Institute for Advanced Materials & Manufacturing
UT Research Park celebrated the groundbreaking of Innovation South, which will be the new home of UT’s Fibers and Composites Manufacturing Facility. UT will occupy a 40,000-square-foot high bay and laboratory space designed to support teams of faculty, students and their industry collaborators who will work together to conceptualize, prototype and test sustainable composite materials for advanced manufacturing applications.
UT is a core partner on a new NSF Engines Development Program award aimed to create a diverse innovation and talent development hub that secures US competitiveness in next-generation manufacturing and supply chain logistics, supports closed-cycle manufacturing to reduce waste, and increases efficiencies across sectors including automotive, aerospace, energy, food and beverage, and materials.
UT and Volkswagen Group of America Inc. have announced plans to accelerate their longstanding research partnership through new programming. Plans include expanding PhD and undergraduate opportunities and adding new research projects.
Cecile Grubb is a Volkswagen PhD Fellow, part of a program that provides funding and real-world research experience for graduate students.
Professor Hanno Weitering and Associate Professor Steve Johnston led a team that discovered silicon can host a form of superconductivity, which could bring quantum technologies closer to industrial scale production.
UT and AT&T dedicated the new AT&T 5G Lab—enabling research for multiple sectors such as precision agriculture, transportation, and telemedicine—at the UT Research Park at Cherokee Farm.
