Lake Area Industries/McNeese Engineering Partnership - Highlights
Lake Area Industries/McNeese Engineering Partnership - Highlights
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.