Mechanical Engineering

Winners named for STRIve seed awards

The STRIve program aims to foster partnering and pooling of the resources across the ME and AUE campuses, thereby serving as a catalyst for creating highly competitive external proposals. Faculty members of both departments were encouraged to to submit research proposals that could help maximize efficiencies and bring in outside funding. The winners were: Establishing A […]

Dr. Zhaoxu Ming wins New Innovator Award

Congratulations to Dr. Meng for receiving the New Innovator Award from the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR)! The total award amount is $450,000. The New Innovator Award seeks to support and promote career advancement of highly creative and promising new faculty who are conducting critical and innovative research and are establishing research programs […]

ME Students win award at National Conference

Clemson Graduate Students Chase Gabbard and Ned Whitesell, along with their advisor Dr. Josh Bostwick, won the Milton Van Dyke award for the Gallery of Fluid Motion https://gfm.aps.org for their poster “Coat or Collapse.”This is the second year in a row Chase has won award at this show. 

Clemson team wins best paper award.

A team led by Drs. Yunyi Jia and Ardalan Vahidi won the Best Paper Award, 2nd Place, in the IEEE International Automated Vehicle Validation Conference (IAVVC) 2023 in Austin, TX. Names of all team-members are shown below.This is truly a reflection of years of collaboration between the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Automotive Engineering in the field […]

Grad Students participate in orientation kicking off another year in ME

Graduate Student Coordinator Irina Kharitonova hosted incoming Clemson ME Graduate Students on Friday. Director of Graduate Programs Dr. Jane Zhao also spoke with students on what to expect in their graduate careers. Afterwards everyone socialized with a lavish ice cream bar!

New Faculty Faces Fall 2023

Mechanical Engineering would like to welcome our new faculty members! Philippe Giguere Dr. Giguère is a Clemson Alumni who joined the department in January 2023.  He currently teaches courses in the thermo-fluids area.  Prior to joining Clemson, he had various leadership roles over 22+ years in wind turbine technology and design at General Electric.  While […]

Clemson Mechanical Engineering Graduates Excel at Local Manufacturing Behemoth TTI

TTi recently posted on LinkedIn congratulating the most recent group to complete their Engineering Leadership Development Program.  Among the 21, there are 6* recent ME grads.  In the photo below, circled, from left to right are Adam Zwilling (’21), Jonathan Loftis (’20), Josh Vanasse (’21), Bradley York (’21), Colin Lounsberry (’21), and Zach Jones (’20).  Several […]

Dr. Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte receives the Senior Tenured Outstanding Teaching Award

Please join ME in congratulating our own Dr. Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte on receiving the Senior Tenured Outstanding Teaching Award on recommendation from the 2023 Provost Teaching Awards selection committee. There were many, outstanding applicants this year and  Rodrigo stood out to be the best candidate for this year’s recognition. We are proud of his accomplishment. He […]

Michael Justice Retires

Congratulations to Michael Justice on his retirement! Michael has with the Mechanical Engineering Department for 29 years. He’s helped thousands of students and countless faculty complete important projects over the years.  See photos of Michael’s retirement party here.

When his former Ph.D. advisor died, Joshua Bostwick stepped up to help his academic family

Clemson University’s Joshua Bostwick might not be related by blood to Vanessa Kern and Joshua McCraney, but he considers them siblings in a special way. All three pursued doctorates under the highly respected Cornell University professor Paul Steen, and they all had a hand in researching a theory that was tested in experiments on the International Space […]