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- I was starting to
understand the physical toll

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that manual labor was
gonna take on my body.

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I could see it in my father

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who had been a mechanic his whole life,

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and it just broke his body down.

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And so I took the leap and
I was just, you know what?

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I'm going back to school.

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My name's Zachary Earnest,

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Manufacturing Engineer here
at Ashland Conveyor Products.

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I happen to be on the website

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right as they release the
engineering tech program.

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I think I'm Googling, what's
engineering technology?

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- At Ohio State, the
engineering technology program

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is an engineering degree that

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covers multiple different
disciplines of engineering,

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but also includes business
and leadership principles.

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I've had people in industry say,

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I can hire a mechanical
engineer all day long.

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What I can't find are leaders.

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And those are the kinds of
things that we're equipping

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our engineering technology
graduates to do.

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- One of the best things I
ever did was go back to school.

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It allowed me structure in my life

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when I struggled with finding my bearings

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on a day-to-day basis.

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Ohio State was basically a pathway for me.

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You know, it gave me things

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that I would've normally
not done for myself,

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and I'm eternally grateful for that.

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- People like Zach are gonna
take skills and automation

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to a company that doesn't have it.

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Next thing you know, they're
competing in a bigger market

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than they ever have been before.

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(uplifting music)

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- Ohio State almost heard verbatim

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exactly what industry was saying

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and then put it in a curriculum,
got industry approval,

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and I think it was just
a recipe for success.