Michigan Tech Makes Capital Outlay Proposals to State

At its regular meeting on Oct. 16, Michigan Technological University’s Board of Trustees approved three capital outlay proposals for fiscal year 2017.  The proposals are for

• A Health Sciences and Medical Engineering Building.
• Student-maker spaces to encourage students to actively participate in hands-on design, construction, characterization and testing of products and materials, and studying and modifying the behavior of natural and built systems.
• A Net-Positive Exergy Microgrid Research Building.

State universities submit capital outlay proposals annually. Not all proposals are funded. Funding includes state and university contributions.  The Great Lakes Research Center (GLRC) at Michigan Tech is a capital outlay proposal that was funded.

The Health Sciences and Medical Engineering building would comprise 125,000 square feet of new and renovated space at an estimated cost of $52 million. It would strategically support Michigan Tech’s investment in human health research, bringing together key faculty from biomedical engineering, kinesiology and integrated physiology, chemistry and other disciplines. This would enable Tech’s health-related researchers and educators to work together in a synergistic engineering and science environment to train future practitioners and to develop innovative health treatments, practices and devices.

The building is a high priority because of the growing numbers of health-related researchers at Michigan Tech and the recently established multi-million dollar Community Health Partnership between the Portage Health Foundation and the University.

See the full story, including other actions taken by the Board of Trustees, at  http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2015/october/michigan-tech-makes-capital-outlay-proposals-state.html