PSU Magazine Fall 1996

Because of lack of room and resources, Engineering Dean Robert Dryden put his offic: 'en the comer of a hydrology lab. N o one would mistake the offices of even the top admini– strators at Portland State University for fancy digs. Still, it' a bit of a shock to find Robert Dryden, dean of PSU's School of Engineering and Applied Science, tucked into the comer of a sprawling, equip– ment-cluttered hydrology lab. "I'm hoping it's not permanent," Dryden says with a laugh, adding that plans are in progress to move him and his staff to new offices this fall. Dryden himself decided to move into the lab after hiring a new associate dean of engineering and find– ing nowhere to put him. "So I gave him my office. I guess my secretary can't really believe I'm serious," he says, still laughing, "because she hasn't taken the name from the door of my old office."