As Oregon State University scrambled to prepare for home-based remote teaching in the spring term, the faculty turned for help, in great numbers, to the information technology staff. They needed advice about setting up remote desktops, troubleshooting virtual networks, Wi-Fi connectivity, and guidance for conducting classes through Zoom, the remote conferencing system that has quickly become a household word.
In 2012, Oregon State researchers partnered with the National Energy Technology Laboratory to develop an ultrasensitive, low-cost sensor that was capable of detecting trace amounts of carbon dioxide. NETL, which reports to the Department of Energy, needed the device to check for leaks from huge underground vaults where coal- and gas-fired power plants sequester carbon dioxide.
Jim Stasiak and Pallavi Dhagat inspect samples of devices created with their digital inkjet printer.
“I have a vison of printing an entire robot that would walk off the printer,” said Pallavi Dhagat, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Oregon State University and president of the IEEE Magnetics Society.
An endowed professorship is quite an honor for academic faculty members, conferring a measure of prestige and distinction upon its holder. But the funding that comes along with the enhanced title can yield benefits that extend to graduate students, undergraduates, and even entire schools.
In 1998, the College introduced the annual Oregon Stater awards to honor outstanding alumni and friends for their contributions to the engineering profession and to Oregon State University. This year's winners
Karl Haapala, associate professor of manufacturing engineering, has been selected for the Fulbright-Tampere University Scholar Award to improve economic, environmental, and social performance of metal-based additive manufacturing processes through integrated machine learning and process modeling. Haapala and his family will spend the 2019-2020 year at Tampere University (TAU) in Tampere, Finland.
Connections forged here in Corvallis have led to award-winning research from scientists across three continents. The collaboration, which included two Oregon State University doctoral alumni and a number of faculty, won the best paper award at Journal of the American Ceramic Society Awards Symposium.
Earlier this month, the Oregon State’s Beaver Racing team beat out nearly 100 other university teams to take first at the Baja SAE first event of 2019 hosted at Tennessee Tech.
In addition to the overall win, Oregon State received first place awards for their sales presentation, suspension, endurance, and overall dynamics.
“I’m very proud of this team and the tremendous effort they’ve put in,” said Bob Paasch, professor of mechanical engineering and the team’s advisor. “I couldn’t be happier with how the car and everyone on the team performed.”
When Steven Hattrup asks people what they like about their jobs, he’s not just making small talk. As a doctoral student in industrial human systems engineering and the holder of the Good Work Fellowship, Hattrup’s research focuses on designing work systems.
Much of work design has concentrated on making work systems efficient, but that often created dehumanizing conditions. Hattrup’s research looks at ways to make work fit the humans, and not the other way around.
Manufacturing in the United States is thriving. Last year, manufacturing sector output was more than double what it was 20 years ago, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
