Tag: April 2017 Newsletter

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 […]

Dr. Melur K. “Ram” Ramasubramanian, D. W. Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and department chair, has been appointed the University of Virginia’s vice president for research. He will continue his IPA appointment with the National Science Foundation until August 8, when he assumes his new position with UVA.

Ethan Kung, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is one of seven researchers that will split nearly $1.1 million in funding for congenital heart defect research.

Clemson University researchers are looking to use autonomous driving, swarm, and other technologies to reduce the amount of time drivers spend waiting at red lights. Ardlan Vahidi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering; and Ali Fayazi, a PhD mechanical engineering student, are the researchers working on the project.

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 […]

Congratulations to ME junior Alexander Schreiber! He is one of the first five Hubbell Lighting scholars.

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 […]

Students from three elementary schools and one middle school visited Clemson University on Dec. 2 as part of a program that gives mechanical engineering majors a chance to design and build equipment while doing some good for the community and learning to interact with clients.

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. […]

For the ME Alumni Minute Challenge, we tasked our alumni to record a short video (around a minute in length) talking about their Clemson experience and how it was “more than just research.” All of the videos can be found in a playlist on our department’s YouTube channel. Videos Recorded Dr. Beshoy Morkos Dr. Wenshan […]

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.

Clemson University has received the largest grant-in-kind in its history from Siemens, a global technology company, with software the company has provided at a commercial value of $357,224,294. The software will be incorporated into student coursework and projects related to computer-aided-design, engineering simulation, industrial design, digital manufacturing and manufacturing management in Clemson’s College of Engineering, […]