[4everfsu]

Now just add some more engineering majors and grow!

http://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=18495&MID=62533

[Sly Fox]

This is a big deal for the school. Accreditation actually not only helps with attracting students, but top notch faculty as well.

[AZjonz]

Sly, you are correct. ABET is a big deal for Liberty. Where I work we have pages of job openings for people with an engineering background - they are hard to fill. Within 5 years of working these grads could be pushing their salary towards the 6 figure range (and quite easily more). Within the energy trading shop I work at and the utility company as a whole, we have people who have an engineering undergrad and an MBA. This is a very lucrative academic background in the energy sector, and they are some of the sharpest people I have worked with.

Engineering/Math/IT backgrounds have not been affected by the great recession. Any and all Liberty students who have a strong math background should consider the engineering school. This was a fantastic move for Liberty. The school is rolling!

[Sly Fox]

I was working with a client yesterday here in Houston who told me he had 500 engineering openings right now. You'll like likely never starve with an engineering degree.

[logic]

Sly, you are correct. ABET is a big deal for Liberty. Where I work we have pages of job openings for people with an engineering background - they are hard to fill. Within 5 years of working these grads could be pushing their salary towards the 6 figure range (and quite easily more). Within the energy trading shop I work at and the utility company as a whole, we have people who have an engineering undergrad and an MBA. This is a very lucrative academic background in the energy sector, and they are some of the sharpest people I have worked with.

Engineering/Math/IT backgrounds have not been affected by the great recession. Any and all Liberty students who have a strong math background should consider the engineering school. This was a fantastic move for Liberty. The school is rolling!

I was working with a client yesterday here in Houston who told me he had 500 engineering openings right now. You'll like likely never starve with an engineering degree.

Agree. I know people in the Houston area that are fresh out of college making 120+ as entry level engineers in oil/gas.

Better yet would be petroleum engineering with finance MBA...instead of finding wells, finance, buy, and sell the land that contains the wells.

Petroleum Engineering...there is a staunchly Republican major if there ever was one. Liberty would be the perfect candidate for Petroleum Engineering.

So far I see these -

Computer Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Computer Science
Web Technology

Maybe some 15 years from now we'll see Liberty Petroleum Engineering grads drilling off the coast of Virginia.. One can dream!

[Sly Fox]

LeTourneau is the Christian standard for petroleum engineering. It'd be awesome if we could have that type of program at some point down the road.

[AZjonz]

Houston is a major hub for all thing energy related. I had considered Houston before I moved back to Virginia from Arizona, but I preferred VA.

The trade-off of course for engineering majors is that they have no life in college. That means “Late-Skate” is out of the picture. (Do they even still do that?)

[Sly Fox]

Houston also has a ridiculously low cost of living. But you are correct that an engineering major is not for the uncommitted. But the payoff is certainly there on the backside.

[rogers3]

Houston is a major hub for all thing energy related. I

Don't forget Nuclear... I'd bet Lynchburg is a better option for that. I'm surprised Liberty hasn't moved a bit that way.

[Sly Fox]

Good point, rogers3. That would be an obvious next stop. It may be on its heels right now with the combination of Fukushima and ridiculously low natural gas prices, but it looks like it may weather these storms for now.

[flamehunter]

Political fallout continues for the nuclear industry. Germany is phasing out all nuclear plants and I heard that Japan is headed the same direction. That would be a big blow for the industry. However China continues to go full bore and that may be the saving grace for the industry. The US will have to decide soon where it is going as most plants are reaching their designed life span or are already into "extra time". B&W's modular reactors are probably the wave of the future if the industry goes forward domestically.

[Sly Fox]

But with cheap, abundant natural gas available as an option without the baggage of nuclear it is going to be tough to convince utilities and regulators to jump back on the nuclear bandwagon domestically.

[TH Spangler]

My nephew just gradated with a ISYS degree. I think he's interested in this.

By the way ...there's 7 billion dollars worth of uranium in Coles Hill Virginia.

http://www.yourgv.com/index.php/news/lo ... ium-mining

[flamehunter]

If the political/regulatory environment were more favorable, the utilities would be all over nuclear, regardless of natural gas cost. It is that efficient and profitable for them.

[4everfsu]

Aerospace engineering or Mechanical engineering(with aerospace option) would also be a good engineering of LU school of engineering.

[4everfsu]

LeTourneau is the Christian standard for petroleum engineering. It'd be awesome if we could have that type of program at some point down the road.

Unfortunately Letourneau U does not have a petroleum engineering major, but regardless it is a good engineering school.

[ATrain]

My nephew just gradated with a ISYS degree. I think he's interested in this.

By the way ...there's 7 billion dollars worth of uranium in Coles Hill Virginia.

http://www.yourgv.com/index.php/news/lo ... ium-mining

And it should stay there. That's my drinking water you're messing with.