Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Martinez-Duarte elected vice president of the AES Electrophoresis Society

ME Assistant Professor Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte has been elected vice president of the AES Electrophoresis Society from 2015 to 2017. He was previously a councilor to the society and its executive vice president. The society members, around 350, include top researchers in the broad field of electrokinetics, specially electrophoresis and dielectrophoresis. The AES Electrophoresis Society (link […]

ME and Physics professors receive a “100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund” grant

Co-PI’s Dr. Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte (ME) and Dr. Hugo Sanabria (Physics) are receiving the grant to support their project titled “Promoting Cross-Cultural Physics and Engineering Teams for Today’s Operational Challenges”. They have partnered with their undergraduate Alma Mater Tecnológico de Monterrey in Monterrey, México, to create the study-abroad program. This program will partner students from these […]

2015 Thomas Green Clemson Award for Excellence

Congratulations to Dr. Sherrill Biggers! Dr. Biggers has won the 2015 Thomas Green Clemson Award for Excellence. He joined the Department in 1989 after 11 years with Lockheed-Martin where he was manager of NASA composite programs in Burbank. Prior to that, he was on the faculty at the University of Kentucky for 8 years. He […]

Inexpensive and robust microfluidic devices using xurography

Graduate students Monsur Islam and Rucha Natu with Professor Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte of the Multiscale Manufacturing Laboratory, published a study on the limitations of using a relatively inexpensive commercial cutter plotter in the development of microfluidic devices. Xurography, or the use of a blade to pattern a film, has been used to fabricate devices out of […]