Clemson ME Alum in Discovery Channel Documentary
February 1, 2022
Clemson ME Alum Heather Thompson has been featured in a Discovery Channel spotlight on STEM education. Heather works at the Panasonic battery manufacturing facility in Reno, Nevada.
Mechanical Engineering
Category: Alumni
Dr. Atul G. Kelkar Named as New Mechanical Engineering Department Chair
March 16, 2018
After an extensive national search, the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences proudly announces the appointment of Dr. Atul G. Kelkar as the D.W. Reynolds Distinguished Professor and Department Chair in Mechanical Engineering. Kelkar brings outstanding research and administrative credentials to the position. He is currently the program director at the National Science Foundation […]
Carolinas SAE Student Night – February 2018 (Greenville, SC
February 7, 2018
On Thursday, 01 February 2018, Clemson University hosted the SAE Carolinas Student Night in collaboration with the SAE Carolina Section and Greenville Tech’s Center for Manufacturing Innovation (CMI). Students from Duke, NC State, Georgia Southern, UNC-Charlotte, NC A&T State, UNC-Ashville, and Clemson exhibited their mini baja and formula cars as well as airplane. The students also […]
Alumni Minute Challenge
December 5, 2016
For the ME Alumni Minute Challenge, we tasked our alumni to record a short video (around a minute in length) talking about their Clemson experience and how it was “more than just research.” All of the videos can be found in a playlist on our department’s YouTube channel. Videos Recorded Dr. Beshoy Morkos Dr. Wenshan […]
ME PhD alumnus, Yasha Parvini, joins the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) as an assistant professor
October 25, 2016
Dr. Yasha Parvini joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM), as an assistant professor, in August 2016. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of controls and energy systems. His research focuses on modeling and optimal control of electrical energy storage systems at both the component and system […]
Ginn family’s $1M gift will support four endowments, including one in mechanical engineering
April 28, 2016
A family with three generations of Clemson University alumni has given $1 million to the school to benefit engineering, arts and humanities, and the library, all integral parts of their collegiate experience. Capt. Wilbur N. Ginn Jr., U.S. Navy, retired; and his wife, Dorothy, of Greenville, along with their son, Wilbur N. Ginn III, and his wife, Alice, of Florence, made […]
SOLIDWORKS World conference 2016 – Gesture based sketching
April 18, 2016
A demo of the gesture based sketching feature that was conceived and developed by ME alumnus Ameya Divekar. The demo happened at this year’s SOLIDWORKS World conference.
ME alumnus, Brian Collie, among the Roaring 10 award winners this year
October 23, 2015
Congratulations Brian!
ME Alumnus, Richie Parker, participated in the “Outside the Box: Redefining the Diversity Label” panel
October 13, 2015
The panel was part of Disability Diversity Awareness Day at Clemson, and an early event for Diversity and Inclusive Excellence Month, which is happening throughout the month of October 2015. While Richie was an undergraduate student here he worked on a project to develop a retro-fitted, foot steering system as part of a ME 4150 project with […]
Clemson Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program: Alumni Showcase Event
February 24, 2015
The Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program would like to invite you to join us in welcoming back three distinguished alumni Friday, March 6th, as they present some of their current research in the morning and again as they sit on a discussion panel to share their experiences about how Clemson University prepared them for their careers […]
