Institute for Future Mobility
Sethuraman Panchanathan, director of the National Science Foundation, visited UT, where he announced a new major research award and celebrated the launch of TEAM TN, a statewide initiative to advance mobility led by UT.
UT and Volkswagen Group of America Inc. are accelerating their partnership and developing technologies to transform the automotive industry and build the workforce of the future. Plans include launching 10 new joint research projects through 2025 and creating additional PhD fellowship and internship positions at Volkswagen.
UT is leading a transformative coalition focused on mobility and funded by the NSF’s Regional Innovation Engines program. TEAM TN, the first initiative of its kind in Tennessee, is focused on inventing and commercializing new transportation systems and technologies.
The new multi-institutional University Transportation Center will unite researchers from across the country to develop innovative technologies and solutions in the freight transportation system and national and global supply chains.
UT is one of six universities to collaborate with AT&T, and this state-of-the-art testbed will host research that supports solutions for telemedicine, transportation, precision agriculture, and other fields.
UT and Volkswagen celebrated the third anniversary of Volkswagen’s first North American Innovation Hub, located at the UT Research Park at Cherokee Farm. Home to leading-edge automotive research, the hub is a success due in part to its place-based innovation and its ability to retain up-and-coming talent like Marton Kardos, a student turned research scientist.
