Mechanical Engineering

2015 Thomas Green Clemson Award for Excellence

Congratulations to Dr. Sherrill Biggers! Dr. Biggers has won the 2015 Thomas Green Clemson Award for Excellence. He joined the Department in 1989 after 11 years with Lockheed-Martin where he was manager of NASA composite programs in Burbank. Prior to that, he was on the faculty at the University of Kentucky for 8 years. He […]

CES 2015 Staff Awards

Congratulations! Teri Garrett has won the Dean’s Classified Staff Award, and Janeen Putman has won the Hattie B. Wagener Endowed Classified Staff Award.

Clemson Engineering Design Expo – Fall 2015

Check out how students in ME 4010 have helped elementary students gain an interest in STEAM by designing/building equipment to provide a hands-on learning experience. Clemson CES news story: http://newsstand.clemson.edu/mechanical-engineering-class-brings-together-service-education-and-research/?utm_source=ces&utm_medium=homepage More pictures from the expo can be found here: https://flic.kr/s/aHskqVreKF

ME H4150 Presentations – Fall 2015

Pictures from the Fall 2015 ME H4150 (Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Honors Research) poster session and final oral presentations.

Midway Elementary School – “Morning STEAM”

On October 16th ME students visited Midway Elementary School in Anderson, SC to volunteer with their “Morning STEAM” program. During their visit they helped the elementary students make something that could fly/glide.

ME Graduate Poster Competition – Fall 2015

The 2015 ME Graduate Poster competition was held Oct. 23. The posters were grouped in three categories: (1) 1 year or less on the project, (2) More than 1 year and less than 2.5 years on the project, and (3) Greater than 2.5 years on the project. They were displayed in the Fluor Daniel atrium […]

Inexpensive and robust microfluidic devices using xurography

Graduate students Monsur Islam and Rucha Natu with Professor Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte of the Multiscale Manufacturing Laboratory, published a study on the limitations of using a relatively inexpensive commercial cutter plotter in the development of microfluidic devices. Xurography, or the use of a blade to pattern a film, has been used to fabricate devices out of […]

EUREKA! Students make carbon origami

Haley Meier and McKinnon Reece participated in the EUREKA! Program in the Multiscale Manufacturing Laboratory (www.multiscalemanufacturing.net) during the Summer of 2015. Under the mentoring of Professor Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte and doctoral student Monsur Islam, these incoming freshmen developed a process to fabricate origami shapes out of carbon and carbon composites. The process exploits the fact that […]

Clemson University and Tecnologico de Monterrey partnership

On April 27th Professors Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte and Hugo Sanabria, from Mechanical Engineering and Physics, and Didier Rousseliere from Global Partnerships and Initiatives visited Tecnologico de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico. The purpose of the visit was to further a Memorandum of Understanding between these two institutions. Tecnologico de Monterrey is one of the top technical institutions […]

ME professors contribute to textbook chapters

Drs. Georges Fadel, Gregory Mocko, and Joshua Summers contributed to a chapter in “Impact of Design Research on Industrial Practice“. The book was published by Springer and edited by Amaresh Chakrabarti and Udo Lindemann. Overview of chapter: This chapter summarizes many years of design research at Clemson University and their impact on industrial practice. It shows how […]

Clemson ME and ECE students participate in the Boeing AerosPACE program

Twelve students from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University are participating in the 2015-2016 Boeing AerosPACE program. The AerosPACE is a multi-disciplinary, multi-university collaborative capstone program bringing together stakeholders from industry, academia and government to build core competencies for the next generation of aerospace innovators […]