Who to Contact

For program information:

Office of the Dean
Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon 97207

503-725-4631

For admission information:

Office of Admissions
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon 97207

800-547-8887 (toll-free)

Graduate Programs
• Civil Engineering Department
Franz N. Rad, Chair (telephone: 503-725-4282, fax: 503-725-5950, e-mail: cedept@cecs.pdx.edu. Emphasis is on educating leaders to meet challenges related to enhancing infrastructure, conducting research, and solving real problems that exist in Oregon and the Northwest. Faculty members and their research areas follow. Bill Fish: heavy metals and other toxic materials in aquatic systems, process characterization, remediation, and treatment. Manouchehr Gorji: structural mechanics, plates and shells, composite materials, plasticity. Roy W. Koch: hydrologic modeling, forecasting, water resources systems analysis. B. Kent Lall: transportation planning and design, video imaging technologies, traffic engineering, pavement design. Shu-Guang Li: groundwater modeling, contaminant transport in heterogeneous porous media, numerical and probabilistic methods, environmental and hydrologic systems. Wendelin H. Mueller: computer and microprocessor applications to engineering problems, post-elastic member behavior, full-scale structural testing, seismic qualification. Franz N. Rad: reinforced/prestressed concrete, limit-status design, earthquake engineering. Trevor D. Smith: laterally loaded foundation piles, field in situ testing, pressure meters, collapse arid soils. Scott A. Wells: physical/chemical/water/wastewater treatment processes, water quality and hydrodynamic monitoring and modeling of surface-water systems.

• Computer Science Department
Cynthia A. Brown, Chair (telephone: 503-725-4036, fax: 503-725-3211, e-mail: cmps@cs.pdx.edu. Oregon's "Silicon forest" includes large research and development facilities of the USA's leading software companies: Intel, IBM/Sequent (NUMA-Q), Oracle, Informix, Mentor Graphics, Hewlett-Packard, and Tektronix. PSU's computer science department offers students the unique opportunity to study with faculty engaged in state-of-the-art computer science research and to learn from leaders in the software industry. Faculty members and their interests are available on the departmental Web page. Specific research areas follow. Joseph Albert: heterogeneous multidatabase systems, database theory. Sergio Antoy: functional logic programming (FLP), specifically narrowing strategies. James Binkley: network security, network management, mobile networking. Cynthia Brown: algorithms. Laszlo Csanky: numerical methods, parallel computation. Karla Fant: computer graphics. Richard Hamlet: software engineering, software testing, text processing. Warren Harrison: software quality assurance, software measurement, software engineering, delivery of services via the World Wide Web. James L. Hein: semantics of perpetual logic programs, mathematical foundations of computer science, declarative programming experiments for learning discrete mathematics, formal logic, computability. Karen L. Karavanic: automating parallel performance diagnosis, operating systems performance. Jingke Li: parallel computation, programming languages, compilers, tools. Barton Massey: artificial intelligence, software engineering. John McHugh: software engineering, computer security. Sarah Mocas: structural complexity theory, cryptography computer security. Robert Rosenoff: computer education. Leonard Shapiro: database management systems. Andrew Tolmach: practical aspects of functional language implementation.

• Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
James Morris, Chair (telephone: 503-725-3806, fax: 503-725-3807, e-mail: grad_studies@ee.pdx.edu. Faculty research is sponsored by industries including Intel, Tektronix, Credence, Triquint, Hewlett-Packard, Cadence, Mentor Graphics, and NEC America; and national agencies such as NSF, the Department of Defense, and the National Institutes of Health. Faculty members and their specific research areas follow. Lee Casperson: optical phenomena, devices, and systems; short-pulse laser dynamics, light propagation, wave guides, and resonators. W. Robert Daasch: digital and analog VLSI circuit design and design automation, design for test, computational science and engineering, distributed computing and computer networks. Michael A. Driscoll: high-performance CPU design, computer architecture, hardware and software aspects of parallel and distributed computing. Andy Fraser: image processing, pattern recognition, information theory, nonlinear dynamics, chaos, neural networks, fuzzy systems. Douglas Hall: digital circuit design, computer systems, distributed computing. Y.-C. Jenq: digital and adaptive signal processing, theory and applications of nonuniformly sampled signals, A/D and D/A converters, high-speed digital networks and wireless communications. Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske: VLSI physical layout design automation, field-programmable gate arrays, low-power design, layout and logic synthesis, testing of digital systems, low-temperature devices and phenomena. George Lendaris: neural networks, control systems. Fu Li: signal and image processing, video and wireless communications. Branimir Pejcinovic: microwave circuits, photo detectors and noise. Marek Perkowski: design automation, logic synthesis, high-level synthesis, fast prototyping with field programmable gate arrays, formal methods of design and verification, machine learning: constructive induction. Rolf Schaumann: analog and digital integrated circuits and filters. Xiaoyu Song: design automation, physical design, synthesis, test and verification, formal methods. Richard Tymerski: power electronics, high-frequency switching power converters, analog CAD, simulation, control theory applications. Paul Van Halen: device design, device modeling and parameter extraction.

• Engineering and Technology Management Department
Dundar F. Kocaoglu, Director (telephone: 503-725-4660, fax: 503-725-4667, e-mail: info@etm.pdx.edu. The department has 3 full-time and 5 adjunct faculty members supplemented with visiting faculty/researchers from other countries and interdisciplinary faculty from other departments. Research interests of the faculty members include technology management, innovation management, creativity, technical organizations, technical people, team building, project management, R&D management, decision analysis, multicultural organizations, DEA (data envelopment analysis), manufacturing management, simulation, technology assessment and evaluation, technology forecasting, technology transfer, new product development, strategic management, strategic thinking and planning, reengineering, total quality management, organizational transformations, knowledge management, project selection, technology selection, and international law in technology management. The department is the editorial headquarters for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and the home for PICMET (Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology).

• Mechanical Engineering Department
Graig A. Spolek, Chair (telephone: 503-725-4290, fax: 503-725-8255, e-mail: medept@cecs.pdx.edu. Emphasis is on building science including indoor air quality HVAC controls, moisture migration, and area of design/manufacture including finite element applications, computer aided design and manufacture, advanced inspection and machining, and dynamic systems modeling. The Mechanical Engineering Department also administers the M.Eng. in manufacturing engineering program. Faculty members and their specific research areas follow. Pah Chen: Thermal and fluid sciences, fluid power and control, reliability engineering. Jack Devletian: physical metallurgy and properties of weldments, design of filler metals for high strength steel welds, soldering reaction in electronic assembly. Faryar Etesami: CAD, CAM, inspection, statistical process improvement. M. Victor Li: modeling of materials and material processing. Lemmy Meekisho: finite element applications to structural and heat transfer analysis, stress and thermal analysis of contact problems, numerical modeling of coupled thermal-fluid phenomena. Gerald Recktenwald: heat transfer, fluid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, cooling of electronics. Graig Spolek: heat and mass transfer, energy conservation, HVAC. David Turcic: manufacturing, high-speed mechanisms, automatic controls. Robert Turpin: mechanical testing, nondestructive testing, materials joining, development and evaluations of surface processing, materials corrosion or wear resistant, rapid heat treatment. James VanWinkle: chemical mechanical planarization of semiconductors, electrochemistry. Mark Weislogel: fluid mechanics, capillary-driven flow, low-gravity processes. Chein Wern: manufacturing processes, materials science, experimental mechanics. William Wood: structure-property relationship of materials. Sung Yi: electronic packaging, electronic materials. Hormoz Zareh: design automation, specifically expert systems, application of design optimization, finite element methods.

• Systems Engineering Program
Herman Migliore, Director (telephone: 503-725-4288, fax: 503-725-4298, e-mail: cecsdept@cecs.pdx.edu. The systems engineering approach is presented in short courses and graduate courses as applied to development of interdisciplinary products and processes. A Master of Engineering degree is available with core courses in a distance learning format. Discipline-specific courses serve as electives. The program participates in the interinstitutional Systems Engineering Center of Excellence as part of the International Council on Systems Engineering.