Tour the Daimler Truck Wind Tunnel and learn about aerodynamic effects and how the company correlates real life data with simulation to support the design of their products.

Red Line is a $140 million CM/GC project for construction of three major improvements to TriMet’s existing Red Line, including adding a second track and new station at the Gateway Transit Center, adding a second track to the airport, and improving operator, track, and systems facilities through the Fair Complex / Hillsboro Airport station. The project construction will be substantially complete but the tour will be able to see the finished product prior to opening for service.

Everyone has heard of The Boeing Company and knows they build airplanes, but what exactly does that mean? Students will visit Boeing’s Portland fabrication site where numerous large airplane structural parts are designed and constructed.  In addition, the students will interact with Boeing engineers to learn more about their daily lives while working in a large, successful company.

The Legacy Biomechanics Laboratory conducts research on unsolved problems related to bone fractures and their treatment. Based on research findings, solutions are developed to improve patient care.

In addition to treatment of fractures, we also focus on prevention of head injury by advanced testing of a wide variety of helmets, including bicycle helmets and construction helmets.

Use of engineering principles to develop tools to study the processes of chronic inflammation, thrombosis and cancer metastasis.

Come tour the Maseeh College of Engineering & Computer Science! We will be showing students around the college, student group spaces, study spaces, and more. Students will be introduced to current students and can learn more about their experience learning as a college student in downtown Portland.

Product Design and manufacturing facility of several hundred people where chain is built for forestry and concrete cutting applications.

Micro Systems Engineering is a world-leader in the area of Cardiac Rhythm Management (Pacemaker and Defibrillator) design and development. Students visiting the MSEI campus will learn about the operation of these life-saving devices and about engineering opportunities. The highlight of the visit is a ~45 minute tour of a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility during which the entire process of assembling the electronics for a device is demonstrated.

Consisting of two treatment plants and almost a hundred pumping stations across the City, we have hundreds of horsepower of connected equipment and miles of industrial piping facing corrosion, fatigue, and erosion modes of failures. Our team of engineering design and project managers, operations, and maintenance staff constantly work with challenging and varying hydraulics (gaseous, liquid, and semi-solid) using hundreds of controls and monitoring instruments, biological treatment systems, and chemical feed systems. Our facilities include a cogeneration system generating 1.7 MW of power using renewable energy recovered from wastewater operations, and we are currently finishing the construction of a bio-CNG facility for vehicle fuel use. Notably this year, there are major construction activities under way, which will allow us to bring construction engineering as well! These facilities offer a world of opportunity for engineering students of many interests, while being in a field with stable growth that is not as susceptible to economic ups and downs.

Every year, high school students and engineering students have a chance to do internships with the City and our partners. We strive to make our internships exciting and expose students to an array of experiences, working in teams with operators, maintenance staff, engineers, drafters, construction staff, and consulting engineers, all with the intent of protecting public health and the environment. We are excited at the opportunity to host Engineer’s Week this year again, where we have a lineup of staff ready to give you some more information on what we do every day.

Tour Portland’s first Living Building to learn about sustainable engineering. The building embodies PAE's vision to help solve the planet’s energy and water challenges. Set to be the world’s first developer-driven Living Building, the five-story, mixed-use building will demonstrate replicable and cost-effective solutions for sustainable design removing barriers to entry for highly sustainable projects while revitalizing the community.

The tour will cover all petals of the International Living Future Institute’s Living Building Challenge, which includes placement of the building health and happiness of the tenants; beauty; equitability of the company; water, energy, and building material efficiency.

The OR217 Project is a $100M Improvement of Highway 217 on the west side of the Portland Metro Area that ODOT is undertaking over the next 4 years. The Project consists of adding auxiliary lanes as well as a frontage road to improve traffic safety. Theses changes also include constructing new bridges, modifying existing bridges, building sound walls, retaining walls and making major improvements to the utilities along the corridor.