Texas Southern University Invests in America’s STEM Future
$31 Million Spearman Technology Building Opens
With the dedication and ribbon
cutting ceremony of the Leonard H.O.
Spearman Technology Building, Texas
Southern University’s Board of Regents,
administrators and faculty officially
launched a $31 million investment in the
University’s current and future STEM
students. The 107,791-square-foot gem
features the latest in technology for
instruction and research, and will help to
offset the inadequacy of STEM education
for African American and Hispanic
students, which currently has a negative
impact on U.S. economic power.
Named after TSU’s fifth president, the
Spearman Technology Building houses
35 state-of –the art labs, such as a full
motion flight simulator lab, a vehicle
emission testing lab, an air traffic control
lab, a high performance computing lab,
a construction lab, a Mini -TranStar lab,
a driving simulation lab, two design
labs, health and nuclear physics labs,
a geotechnical/material testing lab, an
environmental engineering lab, a wireless
sensor networks lab, and various other
engineering, physics, and computer science
labs. The departments of Aviation Science
and Technology, Computer Science,
Engineering Technology, Industrial
Technology, Physics, and Transportation
Studies academic programs will be housed
in the building.
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