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The College of Engineering transforms lives and enhances society through impactful education and research. Join us in tackling the world’s biggest challenges — such as developing sustainable energy solutions, ensuring access to clean water, and developing next-gen microelectronics.

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Quest for clean water

Bahman Abbasi has always been driven to help those in need and protect the environment. As an associate professor of mechanical engineering at OSU-Cascades, he’s doing this by innovating ways to bring clean water to the world.

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Student Stories

Kyle Proctor had no agricultural background before pursuing his doctorate in water resources engineering at Oregon State, yet he soon found himself growing endless rows of plants beneath solar arrays at the university-operated Vegetable Research Farm.

Research

A roadway setup known as the ‘bike box,’ a painted-off area for bicyclists at the front of an intersection, can help them stay safe at urban, signalized intersections, research by the College of Engineering indicates.

FY22 Research Funding Highlights

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Camille Palmer has been selected as deputy director of a $25 million, 16- university consortium tasked with educating the next generation of nuclear forensic scientists while researching new technology for nuclear security and nonproliferation.

     

$75.8M

Research Funding

      

271

Academic Faculty

  

$20.7M

Scholarship Support

  

48

Total Early Career Awards

The College of Engineering is an inclusive community of learners dedicated to addressing some of the world's most complex engineering challenges.

Momentum

Learn about our most exciting and important research in this annual publication

Oregon State Engineering

Stay connected through our semiannual alumni magazine, filled with stories for and about our remarkable graduates

News

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Engineering Out Loud

Check out our award-winning podcast, which tells stories of how our people are creating a better future

 

Engineering Monthly

Keep up with College of Engineering events and the latest accomplishments of our faculty, students, and alumni

Videos

See our students and researchers in action.

Units of the College of Engineering

Measuring snowpack

In 2017, College of Engineering researchers launched Community Snow Observations. As of 2022, 3,500 community scientists have logged 29,000 snowpack observations that have fed computer models used to generate information for scientists, engineers, and land and watershed managers.

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Faculty Lecture Series 2023

Featuring lectures by faculty members who are leading groundbreaking research in areas such as clean energy, autonomous robots, tsunami resilience, and more.

Graduate Engineering Research Showcase 2023

Featuring live research micro-presentations from nine graduate engineering students, with themes including implications of artificial intelligence, underwater soft robotics, bicycle crash mitigation, bacterial strain engineering, and more.

Other Events

 

Listen to our Award-winning Podcast View all episodes

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Graduation day, S12E4
The final episode of the season occupies a time of transition, as spinoff company Espiku ramps up. We get an update on two systems that received patents and a third that…
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Bahman Abbasi’s desalination research.
And so, it flows, S12E3
The pandemic didn’t stop Bahman Abbasi’s desalination research. In this third episode, we learn about the successful lab-scale demonstration of his team’s technology and the…
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Building the foundation, S12E2
We travel to Bend, Oregon, to visit the Water and Energy Technologies Laboratory and meet the team inventing a new desalination technology. Bahman Abbassi, associate…

Explore Our Programs 

Whether you’re interested in the far reaches of outer space or the ocean’s depth — and just about anything in between — the College of Engineering has the degree you’re looking for. See for yourself: 

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33

Career/Young Investigator Awardees

  

30

Endowed Positions

  

140.3M

Operational Budget

   

10,465

Total Enrollment

Believe It

Oregon State University launched Believe It: The Campaign for Oregon State University, on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022, led by the OSU Foundation. To date, donors have contributed $1 billion toward the campaign’s $1.75 billion goal and have created nearly 500 new scholarship, fellowship, and student support funds.

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