The 17th Annual MRS/OSA Poster Symposium took place at the Watt Center on March 28, 2024. MRS and Optica members did a fabulous job. Thank you to the many sponsors, judges, and students who helped make this a fabulous event! Graduate Level Winners: 1st Place: Rahul Rajeev 2nd Place: Soma Dixit 3rd Place: Cassie Simpson […]
Materials Science and Engineering
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 […]
MRS / Optica to hold 17th Annual Poster Competition.
Dr. Raj Bordia featured in The American Ceramic Society Bulletin
Dr. Raj Bordia was recently featured in the American Ceramic Society Bulletin regarding his becoming president of ACerS. You can read the article in Vol. 103, No.1. Dr. Bordia was also interviewed by an editor of the American Ceramic Society. The link to the podcast is https://ceramictechchat.ceramics.org/974767/14318688-focusing-on-the-fundamentals-rajendra-bordia <!– /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:”Cambria Math”; […]
Annika DeVol Named Student of the Game
Congratulations to Annika DeVol on being named Student of the Game at the 9/23/23 football game!
MSE Presents The George & Dot Bishop Advanced Materials Colloquium Series for Fall 2023
Bailey Meehan wins Scholarship.
Congratulations to Bailey Meehan for winning the Glass Age Scholarship from Corning Research & Development group. Bailey is a MSE grad student in Dr. John Ballato’s group.
Dr. Phil Brown to Receive the 2023 AATCC Olney Medal
AATCC is proud to announce the 2023 recipient of the Olney Medal, Philip J. Brown, Swetenburg Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Clemson University. He is being recognized for his prolific work with fiber materials, including spinning and the production of deep groove capillary surface channeled fibers; fabrication of polymeric photonic […]
Congratulations to our AATCC Foundation Scholarship Recipients!
Marcus Murdoch was awarded the Percy W. Woodruff Jr. Textile Manufacturing Scholarship Travis Wanless (Foulger Group) was named the Connelly-Perkins Fellow
A Note from the Chair
Dear alumni and colleagues, We head into summer on an incredibly high note with Advanced Materials Innovation Complex (AMIC) groundbreaking ceremony and start of construction for this important new facility for the department, university and the State of South Carolina. This facility represents a $130 Million investment in the future of advanced materials and will […]
CONGRATULATIONS TO MSE 2022-2023 FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS!
GEORGE BISHOP ANNUAL FELLOWSHIP Awarded annually to MSE graduate students in memory of George J. Bishop III Haley Jones, from South Carolina, advised by Dr. Stephen Foulger – Bachelor’s degree from Clemson University – Interests focus on radioluminescent crystalline colloidal arrays for bioimaging applications. Ximei Zhai, from China, advised by Dr. Joshua Tong – […]
MSE Student Achievements in April
MSE senior Arabella Hunter (Mefford) received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRPF) and Dean’s Graduate Fellowships. Giovanni Orlandi, a student in Mechanical Engineering was awarded a 2023 Goldwater Scholar advised by Dr. Fadi Abdeljawad (Joint MSE) and Dr. Enrique Saez (Joint MSE) and Dr. Todd Schweisinger (ME) as mentors. Vaibhav Palkar (PhD student in Kuksenok […]
MSE Hosts the 2023 Honors & Awards Ceremony
Materials Science & Engineering hosted the 2023 MSE Honors & Awards on Wednesday, April 12,2023 at 4:00 pm in Sirrine Hall. Undergraduate Awardees Trenae Sutton and Trinity Sutton – Robert Knight Eaton Honor Award Annika DeVol – Robert Bendheim Award John Nickles – Robert Small Award and Materials Advantage Service Award Leo Beck – Gilbert […]
16th Annual Materials and Optics Poster Competition was hosted by graduate student chapters of the Materials Research Society (MRS) and Optica
The 16th Annual Materials and Optics Poster Competition was hosted by graduate student chapters of the Materials Research Society (MRS) and Optica on March 16, 2023 at the state-of-the-art Watt Family Innovation Center housed on Clemson University’s main campus. This competition serves as the primary showcase of materials and optics research being performed at Clemson University and […]
MSE to Host Workshop on Advanced Characterization & Imaging in AMIC
April 17-18, 2023 The Advanced Materials Innovation Complex (AMIC) building https://cecas.clemson.edu/amic/#facility is on track to begin construction in the Summer 2023. AMIC will host an advanced characterization and imaging facility that is planned to crosscut the energy, health and manufacturing themes prioritized by the University and be a resource to the broader materials community at […]
