Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering Nihad Dukhan was an invited plenary speaker at the International Conference on Heat and Mass Transfer inside Porous Media: Fundamentals and Applications held in Xi’an, China, on Nov. 7-10. In his talk, “An Engineering Model for Heat Transfer in Metal-Foam Heat Sinks,” Dukhan described a new engineering model for heat transfer in metal foams that he developed from first principles using the concept of thermal resistance network.