Research Centers and Institutes

Working to help the region reduce costs by improving efficiency through

• Industrial Assessment Center Audits: No-cost energy, waste, and productivity assessments to small and medium sized manufacturers in the Northwest (predominantly OR, WA, and ID).
• Rural Energy Audits: Eligible Rural business and agricultural client cost shared audits to identify opportunities to improve efficiency.
• Energy Efficiency Reference: A web based technical reference for identifying and quantifying efficiency opportunities in the industrial, agricultural, commercial and residential sectors. (In BETA development)
• Special audits, projects and research

http://eec.engr.oregonstate.edu/

Joe Junker
344 Batcheller Hall
Phone: (541) 737 - 5034
Fax: (541) 737 - 5035
Email: Joe.Junker@oregonstate.edu

A cutting-edge lab where researchers build and test scale model next-generation nuclear reactors to help ensure safe operation and potential certification by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Qiao Wu
Associate Professor
Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
Phone: (541) 737-7066

One of only three such facilities in the U.S., the MTSL helps meet the increasing industry demand for automatic data capture and mobile technology applications by providing companies with innovative solutions, techniques, and expertise.

David Porter
420 Rogers
Phone: (541) 737-2446
Email: david.porter@oregonstate.edu

One of the largest and most sophisticated facilities for wave research in the world; combines three major wave testing facilities, including a tsunami research center.

Solomon Yim, Director
207 Graf Hall
Phone: (541) 737-6894
Fax: (541) 737-6974
Email: Solomon.yim@oregonstate.edu

The only university facility of its kind in the western U.S., the Radiation Center supports research, development, and service programs involving nuclear science and engineering, radiation protection, and related disciplines.

Steve Reese
Director
Radiation Center
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 98771
Phone: (541) 737-2341

The ERRl has managed the data collection, quality assurance and analysis for the Bonneville Power Administration's wind energy resource studies since 1978 and manages other data management activities for transmission line research. It maintains a large data base of wind data for the Pacific Northwest.

Stel N. Walker, Director
Phone: (541) 737-2027
Fax: (541) 737-2600
Email: stel.walker@oregonstate.edu

A collaboration between the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Oregon State University, the MBI helps commercialize advanced microproducts based on microtechnologies under development at both institutions.

Richard B. Peterson
Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
204 Rogers Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
Phone: (541) 737-7095
Fax: (541) 737-2600
E-mail: Richard.Peterson@oregonstate.edu

The manufacturing advances developed by the electronics industry for MEMS (MicroElectro Mechanical Systems) can be applied to the area of energy, chemical, biomedical, and biological systems with as much potential as that which existed at the start of the electronics revolution. We have termed this area Microtechnology-based Energy and Chemical Systems (MECS).

Richard B. Peterson
Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
204 Rogers Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
Phone: (541) 737-7095
Fax: (541) 737-2600
E-mail: Richard.Peterson@oregonstate.edu

WESRF is the highest power and best equipped lab of its kind in any university in the nation. Lab assets include a 750kVA dedicated power supply, rotary test beds up to 300hp, full capabilities to regenerate back onto the grid, and a state-of-the-art wave energy linear test bed that is unique to the world.

Co-Directed by:
Annette von Jouanne and Ted Brekken
1148 Kelley Engineering Center
Phone: (541) 737-0831

Network of public and private colleges and universities, joined by space-related industry, state and local governments and nonprofit organizations, to promote space science and engineering.

Jack Higginbotham, Ph.D., CHP
Director, Oregon Space Grant Consortium
Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics
92 Kerr Administration Building
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
Phone: (541) 737-9949

Major research areas include transportation accessibility, coastal and near-shore processes, tsunami studies, bridge research, ports and harbors, and highway materials.

Scott Ashford, Director
111 Kearney Hall
Phone: (541) 737-4934
Email: Scott.Ashford@oregonstate.edu

Develops interactive, web-based tools to make large biological, environmental, and climate databases more useful to practicing scientists and engineers.

Cherri M. Pancake, Director
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Phone: 541-737-2109

Co-operative research program develops new technologies and applications of existing technologies to increase metals research, accessibility and infrastructure in Oregon.

John Parmigiani
School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Phone: (541) 737-3441
Fax: (541) 737-2600
Email: parmigjo@engr.orst.edu

Established by the Department of Energy to facilitate commercialization of marine energy technology through research of technology, environment and human dimension aspects of marine energy. The mission is to inform regulatory and policy decisions, to close key gaps in scientific understanding and to provide testing capabilities.

Robert Paasch, Director
204 Rogers Hall
Phone: (541) 737-7019
Fax: (541) 737-2600
Email: Paasch@engr.orst.edu

OPIC is a facility that focuses on improving current solar cell manufacturing processes to reduce costs and on developing novel manufacturing technologies for next-generation solar cells. OPIC is affiliated with the Microproducts Breakthrough Institute, a partnership between OSU and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and the Built Environment and Sustainable Technologies Signature Research Center.

Alex Chang
313 Gleeson
Phone: (541) 737-8548
Email: changch@che.oregonstate.edu