Center for Aeromechanics Research (CAR)

Newly Awarded Grants

UT Austin PI: Noel Clemens
CO-PIs: Fabrizio Bisetti, Chad Landis, Philip Varghese, Joseph Koo (ME)
Funding Source: Army Futures Command
Award: $4.3M
Award Date: 2024

UT Austin PI: Thomas Underwood
Funding Source: DARPA
Award: $1M
Award Date: 3/15/2024

UT Austin PI: Thomas Underwood
CO-PIs: C. Buddie Mullins and Graeme Henkelman, Dept. of Chemistry, UT Austin
Funding Source: Samsung Global Research Outreach (GRO)
Award: $150K
Award Date: 1/1/2024 – 12/31/2025

UT Austin PI: Thomas Underwood
CO-PIs: Noel Clemens
Collaborating Institutions: William G. Fahrenholtz, Kristen M. Donnell, Jeremy Watts Institution: Missouri University of Science & Technology Name: Max Burnett Institution: Lockheed Martin
Funding Source: University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics
Award: $1.5 M
Award Date: 2/2024 to 2/2026

UT Austin PI: Fabrizio Bisetti
CO-PIs: Noel Clemens
Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Award: $555K
Award Date: 8/23 – 7/26

Lead PI: Philip L. Varghese
Funding Source: Office of Naval Research
Award: $529,280
Award Date: 7/1/23 – 06/30/26

UT Austin PI: Fabrizio Bisetti
CO-PIs: Thomas Underwood
Funding Source: Energy Institute: Energy Seeds Grant Program
Award Date: 2022-23

UT Austin PI: Efstathios Bakolas
Funding Source: Army Research Laboratory
Award: $165,035
Award Date: 06/22-06/23

UT Austin PI: Noel Clemens
Lead PI: UT San Antonio
Collaborating Institutions: University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Southwest Research Institute
Funding Source: University Consortium on Applied Hypersonics
Award: $1.5M (UT Share $340K)
Award Date: 10/21 – 9/24

UT Austin PI: Efstathios Bakolas
Funding Source: Army Research Lab
Award: $125K

UT Austin PI: Noel Clemens
CO-PIs: Jayant Sirohi, Karen Willcox
Collaborating Institutions: Huston-Tillotson University, University of Michigan, University of Texas at San Antonio, Sandia National Laboratories, Lockheed Martin Corp.
Funding Source: NASA University Leadership Initiative
Award: $3.3M

UT Austin PI: David Goldstein
CO-PIs: Philip Varghese, L. Trafton
Funding Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Award: $45K

UT Austin PI: L. Trafton
CO-PIs: David Goldstein, Philip Varghese
Funding Source: NASA
Award: $569K

UT Austin PI: David Goldstein
CO-PIs: Philip Varghese, L. Trafton
Funding Source: NASA
Award: $521K

UT Austin PI: David Goldstein
CO-PIs: Philip Varghese, L. Trafton
Funding Source: NASA
Award: $495K

UT Austin PI: Efstathios Bakolas
CO-PIs: David Goldstein
Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Award: $461K

UT Austin PI: Thomas Underwood
Funding Source: Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program (YIP)
Award: $450K

UT Austin PI: David Goldstein
CO-PIs: Philip Varghese, A. Mahieux, L. Trafton
Funding Source: NASA
Award: $300K

UT Austin PI: David Goldstein
CO-PIs: Efstathios Bakolas, Saikishan Suryanarayanan
Collaborating Institutions: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Award: $231K