Department Chair |
Scott Prahl |
Program Directors - Klamath Falls |
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| BS Electrical Engineering | Eve Klopf |
| BS Renewable Energy Engineering | Mason Terry |
Program Directors - Portland-Metro |
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| BS Electrical Engineering | Robert Melendy |
| BS Electronics Engineering Technology | Robert Melendy |
| MS Engineering | Christina Crespo |
| BS Renewable Energy Engineering | Chitra Venugopal |
| MS Renewable Energy Engineering | Teshome Jiru |
Amr Metwally, PhD, Assistant Professor
Oleksandr Dobzhanskyi, Assistant Professor
Mateo Aboy, PhD, SJD, PE/CEng, Professor
Hope Corsair, PhD, Associate Professor
Cristina Crespo, PhD, Professor
Dr. Cristina Crespo’s academic and professional background combines science and engineering (BS in Electrical Engineering and Physics, MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, MPhil and PhD in Telecommunications Engineering), management (Stanford SCPM), and patent law (USPTO). Her professional experience includes work as an electronics engineer in the semiconductor industry, as well as a patent agent prosecuting patent cases before the USPTO, with a focus on medical device and computer-implemented inventions. She joined the Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energy (EERE) department at Oregon Tech in 2009, where she is a tenured Professor. Her areas of teaching include physics, circuits, and electronics, and she currently serves as the program director for the MS Engineering. She also holds an appointment as a research scholar at the LML Centre of the University of Cambridge. Her current research focuses on innovation and intellectual property of information-age inventions, including computer-implemented inventions and biotechnology.
Robert F. Melendy, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Scott Prahl, PhD, Professor, Dept. Chair
Dr. Scott Prahl’s academic and professional background combines science and engineering (BS in Applied Physics from Caltech and PhD in biomedical engineering from the UT Austin). His professional experience includes 20 years developing new technologies and devices in biomedical optics. He joined Oregon Tech in 2012 where is now a tenured Professor. His areas of teaching include circuits and optical engineering. Dr. Prahl currently serves as the program director of the dual major in optical engineering. His current research interests include differential interference microscopy, seeing through fog, fiber-based instrumentation to measure optical properties of tissues, and optical spectroscopy.
Aaron Scher, PhD, Associate Professor
Technical Support
Richard Ellis, Instrument Technologist - Mechanical
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Conrad Veen, Instrument Technologist-Electrical
Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energy
The Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Renewable Energy Engineering are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET, http://www.abet.org.
