Health, Science and Environment

Central Michigan University throws a thermal manikin baby shower

WCMU

Published October 22, 2018 at 5:36 PM EDT

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Lumi dons his CMU gear as he simulates thermetrics system programming.

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Lumi gets changed and prepped to wear his CMU gear.

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Research Lab Coordinator, Susanne M. Wroblewski, holds Lumi as the department presents him during their baby shower.

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Lumi is getting prepped for an example run with the Thermetrics system, the company that created him.

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The baby shower involved voting for the, "baby's" name as well as a onesie design contest.

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Some decorations to capture a traditional, "baby shower" feel during the reveal event.

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The equipment that supports the programming and simulations with Lumi.

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What the programming screen looks like when Lumi is hooked up to his equipment.

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Wroblewski and MacGillivray prep Lumi to be at his stand to show program data when hooked up to his assigned system.

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A blue cake to symbolize Lumi's baby shower.

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Another set of baby decorations to compliment the baby shower during the reveal event.

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Director Maureen S. MacGillivray, Ph. D, stands with Lumi during a question and answer portion of the baby shower in the Engineering Building at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, MI on Oct. 22, 2018.

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Central Michigan University hosted a baby shower Monday to celebrate it’s new baby….manikin.

It’s called a Sweating Baby Thermal Manikin. It will help students design clothes, bedding, and car seats for babies.

This is only the second manikin of its kind to be produced, the other one is in Australia.

Maureen MacGillivray is the director for the Center for Merchandising and Design Technology at CMU. She said students will begin using the manikin right away.

“We’re looking at the car environment, and we’re looking at car seats, and we’ll look at the insulation value of as I said candidate fabrics, we’ll look at natural fibers as well as the synthetic fibers. Most of the car seats right now have the synthetic fibers.”

MacGillivray said the baby’s name is Lumi. It was decided by a campus wide survey.