STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
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As a Viterbi student, your experience is heightened with active participation in student organizations!
Campus Activities maintains information regarding university-wide student organizations. Below is a listing of current Viterbi-affiliated student organizations, designed to enhance your undergraduate and graduate years of study at USC. Visit their websites or contact them by email for more information on how to join these organizations.
USC Viterbi School of Engineering is home to over 50 unique Viterbi-affiliated student organizations, ranging from academic and social groups to community groups, and design and competition teams. Use the dropdown boxes to explore the different 2024-2025 student organizations below!
If you have any questions or concerns you may contact Kevin Giang (kgiang@usc.edu).
Picture: USC Racing in a Viterbi-student organization showcase.
2022-2023 Student Organization of the Year
Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
2023-2024 Student Organization of the Year
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
2023-2024 Design Team of the Year
AeroDesign Team
These organizations are open to all eligible individuals. The Viterbi School of Engineering operates all of its programs and activities consistent with the University’s Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.
Design & Competition Teams
The Advanced Spacecraft Propulsion and Energy (ASPEN) Laboratory is a student group dedicated to designing, building and testing high-fidelity models of nuclear propulsion and spacecraft power systems.
The AeroDesign Team designs, builds, and flies competition-winning RC aircraft in a supportive, hands-on environment where members can learn and understand flight in a practical setting outside of the classroom.
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Design Team is a student-run team that designs and builds AUVs to compete in the Robosub competition. Our projects provide members with a hands-on engineering experience that can be utilized in their future careers.
Chem-E Car is a design team that competes with a shoe box-sized car that runs and stops on chemical energy. Our team participates in the regional and national level Chem-E Car competitions that take place every year.
The USC EERI (Earthquake Engineering Research Institute) serves as a place for engineering students interested in seismic, structural, and architectural engineering to come together and create model designs using the latest engineering softwares and industry practices. Each year, USC EERI designs and builds a scale model of an earthquake-resistant skyscraper and sends a team of students to the national SDC (Seismic Design Competition).
EWB-USA USC Chapter builds a better world through engineering projects that empower communities to meet their basic human needs and equip leaders to solve the world's most pressing challenges.
The ethos behind starting the Field Robotics Lab (FRL) is to allow for an organization that serves undergraduate students who have a keen interest on a career in mobile robotics for applications in space, scientific research, agricultural, humanitarian aid, or defense. Our aim is to lead university-level technical projects that equip USC undergraduates with practical engineering skills, beyond-classroom knowledge, and inspiration that they carry into their careers to improve our society.
Each year, the USC Recumbent Vehicle Design Team creates a vehicle to compete in the ASME Human Powered Vehicle Challenge. We design, build, and race the vehicle ourselves.
USCRPL is a student-run research lab that designs, builds, and launches high-performance amateur rockets. It was founded with the mission to be the first undergraduate student group in the world to send a rocket to space which was accomplished in April of 2019. Since then, USCRPL has developed a newfound goal to create a stable, reliable space program where launching to space becomes regular.
SC Formula Electric is a team that designs, builds, and races an electric vehicle in the Formula SAE competition. It is independent of SC Racing, which competes in FSAE but under a different class of vehicle.
Our team's goal is to design, build, and fund, and race USC's first-ever full-size solar-powered vehicle in the Formula Sun Grand Prix and American Solar Challenge races. We challenge the norms of transportation and advocate for a sustainable future.
We are a collegiate design team that designs, builds, tests, and competes a 1/3rd scale Formula 1 car every single year in the national FSAE event.
Academic, Social, & Community Organizations
Enable students of all disciplines and backgrounds to get involved in meaningful experiences with 3D printing and design.
We are the student chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH, a special interest group dedicated to computer graphics under ACM (Association for computer machinery). Our chapter strives to prepare students both artistically and technically to enter the computer graphics industry. Our mission is to promote the application and knowledge of computer graphics, 3D animation, and interactive techniques.
Alpha Omega Epsilon is a professional engineering and technical sciences organization founded in 1983 that strives to provide friendship, leadership, and professionalism to all members of our organization, community, and professions.
USC AIChE is the premier organization for chemical engineers on campus. Our chapter's goal is to connect and engage USC's chemical engineering community through professional, social, service, and academic events.
The American Society of Civil Engineers is a professional and social organization for those interested in civil and environmental engineering.
The Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering is a student-run organization focused on serving the biomedical engineering community at USC by designing a comprehensive calendar of professional, academic, social, mentorship, and outreach events.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is USC's student chapter of the international membership organization for Computer Science professionals.
CAIS++ is a USC Viterbi-affiliated student organization that serves as the student branch of the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society (CAIS). We collaborate with labs, startups, and community organizations to promote AI for social good.
Chi Epsilon is USC's only Civil Engineering honor society, dedicated to upholding the pillars of scholarship, character, practicality, and sociability.
Code the Change is a student organization that promotes social impact through technology by delivering software products to non-profit organizations in the Los Angeles area.
ColorStack’s mission is to increase the number of Black and Latinx Computer Science graduates that go on to launch rewarding technical careers.
This organization is a social and professional construction organization that helps foster and build relationships between students and professionals through formal and/or social events, informational sessions, job walks and national competitions.
To facilitate the communication and collaboration of expertise from various disciplines to advance future STEM research, cSTEM focuses on training current young researchers and trainees with techniques, knowledge, and most importantly, the language of a variety of variant areas for advancing STEM convergence.
CybOrg is a student organization at the University of Southern California dedicated to bringing together students with interests and career aspirations in the fields of cyber security and digital forensics.
USC IEEE is the primary academic and professional organization for Electrical and Computer Engineering majors on campus, both undergraduate and graduate students. We thrive to build a community for its student members to help them excel.
A premiere USC organization dedicated to providing knowledge, training, networking opportunities and recognition to the Industrial Engineering profession. Our mission is to provide knowledge, training, networking opportunities and recognition to enhance the skills and effectiveness of the industrial and systems engineering profession and those individuals involved with improving quality and productivity.
USC ITE provides students with opportunities in and out of engineering to learn more about the transportation field, attend transportation related field trips, and network with industry professionals.
KSEA provides students interested in STEM fields with resources to build fruitful careers, help grow a national network of students and professionals, and foster a friendly community where members can benefit from each other academically and socially.
USC's premiere, student-run startup incubator. Every semester, we invite a new cohort of the school's best designers, engineers, and product managers to join our community, craft innovative products, and find their cofounders.
NSBE's national mission is to increase the number of culturally responsible black engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally and positively impact the community.
The mission of Makers is to facilitate the exploration of concepts in electronic and system design as well as stimulate interest in fields of electronics such as the Internet of Things, Embedded Systems, and Robotics.
MEDesign seeks to provide students with hands-on experience in the medical device field. We provide the structure and resources for seven design teams to invent, validate, and develop novel technologies to address pressing issues in healthcare.
Where great games start. Open Alpha is a game design club open to students of all majors and experience levels. We bring a game from conception to an open-alpha release each semester with a team of talented students.
SoCal's largest premier all-female hackathon.
Robopals is a co-ed, global, student-run organization that aims to increase enrollment of women and underrepresented groups in engineering and related fields through free STEM workshops held at schools in the community surrounding USC.
Quant SC fosters an educational and supportive community where students explore and prepare for careers in quantitative finance.
The mission of QuantumSC is threefold: to provide members access to a vibrant community of like-minded peers interested in the advancement of quantum computing as an academic field and industry, to create a space for networking among members and between members and professionals working with quantum technologies, and to encourage the pursuit of understanding what a quantum computer can achieve through active participation in the club activities.
Our organization is dedicated to supporting queer students in STEM majors. We are a Viterbi organization, but welcome all queer STEM majors as well as non-STEM majors and allies. We host weekly professional networking events, study nights, and discussions about thriving as queer people in STEM. We were named USC's LGBTQ student organization of the year in 2021-2022. We are affiliated with the national organization oSTEM.
The mission of SCKB is to promote the design and implementation of do-it-yourself electro-mechanical projects, focusing on custom mechanical keyboards. We seek to spread interest in hands-on engineering and the spirit of do-it-yourself and to serve the University of Southern California community in the exchange of technical guidance and resources pertinent to related electro-mechanical projects.
To promote science education in the LA county area and Southern California as a whole. Schools from all different areas will have an opportunity to study and work together in an effort to promote a science community.
Build and learn cool things with great people. As a member, you will build projects as part of an exciting curriculum that hones and improves your coding skills. Best of all, members join the tight-knit Scope family.
Shift SC is USC's student-led platform for human-centered and socially responsible technology.
We make leaders. SASE at USC prepares undergraduate Asian heritage scientists, engineers, and technologists for success in the global business world, celebrates diversity on campuses and in the workplace, and provides opportunities for members to contribute to their local communities. Join SASE to become the next generation of Asian heritage leaders in science and engineering!
Cosmetics should not just be pursued as fashion or consumer products; instead, they should be understood as the combination of advanced formulation science and skin research.
It is our mission at SHPE-USC to inspire, motivate, and empower Hispanic, LatinX, and other underrepresented STEM students to prepare them for the next phase in life as they become the STEM leaders of tomorrow.
The Society of Women Engineers aims to support the community of women engineers at USC through professional development, service and social events
The premier co-ed professional engineering organization, focusing on three pillars: service, profession, and social. Together, we develop our professional skills, reach out to help other communities, and build lifelong friendships.
The Mission of Tikkun Olam Makers: University of Southern California is to promote community engagement and impactful innovation by connecting volunteer Makers with Need-Knowers (people with disabilities, their caregivers, or their loved ones) to develop personalized technologies that address needs.
USC WiC seeks to provide a community for women interested in computer science and programming! Our goal as an organization is to introduce women to the field of computer science, and continue to motivate them to stay on the computing track. Through service events, mentorships, academic workshops, and networking events, we hope to help our members grow academically and professionally!
Women in Engineering (WIE) aims to provide support to all students.