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Connecting with communities in rural Alaska

March 16th, 2017

Connecting with communities in rural Alaska

Although she took a meandering path to find her passion, Phylicia Cicilio’s research in rural Alaska brings together her multiple interests in engineering, the environment, […]

 
Channeling undergraduate enthusiasm

March 16th, 2017

Channeling undergraduate enthusiasm

It is the rare undergraduate engineering student who knows what a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine is, let alone how to build one. But that […]

 
An unexpected dream

March 16th, 2017

An unexpected dream

Nadia Payet did not expect to find herself at Google when she was growing up in Réunion, a French island near Madagascar. But Oregon State […]

 
Finding tech opportunities in rural Oregon

March 16th, 2017

Finding tech opportunities in rural Oregon

Cattle and computer science — it was a combination that David Martinez could not necessarily imagine, but it was exactly what he was looking for.
A […]

 
Ripples upon ripples

March 16th, 2017

Ripples upon ripples

Out on the ocean, a wave energy converter heaves, rocks and pitches to the motion of the waves. How the energy converter interacts with the […]

 
Blending electrical and chemical engineering

March 15th, 2017

Blending electrical and chemical engineering

Making advances in two-dimensional semiconducting materials was beyond the scope of what Arturo Valdivia could imagine for himself when he was growing up in the […]

 
Celebrating our graduates

March 15th, 2017

Celebrating our graduates

Congratulations to the 2016 graduates of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science! We celebrate all the different paths that got you to where […]