Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology - Technician Yearbook (Okmulgee, OK)

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ials and machinery They will be using. They will be repairing and insTalling unTil Their proficiency reaches The exTenT ThaT They can successfully find employmenT. AlThough employers prefer Those wiTh a high school educaTion, more Than 7.5 million young people enTering The labor force during The i96O's will noT have compleTed high school. Many maTure persons desiring To improve are noT eligible for academic Training because of lack of high school educaTion. For This reason enTrance requiremenTs aT Tech are flexible. The fuTure Technicians and Trades- men come To school wiTh a college educaTion or even if They are unable To read or wriTe. There is a course offered To fiT Their needs. Handicapped persons can learn To be self-sufficienT in mosT of The courses. The school has one of The finesT rehabiliTaTion cenTers in The naTion where se- verely handicapped sTudenTs are broughT from dependency To independency, boTh physically and vocaTionally. The meThod of insTrucTion is learn by doing . Live work and producTion are essenTial To basic Training in skills. IT is easy and inTeresTing for sTudenTs To learn when The simple operaTions are masTered by acTually doing The work in shops paTTerned from The indusTrial and space world. Soon fuTure Technicians and crafTsmen find ThaT They have masTered The more inTricaTe skills of The Trade and have become proficienT. Background courses are offered in each occupaTion. Baking chemisTry is keyed To The job demands of a baker. Dry cleaning chemisTry is an ever changing course To meeT The many TexTile devlopmenTs. MaTh is viTal To The indusTrial elecTronics sTudenT and oThers. Human relaTions is TaughT To all and how To ad- vance and grow on The iob. Each sTudy is for The purpose of making a good workman and Technician. g . Tech sTudenTs may progress as rapidly as Their experience and abiliTy al- low. Some compleTe courses in Three semesTers or less. OThers compleTe courses in '20 monThs depending upon experience, efforT and abiliTy. AT Tech sTudenTs learn To make good livings and To be successful in Two yearsor less. i g GraduaTes Tind many exciTing opporTuniTies open Toi Thern in large ciTies as well as small communiTies. The success of The more Than 5,000 graduaTes is proving The realism of The program. T I Many consider Tech, The sTaTe's youngesT school, a school of Tomorrow in operaTion Today. A school for every man and woman who wanTs To have a beTTer living. A' school of Tailor-made insTrucTion adapied To The needs of The individual and indusTries of The sTaTe and naTion. IT has made big sTrides in edu- caTional progress and is an insurance of continuing progress in The sTaTe. As The shorTage of skilled workers becomes more and more acuTe, Okla- homa STaTe Tech, a branch of Oklahoma STaTe UniversiTy, guaranTees a conTinuing supply, The lifeblood of American democracy. The peoplehof The naTion,f The greaTesT asseT, are imporTanT in Oklahoma.

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he future of Oklahoma is in good hands when so many of the right kind of young people learn how to do useful things-both for them- selves and for others. Oklahoma is developing an unusual school at Oklahoma State Tech which is pulling new and vitally needed skills into the quick changing economic picture. At Tech young men learn how to do things. It is an extraordinary school. There is no other like it. Its goal is better living - simple as that. In its short life, having lust celebrated its fifteenth anniversary, it has trained more than 18,000 young and mature persons to do at least one kind of work well. The school is dedicated to the ideal that men and women should be edu- cated to make a good living. Important is the need for worthwhile persons to have added opportunity to build a good and secure future along with a happy and rewarding life. , Human dignity and the supreme worth of both the youth of the nation and the mature citizen desiring to improve are basic principles. This is the true belief of instructors and officials of this technical school devoted exclusively to training in crafts, service industries, business as well as technical skills. Knowing that it takes success to teach success, a group of highly qualified persons were selected to lead and instruct students. These men had a wealth of knowledge in their chosen fields as well as a love and understanding of their fellow man. The purposeful education abandoned tradition for practicability. Only those courses are offered where a student can find successful employment. Industrial and business leaders meet on the campus regularly to key the instruction to the fast developing and high technical iob requirements. As an example, the automobile manufacturers with their production have made enormous progress in building a better and more powerful automobile. This has meant drastic changes in design, higher compression, more compact engines, automatic transmissions, power steering, air conditioning and other im- provements. There must be highly skilled men to maintain the automobiles in the nation today. It is only reasonable that leaders in this and other industries would take particular interest in the students and lend assistance in maintaining a high quality of instruction. Along with keeping training keyed to rapid advances, Tech has set up problems and experiences for each student that are the same as those of the industrial technician and craftsman. Each student works under conditions iden- tical to those on the regular iob. Thus he learns and develops work experience at the same time. Shops are filled with delicate testing devices, massive motors and machin- ery. Students spend four hours each day working directly with the tools, mater-

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