COE-Humanitarian

Dr. Nordica MacCarty and Collaborators Receive Grant from VentureWell

We’re proud to announce that Dr. Nordica MacCarty and a team of collaborators recently received a Faculty Grant from VentureWell! VentureWell’s Faculty Grant program supports the creation or improvement of courses and programs that incorporate sustainability frameworks and principles, and encourages the creation of novel sustainable designs and green technologies.

Recruiting Undergraduate Researchers for Several Projects

Recruiting Undergraduate Researchers for Several Projects

The humanitarian engineering program is looking for undergraduates to work on several projects:

Multidisicplinary Senior Capstone Design

We are seeking a team of capstone students to switch from the single discipline ME 497 capstone to the pilot multidisciplinary section of ENGR 415 capstone to work on the following project for Winter and Spring 2022. Ideally this team would include mechanical and electrical engineers.

Seeking funded postdoctoral scholar for environmental peacebuilding

Affiliated faculty from the humantarian engineering program are recruiting a fully funded 12-month postdoctoral scholar for a research project on environmental peacebuilding in the Geography Program at Oregon State University. Learn more about the position here: https://gradschool.oregonstate.edu/postdocs/open-positions/16116-environmental-peacebuilding-postdoctoral-scholar The position is funded by a US Institute of Pea

Dr. Larry Winiarski, OSU Alumni and grandfather of clean cooking, passed away at 81

Dr. Larry Winiarski, the Technical Director of Aprovecho Research Center (ARC) and OSU PhD gradauate in mechanical engineering, died this past week at the age of 81. Larry is largely considered the grandfather of the global clean cookstove movement because he developed the ten design principles to optimize heat transfer and combustion efficiency in the "rocket stove" in the 1980s. Since then over 10 million rocket stoves have been made by local projects and inspired countless additional stove designs and projects.

HEST graduate students display their innovation at the Smithsonian

Over spring break 2019, fresh humanitarian engineering graduates Jennifer Ventrella (MS Mechanical Engineering with dual MS in Applied Anthropology) and Dr. Mohammad Pakravan (Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with Economics minor), advised by Dr. Nordica MacCarty, were funded to display their innovation at the VentureWell OPEN Minds Exhibition. The Exhibition was the crowning event of the VentureWell OPEN conference focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship and held at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History on March 30th, 2019.