To speed up diagnosis of rare diseases and expedite access to treatment, a team of Oregon State University students and faculty, and a rare disease expert at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, have created a chatbot for medical professionals. Instead of spending hours poring over journal articles, doctors can ask the chatbot to provide a succinct answer backed up by verified sources.
The chief counsel of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Melody Drummond Hansen, met on campus with transportation experts from the College of Engineering in October.
As autonomous systems become more prevalent in daily life, engineers face an enormous challenge. It’s not enough for these human-scale systems to complete tasks safely; they also need to abide by the social considerations we humans rely upon to guide and regulate our interactions.
Environmental engineering researchers at Oregon State University are using cutting-edge technology to better understand biofilms – communities of microorganisms that play a vital role in the environment. This research, led by Dorthe Wildenschild, professor and DeVaan Chair and Executive Director for Clean Water Technology, is funded by a $1.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioimaging Research Program.
In 2023, wind turbines generated upwards of 425,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity in the United States, enough to run more than 39 million average American homes. Wind is the country’s largest renewable energy source, representing about 10% of all electricity production.
Three faculty members from the School of Nuclear Science and Engineering at Oregon State University have been tapped to serve in prominent national leadership positions. The recognition will come as no surprise to those familiar with the school’s longstanding and well-deserved reputation as a research powerhouse and a center of academic excellence.
Oregon State Engineers are creating a better future here and now, through vital research that tackles some of humanity’s greatest challenges. For the past two years, the Graduate Engineering Research Showcase has offered an exciting glimpse of that future, presented by some of the creative students who are helping to bring that future to life.
The fastest-ever 50cc motorcycle, a bicycle-powered irrigation pump for low-resource farmers, and a fertilizer-spreading drone were among over 200 senior capstone projects on display at the 2024 Engineering Expo, sponsored by Pacific Power. The all-day event took place June 7 at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center and LaSells Stewart Center.
Thomas Dietterich will receive the highest honor for a career in artificial intelligence for his four decades of intellectual leadership in machine learning. Only 23 others have received the Award for Research Excellence from the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence since its inception in 1985. The first to receive the award was John McCarthy, known as the father of AI. Dietterich will accept the award in August at the annual conference 2024 IJCAI in Jeju, South Korea.
Madalyn Gragg, an undergraduate in mechanical engineering and general physics, is one of three students at Oregon State University chosen to receive the 2024 Barry Goldwater Scholarship, a national award established in 1986 in memory of Sen. Barry Goldwater.
In her scholarship application essay, Gragg reflected on the challenges she faced in getting into college coming from a school designated under Title I-A as a school that serves children from families experiencing poverty.
