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The State of Research
Fast Facts
UTA inventors received 23 patents in 2022, contributing to the UT System’s overall ranking of No. 3 on the list of Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents.
(National Academy of Inventors & Intellectual Property Owners Association)
Based on typical patterns, spinoff from research at UTA can be expected to generate approximately $158.6 million per year in the North Central Texas Region as well as 1,275 jobs.
(“The Economic and Fiscal Impact of UTA,” Perryman Group 2022)
8th fastest-growing doctoral public institution in the country.
(The Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2022 Almanac)
Restricted and Federal Research Expenditures for fiscal years 2020, 2021, and 2022
UTA Total Research Expenditures by fiscal year, as reported in the THECB RD Expenditure Survey
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Investigating Earth’s ionosphere-thermosphere
A space physicist at UTA is playing a key role in NASA’s Geospace Dynamics Constellation mission aimed at improving our understanding of the planet’s ionosphere-thermosphere (I-T) system.
Quantifying the benefits of roadside vegetation
Construction management Assistant Professor Kyeong Rok Ryu is helping cultivate a better-looking Texas by creating best practices for roadside vegetation.
Evaluating smart traffic signal design
Civil engineer Pengfei “Taylor” Li hopes to make traffic signals smarter with new simulation techniques and big data.