BOZEMAN — Gallatin College will offer two new programs to its students, the Professional Health Administration Program and the Aviation Electronics Technology Program, in partnership with Bridger Aerospace for a hands-on component of the course.
Designed in less than a year, director Elizabeth Nooman notes that the programs are often created when a need arises in the community.
“We don’t have any specific avionics training in this state, or in the region in general,” Nooman said, “We have the airport with a lot of single-engine aircraft, and so there’s definitely a need, the people must be able to repair their Airplanes!”
Nooman explains that there are three ways to repair an airplane: the body, the engine, and the avionics of the airplane. Avionics is the electronic and technological part of the aircraft. Beneath the floor of an airplane, a network of cables and boxes that connect to screens and tools in the cockpit will soon become the classroom for students.
Bridger Aerospaces Director of Avionics Justin Satkofsky thinks this is a hugely important program and will help airlines across the state choose from a pool of locally trained professionals, instead of relying on outside help.
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“We’ll have the talent here,” Satkofsky says, “Try it, if you’re a detail-oriented person, you take pride in your work, and you want to go home and think ‘hey, I made a difference today’, then this is the place for you.”
Satkofsky will play a major role in the class, leading the laboratory sections of Bridger Aerospace.
Health Care Administration is also a program that will begin in the fall of 2022. DeeDee Dalke is Director of Allied Health Division at Gallatin College and shares how important it is to offer a program, such as the health care administration, to their students.
“Coming out of the pandemic, there’s a lot of burnout, a lot of change,” Dalke said, “We’re trying to help with that and fill some of that gap.”
Students have already expressed interest in the courses, which will begin teaching in the fall.
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