USC Viterbi Undergraduate Admission

Viterbi Voices: The Podcast

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Welcome to life at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Classes, student organizations, faculty, research, hands-on projects, and don't forget our social lives outside of class - it's all up for discussion with regular appearances and interviews with special guests. Viterbi Voices: The Podcast is hosted by Paul Ledesma (Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Admission) and current student Hannah Fonseca (Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2027).

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USC Troy Camp 27.10.2015 44:36

Being an engineer doesn't mean our lives are all-engineering-all-the-time! We are involved across campus in a variety of activities, including service opportunities. This episode explores one of the coolest ways to give back and make a #ViterbiImpact: USC Troy Camp. We sat down with Lindsey "Shortcake" and Nausher "Manatee" to talk about this student-run philanthropic orga...

Computer Science with Professor Sukhatme 20.10.2015 58:38

During our 6th episode, we sit down with Gaurav Sukhatme, our first Viterbi faculty member to be on the podcast! Dr. Sukhatme is the chair of the computer science department, teaches a variety of undergraduate classes, and is involved with research in robotics. During our chat we discussed the structure of the computer science department at USC, the history of the computing field, programming expe...

Internships & Career Fair Fall 2015 13.10.2015 30:14

This week, Kelly and Paul hit the streets and are podcasting live at the Fall 2015 Viterbi Career Fair! In order to make you feel like you are at the career fair, we interviewed a wide variety of students and company representatives from the nearly 200 companies who participated. Listen to learn more about what the job search is like, some cool companies that are recruiting on campus, and all the...

Rocket Lab 02.10.2015 55:54

In our fourth episode, Kelly and Paul sit down with Preston and Brad, who are both studying aerospace engineering and extremely involved with Rocket Lab, aka Rocket Propulsion Laboratory, aka RPL ... they go by many names! Rocket Lab is trying to be the first student group to launch a rocket into space, so we discuss everything that goes into making a rocket: the design process, past attempted lau...

Entrepreneurship & Innovation 22.09.2015 1:04:19

It's our 3rd episode! Kelly and Paul chat with Adena and Calvin from the enterpreneurial student organization, SparkSC. While this one is a bit longer - its a great talk. We get into all things related to entrepreneurship and innovation at USC: hackathons, 1000 Pitches, HackSC, Design for America, Corpus Collosum, LavaLab and even a little bit about Paul's guilty pleasure: Ghost Adventur...

ASCE & Civil Engineering 14.09.2015 32:13

In our second episode Kelly and Paul are chatting about all things Civil & Environmental Engineering with current students Lucy, Erin, and Nick, current seniors in Civil Engineering (Building Science). As part of the American Society of Civil Engineers Student chapter they compete in the Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge competitions each year.... and we even have a fun little story about Sylves...

Welcome & Hello 05.09.2015 27:20

The first episode of Viterbi Voices: The Podcast. (its our first one, so cut us some slack) Paul Ledesma, Director of Undergraduate Engineering, and Kelly Lynch, a senior in Civil Engineering (Building Science) talk about creating the new podcast, introduce the ideas for upcoming episodes and more. Paul discusses the beginning of the admission season, and a few events coming up this weekend. Kelly...