As a first-generation college student, Brandon Greenley didn’t have footsteps to follow, so choosing Oregon State University was based on the quality of its engineering school. Still a Beaver fan, he also has a deeper connection to his alma mater in his role as Tektronix liaison to Oregon State.
Howard Yang (center) and colleagues at the initial public offering of Montage Technology on the Nasdaq Global Market in September 2013.
Brad Heller (’09 Computer Science) is in many ways the prototypical Portland, Oregon, tech start-up guy — he’s scary-smart, works hard and plays hard, yet doesn’t take himself too seriously. He may work as the high-powered director of engineering for Cloudability, one of Portland’s most-buzzed about new tech companies, but he’s not above heading to the video game store at midnight to get his hands on the much-anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto V.
Fascination with electricity started Oregon State alumnus, Doug Fisher, on a path to becoming the top manager for Intel’s software and services group.
“I was intrigued with how electricity, although invisible, could create action, and by understanding how it worked you could have the ability to control things — almost like a puppeteer,” Fisher says.
Jen-Hsun Huang , co-founder, president, and CEO of NVIDIA, sat down on the steps of the atrium in Kelley Engineering Center to give a heartfelt talk to Oregon State University students. He shared his views on what was important on the path to founding and growing NVIDIA into a hugely successful visual computing technology company.
Thirty years ago, Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang arrived at Oregon State University as a shy and introverted 16-year-old kid ready to study electrical engineering.
Last week, Huang returned to his alma mater for his induction into the College of Engineering’s Hall of Fame, the highest echelon of the Oregon Stater Awards, which honor outstanding OSU engineering alumni.
Bev Brown (center) with her some of her "grandchildren," Adam Fargher, Tessa Marks, Brady Fry, Spencer Liverman, Josriel Pasikatan, Miguel Delgado and Bryan Barnes.
The best part of funding scholarships for Bev Brown is the chance to meet the students face to face and hear about their accomplishments.
Life has been good to OSU alumni Mike and Judy Gaulke. So when it came time to determine how they would share their good fortune, they chose the institutions that had been meaningful in their lives, and topping the list was Oregon State University.
Alex Polvi’s career trajectory — from his first job running a chain saw on his family’s Christmas tree farm outside tiny Amity, Oregon, through various student positions in computer science at Oregon State University, to being CEO of a recently acquired Silicon Valley startup — has been nothing short of stratospheric.
