Louisiana Tech University started the first program in the U. S. in 2005.

Louisiana Tech University, often referred to as Louisiana Tech, LA Tech, or Tech, is a coeducational public research university in Ruston, Louisiana, United States.

Louisiana Tech is designated as a Tier 1 national university by the 2013 U. S. News & World Report college rankings and is the only Tier 1 national university in the nine-member University of Louisiana System.

As a designated space grant college, member of the Southeastern Universities Research Association, member of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, and Carnegie Research University with high research activity ( RU / H ), Louisiana Tech conducts research with ongoing projects funded by agencies such as NASA, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense.

Louisiana Tech is one of only 35 comprehensive research universities in the nation and the only university in Louisiana to be designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education and Research by the National Security Agency ( NSA ) and the United States Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ).

Louisiana Tech University opened as The Industrial Institute and College of Louisiana in 1894 during the Second Industrial Revolution.

The Louisiana Polytechnic Institute became desegregated in the 1960s, and officially changed its name to Louisiana Tech University in 1970.

Louisiana Tech enrolled 11, 581 students in five academic colleges during the Fall 2011 academic quarter including 2, 444 students in the graduate school.

In addition to the main campus in Ruston, Louisiana Tech holds classes at the Louisiana Tech University Shreveport Center, Cyber Innovation Center in Bossier City, and Barksdale Air Force Base.

In 1908, the first natural gas pipeline was constructed to transport gas from Caddo-Pine Island to Shreveport, Louisiana.

In that same year, a major oil pipeline was constructed from Caddo-Pine Island Field to a refinery built and operated by Standard Oil Company of Louisiana in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

In 1994, Centennial Plaza was constructed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Louisiana Tech's founding.

The dome was successfully adopted for specialized uses, such as the 21 Distant Early Warning Line domes built in Canada in 1956, the 1958 Union Tank Car Company dome near Baton Rouge, Louisiana designed by Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc. and specialty buildings like the Kaiser Aluminum domes ( constructed in numerous locations across the US, e. g., Virginia Beach, VA ), auditoriums, weather observatories, and storage facilities.

Toledo Bend Reservoir was constructed in the middle 1960s to provide power and recreation to the Louisiana / Texas border at the Sabine River.

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Nunn of Columbia, Louisiana organized and constructed the North Central Louisiana Fair or Carnival fair barns, and an equine racetrack stadium in 1912.

The newly constructed Poverty Point Reservoir, which hosts the acclaimed Black Bear Golf Club, is located just north of the town on Louisiana Highway 17 near Warden, Louisiana.

With the growth of Laotian communities in more diverse areas, they have moved to and constructed temples in rural areas, such as Lane Xang Village, located between Lafayette and New Iberia in Louisiana.

Naturally, in Louisiana the boats were constructed of cypress, but suitable natural lumber is no longer readily available.

After years of planning and fundraising, the Southeastern Louisiana University Center was constructed.

Located in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri, the Museum's three-story building was constructed as the Palace of the Fine Arts for the 1904 World's Fair, also known as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

Floating Island Environmental Solutions, a company based out of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, creates floating islands constructed from matrix sheets, derived from non-woven 100 % recycled PET plastic which mimic naturally occurring wetlands.

The Grambling science building is one of twenty-six public structures in Louisiana constructed by the contractor George A. Caldwell.

The facility was originally constructed in 1940 at the village of Michoud, Louisiana by Higgins-Tucker division of Higgins Industries under the direction of Andrew Jackson Higgins on behalf of the United States government for the war production during World War II to make plywood C-46 cargo planes and landing craft.

Beginning with the construction of Watson Brake about 3400 BCE in present-day Louisiana, nomadic indigenous peoples started building earthwork mounds in North America nearly 1000 years before the pyramids were constructed in Egypt.

Watson Brake in Louisiana, constructed about 3500 BCE during the Middle Archaic period, is the oldest dated mound complex in North America and the present-day United States.

The railroad was constructed and initially operated under the leadership of William Buchanan, a prosperous timberman with extensive investments in southwest Arkansas and northwest Louisiana.

The society operates St. Augustine High School in New Orleans, Louisiana, an historically black high school, constructed by the Archdiocese of New Orleans in 1951.

The first fort on this location " San Felipe ", was constructed in the 18th century during the Spanish control of Louisiana.

For a number of years Kentucky, Louisiana and several other states have been building state-sponsored vocational education schools that serve nearby school districts in several counties.

From the time of Napoleon and building the Louisiana road, the road transport in Croatia has significantly improved, topping most European countries.

* 1935 – US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed " Kingfish ", is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.

* November 30 – At the Cabildo building in New Orleans, Spanish representatives Governor Manuel de Salcedo and the Marqués de Casa Calvo, officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to French representative Prefect Pierre Clément de Laussat ( just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase ).

** Built for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis and the only major building of the fair built as a permanent structure.

The Main Campus at Louisiana Tech University originated in 1894 as a plot of land with only two buildings, The Old Main Building and a frame building nearby used by the Department of Mechanics ( the forerunner of the College of Engineering and Science ).

The oldest existing building on Louisiana Tech's campus is the Ropp Center.

This two-story building was built in the 1920s as one of three dining halls at Louisiana Tech.

Louisiana Tech has announced plans to construct a new College of Engineering and Science building adjacent to Bogard Hall.

In 2010, Louisiana Tech finished the renovations of the old Visual Arts Building by transforming that building into the new Entrepreneurship and Innovation ( E & I ) Center.

Louisiana Tech broke ground on Tech Pointe, the first building on the Enterprise Campus, in 2010.

Upon completion of the new College of Engineering and Science building, Louisiana Tech plans to renovate and improve Bogard Hall.

The building will provide new classrooms, shops, and meeting rooms for engineering, science, and math students at Louisiana Tech.

* Hermione ( Tallulah, Louisiana ), a Greek Revival building built in 1855 in Tallulah, Louisiana

Peter Youree, who commissioned the first skyscraper in Shreveport, Louisiana, a 10-storey headquarters building for the Commercial National Bank, of which he was president, was born in Lafayette County in 1843 and grew up there.

The Old First National Bank Building in downtown Leesville, Louisiana | Leesville, LA, now the new Courthouse Annex building. Leesville has been the parish seat of Vernon since the parish was created, though it wasn't incorporated until February 15, 1900.

Long spent the intervening four years building his reputation and his political organization, including supporting Catholic candidates to build support in south Louisiana, which was heavily Catholic due to its French and Spanish heritage.

He built a new Governor's Mansion and the new Louisiana State Capitol, at the time the tallest building in the South.

After the Great Depression many men of the town were forced to find work in other fields including logging, levee building, and the growing petroleum industry in Louisiana.

In 2003, the Louisiana State Legislature moved to convert the main building of Mansfield Female College, the Lyceum, into a future museum.