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The Clyde Engineering Building is one of the engineering buildings on the Brigham Young University (BYU) campus. It houses the Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering departments. The building is named after Wilford W. Clyde, a Springville, Utah construction business owner and generous donor to BYU. [1]
The Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering represents Brigham Young University's (BYU) engineering discipline and includes departments of chemical, civil, electrical and computer, and mechanical engineering and the school of technology. The college awards about 700 degrees every year (600 BS, 90 MS, 18 PhD) and has almost 3,600 students.
The BYU English Language Center is a Laboratory School operated by the BYU Department of Linguistics and English Language, which is a sub-division of the College of Humanities. The School admits non-English speaking students of college age for intensive courses in English.
Brigham Young University's Foreign Language Student Residence (FLSR) program was established in 1978 as a three-house off-campus residence center dedicated to the study of Russian and Italian. [62] Due to the success of these houses, the program expanded from three houses to one specially-designed complex in 1991. [ 63 ]
The program is headquartered in the George Q. Morris Center. BYU Independent Study began in 1921. BYU's high school level independent study courses are accredited by both the Northwest Accreditation Commission and the Distance Education and Training Council. [8] The program has been praised as an option for home schooling parents. [9]
The BYU Faculty Center is also located in the Student Center. The counseling center was started in 1946 under BYU President McDonald [2] and moved to the WSC upon the building's completion in 1964. When it was first built the Wilkinson Center had an area of 287,539 square feet. The bookstore was expanded in 1974 with an extension further west.
The Harold B. Lee Library (HBLL) is the main academic library of Brigham Young University (BYU) located in Provo, Utah.The library started as a small collection of books in the president's office in 1876 before moving in 1891.
On September 15, 2012, BYU Salt Lake Center held their first tailgate party for the BYU vs. Utah rivalry game. Over three hundred people watched the game on an 18-foot blow up screen and ate hotdogs, BYU brownies, and washed them down with free soda provided by BYU Salt Lake. LDS Business College provided hotdogs and chips to the first 200 people.