January 2025

Our "Engineer Like a Vik" collaboration with PSU Athletics and the School of Business at Viking Pavilion went well, resulting in an evening of community building and basketball viewing. President Ann Cudd and Provost Shelly Chabon joined the deans, faculty, staff, students, and alumni from the two schools to cheer on the ultimately victorious PSU Vikings. Although Dean Joseph Bull fell to Dean Qing Hu in a heated game of rock paper scissors after a tic tac toe stalemate, camaraderie prevailed.

Speaking of community spirit, the Maseeh College holiday gathering was a blast. Thanks to the planning committee and to everyone who came out to celebrate the season.

Participants in our China program, a partnership with Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NJUPT), celebrated the end of term with a party in the Viking Gameroom. Staff, faculty, and students tried their hands at some quintessentially American past times, including pool, bowling, and foosball.

Through arrangement of AIT (America in Taiwan) office, Senator Jeff Merkley visited Maseeh College alums Ken Li and Frankwell Lin's business in Taipei, Taiwan. The next focus is Andes design center in Oregon, but they shared information about their scholarship fund with the visiting US delegation. If you missed the Foundation's piece on this fund, you can read it here.

Oregon MESA's 2024 Annual Report celebrates the achievements of the MESA community in advancing equity, innovation, and environmental stewardship. The folks at MESA are also excited to share a special film that brings their mission to life. Featuring Oregon MESA students Abu and Melissa as they share their journeys in the program, insights from a notable alumna, MESA's founding director, and others, the film also offers a glimpse into the most exciting MESA event of the year.

A new STEM-focused podcast is in the works. A collaboration between the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science, and the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, PSU STEMcast will highlight the people and projects shaping the future of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—on campus and beyond. More information and a story submission form are available at pdx.edu/stemcast, and the first episode should be coming out this term.

All commencement ceremonies will be back on campus this Spring at Viking Pavilion. Graduating students will be able to celebrate with their academic school or college in a more intimate, personal and customized ceremony. Maseeh College's ceremonies will be on Friday, June 13th from 4-5:30 pm and from 7-8:30pm.
Maseeh introduced a new Employer Sponsorship Program for the Engineering Work Experience (EWX) internship program to fund our career services. So far two employers opted to sponsor and a third is in the negotiation phase. Details about the program and benefits of sponsorship are available on this page.
teuscher.:Lab has a new Artist-in-the-Lab (AiL) program which aims at fostering the collaboration between art, science, and technology. Artists will be embedded in the lab to engage and interact with scientists and students to gain a deeper understanding of cutting-edge science and technology and create original artwork that engages an audience in creative, new, and unconventional ways to see and experience science and technology. The AiL program hopes to challenge expectations, to change perspectives, to engage the audience in critical thinking, and to broaden the understanding in science and technology. Learn more and find the application here.
Work on the Maseeh website continues. We are now in the process of editing the new site map so that work can begin on a web experience that is more engaging, consistent, and student-focused. On a side note, we are also updating all the academic program pages to make them more helpful from a student perspective (and more SEO-friendly).
Maseeh College has sunsetted its X platform and transitioned to Bluesky, so make sure to follow our stream and share our posts on that platform (as well as following us on our other social media accounts).

Sirisha Kothuri (CEE) recieved $117,500 from the Oregon Department of Transportation for "Advancing Safety at Intersections: Measuring the Effectiveness of Traffic Signal Strategies for Speed Management on Operations and Safety"

Christof Teuscher (ECE) gave a plenary presentation entitled “Alternative ways of Computing: What computes, what doesn’t?” at the 9th Annual Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is an American (IEEE) International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC) last month.
ECE and Teuscher Lab doctoral student Byron Gregg presented both a paper and a poster on "Against the Current: Introducing Reversibility to Superscalar Processors via Reversible Branch Predictors" at the 15th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference.

Dean Bull will be speaking during SXSW EDU in Austin, Texas March 4th at 3:30pm. He will be meeting with alumni while there. If you know of any Maseeh community members in the Austin area he should meet that weekend, please contact Assistant Director of Development, Kin Le.

Ameeta Agrawal‬ (CS) will be one of the speakers at the Silicon Forest Tech Summit on January 25th showcasing amazing emerging technology companies, sharing inspiring stories, and highlighting the future of tech work in the PNW. Click here for the registration link and details.

Dean Bull is the first PSU dean featured in Inside Portland State's new video series, "Deans Decoded." Read the blog and watch the video here.
PSU was a sample university in this article from Semiconductor Engineering about how design and AI companies are using a range of tools to help graduates become productive more quickly and feeding their requirements directly to higher education institutions.
Check out this recent video featuring the amazing hands-on research and satellite making that Maseeh students and faculty do with Portland State Aerospace Society (PSAS) (and follow us on YouTube for more Maseeh-related videos and shorts).
Here is some more press about PSAS's satellite research and collaboration.
Dean Bull is quoted in this Portland Business Journal article about how PSU is creating clear pathways and providing students with access to high-quality programs to support many more regional industries looking for talent.
Dean Bull is also featured in the latest issue of PRISM, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)'s publication, discussing his efforts to make PSU a hub for Indigenous STEM students.
A very recent piece from Underscore News quotes Dean Bull and highlights how BIPOC student perspectives heavily influenced the creation of Portland State University’s Vernier Science Center, which uplifts Indigenous knowledge alongside Western science as part of a philosophy of welcoming everybody.

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