A team including Professors Timothy Fisher and Xianfan Xu has shown how to grow tiny cylinders called carbon nanotubes onto the surfaces of computer chips to enhance the flow of heat at a critical point where the chips connect to cooling devices.

Professors Suresh Garimella and Timothy Fisher have demonstrated a new technology using tiny "ionic wind engines" that might dramatically improve computer chip cooling, possibly addressing a threat to future advances in computers and electronics.

ME researchers are perfecting a technique for manufacturing parts that have complex shapes and precision internal features by depositing layers of powdered materials, melting the powder with a laser and then immediately machining each layer.

Professor Qingyan Chen is developing a system that uses mathematical models and sensors to locate passengers releasing hazardous materials or pathogens inside airline cabins.

Professor Gregory Shaver and colleagues have created the first computational model to track engine performance from one combustion cycle to the next for a new type of engine that could dramatically reduce oil consumption and the emission of global-warming pollutants.