Year: 2020

Congratulations to the May 2020 graduates. We know this semester hasn’t gone as planned but enjoy this short message from the faculty and staff in your honor!

The Mechanical Engineering Department held it’s annual awards ceremony online this year due to the Covid 19 lockdowns. Students, faculty and staff were all honored for their achievements and contributions. Thanks to everyone who tuned in to see Dr. Kelkar make the presentations live. Click here to see the award winners. If you wish to […]

Clemson Mechanical Engineering Student Johnathan Vogel has been awarded a Fullbright Scholarship and the opportunity to study abroad. He will be pursuing an MSc degree at Coventry University in the UK beginning in September. His focus will be on vehicle dynamics. “My goal is to re-examine existing approaches to vehicle stability and control derivatives, and […]

Congratulations to Dr. Fadi Abdeljawad for being awarded one of the ARMY’s most Prestigious awards, namely “Young Investigator Program (YIP)” Award. This is very proud moment not only for Mechanical Engineering and CECAS but also for Clemson. YIP awards are one of the most prestigious honors bestowed by the Army on outstanding scientists beginning their […]

The Mechanical Engineering Department would like welcome new professors Ge Lv and Tim Guggisberg. Each brings great knowledge and experience to our department! Tim Guggisberg joined the department in Spring 2020.  Before coming to Clemson, he was with Michelin for more than 26 years, working in the United States, France, and China.  His professional roles […]

Congratulations to Dr. Sandip Dutta for for being elected 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 […]

Following a search led by Dr. Cindy Lee, chair of the Inclusive Excellence Search Committee, I am pleased to announce that Drs. Oliver Myers and Melissa Smith will jointly (50% appointment each) serve as the associate deans focused on inclusive excellence. Read more here…

Drs. John Saylor and Joshua Bostwick recently had their their article Elastocapillary Transition in Gel Drop Oscillations published in the journal Physical Review Letters. They are especially proud of the work done by their collaborators Xingchen Shao, a PhD candidate studying under Dr. Bostwick and Steven Fredericks, a Clemson PhD alum who now works at the […]

Dr. Zhen Li officially joined the Clemson ME faculty last August. A former Research Associate Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University his research expertise is on Multiscale/Multiphysics modeling, Soft matter and Smart materials, Mesoscopic methods. At Clemson, he leads the research group MuthComp (Multiscale Theory and Computation), with research interest on multiple-scale […]