From: Jeff Ogden Sent: Mon, May 29, 2017 11:23 am Subject: Engineering Research Institute The work on MIDAC was done by the Willow Run Research Center within U-M's Engineering Research Institute. I was curious about where the Engineering Research Institute was located within the administrative structure at U-M. So I did a little poking around and found an article that contains the answers. It is complicated as arrangements changed over time. In 1946-47 the Engineering Research Institute started out as the Aeronautical Research Center within the Department of Engineering Research of the College of Engineering and Architecture. In 1948 the the activity was renamed the Engineering Research Institute, still within the College of Engineering, but with somewhat of a larger University-wide focus. By 1951 when the work on MIDAC started, the Engineering Research Institute was "a University enterprise responsible for the administration of contract research in engineering, the physical sciences, architecture, forestry, and such other fields as might appropriately be included.” The institute was governed by an "Engineering Research Council with the Assistant Provost as chairman; other members were the Dean of the Graduate School, ex officio, and six members of the University Senate appointed by the Regents on the recommendation of the President, of whom at least three were to be members of the faculty of the College of Engineering." -Jeff The following is taken from "History of the University of Michigan College of Engineering Research Institute” http://um2017.org/2017_Website/History_of_Engineering_Research_Institute.html Also see: |
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