Mallen began work on its cutting-edge engine technologies in the late 1980s, carefully designing, testing and refining innovations. The company's research center stands in the shadow of Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia in Charlottesville, roughly 100 miles south of Washington, D.C. Mallen Research has built core in-house competencies in a range of technical fields including high-temperature materials; low-expansion alloys, ceramics, and cermets; finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics; combustion and mixing dynamics; micro-precision manufacturing and metrology; and advanced spool and vane geometry design. Mallen has established itself as the world's leader in advanced vane spool engine technologies -- the path to ultra lightweight and compact, efficient, low vibration, quiet, clean and reliable small-scale power systems of tomorrow.