OIT Offers BS in Dental Hygiene on Chemeketa Campus
Community members of Chemeketa’s service districts will benefit from highly skilled dental hygienists infiltrating the local health care system from the fully operational dental clinic which will be located in Chemeketa’s Health science complex and run by students and faculty of OIT’s dental hygienist program.
OIT Planning Fall 2012 Opening for Wilsonville Facility
OIT Planning Fall 2012 Opening for Wilsonville Facility
Oregon Tech and Linn-Benton Community College Sign Academic Agreement
Oregon Institute of Technology and Linn-Benton Community College (LBCC) will sign a dual enrollment agreement at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 15, 2011, in the Calapooia Center Board Room at Linn-Benton Community College.
The Gift of Clean Water
The drinking water came from pits teeming with bacteria and E. coli that villagers dug themselves.
The pump in the remote southwestern Tanzanian village broke and the villagers didn't have the knowledge or resources to fix it.
Last summer, three Oregon Institute of Technology civil engineering students and three faculty members traveled to the village to install three new pumps, but more importantly, to teach villagers how to maintain them.
"Building the social infrastructure and knowledge of how to maintain the system is probably the most important thing we did," said David Thaemert, assistant professor with OIT's civil engineering department and adviser for OIT's Engineers Without Borders.
Students and faculty went to East Africa with the OIT chapter of Engineers Without Borders, an international organization whose members go to developing countries and, in part, install infrastructure that delivers clean water.
For two years, OIT representatives have worked to provide clean water to Tanzanian villages near Hanga Abbey, whose monks have traveled to Klamath Falls on a mission to bring clean water to their schools, hospitals and villages. A St. Pius X Catholic Church priest, Father Ildefonce Mapara, is from the abbey.
"We're improving the health, hygiene and quality of life of the abbey," Thaemert said, which includes scores of schoolchildren. "We're improving life for a whole generation of Tanzanians."
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OIT could open in Wilsonville by 2012
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Obama Administration Announces Nearly $100 Million for Smart Grid Workforce Training and Development
US Department of Energy announces nearly $100 million in grants. Guess who got 2.5 million: OIT. Read the article and learn about the project by clicking on list of selected projects.