The College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University presents the “Louisiana Lagniappe Science and Engineering Festival,” a month-long celebration of science and engineering that offers ‘a little something extra’ for everyone. The Louisiana Lagniappe Science and Engineering Festival is a partner festival of the Inaugural USA Science & Engineering Festival – the country’s first national science festival in Washington, D.C.  The Festival strives to be the ultimate multi-cultural, multi-generational and multi-disciplinary celebration of science and engineering in the United States. Lousiana Tech’s festival events will begin on September 24 with the College’s annual Gumbo-Fest for all engineering and science students at the Argent Pavilion.  Gumbo-Fest will be followed by “Family Science and Engineering Day” on October 2 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at Railroad Park in downtown Ruston.  Family Science and Engineering Day will include hands-on science and engineering activities for children of all ages and families.  Lagniappe tee-shirts will also be on sale. Family Science and Engineering Day will be followed by a special presentation on Louisiana Tech’s Eco-Marathon Cars prior to the Homecoming football game on Saturday, October 16.  The cars will be on display in Tailgate Alley prior to the start of the game and will also be featured in a video at Aillet Stadium during pre-game activities. The Louisiana Lagniappe Science and Engineering Festival will conclude with a technology conference on sustainable infrastructures in Shreveport at Tech’s Technology Transfer Center on October 28.  For conference details, visit the College’s website at http://www.latech.edu/coes/s-efestival.shtml. Louisiana Tech’s College of Engineering and Science is a nationally recognized leader in educational innovation whose goal is to become “the best college in the world at integrating engineering and science in education and research.”  Louisiana Tech is one of fourteen universities nation-wide to become affiliated with the Center for Advancement on Scholarship in Engineering Education (CASEE), a unit of the National Academy of Engineering. Written by Catherine Fraser – cfraser@latech.edu