SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY RECEIVES ENGINEERING GRANT FOR $3,995

Southeast Missouri State University has received a $3,995 grant from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).

The award was made through SME's Manufacturing Engineering Education Foundation.

The award is part of the $1,614,155 in cash grants, in-kind gifts and special awards presented to 68 universities and technical institutions this year.

The grant for Southeast provides computer software, sponsored by Autodesk Inc., for the industrial technology program.

Since its inception in 1979, the SME foundation has awarded over $4 million in cash and nearly $5 million in equipment and software grants to 264 different schools to promote manufacturing engineering programs in colleges and universities throughout North America, SME officials said.

The SME grants are awarded each year to spur new developments in manufacturing technology and productivity and to further manufacturing engineering as an educational discipline.

SME, headquartered in Dearborn, Mich., is an international professional society dedicated to advancing scientific knowledge in the field of manufacturing engineering and management. Founded in 1932, SME has 80,000 members in 72 countries and sponsors over 350 senior chapters and 200 student chapters worldwide.