Grounded in a long history of excellence in analog integrated circuits, Oregon State University is one of only a handful of universities with several faculty members in integrated electronics. Innovative research led by faculty in the integrated electronics group has thrived with support of leading semiconductor companies.
For anyone working in the semiconductor industry in Oregon, it is no surprise that a recent report estimated a need for a 24% increase in semiconductor-related credentials. Meeting those needs is a focus for the State of Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission, which requested the assessment. It is part of the State’s broader efforts to reinvigorate the semiconductor industry supported by the federal CHIPS and Science Act and Oregon’s CHIPS Act.
Walking into the 18,000-square-foot, high-bay robotics lab in Graf Hall at Oregon State University, one gets the sense that innovation is happening.
Part organized workshop, part messy art studio, the expansive space corrals a vast assortment of robotics projects, where dozens of students are head down in computer code or tinkering with machinery.
Brett Murphy is an instructor of Geomatics in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University. He received a Bachelors of Science in GIS & Remote Sensing from Southern Illinois University, holds a Private Pilot's license, and is a licensed Professional Land Surveyor in Oregon. After several seasons working as a wildland firefighter, dogsled musher, botany technician, and various other wilderness based positions, he began his career in geomatics in 2012 working for an aerial remote sensing firm that operated throughout North and Central America.
Juye Kim will join Oregon State University’s School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering (CBEE) as an assistant professor in the Fall of 2025. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea in 2014. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea in 2020, where she led research on CO2 electro-reduction and Li-M batteries by controlling the atomic facet surface of nanomaterials.
