College of Engineering and Engineering Technology

Lake Area Industries/McNeese Engineering Partnership

Highlights of the First Decade

• Seminars requested by industrial partners and planned months advance         38

• With total attendees                                                                                     1,460

• Total cost of these seminars                                                                   $394,729

• Average cost per attendee                                                                             $270 

• Seminars & Workshops for PSM Study group                                                      64

• Total attendees                                                                                           1,760

• Seminars on Equipment Reliability                                                                        3

• Total attendees                                                                                               180

• Professional Engineering Ethics seminars                                                            3

• Total attendees                                                                                                120

• Overall attendees at LAI/MEP sponsored seminars & workshop                    3,500

To train this number of industrial personnel in distant cities would have cost between $1.5 to $2 million dollars if not available in Lake Charles. The real benefit to local industry is that a large number of the workforce has received training for the available level of training funds.