Aug. 12, 2013: ASHRAE Awards First Innovative Research Grants
Goal Is to Encourage More Outside-the-Box HVACR Research
ATLANTA — ASHRAE has awarded projects at Purdue University and Oklahoma State University with a newly created research grant, which provides funding for research having the potential to significantly advance the state-of-the-art in HVACR. The ASHRAE Innovative Research Grant carries a base grant of $50,000 per year for two years, with an additional $25,000 available in the third year if matched by an industrial contributor.
“Our goal with the new grant is to encourage more out-of-the-box research to complement the research proposed and guided now by ASHRAE technical committees,” said T. Agami Reddi, chair of ASHRAE’s Research Administration Committee. “We see it as providing seed money to encourage ‘blue sky research’ that may otherwise not be funded initially through other means.”