Mechanical Engineering at University of Southern California

61 faculty and 0 courses in Mechanical Engineering at University of Southern California.

Faculty

• Yong Chen, Adjunct Research Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 77
  Notable: “The status, challenges, and future of additive manufacturing in engineering” (2015) · 2,577 citations
• Petros A Ioannou, A.V. Balakrishnan Chair and University Professor h-index 66
  Notable: “Robust adaptive control” (1995) · 5,706 citations
• Ishwar K. Puri, Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering h-index 53
• Charlie S Campbell, Professor Emeritus of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 41
• Geoffrey Spedding, Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 39
  Notable: “Leading-Edge Vortex Improves Lift in Slow-Flying Bats” (2008) · 350 citations
• Yan Jin, Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 36
  Notable: “Design methodologies: Industrial and educational applications” (2009) · 386 citations
• Bo Jin, Senior Lecturer of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 34
  Notable: “Study of H2AzTO-based energetic metal-organic frameworks for catalyzing the thermal decomposition of ammonium perchlorate” (2020) · 130 citations
• Julian A. Domaradzki, Professor Emeritus of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 34
• Eva Adnan Kanso, Zohrab A. Kaprielian Fellow in Engineering and Professor of AME and Physics h-index 33
• Azad M Madni, Northrop Grumman Foundation Fred O'Green Chair and University Professor h-index 31
  Notable: “Leveraging Digital Twin Technology in Model-Based Systems Engineering” (2019) · 985 citations
• Paul K. Newton, Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics h-index 29
• Hangbo Zhao, Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering h-index 28
  Notable: “Three-dimensional piezoelectric polymer microsystems for vibrational energy harvesting, robotic interfaces and biomedical implants” (2019) · 468 citations
• Joseph Jiong Wang, Professor of Astronautics and Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 26
  Notable: “Whistler instability: Electron anisotropy upper bound” (1996) · 212 citations
• Quan Nguyen, Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science h-index 22
  Notable: “Exponential Control Barrier Functions for enforcing high relative-degree safety-critical constraints” (2016) · 497 citations
• Mitul Luhar, Henry Salvatori Early Career Chair and Associate Professor of AME and CEE h-index 20
• Steve R. Nutt, M.C. Gill Chair in Composite Materials and Professor h-index 20
  Notable: “Bio-inspired impact-resistant composites” (2014) · 503 citations
• Bingen Yang, Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 19
  Notable: “The modeling and numerical analysis of wrinkled membranes” (2003) · 64 citations
• Henryk Flashner, Emeritus Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 18
  Notable: “Modeling and Design Implications of Noncollocated Control in Flexible Systems” (1990) · 155 citations
• Paul Plucinsky, Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 17
  Notable: “Inverse design of deployable origami structures that approximate a general surface” (2021) · 83 citations
• Adam Fincham, Adjunct Research Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 14
• Ivan Bermejo-Moreno, Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 13
• Fred Browand, Professor Emeritus of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 13
  Notable: “DOE's Effort to Reduce Truck Aerodynamic Drag - Joint Experiments and Computations Lead to Smart Design” (2004) · 63 citations
• Feifei Qian, WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of ECE and AME h-index 12
  Notable: “A review on locomotion robophysics: the study of movement at the intersection of robotics, soft matter and dynamical systems” (2016) · 286 citations
• Berok Khoshnevis, Louise L. Dunn Endowed Professorship in Engineering and Distinguished Professor h-index 11
  Notable: “Crafting large prototypes” (2001) · 70 citations
• Satwindar Singh Sadhal, Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Ophthalmology h-index 10
• Neda Maghsoodi, WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 10
  Notable: “Optimization of geometric parameters for design a high-performance ejector in the proton exchange membrane fuel cell system using artificial neural network and genetic algorithm” (2014) · 129 citations
• Marty Bradley, Adjunct Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Practice h-index 9
  Notable: “The challenges and opportunities of battery-powered flight” (2022) · 500 citations
• Keenan Albee, Assistant Professor of Astronautical Engineering and Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 7
  Notable: “A Robust Observation, Planning, and Control Pipeline for Autonomous Rendezvous with Tumbling Targets” (2021) · 25 citations
• Matthew Gilpin, Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Practice h-index 7
  Notable: “Comparison of electrostatic fins with piezoelectric impact hammer techniques to extend impulse calibration range of a torsional thrust stand” (2012) · 20 citations
• Dan A Erwin, Professor of Astronautics and Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 5
  Notable: “Constructing Models for Systems Resilience: Challenges, Concepts, and Formal Methods” (2020) · 34 citations
• Akshay Potnuru, Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Practice h-index 5
  Notable: “HBS-1: A Modular Child-Size 3D Printed Humanoid” (2016) · 39 citations
• Geoffrey R Shiflett, Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 5
  Notable: “A Linear Algebra Approach to the Analysis of Rigid Body Displacement From Initial and Final Position Data” (1982) · 31 citations
• Saakar Byahut, Senior Lecturer of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 4
  Notable: “Electrified Aircraft Trade-Space Exploration” (2018) · 26 citations
• Boris Cverna Fritz, Adjunct Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Practice h-index 3
  Notable: “The Effect of Layer Orientation on the Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of a Polymer” (2010) · 137 citations
• Serkan Kalender, Part-Time Lecturer of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 3
  Notable: “Control Design and Robustness Analysis of Linear Time-Periodic Systems” (2008) · 7 citations
• Inna Abramova, Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Practice h-index 2
  Notable: “Using the fundamental equation of constrained motion with inequality constraints” (2009) · 5 citations
• Anita Penkova, Adjunct Research Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering h-index 2
  Notable: “A Comparative Study of Semiconductor Virtual Metrology Methods and Novel Algorithmic Framework for Dynamic Sampling” (2025) · 7 citations
• Andrea Maria Hodge, Fluor Professor in Engineering and Professor of CHEMS and AME
• Assad Oberai, Hughes Professor and Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
• Babak Boloury-Azad, Part-Time Lecturer of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
• Carlos Pantano-Rubino, Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
• Clarke T. Howatt, Professor Emeritus of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
• David Lazzara, Adjunct Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Practice
• Firdaus Erach Udwadia, Professor Emeritus of AME and Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Fokion Egolfopoulos, William E. Leonhard Professor of Engineering and Professor of AME
• Francisco Valero-Cuevas, Professor of BME, AME, ECE, CS, and Biokinesiology
• Jay H. Lee, Choong Hoon Cho Chair and Professor of CHEMS, AME, ECE, and ISE
• Jayanth Kudva, Adjunct Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Practice
• Krishna Garikipati, Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
• Mihailo Jovanovic, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
• Mike Gruntman, Professor of Astronautics and Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
• Niema Pahlevan, Gordon S. Marshall Early Career Chair and Associate Professor of AME and Medicine
• Paul David Ronney, Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
• Peter Kuhn, Professor of Biological Sciences, Medicine, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, and BME
• Robert Antypas, Part-Time Lecturer of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
  Notable: “Characterization of Non-Conical Cold Gas Nozzle Geometries” (2024)
• Roger Georges Ghanem, Tryon Chair in Stochastic Methods and Professor of CEE and AME
• Ronnie F. Blackwelder, Professor Emeritus of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
• Terence Langdon, Professor Emeritus of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and CHEMS
• Vinay Goyal, Adjunct Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Practice
• Virgil Adumitroaie, Part-Time Lecturer of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
• Wen Chen, Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering

Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.