Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science News

Imagine being asked to spend millions of dollars drilling a well, based on...

How does the behavior of one organism, multiplied across trillions, produce consequences at the scale of an entire ecosystem? That question has organized the career of Samantha Hartzell, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Portland State University (PSU), since a...

Water isn’t just essential for life, it’s part of the daily routines and experiences of living. Whether it's helping us make our morning cup of coffee, nurture our garden or warm up in a hot shower, water plays the supporting role in nearly everything we do....

At Verde, a Portland-based environmental justice nonprofit, you might have...

Portland State Civil & Environmental Engineering Master's student Fadzai Zivanai received the 2025 G.A. Harris Fellowship for her research proposal on microbially induced desaturation (mid) to mitigate in liquefiable silty soils. The G.A. Harris Fellowship awards a select few proposals related...

When Franz Rad came to teach at Portland State University in 1971, scientists...

This article was originally posted on January 21st on the Transportation Research and Education Website (TREC). Two Portland State University students were awarded Dwight D. Eisenhower transportation fellowships this month at the 104th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board...

As wildfires become a more frequent and dangerous part of life, especially...

In a world where extreme weather events and natural hazards are becoming...

Growing up, Athena Rilatos’ auntie used to tell her, “When you build...

Raúl Bayoán Cal, Mechanical Engineering Professor at Maseeh College, who...