Facilities
The Fluor Daniel Engineering Innovation Building includes a high bay area supporting a two-story, 6,000-square-foot multipurpose facility. Equipped with an overhead crane to facilitate the operation of large research equipment, the high bay area includes the research operations of a wind tunnel, mechanical test frames, squeeze-casting of metal-ceramic materials, and fluidized beds and machining equipment.
Level 1: Laboratories across this floor are used for thermal fluid systems, design, and metrology. You can also find multiple graduate student offices and a seminar room.
Level 2: This level is home to ME Department faculty offices. In addition, there is the mechanical engineering advanced computational research international laboratory (RUST International Laboratory), a boundary layer wind tunnel, and an electrical and computer engineering locomotion laboratory.
Level 3: Laboratories on this floor are used for image processing and speech analysis, ground plane, power system protection, radar systems, spread spectrum, advanced communications, real-time power systems control, and harmonic generation and testing. The Milton Holcombe Chair Advanced Communications Laboratory is based here.
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING LAB: The Additive Manufacturing Lab has 3D Printing and Cutting Equipment that can be used in-house and commercially. Usage costs and overviews of the equipment are available.
ME Student Machine Shop
Located on the bottom floor of Cook Engineering Laboratory, the Mechanical Engineering Student Shop (MESS) supplies tools, facilities, materials, and supervisors to encourage students to complete class work, research, and personal projects through hands-on experience. Students have access to the shop’s resources at no additional cost. Regular workshops include welding, plasma cutting, and thread cutting.
Research Laboratories
The Department of Mechanical Engineering facilities include experimental, computational, design, material processing, and many other research laboratories.
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Teaching and Undergraduate Laboratories
Cook Engineering Lab
The Cook Engineering Laboratory was completed in 1965 and is named for James Clinton Cook, Jr., who was a professor of mechanical engineering from 1947-1965.
- Senior Capstone Design Project Lab
- ME Student Machine Shop
- HAAS CNC Machine Lab
- Material Testing Lab
- Automated Manufacturing Cell (Robotics' Cage)
- Wind Tunnel
- Water Tunnel
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Research Focus Laboratories
- Functionally Graded Material Laboratory
- Square D Laboratory for Mechatronics Research
- Subsonic Wind Tunnel
- Heat Pipe and Capillary Pumped Devices Laboratory
- Vacuum Facilities and Thermal Property Characterization Laboratory
- Advanced Computational Research Laboratory
- Tensile Testing Capabilities Laboratory
- Assistive Robotics Laboratory
- Clemson Advanced Manufacturing & Materials Processing (CAMMP)
- Cardiovascular Modeling & Experimentation Research Laboratory (CMERL)
- Clemson Engineering Design Applications and Research (CEDAR)
- Design Innovation and Computational Engineering Laboratory (DICE)
- Efficient Mobility Via Connectivity and Control (EMC2)
- Fracture Mechanics Lab (FRAME)
- Innovative Computational Engineering and Mechanics at Clemson University (CU-ICEM)
- Interfacial Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
- Interfacial Hydrodynamics Research Laboratory
- Interdisciplinary Intelligent Research Laboratory (I2R)
- Laser-Based Manufacturing and Materials Processing Laboratory (LAM2)
- Mechatronics and Hydraulics Research Laboratory
- Multiscale Manufacturing Laboratory (M2L)
- Smart Materials Active Response Technology Laboratory (SMART)
- Turbulent Combustion Laboratory
- Xuan Microfluidic Laboratory
Clemson Campuses
The Department of Mechanical Engineering has a footprint at three campuses: the main campus, the CU-ICAR campus in Greenville, SC and the Lowcountry campus in Charleston, SC.
