Tag: Materials Science

Congratulations to Nyx Mashkow for winning a Goldwater Scholarship! To read more about Nyx and the Goldwater Scholarship click here.

MSE congratulates Dr. Cheng Sun for being awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. This is the highest U.S. government honor. Dr. Sun is an assistant professor with a joint mechanical engineering and materials science & engineering appointment. To read more about Dr. Sun and this prestigious award, click here.

Dr. Yanying Lu joined MSE on January 1, 2025, as a Joint Appointment (AuE) Assistant Professor. Before coming to Clemson, she was a staff scientist at Sylvatex Inc. Her specialty areas are ceramic engineering, composite materials, and battery material manufacturing.

Dr. Luiz Jacobsohn has been named Associate Editor of Optical Materials and its gold open-access mirror journal Optical Materials :X. This adds to his existing role as Associate Editor of Optica’s journal Optics Express.

Congratulations Dr. Joshua Tong on this well deserved award! To read more on the award go to https://news.clemson.edu/ten-faculty-member-honored-by-college-of-engineering-computing-and-applied-sciences/

MA officers (from left to right) Peyton Anderson, Jack Hoffler, Jakob Humphrey and Sara Dockins attended MS&T 24 in Pittsburg, PA. During their visit, they made many connections with students from various universities in the US and internationally. They attended various workshops and mixers and toured a steel mill. It was a great experience and […]

MSE students, faculty and staff Participated in a team building Halloween scavenger hunt. Teams braved the rain and had lots of fun!  The Glass Goblins won the event and each received a $25 gift card and of course bragging rights. Here are a few pictures of the teams on the hunt.    

Fiber lasers are lasers which use optical fibers to amplify the power of light, in the form of a light beam. Due to their high power, small form-factor, low weight, high beam quality and robust construction, fiber lasers are the fastest growing segment of the laser market. Bailey Meehan, who is a third year PhD […]

Many MSE students spend the summers on internships.  This past summer, MSE rising junior Annika DeVol and MSE grad student Zachary Caprow were selected for internships at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge Tennessee.  Here’s how they spent their summer: Annika DeVol: “This summer, I had the opportunity to participate in the Science Undergraduate […]

Congratulations to Arabella Hunter for being named a Beckman Scholar. Go here to watch a video about what inspires Arabella and her research. Read more about Arabella here

Congratulations to the Following For Passing Their Comprehensive Exams Xiner Lu – Dr. Kai He, Advisor Bailey Meehan – Dr. John Ballato, Advisor Aaron Santomauro – Dr. Joshua Tong, Advisor Ximei Zhai – Dr. Joshua Tong, Advisor Hongkui Zheng – Dr. Kai He, Advisor  

The International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) site in Self-Healing Materials Development aims to educate undergraduate and graduate students in the expanding field of self-healing materials.  Annually 6 students will spend 10 weeks at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands performing collaborative experimental and computational research on self-healing metallic, ceramic, polymeric and composite […]