How to get to Optics Lab at OGI

OGI is the Engineering School of Oregon Health & Science University, located in Beaverton, Oregon. The Optics Labs at OGI are located on the OGI campus. The Dept. of Biomedical Engineering is also on the OGI campus. Instructions on how to get to both the LABS and the BME Dept. are as follows.

Here is a map of the Portland Area.
The airport is to the East on 84.
The OGI campus is to the West on 26.

Coming from the AIRPORT:

• Follow the traffic out of the airport onto I-205 southbound.
• Take the I-84 westbound exit.
• After a tune or two you will notice that you are being wisked off to I-5 southbound. Do not panic.
• Stay calm and slowly scoot into the left-hand lane once again. You will cross a mighty bridge over a big water. Unfortunately, you will be too busy driving to get a good look at the view. This is the best bridge to sightsee from, but only during traffic jams.
• If you remain in the blessed (left) lane, you will naturally take the Hwy 26/I-405 North exit. If not, then hum a happy tune as you try to find your way to the hospital with help from perfect strangers.
• After crossing the bridge stay in your lane. Do not be tempted by the other evil lanes. Do not be intimidated by cars swooping in from the left and from the right.
• Remain in your lane for one exit (which will eat the lane to your right.)
• You will now be in the far right lane when you reach the Hwy 26 westbound/12th Street exit. Avoid the cars trying to merge left as you merge right to take this exit. This will be a two lane exit so there is some room for screwing up. Stay left. If you exit onto 12th street exit, try to contain your excitement when you see Nordstrom's as you wander aimlessly around downtown Portland.
• You should now be on Hwy 26 heading west into a big tunnel through a mighty mountain. You will be in the left hand lane. Stay in it through big tunnel and up the mighty hillside.
• NOW FOLLOW the following HWY 26 DIRECTIONS

If you are coming from the NORTH or SOUTH on Interstate 5, instructions to HWY 26 are listed below.

HWY 26 DIRECTIONS:
Once going west on HWY 26, toward the Ocean Beaches coming from Portland,
Take Exit 64, which places you on NW 185th. Turn left (south) on NW 185th.
Continue through several stop lights, take right on NW Cornell Rd.
Take left where NW Stucki Rd. crosses Cornell Rd. to become NW Amberglen Parkway.

After left onto NW Amberglen Parkway:
Go through traffic light, then take left on NW Compton Dr.
Take left on NW von Neumann Dr.
Take first right (unmarked, continuation of NW Compton Loop).
PARK ANYWHERE.

You are now in the rear of building 5 (Vollum Building), where the Biomedical Optics labs are located.
Enter Vollum and come to room 107 (S. Jacques). Ask anyone around there for the person you seek.
If you have problems, call Steven Jacques at 503-704-5164 (cell phone) or 503-748-1512 (office).

IF YOU WISH to go to the BRONSON CREEK building, where the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering is located:
Don't park behind VOLLUM, but continue along this back road a hundred yards until you must turn LEFT or RIGHT onto Gibbs Drive.
TURN LEFT onto Gibbs Drive.
Stay right as this road leads to Bronson Creek (Building 16 on map) in about two hundred yards.
PARK ANYWHERE.

Every place is within easy walking distance, so actually you can park anywhere. Here is the campus map:

Coming from the South (Salem, Eugene, Corvalis) on Interstate 5:
Take the 217 exit North, while still south of Portland.
Go up to Highway 26, which is the Sunset Highway to the Ocean Beaches.
Go WEST on Highway 26 toward the Ocean Beaches (and Tillamook).

Coming from the North (Seattle, Vancouver) on Interstate 5:
Take the 405 South exit, while just north of Portland.
Take the Highway 26 West exit as passing through Portland.