Southeastern NEWS

                                                       Southeastern Louisiana University
                                           Public Information Office
                                           publicinfo@selu.edu
                                           SLU 880, Hammond, LA 70402
                                           504/549-2341/fax 504-549-2061
    Date: 5/3/01
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple   75

Editors: Photo accompanies release
IT HOSTS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AT CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY DAY
     HAMMOND -- Approximately 75 seniors from nine area high schools got an up-close
look at potential careers in technology at the Southeastern Louisiana University Industrial
Technology Department's first Career and Technology Day on April 27.
     Guided by Southeastern industrial technology faculty and students, the high school guests
learned about  blueprint reading and estimating, computer assisted drafting, robotics, web page
design, welding and foundry, PLC/electronics, safety and environmental science, fluid
power/materials testing and surveying.
     Faculty were joined by business and industry representatives who demonstrated the
connection between education and the workplace. Corporate sponsors included Dow, Exxon-
Mobil, Performance Contractors, T-K Valve, Davis International and Shaw Group, Inc.


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