The
HET Program was implemented in 1959. It started out in an old
army barracks with one teacher. Today it has seven faculty
members, a program director, a secretary, a crib clerk, and an
equipment technician and is located in a modern 53,000 square
foot facility, which is one of the largest and best equipped in
the United States. The facility was built with a $7,000,000
appropriation from the state legislature. Eight hundred
thousand dollars of the $7,000,000 was allocated for the
purchase of portable instructional equipment. The addition of
this new equipment brought the total instructional equipment
inventory to well over $3,000,000.
