Bo Cheng Jin
Bo is a second year Ph.D. student and teaching assistant in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, as well as a research assistant in the M.C. Gill Composites Center under the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. His research focuses on computational mechanics on high performance composites, modeling, and finite element analysis.
Before joining USC, Bo was a research assistant, teaching assistant, and course lecturer at Rutgers, the state university of New Jersey, where he received his M.S. degree.
During his time at USC and Rutgers, Bo taught the following courses: "Mechanical Engineering Computational Analysis and Design with Numerical Methods (Advanced MATLAB)", "Engineering Computing with MATLAB" and "Engineering Mechanics Statics". He was also the TA, the discussion session teacher and the recitation session teacher for "Aircraft Structural Analysis (Aerospace Structures)", "Mechanical Engineering Problems (Numerical Methods using MATLAB)" and "Introduction to Computational Methods using MATLAB" respectively.
Bo has lived and studied extensively in Asia, Europe and America. While at USC, he also serves as the vice president of the USC Chinese Students and Scholars Association (USC_CSSA).