Dragan Milosevic, Engineering Management faculty, was awarded the Project Management Institute Research Achievement Award at the institute's biennary research conference in Warsaw, Poland, July 13-16. The award recognizes a person who has significantly advanced the concepts, knowledge, and practice of project management through professionally conducted and authored project management research.

The Spring 2008 President's and Dean's lists have been released for all of Portland State University's undergraduate academic units.

Portland State University will graduate its largest class ever Saturday, June 14, 2008.

Miguel Figliozzi, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented "An Iterative Route Construction and Improvement Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Soft and Hard Time Windows" at the 10th International Conference on Application of Advanced Technologies in Transportation in Athens, Greece, May 27-31. The paper has been published in the conference proceedings. Figliozzi also chaired a session on transportation and logistics modeling.

Hamid Moradkhani, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, co-organized a congress technical track titled "Stochastic and Probabilistic Approaches for Analyzing Complex Water Resources Systems" that included 12 technical sessions. He also presented three papers, "Uncertainty Assessment of Water Resources Systems using Data Assimilation and Ensemble Methods," "Toward Improved Hydrologic Prediction with Reduced Uncertainty using Sequential Multi-Model Combination," and "Lessons from Fish Passage Waterways in Oregon and Factors for Improving their Construction" at the World Environmental & Water Resources Congress 2008 in Honolulu, May 12-16. The last paper was co-authored with Sheryle Quinn and Trevor Smith from PSU. At the congress, Moradkhani was elected chair of technical committee on "Probabilistic Approaches in Water Resources Systems" through 2010.

Sean Kohles, Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty, gave two seminars/lectures to the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University, May 19. He presented "Cell Biomechanics Technique and Theory" for a Cell Engineering course as a guest lecturer as well as "Integration of Microfluidics and Optical Forces for Osteochondral Cellular Biomechanical Engineering" at the departmental seminar.

The Winter 2008 President's and Dean's lists have been released for all of Portland State University's undergraduate academic units.

Franz Rad, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented the paper "Behavior of Grouted Conduit Connections Under Cyclic Loading" at the Annual Convention of the American Concrete Institute in Los Angeles, March 30-April 3. The paper was co-authored by student Mike Pyszka.

Portland State University is honoring six outstanding Portland State alumni, faculty and friends for success in their fields and for their dedication and support of both the University and the Portland community at the 19th Annual PSU Salutes Ceremony.

Martin Zwick, Systems Science faculty, presented "Systems Metaphysics: A Bridge from Science to Religion," at the Center for Cooperative Phenomena at the University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Mo., April 17.

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Portland State University presents this year's Fariborz Maseeh Lecture in Mathematical Sciences, "Poincaré, Perelman and Prizes," with Sir John Ball.

Miguel Figliozzi, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, was appointed to a National Academies' Freight Cooperative Research Program panel that focuses on urban freight and logistics problems. Figliozzi was appointed by the Transportation Research Board, and as a panel member, he will help provide technical guidance and counsel throughout the life of the project. The panel will prepare project statements and select the project contractor based on evaluation of the proposals received. Project review and guidance is anticipated to continue until 2011.

Richard Pimentel has accepted the University's invitation to deliver the spring 2008 commencement address, Saturday, June 14, 2008.

Sean Kohles, Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty, and student Nathalie Nève co-presented the poster "An Integrated Optical Instrument and Microfluidics for Isolated Chondrocyte, Osteoblast, and Fibroblast Biomechanics" to the Orthopedic Research Society in San Francisco, March 2-5.

David Sailor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty, authored "A Green Roof Model for Building Energy Simulation Programs," published in the journal Energy and Buildings, February 2008.

Nirupama Bulusu, assistant professor of Computer Science in the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science at Portland State University, has received a five-year $450,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.

Christopher Monsere, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, co-presented a paper, "Safety Effects of Reducing Highway Illumination for Energy Conservation," at the Transportation Research Board's 87th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., Jan. 13-17. Monsere also co-authored four other peer-reviewed papers presented at the conference.

Miguel Figliozzi, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented three reviewed papers, "Planning Approximations to Average Length of Vehicle Routing Problems with Varying Customer Demand and Routing Constraints," "The Impacts of Congestion on Commercial Vehicle Tours Characteristics," and "Commercial Vehicle Tour Data Collection Using Passive GPS Technology: Issues and Potential Applications," at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, D.C., Jan. 13. The papers appear in the conference proceedings.

Area Middle and High School Students Compete in Portland State's 2008 Engineering Design Competition, Feb. 22

Chik Erzurumlu, Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science emeritus dean, was honored recently as a distinguished graduate of the Cockrell School of Engineering at University of Texas - Austin. Fariborz Maseeh, Art James, Prof. Franz Rad, current Dean Robert Dryden, and donors Tom and Diane Mackenzie attended. read more >

Wendelin Mueller, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, received an $85,877 research contract from the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) to develop a methodology for the design of dampers to protect high voltage sub-station equipment from damage in an earthquake. This is a continuation of Mueller's work in this area on the study of the strength of steel members subjected to rapid loads. A full-scale verification test will be done using the seismic shake table in the infra-Structure Testing and Applied Research laboratory located in Science Building 2 before the dampers are installed in the field.