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Explore the latest from the College of Engineering — innovative research, student successes, and industry collaborations — revealing how Oregon State engineers are building a better world.
Xuan Wu leans against a railing, smiling at the camera inside Kelley Engineering.

Oct. 12, 2026

Oregon State computer science student earns prestigious international HPC fellowship

Xin Liang stands inside Kelley Engineering, a modern campus building with large windows in the background.

Oct. 9, 2026

Solving the primary data challenge of the AI era

John Fletcher stands inside of a laboratory with testing equipment, workstations, and whiteboards in the background.

Oct. 6, 2026

Exploring the frontiers of quantum computing, one chip at a time

Renato Figueiredo stands inside a modern building and leans against a railing with large windows and columns in the background.

Oct. 5, 2026

Renato Figueiredo helps build the computing foundations behind tomorrow’s discoveries

Heather Maran stands beside a coastal monitoring instrument overlooking the Oregon Coast with vegetation and ocean behind her.

Sept. 28, 2026

Mapping the seafloor from the sky

Megan Thomas wearing gradation cap and stole standing next to sign that says Oregon State University.

Sept. 10, 2026

How Megan Thomas used Oregon State’s MEng program to launch a career at Apple

A rear view of a person seated in a heavy equipment simulator, facing a large screen that displays a virtual construction site.

Sept. 9, 2026

Safer by simulation

Guillaume Mignot stands outside beside a large instrument filled with pipes, cables, valves, and metal components.

Aug. 31, 2026

More impact per square foot

A person wearing protective gear is viewed through the interior of semiconductor manufacturing equipment in purple and blue light.

Aug. 27, 2026

High-performance computing and AI accelerate semiconductor innovation in Oregon

A close-up view of a semiconductor wafer with a repeating grid pattern of microelectronic structures in iridescent colors.

Aug. 20, 2026

Gift establishes Analog Devices Barrie Gilbert Chair in Microelectronics

A person points to a projected image of the Ringelmann scale, showing a progression of shaded grids, from clear to opaque.

Aug. 17, 2026

Four years of real problems, real solutions: The AI master’s capstone opens its next round

Ted Brekken.

Aug. 14, 2026

Ted Brekken appointed Director of the Pacific Marine Energy Center

Asumi Suzuki.

Aug. 14, 2026

A computer science degree transformed tech curiosity into a career

A small wooden hut that is on fire.

Aug. 14, 2026

Taller structures produce more blaze-spreading embers, OSU research suggests

Saurabh Bagchi wears a blue suit and stands in front of a whiteboard with a hand-drawn illustration of workflow on the board behind him.

Aug. 11, 2026

Meet Saurabh Bagchi, the next head of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

A forest fire burns on a hillside, with smoke surrounding it.

July 28, 2026

Xue Jin wins NSF CAREER award to study post-wildfire impacts on water treatment

Kyla Daskalos, wearing a red shirt, looks at a computer screen.

July 23, 2026

Oregon State’s ORTSOC is preparing students for a rapidly evolving cybersecurity threat landscape

A person wears a clean-room suit with hair covering, gloves, and boot covers and stands inside a large cylindrical chamber lined with metallic panels and equipment.

July 23, 2026

Chasing fusion's hardest problem on the nation's fastest university supercomputer

Color-coded map of the United States indicating annual rainfall.

July 23, 2026

PRISM Group eyes first major test of OSU’s new NVIDIA supercomputer

Venkata Vinay Doddapaneni, Chih-hung Chang, and Alvin Chang stand in a lab in Johnson Hall wearing lab coats and protective eyeglasses.

July 22, 2026

Turning moon trash into mission-critical materials

Kathryn Newhart and Perry Wilson wear eye protection and stand next to a workbench in a lab and adjust a device with two intersecting pipes.

July 20, 2026

NSF CAREER award honors Kathryn Newhart for research on AI and water treatment systems

Three students soldering a circuit board.

July 14, 2026

Oregon team of nearly 100 partners awarded NSF Regional Innovation Engine Award, set up to receive up to $160 million to grow state’s semiconductor industry

Light shining through the misty trees of the McDonald-Dunn Research Forest.

July 10, 2026

Geomatics students uncover evidence of a 19th century land-surveying system

Dylan Goff wears a hard hat and sits in front of a computer and monitoring equipment in the Emmerson Lab, a large timber engineering facility.

July 9, 2026

Structural engineering student Dylan Goff contributes to new mass timber design