Andrew and Erna Viterbi’s generous gift two decades ago named the engineering school and launched it on an upward trajectory.
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The collaboration establishes an after-school program and fellowships that will put 750 young students and adults a year on the path to STEAM careers.
The honor recognizes innovation that has a real impact on the welfare of society.
Awards were given to two USC research teams to fund collaborations between engineering and one or more of the university’s five health sciences schools.
Researchers in landscape architecture, fluid mechanics and augmented reality have created an interactive hydraulic model alongside the river.
“Computer science at USC is special, indeed,” says the head of USC’s newest school.
The new school, a key feature of USC President Carol Folt’s Frontiers of Computing “moonshot,” will act as a nexus for advanced computing research and education across the university.
Neil Siegel helped build technology from GPS to touch screens, earning him the nation’s highest honor for tech achievements.
The professors in the USC Viterbi Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are among 162 inductees.
USC Viterbi’s John Brooks Slaughter Center for Engineering Diversity honors Slaughter, the first Black director of the National Science Foundation.