Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

Recruitment at Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers National Convention

Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) National Convention as held on November 1 & 2 at Anaheim, California. SHPE is the largest association in the nation for Hispanics in STEM. Ms. Barbara Smith, Graduate Student Services Coordinator, was at this event recruiting Graduate Students for Admission and Clemson’s STEM-All-IN Graduate Program. This convention attracted over […]

Teaching Kids that Science is fun

Dr. Lindsay Shuller-Nickles and the NuWaDi team hosted a table at the Savannah River Site (SRS) Museum’s 2nd Annual Fall Fission Festival held in Aiken, SC on October 19th. Children of all ages were excited to participate in hands-on activities. The Aiken Standard mentioned in their article that “Science is cool. Science is fun. And […]

Hundreds Attend the 2024 Clemson Hydrogeology Symposium

The 2024 David S. Snipes/Clemson Hydrogeology Symposium had a record number of in-person and online attendees. The annual conference is the largest gathering of professionals focused on hydrogeology in the Southeast U.S. On March 28th, the Madren Center was once again filled to capacity with over 320 in-person attendees and 85 remote attendees. The Symposium […]

Environmental Engineering Represented at Greenville Drive Game

A group of environmental engineering undergraduates represented the department in the 8th Annual Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Night at the Greenville Drive baseball game on July 18, 2023. The students demonstrated water treatment, a core subject area of environmental engineering, using reverse osmosis by creating pure water out of Diet Coke. The event was free […]

Manufacturers and students to connect at sustainability forum in Greenville

The Sustainable Manufacturing Forum, held on March 12, 2020, in Greenville, SC, will held leading manufacturers in Upstate South Carolina increase their environmental sustainability. Dr. David Ladner, associate professor in Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, is helping to organize the event. Read more in the Newsstand article about the event here.

Middle School Students Learn about Radiation and Radioactivity

On February 1, 2020, Dr. Nicole Martinez, Dr. Lindsay Shuller-Nickles, and graduate students Connor Parker and Kathryn Peruski worked together to engage 5th-8th graders as they learned about radiation and radioactivity during STEM Day. STEM Day is an outreach program led by PEER & WISE for underrepresented middle school students in Upstate SC. Wide-eyed students learned […]

Dr. Ladner discusses benefits of the Industrial Assessment Center with SC Public Radio

South Carolina Public Radio recently featured Dr. David Ladner, Associate Professor, discussing the role of Clemson’s Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) in assessing energy costs for South Carolina factories. This is a US Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored program run by six faculty members from Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences (EEES), Industrial Engineering, and Electrical Engineering, […]

Record Attendance at Annual Hydrogeology Symposium

The 26th Annual David S. Snipes/Clemson Hydrogeology Symposium was held on April 12, 2018 at the Madren Conference Center.  This is the largest gathering of professionals focused on hydrogeology in the Southeast U.S.  This year’s attendance broke all previous records with over 450 participants, 31 exhibitors, and 14 sponsors.  Participants came from both government and […]

EEES Participates in Annual Girl Scout Day

Clemson University’s PEER/WISE program hosted their 19th Annual Girl Scout Day this year on April 7th. The theme was “Engineers Make a World of Difference!” and involved about 75 girl scouts (in 4th to 8th grade) rotating through 4 interactive engineering sessions from civil engineering, chemical engineering, environmental engineering, and electrical engineering.  Our department led a […]