Podcasts by Engineering Out Loud

Graduation day, S12E4 from 2023-03-28T21:47:58

The final episode of the season occupies a time of transition, as spinoff company Espiku ramps up. We get an update on two systems that received patents and a third that could provide an environ...

And so, it flows, S12E3 from 2023-03-22T05:33

The pandemic didn’t stop Listen

Building the foundation, S12E2 from 2023-03-15T04:00

In the second episode of this four-part season, we travel to Bend, Oregon to visit the Water and Energy Technologies Laboratory and meet the team t...

Turning seawater into sweet water, S12E1 from 2023-03-08T07:59

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Preparing for nature’s worst, S11E8 from 2022-03-29T15:52:13

What is Oregon doing to prepare for earthquakes, tsunamis, and wildfire? Listen

Dune erosion solutions, S11E7 from 2022-01-25T20:47:50

Can plants fortify Oregon’s coastal dunes against storm surge? Meagan Wengrove, assistant professor of coastal and ocean engineering, built sca...

RAPID reconnaissance: Capturing data in the aftermath of a disaster, S11E5 from 2021-11-30T20:12:31

After a major disaster, hidden amid the rubble and debris are precious clues about the extreme forcesstructures were subjected to, and exactly what caused them to fail. How can researchers colle...

RAPID reconnaissance: Capturing data in the aftermath of a disaster, S11E6 from 2021-11-30T20:12:31

After a major disaster, hidden amid the rubble and debris are precious clues about the extreme forcesstructures were subjected to, and exactly what caused them to fail. How can researchers colle...

Saving PDX, S11E5 from 2021-11-16T20:16:23

What will it take for Oregon to recover after a magnitude 9.0 Cascadia subduction zone earthquake? Among other things, it will need a major airport to receive the tons of relief supplies from ar...

What’s in the water after a wildfire? S11E4 from 2021-11-09T19:25:17

Wildfires that devastate mountain communities have the potential to foul the water distribution system running underneath residential structures. But knowing which water pipes have been affected...

Burning to learn, S11E3 from 2021-10-12T07:01:54

How do engineers fight wildfires? With fire. David Blunck, associate professor of mechanical engineering, is trying to better understand and predict the behavior of embers that spread blazes. To do...

When the Earth moves, E11S2 from 2021-07-14T07:00

What happens to bridges, buildings, and pipelines when the soil holding them up behaves like a liquid? Ben Mason, associate professor geotechnical engineering, has traveled the world doing post-...

The day the lights go out in Oregon, S11E1 from 2021-06-16T07:30

The long-feared 9.0 magnitude Cascadia subduction zon...

Documenting the surge from 2021-06-01T16:00

How do you manage a COVID-19 surge? When intensive care...

Changing the culture of computer science education, S10E4 from 2021-04-13T19:00

How can we get a more diverse group of young people interested in computer science? Focus on equity, says Jill Hubbard, instructor of computer science and co-prin...

Using games to teach computer science remotely, S10E3 from 2021-01-13T16:00

Can middle schoolers learn computer science concepts using tabletop games? How about during a pandemic, when classroom interaction takes place remotely? Researche...

Tracing the virus through the sewers, S10E2 from 2020-12-15T18:40:32

What can wastewater tell us about the spread of disease? Could the coronavirus’ signature RNA sequence tip public health officials to where the next COVID-19 outb...

Trucking through COVID, S10E1 from 2020-07-24T18:07:25

What’s life like for long-haul truck drivers in a COVID-19 world? We’ll get behind-the-wheel perspectives from driver (and musician) Paul Marhoefer and from Listen

The age of autonomous vehicles, S9E7 from 2020-02-12T18:16:09

Self-driving cars and planes are in our future. What are we doing to make them safe? Assistant Professor Listen

With a little help from my robot friend, S9E6 from 2020-01-30T22:26:09

What will it take for robot assistants to become more integrated in our daily lives? Assistant Professor Listen

And on that farm, he had a robot, S9E5 from 2020-01-08T16:41:26

Will robots someday replace farm workers? Do we want them to? Assistant Professor and agricultural robotics expert Joe Davidson ta...

Socializing robots, S9E4 from 2019-12-18T18:29:47

Why should robots have artificial social intelligence? According to Heather Knight, assistant professor of computer science, if robots are going to help in hospit...

Robots: Will they walk among us? S9E3 from 2019-12-04T17:19:16

For robots to be more useful around people, they’ll need to go where we go. But how? Associate Professor Listen

AI, explain yourself, S9E2 from 2019-11-13T19:59:30

Can we trust artificial intelligence to make good decisions? The answer is a resounding maybe. More and more, society and individuals are entrusting AI to make po...

The beautiful music of robotics and AI, S9E1 from 2019-11-06T16:33:13

How do you combine ethics, policy, and practicality into the design of revolutionary  robotics and artificial intelligence systems? Researchers Kagan Tumer and To...

Rebroadcast — Robots at sea, S1E2 from 2019-09-26T16:13:43

Geoff Hollinger, associate professor of mechanical engineering, is teaching underwater robots to u...

Keeping construction workers out of harm’s way, S8E6 from 2019-03-20T16:44:05

What can be done to protect workers in one of the most dangerous industries on Earth? For much of his career, John Gambatese has studied, developed and evaluated a wide range of options designed...

Rebroadcast — From Toy Story to tumors, S3E1 from 2019-03-13T15:47:40

Advances in 3D graphics have made movies and video games more realistic, but can also have an impact on science. Associate Professor Eu...

Detecting Parkinson’s early for better outcomes, S8E5 from 2019-03-06T18:35:34

How can we help in the fight against Parkinson’s disease? Harriet Nembhard and her colleagues developed a sensor system to detect the disease early on, opening th...

Robots without borders: Finding new ways to treat Ebola, S8E4 from 2019-02-27T20:11:08

Aid workers put their lives on the line to treat patients with Ebola. Can robots help make their jobs a little easier and allow more people to survive the disease...

Sticky and slippery science for biomedical applications, S8E3 from 2019-02-20T23:14:58

What makes a frog’s tongue sticky, or a snake’s skin slippery? Joe Baio, assistant professor of bioengineering, looks to nature for substances that could provide ...

Safer solutions for the national truck parking crisis, S8E2 from 2019-02-13T19:58:40

Ever wonder why so many truckers park their rigs on highway off-ramps, in retail store parking lots and at other odd locations? It’s not their first choice, and i...

Making a medical isotope used by millions, S8E1 from 2019-02-06T18:11:38

How can we support nuclear medicine efforts that help more than 40,000 people in the U.S. everyday? Researchers at the Oregon State University College of Engineering have developed a way to prod...

Turning Seawater into Sweet Water, S7E6 from 2018-11-15T17:27:18

Can turning seawater into drinking water be a cost-effective way to  provide clean, fresh water for the growing numbers of people facing water scarcity? Bahman Ab...

Cleaning Contaminated Groundwater at the Umatilla Chemical Depot, S7E5 from 2018-11-07T16:29:37

How can we remove toxic contaminants like TNT from groundwater? Jack Istok and Mandy Michalsen are using pioneering bioremediation and bioaugmenta...

A clean water solution for the developing world, S7E4 from 2018-11-01T17:09:13

How do you ensure a product designed for the developing world is useful for the people it’s intended to help? A team of researchers, led by Nordica MacCarty, assi...

Connecting with Communities for Clean Water, S7E3 from 2018-10-24T15:41:30

How can students at Oregon State improve access clean water for rural communities around the world? We hear from three students who worked in Nicaragua and Cambod...

Cleaning up Our Dirty Water with Microbes and Grease, S7E2 from 2018-10-17T19:35:20

How long will the world’s supply of clean fresh water last? Just the fact that we have to ask that question is enough to start worrying, as threats from pollution, climate change, and overpopula...

Clean Water: Going Beneath the Surface, S7E1 from 2018-10-10T15:00

How can we clean up pollution from toxic chemicals that have seeped into the groundwater, hundreds of feet below the surface? Lewis Semprini, Distinguished Profes...

Incorporating Culture into Engineering, S6E6 from 2018-05-14T23:08:34

How does culture influence engineering design? Two seniors in civil engineering tell about how they incorporated their research on the culture of Ethiopia into the design of a housing structure,...

Engineering a Culture of Problem Solving, S6E5 from 2018-05-10T15:57:44

Javier Calvo-Amodio, Sage Kittelman, and Siqi Wang examine how teams and their communications function as systems within large, complex organizations. They are working with Boeing to understand ...

Building a Better Battery, S6E4 from 2018-05-02T19:01:27

Can clean and renewable energy sources like wind and solar power reduce our dependence on fossil fuels? One major challenge is figuring out how to make that energ...

A Softer Future for Robots, S6E3 from 2018-04-25T15:40:14

Will a new breed of highly mobile, radiation-resistant soft robots become automated work horses for the nuclear industry—or save the day during nuclear disasters?...

Gaining Control over Mental Health, S6E2 from 2018-04-18T15:00

How can two undergraduates impact the health of people with mental illness? Inspired by her own experience with bipolar disorder, Alison Bowden from Listen

Comparing Computer Code for Radiation Worker Safety, S6E1 from 2018-04-11T16:00

How do you quickly calculate a worker's radiation skin dose in the event of exposure? VARSKIN--maintained and updated at Oregon State--is one of the main computer codes used by the Nuclear Regul...

Partnering for nuclear nonproliferation, S5E6 from 2018-03-07T16:33:15

How do you prove a country tested a nuclear weapon, and who’s keeping an eye on this stuff? Researchers at Oregon State and Listen

Taming software development with teamwork, S5E5 from 2018-02-28T18:07:41

How are Oregon State researchers impacting the apps on your phone? Danny Dig and his team have been improving software for companies like Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Boeing, and Google for years by d...

Partnering to make timber harvesting safer, S5E4 from 2018-02-21T16:30:42

How do you help reduce risk in the nation's most dangerous occupation? Researchers at Oregon State University are partnering with Listen

Harmonizing with the ocean to harness wave energy, S5E3 from 2018-02-14T18:10:14

How do you harness the energy of the ocean? Oregon State alumni Alex Hagmuller and Max Ginsburg cofounded Aquaharmonics to try and figure i...

Glued together: Partners in mass timber buildings, S5E2 from 2018-02-07T16:47:21

Can you build skyscrapers or other massive structures with wood? Mass timber buildings are changing skylines and changing the way engineers and architects think about building big with wood. The...

Teaming with robots, S5E1 from 2018-01-31T15:00

How do you talk to a robot? How about 250 robots? Julie A. Adams, professor of computer science, describes her research on human-rob...

Collaboration to catch hackers, S4E6 from 2017-11-08T16:33:55

Cyberattacks are getting more frequent, bigger, and more destructive. New research at Oregon State University aims to stop hackers by combining the muscle power of artificial intelligence with t...

Partners preparing for the Big One, S4E5 from 2017-11-02T16:24:42

How can we prepare most effectively for the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake? An interactive website called O-HELP, developed by Oregon State rese...

Partners in extreme wave modeling, S4E4 from 2017-10-25T16:00

How do you forecast and model huge waves in the open ocean? As part of the National Marine Renewable Energy Center, researchers at Oregon State University and the University of Washington are mo...

Partners in nuclear power, S4E3 from 2017-10-19T20:51:17

Is it possible to revolutionize nuclear power in the United States? Oregon State Nuclear Engineering Professor Jose Reyes co-founded NuScale Power to do just that. He's joined by fellow Oregon S...

Partners in networking speed, S4E2 from 2017-10-13T19:11:25

Are faster networks with more users and devices possible? Researchers at Oregon State with help from Tektronix are advancing technologies to push the boundaries of speed in data collection and t...

Chemical bonds: Forging partnerships with Thailand's PTT, S4E1 from 2017-10-04T17:48:25

Goran Jovanovic, professor of chemical engineering at Oregon State, was interested in finding ways to convert carbon dioxide i...

Magnetic materials for medicine, S3E4 from 2017-06-14T20:04:20

What are magnetic nanoparticles and how can they be used in medicine? Oregon State Associate Professor Pallavi Dhagat and graduate student Phil Lenox explain the very sensitive techniques they a...

Sensors from the sea, S3E3 from 2017-06-05T23:14:17

Biosensor technology is used to detect a wide variety of substances — from drugs, to cancer biomarkers, to chemical contaminants in our food and drinking water. Diatoms — tiny, single-celled pla...

Enforcing the CTBT with CZT, S3E2 from 2017-05-24T17:57:18

How do you prove someone tested a nuclear weapon? Researchers, Steven Czyz, Lily Ranjbar, and Salam Alhawsawi from the Radiation Detecti...

From Toy Story to tumors, S3E1 from 2017-05-12T16:36

Advances in 3D graphics have made movies and video games more realistic, but can also have an impact on science. Associate Professor Eu...

Change and ChickTech, S2E6 from 2017-04-04T21:06:42

It’s no secret that women and minorities have historically been underrepresented in science and engineering and have faced a lot of bias upon entering those fields. But what is Oregon State Univ...

Inside and outside, S2E5 from 2017-03-27T23:01:07

In this week's episode, we feature two stories from the Oregon State Robotics Group.

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Lenses and limbs, S2E4 from 2017-03-16T23:16:12

In this episode, we hear from Greg Herman, professor of chemical engineering, about a sensor he's developed that has the potential to monitor glucose levels via a contact lens.

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Stoves and sopes, S2E3 from 2017-03-08T18:32:44

Nordica MacCarty, a faculty member in the Humanitarian Engineering Program at Oregon State, talks about improving the lives of women and children in the developing world through cleaner-burning ...

By air and by land, S2E2 from 2017-03-02T20:40:19

In part one, we’ll uncover the extreme challenges of air travel for people with disabilities, the risky measures they take in order to fly, and the serious harm they face every time they board a...

Polyphony of Inclusivity, S2E1 from 2017-02-23T17:06:26

Inclusivity means listening to all voices — creating a beautiful polyphonic sound. Learn about Distinguished Professor Margaret Bur...

Hearts and phantoms, S1E6 from 2016-12-21T20:41:29

In part one, we meet computer science Assistant Professor Stephen Ramsey, who uses computational modeling to look deep into the h...

Odds and ends, S1E5 from 2016-12-14T19:26:23

The Monte Carlo method conjures images of a suave gambler beating the house in Monaco. In reality, Monte Carlo methods are computational algorithms that use randomness to solve problems. 

Inspection and direction, S1E4 from 2016-12-08T00:29:20

In this episode, we find out how researchers are utilizing unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) to gather data.

Dr. Dan Gillins, affiliated...

Lock and key, S1E3 from 2016-11-29T22:23:48

The age of Big Data and cloud computing has created greater demand for advanced cryptography. To store data on the cloud safely it must be encrypted; in order to use the data it needs to be decr...

Sea and sky, S1E2 from 2016-11-22T00:08:17

Xiaoli Fern, associate professor in computer science, explains how she and her team are using machine...

Pros and cons, S1E1 from 2016-11-15T23:53:58

What is data science and engineering? To kick off the podcast season on this topic, Tom Dietterich, distingui...

Engineering Out Loud Teaser from 2016-11-08T22:55:21

The teaser for Engineering Out Loud--a brand new podcast from the College of Engineering at Oregon State University. We're telling the stories of how our research and innovation is helping chang...