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When you support our research group, you do something rare and powerful:
you buy time for careful, curiosity-driven scholarship—and you put that time directly into students’ hands.
Thanks to generous donors, we’ve already accomplished work that typical grants rarely value:
A full graduate-level textbook on flight simulation—written, refined, and used in the classroom.
A pipeline to publish a new monograph on lifting-line theory, an old but still-essential pillar of aerodynamics.
Dedicated time to prepare and publish unreleased work by Warren F. Phillips, preserving a valuable scholarly legacy.
These gifts don’t fund gadgets or lab showpieces. They fund minds.
Why your gift matters
You fund time—not bureaucracy.
Universities today often chase large, short-horizon funding. That can produce activity without insight. Your gift lets us focus on the hard, slow thinking that advances the field.You accelerate open, lasting scholarship.
We write books, release methods, and publish results that others can build on for years—not just one grant cycle.You support students first.
We’re a computational group. We don’t spend heavily on hardware. That means your dollars go almost entirely to students and scholarship:$33,000/year funds a full PhD student.
$25,000/year funds a full MS student.
You preserve a legacy.
Warren F. Phillips’s unpublished work deserves to be edited, archived, and shared. Your support helps ensure important ideas aren’t lost.
A better model for discovery
History is full of breakthroughs born from focus—not funding:
The Wright brothers developed controlled, powered flight from a bicycle shop, driven by relentless experimentation rather than large grants.
Gregor Mendel’s careful pea-plant experiments reshaped biology from a modest monastery garden.
Srinivasa Ramanujan advanced mathematics through deep personal study, long before formal support arrived.
Great research often starts with conviction, careful work, and the freedom to pursue the right problem. That’s the freedom your gift creates.
What your gift makes possible
Student Fellowships: Sponsor a graduate student to work on a fundamental research topic.
Travel & Presentation: Student travel to present results and build networks: $2,000–$3,000 per trip.
Larger or annually-committed gifts can endow named fellowships,
like the Warren F. Phillips Fellowsihp.
Annual Impact Brief
Each year we provide a brief to our generous donors who make this work possible. These presentations are given by the students to help donors understand the progress we have made on the research, and how the student has grown individually throughout the year.
Join Us
If this vision resonates—advancing aerospace by investing in people and ideas—please consider supporting our work. Your gift, at any level, multiplies into student careers, durable scholarship, and tools the community can use.
Let’s talk about a gift that fits your goals.
We can route contributions through the university and align recognition with your preferences (named fellowships, book acknowledgments, or project sponsorships).
Thank you for helping us do the kind of research universities were created to do.
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