Department of Mechanical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering · University of Alberta

MDAM–MSAM team wins the ITherm 2025 cold plate challenge

Receiving the cold plate challenge award at ITherm 2025
Receiving the cold plate challenge award at ITherm 2025

A joint team from the MDAM Lab and the MSAM Lab at the University of Waterloo won the 2024/2025 ASME K-16 & IEEE EPS Student Cold Plate Design Challenge at ITherm 2025.

The winning design combined additive manufacturing and computational design for thermal management, and was a genuine collaboration between the Waterloo and Alberta teams.

The winning MSAM–MDAM cold plate design: 55% lower weight, equivalent thermal resistance and 26% lower pressure drop