Placement

Industrial Technology / Industrial Distribution graduates are offered positions as:

• Industrial Engineer

• Operation Specialist

• Production Manager

• Manufacturing Engineer

• Engineering Consultant - Sales

• Sales Engineer

• Automatic Data Capture System Analyst

• Technology Educators

• Quality Assurance Engineer

• Safety System Specialist

• Technical Sales Account Managers

• Technical Managers

• Industrial Trainers and Training Managers

• Product manager

• Service Parts Engineer

• Process Design Engineer

• Materials Managers
• Quality Assurance Engineer
• Production Engineer
• Statistical Process Control Specialists
• Distribution Managers
• Production/ Process Planner
• Project Manager
• Line/ Production Supervisor
• Cost Designer
• Facilities Planner
• Facilities Management
• Product Design/ Research
• Warehouse Manager
• Systems Analyst
• Operations Management Assistant
• Teacher

• Allison Gas Turbine 
• Andersen Consulting 
• Arvin North America
• Arrow Electronics 
• Aquarious Plastics Finishers 
• Benteler Industries, Inc. 
• Boeing Company
• Cameron Ashley
• Carrier-United Technologies 
• Caterpillar Incorporated
• Citigroup, Inc.
• Clorox Company 
• Comarco Engineering 
• Control Systems 
• Cummins, Inc
• Comarco Engineering 
• Cooper Industrial Products 
• Co-Venture Resources
• CRS Industries 
• Daimler Chrysler Corporation
• D C Heath and Company 
• Delco Electronics 
• Delphi Corporation
• Dukane Corporation 
• Dwyer Instruments 
• Electronic Data System (EDS)
• Elkhart Foam Products 
• Eli Lilly and Company
• Exide Corporation
• Emerson Power Transmission
• Fleetwood Motor Homes 
• Ford Electronics and Refrigeration
• Ford Motor Company 
• Frito-Lay 
• Grainger
• GECOM Corp 
• GenCorp 
• General Electric Company
• General Mills
• General Motors Corporation
• Great Lakes Chemical 
• GTE 

Top 20 companies are identified with bold letters

• International Business machine (IBM)
• Ispat Inland Inc.
• Ivex Packaging
• Ivy Tech State College 
• J.I. Case 
• Kimberly Clark 
• Kirby Risk
• Lafayette School Corporation 
• Liberty Mutual
• Lockheed Martin Corporation 
• McDonnell Douglas
• Menasha Corp 
• Mid-Continent Spring Comp 
• New Castle Engineering 
• Northway 
• Ogihara-America 
• Pepsi 
• Peters 
• Precision Cast Parts 
• Purdue University 
• R.R. Donnelly 
• Raytheon Corp 
• Resistence Products 
• Rockwell Automation 
• Rostone 
• Ryerson 
• SKF Industries 
• Subaru of Indiana Automotive 
• Symbol Technologies 
• Texas Instruments 
• Thomas-James Associates 
• Torx Products 
• Toshiba 
• Ultr-mag 
• United Carrier Technologies 
• United Medical Mfg. 
• Wallace Expanding Machines 
• Wheel Horse 
• Wright/ Porteous and Lowe

Ms. Betty Cottrell
Department of Industrial Technology
1416 Knoy Hall, Room 366
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Phone: (765) 494-1088
Fax: (765) 496-2700