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Lee College and Hightech Multimedia Tutorials Announce Fieldbus Training Partnership

Multimedia tutorial to be used in Foundation Fieldbus training

BAYTOWN, Texas, May 29, 2002 - Lee College and Hightech Multimedia Tutorials today announced a partnership agreement providing instructional material for Foundation Fieldbus training classes at the college's Center for Digital and Fieldbus Technological Education located in Baytown, Texas.

As part of the partnership agreement, Lee College will utilize Hightech Multimedia Tutorials' Foundation Fieldbus Concepts tutorial presentation in its Fieldbus Foundation-certified training curriculum for college and industrial students. Foundation Fieldbus Concepts presents introductory and advanced fieldbus training material in an easy-to-understand, self-paced learning and reference guide. Topics include the Foundation Fieldbus Physical and User Layers, Communication Stack and Interoperability, as well as an introduction to High-Speed Ethernet (HSE). The tutorial includes hours of multimedia instructional slides and complete text in Adobe® Acrobat® PDF format.

Lee College's inaugural Foundation Fieldbus student training classes for college credit begin in early June 2002 for the summer semester. Industrial classes at the end of July. Available courses include a four-and-a-half day technician/installation class, a two-day engineering design class, a one-day overview class for managers and operators and a one-day class for sales personnel

The Foundation Fieldbus Concepts CD-ROM tutorial, which is compatible with Windows®98/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP, will be provided to all students who take the technician/installation class and the two-day engineering/design class. Special discounts for Foundation Fieldbus Concepts have been arranged for other class participants.

About Lee College
Lee College, located approximately 30 miles east of Houston in Baytown, Texas, is a public community college that serves as the premier educational center for emerging technologies in the field of industrial control systems. The National Science Foundation (NSF) recognized and funded Lee College's Center for Digital and Fieldbus Technological Education. The Center develops programs for teaching fieldbus and process control systems, creates and maintains an applied research center and develops multi-craft curriculum for fieldbus and industrial networking technologies.

About Hightech Multimedia Tutorials
Hightech Multimedia Tutorials produces introductory and advanced instructional media in the area of high-tech learning. The company applies high-tech multimedia techniques to produce easy to understand, quality training materials that enable its customers to stay current with technology with a minimal investment in instructional time. Additional information is available at www.hmtutorials.com.