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Welcome to another edition of inside OSU. I'm Burns Hargis and I'm atop a Komatsu wheel-loader. This is
just one of the many pieces of equipment that we use for the hands-on training for our students in the
heavy equipment and vehicle institute. Here at the OSU Institute of Technology in Okmulgee Oklahoma. We
have a lot to see here at Okmulgee and we're excited to have you here. Lets take a look around our campus
The OSU Institute of Technology in Okmulgee opened in the fall of 1946 as Oklahoma A & M School of
Technical Training. What originally began as a technical training, trade and industry school for
veterans after WWII. Now educates and trains students from across the United States and the world
in 37 different programs.
Here I am in a complicated looking area as OSU-IT has a number of different partnerships and our
training is relevant to the needs of the industry. A good example of that is the natural gas compression
program. With me is Al Lavenue with MidCon, which is a subsidiary of Chesapeake, that have been strong
supporters of this program since the beginning. Al, welcome. Thank you, glad to be here Burns. Explain
to our viewers the importance of this program. Every day we pump hundreds of millions of cubic feet of
gas a day that has to happen through gas compressors. A lot of times it will not flow on its own.
Without a compressor there is no sales of natural gas. Its an integral part of the business. Do you find
that this partnership helps shape the program so its meeting your needs? Absolutely, they contact us on
a regular basis about what classes they might offer. Employees and former students visit on a regular
basis to recruit. And add what information they can to the program. We appreciate your support so much Al.
OSU-IT offers a bachelor of technology degree in the automotive and heavy equipment and vehicle institute
are just two of the associate and science and applied science degrees that can be earned at OSU-IT.
Other associate degrees in applied science include: culinary arts, construction technology, visual communications
and the world renowned watch making program.
Here we are in the beautiful Donald W. Reynolds building in the heavy equipment and automotive division
With me is the division head Steve Doede. Thanks for having us out. This is very interesting, I've been
telling everybody about the uniqueness of OSU-IT and how we give hands-on training together with a liberal
arts associate degree. This is in some respects the crown jewel of the program. Explain it to us.
In our division we have partnerships with not only automobile manufacturers but with heavy equipment companies
as well. This lab is the GM lab for student technician training. Those partnerships work almost identically
though. The students are preselected by a dealer from their hometown. I cant just come here and enroll?
In these programs we want you connected before you come. How many are in the program? We try to keep between
15 and 45 students in each program but thats double because we revolve that during these half semester
breaks. Some students are on internships and some are here. Then they switch. What manufacturers are you
associated with? GM, Ford, Chrysler and Toyota. We're going to look at what you actually do and i'm gonna get
a little hands-on training. We appreciate it, we're going to talk to one of your lead instructors. Good Luck.
Here I am right next to a Cadillac SRX and George Regier who is an instructor in this program. Glad to have
you on Inside OSU. We're standing next to something you see when you turn your car into the dealership but
This is a laptop connected to the vehicle. Tell us what students learn about this. This will let us look at
everything thats going on in the car. Let me run you through a diagnostic scenario of what you might see in
the dealership. Lets say that this comes in and the driver says my window wont go down. I can hook up to the
vehicle and if you would click that button right there. We can see that our window rolled down. What does
that mean? He said it didn't go down. What this tells me is that the window motor and the control module are
doing fine, i have a fault with my window switch input somewhere in that circuit. Do you find that your students
stay in the industry. The majority of em do, and its great because with the technician training we do I get to
see lot of them come back several years later and see how they are doing. We're going to talk to a couple of
your students now who are going through the program and see how the program is working for them.
I'm here beside a beautiful 2011 Corvette. With me are two of the students in this program that i'd like to introduce.
Caleb Ashpaugh, Elk City Oklahoma. And how bout you? Frankie Roberts from Locust Grove Oklahoma. Great.
How in the world did you guys end up here? When I got close to graduating, I made 3 or 4 choices of what I wanted
to do. I ended up with OSU-IT because GM A-spec program and there would be a need for technicians in the future
You get to work as you go through the program, you can graduate with a great skill, degree and not a bunch of
debt. Absolutely, since we go off on internships, when we graduate we have a job waiting for us. Thats the only
way you can get into this program. You have to have the sponsorship. Thats great I wish you a lot of luck in
your career and know you will be very successful because the program is great and you are doing what you
want to do.
Here in allied health services we are training nurses for their skills in the health care industry and with me
is the head of this division, Jana Martin. Nice to have you here. This is a relatively new program. We started
the associate degree nursing program in 2004 so we are going into our 7th year here at OSU-IT and what we have
is an associate degree registered nurse program. How many students do you have? We have 66 students and are
getting ready to quadruple our enrollment. Do we have graduates? We have 100% employment rate, they usually have
employment when they graduate. This looks very much like hospitals i've been in. This is a state of the art high
fidelity simulation center. We've simulated an ICU suite, we also have an OBGYN maternity suite over there
We can simulate anything in a hospital setting.
Janas explained to me that you can simulate almost anything here and we've got a sick person with a blue mouth
Whats wrong with this person? The blue means he is scianotic and he's not getting enough oxygen in his blood.
We can see that on his SP02 stats its 87 and the lowest it should go is 92. Whats wrong with this guy?
He's in respiratory distress, if he's still breathing and he's sciatic. He's still breathing. One of the first
things you'd do is raise the bed up. Bringing him to a higher position will let him breathe better. His eyes
are open, thats good. His saturation has gone up, thats good. He might need an oxygen boost. His mouth isn't blue
anymore. Thats good. I feel better now, thats good. This is high-tech stuff which is what you see when you
go into a hospital today. Its good to know we'll have more professionals like McKenzi and Robert.
As you can see i'm in a room full of high-tech equipment. and this is our information technology area in OSU-IT.
Further to the idea that we are going to train our students in ways that are relevant to their industry.
We are here with Danny Clayborne who is a professor and coordinator of the internship program. Glad to be here.
Describe the program. We have an associate of science, applied science and the bachelor of technology in information
technologies. Talk about the areas you instruct in. Either in information insurance in forensics, which is the
security side of things, the network for the infrastructure and software and web design. How many students do
you have in this program? roughly 250 students each semester. You mentioned security earlier and i understand
we are going to go over and meet a student and professor who will give us a demonstration of this mobile
ipad conundrum. They will be working with a device called Fred and tell you what the device is all about.
Here i am next to FRED, well this isn't FRED, this is Josh Pierce who is a senior here, and this is Sunita Rajanala
who is a professor. We heard about FRED from Danny Clayton. Fred stands for Forensic Recovery Evidence Device.
Its used to gather evidence and to recover any device that has electronic data. The ipad is probably the most
iconic device currently so what would you do with that? We've made a backup of the ipads data and put it onto one
of the hard drives here and FRED. We have a couple of pieces of software that we use, this one is called FTK.
Forensic ToolKit. It scans all the data captured from the Ipad. Fantastic. You can see that this is a very
sophisticated operation and its relevant to the real world today for Sundita Rajanala and Josh Pierce.
That's another edition of Inside OSU from a fascinating place called Oklahoma State University Institute of
Technology in Oklmulgee Oklahoma, thank you all.