Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
David Otis
Dr. Otis worked in Research and Development at Hewlett-Packard for 34 years, on a variety of projects involving ink-jet printheads, ink delivery systems, specialty printers, 3D printing, powder transport, medical devices, and seismic sensing systems. He holds over 35 granted US patents.
Jesse Rodriguez
Jesse A. Rodríguez is a faculty member by courtesy in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University, starting in earnest as a tenure-track assistant professor in Fall 2024. He is currently working as a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning at Princeton University under Dr. Bill Tang; Principal Research Scientist at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab.
Delivering on Amazon’s net-zero pledge
Photos by Alfsonso Salgueiro
Andy Balk, ’98, is playing a critical role in helping the global e-tailer meet its 2040 emissions goal
Amazon’s senior manager of worldwide real estate engineering, Andy Balk, B.S. industrial and manufacturing engineering ’98, operates at the core of the company’s global effort to electrify its entire fleet of delivery vans.
‘Stuff that’s really cool’
Photos by Al Harith Al Mahrooqi
Alum sparks passion for engineering with his popular ‘Quint BUILDs’ YouTube channel
Can you harvest energy from your rain gutter? Can you recoup energy by mounting a wind turbine on the front of a Bronco? Can you build a knife-throwing machine?
These are the kinds of questions that inspire Quint Crispin, B.S. manufacturing engineering ’00, to create YouTube videos that illustrate the math behind engineering principles and document the process of iterating on an idea.
Brian Do
Brian H. Do is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University and his B.S. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, all in mechanical engineering. He completed his doctoral work in the CHARM Lab and was a postdoctoral scholar in the Yale University Faboratory.