March 2008, a team of iMINT professors (Assistant Professor Ronggui Yang of Mechanical Engineering, Professor Kurt Maute of Aerospace Engineeing Sciences and Professor Martin Dunn of Mechanical Engineering) won a 3-year highly competitive AFOSR Discovery Challenge Thruster grant (BAA 2007-08). Yang's team will use the $600K to develop A Design Tool for Nanostructures with Tunable Thermal Properties.