Welding
Welding Technology prepares the student for employment in the welding field. This includes fab shops, petrochemical plants and pipelines as well as other welding facilities. Welding is used in building and maintaining petrochemical industry units, pipeline, marine vessels, bridge structures, and many other industrial components.
What Can I Do With This Degree?
Welders are in high demand with high paying jobs. Students who get a one year certificate or a two year Associate of Applied Science degree are highly sought after. The job of the welder is for persons who take pride in their work and know how to get a job done.
Automotive Technology
The Automotive Technology Program is designed to prepare the graduate for a career in the operation, service and repair, and maintenance of diesel/multi-fuel, and industrial and consumer-use engines and equipment. Industrial engines provide power for transportation equipment such as heavy trucks, buses, and locomotives. They are also used in all types of farming and harvesting equipment.
Today’s technicians need to effectively repair industrial engines, the technician must also isolate the cause of the problem, repair or replace defective parts, and make adjustments that insure engine longevity, performance, and emissions standards.
Criminal Justice
Want to get started or move ahead in a challenging career in criminal justice, homeland security, fire protection or law enforcement? The Criminal Justice program offers degree and certificate programs that prepare you for federal, state, local or private sector jobs.
Criminal Justice degrees offers meaningful work where you can help people and communities—and with job security. Some of the many options include:
- Corrections
- Law enforcement
- Emergency medical services
- Fire protection
- Customs and border protection
- Citizen and immigration services
- Domestic nuclear detection
- Emergency communications and management
- Intelligence and analysis
- Operations and planning and more.
Cyber Security
The Cyber Security Technology program prepares students for a future in the cyber security field. The program gives students a firm foundation in computer and network operations while training in digital forensics, firewall security, intrusion detection and security assessment. Students receive extensive hands-on training through laboratory exercises and/or computer simulation exercises.
What Will I Learn?
Cyber Security Technology Associate (CSTA) majors also receive extensive certification training in numerous areas. CSTA majors at Lamar Institute of Technology also receive the training needed to pass leading industry certifications from vendors such as CompTIA, Cisco and Microsoft.
What Can I Do With This Degree?
A graduate of the Cyber Security Technology program is awarded the Associate of Applied Science degree. Graduates find work as security analysts, security consultants and security specialists for small- to mid-size organizations.
