Mechanical Engineering

ME 4170/6170 Robot Competition – Spring 2016

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 […]

Clemson Engineering Design Expo – Fall 2015

Check out how students in ME 4010 have helped elementary students gain an interest in STEAM by designing/building equipment to provide a hands-on learning experience. Clemson CES news story: http://newsstand.clemson.edu/mechanical-engineering-class-brings-together-service-education-and-research/?utm_source=ces&utm_medium=homepage More pictures from the expo can be found here: https://flic.kr/s/aHskqVreKF

ME H4150 Presentations – Fall 2015

Pictures from the Fall 2015 ME H4150 (Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Honors Research) poster session and final oral presentations.

Midway Elementary School – “Morning STEAM”

On October 16th ME students visited Midway Elementary School in Anderson, SC to volunteer with their “Morning STEAM” program. During their visit they helped the elementary students make something that could fly/glide.

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 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 […]