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Shiley School of Engineering

CISGO and Shiley School of Engineering, Computer Science Program

Anne Santiago, Maraina Montgomery, and Mike Pelley are working with Professor Ben Tribelhorn and two student teams from CS 341 to develop a map widget for CISGO’s website.   Using an easily accessible visual tool, the UP community will be able to identify global engagements past, present and future, and to find like-minded community members […]

Vehicles on The Bluff (Apr. 1)

Join us at our Vehicles on The Bluff display, highlighting vehicle-related engineering projects at the Donald P. Shiley School of Engineering!  Located between Shiley Hall and Bauccio Commons, the display will include a Ferrari GT3 from the Baek Motorsports Racing Team, as well as student projects supported by our industry partners Daimler Trucks of North […]

Groundbreaking for the Shiley-Marcos Center for Design & Innovation (Oct. 26) 

Faculty and staff are invited to join UP benefactors, leadership, alumni, and friends at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Shiley-Marcos Center for Design & Innovation.  Wednesday, October 26, 2022, at 4 p.m.   At the former UP Physical Plant location (between Mehling Hall and the L-P Tennis Center).  Made possible by a generous lead gift from […]

New to The Bluff: Rebecca Neal, Academic Program Counselor, Shiley School of Engineering

The Donald P. Shiley School of Engineering is happy to announce that Rebecca Neal joined our team in January 2022 as an Academic Program Counselor. Rebecca was most recently an academic advisor at Missouri State University in Springfield, MO. She has a lot of experience to draw from serving as an academic advisor in Georgia […]

Remembering Donald P. Shiley: Happy 101st Birthday!

Despite being inundated with quote requests by numerous local, national, and international news agencies regarding the remarkable amount of palindrome dates in 2021 (including Inauguration Day on 1-20-21), Shiley School of Engineering professor Aziz Inan constructed the following birthday curiosities to celebrate Donald Pearce Shiley’s 101st birthday, which occurred on January 19: Shiley turned 101 […]

New Shiley School of Engineering Dean: Brian Fabien

Following a comprehensive search, the University of Portland has named Dr. Brian Fabien as the new dean of the Donald P. Shiley School of Engineering, effective July 1. Fabien joins UP from the University of Washington in Seattle, where he was most recently associate dean of academic affairs for the College of Engineering and professor […]

Happy 100th Birthday, Donald Shiley!

January 19, 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Donald Pearce Shiley (pictured at left with his wife, regent Darlene Shiley), namesake and benefactor of the Shiley School of Engineering. Donald Shiley was a 1951 University of Portland alumnus who studied mechanical engineering. He went on to great success as the inventor of the […]

New NSF Grant for Lulay, Shiley School

The Shiley School of Engineering is pleased to announce that Kenneth Lulay, Margaret and Vincent Aquino Endowed Associate Professor in Engineering, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $55,358. “Collaborative Research: Bridging the Writing Transfer Gap in Early Engineering Laboratory Courses,” was awarded under NSF’s Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) initiative and represents […]

Fulbright Canada Appoints Heather Dillon Research Chair in STEM Education

Shiley School of Engineering mechanical engineering professor Heather Dillon has been named Fulbright Canada Research Chair in STEM Education by Fulbright Canada. Dillon will test a STEM faculty peer observation protocol at the University of Calgary from August to December 2019. The goal of the Fulbright project is to significantly increase the use of highly […]