“We should be preparing students with outstanding technical competence and with outstanding character, which together spell trust. At USC Viterbi, we aspire to create such a model engineering education combining these two important and complementary attributes for our times, thus leading to the creation of trust, sorely needed in today’s world.” — Yannis C. Yortsos, Dean, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
The Dean’s Report 2024, highlights five key initiatives aimed at integrating engineering solutions with societal needs. This includes information about the Engineering in Society Program, the Afghan Pathway Program, The Min Family Engineering Social Entrepreneurship Challenge (MFC), and the USC + Amazon Center on Secure & Trusted Machine Learning.