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Images of DeltaV Demonstration

 

Drafting Department
Shows Great Success
in placing students! 
  ITI’s Technical Drafting Department and Career Services Department continues to have great success placing students into positions of their field of study. We currently boast seventy-eight students with nearly all students in specialty study being employed in the engineering/design field. Also, this term we have five students engaged in externships that cover the discipline spectrum with prominent local companies. Congratulations on achieving your externships! We also graduated a class on 01/01/2008; all but one of which were employed with an engineering company. Congratulations graduates!

IT Department gets CISCO Lab
The IT department purchased ten new routers for their Cisco classes. Many schools use software simulators, but simulators can not reproduce all of the commands, nor all the replies that a router will send. In addition, students get to make the physical connection with a router, something that a simulator cannot reproduce. Students also learn what the router cables look like and where they attach. It gives students real life experience in a lab environment. In a commercial environment, companies do not want people learning on their equipment that is critical in day to day operations. Other parts of the Cisco lab include serial connections so that the routers can talk to each other and simulate a great distance, which is what occurs on the internet. In addition to the new routers, ITI has also purchased managed switches so that students can learn to manage networking devices over small distances or local area networks (LANs). All of this equipment will give students the ability to get real hands on experience in a lab environment. This gives them the ability to experiment with new ways of networking without worrying about the ramifications.
 

Spring 2008 Graduation Ceremony
was a Huge Success!


Graduation ceremony recently held at Healing Place Church for the ending term was a packed house.  Graduates, their families and friends were overjoyed and expressed jubilation at the achievement of those who completed college and received their degrees as well as honor awards.  Also participating in the ceremony were the Career Achievement recipient and guest speaker and the pronounced winner of the founder, Joe Martin Jr. Award. (More Graduation News)
 

ITI Technical College Receives DeltaV Donation,
Petrochemical Plants to Benefit in Training  
 
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA- April 18, 2008. On April 1, 2008 ITI Technical College received a complete DeltaV process automation system and accompanying hardware. The donation was made by Emerson Process Management and included products from its divisions Rosemount, MicroMotion, and Fisher Controls. The John H. Carter Company, Emerson’s Local Business Partner made the donation possible by refurbishing, updating and decommissioning a mobile system, which had been used to demonstrate the technology from Lake Charles to Pensacola.
Joe Martin, CEO of ITI Technical College said “our petrochemical and paper plants use DeltaV and we needed a system like this for our Process Technology (PTEC) degree program.” Mark Worthy, Vice-President at ITI said “with this new system we now can show students a larger variety of the technology used in plants for process control.” Joe Martin added “ITI thanks Mike Fabre with John H. Carter for selecting ITI and Randy Angelle for obtaining the system from Emerson. ITI also thanks ControlWorks Service Specialists Jason Villamil, Mike Schwaller, and Eric Belgard who updated and configured the system for use at the College.” Additionally, Barry Latiolais of Southern Automation Sales of Lafayette donated the connectivity components from Turck, Inc.
Louis Babin, Dean of Education at ITI Technical College states “with this donation, ITI students can now enjoy hands-on installation, troubleshooting and configuration experience while learning digital fieldbus and advanced control principles along with the two other control systems in place at the campus. This is a huge benefit to our students and to the petrochemical and paper plants we are training the students to work in.”
John H. Carter Company provides industry with a wide range of products, services and equipment; including process control systems and instrumentation, control valves, regulators, actuators, automated valves and pumps. Services include Asset Management, Process Optimization, Equipment Diagnostics, and a wide array of field-repair and disaster recovery assistance.
ITI Technical College is an accredited, degree granting private institution that trains individuals for high demand fields such as Instrumentation, Process Technology, Electrical Technology, Electronics Technology, Air Conditioning and Electrical Technology, Computer Aided Drafting, Information Technology and Office Administration.

What's Happening in PTEC ?
Gentri Williams (left) and Jack Baggett (right), both from ITI’s PTEC department, receive training on Emerson’s DeltaV process control system. This newer technology and equipment is being donated to ITI Technical College from John H. Carter Company, Inc. and will be incorporated into the PTEC program in 2008. PTEC students receive training on computer-based process control systems in the last term of their PTEC program.