Patrick Ray
Patrick Ray, PhDAssistant Professor of Civil Engineering
503-554-2791
pray@georgefox.edu
Patrick Ray joined the engineering department as an assistant professor of civil engineering in 2011. In the three years previous, he lived and worked in Jordan, where in 2010 he was assistant professor of engineering at Middle East University, specializing in hydraulics/hydrology, numerical methods and engineering economics. Patrick began his work in Jordan researching the water system in Amman as a Fulbright Fellow. Over the course of his three-year tenure in Jordan he worked as a water systems engineer in a variety of contexts, including as a water systems economist for the Millennium Challenge Corporation and a climate change specialist for the United Nations Development Programme.
Before that, Patrick was a researcher, teaching assistant and graduate student at Tufts University, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. In all, he has eight years of experience in water resources engineering. He holds a PhD in civil and environmental engineering from Tufts University (2010) and a master’s degree in the same discipline from Tufts (2006). He lives in Newberg with his wife and two boys.