Funding Sources

The Institute for Aerospace Studies gratefully acknowledges financial support for its research programs from the following sources that are mentioned, often in abbreviated form, in the research progress areas of our webpage.

  •  “AUTO21” Network of Centres of Excellence
  • Bombardier Aerospace
  • Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
  • Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
  • Center for Research in Earth and Space Technology (CRESTech)
  • Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC Toronto)
  • Defence Research Establishment Suffield (DRES)
  • Defence Research Establishment Val Cartier (DREV)
  • Dynacon Enterprises Ltd.
  • European Space Agency
  • Forschungszentrum, Juelich, Germany
  • Forschungszentrum, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • General Atomics
  • Institute for Aerospace Research
  • Intelligent Sensing for Innovative Structures (ISIS)
  • Joint European Torus (JET)
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • MD Robotics
  • MDS Sciex
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik
  • Maya Heat Transfer Technologies Ltd
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
  • Ontario Innovation Trust (OIT)
  • Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund (ORDCF)
  • Pratt and Whitney Canada (PWC)
  • Premier’s Research Excellence Award Program (PREA)
  • United Kingdom Atomic Energy
  • University of Toronto Connaught Automatic Grant
  • University of Toronto Connaught Seed Support for Research Cluster Program
  • Xiphos Technologies Ltd.

Additional Sponsors for the UTIAS Space Flight Research Program:

Agilent Technologies, Altera, Altium, Analytical Graphics, ARC International, ATI, Autodesk, Cadence, CMC Electronics, E Jordan Brooks, EDS, Emcore, Encad, Honeywell, Integrated Systems, Micrografx, National Instruments, Raymond EMC, Rogers Microwave Materials, SDRC, Stanford University