Mechanical Engineering

2021 December Graduate Reception Photos

Congratulations to all of our December 2021 graduates! You have persevered through difficult times to reach your goals and we are very proud of you! Best of luck to you in your careers and your future! Come back and visit anytime! See all photos here

Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte honored for contributions to Latinx community

Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, is being recognized for his continuous contributions to the Latinx community at Clemson University. Martinez-Duarte recently won the Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month Impact Award in the faculty/staff category. The award comes from a committee that organizes a month-long celebration of Hispanic and Latinx heritage at Clemson […]

Congratulations to Dr. Suyi Li!

Congratulations to Dr. Suyi Li as he is the recipient of the Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award from the Aerospace Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.  Great and highly deserved recognition for Suyi!  Please see his story posted online: https://news.clemson.edu/suyi-lis-origami-research-wins-him-national-recognition-as-rising-star-in-adaptive-structures/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=suyi-lis-origami-research-wins-him-national-recognition-as-rising-star-in-adaptive-structures

Dr. Dutta receives special invitations

Dr. Sandip Dutta has been invited to edit a special issue of Energies Journal https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/special_issues/Numerical_Heat_Transfer and was also invited to for the two-phase flow webinar https://energies-4.sciforum.net/ where he discussed “Machine Learning in Two-Phase Heat Transfer” Congratulations to Dr. Dutta on these prestigious honors!

Dr. Chenning Tong awarded a major collaborative NSF grant

Dr. Chenning Tong has been awarded a major collaborative NSF grant with a budget of $2.2M ($1.2M for his group) to study the atmospheric boundary layer. The (unsolicited) NSF project is based on the theory of the atmospheric boundary layer that he proposed in 2015, and developed and tested in the past six years. The […]

Dr. Garrett Pataky wins NSF Career award

The title of his CAREER Award proposal is: Understanding the Interaction between Mechanical Twinning and Fatigue Crack Growth.  The total award is $555,634 over five years. We are so proud that our department has such a high number of CAREER awardees. It’s testament to the high caliber of our young faculty.  Garrett’s perseverance and hard […]

ME hosts departmental picnic

Mechanical Engineering held it’s Departmental picnic on Saturday at Nettles Park in Clemson. Faculty and Staff brought their families out and enjoyed a day in the sun and some great camaraderie. Many brought home-made dishes to share that were delicious and sometimes exotic. Even a possum came by to enjoy the festivities! Thanks to our […]

Spring 2021 Graduate Reception

Despite some rainy weather we had a great turn out for our Spring 2021 Graduate Reception. The Staff put on a great event with food, drinks and gifts! We were happy to welcome many families to the event and hear the excitement of our graduates embarking on the next chapters of their lives. Click here […]

Dr. Fadi Abdeljawad’s Research Group Makes Cover of Nanoscale Journal

Congratulations to Dr. Fadi Abdeljawad and his research group. Their work made the back cover of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Nanoscale journal. In their study, Dr. Abdeljawad and his students integrated theoretical analysis and computational modeling with high-resolution microscopy studies to unravel the role of materials interfaces in the stability of nanocrystalline metallic alloys. […]

Clemson Composites Center Wins award from DOE and Honda

Clemson Composites Center founded by Dr.Srikanth Pilla won the Inno Vision Technology Integration Award for the Ultralightweight Door Project sponsored by the Department of Energy and Honda R&D. Dr. Gang Li of the Mechanical Engineering Department has been integral in this research. The student members of the research team included Anmol Kothari (current Ph.D. student), Madhura […]

Dr. Oliver Myers becomes ASME Fellow

Congratulations to Dr. Oliver Myers for becoming an ASME Fellow. This is a great recognition of Dr. Myer’s personal achievement and makes the Clemson ME Department stronger, more visible and great place to work! Read more about what it means to be an ASME Fellow.

Dr. Oliver Myers Receives National Recognition

Dr. Oliver Meyers has been recognized as one of the nation’s Black Engineering Leaders. He was awarded with the Dr. Eugene Deloatch Legacy Award by the South Carolina manufacturing Foundation. Read more about the award here https://www.southcarolinamanufacturing.com/two-from-clemson-university-honored-among-nations-black-engineering-leaders/ Congratulations Dr. Meyers!

Dr. Xin Zhao wins NSF CAREER Award

Mechanical Engineering is thrilled to share with you a great news –   Dr. Xin Zhao has been awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER award!!  Please join us in congratulating Dr. Zhao for this great achievement and a well-deserved national recognition! The title of his CAREER Award proposal is: Material Removal and Ejection Dynamics in Femtosecond Laser […]