In June 2001, Oregon Graduate Institute became the OGI School of Science and Engineering within Oregon Health and Science University. The OGI campus is located in Hillsboro, just west of Portland.

The school has four departments: Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Environmental and Biomolecular Systems, and Management in Science and Technology.

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.

History

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.

During the 1990s the school awarded over one thousand graduate degrees, offered hundreds of continuing education seminars and workshops, and pursued more than $100 million in largely federally-funded research.

As of 2004, OGI is still undergoing realignment from the merger: in September, ten of 24 CSE professors and twenty Ph.D. students transferred to Maseeh College within Portland State University. Those who transferred had research specialties in networking, data-intensive systems, programming languages and formal methods. The fourteen remaining members of the CSE faculty will focus on research with viable applications in health science.

External link

• School's website (http://www.ogi.edu/)