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9/20/12 |
A team of students from USC, UCLA, and
CalState LA has taken first place in the
AIAA's Graduate Team Aircraft Design
Competition for 2011-2012 with their Ghost.
read more...
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7/9/12 |
The USC Formula SAE team takes their car to
the collegiate design competition in
Lincoln, NE.
read more...
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6/18/12 |
AME faculty member
Andrea Hodge,
has won a DARPA Young Faculty Award and an
ONR Young Investigator Award. These funds
will fund her work in highly nanotwinned
(for high strength) aluminum alloys and the
formation of new states of matter and
interfaces at the nanoscale.
read more about the
DARPA grant
and the
ONR grant
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4/28/12 |
AME's AeroDesign Team attends the 2012
Design/Build/Fly competition April 13-15,
2012, and is thankful they're not in Kansas
anymore.
read more...
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4/26/12 |
Congratulations to AME Prof.
Larry Redekopp on
his selection to receive a 2012 USC
Mellon Mentoring Award for
excellence in mentoring undergraduate
students. He received the award at the
USC Mellon Mentoring Awards ceremony on
April 23, 2012.
read more...
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2/2/12 |
On January 27, 18 AME students toured a
Qantas Airbus A380, the world's largest
passenger airplane, at the airline's LAX
facility.
read more...
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11/9/11 |
AME Professor
Terry Langdon
to receive Acta Materialia's Gold Medal in
September, 2012.
read more...
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10/27/11 |
Andrzej Domaradzki, a professor in AME,
has been elected an Associate Fellow in the
American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics in recognition of his
work in computational fluid mechanics and
turbulence.
read more...
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9/25/11 |
Roger Ghanem,
professor in the AME Department with a joint
appointment in Civil and Environmental
Engineering, has been appointed Gordon
S. Marshall Professor of Engineering
Technology.
Dean Yortsos's announcement...
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9/9/11 |
At the Seventh International Symposium on
Stratified Flows this summer, two sessions
of scientific presentations were held in
honor of AME Prof. Emeritus
Fred Browand.
more...
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8/20/11 |
AME's
Tony Maxworthy,
Smith International Professor of Mechanical
Engineering, has been selected as the 2011
recipient of the prestigious Fluid Dynamics
Prize of the American Physical Society.
APS announcement...
Viterbi story...
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7/8/11 |
A team of USC 2 AME students and a Cinema
student win "Best of Show" in Walt Disney
Imagineering's
ImagiNations
2011 design competition.
read more...
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7/5/11 |
AME faculty member Eva Kanso has been
appointed Zohrab A. Kaprielian Fellow in
Engineering in recognition of her exception
distinction in engineering.
Dean Yortsos's announcement...
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4/20/11 |
At the international Design/Build/Fly
Competition in Tucson the USC AeroDesign Team
placed 2nd.
more...
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4/18/11 |
Elaine Oran, a member of the AME
department's Board of Advisors, has been elected
an Honorary Fellow of the AIAA.
more...
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4/4/11 |
Prof. Terry Langdon
has received the NanoSPD Achievement Award at
the
5th International Conference on Nanomaterials
by Severe Plastic Deformation
(NanoSPD5).
more...
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3/31/11 |
Prof. Paul Newton has been selected to
receive a USC Mellon Mentoring Award in the
"Faculty Mentoring Faculty" category. He
will receive the award at the Mellon
Mentoring Awards ceremony on April 19, 2011.
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3/31/11 |
Roger Ghanem,
Several AME students presented papers in the
AIAA Region VI Student Conference
competition in San Diego and came home
winners in their respective
divisions.professor in the AME Department
with a joint appointment in Civil and
Environmental Engineering, has been
appointed Gordon S. Marshall Professor of
Engineering Technology.
read more...
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3/18/11 |
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has
awarded AME faculty member,
Andrea Hodge a fellowship
for research at a German research institution
of her choice.
read more...
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2/28/11 |
AME professor
Terry Langdon has been selected as a
2011 Materials Research Society (MRS)
Fellow. He will be recognized the the MRS
Spring Meeting, April 25-29, 2011, in San
Francisco.
read more...
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2/19/11 |
At the
ΠΤΣ National
Convention, Feb. 11-13, in Chicago, USC's
Tau Beta Chapter took honors as the most
improved chapter, while the chapter's
president, Jason Walker, and vice president,
Nathan Pandian, won 2 of the 4 scholarships
presented at the convention.
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1/8/11 |
The USC Advanced Commercial Concepts (UACC)
team of 10 USC students has won
3rd place in the AIAA's annual
International Team Aircraft Design
Competition for 2009-2010 with its proposals
for 5 commercial aircraft.
the team's win...
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9/30/2010 |
AME Assistant Professor
Andrea Hodge has been appointed to the
Philip and Cayley McDonald Early Career Chair.
more on Prof. Hodge's appointment...
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8/9/10 |
A team of 10 undergraduate USC students has
written proposals for 5 commercial airplanes
as entries for the AIAA's annual
International Team Aircraft Design Competition
for 2009-2010.
the team's entry...
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5/11/10 |
Prof. Terry Langdon has also been selected
to receive the first Bulk Nanostructured
Materials Honors Award at the Congress on
Nanotechnologies in Russia.
read
more...
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4/25/10 |
The National Science Foundation has honored
AME faculty member
Andrea Hodge with an NSF
CAREER grant. The foundation's Faculty Early
Career Development Program is the NSF's most
prestigious award supporting the early career
development of junior faculty members.
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2/4/10 |
AME's Professor
Fokion Egolfopoulos
has been elected a Fellow of ASME for his
research work in combustion and for his
service to the combustion community as
editor of Combustion and Flame.
read more...
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1/15/10 |
A widely read paper by AME Prof. Terry
Langdon and Ruslan Z. Valievhas has caught
the attention of Thomson Reuters who
interviewed Langdon for their
ScienceWatch.com web site.
more on Langdon's
interview...
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12/15/09 |
AME's recent chairman,
Mike Kassner, has been honored by being
recently elected a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS) for his work in materials and his
leadership in various engineering
communities.
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10/20/09 |
Congratulations to
Veronica Eliasson, AME's
newest faculty member, who has won an Ingvar
Carlsson Award from the Swedish Stiftelsen
för Strategisk Forskning (Foundation for
Strategic Research).
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8/20/09 |
AME professor, Terry Langdon will
receive the prestigious award of the
Academy of Sciences of the Czech
Republic, the Honorary Medal "De
Scientia et Humanitate Optime
Meritis."
read more...
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7/10/09 |
AME professor and former department chairman,
Mike Kassner, has been elected a fellow
of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers.
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4/22/09 |
Kedar Naik and Joe Lubinski win
2nd place in the Annual
Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and
Creative Work for their work on heat
exchangers.
more....
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4/15/09 |
Terry Langdon of USC's AME Department
received the Lee Hsun award on April 7, 2009.
more....
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4/10/09 |
USC's AME chapter of Sigma Gamma Tau
held its initiation for 2009 on April 10.
more....
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12/15/09 |
Professor Fokion Egolfopoulos has agreed to
become editor of the journal Combustion
and Flame, effective January 1, 2009.
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11/26/08 |
AME's Firdaus Udwadia has been honored with
the Torrens Award for his service to the ASCE.
read more...
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11/11/08 &
5/29/08 |
AME faculty member Terry Langdon, has been
invited to join the European Academy of Sciences
and has won the Academy's Blaise Pascal Medal for 2008.
more....
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3/10/08 |
Mechanical engineering graduate student Roberto
Figueiredo and his advisor, Prof. Terry Langdon, have
recently demonstrated record superplastic ductility
for a magnesium alloy, as reported in "Record
Superplastic Ductility in a Magnesium Alloy Processed
by Equal-Channel Angular Pressing," in Advanced
Engineering Materials, 10, No. 1-2, 2008.
Their article was featured in
Materials Views, a
monthly Wiley publication featuring hot topics from
the vast materials science field.
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12/15/07 |
Prof. Terry Langdon has won ASM International's
Albert Sauveur Achievement Award for 2007. The award
is given for research that has led to a marked
advance in the knowledge of materials.
more...
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11/19/07 |
AME Mechanical Engineering student and
Trojan varsity basketball player,
Reed Doucette, becomes the ninth Trojan
and fourth USC athlete to win a
Rhodes Scholarship. While at Oxford he
plans to pursue a M.Sc. by research in
engineering science.
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11/8/07 |
AME's own Prof.
Satwindar Singh Sadhal has been awarded
the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers' James Harry Potter Gold Medal
for 2007. This medal "recognizes eminent
achievement or distinguished service in the
science of thermodynamics in mechanical
engineering." Congratulations Prof. Sadhal!
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7/19/07 |
On July 11, AME lost Distinguished
Professor Emeritus
H.-K. Cheng,
who had been with USC for 42 years. Though
retired for the last 14 years, Cheng
continued to come in to work regularly and
obtain research grants until recently
sidelined by illness.
A memorial service
for Prof. Cheng will be held Nov. 5, 2007.
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4/12/07 |
Larry Dickinson of Boeing, Y.H. Cho,
chairman of Korean Airlines, Yannis
Yortsos, Dean of the USC Viterbi School of
Engineering, and President Steven B. Sample
announce the establishment of
The Choong Hoon Cho Chair
of Aerospace and Mechanical
Engineering, named after the founder of
Korean Airlines.
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10/24/06 |
AME students
describe their experiences as interns during
the Summer.
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10/23/06 |
Paul Ronney's freshman Mechanical Engineering lab
builds bridges from spaghetti.
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9/29/06 |
AME's Tara Chklovski has designed an
after-school program introducing local
elementary and high school students to
aerodynamics. Her program is now in 5 schools
and growing.
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9/13/06 |
USC AME's AeroDesign Team, with their
blended wing body airplane named SCtingray,
turned in a good showing in the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics's
2006 Design/Build/Fly competition in
Wichita, Kansas.
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5/9/06 |
Aerospace Engineering major
Kellen Sick has become valedictorian for the
USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Class of '06.
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4/7/06 |
AME students visit and Lockheed Martin
Corporation's Palmdale facility, then meet with
Lockheed Martin engineers.
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4/4/06 |
AME Prof. Geoff Spedding's research into the
aerodynamics of small flying vehicles was featured
in recent publications. See the articles in USC's
Chronicle
and in a
news article at the USC Viterbi School of
Engineering's web site.
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3/21/06 |
Of more than 120 papers, presentations by
Cheng Xu and Megumi Kawasaki,
members of AME's Prof. Terry Langdon's research
group in Ultrafinegrained Materials,
were judged best and second best at the
4th International Symposium on Ultra Fine
Grain Materials at the Minerals, Metals and
Materials Society (TMS) meeting in San Antonio.
Get the details.
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12/5/2005 |
AME's freshman class in Mechanical Engineering,
taught by Prof. Paul Ronney, builds
bridges from spaghetti as a lab project.
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11/16/2005 |
Prof. Larry Redekopp's AME 105 class holds its
edition of the class's annual
Glider Day.
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8/26/2005 |
AME has just published a new edition of its
guide for current and prospective grad students,
The Graduate Student Handbook.
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| 6/10/2005 |
The International Union of Materials Research
Societies (IUMRS) has chosen AME's Prof. Terry
Langdon and Z. Horita as the recipients of its
Somiya Award for International Collaboration.
The award will be presented at an award ceremony
on July 5, during the IUMRS's International
Conference on Advanced Materials in Singapore.
...more on the Somiya Award
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| 4/17/2005 |
Three AME seniors won the ASME Design Competition
with their
materials transporter robot.
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| 4/15/2005 |
Two AME students built a violin from carbon fiber
laminate for their AME 441/442 senior lab class,
then entered it in USC's Undergraduate Symposium
for Scholarly and Creative Work, where they took
1st place. Hundreds of years from now, concert
violinists may be playing Tsakoumakis-Kaplans
beside the Strads.
Meet the craftsmen, see their
violin, and listen to their music!
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| 4/12/2005 |
Terry Langdon, a professor in AME, was installed as
an Honorary Member of the Japan Institute of Metals
during the organization's Spring Meeting held in
Yokohama in March.
Photo taken at dinner celebrating Langdon's
installation.
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| 3/24/2005 |
Next Fall we will see 2 new graduate level courses offered by
the AME Department. Prof. Fred Browand will teach
AME 599--Alternative Sources of Energy and Power,
a technical discussion of our dependence on fossil fuels, why this will
change during this century, and the relative costs and other
tradeoffs between various alternatives for power generation.
In the other course,
AME 599--Combustion Chemistry and Physics,
AME's Prof. Hai Wang will teach the fundamentals and application
of combustion chemistry and transport processes and properties
in chemically reacting flows.
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| 3/2/2005 |
The AME Department has published its first newsletter, the
AME News.
This edition will bring you up to date on
our 4 new faculty members,
faculty awards,
student activities,
books by our faculty, and
the AME seminar series.
the newsletter
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| 11/2004 |
Michael Kassner has recently published a book dealing with
fundamental aspects of creep in metals.
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| 9/2003 |
Alison Kraigsley, a graduate student in USC’s
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department, recently
won first place (out of 88 submissions) in the poster
competition at the “Dynamics Days Europe 2003”
conference in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on September
27th, 2003
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