During their February 2010 meeting, the Academic and Students Affairs Committee of the Louisiana Board of Regents approved the formation of the Institute for Industry - Education Collaboration (IIEC) at McNeese State University.

The Institute for Industry – Education Collaboration (IIEC) is a means for McNeese State University to accomplish its mission by providing a framework for organizing and expanding its existing industry – university collaborations to “enhance economic development and cultural growth in this region and beyond.”

The objectives of the IIEC are to:

• Strengthen existing alliances between regional industry and higher education to retain more students, produce better skilled graduates and therefore shorten their path to full productivity as industry employees.
• Mobilize the region’s industry and higher education communities for collaborative action to advance the region’s growth and economic development.
• Bring regional industry and higher education leaders together to improve partnerships and help to integrate workplace skills in higher education as well as to improve the work-related skills of the existing workforce in our community.
• Transfer university-produced knowledge and expertise to industry.
• Transfer industry-produced knowledge and expertise to the university.
• Create new innovative pathways of collaboration between regional industry and higher education.

IIEC can provide the following services:

• Conduct applied research in science and engineering.

• Organize seminars and workshops under the Lake Area Industries/McNeese Engineering Partnership (LAI/MEP).

• Organize courses at the Gulf Coast Flowserve Satellite Training Site.

• Write and submit grants to attract training and/or research funds.

• Offer training for practicing engineers and technicians (technical workforce).

• Offer technical and non-technical professional development courses.

• Promote Industry Sponsored Senior Design/Research Projects.

• Identify quality students/graduates who seek employment with industry.

• Facilitate the translation of technical innovations to the marketplace (product development).

• Assist with technology transfer, licensing issues, product commercialization.

• Guide, counsel, and support start-up businesses with technical product issues.

• Offer meeting space for industry – education collaboration activities.

Professional Training/Education for Industry

Current/Past IIEC Projects

• Applied Research
• Lake Area Industries/McNeese Engineering Partnership (LAI/MEP) Seminars
• Flowserve Training Courses
• Professional Development Courses
• Workforce Training
• Facilities and Equipment

For more information contact:
Dr. Nikos Kiritsis, Director
Institute for Industry - Education Collaboration
McNeese State University
Tel: (337) 475-5857, Email: nikosk@mcneese.edu

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