Materials Science and Engineering

Congratulations to 2023-2024 MSE Award Winners

Top MSE students were recognized at the MSE Honors and Awards Ceremony held on April 10th. The undergraduate award winners are: Annika Devol – G.C. Robinson Research Award Bridget Kilmer – Robert Knight Eaton Honor Award Peyton Anderson – Robert Bendheim Honor Award Ian Mozzola – Robert S. Small Award Jacson Hoffler – Hugh H. […]

MSE External Advisory Board Tours AMIC

The Spring 2024 External Advisory Board meeting was March 28, 2024. At this the Graduate and Undergraduate Student Organizations (Materials Advantage, Materials Research Society, and Optica) made presentations on goals for their organizations as well as received feedback from board members. The board also was updated on the status of the MSE department.  The highlight […]

United Nations International Year of Glass

2022 is the UN International Year of Glass This year is dedicated to the world wide celebration of the essential and continuing role glass has on society.  Dr. John Ballato is representing Clemson University and the department of Materials Science & Engineering during this year long celebration.  Dr. Ballato was lead author of two out […]

MSE Hosts the 2021 Honors & Awards Ceremony

The MSE department hosted the 2021 MSE Honors & Awards on Wednesday, 7 April 2021, 5:45 pm on ZOOM. You may watch the awards ceremony at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D4kIFIVveI&t=253s 2021 Awardees are: Arabella Hunter – Robert Knight Eaton Honor Award Lauren Hogan – Robert Bendheim Honor Award Samuel Beckley & Christopher Bleyer – Robert Small Award Lauren […]

MSE Students Take 1st Place

Congratulations Connor Logan and Lauren Hogan for winning 1st place in the University wide CI poster competition! Hydraulic Mechanism of Antenna Manipulation in Insects *Derasmo, A., *Hogan, L., *Logan, C., *Schmid, B., *Zadeh, A., Kornev, K. (2021, April). Hydraulic Mechanism of Antenna Manipulation in Insects. Poster presentation at Clemson University 16th Annual Focus on Creative […]

Dr. Igor Luzinov Featured on the DOE/Ames Lab Website

Polystyrene waste is everywhere, and it’s not biodegradable. Scientists just found a way to break it down. Recently, collaborative work by researchers in the Department of Energy’s Ames National lab and Dr. Igor Luzinov, the Kentwool Distinguished Professor in MSE was published in the New Journal of Chemistry and was featured  on the DOE/Ames lab […]

MSE Welcomes Two New Faculty Members

Enrique Martinez Saez joined Clemson University as an associate professor with joint appointments in Materials Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.  Dr. Saez earned a Ph.D. in 2008 from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Dr. Saez joined Clemson after previously serving as a research scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Saez’s research interests […]