Bubbling beakers, tiny vials of potent chemicals, robotic arms, giant sparking Tesla coils—No, you haven’t just stepped into Dr. Frankenstein’s lab, it’s LETU’s Glaske Center for Engineering, Science and Technology. This building is where a ton of the magic happens on campus. Our students get to take a peek under the hood and learn what it is that makes most everything tick, living or mechanical. From degrees in forensic chemistry (which combines serious scientific know-how with the basics of criminal law), to mechanical and electrical engineering, to computer science, the things that happen inside the Glaske Center are cutting-edge, exciting, and always fun. And this is just one building on campus. We don’t have enough magazine to cover all of our cool in just 24 pages.
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In the middle of LETU’s Glaske Center for Engineering, Science and Technology is a black hole of windy experimentation. LETU’s wind tunnel is used to study the effects of air moving past solid objects. Some of these objects include the blades on our VERT team’s turbine. This project has a goal of producing a low-cost wind turbine to provide sustainable energy to mission fields and other low-income areas of the world. From a wind tunnel, to a big turbine, to electrical power, to the mission field. Yeah. That’s how we roll.
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Imagine growing up without the ability to walk. For sure, your parents would probably have gone to any length to help you. If you’d been born into poverty Kenya, though,students your parents TeninLETU business didn’tcould get a tan this spring break do little to help. That’s where the LeTourneau (or even a sunburn), but they got something even betUniversity WHEELS comesThe in. Working ter: the trip ofteam a lifetime! group packed their bags and with several world-renowned organizations, our headed to Preston, England, where they ministered to local students are helping to redesign wheelchairs small business owners struggling underso the bad economy by that they can move efficiently, safely, (and most offering free business workshops. importantly, without breaking) over the rough terrainInofbetween the African landscape. workshops, the group was invited to do a Q&A with some local college students, where they got a chance The team spentwith several Kenya this past to share themweeks aboutinboth business and faith. They also summer working with the kids, doing research, teamed up with a local up-and-coming church to clean up and bringing the love ofas Jesus with at park. And what trash (or rubbish, the Christ Brits call it)them at a local the same time. trip to England would be complete without some authentic fish ‘n chips? At LETU, we want our students to see their 9-5 as a calling, not just a paycheck. We love to see our students using both their personal faith and their academic excellence to show God’s love to others in unique and practical ways.
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Women comprise only 7% of employees in the aviation industry today. When we walk through the halls building, we see much higher numbers than the national average in our classrooms. We are extraordinar female aviation students. They don’t see glass ceilings. In fact, they don’t see any ceilings and prefer to c their office. And like Amelia Earhart, they don’t let anything get in the way of their dreams. It’s worth no Tourneau University was the recipient of the Loening Trophy, which is the highest award any collegiate av can receive. Oh, did we mention that Amelia Earhart was one of the two judges when the very first Loen awarded? The other was Charles Lindbergh. We think Amelia would be proud of our female aviators. We
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At LETU, our professors are more than just information faucets. They’re quirky characters with their own amazing (and often inspiring) life stories – and they hale from all corners of the globe.
Dr. Kelly Liebengood Have you ever met a college football player, turned Chilean youth minister, turned Professor of Theology? Well, we’ve only met one, and his name is Dr. Kelly Liebengood. Dr. Liebengood is more than just a stellar professor. He’s also director of LETU’s Center for Global Service Learning, which facilitates LETU student and faculty research designed to help meet the needs of less-resourced people all over the globe. (You can learn more about that at www.letu.edu/gsl.) …And on top of all that, he can still throw a wicked spiral.
Dr. Steve Ayers Dr. Ayers is a born-and-raised Aussie (and he’s also a pretty fantastic civil engineering professor). God called him to LETU in 2004 while he was still living in his home country (talk about a cross-cultural experience), and he’s been an adopted East Texan ever since. “I really like the hands-on aspect to what we do in LETU engineering,” says Dr. Ayers. “I love teaching in the labs. That environment provides interaction and teaching opportunities not found in a traditional lecture setting. It’s also the point where theory meets the realities of the world. The real world is not as neat as the textbook.”
Most people probably wouldn’t consider programming a competitive sport, but for three LeTourneau students who were invited to the University of Chicago’s 2013 Invitational Programming Contest, it is. This contest was open only to teams who already qualified for the 2013 ICPC world finals, which the LETU team qualified for last year when they took first place in the 2012 South Central USA Regional ICPC. Even up against stiff competition from universities like Stanford, MIT, and Columbia, the LETU team still managed to earn themselves an honorable mention. They won’t be resting anytime soon, though. The team is already planning for their next competition: the ICPC World Finals, which will be held from June 30 - July 4 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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A few stormclouds will never dampen the spirit of the YellowJacket soccer team. Regardless of the weather, they are fierce on the playing field. This game in particular was, well, just a litttttttle bit soggy. The winning spirit isn’t limited to the soccer fields, though. At LeTourneau, you have your choice of 13 intercollegiate sports including men’s and women’s soccer, basketball, tennis, cross country, baseball, softball, volleyball, golf—and that’s not to mention the insanely cool new club Rugby team.
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Uncommon professionalism and success is common on every playing field at LeTourneau. Though not the most strenuous of sports, golf requires the combination of brains, dexterity, and talent: three things our students all possess.
LETU student Leslie Lee was honored with an LETU championship ring for winning two consecutive American Southwest Conference Championship golf tournaments for the LeTourneau women’s golf team.
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University Don’t believe us that this building is really coming soon? Just labs are notorious for running mice through mazes. Well, we do that with robots. As a part of Intro to go to http://campaign.letu.edu/live.html Microcontrollers class, LETU students build robots capable U T E
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At LETU, we’re all about hands-on, do-it-yourself learning. We know the best learning comes from more than just textbooks. So whether our students want to create robots, design optic panels or build bridges, they have plenty of chances to learn to be the very best they can be – by doing!
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Prayer is powerful, and at LETU, we recognize that. That’s why every year when hundreds of alumni make the trek back for Homecoming weekend, we take time out of the day to pray for the future of our university. Since the campus is set up around a loop, faculty, staff, alumni and students get together to surround the whole school in prayer.
To find out more about the spiritual life on campus, go to: www.letu.edu/spirituallife
Every year, hundreds of LETU seniors march onto the Belcher Center stage as humble students and walk away as real deal, diploma-and-all college grads. “Graduation is about more than just a diploma. It’s about validating all the sleepy mornings I spent in class hunched over a cup of coffee, all the late night study sessions (even the ones I used as an excuse to hang out with my friends), all the mini heart attacks caused by my malfunctioning alarm clock and all the Saturdays that I spent in the library when catching up on my favorite TV show sounded reeeaaalllyyy tempting. Every graduate walks away with a diploma, but we also walk away with something greater: an education that will take us places. Yeah, it’s a lot of work, but in the end, it will all be worth it.” — Sara Shipley, Soon-To-Be-Class of 2013-Graduate
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Campus: LeTourneau University’s traditional 162-acre campus is located in Longview, Texas. Enrollment: Nearly 3,000 students. More than1,300 of these students attend classes at our Longview campus. Residence Halls: Living options are single-gender and include suites, furnished apartments and three society houses for men. Each has cable TV and wireless Internet available in every living area.
Athletics: LeTourneau University offers 13 varsity sports and is a member of the NCAA Division III in the American Southwest Conference. Honors: U.S. News & World Report regularly lists LeTourneau University in the top tier of Comprehensive Masters Level Universities in the Western Region of the United States.
most outstanding all-around collegiate aviation program in the nation. Technology: 100% of academic buildings and all residence halls on campus are wireless internet accessible. Our Students: from 47 states and 30 nations
In 2009, LETU’s aviation program won the rarest and oldest of all collegiate aviation awards — The Loening Trophy, which recognizes the
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