The Iowa Stater
May 1996
Success story
Engineering Animation Inc., Ames, is a most visible tech transfer success story at Iowa State. With a new building under construction near campus, a growing workforce of more than 180 and its computer animations popping up all over the country -- including in investigations of O.J. Simpson and the Oklahoma City bombing -- it's no wonder that when the company went public in March, it was a darling of Wall Street.EAI was founded in 1988 by Iowa State professors Jim Bernard and Martin Vanderploeg and graduate students Jeff Trom and Jay Shannan. Based in Ames, EAI continues to interact with Iowa State, drawing many students as employees and collaborating with ISU experts to make computer visualization a distinctly Midwestern-grown technology.
ISU's Center for Advanced Technology Development currently is funding a portion of an EAI project to develop a human body database. The database will allow the flaying of a human body -- from skin, to muscle, to tendons, to bones -- on computer. The result will be a "wired cadaver" for medical education and multi-media applications.
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