At the Oregon State University College of Engineering, we don’t just study and create to keep things locked in a lab. We work hard so that our research and innovations have real-world applications. That effort is why the university’s focus on big discoveries for big solutions aligns perfectly with what we do and who we are. The new Oregon State strategic plan, Prosperity Widely Shared, homes in on five specific research areas, each featuring the work of Oregon State Engineers. We are collaborating across disciplines and across campus to make big things happen for widespread and lasting solutions: • In robotics, we are leading a national team to create an underwater robotic swarm capable of exploring the cavities under ice shelves to measure glacial melt. • In integrated health and biotechnology, artificial intelligence fuels a new device to test whether the 3.4 million people with epilepsy in the U.S. are taking the optimal dose of their essential medications. Our researchers are also tracking antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and their genes after they reach wastewater systems throughout the United States. • In climate science and related solutions, our PRISM climate group supported the most detailed and accurate update ever of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Plant Hardiness Zone map — a resource used by over 80 million gardeners nationwide. • In clean energy, floating offshore wind energy generation becomes more attainable on the West Coast when we study and test platform prototypes at 1/50 scale — especially when we have the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory at hand to test them in a variety of sea conditions. But the cleanest energy is the energy you save, and Oregon State Engineers are working on incorporating just the right electronic materials and devices into computer chips to reduce the overall energy needed to run data centers and to power artificial intelligence. This has a huge impact, considering that the world’s data centers use more energy than some countries. I love it when science leaves our facilities and impacts real lives for the better. I’m excited to see if energy-efficient computer chips, an epilepsy dosage device, and floating wind energy devices can become widely used products, much like the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone map. Oregon State innovations and discoveries will help the world sustainably greet a bright, thriving future. Go Beavs! Scott A. Ashford, Ph.D., P.E. (California) Kearney Dean of Engineering Oregon State University College of Engineering EMBRACING OREGON STATE’S NEW STRATEGIC PLAN, PROSPERITY WIDELY SHARED
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