A significant donation by Yokogawa Canada will enhance classroom opportunities for nearly 250 Lambton College students.
At a presentation on campus Wednesday afternoon, college foundation members and company representatives formally recognized a $112,500 donation from Yokogawa and Contro Valve.
Professor in the School of Technology, Energy & Apprenticeship Margaret Carter says the money will provide a new gas chromatograph and tunable diode laser.
"We need to be able to expose our students to what is in the industry," says Carter. "There's no point in having them practice on something they will never see, or that's 30 years out of date and doesn't give them the computer skills or the interaction and control skills that they need to manage that equipment."
Carter adds the gas chromatograph is something that every student in the Chemical Production and Power Engineering programs is going to be exposed to in their career, whether its "managing one of them or depending on the results from one of them to control their process."
The donation, made to the college's Envision Tomorrow Capital Campaign helps to further enhance technology programming on campus.
