The Milwaukee Institute, a nonprofit computational research center, will add to its computing offerings and facilitate more training courses with a $750,000 grant it has received from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.
Grant funds will support the center’s resources related to advanced modeling, simulation, visualization and data analytics software along with training courses relevant to technical software engineering.
Funds will benefit engineers, entrepreneurs and researchers wanting to sharpen their applied technical software engineering skills, boost their innovation efforts, become better versed in applied data science and contribute to the engineering of new products and services.
The Milwaukee Institute largely functions to support the region’s technology-focused industrial clusters, including the Global Water Center, Midwest Energy Research Consortium, BioForward, Food and Beverage Wisconsin, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Innovation Accelerator. The center also coaches incubators and accelerators, such as The Commons, WARD4, BREW, GlobalECollective, VETransfer, WERCBench Labs and BizStarts.
“Supporting key clusters such as water technology, energy, food and beverage, and bioscience is a key part of WEDC’s long-term strategy of helping businesses grow and create new jobs,” Reed Hall, secretary and chief executive officer of WEDC, said in an announcement. “The enabling technologies, digital expertise and software engineering expertise of the Milwaukee Institute are considered critical to successful execution of that strategy.”
The recent grant is the second that the Milwaukee Institute has garnered from WEDC. The economic development organization previously pledged $250,000 toward a challenge grant program that gave $50,000 to five Wisconsin companies to help them accelerate their commercial research and development programs.