Category: Graduate Students

The Italian Machine Tool Technology Award is one of the Italian Technology Award (ITA) programs, sponsored by the Italian Trade Agency and UCIMU SISTEMI PER PRODURRE (the Association of Italian Manufacturers of Machine Tools, Robots, Automation Systems and ancillary Products). The aim of this program is to enrich the engineering education of students and to […]

Seven mechanical engineering students received their Ph.D. degrees this fall: Dr. Saad Alazemi Dissertation Title: “Characterizing the Performance of a Ferrofluid-Based Energy Harvester under Direct and Parametric Excitations” Advisor: Dr. Mohammed Daqaq Dr. Clodoaldo Jose da Silva Dissertation Title: “On The Modal Effective Nonlinearity of A Class of Tapered-Cantilever Beams” Advisor: Dr. Mohammed Daqaq Dr. Seyed Ali Fayazi Dissertation Title: “Connected Vehicles […]

The November 2016 issue of Tire Technology International magazine featured a story about one of our creative inquiry projects. The project is titled “Development of Sand Traction Concepts” and is led by Dr. Joshua Summers, a professor of mechanical engineering and a co-director of the Clemson Engineering Design Applications and Research (CEDAR) Group.

Rucha Natu, a PhD mechanical engineering student, placed 2nd in the poster session at the annual meeting of the AES Electrophoresis Society. Her poster was titled “Numerical model of streaming dielectrophoresis for stem cell sorting” and was selected among 25 posters. She is under the advisement of Dr. Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering. […]

The 2016 ME Graduate Poster competition was held during the week of Oct. 17 – 21. The posters were grouped in three categories: (1) Working on research less than 3 semesters; (2) Working on research more than 3 semesters but less than 6 semesters; and (3) Working on research more than 6 semesters. They were […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

The Mechatronic System Design (ME 4170/6170) class hosted their annual project demonstrations in the Cook Engineering Lab. This semester four undergraduate / graduate teams have been designing autonomous ground vehicle robots which will gather colored blocks (4 different shades) and transport them to their corresponding goal within a 4′ x 4′ square ring while navigating […]

Behzad Sadrfaridpour has won the “Best Student Conference Paper Award” at the twelfth annual IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE 2016) for the paper he coauthored with Dr. Hamed Saeidi and Dr. Yue Wang. The paper is entitled “An Integrated Framework for Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly in Hybrid Manufacturing Cells”. The purpose […]