Mechanical Engineering

Clemson Career Workshop Summer 2017 – Introduction to Engineering

This summer, 30 underrepresented high school students from across the state of South Carolina and even some parts of North Carolina participated in the Clemson Career Workshop.  The summer residential workshop combined learning opportunities with sessions on college preparation and life skills that increase the likelihood of success for a diverse population of eventual underclassmen.  […]

ME welcomes two new staff members

Valis Fleming, Accountant/Fiscal Analyst II Valis Fleming joined the Mechanical Engineering department in January. She graduated from Clemson in 2014 with a degree in Financial Management. Her duties as the accountant include sending out financial updates to the faculty and the department chair on a monthly basis to keep track of expenditures and projects. She […]

ME graduate students win conference and research awards

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 […]

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 […]

EUREKA! Students make carbon origami

Haley Meier and McKinnon Reece participated in the EUREKA! Program in the Multiscale Manufacturing Laboratory (www.multiscalemanufacturing.net) during the Summer of 2015. Under the mentoring of Professor Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte and doctoral student Monsur Islam, these incoming freshmen developed a process to fabricate origami shapes out of carbon and carbon composites. The process exploits the fact that […]

Clemson University and Tecnologico de Monterrey partnership

On April 27th Professors Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte and Hugo Sanabria, from Mechanical Engineering and Physics, and Didier Rousseliere from Global Partnerships and Initiatives visited Tecnologico de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico. The purpose of the visit was to further a Memorandum of Understanding between these two institutions. Tecnologico de Monterrey is one of the top technical institutions […]

ME professors contribute to textbook chapters

Drs. Georges Fadel, Gregory Mocko, and Joshua Summers contributed to a chapter in “Impact of Design Research on Industrial Practice“. The book was published by Springer and edited by Amaresh Chakrabarti and Udo Lindemann. Overview of chapter: This chapter summarizes many years of design research at Clemson University and their impact on industrial practice. It shows how […]

Clemson ME and ECE students participate in the Boeing AerosPACE program

Twelve students from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University are participating in the 2015-2016 Boeing AerosPACE program. The AerosPACE is a multi-disciplinary, multi-university collaborative capstone program bringing together stakeholders from industry, academia and government to build core competencies for the next generation of aerospace innovators […]

Dr. Daqaq on sabbatical

Dr. Mohammed Daqaq will be on sabbatical from January 2015 to January 2016. He will be primarily with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at TU Munich, and will also be visiting the University of Roma and several more universities across Europe. His research group is among the first and few in the world that explores the role of […]

Virtual Surgeries for the Broken Heart

Clemson University professors Richard Figliola and Ethan Kung work on new engineering technologies to perform “virtual vascular surgeries” on patients to help predict surgical outcomes and make surgical decisions before a patient actually goes under the knife. Work they are conducting can mimic a patient’s anatomical geometries as well as overall physiology in order to […]