Oregon Center for Advanced Technology Education
| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Active | 1985–2006 |
| Location |
Hillsboro, Oregon, United States 45°31′38″N 122°52′11″W / 45.5273°N 122.86984°WCoordinates: 45°31′38″N 122°52′11″W / 45.5273°N 122.86984°W |
| Campus | Urban |
| Fate | Merged into Portland State University |
Oregon Center for Advanced Technology Education (OCATE) was a school in Hillsboro, Oregon, created by the state of Oregon to improve technology education. Established in 1985, the program was a collaboration of most of Oregon’s public universities. OCATE later was absorbed by Portland State University and discontinued in 2006.
OCATE was created by the Oregon Board of Higher Education in 1985 in an effort to encourage state engineering schools to collaborate in an effort to increase high-tech education in the state. It was established with $1 million in funding provided by the Oregon Lottery and first held classes at Tektronix. Politician and businessman Tom Bruggere was one of the people credited with founding the center, and served as chairman of the group in the early 2000s. Along with the Oregon Joint Graduate Schools of Engineering, OCATE was designed to coordinate Oregon public universities’ technology education. In 1988, the state recruited the private Oregon Graduate Center to teach some of the OCATE courses. Intel scientist Justin Rattner was given OCATE’s Globe Award in 1989. OCATE merged with the Lintner Center in 1991.
The center was forced to cut 22 positions in 1992 due to statewide budget cuts. OCATE was part of a pilot project started in 1994 with a National Aeronautics and Space Administration grant to create a high-speed network linking it to Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU), the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology) since merged with OHSU, the University of Oregon, Portland State University, and Oregon State University. The $4.5 million Nero Project would provide speeds of 155 MPS. The school moved to the Capital Center in 1995, which was a former Tektronix's facility. It began a lecture series in 1996, and converted to mostly a distance education program in 2003. The program was discontinued in 2006 and absorbed by Portland State University's School of Extended Studies. The School of Extended Studies at PSU was eliminated in 2012 and the programs under the School moved into Colleges and Schools at PSU. At that time OCATE was moved to the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
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