MELBOURNE, FLA.—University Professor Guy Boy of the Florida Institute
of Technology has earned a $112,500 grant from the Partner University
Fund (PUF) for his project, “Joint research lab on risk management in
life-critical systems.” The project, between
Florida Tech and the Université de Valenciennes, was one of 11 selected
from among 70 applications. Boy is director of the university’s Human
Centered Design Institute.
The grant announcement letter, from the French embassy in New York
reads, in part, “The PUF Grant Review Committee greatly appreciated the
scientific quality of your project and the commitment of your
institution to the partnership.”
The funding will support an exchange of professors. Faculty from the
Université de Valenciennes will teach human-centered design at Florida
Tech and Florida Tech professors will visit France.
The university offers a doctoral degree in human-centered design through its Human-Centered Design Institute (HCDi).
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