Professor receives award for promoting equity in STEM fields
Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering at Oregon State University, received the LatinX Champion of Champions award at a conference that celebrates and promotes the accomplishments of Black LGBTQ people in STEM fields. The Black Queer Town Hall in STEM, organized in collaboration with the University […]
Three College of Engineering marine energy initiatives to receive Department of Energy funding
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office recently announced support of up to $22 million for 10 marine energy research projects, including three represented by researchers from Oregon State University’s College of Engineering. (The award amounts for each project are under negotiation.) “For industry to move toward commercialization, we need to utilize all […]
Fifteen students awarded top spots, sharpen skills in programming competition
In a momentous win, 15 Oregon State University undergraduate students took the top spots in Oregon in the prestigious International Collegiate Programming Contest’s Pacific Northwest regional competition. Shaurya Gaur, a computer science student and president of the OSU student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, helped organize the group’s participation in the contest. “I […]
Energy systems professor to work on electrified locomotive research
Yue Cao, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering, will play a significant role in a new $1.5M U.S. Department of Energy ARPA-E award on LOCOMOTIVES – Lowering CO2: Models to Optimize Train Infrastructure, Vehicles, and Energy Storage. Cao will help develop electric propulsion and grid/charging infrastructure models. The project […]
Graduate Student Receives Predoctoral Achievement Award
Just one of 23 students selected from across the world, Robin Garg, a doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering at Oregon State University, was recently selected to receive a prestigious 2020-21 Predoctoral Achievement Award from the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. This award is based on academic record, promise, and quality of publications. Garg’s work […]
Building Systems to Soar
Recently named director of engineering for the Moog Aircraft Group, Mike Johnnie (’82 B.S., Electrical Engineering) has been flying high in the aerospace industry since he graduated from Oregon State University. The Moog Aircraft Group primarily develops and supports flight control systems which are integrated into a wide range of commercial and military aircraft. This […]
Student wins Lucid Programming Competition
Kai Zeng, a computer science graduate student in the College of Engineering at Oregon State University, brought home first place in the Lucid Programming Competition. Zeng competed among 260 participants from across the western United States in the hackathon. The outer space-themed challenge required contestants to solve 12 mathematic and algorithm problems such as Six […]
