TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. —
Leaders from the Oklahoma Metropolis Air Logistics Complicated at Tinker Air Power Base and The College of Central Oklahoma introduced an Instructional Partnership Settlement on April 15 to collaborate and share concepts and superior applied sciences.
OC-ALC Commander, Maj. Gen. Jeff King, and UCO Vice President for Development, Artwork Cotton, signed the settlement.
Beneath the auspice of a novel Instructional Partnership Settlement, Tinker AFB donated a Haise Supercomputer cluster that might be included with UCO’s present supercomputer cluster, often called ‘Buddy,’ to broaden capabilities for analysis and schooling throughout science, expertise, engineering and arithmetic.
“Tinker AFB is happy to donate this tremendous laptop that we’ve used for synthetic intelligence, machine studying and cluster computing, as a result of as we’ve got superior, we discovered we wanted larger and quicker computer systems,” stated King. “Fairly than demilitarize and get rid of this gear, the flexibility handy it off means we get extra service life out of a terrific piece of apparatus and we get to assist one in every of our universities to reinforce their functionality and capability.
“This partnership might feed into our potential pipeline of staff, and at the very least improve consciousness of Division of Protection efforts of engineers in trade at massive,” he added. “Ideally, this donation of apparatus helps enhance the standard of the UCO’s program with higher instruments for educating and studying, and that’s good for the nationwide protection general. We’re thrilled to have the ability to hold this gear in use.”
The partnership might be mutually helpful for each the college and Tinker Air Power Base.
“The donation of the supercomputer cluster from Tinker Air Power Base will broaden UCO’s capabilities to carry out computational analysis and schooling in areas reminiscent of microfluidics engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering design, eco-niche modeling utilizing geographic info techniques, genomics and a big growth of our knowledge science capabilities with Python, R and Tensorflow,” stated Evan Lemley, Ph.D., assistant dean of the UCO School of Arithmetic and Science and professor for the Division of Engineering and Physics at UCO.
“Our instructional partnerships with different universities to incorporate the College of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State College and Oklahoma Christian College, have helped us transfer from transactional to transformational relationships offering nice alternatives for college kids and our engineers alike,” King stated. “These partnerships have been a blessing to the Complicated and we’re grateful for the good universities in Oklahoma, who’re actually the lifeblood for innovation and manpower.”
This instructional partnership settlement was for the donation of apparatus. The subsequent stage of partnership will enable UCO college students, school and workers the chance to use their tutorial analysis to sensible issues inside the Division of Protection and aerospace trade. Likewise, the OC-ALC could have entry to UCO amenities, gear and skilled information.
The Oklahoma Metropolis Air Logistics Complicated is likely one of the largest items within the Air Power Materiel Command, with a group of greater than 10,300 army and civilian professionals delivering fight energy for America. The Complicated performs programmed depot upkeep and modifications on KC-46, KC-135, B-1B, B-52, E-3 and Navy E-6 plane and likewise performs upkeep, restore and overhaul on quite a few engines and all kinds of commodities and software program for the Air Power, Navy, Marine Corps, and international army gross sales.
