Excellence in Teaching Workshop

I have been a full-time faculty member at Oregon Tech in Klamath Falls, OR since the fall for 2014. I have about two decades of human resource experience including as the director of human resources at Colby-Sawyer College. Prior to that, I was the human resources officer for Philharmonic Center for the Arts, the human resource and risk manager at Drax Group, and a retirement and benefits specialist with Brown & Brown Benefits, all in Naples, Fla. I was also a corporate trainer and supervisor at Boston Financial Data Services in Quincy, Ma.

Dr. C.J. Riley is a registered professional engineer (OR) and professor of civil engineering at Oregon Tech. He completed his Ph.D. at Colorado State University in structural mechanics and has two years of experience in bridge design, rating, and software development for transportation structures with the Wyoming Department of Transportation. He is the graduate program director and advisor to the ASCE-AGC (American Society of Civil Engineers and Associated General Contractors) Student Chapter. Dr. Riley is active with the American Society for Engineering Education. He studies and lives engineering education and loves lighting up a classroom with hands-on demonstrations and relevant case studies that bring theory to life. You're most likely to find him out shaking local bridges with his students to quantify structural health or testing large-scale structural components in the structures lab.