United States of America, North America, Oregon, Portland
The OGI School of Science and Engineering, located in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States is one of the four schools of the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). Until June 2001, it functioned independently as a public graduate school, the Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI). OGI operates four departments and has approximately 330 students. The school is in the process of moving to OHSU's new South Waterfront campus in Portland, Oregon. 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. Tektronix co-founder Howard Vollum helped found OGI in 1965 with a $2 million grant, and upon his death in 1986, he...
