Department of Engineering and Technology

Recent Grants

External grants and contracts promote funding to support scholarly faculty as they engage in research and creative activity. Grants provide funding to promote the general good, whereas contracts allow a specific donor to influence a project and incorporate a request for service.

Joseph Langenderfer

Awarded: May 2008 Area of study: Shoulder tears, specifically within rotator cuff muscles
Amount: $15,000 Source: President's Research Investment Fund, CMU
 

Terry Lerch

Awarded: May 2004 Area of study: Heat transfer phenomena in the microclimate located between the skin surface and the internal surface of clothing. Predict heat flow with finite element modeling of the microclimate and verify with temperate measurements from an infrared camera.
Amount: $317,486 Source: National Science Foundation



 

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CMU is the only Michigan university to have a body scanner. CMU's body scanner, purchased with a $317,486 grant from the National Science Foundation, records more than 300,000 data points on the body.