all levels.

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.

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.

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.

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

Theodore T. Tsotsis has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in June

New device combines advances in synthetic antibody mimic proteins with advances in nanodesign

USC Mexican American Alumni Association pays tribute to CE student's grit and determination

Office of Naval Research recognizes Mork Family Department faculty member for innovation in biosensor design

We are looking forward to your participation to our Facebook "USC MORK Alumni" group!

MORK Prof. Terence G. Langdon has recieved Hsun Lee Award.

Mork Professor Andrea M Armani has received ONR Young Investigator Award.

John Mork was presented with the departmental Distinguished Alumni Award.

He ZHEN and Dr. Mansfeld had one paper published and cover featured on Energy & Environmental Science.

Student praised for "contributing to the quality and success of ... the materials research community"

Dr. Theodore Tsotsis, from MORK family, has been invited as speaker at "The DAn Luss Lectures".

R.Z. Valiev and T.G. Langdon have been awarded as "Most Cited Author 2005-2008".

Construction on the project in La Estanzuela, Honduras could begin within two months.

Harvard University geochemist Daniel Schrag keynotes Mork Department's annual Pings Lecture.

Terence Langdon gets honor from leading scientific society.

MFD faculty in a live webinar describe new Chevron-sponsored MS fellowships in Energy Resources related areas.

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.

Michael Arbib, Terence Langdon and Aristides Requicha share honor from leading scientific society.

A new facility with the latest scanning electron microscopes will position USC to become a national leader in nanoscience and energy.

Harvard University geochemist Daniel Schrag keynotes Mork Department's annual Pings Lecture.

Undergraduate and graduate engineering students learn the value of teaching in a Viterbi School community outreach program.

USC’s supercomputer becomes the country’s seventh most powerful computer system in an academic setting.

Professor Langdon was awarded 2008 Blaise Pascal Medal in Material Science at the General Assembly of the European Academy of Sciences.

National Medal of Science honoree makes research and personal papers available online at USC.

Top university officials gather to honor USC trustee and Viterbi School namesake for winning the National Medal of Science.

The Aerospace Institute for Engineering Research has embarked on three ambitious, collaborative projects that could benefit commercial aviation worldwide.

Zhijie Sun, our Chemical Engineering Ph.D., was awarded Honorable Mention by the 2008 AEC/APC Symposium.

Offshore drilling has come full circle for alumnus Bob Bauer, who introduced the first floating oil rigs more than six decades ago.

Our PhD student, Bahman Elyassi, won Honorable Mention in the 2008 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

Nikias, Yortsos, Austin and Livanos are cited for significant contributions to the field of engineering.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University rankings show Viterbi School gaining ground in engineering, technology and computer science

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.

Hsiu-Sheng (Sam) Hsu, a Ph.D student in the Material Science program, has received an A.E. Mann Innovation in Engineering Fellowship.

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.

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.

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos reports on the school's progress in annual talk to the Viterbi community

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.

USC Viterbi School’s $300-million fund-raising initiative surpassed its goal three months ahead of schedule, raising a total of $304 million.

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.

Iraj Ershaghi, Professor of the USC Viterbi School was interviewed on Morning Edition of National Public Radio about oil in the Los Angeles basin.

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.

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.

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.

Grant will develop tools to enhance recovery of a valuable but elusive resource

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.

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.

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)."

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.