Housing and Residence Life
Oregon Tech
Engineering and Health Sciences
Who is who on Campus?
EXTREMELY Obscure Bird Facts
100

This complex offers residents the opportunity to live in apartment-style housing, sharing amenities like a bathrooms and a kitchen with up to four roommates

The Village

100

You can hear it by walking by the CU or tuning on in, this is Oregon Tech's official radio station

KTEC Radio Station

100

Named starting with the 24th letter of the alphabet, this medical imaging device uses a special wavelength of light to see through the human body

X-Ray Machine

100

This is your RA.  Come on... it's been 6 weeks. You've gotta know your RA's name by now, right?

Your RA's name, we will know if it is right or not

100

This bird is the only known species whose nesting strategy includes sewing leaves together to create a cozy cradle for its young

Tailorbird

200

Located below the 1A Lobby, this is where you can check out carts, cookware, sleds and more as well.  But you probably just go here to pick up packages

The Service Desk

200

Originally, OIT was established as a vocational rehabilitation school for veterans returning from this global conflict

WWII

200

A Civil Engineer's favorite material, this mixture of cement, water, sand, and rock starts out as a paste, but resembles stone when it dries

Concrete

200

Born in Madras, India this Doctor in Mechanical Engineering drives a Porsche and he has his own Wikipedia page

Nagi Naganathan

200

This African bird, often mistaken for a small dinosaur, has a massive, razor-sharp beak and communicates with low-frequency growls to avoid detection

Shoebill

300

Abbreviated to RHA, this is one of the largest groups on campus, and you're already a member

Residence and Housing Association

300

Klamath Falls isn't the only place you can get a degree at OIT.  In fact, it's possible to attend Oregon Tech in this Washington city

Seattle 

300

Known as the father of modern computer science, he built a mechanical computer to crack the notoriously difficult "enigma code"

Alan Turning

300

Whether giving ghost tours or leading safety trainings, this Corporal is always here to help with a smile on his face

Corporal Bowman

300

This ancient bird species has no known relatives and is considered a "living fossil", with ancestors dating back to over 30 million years ago

Hoatzin

400

This position in housing supports you in your academic health, by hosting weekly study sessions and offering 1-on-1 peer mentorship

Student Success Mentors

400

While the campus has existed for longer, Oregon Tech was founded in this year.  More than 7 decades after the invention of the spork.

1947

400

Abbreviated to MECOP this competitive program helps get engineers into good internships so they graduate with work experience

Multiple Engineering Cooperative Program

400

In just two years, she's been the Director of Housing, the Dean of Students, and now she's the Vice President of Student Affairs

Dr. Mandi Clark

400

This tiny bird from the forests of New Guinea has feathers that reflect light to apear neon green, a camouflage advantage in its jungle habitat

The King of Saxony Bird-of-Paradise

500

Often referred to as "Room Checks", these events occur twice a term and they can sometimes be quite "alarming"

Health and Safeties

500

Everyone knows Hootie the Owl is the mascot for OIT, but lesser known are his two brothers, ______ and ________

Barney and Screechy
500

These three majors live in Purvine and make up the C-SET(Computer Systems Engineering Technology) department

Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, and Embedded Systems Engineering

500

You probably recognize her name from your inbox, but you walk past her every day on your way to dinner (that is, if you eat dinner). She's got a British accent and is assistant to Dr. Clark and Dr. James

Rachel Winters

500

Possessing a highly specialized beak to extract honeydew from a specific kind of tree sap, this bird is only found on a few islands in the Indian Ocean

The Mauritius Olive White-Eye

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