September 22, 2016
It is a great pleasure to join the Clemson University family as the new Accountant for Mechanical Engineering. Since my very first day in July, you all have been so kind and welcoming and I am very thankful to be a part of such a talented, hospitable team. Prior to accepting my current position with […]
September 20, 2016
The Mechatronic System Design (ME 4170/6170) class hosted their annual project demonstrations in the Cook Engineering Lab. This semester four undergraduate / graduate teams have been designing autonomous ground vehicle robots which will gather colored blocks (4 different shades) and transport them to their corresponding goal within a 4′ x 4′ square ring while navigating […]
September 19, 2016
Georges Fadel of Clemson University is the winner of an award from a leading professional society that has recognized him for his work in design automation. Fadel, the ExxonMobil Employees’ Chaired Professor, has received the Design Automation Award from the Design Engineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Georges Fadel, the ExxonMobil Employees’ […]
September 15, 2016
Ethan Kung, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has won a $65,000 grant to support the project “Feasibility of a Novel Fontan Right-Side Assist Device”. This grant will be funded by the Saving tiny Hearts Society (StHS). He has also won a three year, $231,000 ($77,000 a year) grant to support the project “Design of Fontan Cavopulmonary […]
September 12, 2016
All of the individual student videos from this semester can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0bSZ-4kabTffJCD025zxG__iU5VJHpCa
September 5, 2016
Suyi Li, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has won a grant to support the project “Uncovering the Dynamics and Functionality of Origami Structures and Materials”. The grant will be funded by the Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics (DCSD) program, which is part of the Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) division at the NSF. […]
September 5, 2016
Behzad Sadrfaridpour has won the “Best Student Conference Paper Award” at the twelfth annual IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE 2016) for the paper he coauthored with Dr. Hamed Saeidi and Dr. Yue Wang. The paper is entitled “An Integrated Framework for Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly in Hybrid Manufacturing Cells”. The purpose […]
September 5, 2016
Yue “Sophie” Wang, the Warren H. Owen – Duke Energy Assistant Professor of Engineering, has won a grant to support the project on “Trust-based Optimal Guidance and Navigation for Multiple Manned-Unmanned Vehicles”. The grant is funded by the Army Research Office. This project aims at establishing trust-based control and scheduling algorithms for multiple manned and […]
September 2, 2016
Huijuan “Jane” Zhao, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is a co-principal investigator on a team that has won a three year, $1.4 million grant from the Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, a division of the Department of Energy (DOE). The research team also includes principal investigator Hai Xiao, Samuel Lewis Bell Distinguished […]
September 1, 2016
Xin Zhao, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has won a grant to support the project “Material Removal and Ejection Dynamics in Femtosecond Laser Machining of Microchannels in Transparent Materials”. The grant will be funded by the Manufacturing Machines and Equipment (MME) program, which is part of the Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) division […]
