[4everfsu]

Great news for the newest major on campus. LeTourneau University is the only other christian university offering a welding engineering degree. Those majors will also be in demand in Newport News shipbuilding industry

LU expanding engineering program

By Christa Desrets
cdesrets@newsadvance.com
January 27, 2008

Halfway into its first year, Liberty University’s School of Engineering and Computational Sciences is looking to expand with new professors and majors within the next couple of years.

The greatest change would come with the addition of mechanical and welding engineering majors to the current degrees available in electrical, industrial, computer and software engineering, said Dean Ron Sones.

“There’s (few) welding engineering programs that we know of in the country,” he said. “It’s rather a specialized type of engineering, but it’s very important to the nuclear industry as well as aerospace.”

He hopes to have both degrees available by 2009 or 2010.

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[bigsmooth]

it is awesome tosee this program growing. besides the law school, the engineering program will certainly bring more students to the mountain!

[Sly Fox]

They didn't even mention the oil & gas industry for welding. But it may be the largest are of opportunity nationwide.

Hopefully some enterprising business will see a big donation check as a way to equip more engineers. The competition for engineering grads is as fierce as any profession in America.

[PAmedic]

I really like this "outside the box" thinking.

whoever is in charge of planning this department is doing a great job

[jcmanson]

http://www2.newsadvance.com/lna/news/lo ... pus/20450/

Liberty University has plans to build an engineering campus that eventually would accommodate 2,000 students, a small research park and new degree programs for its School of Engineering and Computational Sciences.

The project is slated for Liberty-owned land just across the city line in Campbell County between the dorms on Campus East and U.S. 29, said Ron Sones, dean of the engineering school. The land had been under contract to a shopping center developer, AIG Baker, but plans fell through when the economy took a nosedive, said Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr.

[LUconn]

So that's the end of the shopping center. How about that. Good thing it took them so long to get started on it. Disaster averted.