Year: 2020

Congratulations to Max Teddy, recipient of the 2020 Fall Outstanding Graduate Lab Assistant Award. Civil undergraduate students select the winner of this coveted award each semester. In addition to the Outstanding Graduate Lab Assistant, Max was also the inaugural winner of the Civil Engineering Above and Beyond Award selected by the Civil Engineering Honors and […]

Professor Melissa Sternhagen has been an essential part of the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering since she arrived in 2008. She began teaching the core sophomore level classes, Statics, Dynamics, and more recently Structural Mechanics, courses recognized as the foundation of civil engineering. Even though teaching Statics and Dynamics may not be the most exciting courses […]

Greetings from Clemson’s Glenn Department of Civil Engineering to our alumni, friends, students, and colleagues across the globe.  2020 has been anything but 2020.  We have gone through a lot in a single year.  From adapting to learning and discovery under the cloud of a pandemic to absorbing the severe financial impacts on our operations.  […]

Congratulations to Dr. Naser co-author of Structural Fire Engineering. This hands-on guide clearly explains the complex building codes and standards that relate to fire design and presents hands-on techniques engineers can apply to prevent or mitigate the effects of fire in structures. Dedicated chapters discuss specific procedures for steel, concrete, and timber buildings. You will […]

Clemson University’s Civil Engineering Society, Chi Epsilon, initiated Gerald M. Glenn as a Chapter Honor Member on Friday, November 13, 2020. Glenn is a 1964 graduate of the department. Throughout his career, he served as chairman, president and CEO of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company B.V. — a multinational engineering, procurement and construction company. […]

Dr. Rangaraju has served this summer (Summer 2020) as a Office of Naval Research Senior Faculty Fellow in collaboration with Researchers at Naval Facilities and Expeditionary Warfare Center (NavFac EXWC) to address the durability problems in Naval concrete infrastructure triggered by the presence of a Iron Sulfide mineral (Pyrrhotite) contamination in natural aggregate sources used […]

While at Clemson,  Dr. Brown was a tireless worker who excelled in everything he did.  A paper based on his dissertation work won the Best Student Paper Award presented at the 2016 AASHTO GIS-T Symposium.  Kweku was also a 2-time winner of our Department’s Best Teaching Assistant Award.  He is a past-President of Clemson’s ITE […]

Amal Ponathil, a Ph.D. student in the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering, was awarded the Student Member with Honors at the 2020 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society’s annual meeting. The award, established in 1999, acknowledges students who have made an outstanding contribution to the discipline or to HFES during their tenure as a student. He […]

COLUMBIA, SC- Luther Franklin Fant (“Luke”) crossed over to glory on April 11, 2020. He was born in Fayetteville, NC on May 30, 1934 to the late Paul Lee and Macie Height Fant. After his mother’s death when he was 2, he was raised by his uncle and aunt, Samuel and Florence Williams. When he […]

This spring, COVID-19 is bringing a new normal to all of us.  Virtually every educational institution, elementary school to university classroom has had to make changes in the way we complete our academic mission.  As most of you know, Clemson University is delivering course content online.  This decision was made to protect the health of […]