Research and Facilities
Research at OSU’s College of Engineering
Leading researchers in the College of Engineering are collaborating across multiple disciplines to address soil liquefaction, which can lead to failure of roads, bridges, buildings, and other critical structures, landslide prediction and mitigation, cost-effective improvements to existing infrastructure, evacuation routes, and tools to plan for hazards and anticipate risks. In conjunction with bright graduate students, undergraduate students, and post-doctoral scholars, OSU faculty conduct CLiP research projects. The FY22 projects include:
- Finding Optimal Access Routes Based on Multi-Infrastructure Failures. PI: Dr. Joe Louis
- Gap analysis for wildfire resilient communities in the Western US. PI: Dr. Erica Fischer
- Development of WebGIS-based tool for probabilistic damage and restoration modeling of lifeline systems. PIs: Dr. Jaehoon Jung and Dr. Mohammad Shafiq Alam
- Gosep is ready: now let’s use it. PIs: Dr. Matt Evans and Dr. Ben Leshchinsky
- Site Response and Cyclic Modeling Calibrations for Oregon Silt Soils. PIs: Dr. Armin Stuedlein and Dr. Matt Evans
CLiP provided seed funding for a summer undergraduate research program (SURF), which paved the way to bring a National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program to OSU called Engineers Bounce Back. Read more about the Engineers Bounce Back Undergraduate Research Program.
Facilities at OSU’s College of Engineering
Oregon State University’s College of Engineering houses the largest near-shore experimental facility at an academic institution in the nation — the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory. In addition, the research facilities and laboratories available in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering are the type found at top engineering schools around the nation, and some of them are unique to only a select number of institutions around the country.
Major laboratories include:
