Program Staff

• Hau Hagedorn, TREC Associate Director

PSU Faculty and Class Instructors

Additional PSU faculty, staff and students have supported the class projects over the years. The current core faculty leading the classes include:

• Drusilla (Dru) Van Hengel, Principal, Nelson/Nygaard
• Derek Abe, Senior Planning Associate, Alta Planning + Design
• Kirk Paulsen, Transportation Engineer, Alta Planning + Design
• Patrick McLaughlin, Engineering Instructor, Portland State University

PSU Students: Engineering and Planning

Civil engineering and urban planning students have helped to shape many of the inspiring ideas from the community, given form and function for real world application. Many of those alumni are now transportation professionals in the Portland Metropolitan area! Learn more about studying transportation at Portland State University.

Better Block PSU Project team members, community partners and volunteers

There are many partners involved in the projects themselves that are shepherded through the Better Block PSU pathway program at PSU. See each project to learn more about the people involved.

And, there is a long history of volunteers that have supported the implementation of Better Block PDX projects since 2013!