Mechanical Engineering

ME Alumnus becomes NASCAR crew chief

ME alumnus, Todd Gordon, is the new crew chief of the No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger in the NASCAR Cup Series. [Read More]

Dr. Todd Schweisinger was featured in Clemson’s Newsstand

He was featured in Clemson’s Newsstand article “Clemson students develop arm stabilizer to help nurses draw children’s blood”. The article features his creative inquiry team, who is working on a way to immobilize children’s arms when nurses are drawing blood or inserting IVs. [Read More]

ME named finalist for the 2011 Innovision Awards

Mechanical Engineering was named a finalist in the Innovations in Education catagory for the 2011 Innovisions Awards. The nomination came for an ME 401 class project; where teams of engineering students designed, built and delivered functional wind tunnels as educational platforms for fourth-graders at Anderson’s Midway Elementary School. Dr. Joshua Summers associate professor and the College of Engineering […]

ME Welcomes Three New Faculty in 2012

The faculty and staff of Mechanical Engineering are excited to announce the addition of three new faculty who will be joining us in the next year. They are Drs. Ilenia Battiato, Yue “Sophie” Wang and Huijuan “Jane Zhao. Dr. Ilenia Battiato will be joining ME in March, 2012. Ilenia Battiato is currently a postdoctoral researcher at […]

ME graduates inducted to Thomas Green Clemson Academy

The Thomas Green Clemson Academy of Engineers  and Scientists at Clemson University inducted two ME graduates in 2011. Thomas Gettys, director of research and development for the Michelin Group, who joined the company after earning a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Clemson. Walter Fleming Jones became executive director of the Office of naval Research in […]

Energy for tomorrow Winner 2011

In this year’s Energy for Tomorrow competition, graduate students from top business, environmental, public policy and engineering schools from around the globe were invited to discuss energy innovations in the urban environment and how this will affect consumer behaviour. TIME, FORTUNE and Shell would like to congratulate the winner James Mack. The judges were impressed with his solution […]

SAE Team Wins Arch T. Colwel Merit Award

Congratulations to Beshoy Morkos, Prabhu Shankar, Sudhakar Teegavarpu, Ashwin Michaeelraj and Dr. Joshua Summers on behalf of the Colwel Merit Award Board. We are pleased that their paper, “Conceptual Development of Automotive Forward Lighting System Using White Light Emitting Diodes,” was selected to receive the Arch T. Colwel Merit Award. This award recognizes authors of […]

ASAIO Fellowship

Giovanni Biglino, PhD, Dr. Richard Figliola’s London based post-doc who is at Clemson this spring/summer received the Levitronix ASAIO  Fellowship for Young Investigators for our presentation “A Patient-Specific Paediatric Mock Circulatory System: Investigating the Circulation Following the Norwood Operation,” by G. Biglino, A. Giardino, S. Schievano, A. Taylor, And R. Figliola. Giovanni will be recognized […]

Dr. Mohammed Daqaq receives prestigious NSF Grant, April 2011

Dr. Mohammed Daqaq is the prestigious winner of the NSF Career Grant. The National Science Foundation awarded a grant of $410,000 to Clemson University for support of the project entitled  “Career: Electromechanical Transduction of Vibratory Energy Harvesters in Random and Non-Stationary Environments.

Dr. Mohammed Daqaq Receives 2011 Eugene H. Bishop Award

Congratulations to Dr. Mohammed Daqaq, who received the 2011 Eugene H. Bishop Award. Daqaq was recognized for his exceptional abilities working with students and teaching.The Eugene H. Bishop Award was established by the students of Pi Tau Sigma in 1988 to honor the exceptional accomplishments of Dr. Bishop as a highly respected classroom teacher and educator. Dr. Bishop, […]

Joseph Research Grant

Dr. Paul Joseph received a research grant totaling $18,476. This project, entitled “Development of a Two-Dimensional Non-Pneumatic Compliant Tire Model” is from Michelin Americas R&D Corporation.