Mechanical Engineering

Professor Xin Zhao and Student Sai Kosaraju Win ASME Award

M.E. Professor Xin Zhao and his former student Sai Kosaraju won the Best Paper Award for the 2020 ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference for their work on laser shock peening. Congratulations to both for their hard work!

Greg Mocko named director of Clemson University’s advanced manufacturing track

Paul Alongi, College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences October 26, 2020 In one of the programs that Greg Mocko oversees at Clemson University, students from across the country are challenged to design, manufacture, test and fly a hand-launched unmanned aerial vehicle. It’s a project aimed at resembling how Boeing assembles Dreamliners in North Charleston […]

New Training Opportunities in the Product Lifecycle Management Center

PLM Software Help Sessions 2:00-3:00 pm 13 & 16 October 2020 Siemens NX Software – Basic Features with Application Learn how to use select features of the NX software package and apply this computer-aided-engineering tool to design a component on the PLM Center Computer Laboratory machines. 20 & 23 October 2020 Dassault Systemes Software – […]

Three faculty members win college awards!

We are very proud of our outstanding faculty and love it when they get the rewards they deserve! Congratulations to these three awardees! Dr. Fadi Abdeljawad The Byars Prize for Excellence in Teaching       Dr. Ardalan Vahidi (With Drs Yunyi Jia and Beshah Ayalew) The 2020 Collaboration Award     Dr. Suyi Li The […]

Dr. Suyi Li and student Joshua Kauffman win award

In August 2020, Suyi Li, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and his student Joshua Kaufmann were awarded the Freudenstein Young Investigator Award at the International Design Engineering Technical conferences (IDETC) held by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.  This annual award, established in 1996, “recognizes a paper that makes a significant original contribution to the […]

Clemson Team SpeedTiger finished in Top 5 finalists at the Grand Prix competition

Clemson team SpeedTiger finished in Top 5 finalists at the F1TENTH IFAC World Congress Race. F1TENTH is an international community of researchers, engineers, and autonomous systems enthusiast. This year, due to the pandemic, it is the first virtual competition where teams would race head to head in a single-elimination bracket at the 1st Virtual International Federation […]

ME team Wins award in the Clemson Covid Challenge

A team of 5 students from ME department, computer engineering and computer science have been working with Dr. Yiqiang Han on the Clemson COVID challenge competition this summer. Within only 4 weeks, the students were able to come up with a functional prototype of a complex autonomous delivery platform for this pandemic. Please see the […]

Dr. Martinez-Duarte’s students get published!

The paper titled “Highly Localized Enrichment of Trypanosoma brucei parasites using Dielectrophoresis”  is now published in Micromachines, an open access journal to maximize reach of this particular work. The undergrad authors (at the time this work was done in Clemson) are Callie Stuart (now in Grad School at Clemson BioE), Josie Duncan (a ME PhD candidate […]

Congratulations to our Formula SAE Team!

Clemson Formula SAE Team was awarded prizes in both Business and Design categories in  Formula SAE Virtual Competition! Our team was one of only four teams to win in multiple categories among competing 150 teams. The only other American team to achieve such success is from the Univ. of Michigan. This is a great recognition […]

Dr. Vahidi named ASME Fellow

Congratulations to Dr. Ardalan Vahidi for being named a Fellow in ASME.  This distinction is awarded to engineers for outstanding achievements and contributions and has been bestowed upon only 2% of ASME’s 130,000 members. To be named an ASME Fellow, one must be responsible for significant engineering achievements, have one or more years of active […]