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South Carolina Manufacturing Introduction: Gretchen Philyaw is an industry CEO and noted columnist for a variety of global publications including Innovation & Tech Today and Plastics News. South Carolina Manufacturing is proud to announce our invitation to include her global column, Fabric of America, to our list of SCMFG resources and content. Below is one of her latest: Fabric […]
Alongside South Carolina ETV, SCMFG will produce compelling videos aimed at students around the state to encourage careers in manufacturing. When I attended middle school in the Palmetto State, our science classes and eighth grade history studies were steeped in all-things South Carolina. From Rudy Mancke and NatureScene to Mary Long’s Yesteryear, when SCETV was on, every student’s eyes […]
Clemson University Ph.D. student Yasir Mahmood has taken courses in mathematical physics and experimental microscopy. He has developed computer simulations that help researchers theorize how nano-scale metal grains grow under high temperatures. It was a year of hard work that is about to pay off. Mahmood plans to spend two summers in Albuquerque, New Mexico […]
Wearing orange-tinted safety glasses, Dr. Xin Zhao parted some plastic sheeting and stepped out of a darkened Clemson University clean room, followed by his Ph.D. student, Kewei Li. Li went to a computer with a purple Tiger paw on the screen and asked, “Ready?” “OK, let’s go,” Zhao said. Li hit a few buttons on […]
Patrick Carrington said that the capstone project he did to complete his Clemson University master’s degree helped open new opportunities for him at his job with electric-bus manufacturer Proterra. “It got me noticed, said Carrington, now a launch manager at the company. “The capstone project I did for my master’s program was also presented to […]
Terry Forliti helps sex-trafficking survivors find a different life, but she knows what it’s like to be on the other side, caught in a spell of addiction, homelessness and enslavement while grasping the bars of a jail cell. Forliti, sober since 2008 and now the executive director of Breaking Free in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is […]
It is a distinctly uncomfortable sensation to see one’s grandmother addressed as “Kitten” by a man other than one’s grandfather. But that seems to have been the preferred pet name by which a young Private Gordon Thibodeaux addressed my grandma, Nellie. The first letter, dated March 15, 1943, is the only exception. Apparently wishing to […]
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