| OGI School of Science and Engineering | |
|---|---|
| Motto | Where Healing, Teaching and Discovery Come Together |
| Established | 1963 |
| Type | Public |
| President | Ed Thompson, Ph.D. OHSU Vice-President and Dean |
| Postgraduates | 350 |
| Location | Portland, and Hillsboro, Oregon, USA |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.ogi.edu |
The OGI School of Science and Engineering, located in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States is one of the four schools of the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). Until June 2001, it functioned independently as a public graduate school, the Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI). OGI operates four departments and has approximately 330 students. The school is in the process of moving to OHSU's new South Waterfront campus in Portland, Oregon.[1]
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OGI was chartered in 1963 by the Oregon Legislature to provide graduate-level training and expertise to the state's rapidly expanding high-tech industry, including Silicon Forest companies. Tektronix co-founder Howard Vollum helped found OGI in 1965 with a $2 million grant, and upon his death in 1986, he bequeathed $14.8 million to the college as an endowment. The school started as the Oregon Graduate Center located on Barnes Road.[2] OGI’s first president was Donald Benedict who was selected for the position in 1966. In 1968, the school purchased 74 acres (300,000 m2) on Walker Road near 185th Avenue in an unincorporated section of Washington County for a new campus.[2] That campus opened on August 15, 1969, complete with a dedication by Senator Mark Hatfield.[2]
During the 1990s the school awarded over one thousand graduate degrees, offered hundreds of continuing education seminars and workshops, and secured more than $100 million in largely federally-funded research. In 2001, OGI merged with Oregon Health Sciences University, with OGI becoming the School of Science and Engineering and OHSU changing its name to become Oregon Health & Science University.[3] In 2006, the school began a seven year process of relocating to OHSU's South Waterfront campus in Portland and sold part of its Hillsboro campus.[4][1]
The OGI School of Science and Engineering has four divisions: Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Computer Science, and Environmental & Biomolecular Systems.[5] It has a student body of about 330 full-time students, with about one-third of those seeking PhDs. The student body also includes about 250 non-degree students.[5]
Since OGI's merger with OHSU, research conducted at the School has increasingly focused on applying technology to complex problems of human and ecosystem health. The school's Department of Management in Science and Technology focuses on educating leaders and managers in a technology-intensive world. Recent developments include a technology-intensive certificate in Healthcare Management.
Formal research centers at the school include the Adaptive Systems Lab,[6] the Biomedical Optics Group,[7] the Center for Coastal and Land Margin Research,[6] the Center for Groundwater Research,[6] and the Center for Spoken Language Understanding, whose focus is on spoken language technologies.[6] Ten computer science faculty members from OGI, including the members of the Pacific Software Research Center as well as other research groups, moved to Portland State University in 2004.[8] Other areas of faculty research include cell and tissue engineering, neuroengineering, and materials microanalysis and micro-fabrication.[7]