The formation of the NSM center also stimulates the collaboration between Tech and national research labs. The Air Force base Wright-Patterson has already shown interest in collaborating with us through summer faculty and student visiting program and, furnish us with new grant opportunities. The Computational Fluid Dynamics Team has achieved wide recognition for its efforts in use of direct numerical simulation techniques with multigrid refinement in analysis of turbulent and transitional 3-D flows . In addition to these significant interdisciplinary activities, there are numerous important research areas . These include the Electrical Energy Research Center which has extensive experience in solving power and machinery problems for the electric power and other industries .
Work is underway on understanding asphalt behavior and design as well as other materials .
An extensive study in the behavior of rock seed filters is underway in civil engineering . Traffic engineering and transportation studies have been conducted for several years . Expertise exists in traditional manufacturing, biotechnology, parallel computing, ballistics and projectile penetration, digital signal processing and data compression, neural nets and other areas. Institute for Micromanufacturing . . . We measure things by what we are.