Shiley School of Engineering is proud to showcase our students’ hard work from Fall 2025! Join us for an open house on Friday, December 5, from 4 p.m.-6 p.m. in Shiley Hall. Refreshments will be provided.
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Pillers Lecture Series featuring Dr. Christy Ivler (Oct. 23)
How do we make sure tomorrow’s autonomous air taxis are safe, smooth-flying and overall passenger-ready? Join Christina Ivler as she takes you behind the scenes of her research on drone and eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft flight dynamics.
2024 Fall Pillers Lecture (Oct. 24)
The Shiley School of Engineering cordially invites you to join us at this fall’s Pillers Lecture, with guest lecturer Dan Patla PE ’06. Patla is a Senior Mechanical Engineer with over 20 years of experience in hydropower engineering and serves as a National and International Technical Expert for USACE. (Read More).
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 […]