LU Technology & Engineering Club
Purpose
The Liberty University Technology & Engineering Club seeks to facilitate professional, academic, and personal growth by career effectiveness through the exploration of modern software development, engineering, design, and industry best practices.
What we DO
The Liberty University Technology & Engineering Club, advised by the Chair of Computer Science, is an official, student led club that was formed on the basis example based learning with a mission to foster leadership and teach real world technologies in a fun, code-along, workshop based format.
During the school year, we host weekly workshops in which students code along in various languages, frameworks, and development methodologies. We develop real apps, both front-end and back-end, that demonstrate these technologies in ways the supplement often highly theoretical and memory-based classes.
From Cloud Technologies to Discord bots, to Facial Recognition, our goal is to go beyond textbook assignments and give students the freedom, resources, and best possible pre-career experience that will build these essential skills and stoke a passion for creativity, collaboration, and innovation.
What we've done
Here are a few of the projects and workshops we've worked on...
Audiobook Generator
Using Python, AWS Polly, and NLTK, we built a tool to turn any text document into hyper-realistic, AI-assisted spoken word.
Student Loan Calculator
With support from the Liberty's Center for Financial Literacy, we built a student loan calculator with Vue.js, and Node.js
Facial Detection and RECOG
Using Python and OpenCV, we taught students the fundamentals for detection vs. recognition, and practical ways that Computer Vision can be used.