Dr. Paul Ronney Discusses the Future of Mechanical Engineering and NASA

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Paul Ronney about his experiences at five different academic institutions, his opinions on the future of mechanical engineering, his time at NASA, and why he loves being a Trojan..

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Viterbi Voices: The Podcast

The podcast is your chance to hear stories about research, classes, student life, and more directly from the faculty, students, other members of the engineering community at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering

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The Min Family Challenge and Innovating for the Refugee Crisis

Find out about the intersection of engineering innovation and global awareness!

Alumni x Admits Livechat Event

Learn about Viterbi life after graduation!

Engineering for the Real World: Senior Capstone Projects!

What is a senior capstone project?

Mixing AI and Social Good with CAIS++

Learn about the social impact of artificial intelligence!

Spring Break Plans with Rhea, Ying, Cami, and Dominie

What do Viterbi Students do with their Spring Break?

Biomedical Engineering and Pre-Med with Rhea and Nina

What is it like to be pre-med and biomedical engineering here at SC?

Understanding the Science of Sports with Dr. Jill McNitt-Gray

Learn about the intersection of sports, biology, and engineering!

Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition with Siena and Nash

What are the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Competitions?

Building Startups at USC with Professor Trina Gregory

What does it take to build a startup here at SC?

SC Climbing with Laurence and Elliott

Learn about SC Climbing Team's Community!

Blending Computer Science and Electrical Engineering with Professor Mark Redekopp

What role does computer science play in the electrical engineering industry?

Nanophotonics and Electrical Engineering with Dr. Michelle Povinelli

Learn about the intersection of astro-physics and electrical engineering!

Life after College with Viterbi Career Connections

What professional opportunities can you gain through Viterbi Career Connections?

Professional Development through National Conferences

What is it like to attend professional engineering conferences?

Building the Fastest Rockets with USC Rocket Propulsion Lab

Learn what it takes to build the fastest student designed rockets!

Nuclear Medicine with Professor Cristina Zavaleta

How does nuclear science play a role in biomedical engineering?

The Story of Viterbi Voices: The Podcast

Viterbi Voices 100th Episode!

Viterbi Admission Staff Answer Frequently Asked Questions!

How can you make your application standout?

Fall 2018 Viterbi Livechat!

Learn more about what its like to be a Viterbi student!

Project Management with Professor Geza Bottlik

What is it like to manage large scale engineering projects?

Medical Imaging and the Importance of Electrical Engineering with Dr. Krishna Nayak

Find out about the crossover of electrical engineering into the medical world!

Trojan Family Weekend!!!

What is it like to be a part of the Trojan Family?

107 Days in Space, Elon Musk, and Exploding Candles with Dr. Garrett Reisman

What is going on in the space industry!

3D Printing, Machine Learning, and the Future of Manufacturing with Dr. Satyandra Gupta

How does manufacturing and machine learning connect?

Computer Science, EE and Acoustic Tomography with Dr. Andrew Goodney

The Diverse World of Computer Science!

Science Communication with Dr. Andrea Armani

Bringing science to the public!

Welcome Back and Fall Admissions Updates with Paul Ledesma and Michael Cox

Welcome back Trojans!

Exploring the Construction Industry with Miles Kay

What internship opportunities are there for industrial and systems engineers?

Interning at NASA and Facebook with Luz

What is it like interning for NASA and Facebook?

Developing a Career in the Oil Industry with Tim

What is it like to intern in the Oil Industry?

Co-Ops and Career Opportunities at USC with Jose

What is it like working for a co-op?

Summer Updates and Season 4 Kickoff

What are Viterbi Students doing this summer?

Viterbi Overseas in Florence with Rachel and Audrey

What is it like to travel abroad through Viterbi Overseas?

Entrepreneurship at USC with Nathan, Celeste, Martin and Nikita

What is entrepreneurship like at USC?

The State of Our Environment with Dr. Kelly Sanders

How can we help the state of our environment?

Undergraduate Research with Arynn and Juan

What is it like to work in a research lab?

Revolutionizing Transportation with Dr. Charles Radovich

What does the future of transportation look like?

Chemical Engineering with Dr. Noah Malmstadt

Find out about Chemical Engineering at USC!

Plasma Physics, Satellites and Rocket Propulsion with Dr. Paul Giuliano

Rocket science and engineering at USC!

Engineering, Music and Dance with Catherine, Pia and Priscilla

What are the opportunities for Music and Dance involvement?

Why USC?

Find out why you should choose USC!

#IGotIntoUSC – Admission Decisions 2018

What is it like to apply to USC?

Personalized Medicine with Dr. Eun Ji Chung

What is the future of medical research?

Sports at USC with Sarah, David, and Matt

What is it like to be involved with sports at USC?

Mobile App Development with Professor Trina Gregory

The future of mobile apps.

On-Campus Communities with USC QuEST

What resources are there for queer engineering students?

Student Life with Christina Mireles Martin, Associate Director of Student Engagement

What are the opportunities for student engagement?

USC iPodia with Caitlin, Manjima, and Ly

Global community inside the classroom!

Holiday Plans with Viterbi Students!

What are Viterbi Students doing for the Holidays?

Athena Hacks with Yingyu and Marsela

The future of female hacking.

Nanomedicine, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Research with Dr. Chung

Biomedical research taking place at USC.

Curing Cancer, Making Internet Faster, and More with Dr. Andrea Armani

What are the possibilities of lab research?

Busting Admission Myths with Paul Ledesma

What are the facts and fiction regarding college admission?

Cybersecurity and Forensics Club

Kate, Ayman, and Cameron discuss the future of digital hacking.

The Freshman Engineering Experience

What is adjusting to USC like?

IEEE with Daniel and Yifang

What can you do with Electrical Engineering?

Mechanical Engineering and NASA with Dr. Ronney

What is the future of Mechanical Engineering?

Life After Graduation with Ellen and Daisy

What happens after you graduate?

Global Grand Challenges Summit

Nathan and Celeste reflect on their participation in the global summit

Viterbi Overseas: Rome 2017

Jose, Siena, and Shuntaro record from their apartment in Rome!

Summer at JPL

We all are interning at JPL at the same time!

Season 3 Kickoff

Getting Updated on the Summer and Starting our Third Season!

Season 2 Finale

Bye Bye Alex.... Hello Rhea!

Greek Life? with Clare

Fraternities, Sororities... is the stereotype true?

Dean Yannis Yortsos

April 3, 2017

#IGotIntoUSC – Admission Decisions 2017

March 23, 2017

Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering

Medical Devices, Make-A-Thons, and More!

This Viterbi Life: Study Abroad Stories with Rhea

March 23, 2017

Jobs, Internships, and Networking with Career Connections

Jobs, Internships, and Networking with Career Connections

Work, Work, Work, Work, Work...

Makers: Electrical Engineering IRL

Makers: Electrical Engineering IRL

March 23, 2017

Web Development, iOS and Beyond with Scope

Web Development, iOS and Beyond with Scope

March 23, 2017

SHPE: The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

SHPE loves Korean BBQ (and other stuff too)

Design for America

Work with Non-Engineers on the Design Process

USC Solar Car Team

Using the Sun for a Race across Australia!

Engineers Without Borders

Taking engineering to the world's problems

Petroleum Engineering with Dr. Iraj Ershaghi

Energy and the Future of Alternative Sources

Code the Change & Using Tech for Social Impact

Can your code make a difference?

Product Design & Development at LavaLab

Make your ideas come to life

Society of Women Engineers

Breaking the Stereotype

Materials Science with Dr. Lessa Grunenfelder

Materials Science with Dr. Lessa Grunenfelder

Every Problem Needs Materials Science

Biomedical Engineering with Professor Ellis Meng

Biomedical Engineering with Professor Ellis Meng

Where does Biology Meet Engineering?

Electrical Engineering with Professor Shri Narayanan

Electrical Engineering with Professor Shri Narayanan

Signal Analysis & Social Impact

Viterbi Facilities & Expansion Projects with Vice Dean Linda Rock

It's an exciting time for all new spaces!

Summer 2016 (8 of 8): Maria’s Summer in Madrid

Madrid was filled with Viterbi Students!

Summer 2016 (7 of 8): Bria’s Summer Abroad in Madrid

From the Viterbi Overseas Program

Summer 2016 (6 of 8): Shana Interns at Microsoft

Seattle in the Summer!

Summer 2016 (5 of 8): Sophie Interns at Chevron

She digs oil!

Summer 2016 (4 of 8): Clare’s Summer School & Travels

Getting some classes out of the way!

Summer 2016 (3 of 8): Rhea’s Summer Research in China

Bioinformatics at Tsinghua University

Summer 2016 (2 of 8): Frankie Gets Bubbly at Pepsi

It was a bubbly one!

Summer 2016 (1 of 8): Betty’s Internships in LA

Summer 2016 (1 of 8): Betty’s Internships in LA

Exploring LA and Workin'!

Season 2 Intro & Summer Update

Season 2 Intro & Summer Update

Season 2 is just beginning!

Season 1 Finale – The Host Transition

Season 1 Finale – The Host Transition

Bittersweet: Goodbye and Hello!

Who will be the next host?

Who will be the next host?

Vote for your next host - Who will it be?

Live Chat with Alumni Recording – #IGotIntoUSC 2016

Live Chat with Alumni Recording – #IGotIntoUSC 2016

Alumni Answer Your Questions about USC Viterbi, LIVE!

Live Chat with Current Students – #IGotIntoUSC 2016

Live Chat with Current Students – #IGotIntoUSC 2016

Current Students Answer Your Questions, LIVE!

Girls Who Code, Part 2

Girls Who Code, Part 2

Ellen never wanted to be a programmer, but fell in love with it

#IGotIntoUSC – Admission Decisions, 2016

#IGotIntoUSC – Admission Decisions, 2016

11,000 Applications. First Year Class of 410.

Girls Who Code, Part 1

Girls Who Code, Part 1

Call of Duty Intern, Hackathon Coordinator, and more!

Corpus Callosum = Engineering + Art

Corpus Callosum = Engineering + Art

Engineering + Art makes some fantastic creations!

USC Racing & Formula SAE

USC Racing & Formula SAE

Designing and Building Race Cars for Competition

Medical Imaging Informatics & Freshman Academy with Prof. Liu

Medical Imaging Informatics & Freshman Academy with Prof. Liu

What if there was a google-maps approach to health care?

Computational Modeling Cancer Research with Dr. Stacey Finley

Computational Modeling Cancer Research with Dr. Stacey Finley

Pancreatic Cancer doesn't know what she has coming!

Civil & Environmental Engineering with Professor Lucio Soibelman

Civil & Environmental Engineering with Professor Lucio Soibelman

Smart Homes, Sustainability, Connected Systems and More!

Aerospace & Mechanical Engr. with Dr. Spedding

Aerospace & Mechanical Engr. with Dr. Spedding

Way more than just planes... but we still make pretty cool ones!

NSBE – National Society of Black Engineers

NSBE – National Society of Black Engineers

Building Community & Diversity with NSBE

Environmental Engineering with Prof. Kelly Sanders

Environmental Engineering with Prof. Kelly Sanders

Water, Energy, Sustainability - It's All Connected.

Hackers, Cyber Security, and Digital Forensics with Joe Greenfield

Hackers, Cyber Security, and Digital Forensics with Joe Greenfield

No one is safe, every computer will be hacked, and we need more Cyber Warriors.

3D Printing & 3D4E

3D Printing & 3D4E

Think it, Design it, Print it: Creating things out of thin air to make a difference.

USC Troy Camp

USC Troy Camp

Giving back by working with kids and taking them to Summer Camp!

Computer Science with Professor Sukhatme

Computer Science with Professor Sukhatme

Coding, Programming - that's the easy part!

Internship & Career Fair 2015

Internship & Career Fair 2015

Internships, Co-ops, & Jobs from nearly 200 Companies

Rocket Lab & Going to Space

Rocket Lab & Going to Space

Turns out, Rocket Science is hard... listen now.

SparkSC: The Innovation & Entrepreneurship Student Community

SparkSC: The Innovation & Entrepreneurship Student Community

1,000 Pitches, Hackathons, StartUps... Too Much to list here

American Society of Civil Engineers, Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge Teams

American Society of Civil Engineers, Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge Teams

How does Concrete Float?

Episode 1-001: Welcome & Hello

Episode 1-001: Welcome & Hello

It's our first Podcast! We chat about all the upcoming ideas for Viterbi Voices.

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