Thomas J. Nelson, who served as engineering dean for 19 years (1977 to 1996), passed away on May 6, 2014. A native of Budapest, Hungary, he was born Tamas Janos Neubauer; the family changed their last name to Nemenyi in 1939 to escape persecution by the Nazis, and changed that name to Nelson when they […]
School of Engineering
Engineering Student Shines
Senior mechanical engineering student Matthew Dally placed second in the engineering poster competition at the 9th Annual Sigma Xi Columbia-Willamette Chapter Research Symposium on April 12 at Portland State University. Matthew’s poster, “Nonlinear Parametric Health Monitoring of a Slender Cantilever Beam Subject to Non-Stationary Excitation” described a method to accurately track the health and predict […]