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2004 Edition OSU College of Engineering • People. Ideas. Innovation.
New Research Clusters Take Off! • p. 4
Streamside Software for Real Bugs • p. 6
Student Entrepreneurs Launch New Company • p. 18
OSU College of Engineering
Innovating a Better Future
• Two teams of OSU Mechanical Engi-
neering students led by professor
Ping (Christine) Ge took 1st and 2nd
place finishes at the regional Ameri-
can Society of Mechanical Engineer-
ing (ASME) Student Design Contest
(see p. 8). And the 1st place team
scored more total points than any
other 1st place team in the nation’s
nine other regions. That’s creativity,
collaboration, and capability rolled
into a winning team of outstanding
people!
• The College’s six signature research
clusters (see p. 4) are built around
collaboration and creativity. Within
these clusters, we are finding that
close collaboration across
disciplines and departments leads to
A message I n order to help solve the planet’s
increasingly complex problems, now
innovative new ideas that might not
have been discovered by researchers
from the Dean more than ever, engineers need to be
innovators—creative women and men
working alone.
• And our Computer Science and
who think outside the box and are
Mechanical Engineering faculty have
capable of collaborating in dynamic
teamed up with OSU entomologists
environments in order to innovate
to develop a mechanical/computer
effective solutions.
device that can automatically sepa-
Recently, the National Council on
rate, photograph, and classify insects
Competitiveness established a new
(see p. 6). This innovation could rev-
agenda focused on leadership in inno-
olutionize water quality monitoring
vation. According to a November 17,
and provide an important new tool
2003, article in BusinessWeek, the
for studying soil biodiversity in
Council says, “innovation is about
forests and the agricultural industry.
ideas, collaboration, and capability.”
The College is aligned with this These are exciting times at OSU
national agenda and well-positioned Engineering, and I’m honored to work
to become a powerhouse of engineer- with such extraordinary people: our
ing innovation. Our tagline says it all: students, faculty, staff, alumni, and
“People. Ideas. Innovation.” industry partners. Together we are
This issue of OSU Engineer con- developing tomorrow’s outstanding
tains many examples of collaboration engineers, people capable of innovat-
and innovation here at the College as ing a better future.
we build one of the best engineering In collaboration,
programs in the country. Here are just
a few:
Ron Adams, Dean,
OSU College of Engineering
College of Engineering Leadership Team Ellen Momsen . . . . . . . . Director, Women & Minorities Program
Ron L. Adams . . . . . . . . Dean Karel Murphy . . . . . . . . Executive Assistant for Administration
Chris A. Bell . . . . . . . . . Associate Dean Marnie Noble . . . . . . . . Director of Development
Richard Billo . . . . . . . . . Department Head, Industrial & Manufacturing Cherri Pancake . . . . . . . Associate Director, School of Electrical Engineering &
Engineering Computer Science
John P. Bolte. . . . . . . . . Department Head, Bioengineering Roy Rathja . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Dean, Academic & Student Affairs
Terri Fiez . . . . . . . . . . . . Director, School of Electrical Engineering & Gordon Reistad. . . . . . . Associate Dean
Computer Science W. Lee Schroeder . . . . . Associate Dean
Belinda B. King . . . . . . . Department Head, Mechanical Engineering Steve Tesch . . . . . . . . . . Department Head, Forest Engineering (ex-officio)
Andrew Klein . . . . . . . . Department Head, Nuclear Engineering & Ken Williamson. . . . . . . Department Head, Civil, Construction & Environmental
Radiation Health Physics Engineering; Department Head, Chemical Engineering
2 • Oregon State University Engineer
People. Ideas. Innovation.
Contents
Inside This Issue
4-5 RESEARCH CLUSTERS TAKE OFF!
Working together improves research,
builds synergy and excitement
6 HEALTHIER STREAMS AND RIVERS
Software that helps improve water
quality by identifying bugs
7 INNOVATING INSPIRATION
A $1.1 million grant from the Hewlett
Foundation helps build “inspired”
engineering curriculum, retain students
On the cover
8-9 EXTRAORDINARY STUDENTS
These bright icons symbolize Students help eliminate landmines, try to find
OSU Engineering’s six new a cure for arthritis, work 80-hour weeks in
research clusters, each one
made up of faculty, students, Alaska, and score big wins at competitions
staff, and industry partners
from various disciplines who 10-13 FACULTY & STAFF
collaborate to discover
solutions to real-world Bio-inspired engineering arrives with new
problems. OSU is a leader in department head Belinda King
this innovative new approach
to research. The six clusters are:
14 INFRASTRUCTURE
• Large-Scale Energy Systems
Inaugural wave at the new e-Tsunami Wave
• Mixed-Signal Integration Basin makes Time Magazine's online edition
• ONAMI @ OSU
• Biological & Environmental
Systems 15 ALUMNI
• The Kiewit Center for An astronaut comes home
Infrastructure &
Transportation 18 ENTREPRENEURIAL ENGINEERS
• Information Usability Students launch new company on campus
Full story page 4 19 INDUSTRY
HP and OSU forge closer relationship
College of Engineering OSU Engineer is published annually each spring. The College’s Annual Report is published each fall.
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2004 Edition • 3
Research OSU College of Engineering
Clusters Take Off
Clusters of Creativity, Collaboration,
Capability
Research Takes an Exciting New Direction
The College has embarked on a distinctive new approach to
research and learning, one that brings together teams of
creative people to generate the ideas and innovation neces-
sary to help solve some of the world’s most complex and
compelling challenges.
We call these dynamic, highly collaborative teams
“research clusters,” and they tap OSU expertise in a wide
range of disciplines and departments to discover more cre-
ative, more innovative results. Results like:
• Harnessing the energy of ocean waves for electricity
• Making information on the Internet easier to find
• Employing algae to clean up toxic TNT leaking from
munitions on the ocean floor
• Designing airplanes that are more accessible for people
with disabilities
• Improving wireless communications
• Using microchannels to make heating and cooling
much more efficient.
The list goes on and on, because approaching research
with such diverse teams of faculty, students, staff, and
industry partners creates a synergy that leads to new ideas
and exciting discoveries.
The six research clusters at the College are powerful Theresa Daniels and Brian Nicholas, graduate students in the
centers of creativity, where together we are making the Department of Civil, Construction, & Environmental
world a better place for everyone. Engineering, help test a massive bridge girder for the Oregon
Department of Transportation on OSU’s strong floor.
ONAMI @ OSU Large-Scale Energy
Putting nanotechnology to work Systems
in micro systems for homeland Creating safer, super-efficient ways
security, clean and efficient energy of generating energy to meet the
systems, new medical devices, world’s growing demand—from
next-generation integrated circuits, transparent harnessing the power of wind and waves to
electronics, and more. innovating new nuclear reactor designs.
The Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute The leader of this cluster, Nuclear Engineering professor
(ONAMI) is a partnership with Pacific Northwest National José Reyes, is a pioneer in passive nuclear energy systems,
Laboratory, Portland State University, the University of which are much safer than traditional systems. Reyes was
Oregon, and a long list of industry partners. Among the new recently appointed by the United Nations as director of the
products in development that employ ONAMI technology is International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Coordinated
a portable kidney dialysis machine that could revolutionize Research Program for a six-nation study on passive nuclear
dialysis for the more than 400,000 people afflicted with energy systems. Reyes is also pioneering the use of MRI
kidney failure. For more information, visit www.onami.us. machines as research tools for real-time imaging of
complex fluid flows.
4 • Oregon State University Engineer
People. Ideas. Innovation.
Research
Caption
The Kiewit Center for
Infrastructure &
Transportation
Ross William Hamilton/The Oregonian
Making the world’s infrastructure
safe, reliable, and efficient—from
better tsunami warning systems to smarter
transportation systems.
This cluster is home to the world’s largest tsunami wave
basin, a strong floor where researchers are testing massive
bridge girders, and a new lab where airline seats and rest-
rooms are being redesigned to better accommodate passen-
gers with disabilities.
Electrical Engineering graduate student David Hong working with
an RF Magnatron Sputtering System, also known as a thin film
deposition tool. OSU Engineering's groundbreaking transparent Information Usability
electronics research is part of the ONAMI @ OSU research cluster. Making the world’s vast amounts of
information both easily accessible
Mixed-Signal and highly useful—from more
Integration powerful Internet searches to more
Converting real-world efficient databank management.
signals like sound, light, Researchers in this cluster are analyzing the computer
habits of millions of users, then building software that
and motion into digital draws on this collective history to help future users more
data that computers can quickly process, resulting efficiently find and use the information they’re after. Their
in technology breakthroughs that improve work is impacting everything from the spread of SARS to the
growth of e-commerce.
everything from communications to medicine.
Led by professors Terri Fiez, Karti Mayaram, Un-Ku Moon,
Huaping Liu, and Gabor Temes, this cluster is quickly
becoming one of the best in the country. David Hodges,
dean of engineering (retired) at UC Berkeley, recently said,
“OSU has one of the nation’s leading research programs on
analog and mixed-signal design.”
Biological &
Environmental Systems
Employing Earth’s smallest
microorganisms in toxic waste
cleanup and the development of
more efficient manufacturing processes.
Researchers in this cluster are also using microorganisms to
make bioactive surfactant coatings that decrease infection
and coagulation on implantable medical devices such as
tents, catheters, and endotracheal tubes. Others are using
different microbes to stop the spread of sub-surface plumes
of nuclear waste. Information Innovators: Computer Science faculty Cherri
Pancake, Ron Metoyer, and Jon Herlocker collaborate in the
Information Usability research cluster.
2004 Edition • 5
Research OSU College of Engineering
Creating Software That Benefits
Real, Live Bugs!
OSU Computer Science faculty are using a $1.7 million NSF
research grant to design software that is, well—full of bugs.
But these bugs are the type that creep and crawl and fly—
insects like stone flies that hatch in streams and creeks.
Combining two of OSU’s greatest strengths, engineering
and ecology, Computer Science professors Tom Dietterich
and Eric Mortensen have teamed up with Mechanical Engi-
neering professor Bob Paasch and OSU entomologists to
employ computer technology to identify insects, especially
in streambeds.
“This project could revolutionize water quality moni-
toring and provide an important new tool for studying soil
biodiversity in forests and the agricultural fields,” Dietterich
says.
It turns out that stone fly larvae are ideal indicators as
to the health of the streams in which they live. But collect-
ing, identifying, and documenting insects can be extremely
complicated. Not to mention the people power required to
accomplish such a task.
“This project seeks to develop a mechanical/computer
device that can automatically separate, photograph, and
classify insects to produce insect population counts,” says
Dietterich, who is an expert in machine learning. “Our goal
is to develop a single general purpose pattern recognition
system that can be applied to a new problem simply by
Bugs are no problem for professors Tom Dietterich (Computer training it (showing it examples of the kinds of bugs you
Science), left, and Andrew Moldenke (Botany), who are collabo- want to recognize).”
rating as part of an OSU team creating a high-tech The project is highly interdisciplinary. Dietterich is
mechanical/computer device that can automatically separate, working with two OSU entomologists, Andrew Moldenke
photograph, and classify insects. Stone flies (upper right), the (Botany) and David Lytle (Zoology), as well as Linda
aquatic equivalent of canaries in coal mines, are excellent Shapiro, an expert in pattern recognition at the University
indicators of stream health, but quickly and accurately deter- of Washington.
mining their numbers and condition in moving water is a “Bob Paasch is our mechanical design guru, and Eric
challenge that OSU researchers are overcoming. Mortensen is our image processing and segmentation
wizard,” Dietterich says. “One of my goals at OSU is to build
strong interdisciplinary ties between engineering and
ecology.”
The idea for the project was hatched, so to speak, at
OSU’s 2002 commencement, when Dietterich found himself
sitting next to Ken Williamson, head of Civil, Construction,
& Environmental Engineering.
“We started talking about insect identification,” Diet-
terich says. “Ken told me ‘everybody knew’ that automating
insect identification for small insects living in streams
would revolutionize water quality monitoring. We had a few
meetings, Ken helped us identify and define the project
early on, and as we develop the technology, we will be
looking for new or existing companies to help with
commercialization possibilities.”
To learn more, contact Dietterich at
tgd@cs.oregonstate.edu.
6 • Oregon State University Engineer
People. Ideas. Innovation.
Research
Innovating Inspiration!
Research seeks new ways to shake up
engineering education
Students enrolling in engineering programs are often
inspired to do so because they want to “make a difference”
by helping solve some of the world’s most complex prob-
lems.
Unfortunately, what often gets lost in the first two years
of a typical engineering education is how the equations and
theories scratched on the chalkboard relate to solving real-
world engineering problems. When this happens, inspira-
tion dwindles and the students transfer out of engineering.
Armed with a three-year, $1.1 million grant from the
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the College is
researching innovative new ways to recruit, retain, and
educate engineering students, especially women and
minorities.
“The grant is enabling us to energize and inspire first-
and second-year engineering students by developing course
work that is much more hands-on, interesting, and fun,”
says Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering professor
Toni Doolen, who is orchestrating the project that involves
more than 50 faculty, staff, and students from a wide range
of disciplines.
The ultimate goal is to keep engineering students
engaged and enthused from day one by “shaking up” the
way early engineering courses are traditionally taught,
Doolen said.
“FOR A RESEARCH “Statics,
for example,
UNIVERSITY TO RECEIVE can be a dry
class, but it
THIS LEVEL OF FUNDING can be taught
using some-
for curriculum enhance- thing as
common as a
ment is extremely rare.” paper punch,”
Doolen said.
“Once students understand the theory as it applies to an Professor Toni Doolen rides a Segway past a portion of the inter-
object they use every day, they can quickly apply the theory disciplinary team of OSU faculty, staff, and students who are
to more complex problems.” working together to retool engineering courses so they’re more
Although the three-year project has been under way for fun, inspiring, and interesting. The Segway is used by the team
less than a year, the grant is funding enhancements that as an outreach tool, and also provides a hands-on (both hands!)
include handing out PDAs (personal digital assistants) and opportunity to teach engineering concepts. Team members
laptops to students in wireless lecture halls, letting students (standing l. to r.) are John Shea, head advisor, Engineering; Joe
touch and tear apart objects that illustrate real-world engi- Zaworski , faculty, Civil, Construction, & Environmental
neering theory, and expanding outreach programs to K-12 Engineering; Mike Quinn, faculty, School of Electrical
students to demonstrate that engineering is an excellent Engineering & Computer Science; Aimee Taylor, student,
career choice for men and women. Statistics; Bill Bogley, faculty, Mathematics; Ellen Ford, director,
“For a research university to receive this level of funding Saturday Academy; Chris Schafer, student, Mechanical
for curriculum enhancement is extremely rare,” Doolen Engineering; Skip Rochefort, faculty, Chemical Engineering; Julie
says. “The results will help revolutionize the way engineer- Park (kneeling, l.), student, Corvallis High School; Heidi
ing is taught, and encourage more woman and minority Schmidt, student, Bioengineering.
students to pursue engineering as a career.”
2004 Edition • 7
Students OSU College of Engineering
Extraordinary Students
A t both regional and national level
competitions this year, teams of
OSU Engineering students placed
Randy Phillips, Zach Roether, and Luis
Umana) took 2nd place regionally. All
the teams are coached by professor
Vaeretti, Joe Brokowski, Dave Elia,
Chris Schafer, Andrew Skinner, and
Dustin Parks. Faculty advisor is Bob
extremely well in contests that Greg Baker. Paasch.
required them to design bridges and
beams, and accurately bid on major Water Treatment Energy from Falling
construction projects.
Techniques Win 1st Water
Timber Bridge Takes Environmental Engineering student
teams won 1st and 4th place at the
At the regional ASME Student Design
Contest, the OSU team of Steve
1st Environmental Engineering Competi- Shuyler and Bryan Yoder won 1st
A team of student bridge designers tion at California Polytechnic State place. This competition was based on
won 1st place for aesthetics and 2nd University. The competition, called a mining operation, requiring
place for both overall design and most “Water Treatment from Your students to utilize potential energy
practical design in the National Timber Kitchen...and Beyond,” required teams from falling water to lift as much sim-
Bridge Design Contest. Student team to build a portable water treatment ulated ore as possible up a segmented
members included: Katie Goodwin, plant and purify 10 gallons of water in ramp. Faculty advisors are Bob Paasch
Elias Hahn, Travis Johnson, Aeyoung a limited time. Team members and Ping (Christine) Ge.
S. Lee, Michael Miotke, Sean Moran, included Karen Hopfer, Doug
Jared Owen, Patreeda Pattaradon, Brannan, Joel Hearn, Wendy Schmidt, Student Paper Wins
John Poland, Norman Tindall, Leslyn Joelle Bennett, Alison Burcham, Clint
Tsugawa, Kevin White, Jeremy Montague, Adam Boyd, Ryan Makie, ASCE Student Chapter member Katie
Williams, and Huiyun Zhang. The and Matt Olsen. Team advisor is pro- Walker tied for 1st place in Zone IV
faculty advisor for the team was pro- fessor Peter Nelson. (West Coast of US) in the Daniel W.
fessor Rakesh Gupta. Mead National ASCE Student Paper
Contest. Walker also placed 1st in the
Mini-Baja Team Goes student paper presentation at the
Building a Better Beam the Distance Pacific Northwest Regional
Civil Engineering students Elias Hahn, The OSU SAE Mini-Baja team won 2nd Conference with her presentation
Amanda Stanko, and Jeremy Williams place at the Society of Automotive “Ethics in Disaster Recovery.”
won 3rd place in the national 2003 Engineers (SAE) West competition. The
Engineering Design Competition—Big 26-student team, which included Students Engineer
Beam Contest, after winning 1st place seven women, entered two cars and
in the regional competition. The stu- competed against 110 other college
Ways to Eliminate
dents designed, fabricated, and tested teams from as far away as Korea and Landmines
a beam as part of a class built around Poland. OSU team drivers were Wendy
the big beam design competition. A lethal byproduct of wars and mili-
Keevy, Darren Johnson, Thomas tary conflicts is the plethora of unex-
ploded anti-personnel landmines in
CEM Teams Win Big Afghanistan, Iraq, and some 70 other
Construction Engineering countries around the world. Detecting
Management (CEM) students contin- and safely disarming these mines,
ued their winning tradition at both the which each year kill or mutilate an
regional and national Associated estimated 26,000 people (8,000 of
Schools of Construction (ASC) Compe- whom are children), is an ongoing
titions. The Heavy/Civil Team (Justin and costly global challenge.
Brady, Ryan Knox, Joe Hampton, But engineering students in a
Trevor Spires, Jason Perrott, and Seth unique class at OSU rose to this chal-
Williamson) won 1st place at the lenge by designing a range of devices
regional competition, then went on to that can mechanically retrieve six sim-
take the 1st place national title. The ulated mines from a minefield and
Mechanical Team (Jason Amato, Ryan place them into a controlled receiving
Brown, Scott Daly, Justin Esperance, area within three minutes.
Simon Peters, and Aaron Van Dyke) The class, Mechanical Engineer-
won 2nd place at the national compe- Mechanical Engineering student Wendy ing 382, is taught by Ping (Christine)
tition, and the Residential Team (Scott Keevy puts the SAE Mini-Baja car through Ge and taps an annual design contest
Baisinger, Jake Barker, Cory Coleman, its paces in a practice run. sponsored by the American Society of
Mechanical Engineering (ASME).
8 • Oregon State University Engineer
Although she looks nothing like tory Commission in Washington, DC,
the stereotypical nerd, Smith’s focus or pursue a graduate degree in fusion
Students
on learning paid off when she was technology or radiation chemistry.
selected one of the top three high Fusion interests her, Smith says,
school students in Alaska during the because “there is so much potential”
Academic Decathlon competition. for creating energy without generating
It was during preparations for the radioactive waste. By studying radia-
competition that she stumbled across tion chemistry, she would be able to
sub-atomic science and therein found help develop ways to reprocess or
her passion. recycle spent fuel like many other
“I was amazed that there could be countries do, leading to less toxic
so much potential power in nuclear waste and safer storage
something so small,” she says. “That options. Smith is also interested in the
was just incredible to me.” So when medical applications of radiation in
she saw sub-atomic science listed in cancer treatment, and graduates of
an OSU catalog, she knew where she radiation health physics programs are
wanted to go to college and what she currently in great demand.
was going to study. No matter where Smith ends up,
“I chose nuclear engineering and two things are certain: armed with a
radiation health physics because I
Student Profile: wanted to study this cutting-edge
degree in Radiation Heath Physics,
she’ll be guaranteed a well-paying job.
technology,” she says. “I want to be on
Kristen Smith the cutting edge.”
And whoever hires her will benefit
from the drive, work ethic, and can-do
Her post-graduation plans are
From Valdez, Alaska, wide ranging. She might do a two-year
attitude she developed during those
Alaskan summers.
to OSU engineering internship with the Nuclear Regula-
risten Smith, a senior in the
K OSU Department of Nuclear
Engineering & Radiation Health
Physics, learned how to work hard at a
young age during the long Alaskan
summers when the sun never sets.
Growing up in Valdez, a town of
fewer than 4,000 people located at the
terminus of the Alaska Pipeline, Smith
started working full time during
summers when she was in eighth
grade. She’s worked every summer
since, logging an average of 80 hours a
week doing jobs that have included
pouring concrete for her father’s
general contracting business, working
on huge commercial fishing boats,
standing as a flagger on a road con-
struction crew, and hosting her own
fishing report radio show that
included dockside interviews with
boat captains. She often worked more
than one job at a time.
“In Alaska you have to be able to
do a lot of different jobs,” she says.
“And I have to admit that I’m a little
driven.”
Smith brought this drive and work
ethic with her to OSU, where she will
graduate with a degree in Radiation
Health Physics this June. Last term,
she took 22 credit hours while
working as a volunteer coach for two
girls basketball teams at a rural
middle school 20 miles south of Cor-
vallis. Fall term, she took 21 hours,
and pulled down a 3.8 GPA.
“I was kind of a nerd back in high
school,” she says. “I played basketball “The bottom line is, I need to help others.”
and ran cross-country and was in the Chemical Engineering student John Yoder was featured
honor society and did lots of other in the American Society for Engineering Education’s
things, but I was pretty good at being (ASEE) magazine, Engineering Go For It. His own words
a nerd.” about why he’s studying engineering at OSU say it all.
2004 Edition • 9
Faculty OSU College of Engineering
Faculty & Staff
Directorate of the Air rewarding,” Momsen says.
Force Office of Scientific “We’re very committed to
Research (AFOSR). King says her bringing more women and
experience at the AFOSR provided minorities to OSU to become
invaluable insight into modern engi- tomorrow’s engineers.”
neering research trends and prompted A common challenge at engineer-
her to “reboot” her career into engi- ing programs is the high attrition rate
neering. among women and minority students.
“That job allowed me to transition Many who begin studying engineering
into having an identity as an engineer change to a major other than
and provided me with the experience engineering within their first year.
necessary to return to Oregon State “That’s why we’re revitalizing the
and join the College of Engineering,” freshman and sophomore curriculum,
King says. “The Department of making it more hands-on and inspir-
Mechanical Engineering here is ing,” says Momsen, who last year was
primed for change. We have bright one of only six physics teachers in the
young professors with energy and nation selected to participate in year-
enthusiasm working in exciting long residencies at six universities,
research areas. The opportunity to including Oregon State.
lead the department at this time in its The new program, which is funded
history is energizing.” in part by a grant from Hewlett-
Belinda B. King, new head of Mechanical King is expanding the Packard Co., has also established a
Engineering, plans to develop “bio- department’s research in materials mentoring program so first-year stu-
inspired” engineering concepts at OSU. science, autonomous vehicles, bio- dents have an immediate peer support
“We can learn a lot by looking at how system provided by older students.
inspired engineering, and other areas,
biological systems do things,” she says.
and believes in collaboration. “As soon as new students arrive on
“Applying this knowledge to engineering
helps us develop new devices that do “I’m into building interdiscipli- campus, we’re connecting them with
things very efficiently.” nary ties, not only across engineering older students who know the ropes
departments, but across colleges and and will mentor them during that criti-
out into industry,” King says. “I’m cal first year,” Momsen says.
excited to be back at Oregon State; I The program also provides
New ME Department missed the quality of life, the univer- outreach to K-12 students, as well as to
Head Brings “Bio- sity, and the students here.” math and science teachers. A new “K-
12 Teaching Adventures” section has
King holds degrees in applied
inspired” Engineering mathematics and mathematical sci- been added to the College’s monthly e-
to OSU ences, is OSU’s first woman depart- newsletter, MOMENTUM! @ OSU Engi-
Belinda King is the new head of the ment head in the Department of neering, available free at
Department of Mechanical Engineer- Mechanical Engineering, and one of engr.oregonstate.edu/momentum.
ing. King brings program develop- only a few women in the U.S. who
ment expertise and a growing interest head engineering departments.
in a research area known as “micro air
vehicles,” flying devices with Women and Minorities
wingspans of less than 24 inches that
are capable of winging through earth- Director Hired
quake-damaged buildings to search Ellen Momsen, a 20-year veteran high
for survivors, locating lost or injured school physics teacher, has joined the
hikers in inhospitable terrain, and College to direct the new Women and
attaching radio transmitters in chal- Minorities Program, which is innovat-
lenging conditions. ing new ways to inspire more women
Previously an assistant and asso- and minorities to pursue careers in
ciate professor in the OSU engineering and to help retain those
Department of Mathematics and a students once they enroll at OSU
professor of mathematics at Virginia Engineering.
Tech, King also has served as program “Historically, young women have
manager of dynamics and control at not been encouraged to pursue
Ellen Momsen, right, talks about
the Mathematics and Space Sciences careers in engineering, yet engineer- engineering to Hispanic students at a
ing can be extremely fulfilling and recent conference on campus.
10 • Oregon State University Engineer
People. Ideas. Innovation.
Faculty
Qilin Li John Schmitt Zhongfeng Wang Albrecht Jander Sundar Atre
More Good John Schmitt Co. His research interests Sundar Atre
John Schmitt earned his BS include low power/high Prior to joining the Depart-
People Join the and MS degrees in speed VLSI design, digital ment of Industrial & Manu-
OSU Team mechanical engineering communications, and facturing Engineering,
from Washington Univer- cryptography. He has con- Sundar Atre was director
New College of sity in St. Louis and a ducted research in biomed- of Polymer Chemistry at
Engineering Faculty master of arts and his PhD ical signal processing, sta- the Center for Innovative
in mechanical and tistical pattern recognition, Sintered Products at Penn-
aerospace engineering robust control, and power sylvania State University.
Qilin Li from Princeton University. electronics. Wang has three He holds a PhD in materi-
Qilin Li joined the OSU The newest faculty U.S. patents pending, and als science and engineering
Department of Civil, Con- member in the OSU is an associate editor of the (polymers) from Penn
struction, and Environ- Department of Mechanical IEEE Transactions on Cir- State. His research interests
mental Engineering as an Engineering, Schmitt has cuits and Systems: Part I. lie in the development of
assistant professor of envi- research interests in bio- polymer chemistry and
ronmental engineering. inspired engineering, espe- Albrecht Jander chemical engineering prin-
Her research interests cially developing mechani- Albrecht Jander joined the ciples in the context of net-
include physical/chemical cal models based on insect OSU School of Electrical shaping with engineered
processes in natural and locomotion. He has analyt- Engineering & Computer materials, particularly
engineered systems; ically and numerically Science with BS, MS, and those involving hybrid
advanced technology for investigated a three-degree PhD degrees in electrical powdered-polymer
drinking water purification, of freedom rigid body engineering from Washing- mixtures and sintering. His
wastewater reclamation, model of a cockroach with ton University in St. Louis. research framework allows
and water reuse; and col- a single “effective” elastic He was previously at for addressing new techno-
loidal and interface leg with both fixed and Hewlett-Packard in Palo logical needs in environ-
science. Li teaches environ- moving centers of pressure. Alto, CA; the National Insti- mentally conscious manu-
mental engineering courses tute of Standards and facturing and will enhance
related to water treatment materials design and per-
processes and air pollution
Zhongfeng Wang Technology in Boulder,
formance in the fabrication
Zhongfeng Wang holds BS CO; and the NVE Corpora-
control. She holds a PhD tion in Minneapolis. Princi- of microsystems.
and MS degrees from
from the University of Illi- pal research interests are in
Tsinghua University in
nois at Urbana- the application of magnetic
Beijing, China, and a PhD
Champaign. materials in electronics, a
in Electrical and Computer
Engineering from the Uni- rapidly advancing field that
versity of Minnesota. He is propelled by significant
has worked for Beijing recent discoveries, includ-
Huahai New Technology ing “giant” magnetoresis-
Development Co. in tance, spin-dependent
Beijing, Morphics Technol- quantum tunneling, ferro-
ogy Inc. (now a part of Infi- magnetic semiconductors,
neon Technology), and and the control of electron
National Semiconductor spin in semiconductors.
2004 Edition • 11
Faculty OSU College of Engineering
other OSU faculty in engi-
neering and chemistry and
James Welty
employ the Multiscale Given Two
Materials and Devices
(MMD) technology being
ASME Awards
developed at OSU. MMD The American Society of
technology involves the use Mechanical Engineers
of a series of tiny (ASME) conferred two
microchannels to attain prestigious awards on
higher rates of heat and Mechanical Engineering
mass transfer as well as professor emeritus James
more highly controlled Welty during the ASME
chemical reactions. Using International Mechanical
MMD technology to create Engineering Congress and
a microreactor, researchers Exposition in Washington
are able to produce DC. The awards are the
nanoparticles of a more Heat Transfer Memorial
Chih-hung “Alex” Chang Award (General) and the
uniform size, which is a key
to depositing flexible elec- Frank von Flue Award.
Chang will use the Welty is the inaugural
Professor Wins funding to refine a low-
tronics to polymer
recipient of the Frank von
substrates.
NSF Award to temperature chemical bath
The CAREER award is Flue Award, which recog-
Develop Flexible deposition, or CBD
process, that enables place-
also enabling Chang to use nizes significant contribu-
tions to the promotion of
Electronics ment of thin-film
MMD technology and the
microreactor as a teaching lifelong learning for
Chemical Engineering pro- integrated circuits on mechanical engineers. The
tool in the classroom. “It is
fessor Chih-hung “Alex” plastic substrates such as Heat Transfer Memorial
easier to use, easier to
Chang has been awarded a bottles, maps, identifica- Award is bestowed on indi-
control and much cheaper
$400,000 Faculty Early tion cards, and wearable viduals who have made
to operate,” he said. “It also
Career Development electronics. Unlike chemi- outstanding contributions
makes learning more excit-
(CAREER) grant from the cal vapor deposition, or to the field of heat transfer.
ing and more hands-on for
National Science Founda- CVD processes, which
our students.”
tion (NSF) to support his often require a vacuum
research in development of environment and high
flexible electronics. Chang, temperatures, the CBD
an assistant professor who process can function under
joined the College in 2000, normal atmospheric pres-
is the fourth faculty sure and at low tempera-
member in the College to tures, making application
win a CAREER award on polymers a possibility.
during the past three years. “Since maintaining a
NSF’s most prestigious vacuum is expensive, most
award for new faculty CVD process chambers are
members, the CAREER small,” Chang said. “The
award recognizes and sup- advantage of CBD over
ports the early career- CVD is very significant for
development activities of large-area devices such as
teacher-scholars who are solar cells and computer
most likely to become the displays, and could lead to
academic leaders of the larger, less expensive dis-
21st century. plays and other products.”
Chang’s research and Faculty, students, and staff given College of Engineering Awards
educational efforts benefit this year at the annual Engineering Breakfast. Left to right,
from collaboration with standing: Andreas Weisshaar, John Gambatese, Tina Batten,
Brian Paul, Christopher Higgins, and Gregg Rothermel. Left to
right, kneeling: Jimmy Eggerton, Dean Ron Adams, and Rich
Peterson. Not pictured: Angela Franklin, Charles Kandra, Mollie
Rock, Tom Plant, Goran Jovanovic, and Jeff Bender.
12 • Oregon State University Engineer
People. Ideas. Innovation.
Faculty
Professor Cherri Pancake
Honored for Named Cyber-
Accessible Infrastructure
Transportation Advisor
The Transportation Computer Science profes-
Research Board named sor Cherri Pancake has
Kate Hunter-Zaworski, a been invited by the
rehabilitation and trans- National Science Founda-
portation engineer in the tion (NSF) to join the Engi-
Department of Civil, Con- neering Directorate’s Advi-
struction, and sory Committee where she
Environmental Engineer- will advise on the creation
ing, the 2004 recipient of of a national cyber-infra-
the Roger Tate Award for structure. Cyber-infrastruc-
Darlene Perkins Outstanding Contributions ture describes a national
to Accessible Transporta- system of shared laborato-
tion Research. ries for physical
Milosh Popovich Darlene Perkins experimentation, shared
Walker Wins data repositories and
Wins Dan Poling Honored for digital libraries, shared net-
Service Award Support of Wind Award works of sensors for moni-
Mechanical Engineering Undergraduates Stel Walker, assistant pro- toring environmental con-
ditions or other systems,
professor emeritus Milosh fessor of Mechanical Engi-
OSU Engineering’s assis- shared computing facilities
Popovich was awarded the neering and a leader in the
tant for academic affairs for numerical simulations,
OSU Alumni Association’s development of wind
Darlene Perkins was given and a complete array of
Dan Poling Service Award. energy, was honored by
the Tau Beta Pi Award for software tools—all linked
Popovich received his BS in the American Wind
Outstanding Support of to form a virtual infrastruc-
Chemical Engineering and Energy Association with
Undergraduates. The OSU ture for collaboration. Until
his MS in Mechanical Engi- the organization’s Acade-
award is given by the Tau recently, Pancake also
neering from OSU, then mic Achievement Award at
Beta Pi engineering honor served on the NSF’s Com-
served as an assistant pro- Global Windpower 2004,
society to an individual or puter and Information
fessor in the Department of the first worldwide wind
group in recognition of Science & Engineering
Mechanical Engineering industry event to be held
outstanding support to a Advisory Committee.
and as chairman of the in the United States.
student group that was key
department until 1954, to the group’s success.
when he was appointed
assistant dean of engineer-
ing. In 1959, he was Mechanical Engineering
appointed the university’s faculty Stel Walker, recipient of
dean of administration the Academic Achievement
(title later changed to vice Award from the American
president), a position he Wind Energy Association,
shows an anemometer, a
held until his retirement in
device that collects data on
1979. He was elected a wind speed and direction to
Fellow of ASME in 1968. help determine ideal
placement of wind turbines.
2004 Edition • 13
Infrastructure OSU College of Engineering
Infrastructure
E-Tsunami Wave
Lab Comes
Online,
Generates First
Big Waves
During a September 13
grand opening ceremony
that included remarks sent
by National Academy of
Engineering president
William Wulf, the world’s
largest and most-wired
Sol Neelman/The Oregonian
tsunami wave basin gener-
ated its first official
tsunami wave, splashing
several of the more than
400 spectators as the wave
ran up a gravel beach and
crashed over the concrete
wall of the tank. The cere-
mony featured John
Brighton of the National Spectators at the grand opening of the OSU Tsunami Wave Basin, the largest facility of its kind in
Science Foundation, Eddie the world, watch the inaugural wave move across the tank. Time Magazine selected the Oregonian
Bernard of the National photo for publication on its website as one of the best photos of the week.
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, and
others. The facility, some-
times referred to as the e- Rise Up! Kelley
tsunami wave basin Engineering
because it employs cutting-
edge information technol-
Center Taking
ogy, will enable researchers Shape
anywhere in the world to A web cam located atop
participate remotely in Weniger Hall tracks daily
real-time experiments hap- progress as the Kelley Engi-
pening at the Corvallis neering Center rises out of
facility. the ground at the heart of
campus. The 143,000-square-
foot structure, which
employs sustainable “green”
building materials and con-
cepts, will be the new home
of the OSU School of Electri-
cal Engineering and Com-
puter Science when it opens
in fall 2005. The building is Watch the momentum of the Kelley Engineering Center via the
funded by a $20 million gift webcam at: engr.oregonstate.edu/top25/building/webcam/
from OSU Engineering
alumnus Martin Kelley and
his wife Judy, along with
public funds from the state of
Oregon. To see the web cam
image, bookmark the website
and watch as OSU Engineer-
ing builds momentum!
14 • Oregon State University Engineer
People. Ideas. Innovation.
Alumni
Alumni
The Depot Street Bridge
office of David Evans &
Associates and says he is
grateful to Civil Engineer-
ing professor emeritus
John Peterson, who taught
Nettleton bridge design
while he was a student at
OSU. Guido Portier (CE
1978) and Justin Acacio Caption
(CE 2003) were also
Scott Nettleton members of the DEA team.
Innovative Alum Named
Bridge Over Federal Engineer
Rogue River of the Year Donald Pettit, NASA astronaut and OSU Engineering
OSU Engineering alumnus
Designed by William A. Mittelstadt
alumnus, receives OSU’s Distinguished Service Award from
OSU president Ed Ray.
Grads received the Federal Engi-
Scott Nettleton, a 1990 neer of the Year Award.
Civil Engineering alum, Sponsored by the National Astronaut’s native Oregon. Pettit told
the audience, which
Society of Professional
was the engineering and
architectural lead for a Engineers (NSPE) and Return to OSU included hundreds of K-12
spectacular replacement of Northrop Grumman, the Draws Huge students, “Education is the
award recognizes outstand- key to doing everything
the existing 434-foot-long
ing engineers employed in
Crowd cool in life. All the cool jobs
steel truss bridge that OSU Chemical Engineering
the federal government. require an education.” He
crosses the scenic and alumnus Donald Pettit,
Mittelstadt received his BS also thanked his OSU engi-
environmentally sensitive who returned to Earth
and MS degrees in electri- neering professors. “Those
Rogue River near I-5 in aboard a Russian Soyez
cal engineering from OSU folks warped my mind in a
southern Oregon. The new spacecraft after six months
in 1966 and 1968, respec- very special way,” he joked.
Rogue River (Depot Street) on the International Space
tively. A summer internship The Alumni Association
Bridge will be a concrete Station last year, came back
for the Bonneville Power honored Pettit with an
tied arch structure and will to his alma mater for
Administration led to a Alumni Fellows Award
serve as a landmark for the Homecoming on October
lifelong career with the BPA during the weekend, and
surrounding area. Nettle- 30th. At OSU, he found a
and international recogni- the university honored
ton works for the Salem crowd of more than 1,300
tion of the projects he pro- Pettit by giving him OSU's
moted and supervised. people ready to welcome prestigious Distinguished
the university’s most well- Service Award.
traveled grad back to his
2004 Edition • 15
Alumni OSU College of Engineering
Oregon Stater Awards 2004
Kyle Doyel and Octave
Levenspiel
L aunched in 1998, the
Oregon Stater Awards
honor outstanding alumni
Ann and Hal Pritchett Ron Adams and Cathy Nelson
Our 35 new Oregon Carmen and Tom West
and friends of the OSU Staters join 260 individuals
College of Engineering for honored since 1998. These
their contributions to the 260 exceptional people rep-
profession and to Oregon resent less than 1 percent
State University. At the Feb- of our graduates, including
ruary 27, 2004, awards cer- a few very special friends of
emony, the College the College. Included in our
inducted 16 new members Oregon Stater membership
into our Hall of Fame, 11 are all former deans,
into our Academy of Dis- several faculty, the
tinguished Engineers, and founders of CH2M HILL, 18
eight into our Council for members of the National
Outstanding Early Career Academy of Engineering Jim Lundy, Gregg and Nancy
Engineers. (NAE), a Nobel Prize recipi- Thompson
These new members ent, a Rhodes scholar, mili- Steve Tesch and Ken
include consultants, public tary and civic leaders, and Wightman
servants, business people, many more.
academics, national lab During the first four
researchers, and industry
leaders from high-tech,
years of the awards we Engineering Hall
heavy-tech, the energy
honored Oregon Staters at
Homecoming each fall. The
of Fame
sector, and the public awards ceremony is now August D. Benz (BSChE
sector. Their careers span held in the last week of 1954) Principal
the past seven decades, February to enhance our Technologist, Bechtel
and many have been celebration of National National Inc.
donors to the College and Engineers Week. Next year’s Theron M. Bradley Jr. (BS
have also served as board ceremony will be held on Physics 1967, BS
members. February 25. Mathematics 1969) Chief Ron Adams and William
This year’s awards were Here are the 2004 Engineer, NASA. Chang
presented at a banquet for recipients of the Oregon
the award recipients, Fred M. Briggs (BSEE 1971)
Stater Awards. For more
family, and friends. President of Operations
information and a listing of Stephen A.D. Meek III
Students, faculty, and uni- and Technology, MCI.
past recipients, visit (BSEE 1950) President/CEO
versity leaders were also on engr.oregonstate.edu/ Chun Chiu (MSEE 1969) (deceased), Osborne
hand to congratulate this oregonstater. President/CEO and Electronics Corp.
year’s awardees and OSU Chairman, Quality
Engineering students dis- Jack Meredith (BSME 1961,
Semiconductor.
played special projects, BS Mathematics 1961)
including the SAE Formula Adam Heineman (BSCE Professor of Management
and mini-Baja cars and the 1949) Chief (deceased), and Broyhill Distinguished
Mechanical Engineering Operations Division, Corps Scholar and Chair in
382 class project that of Engineers. Operations, Babcock
designed landmine elimi- Graduate School of
nation devices. The Galen Ho (BSEE 1968) Management, Wake Forest
College’s six new research President, BAE Systems University.
clusters were also Information and Electronic
highlighted. Systems Integration Sector
(IESIS).
16 • Oregon State University Engineer
People. Ideas. Innovation.
Alumni
Council of
Outstanding
Early Career
Engineers
Kent Boden (BSCEM 1988)
Senior Project Engineer,
Kiewit Pacific Co.
Denis Burger Jr. (BSCS
1987) Founder & President
of InsanePlay and Founder
& President of Mud Puppy
Studios.
Patrick Jensen (BSEE 1989)
Thidarat Dendamrongvit, student in Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering (IME); Witaya Managing Director, Trio
Jangsombatsiri, student in IME; Dottie and Rick Billo, IME Dept. Head; Thanit Puthpongsiriporn, Medical LLC and Trio
IME faculty; Pala Sookawesh; Kanchalee Sookawesh; and Kannike Sookawesh Associates LLC.
John F. McKibben (BSChE
1984) Technical Section
Robert W. Morrison Jr. Robert E. Wilson (BSME Kyle Doyel (BSChE 1980, BS Head – Fabric and Home
(BSME 1968) Chief Engineer, 1955, PhD ME 1963) Business Administration Care, Proctor & Gamble Co.
Peterbilt Trucks, Division of Professor Emeritus, 1980) President/CEO, Kyzen Jatila Ranasinghe (MSME
PACCAR Corp. Department of Mechanical Corporation, Nashville, TN. 1986, PhD ME 1989)
Engineering, Oregon State Manager, Accessory
Harold D. “Hal” Pritchett J. Craig Dutton (MSME
University. Systems Engineering,
(BSCE 1957, MSCE 1961) 1975) Professor of
Professor Emeritus, Aeronautical & Astronautical Power Systems Division,
Department of Civil, Academy of Engineering and Associate General Electric Company.
Construction, &
Environmental Engineering,
Distinguished Head of Mechanical
Engineering, University of
L. Eric Smith (BSNE 1994)
Senior Scientist, PNNL.
Oregon State University. Engineers Illinois.
David J. Brown (MSEE 1983) Sterling L. Smith (BSEE
Richard S. Reid (BSME 1962, James A. Johnson (BSIE 1990) Vice President of
MSME 1965) Vice President, Vice President, Engineering 1984) Co-General Manager,
& Advanced Development, Integrated Circuits R&D of
Director of Operations and Network Systems Division, MStar.
Chief Engineer, Industrial Tektronix. Intel Corporation.
Design & Construction. James L. Buelt (BSChE 1975) Gregg V. Thompson (BSCE
Jeffrey E. Klemann (BSME 1992) Environmental
Pala Sookawesh (MSIE Manager, Process & 1984) Everett Site Quality
Measurement Technology Process Engineer, CH2M
1969) Governor, Petroleum Director, Boeing Company. Hill.
Authority of Thailand. Product Line,
Environmental Technology Susanna M. Laszlo (BSCE
Raymond E. Southwell Directorate at Battelle 1983, BS Forest Engineering
(BSChE 1950) Founder and Memorial Institute. 1983) Engineering Design
President, Specialty Manager for Port of
Polymers. Michael W. Cappiello (BSNE Portland.
1974) Program Manager for
Thomas M. West (PhD IE Advanced Fuel Cycle Catherine M. Nelson (BSCE
1976) Head, Department of Initiative (AFCI) at Los 1982) ODOT State Highway
Industrial & Manufacturing Alamos National Lab and Engineer.
Engineering, OSU, 1986- AFCI National Director for William A. “Bill”
1992; Associate Dean, 1992- Transmutation Engineering. Sundermeier (BSCS 1985)
1997; Interim Dean, 1997-
Huei Liang (William) Chang Sr. Vice President & General
1998.
(BSEE 1981) Vice President Manager, Portland
Kenneth M. Wightman II of R&D and CTO, Stryker Operations at Flir Systems.
(BS Forest Engineering 1968) Endoscopy.
President/COO, David Evans
& Associates Inc.
2004 Edition • 17
Entrepreneurship OSU College of Engineering
Entrepreneurship
OSU Engineering
Entrepreneurs Launch
New Company
Although the $18.6 million renovation
of historic Weatherford Hall will not be
complete until fall 2004, OSU
Engineering students are already taking
advantage of the university’s new
Austin Entrepreneurship Program
(AEP) by launching their own compa-
nies.
Alan Mui, a senior in the School of
Electrical Engineering & Computer
Science, will graduate before he has the
chance to live in Weatherford Hall—
one of only two residential colleges in
the nation aimed at entrepreneurship.
But he and three fellow students
already have co-founded a new
company and are tapping the burgeon- Alan Mui, second from left, and fellow students Brian Gin, Howie Price, and Chris Allen,
ing entrepreneurship expertise avail- are flanked by professors Jimmy Eggerton (left) and Justin Craig in front of Weatherford
able at Oregon State. Hall, home of OSU’s new Austin Entrepreneurship Program, one of only two such
The team came together in a new residential programs in the nation. The Republic Café (below), Portland’s oldest Chinese
OSU business course called Intro to restaurant, where Mui will install his company’s first product.
Entrepreneurship, and is refining its
business plan in another new class, their home, he or his father could Their product differs from off-the-
New Venture Creation Lab, taught by view key locations at the restaurant shelf webcams, which generally have
Justin Craig, assistant professor of and determine immediately if it was camera-to-computer distance limita-
entrepreneurship. necessary to call in the police. tions, film at very low frames-per-
“The Austin Entrepreneurship But because most surveillance second rates (causing jerky playback),
Program is very helpful for any student systems on the market cost thousands and cannot support multiple cameras.
interested in becoming an of dollars, Mui decided to see if he The OSU students have chosen high
entrepreneur,” Mui says. “If I weren’t could come up with a less expensive quality cameras that shoot up to 60
graduating in June, I would definitely alternative. frames per second.
live in Weatherford this fall and take Mui says his team can offer a “So the footage is like DVD
advantage of the incubator spaces and four-camera system, installed, for quality,” Mui says. “Our product uti-
other resources to build our company.” approximately $1,500. Their market lizes surveillance quality equipment
Mui’s new company, which is so research has found that the cheapest such as a DVR processing card that
new it doesn’t yet have a name, offers system of similar quality sells for ensures better image quality, better
an affordable web-based surveillance $4,000 and up. frame rate through compression, mul-
system that will sell for a fraction of the One key to success, Mui says, is tiple cameras, and greater flexibility in
cost of current systems. selling to niche markets: pet day care camera placement.”
“Our mission is to deliver afford- centers so vacationing pet owners can Mui credits fellow students in his
able high-tech surveillance solutions check in on Rover Senior Project group (Aaron
for home and business owners with the from thousands of Haworth, Ahmad Hussain,
goal of providing security and peace of miles away; child- Erik Vernon, and Hong
mind,” Mui says. care facilities so Tang) and advisor professor
Mui came up with the idea while that parents can Jimmy Eggerton with
trying to solve an ongoing problem at take peeks at their helping him conceptualize
his father’s business, Portland’s oldest children during the product, but his business
Chinese restaurant, the Republic Café, the day; homes partners are Accounting
located on Northwest Fourth Avenue in where elders live major Howie Price, Mechani-
Chinatown. When the restaurant’s alone so that loved cal Engineering senior Brian
security alarm would go off, Mui or his ones can check in on them via cyber- Gin, and Electrical Engineering junior
father had to either drive the 40- space to ensure their safety. Chris Allen.
minute round trip from their home to “The applications are virtually Given Mui’s enthusiasm, profes-
see what was up, or pay the Portland endless,” Mui says. “There are so sionalism, and high energy, his fledg-
Police Department a fee to check on many uses for this system.” ling company just might be the first
the restaurant. Most times, it was a Mui’s team offers both wired and success story of the Austin Entrepre-
false alarm, triggered by someone wireless systems, and they have neurship Program. And it’s definitely a
trying to open a door or window. So designed an infrared sensor that acti- great example of the powerful mar-
Mui figured that if he could install a vates the wireless camera only when riage that can happen when engineer-
series of cameras, it would save both heat and motion are detected, saving ing and business students team up.
time and money. From a computer in battery life.
18 • Oregon State University Engineer
People. Ideas. Innovation.
Relationships
& Relationships
Hewlett-Packard’s Steve Nigro (left), OSU President Ed Ray, Dean Ron Adams, and
Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski sign an agreement to work together.
Hewlett-Packard,
Get
employees, improved educational
opportunities for HP’s workforce, and
OSU Launch Close ultimately new companies where Ore-
Relationship
Momentum!
gonians will find jobs. Oregon Gov.
Hewlett-Packard Company and Ted Kulongoski, who hosted the
Oregon State University recently signing ceremony, said that the part-
signed an agreement at the State nership between OSU and HP will
Capitol in Salem to partner on every-
thing from joint research labs to col-
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People. Ideas. Innovation.
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