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Professor Noah Malmstadt, newly appointed chair of the USC Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, discusses the energy and manufacturing challenges that connect the disciplines, and why the future of the department is built on firm foundations.
From USC Viterbi graduate student to dean: Sukhatme reflects on his 35-year Trojan journey.
Petroleum researchers at USC Viterbi School of Engineering have developed a low-cost system for large-scale, continuous monitoring of abandoned wells.
When USC Viterbi researchers developed a way to look inside a powerful AI model, they found evidence that it had independently learned one of chemistry's most fundamental concepts: the chemical bond.
Materials science researchers at USC Viterbi School of Engineering have addressed a longstanding problem in ferroelectric materials measurement, with implications for next-generation technologies including quantum communication and advanced photonic devices.
USC Viterbi researchers have proved that fracture geometry can suppress unstable flow patterns and enhance fluid mixing, with implications for groundwater remediation, carbon storage, hydrogen storage and energy production.
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A native of San Diego, Katherine Spies received her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from USC Viterbi in 2004.
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