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Atul Kelkar has announced he is leaving his post as chair of Clemson University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering to accept a position as dean of the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science at Binghamton University, State University of New York.Read more

The STRIve program aims to foster partnering and pooling of the resources across the ME and AUE campuses, thereby serving as a catalyst for creating highly competitive external proposals. Faculty members of both departments were encouraged to to submit research proposals that could help maximize efficiencies and bring in outside funding. The winners were: Establishing A […]

Congratulations to Dr. Meng for receiving the New Innovator Award from the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR)! The total award amount is $450,000. The New Innovator Award seeks to support and promote career advancement of highly creative and promising new faculty who are conducting critical and innovative research and are establishing research programs […]

Clemson Graduate Students Chase Gabbard and Ned Whitesell, along with their advisor Dr. Josh Bostwick, won the Milton Van Dyke award for the Gallery of Fluid Motion https://gfm.aps.org for their poster “Coat or Collapse.”This is the second year in a row Chase has won award at this show. 

A team led by Drs. Yunyi Jia and Ardalan Vahidi won the Best Paper Award, 2nd Place, in the IEEE International Automated Vehicle Validation Conference (IAVVC) 2023 in Austin, TX. Names of all team-members are shown below.This is truly a reflection of years of collaboration between the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Automotive Engineering in the field […]

Graduate Student Coordinator Irina Kharitonova hosted incoming Clemson ME Graduate Students on Friday. Director of Graduate Programs Dr. Jane Zhao also spoke with students on what to expect in their graduate careers. Afterwards everyone socialized with a lavish ice cream bar!

Mechanical Engineering would like to welcome our new faculty members! Philippe Giguere Dr. Giguère is a Clemson Alumni who joined the department in January 2023.  He currently teaches courses in the thermo-fluids area.  Prior to joining Clemson, he had various leadership roles over 22+ years in wind turbine technology and design at General Electric.  While […]

TTi recently posted on LinkedIn congratulating the most recent group to complete their Engineering Leadership Development Program.  Among the 21, there are 6* recent ME grads.  In the photo below, circled, from left to right are Adam Zwilling (’21), Jonathan Loftis (’20), Josh Vanasse (’21), Bradley York (’21), Colin Lounsberry (’21), and Zach Jones (’20).  Several […]