While CURF currently supports projects on infrastructure issues, chemical processing, information technology and robotics, its most visible work recently has been in biomedical engineering. As a major research and teaching direction for the new millennium, the School of Engineering recently announced the Center for Biomedical Engineering. Under the auspices of CURF, the Center will focus on the design of orthopaedic implants and prosthetics. Biomedical engineering is a favorite interdisciplinary field of study for engineering undergraduates, and Biomaterials and Biomechanics are among the most popular engineering electives at Cooper. In fact, in the last decade, at least 40 students earned master's degrees in biomedical engineering. Over the past several years, Cooper has received more than $1.3 million in external funding for bioengineering. These funds have helped the College acquire a Bionix 858 Materials Testing System. In related design equipment, the engineering school also maintains a gait analysis laboratory with a B&K Type 440A Gaiting System, a chemical engineering laboratory with a computer-controlled dual-mode biofermenter (for producing hormones and antibodies), a video microscopy laboratory with a cellular activity video imaging system, and robotics and acoustics laboratories.