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Mentor Graphics® is a leader in electronic design automation. We enable companies to develop better electronic products faster and more cost-effectively. Our innovative products and solutions help engineers conquer design challenges in the increasingly complex worlds of board and chip design.

Composites Universal Group fabricates components and assemblies for a variety of customers needing the high-strength and low-weight properties of advanced composite materials.

We can help your project find the shortest path between the drawing board and production.

With composites, material properties are determined at the same time as the structure is fabricated. This means that the skill and process used have an unusually critical role in deciding how well the component will perform in the application.

ATI is a leader in the global specialty metals industry, ATI Wah Chang is a vital part of ATI and manufactures reactive and refractory metals and alloys in a wide range of products and forms.

The SolarWorld Group is one of the largest solar energy businesses in the world. SolarWorld’s family of companies are dedicated exclusively to the business of solar energy, combining all stages of the solar photovoltaic (PV) value chain, from the raw material silicon to turn-key solar power plants. SolarWorld operates production facilities in the USA and in Germany as well as sales offices around the world.

Since its founding in 1891, the College of Engineering has graduated over 28,000 engineers. Currently, it enrolls about 3100 undergraduates and 500 graduate students yearly. There are approximately 125 faculty members.

Accelerating the pace of discovery, innovation, development, and learning in engineering and science

Whenever you view a web site, click a mouse, make a cell phone call, or turn on a TV you touch our work. As a world leader in test, measurement and monitoring technology, we enable our customers to do more than they ever have. Technical innovators of all kinds benefit from our products and expertise.

Lancair International Inc. manufactures advanced composite structures at its Redmond, Oregon facility, and has established proprietary relationships with hand-selected vendors in the USA, Europe, Australia and the Philippines. Worldwide, Lancairs are owned and operated in 34 countries on five continents

For Advanced Circuits, "business as usual" simply means delivering a quality printed circuit board on time…EVERY TIME…with the industry's best customer service and convenience. From its inception in April 1989, Advanced Circuits continues to out pace the industry in sales growth and innovation and has consistently focused on anticipating their customers' needs, developing partnerships with them, and responding with services that make their lives easier.

Data-Linc Group is the leading provider of industrial data communication solutions. Data-Linc designs and manufactures high performance, superior quality modems for a broad range of automation applications. Our complete line of industrial grade modems and networking products provide reliable, robust data communications even in the most demanding environments. Customers from a broad range of markets have benefited from our datacom solutions. We support our products with outstanding service based upon our in-depth knowledge of PLC communications.

Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems. A top U.S. exporter, the company supports airlines and U.S. and allied government customers in 150 countries. Boeing products and tailored services include commercial and military aircraft, satellites, weapons, electronic and defense systems, launch systems, advanced information and communication systems, and performance-based logistics and training.

AIRTECH is the world’s leading manufacturer of vacuum bagging and composite tooling for resin infusion, prepreg/autoclave process and lay-up. We have products from our inexpensive "Econo" line to our more advanced materials for use in high temperature ovens and autoclaves. Our products are used in temperatures ranging from room temperature to 395oC (750oF).

In 1906, a year after the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, Willamette Pattern Works opened its doors and began designing and manufacturing tooling for casting buyers and sand-cast foundries in the small Northwest outpost of Portland, Oregon.

After more than a century of faithfully serving these market sectors, Willamette Pattern enjoys a sterling reputation throughout North America for its superior tooling solutions, especially for the pump industry.

We support student efforts to create a sustainable community at OSU through action, education, and opportunity.

Katon Precision Machining's specialty is unique, complex, high precision machining for prototypes with a focus on quick turn around times and on time deliveries.

J.D Lincoln Inc., a UMECO COMPOSITES company, is a specialty materials and technology company that manufactures high performance adhesives and composite materials for aerospace, marine, medical, sporting, automotive, and other extreme-environment applications. We are dedicated to helping our customers achieve their goals by developing and providing technologically advanced materials aimed at improving product performance and reliability. Our administrative offices are located in Costa Mesa, CA and Adelanto, CA where we produce materials for over 350 customers worldwide.

The Oregon State University (OSU) Foundation in Corvallis, Oregon, was incorporated under the laws of the State of Oregon as a non-profit corporation on October 15, 1947. The Foundation aids and promotes excellence in the educational, research, and service activities of OSU by seeking, receiving and administering private gifts for the benefit of the University. As an IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, the Foundation provides many donors the opportunity and appropriate tax advantage for supporting projects and programs that are beyond the scope of the University's general budget.

HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. We explore how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams. We apply new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology, continuously improving the way our customers live and work.

The OSU School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering (MIME) comprises about 40 full-time faculty members and instructors, about 20 staff members and research associates, around 120 graduate students, and 900+ undergraduates. We offer programs that lead to BS, MS, MEng, and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering; BS, MS, and PhD degrees in industrial engineering; BS degree in manufacturing engineering; and MS and PhD degrees in materials science. Fields of specialization within the mechanical engineering program include design/mechanics, dynamics and control, materials, and thermal–fluid sciences. Within the industrial and manufacturing engineering programs, fields of specialization include manufacturing systems, information systems, and human systems engineering and nano/micro fabrication. Our faculty brings in approximately $2 million annually in research funding.

The School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University has its roots in one of the oldest and most respected chemical engineering departments in the western United States. OSU's undergraduate program in Chemical Engineering was first accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) in 1917. The school currently has more than twenty faculty members who pursue a variety of research and teaching activities.

Coast Aluminum & Architectural, Inc. was founded in Hayward, a Northern California bay area city, in 1982. Coast was started, and still operates today, on the metals’ service center philosophy of working hard for unsurpassed customer service, respect for our valued suppliers, and providing a work environment for employees based on mutual respect.

Coast is fully committed to our standard extrusion product line of alloys 6061 and 6063, carrying the widest selection and deepest inventories of sizes in our marketplaces including custom shapes. The markets we sell these products to have encouraged us to evolve into 6061, cast, and tread plate; as well as 5052 electronic panel flat, 6061, and 3003 sheet. Throughout our system of branches we have over thirty extrusion and plate saws for precision cutting of these product lines to customer specifications. As our name suggests, we carry a line of architectural metals which include mirror polished super #8 304 stainless sheet also in varying colors, as well as pre-anodized and painted aluminum sheet, brass tubing, and brass, bronze, and copper sheet.

Microchip Technology Inc. is a Leading Provider of Microcontroller and Analog Semiconductors, providing low-risk product development, lower total system cost and faster time to market for thousands of diverse customer applications worldwide.

National Instruments transforms the way engineers and scientists around the world design, prototype, and deploy systems for test, control, and embedded design applications. Using NI open graphical programming software and modular hardware, customers at more than 30,000 companies annually simplify development, increase productivity, and dramatically reduce time to market. From testing next-generation gaming systems to creating breakthrough medical devices, NI customers continuously develop innovative technologies that impact millions of people.

Cleverscope has been designing and manufacturing test equipment since 2004. We are based in Auckland, New Zealand. We make PC hosted, USB/Ethernet connected test equipment.

Established in 1957 during the infancy of the titanium industry, TICO Titanium Inc., the originator of the Service Center concept for industrial titanium products, has now been serving its customers for more than 50 years. Dedicated to supplying the industrial titanium market segment, we have the capability of providing products from nuts and bolts to thousands of pounds of mill products

Peggy Ploem

At the forefront of cutting edge suspension technology for thirteen years now, we only have one objective in mind: to make the best there is. Regularly winning test after test in magazines around the world, function and performance are our top priorities. Rather than continuously launching new products and discontinuing the older models, we focus on constantly evolving our products and striving to make improvements on a daily basis. No matter how old your Risse shock is, you will always be able to get the parts as well as the support and service you would get if you had bought it yesterday.

Gene Tools makes Morpholino antisense oligos. We are the sole commercial manufacturer selling research quantities of Morpholinos world-wide. Morpholino oligos can knockdown gene expression, modify splicing or inhibit miRNA activity and maturation. Morpholinos are the premier knockdown tools used in developmental biology labs, the best RNA-blocking reagents for cells in culture and, as Vivo-Morpholinos, the most specific knockdown technology available for other animal models.

The mission of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University is to provide a comprehensive, state-of-the-art education that prepares our students to be successful in engineering practice and advanced studies. The School has a traditionally strong undergraduate program and one of the largest graduate programs within the university, with internationally recognized research programs in the areas of Mixed Signal Integration, Computer Graphics and Vision, Energy Systems, Information Security, Intelligent Information Systems, Learning and Adaptive Systems, Materials and Devices, and End Users Shaping Effective Software.

The Formula SAE Competition was developed in the early 1980's for engineering students to conceive, design, fabricate, and compete with small formula-style racing cars. What began as a single event at the University of Houston in 1979 has expanded across the world to include 9 annual competions in 7 countries.

Inelmatic Electronics specializes in making sunlight readable displays. We have used their display in the Odyssey and we will continue to use their newly donated XF700 display on the Phoenix. During our extensive search of sunlight readable displays, we have found no other company that offer a display that has the same performance.

Specialized Technology Resources, Inc. (STR), a wholly owned subsidiary of STR Holdings, stabilizing polymers since 1944, has redefined the conventional understanding of photothermal degradation, and used this knowledge to engineer the most stable photovoltaic (PV) adhesive encapsulants in the photovoltaic-solar module business. The STR encapsulant product line named Photocap® is the global industry standard for ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) and thermoplastic encapsulants and offers the highest adhesion on glass, metal and other module substrates. Photocap® encapsulants’ attributes range from standard cure to fast cure in lamination cycles, thermoplastic moisture barriers, and all-in-one back sheet designs. Photocap® encapsulants are the leading environmental protection package for silicon-wafer-based technology and thin film solar panels.

Jeff Gray

The MBI is a collaboration between the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Oregon State University (OSU). This partnership was established through the Collaborative Research & Education Program operated by PNNL and the Oregon Universities. Our virtual groundbreaking for MBI was in January 2003. We create small technologies that solve big problems.

This Analog Mixed Signal Wiki has been created as an information resource for the circuit design groups. It is meant to be an encyclopedia of knowledge for anything related to graduate work in circuit design at OSU. If you need know something, look it up here. If you can't find it and learn about it somewhere else, come back and post it up so others can benefit from your new found knowledge.

Oregon Aero designs and manufactures products for aviation, law enforcement, the military and other industries that prevent and eliminate pain, improve impact protection and reduce noise. Everything you need to know about how our products work, who uses them, and what you need to order is here.

Founded in 1802, DuPont puts science to work by creating sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere. Operating in more than 70 countries, DuPont offers a wide range of innovative products and services for markets including agriculture, nutrition, electronics, communications, safety and protection, home and construction, transportation and apparel.

Gary Hartig

WillingSoftware.com company produces webcam software since 2003.

Every day we help more than 1000 customers find the Solar Power Kits and Solar Panels they need. With a selection of over 1000 Solar Power Kits products you are sure to find just the item you are looking for. We have been in the Solar business since 1998 and truly appreciate the opportunity to serve you today and in the future!

It started in 1972 with an idea, a new concept in distribution. Today, Digi-Key Corporation is one of the fastest-growing electronic component distributors in the World. The stimulus for this growth is Digi-Key's customer-centered business philosophy. Simply stated, we provide the customer with the absolute best service possible.

Kool-Stop International Inc. was started back in 1978, in Oregon USA. While making friction components for industrial applications, the owner Richard Everett, began supplying a few compounds to the bicycle industry. After creating the first bicycle brake pad that had an internal frame and an air cooled heat sink, the small garage based company started to build a name for itself.

Gary works at Intel as his day job and spends a significant amount of the rest of his life involved in the EV community. He is a member of the EAA and is an officer of the Oregon Electric Vehicle Association; Gary's name links to their website.

Robert & Heather Knoop

Sargent's is a 4th generation, family-owned and operated business that has stood the test of time with a
cast-in-stone philosophy: "We treat our customers the way we would like to be treated".

John Myers

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