OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
Open search box
Sneha Sinha, a fourth-year industrial engineering major, is passionate about making a difference in people’s lives and helping them unlock their own potential.
Seeing frost form on your computer parts would usually be cause for alarm – but not for the members of OSU Overclockers. Frost is to be expected when the key ingredient of your cooling system is liquid nitrogen.
In addition to being electric, GFR’s future is also autonomous. While FS Germany marked the end of the combustion car, it was also the debut of the team’s new driverless car.
Connections forged here in Corvallis have led to award winning research from scientists across three continents.
Over the previous year, faculty in MIME worked to innovate these first contacts with students through hands-on creative activities, teamwork, and competition.
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.
Geoff Hollinger, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his proposal entitled “Topological Planning in Information Space for Intelligent Robotic Systems."
Oregon State University’s new dual major in manufacturing engineering and mechanical engineering is preparing graduates to succeed and lead in the new manufacturing revolution.
Joshua Gess, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, focuses electronics thermal management. He is also the founder of the OSU Rolling Beavers wheelchair basketball team.
How can we help in the fight against Parkinson’s disease? Harriet Nembhard, and her colleagues developed a sensor system to detect the disease early on, opening the door to earlier treatment and improved quality of life.
Aid workers put their lives on the line to treat patients with Ebola. Can robots help make their jobs a little easier and allow more people to survive the disease?
Somayeh Pasebani, assistant professor of advanced manufacturing, is working to advance research in metal additive manufacturing, focusing on new techniques such as selective laser melting.
Assistant Professor Bahman Abbasi will lead a team working on turning salt water into drinking water as part of a $21 million national effort.
For their outstanding accomplishments in engineering Brian Paul, Robert Stone, and Irem Tumer, have been elected Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Can we improve robot hands by watching people try to use them as their own? How can we design a water treatment system for the developing world that takes the end user into account? Can we reduce collisions between eagles and wind turbines?
Researchers in Oregon State University’s College of Engineering have taken a key step toward the rapid manufacture of flexible computer screens and other stretchable electronic devices, including soft robots.
In 2015, Alex Hagmüller (’09 B.S. Mechanical Engineering) co-founded Aquaharmonics, a wave energy converter company, with Max Ginsburg (’10 B.S. Electrical Computer Engineering). After winning a $1.5M Wave Energy Prize, they were awarded up to $5M.
Until now, small UAVs have run solely on batteries — limiting their flight time to a matter of minutes. Chris Hagen, associate professor of energy systems engineering at OSU-Cascades, in Bend, set out to change that.
Researchers from Oregon State University are working to make eagles less likely to collide with turbine blades without affecting turbine operations, thus making wind energy more wildlife friendly.
Researchers at Oregon State University are partnering with Blount International to help make timber harvesting safer.
This past fall, Joshua Gess, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and a group of his graduate students started Beaver Overdrive, a competitive computer overclocking team.
Delphine LeBrun Colon, a senior in mechanical engineering, has been accepted into NASA’s prestigious Pathways Program.
Warm-air blowers that keep patients at a safe temperature also interfere with operating room ventilation systems, potentially making it easier for microbial skin colonizers to cause infection at surgical sites.
In 2016, MIME launched a set of excellence initiatives awards in support of the College of Engineering’s four strategic goals.
Jill Lewis ’11, structures certification engineer at SpaceX, is the technical interface for all things ‘structures’ between SpaceX designers and analysts and their biggest customers: NASA and the U.S. Air Force.
The Oregon State rocketry team reached a new milestone high above the Black Rock Desert of Western Nevada.
Public transit planners throughout the nation should soon be rolling toward more informed decision making and better service thanks to a partnership between Oregon State University’s College of Engineering and the Oregon Department of Transportation.
The National Science Foundation has awarded $1 million to five Oregon State University researchers to study the operation of autonomous marine vehicles.
David Blunck, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Oregon State, is trying to better understand how wildfires spread and to help build a predictive model to assist those fighting to put them out.
At the end of August, Caitlyn Clark, graduate student in mechanical engineering, will travel to Aalborg University in Denmark for ten months to conduct research and represent the United States through the Fulbright Program.
The Humanitarian Engineering Program is working to reduce the physical burden of household work and deadly indoor air pollution.
Jonathan Hurst, associate professor of mechanical engineering, demonstrates Cassie the robot at Amazon's MARS 2017 Conference. (Photo courtesy of Amazon.)
Over the past year, Oregon State University has positioned itself as a key partner in the field of advanced manufacturing.
A.J. Fillo, Ph.D. candidate, has launched a new video series aimed at sparking kids' interest in science
Three faculty have achieved early-career benchmarks by earning prestigious and competitive research awards from the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research
By changing the consistency of silicone rubber, John Morrow, a graduate student in robotics, enabled a 3D printer to assemble silicone into complex shapes. The breakthrough could hold the key to 3D printing of silicone soft-bodied robots.
Health care systems engineering expert acts on global impact, student success, strategic excellence
ASME "Beaver Bolt" Racing Team, photo by Mark Lotspeich
MIME students with foundational background in aerospace engineering – and dynamic, hands-on experience with AIAA competitions – are well-prepared for industry positions
Three faculty have achieved important early-career benchmarks by earning prestigious and competitive research awards from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Defense
Two of our students, Andy Abate and Aaron Fillo (l to r), have been selected by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships program for fully funded graduate studies. This prestigious award reaches only 2,000 students in the nation.
The Microproducts Breakthrough Institute (MBI) has “scaled up” with the launch of ATAMI, the Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Institute — an expansion of the MBI model to embrace additional research-to-commercializtion opportunities across the univ
Humanitarian engineering program challenges new boundaries
Dr. Roberto Albertani's research could help the wind energy industry reduce death rates related to bird-blade strikes.
Oregon DOT fleet management wanted to improve the ergonomics of their trucks and the comfort of their drivers, and MIME developed a winning tool.
Machine builders A&K Corp. develop a computerized model of their top-selling corn husking machine for future design improvements.
Vision to create a top-notch robotics research facility under way
Large donations from former IME department chair bolster growth and development in MIME
MIME assistant professor develops oil alternatives to fueling our cars
Advances by MIME faculty are changing the way machines get built
For many Americans, the term “hydroelectric power” conjures up images of massive concrete structures such as the Hoover Dam on the Lower Colorado River
Supporting hands-on engineering education and university research
