Agenda

Introductions

University of Southern California

Viterbi School of Engineering

Master’s Programs

Doctoral Programs

Tuition & Fees

Internships & Careers

Q&A

University of Southern California

USC at a Glance

Oldest private university in western U.S.

Diverse student population

18 professional schools

Located in Los Angeles

Life in Los Angeles, California

• Diverse student community

• All kinds of clubs

• VGSA (Viterbi Graduate Student Association)

• Numerous cultural, educational, and career opportunities

• Strategic location – Silicon Valley, San Diego, Santa Monica

In and around LA

Viterbi School of Engineering

Viterbi School at a Glance

•8 Academic Departments

Academic Departments

• 170 tenure-track faculty

• 38 NAE

• 60 NSF Career Awardees

Faculty

• 2,100 Undergraduate

• 4,000 Graduate students

Student population

• More than 65,000+

Alumni

• Leader in funded research + 45 Research Centers

Research

Rankings & Distinctions

Rankings: • Top Ten Engineering Graduate School - US News & World

Report • #1 Game Design program(CS) 4th year in a row • #1 Online graduate engineering and Computer Information

Technology

Awards: • Sol Golomb (EE & Math) awarded National Medal of

Science for 2011 • Maja Mataric (CS) – 2013 Women of Vision Anita Borg

award • 38 NAE faculty members • NSF Career Award winners (Malancha Gupta, Yan Liu,

Ben Reichardt)

Entrepreneurship

The Viterbi School promotes, encourages, and nurtures innovation of students and faculty

VSI2: Student innovation is supported through the Viterbi Student Institute for Innovation which

will offer educational programs, new venture creation support and networking opportunities to

help cultivate the next gen engineering entrepreneur.

Viterbi Startup Garage: early-stage technology accelerator designed to provide financial and

other strategic resources to a select group of USC student and alumni entrepreneurs. Board of

advisors include representatives from Google and Dun and Bradstreet

Entrepreneurship

Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize: Annual student competition awarding

$50,000 to teams with the best business plan. This year, Fluid Synchrony

developed a highly efficient and compact medical pump to provide a more

targeted and precise drug delivery system.

Master’s Programs

Master of Science Degree Programs

Pursue a Master’s program to enhance expertise in a specific discipline

Apply your education to working in industry

Master’s program generally takes 1-2 years to complete

• SPRING 2014: September 15, 2013

• FALL 2014*:

January 15, 2014

*December 15 for scholarship

consideration

Application

Deadlines

MS Application Fall Deadline:

January 15

Academic Disciplines

• Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering

• Astronautics

• Biomedical Engineering

• Chemical, Materials & Petroleum Engineering

• Civil & Environmental Engineering

• Computer Science

• Electrical Engineering

• Industrial & Systems Engineering

• Green Technologies & Sustainability

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

- One of the broadest and most diverse

of engineering disciplines

- Design, develop, build and test devices

such as engines, tools, machines

Aerospace Engineering

- Ideal for those with an interest in

aircraft and dynamics of making vehicle

ready for exploration into space

- Aerospace engineers design:

Aircrafts

spacecrafts

Satellites

missiles

- In addition, they test prototypes to

make sure that they function according

to design.

Where Our Graduates are Working

Acquity Group

ATK Space

Boeing

BP

Chevron

Cummins Emission Solutions

Ernst & Young

Intel

Moog Inc.

Northrop Grumman

Schaerer

USA Corporation

Seagate Technology

SpaceX

Astronautical Engineering

Astronautical Engineering encompasses the dynamic and cutting-edge fields of advanced

science and space technology. Space is increasingly important for our economy and

national security as well as exploration.

– Space engineers design and build: rockets and space launchers, communications and

direct broadcasting satellites, space navigational systems, remote sensing satellites,

manned space vehicles, and planetary probes.

– They operate complex earth-orbiting space systems and rovers on Mars from

sophisticated ground control centers.

Where Our Graduates are Working

Boeing

COM DEV Ltd.

Raytheon Missile Systems

Orbital Sciences

SpaceX

TASC Inc.

Biomedical Engineering

News

An artificial retina researched and

developed by Mark Humayan that restores

some sight to patients who have lost vision

due to retinitis pigmentosa was recently

granted FDA approval.

Where Our Graduates are Working

• Abbott Medical Optics

• Advanced Bionics

• Alcon, Baxter Healthcare

• Bionet Co. Ltd.

• CA Technologies

• Edwards Lifesciences

• Genentech

• Medtronic

• St. Jude Medical Center

Biomedical engineers analyze and design solutions to problems in biology and medicine,

with the goal of improving the quality and effectiveness of patient care. This discipline can

involve collaboration between scientists, physicians and engineers. Covers a broad range of

areas from prosthetics to methods of detecting diseases.

Chemical Engineering & Materials Science and Petroleum Engineering

Chemical engineers apply the principles of chemistry, biology, and

physics to solve problems. These problems involve the production

or use of chemicals, fuel, drugs, food, and many other products.

They design processes and equipment for large-scale safe and

sustainable manufacturing, plan and test methods of manufacturing

products and treating byproducts, and supervise production.

Petroleum engineers design and develop methods for extracting oil and gas from deposits

below the earth’s surface. Petroleum engineers also find new ways to extract oil and gas

from older wells.

Fact: Petroleum Engineers are among the highest paid engineers in the U.S.

*Source: CNN Money

Where Our Graduates are Working

BASF

Chevron

Deloitte Consulting

ExxonMobil

Foster Wheeler Biokinetics

Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Saudi Aramco

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Cool News

Massoud Pirbazari, an expert in water

purification, is working on a new project

that would help the 1.2 billion people in the

world without access to safe drinking

water.

Where Our Graduates are Working

– Examples of where our graduates are

working:

California Dept. of Transportation

DPR Construction

Parsons Corp.

Southern California Edison

Civil Engineers can be employed in a variety of industries, even automotive,

power, and aerospace. Civil engineers design and supervise large construction

projects, including roads, buildings, airports, tunnels, dams, bridges, and

systems for water supply and sewage treatment.

Computer Science

The CS program provides intensive preparation in the concepts and techniques related to

the design, programming, and application of computing systems. Students are provided a

deep understanding of both fundamentals and important current issues in computer

science and computer engineering.

Faculty Highlight: Maja Matarić

Where Our Graduates are Working

• 2013 Anita Borg Institute’s Women of Vision Award in

Innovation in recognition of her innovative work in robotics

• Soon-Shiong professor of CS, neuroscience and pediatrics

• Founding director of the USC Ctr. for Robotics & Embedded

Systems

• Vice dean for research Maja Matarić

• Apple,Amazon

• Bloomberg LP

• Cisco

• Disney

• Electronic Arts

• IBM

• Intel

• Google

• Microsoft

• NASA JPL

• Oracle

• Qualcomm

• Symantic Corporation

• Tower Energy Group

Electrical Engineering

• Awarded National Medal of Science by President Obama

• Inventor and acknowledged master of popular puzzle game, polyominoes

• Mars Rover Curiosity video images owe a huge debt to his mathematical

coding schemes Solomon Golomb

AMD

Alcatel-Lucent

Boeing

Broadcom

Cisco

Dolby Laboratories

GE Healthcare

Intel

NASA JPL

Microsoft

Northrop

Oracle

Qualcomm

SanDisk

Saudi Aramco

Texas Instruments

Twilio

Where Our Graduates are Working

Faculty Highlight: Solomon Golomb

Electrical engineers design, develop, test, and supervise the

manufacturing of electrical equipment such as electric motors, radar and

navigation systems, communications systems, and power generation

equipment. Electronics engineers design and develop electronic

equipment, such as broadcast and communications systems—from

portable music players to global positioning systems (GPS).

Industrial & Systems Engineering

Industrial engineers find ways to eliminate wastefulness in production processes. They devise efficient ways to use workers, machines, materials, information, and energy to make a product or provide a service.

Abbott

the Aerospace Corporation

Analog Devices Inc.

China Resources

Cisco

Dell

Deloitte Consulting LLP

General Motors

Hawaii Pacific Health

Icelandair

Moog

PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Where Our Graduates are Working

Interdisciplinary Programs

Master of Cyber Security

Master of Science in Green Technologies

• New for this Fall

• Fundamentals of developing, engineering and operating secure information systems

• Covers challenges and problems of secure operating systems, secure applications, secure networking, use of cryptography and key management

• Graduates will understand how to develop a security policy and how policy drives technology decisions

• Intersects with almost all engineering areas which involve fossil energy, alternative energy, energy conversion, energy distribution, energy conser-vation, environmental engineering, and information and material science

• Addresses the supply side in terms of alternative energy sources

• Addresses the demand side in terms of energy efficiency and carbon waste management

• Where some of our Green Tech alumni are working: Boeing, EnerNOC, eSolar, SunEdison, TerraCycle Inc.

General Application Criteria for MS Programs

Bachelor’s degree from recognized institution in engineering, math or hard science

Satisfactory GRE test scores • Average of Fall 2012 admitted students – Q: 163, V: 155

Transcripts of all college coursework taken after high school

TOEFL or IELTS is required for international applicants

SOP and LOR may be required for some programs MS Application Fall Deadline:

January 15

Completion Requirements (MS)

Completion of required coursework with a minimum 3.0 GPA

Programs require between 27-38 units

Thesis option available but not required

MS Application Fall Deadline:

January 15

Application Checklist

MS Application Fall Deadline:

January 15

Doctoral Programs

Doctoral Programs Overview

Why choose a PhD program?

What do students usually do when they receive a PhD?

Generally takes approximately 5 years

Viterbi School aims to fully fund its PhD students

*December 1, 2013 for funding

consideration Application Deadline

Doctoral Programs: Application

Doctoral programs are highly competitive

The Viterbi School strives to fully fund doctoral

students

Statement of purpose should demonstrate

familiarity with research being done at USC

Admission process is different from Master’s

applications

Deadline: December 1, 2013 for

funding consideration

General Application Criteria for Doctoral Programs

Bachelor’s degree (minimum) from recognized institution in engineering, math or hard science

Exceptional academic performance – GPA 3.5 or above

Outstanding GRE scores – • Average of Fall 2012 admitted students – Q165/ V157

Letters of Recommendation and Statement of Purpose

Demonstrated research ability and experience

Funding for Ph.D. Students

Subject to favorable yearly review by faculty

Teaching Assistants

Receive tuition, health benefits and stipend

Some summer awards are available

Research Assistants

Application

Application

Application Information section

Create account

www.usc.edu/admission/graduate/apply/

MS Application Deadline: January 15

Application tips

• Submit the application and all required materials as early as possible including your unique 10 digit Application ID number in all your correspondence (email and hard copy)

• Enter your name, address and passport information EXACTLY as it should appear on your visa application; incorrect information will delay the issuance of your I-20 and student visa

• Your application status will be updated on the online application system

– After you submit your application, you will be notified if additional documents are required

• If online status has not been updated 4-6 weeks after submission, email viterbi.gradadmission@usc.edu

Tuition & Fees

Master’s Programs: Tuition & Fees (2013 – 2014)*

Tuition is $1,636 per semester unit

One 3-unit course = $4,908

Mandatory fees are an additional $1,650 per year

* Tuition and fees are subject to change without notice

• It takes 9-12 courses to complete the degree

MS Application Fall Deadline:

January 15

Example: Tuition & Fees for a Typical MS Program (27 Units)

Semester Tuition Fees Year 1 Total

Fall (9 units) 14,724 750 $15,474

Spr (9 units) 14,724 900 $15,624

Semester Tuition Fees Year 2 Total

Fall (9 units) 14,724 750 $15,474

All amounts are based on 2013-2014 values. Tuition and fees are subject to change without notice.

APPROXIMATE TOTAL PROGRAM COST (1.5 YEARS): $46,572

MS Application Fall Deadline:

January 15

Proof of Financial Support

MS Application Fall Deadline:

January 15

The U.S. Government requires all

international applicants provide

proof of ability to pay tuition and

living expenses for themselves before

an I-20 Certificate can be issued

This document must be verified by a

bank and dated within the last nine

months

This documented evidence of financial

support is for the first year (fall, spring,

summer) at USC

Complete financial support requirements found at: http://www.usc.edu/admission/graduate/international/financialsupport.html

Out-of-State Annual Tuition Comparison

MS Application Fall Deadline:

January 15 Source: US News & World Report 2013 ranking

Tuition rates for “in-state”

and “out-of-state” students

Internships & Careers

Internship Opportunities

CPT Curricular Practical Training • SEVIS legislation applies

• Allowed after two full

semesters in F-1 status

• Full-time work allowed in summer and final semester for degree

• Must be degree related

OPT Optional Practical Training • Post Graduation

• SEVIS legislation applies

• Up to 12 months

• Can be full-time

• May be outside LA

OPT/CPT (Summer 2013)

• A partial list of where some of our international students are interning this summer

3M Cogent

Activision

Publishing

Amazon

Amgen Inc.

Apple

Cisco Systems

Disney

Dolby Laboratories

eBay

Google

Hewlett-Packard

Intel

Intuit

JPL

MathWorks

Medivision

Medtronics

NVIDIA

Orbit Industries

Qualcomm

Samsung

SAP

Siemens

Sinocal Petroleum Tech.

Sony

Symantec

Teradata

TransPacific Energy

Walmart

Western Digital Tech.

Westlake Financial Svcs.

Yahoo!

Zappos.com

Zynga

USC Viterbi Career Services Office

Available to Engineering Students

Career Fairs

On-campusCompanyInterview

CorporateInformationSessions

Workshops Interview strategies

Resume writing

Networking

Negotiating job offers

Careers & Internships

Apple Amazon Caltrans Chevron Cisco Disney Deloitte eBay PricewaterhouseCoopers

Facebook Google Medtronics Microsoft Oracle PIMCO SpaceX Qualcomm Zynga eSolar

Employers:

Summary – Why Choose USC?

Exceptional Faculty

Dynamic location – Los Angeles, CA

Diverse student body & rich student life

Career & internship opportunities

The Trojan Family – a truly global alumni network

Contact Information

William Schwerin Assistant Director, Graduate Recruitment

Viterbi School of Engineering viterbi.gradprograms@usc.edu

Sudha Kumar Director, USC Viterbi India

Viterbi School of Engineering india@gapp.usc.edu