Two AME Seniors win in Symposium

Kedar Naik and Joe Lubinski win 2^nd place in the Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work for their work on heat exchangers.    more....

AME professor receives Lee Hsu award

Terry Langdon of USC's AME Department received the Lee Hsun award on April 7, 2009.    more....

ΣΓΤ Initiates new members.

USC's AME chapter of Sigma Gamma Tau held its initiation for 2009 on April 10.    more....

AME researcher accepts editorship of prominent journal

Professor Fokion Egolfopoulos has agreed to become editor of the journal Combustion and Flame, effective January 1, 2009.

Blaise Pascal Medal won by Terry Langdon

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....

Roberto Figueiredo and his advisor stretch magnesium

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.

Sauveur Award won by AME Prof.

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...

Rhodes Scholarship won by AME's Reed Doucette

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.

AME Prof. wins James Harry Potter Award

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!

AME loses much-loved prof.

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.

Endowed Chair for AME

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.

Summer Interns

AME students describe their experiences as interns during the Summer.

Spaghetti Bridges

Paul Ronney's freshman Mechanical Engineering lab builds bridges from spaghetti.

Introducing LA students to aerodynamics

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.

AeroDesign Team and "SCtingray"

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.

AME student is Viterbi Valedictorian

Aerospace Engineering major Kellen Sick has become valedictorian for the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Class of '06.

Students visit Lockheed Martin

Small device aerodynamics in AME

Ultra Fine Grain Metals Presentations Finish 1 ^st and 2^nd

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 4^th International Symposium on Ultra Fine Grain Materials at the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) meeting in San Antonio. Get the details.

A bridge? From spaghetti?

AME's freshman class in Mechanical Engineering, taught by Prof. Paul Ronney, builds bridges from spaghetti as a lab project.

Glider Day 2005 a success

Prof. Larry Redekopp's AME 105 class holds its edition of the class's annual Glider Day.

New edition of The Graduate Student Handbook

AME has just published a new edition of its guide for current and prospective grad students, The Graduate Student Handbook.

Professor receives award for materials research

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

Three AME students win ASME Design Competition

Three AME seniors won the ASME Design Competition with their materials transporter robot.

Some students sleep during class, but these two just fiddle around

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!

AME professor receives honor from JIM

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.

Two new classes to be offered next Fall

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.

AME department's newsletter

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

USC-AME prof publishes new book

Michael Kassner has recently published a book dealing with fundamental aspects of creep in metals.

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USC graduate student wins international paper competition

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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