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ASU electrical engineering master’s student Shreenidhi Anand walks through a cleanroom holding a wafer at MacroTechnology Works. Photographer: Samantha Chow/ASU

ASU and Applied Materials open MTF Center to fuel chip innovation

Fulton Schools plays critical role in $270M Tempe hub that unites academic discovery with industrial-scale tools to fast-track next-generation semiconductor innovations.

An illustration of an industrial fuel pipeline. A team of Arizona State University researchers, including faculty members in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU, is developing innovative robotics and systems powered by artificial intelligence, or AI, for fuel pipeline inspections. The systems will allow infrastructure experts to access pipelines once considered impossible to inspect, enabling safety checks that are long overdue. Image courtesy of whitestorm/Adobe Stock and generated using AI

Smarter fuel pipelines, safer communities

Backed by the National Science Foundation, Fulton Schools faculty are creating soft robots and AI tools to inspect aging fuel pipelines.

Jiefeng Sun, an assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University (pictured in his campus lab), has received a $375,000 National Science Foundation grant for research that could lead to products that sense their surroundings and adapt their form. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU

Will robots ever adapt to their environment?

ASU researcher to discover how to make products capable of changing shape to achieve certain outcomes.

Accelerating the flow of discovery

ASU’s Mohamed Houssem Kasbaoui is revolutionizing fluid dynamics simulations, cutting computation from months to hours to accelerate innovation.

The real reason we sweat

ASU Assistant Professor Rykaczewski reveals the key to optimizing cooling in extreme heat in a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Uncovering psoriasis’s root cause

ASU researcher Jordan Yaron received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to uncover the root cause of psoriasis.

ASU Engineering introduces new faculty for 2025–26

The Fulton Schools is continually growing its teaching and research enterprise to increase the scope and impact of its educational programs and research initiatives.

Yi “Max” Ren (left) and Yang Jiao (right) look at a laptop screen. Ren, an associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, and Jiao, a professor of materials science and engineering, are both faculty members in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. The researchers have been granted $465,000 in funding by the National Science Foundation to use artificial intelligence to study the relationship between a material’s microstructure and its properties. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU

ASU researchers to unlock materials design efficiency

Two ASU researchers earn an NSF grant to develop an AI model capable of reasoning beyond information published in literature, which has never been done before.

Seth Ariel Tongay, a professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, has received a series of grants from global microelectronics powerhouse, Applied Materials, to develop innovative new materials to help the company create the next generation of microchips. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU

Tiny chips, big innovations

Seth Ariel Tongay is creating next-generation microchips, atom by atom, to power faster, cooler, smarter tech for AI, quantum computing and beyond.

Pictured left to right: Sandhya Susarla, assistant professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, is shown with her students, Sriram Sankar, Patrick Hays and Mahir Manna, in a microscopy lab at ASU. She recently received the 2025 Society Awards from the Microscopy Society of America, the highest early career honor in the field of microscopy. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU

Spearheading next wave of human flourishing

ASU researcher receives the 2025 Society Award for paving the way for unprecedented discoveries in quantum computing.