Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

Inducted into the Order of the Engineer

Congratulations to the department’s recent inductees into the Order of the Engineer. The faculty and students who were inducted were very excited to join the Order of Engineer at Clemson University held on November 7, 2024. We are proud of you, and we know that you will make valuable contributions to our community and the […]

You’re Invited! Seminar and reception honoring Dr. Tom Keinath

  Hello Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences Alumni, This is a special announcement about an exciting event! Fifty years ago, Dr. Tom Keinath joined Clemson University and the Department of Environmental Systems Engineering as an assistant professor and went on to have a lasting impact on Clemson and the environmental engineering profession.   To mark […]

EEES Welcomes 3 New Faculty in the Fall Semester

We are delighted to announce that we hired three faculty during the spring semester who will join EEES during the fall. Dr. Diana Vanegas is our newest hire for the Biosystems Engineering program.  She earned her Ph.D. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from the University of Florida.  Most recently, she served as an Assistant Professor […]

Geology undergraduates present research to international audience at GSA

Our geology students represented Clemson well at the 2018 Geological Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, on November 4-7. Alexandra Staub, Hailey Mundell, and Stephanie Hibberts presented posters of their undergraduate research projects in front of an international audience of geoscience professionals at GSA. GSA is a professional society with the mission […]

Supercomputer Upgrade to Benefit Nuclear Materials Research

Clemson University’s acclaimed supercomputer, the Palmetto Cluster, will be receiving a $1 million upgrade funded by the National Science Foundation. Lindsay Shuller-Nickles’ research group is a heavy user of Clemson University’s Palmetto cluster, which ranks in the top eight U.S. academic supercomputers according to the Top 500 ranking.  The supercomputer enables Dr. Shuller-Nickles and her […]

Student Sarah Donaher reflects on Clemson Experience

May 2017 graduate, Sarah Donaher, was featured in a university video that highlights four students’ reflections on their time at Clemson. Sarah received a BS in Environmental Engineering and will continue her education as an NSF graduate fellow in Environmental Engineering and Science.

Molz represents Clemson at International Rheology Conference

Dr. Fred Molz, Research Professor and Distinguished Scientist Emeritus, was a featured speaker at the International Conference on Rheology and Fluid Mechanics in Alicante, Spain. The conference, which took place November 10-11, 2016, had the theme “Unifying Statics and Dynamics of Fluids.” Dr. Molz gave the keynote presentation entitled “An Exploratory Mathematical Analysis of Deterministic […]

Karanfil and Selbes win best paper award from the American Water Works Association

An article published by Dr. Tanju Karanfil and his former doctoral student, Meric Selbes, was selected by the American Water Works Association (AWWA) as the 2016 recipient of the AWWA Membrane Treatment Best Paper. The article is entitled “Optimization of Coagulation Pretreatment Conditions in a Ceramic Membrane System.” It was published in the December 2015 […]