feature a massive AI supercomputer – powered, of course, by nVIDIA hardware. Notable alumni Thomas J. Autzen, electrical engineer, co-inventor of plywood manufacturing glue-spreader George Bruns, an American composer of music for film and television, four Academy Award nominations, and three Grammy Award nominations. Randy Conrads, Classmates.com founder Holly Cornell, co-founder of international environmental engineering company CH2M Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse Paul Hugh Emmett, Chemical engineer who pioneered in catalysis, co-namesake of BET theory and member of the Manhattan Project Peter Gassner, co-founder of Veeva Systems Milton Harris, founder of Harris Research Laboratories (known as Gillette today) Thomas Burke Hayes, co-founder of international environmental engineering company CH2M James Howland, co-founder of international environmental engineering company CH2M Jen-Hsun Huang, founder of nVIDIA Corp Glenn Jackson, former Oregon Transportation Commission chair, namesake Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge Timothy S. Leatherman of Leatherman Tool Group, Inc. Conde McCullough, known for designing many of Oregon's coastal bridges on U.S. Route 101 William Oefelein, NASA Astronaut Glenn Odekirk, Hughes Aircraft Aerospace Engineer, helped design the H-4 Hercules, portrayed in the 2004 movie The Aviator as "Odie" Hüsnü Özyeğin, founder of Finansbank in 1987, one of Turkey's most successful bankers. Linus Pauling, 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry & 1962 Nobel Peace Prize recipient; the only person ever to win two unshared Nobel Prizes Donald Pettit, NASA astronaut Stephen O. Rice, pioneer in the related fields of information theory, communications theory, and telecommunications Ada-Rhodes Short, mechatronic design engineer and transgender rights activist William Tebeau, first African-American male graduate, chemical engineering, 1948, namesake of William Tebeau Residence Hall Lee Arden Thomas, acclaimed early Oregon architect, known for designing landmark downtown buildings James K. Weatherford, Oregon attorney, judge, and state politician John A. Young, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard Notable faculty Octave Levenspiel, emeritus professor of chemical engineering at Oregon State University, author of five books, and member of the National Academy of Engineering References External links 1889 establishments in Oregon Educational institutions established in 1889 Engineering schools and colleges in the United States Engineering universities and colleges in Oregon Oregon State University