• The Schools
• USC Viterbi School of Engineering
  • Degrees and Requirements
  • Undergraduate Degrees
  • Graduate Degrees
  • Engineering
  • Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
  • Applied Mechanics
  • Astronautics and Space Technology
  • Biomedical Engineering
  •   Mork Family Department of Chemical
      Engineering and Materials Science
    • Chemical Engineering
    • Materials Science
    • Petroleum Engineering
  • Civil Engineering
  • Computer-Aided Engineering
  • Computer Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
  • Information Technology Program
  • Manufacturing Engineering
  • Multimedia and Creative Technologies
  • Product Development Engineering
  • Sustainable Cities Program
  • Systems Architecting and Engineering

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USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Mechanical engineering student Morgan Clark works in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's newly opened "Fab Lab" (Fabrication Laboratory). Outfitted with a suite of precision tools such as a computer-controlled 3-D router, high-resolution scanner and 3-D printer as well as more traditional tools including a band saw, drill press and belt sander, the new lab allows engineering undergraduates access to a high-tech workshop for their classroom projects and personal pursuits.

Courses in engineering were first offered at USC in the 1905-06 academic year in the basement of one of the oldest buildings on campus. Today, 170 full-time faculty serve about 1,800 undergraduates and 3,800 graduate students, utilizing state-of-the-art laboratories, classrooms, and live interactive high-speed Internet broadcast systems. The USC Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering's research program of over $165 million per year is funded through strong ties with government and industry.

The USC Viterbi School is an innovative, elite, internationally recognized engineering school that creates new models of education, research and commercialization firmly rooted in real world needs. It seeks to extend the frontiers of engineering knowledge by encouraging and assisting faculty in the pursuit and publication of research; to stimulate and encourage in its students those qualities of scholarship, leadership and character that mark the true academic and professional engineer; to serve California and the nation in providing for the continuing education of engineering and scientific personnel; and to provide professional engineering leadership in the solution of community, regional, national and global problems.

The USC Viterbi School offers various programs leading to the Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Engineer degrees; and, through the USC Graduate School, the Doctor of Philosophy degree.

Administration

Maja Matarić, Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean

John O'Brien, Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean

Cauligi Raghavendra, Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean

Herbert Schorr, Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean

Margery Berti, A.B., Associate Dean

Kelly Goulis, M.S., Associate Dean

Linda Rock, M.A., Associate Dean

Louise A. Yates, M.S., Associate Dean

Christopher Stoy, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, External Relations