The School celebrates legendary scientist and engineer Simon Ramo, co-founder of TRW; an industry leader; and a Viterbi School alumna at its yearly engineering awards ceremony.

Graduating seniors and student leaders were recognized for their exceptional achievements in a special Viterbi Awards ceremony held on campus.

Bart Kosko of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering was one of three recipients of an excellence award from the USC Faculty Senate.

In January, Ed Maby and Adam Fincham's students were given a two-word assignment: "Smart Surfboards." By May, they'd gone surfing.

A USC presidential scholar and top ISE student wins a research grant to study human factors in airport safety at LAX.

The Ming Hsieh Department professor is a leader in the field of robust control.

Christopher Leung, John McArthur and Ramnath Shenoy are 2008 Viterbi recipients of USC Student Recognition Awards.

Sonny Astani Department alumnus Sung Woo Lee has been named president of Kookmin University, a leader in information technology in South Korea.

Two industrial and systems engineering undergraduates have received 2008 Science and Engineering Fellowships from the Rose Hills Foundation to support their research in aviation and railway safety.

Dean Yortsos recognizes exceptional teaching, research and service in the Viterbi School in his annual "State of the School" speech and awards luncheon.

An internationally known USC civil engineer, Abdel-Ghaffar specialized in the analysis and monitoring of long span flexible bridges.

Egypt has its great pyramids; Viterbi now has its micropyramids

Noted civil engineer Jean-Lou Chameau delivers the inaugural lecture for the Astani Department’s new Dorman Distinguished Lecture series.

Six engineering faculty are recognized for mentoring that made a difference in lives of fellow faculty and/or students.

Faculty and students meet with NRC representative to discuss changing priorities as global energy demands increase.

The professor emeritus was recognized for his significant contributions, scholarly writings and teaching awards in the area of oil and gas field development.

The Viterbi School and Seoul National University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to begin collaborative programs in digital communications, image and video signal processing and other areas of electrical engineering.

University officials from the Shanghai institution have entered into a new partnership with the Viterbi School to develop collaborative student and faculty research programs.

The Viterbi school's cyberdefense lab partnership wins an American Council for Technology (ACT) national award

Engineering faculty and deans from USC and China's pre-eminent technical research institution will share ideas on the University Park campus beginning April 30.

Biomedical engineering students present their work at the 12th Annual Fred S. Grodins Graduate Research Symposium.

Assistant Professor Konstantinos Psounis wins “Best and Most Compelling Presentation and Demonstration” at Stanford University workshop on the future of the Internet.

“Becoming Part of California’s Rebuilding” was the theme of this year’s USC-Associated General Contractors 14th Annual Symposium at the Galen Center.

Nominees are in competition for the world’s largest technology prize, which honors innovation that has significantly improved the quality of life.

The new agreement will allow the institutions to develop collaborative academic programs, exchanges and internships.

Viterbi undergraduates and faculty show off their artistic talents during the second annual spring art festival, sponsored by KIUEL.

The Viterbi School's Mork Family Department hosts a new annual keynote lecture to honor the late provost and chemical engineer.

The Viterbi School is playing a $7.6 million part in a DARPA research effort to develop a sophisticated decision-aid system that can be deployed in the field.

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos receives the 2008 Western North America Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award from the Society of Petroleum Engineers Western North America Region.

Chongwu Zhou has helped create a brilliant, luminous active matrix display, the first ever made using transparent transistors and circuits.

Viterbi graduate students are honored for poster displays at The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society’s annual conference in New Orleans.

The Society of Petroleum Engineers has named Viterbi graduate student Hamid Jahangiri as recipient of the Nico Van Wingen Fellowship, an honor that bears the name of a former USC faculty member.

In just over one year, Christopher Leung has brought together a volunteer student programming effort, supported by industry, that may soon have working software products

Daniel J. Epstein lecturer and active IIE Los Angeles president Ted Mayeshiba honored with select post as Fellow at the international engineers' organization.

Massoud Dessouky's upcoming installation as a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers follows best paper and excellence in teaching awards.

David Kempe is part of an elite national group of junior faculty members who will receive up to $300,000 to fund their research.

A five-year grant will advance the engineering professor's work to produce a new measurement technique for the development of next-generation microfluidic devices.

A new EPA-funded investigation will examine the amount of coarse particle pollution in specific parts of the Los Angeles Basin.

A new facility for undergraduate students allows students create projects and get hands-on experience turning ideas into physical objects.

The Viterbi School professor of electrical engineering is known for his cutting edge research to improve and miniaturize particle accelerators.

Women In Engineering (WIE) Connect 2008 introduces girls to a bright future in science and technology.

A computer program to protect airports by making police operations more unpredictable performs well in recent trials.

The Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering professor wins the IEEE’s inaugural Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing Outstanding Service award, as well as a Best Paper award.

USC Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, C. L. Max Nikias, will receive the Clifford C. Furnas Award.

Jack Wolf, invited speaker for the Viterbi Distinguished Lecture, chronicled the evolution of audio storage from the days of Thomas Edison to the present.

More than 500 Viterbi School undergraduates achieved a grade point average of 3.5 or higher in the Fall 2007 semester.

Viterbi Professor Geoff Spedding reports in today's Science magazine how bats, like insects, are able to hover in mid-air.

Viterbi School engineering students host a new community outreach program for middle schools, a Career Fair and an industry dinner seminar during this year's national E-Week celebration.

The Viterbi School's Chris Kyriakakis recently staged Karlheinz Stockhausen’s piano duet Mantra, at Disney Hall, utilizing the immersive audio technology he developed at USC. Mechanical Engineering junior Ilya Golosker, an editor of Illumin online magazine, attended.

The faculty member has won a three-year grant for his novel approach to solving delay problems in ad-hoc wireless networks.

The Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute is collaborating with UCLA's Center for Embedded Networked Sensing on a project aimed a putting networked sensors into the hands of a wide spectrum of non-specialist new users.

Introduced by Hsieh Department Electrophysics Chair P. Daniel Dapkus, UCSB's Herbert Kroemer spoke on "Heterostructures: From Physics to Devices and Back (A Personal Perspective)."

Angela Belcher, a materials chemist at MIT, presented this year's Spitzer keynote lecture Jan. 20 on hybrid electronic and magnetic materials to Mork Department faculty, students and colleagues.

Celebrated robotics, computer science, electrical engineering and biomedical engineering pioneer George Bekey, a university professor emeritus in the Viterbi School, will receive the USC Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award.

USC Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs C. L. Max Nikias is among the 65 new members elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Yannis C. Yortsos named to the highest engineering professional academy.

Alexis Livanos, Wanda Austin and John Martin have close Viterbi connections

The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems has just named its Best Student Paper Award after Pragnesh Jay Modi, who spent six years in ISI's Intelligent Systems Division.

When Santa Anita unveils its newly surfaced race track on Feb. 9, jockeys, trainers, owners and horses will thank Sonny Astani Department Chair Jean-Pierre Bardet for coming to the rescue.

In a novel experiment, a USC biomedical engineering professor examines the intricate circuitry between precision hand manipulation skills and specialized neural circuits in the brain.

Two researchers from the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering present a chip that can detect radio frequency signals coming from 49 distinct angles; applications range from search and rescue to biomedical imaging.

A Viterbi School paper presented at last year's IEEE International Solid State Circuits Symposium has been voted the best of the 125 papers from the event, the major annual meeting in the subject.

The researcher becomes the fifth faculty member in the Sonny Astani Department to receive a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.

Costas Synolakis's review concludes that the 2004 Indian Ocean catastrophe was far from the worst possible in the area - and notes that warning systems are still lagging.

Solomon W. Golomb of the Ming Hsieh Department has added to what may be USC's longest list of faculty honors with his appointment January 17 as Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics.

Moore is elected vice president and president-elect of the Transportation Science and Logistics Society and will receive the Pioneer Educator Award from the Orange County Engineering Council.

Actor Alan Alda shares some tips with Viterbi School engineering students on the art of public speaking.

USC researcher Constantinos Sioutas develops new technologies and exposure methods to investigate the link between air pollution and heart disease

USC faculty will work with colleagues at Korea Aerospace University in Seoul and Inha University in Incheon.

At a brief January 17 ceremony, 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 former director and chief operating officer of the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at USC who was on the biomedical engineering faculty and a member of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Board of Councilors was 73.

New study reveals dramatic improvements in patient flow at large safety net hospitals, based on the principles of industrial and systems engineering.

More than 120 experts from four continents assembled at USC for the first-ever conference on quantum error correction. The technique, first proposed in 1995, may be the key to computers with extraordinary capabilities.

Tomlinson Holman, the Hsieh department faculty member whose THX system revolutionized sound in movie theaters, has again been recognized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his contributions to audio recording and reproduction.

Citation notes Lidar's "contributions to the theory of decoherence control of open quantum systems for quantum information processing, especially the decoherence free subspace method."

Simon Ramo, the “R” in TRW and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering, has accepted to an offer to join the faculty of the Viterbi School’s Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering.

The National Academy of Engineering member says that knowledge alone will not bring happiness, satisfaction or meaningful lives.