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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."
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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.
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4/15/09 |
Terry Langdon of USC's AME Department
received the Lee Hsun award on April 7, 2009.
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4/10/09 |
USC's AME chapter of Sigma Gamma Tau
held its initiation for 2009 on April 10.
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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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11/11/08 &
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.
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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.
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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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