![A team of Clemson architecture students assemble Indigo Pine East, the first structure built using the sim[PLY] construction method. Off-the-shelf plywood is cut by CNC routers into interlocking tab-and-slot pieces that fit together to form a solid, tight frame. With the sim[PLY] method, digital cut files can be emailed to a CNC fabricator, and then shipped flat-packed to the construction site, ready to be assembled by hand, by unskilled labor.](http://newsstand.clemson.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_4495-1001x350.jpg)
At Clemson, you’ll find faculty, students and staff collaborating – with each other, with peers at other universities, with funding agencies and with industry partners – in pursuit of bold ideas and innovative answers.
Our collective diligence and determination help distinguish Clemson as an R1 Carnegie research university.
To build our international research reputation, we are building a world-class research environment, promoting a culture of discovery and excellence, increasing research activity and focusing on Clemson's innovation clusters, identified in ClemsonForward, Clemson’s strategic plan.
Clemson's innovation clusters represent longstanding areas of strength as well as new opportunities to build a national research reputation.
Externally funded research expenditures surpassed $100 million in 2010-11 and 2011-12.
