Mechanical Engineering

Four ME Professors visit BMW in Germany

The trip was organized through Clemson University and CU-ICAR. Dr Tanju Karanfil provided support for the faculty to travel to BMW FIZ (Research and Development) in Munich. Four faculty members, Georges Fadel, Joshua Summers, Ardalan Vahidi, and Gregory Mocko, from Mechanical Engineering attended the BMW-CU Showcase event. The showcase event was two full days, April […]

U.S. Solar Decathlon 2015

The U.S. Department of Energy selected a Clemson University team to compete in the Solar Decathlon 2015. Clemson and 19 challengers from colleges and universities across the country and around the world and will now begin the nearly two-year process of building solar-powered houses that are affordable, innovative and highly energy efficient. ME professor, Dr. […]

Dr. Richard Figliola was featured in Clemson’s Head On article “Open Flow of Discovery”

The article features his research being done with an interdisciplinary, international team of engineers, pediatric cardiac surgeons, and pediatric cardiologists. The team was created to try and mitigate the life-or-death decision that physicians must make when determining the most appropriate treatment for infants born with an underdeveloped ventricle. [Read More]

Children’s heart research Network to hold meeting in Clemson

An international research team studying methods to visualize and surgically treat congenital heart defects will hold a meeting in Clemson in May. The Leducq Foundation Transatlantic Network in Multi-scale Modeling of Single Ventricle Hearts, will hold its annual meeting and grant review at the Madren Conference Center on the Clemson campus on May 4 and […]

Figliola coordinates engineering efforts of novel pulmonary heart valve solutions

The Paris-based Leducq Foundation has awarded researchers at Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and Clemson University, and a collaboration of other institutions in the US and Europe, $6M to establish a Transatlantic Network of Excellence focused on developing improved support decisions for treating children born with only one functioning heart ventricle. These patients require […]