Mechanical Engineering

‘Relentless’ mechanical engineer receives Hitachi fellowship

A highly accomplished doctoral candidate who has been described as relentless in the lab and has studied under a high-ranking engineer in India’s Department of Science and Technology is the recipient of a fellowship that pays for a full year of graduate school at Clemson University.

ME graduate students win best paper at ASME IDETC/CIE 2016

Two mechanical engineering graduate students have won the best paper award in the student paper competition at the ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2016). Their paper, “An Experimentally-Validated Distributed-Parameters Model of a Ferrofluid Based Energy Harvester,” was presented by Saad Alazmi at the conference. The […]

Researcher uses award to create WebMD of academic advising

One of Clemson University’s newest faculty members is working to develop an online dashboard that could become the WebMD of academic advising, helping students make the crucial decisions that can mean the difference between dropping out and graduating. Marisa Orr envisions an academic dashboard that would help students review decision-making strategies, track study habits and […]

Georges Fadel of Clemson University wins ASME Design Automation Award

Georges Fadel of Clemson University is the winner of an award from a leading professional society that has recognized him for his work in design automation. Fadel, the ExxonMobil Employees’ Chaired Professor, has received the Design Automation Award from the Design Engineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Georges Fadel, the ExxonMobil Employees’ […]

ME Ph.D. graduate, Xinyu Lu, has received the Medallion of Outstanding Graduate Researcher

The Graduate Fellowships and Awards Committee selected Xinyu Lu, and one other student, to receive a medallion for the Spring 2016 semester. The medallions were presented during the May 5th hooding ceremony at the Brooks Center. Xinyu’s doctoral research was to develop a fundamental understanding of particle transport phenomena in non-Newtonian fluids (e.g., polymer solutions […]

Hongseok Choi receives award for efforts to link students with manufacturers

Hongseok Choi of Clemson University is the winner of an award that recognizes his three-year effort to connect engineering students with manufacturers across South Carolina. The international professional engineering society SME has selected Choi for a 2016 Distinguished Faculty Advisor Award.

Yue “Sophie” Wang wins Warren H. Owen-Duke Energy Assistant Professorship of Engineering

Congratulations to Dr. Yue “Sophie” Wang! She has been awarded the Warren H. Owen-Duke Energy Assistant Professorship of Engineering. The assistant professorship supports faculty members in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering. It was originally established by employees of what was then Duke Power Company in 1989 in honor of the […]