Mechanical Engineering

Year: 2016

ME Holiday Greetings

December 13, 2016

From our family to yours in this holiday season, we wish you health, happiness, peace and prosperity.

Mechanical engineering seniors create equipment for elementary schools

December 7, 2016

Students from three elementary schools and one middle school visited Clemson University on Dec. 2 as part of a program that gives mechanical engineering majors a chance to design and build equipment while doing some good for the community and learning to interact with clients.

ME creative inquiry project featured in Tire Technology International magazine

December 7, 2016

The November 2016 issue of Tire Technology International magazine featured a story about one of our creative inquiry projects. The project is titled “Development of Sand Traction Concepts” and is led by Dr. Joshua Summers, a professor of mechanical engineering and a co-director of the Clemson Engineering Design Applications and Research (CEDAR) Group.

ME graduate student places 2nd in AES poster competition

December 5, 2016

Rucha Natu, a PhD mechanical engineering student, placed 2nd in the poster session at the annual meeting of the AES Electrophoresis Society. Her poster was titled “Numerical model of streaming dielectrophoresis for stem cell sorting” and was selected among 25 posters. She is under the advisement of Dr. Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering. […]

Alumni Minute Challenge

December 5, 2016

For the ME Alumni Minute Challenge, we tasked our alumni to record a short video (around a minute in length) talking about their Clemson experience and how it was “more than just research.” All of the videos can be found in a playlist on our department’s YouTube channel. Videos Recorded Dr. Beshoy Morkos Dr. Wenshan […]

ME Graduate Poster Competition – Fall 2016

November 30, 2016

The 2016 ME Graduate Poster competition was held during the week of Oct. 17 – 21. The posters were grouped in three categories: (1) Working on research less than 3 semesters; (2) Working on research more than 3 semesters but less than 6 semesters; and (3) Working on research more than 6 semesters. They were […]

Clemson and USC come together to help the state live more sustainably

November 18, 2016

Michelin is bringing together Clemson University and the University of South Carolina to create an independent study course that will give students real-world experience in industrial sustainability. Students will have a chance to find new ways of using solid waste products associated with tire manufacturing. Their findings could have an impact on the entire tire […]

‘Relentless’ mechanical engineer receives Hitachi fellowship

November 11, 2016

A highly accomplished doctoral candidate who has been described as relentless in the lab and has studied under a high-ranking engineer in India’s Department of Science and Technology is the recipient of a fellowship that pays for a full year of graduate school at Clemson University.

Siemens provides Clemson with largest in-kind technology grant in university history

November 11, 2016

Clemson University has received the largest grant-in-kind in its history from Siemens, a global technology company, with software the company has provided at a commercial value of $357,224,294. The software will be incorporated into student coursework and projects related to computer-aided-design, engineering simulation, industrial design, digital manufacturing and manufacturing management in Clemson’s College of Engineering, […]

ME opens new Design Innovation Studio

October 31, 2016

The Design Innovation Studio is a new resource for Capstone Design and Student Design projects in the Department of Mechanical Engineering located in 111 Fluor Daniel EIB. The studio consists of 2000 square feet of dedicated project space that can accommodate prototype fabrication, experimentation and testing, and a group meeting location for student groups to […]

Four faculty awarded professorships

October 28, 2016

1. Mohammed Daqaq, associate professor of mechanical engineering, is a recipient of the Dale Reynolds ’67 Emerging Faculty Scholar Endowment. Mohammed Daqaq joined the Department in 2006. His teaching and research interests lie in the areas of nonlinear dynamics and control of mechanical systems ranging from the micro to the macro scale. He has a well-developed […]

ME graduate students win conference and research awards

October 27, 2016

ME graduate students win best paper at ASME IDETC/CIE 2016 Two mechanical engineering graduate students have won the best paper award in the student paper competition at the ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2016). Their paper, “An Experimentally-Validated Distributed-Parameters Model of a Ferrofluid Based Energy […]

ME graduate students win best paper at ASME IDETC/CIE 2016

October 27, 2016

Two mechanical engineering graduate students have won the best paper award in the student paper competition at the ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2016). Their paper, “An Experimentally-Validated Distributed-Parameters Model of a Ferrofluid Based Energy Harvester,” was presented by Saad Alazmi at the conference. The […]

Department mourns the passing of professor Mica Grujicic

October 24, 2016

It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Dr. Mica Grujicic, the Wilfred P. and Helen S. Tiencken Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Grujicic was a member of Clemson University’s faculty for 28 years, joining in 1988. He is survived by his wife, Wen-qi, and daughter, Angela, who both live in the […]