The new Engineering Department at Benedictine College recently received a major boost from the W. M. Keck Foundation; a $250,000 grant. The award follows a $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation in August 2010. The new money will immediately allow for the construction of a combined lab that will include fluid flow, heat transfer and process control. In addition to allowing for expansion and construction of lab space, the two grants have significantly accelerated the overall program, according to Dr. Darrin Muggli, professor and chair of the Benedictine College Engineering Department.
"We established the engineering program through a partnership with the University of North Dakota," said Muggli. "The NSF grant helped us to build a distance-learning classroom and purchase equipment for our first lab. This Keck Foundation grant will provide the funds to establish a fluids lab and rapidly develop our engineering program."
Muggli said interest in engineering at Benedictine has continued to grow and applications to the program are up 60% from the previous year.
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