Mechanical Engineering

Spring 2021 Graduate Reception

Despite some rainy weather we had a great turn out for our Spring 2021 Graduate Reception. The Staff put on a great event with food, drinks and gifts! We were happy to welcome many families to the event and hear the excitement of our graduates embarking on the next chapters of their lives. Click here […]

Dr. Fadi Abdeljawad’s Research Group Makes Cover of Nanoscale Journal

Congratulations to Dr. Fadi Abdeljawad and his research group. Their work made the back cover of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Nanoscale journal. In their study, Dr. Abdeljawad and his students integrated theoretical analysis and computational modeling with high-resolution microscopy studies to unravel the role of materials interfaces in the stability of nanocrystalline metallic alloys. […]

Clemson Composites Center Wins award from DOE and Honda

Clemson Composites Center founded by Dr.Srikanth Pilla won the Inno Vision Technology Integration Award for the Ultralightweight Door Project sponsored by the Department of Energy and Honda R&D. Dr. Gang Li of the Mechanical Engineering Department has been integral in this research. The student members of the research team included Anmol Kothari (current Ph.D. student), Madhura […]

Dr. Oliver Myers Receives National Recognition

Dr. Oliver Meyers has been recognized as one of the nation’s Black Engineering Leaders. He was awarded with the Dr. Eugene Deloatch Legacy Award by the South Carolina manufacturing Foundation. Read more about the award here https://www.southcarolinamanufacturing.com/two-from-clemson-university-honored-among-nations-black-engineering-leaders/ Congratulations Dr. Meyers!

Dr. Xin Zhao wins NSF CAREER Award

Mechanical Engineering is thrilled to share with you a great news –   Dr. Xin Zhao has been awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER award!!  Please join us in congratulating Dr. Zhao for this great achievement and a well-deserved national recognition! The title of his CAREER Award proposal is: Material Removal and Ejection Dynamics in Femtosecond Laser […]

Greg Mocko named director of Clemson University’s advanced manufacturing track

Paul Alongi, College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences October 26, 2020 In one of the programs that Greg Mocko oversees at Clemson University, students from across the country are challenged to design, manufacture, test and fly a hand-launched unmanned aerial vehicle. It’s a project aimed at resembling how Boeing assembles Dreamliners in North Charleston […]

ME PhD student Saheem Absar wins the 2020 Hitachi High Technologies Electron Microscopy Graduate Fellow

Congratulations to ME PhD student Saheem Absar, for being selected for the 2020 Hitachi High Technologies Electron Microscopy Graduate Fellow award. This is a $25,000 non-renewable one year award to a Clemson graduate student utilizing electron microscopy during his or her studies.  His nomination packet was submitted by Dr. Hongseok Choi, which clearly showed a […]

New Training Opportunities in the Product Lifecycle Management Center

PLM Software Help Sessions 2:00-3:00 pm 13 & 16 October 2020 Siemens NX Software – Basic Features with Application Learn how to use select features of the NX software package and apply this computer-aided-engineering tool to design a component on the PLM Center Computer Laboratory machines. 20 & 23 October 2020 Dassault Systemes Software – […]

Dr. Suyi Li and student Joshua Kauffman win award

In August 2020, Suyi Li, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and his student Joshua Kaufmann were awarded the Freudenstein Young Investigator Award at the International Design Engineering Technical conferences (IDETC) held by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.  This annual award, established in 1996, “recognizes a paper that makes a significant original contribution to the […]

Clemson Team SpeedTiger finished in Top 5 finalists at the Grand Prix competition

Clemson team SpeedTiger finished in Top 5 finalists at the F1TENTH IFAC World Congress Race. F1TENTH is an international community of researchers, engineers, and autonomous systems enthusiast. This year, due to the pandemic, it is the first virtual competition where teams would race head to head in a single-elimination bracket at the 1st Virtual International Federation […]