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NSF Career Award Winners
Promising Young Researchers in Science and
Engineering
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Mark A. Schlautman
Assistant Professor of Environmental
Engineering and Science
Finding a Safe Way to Destroy Contaminants
 Dr.
Mark A. Schlautman’s research is expected to help discover
more effective ways to clean up contaminated sites and protect
our drinking water resources by developing safe and natural
catalysts to destroy environmental contaminants. His program
investigates the movement, fate and effects of contaminants
in the environment. Schlautman received his Ph.D. in environmental
engineering science from the California Institute of Technology
and was a postdoctoral research fellow in environmental engineering/chemistry
at the University of Michigan. He came to Clemson in 1999
and currently holds joint appointments in agricultural and
biological engineering and in environmental toxicology.
Dennis W. Smith, Jr.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Improving Advanced Materials for Light
Displays, Microdevices and Sensors
Dr.
Dennis W. Smith’s research is devoted to the field
of photonics, sometimes called “electronics at the
speed of light,” and the backbone of the Internet-driven
technology revolution. Smith and his team are working on
micro-optics, miniature structures that communicate and process
information as light rather than electricity. Their work
could cut Internet costs, double DVD storage capacity and
lighten military aircraft. He earned his Ph.D. from the University
of Florida in 1992 and was a Rhone Poulenc Graduate Research
Fellow in France and a Dow Chemical Postdoctoral Fellow in
Germany in 1993. Smith worked with the Dow Chemical Company
Central Research Laboratory for four years before joining
Clemson’s chemistry department in 1998.
Steven J. Stuart
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Building Better Computer Chips
Dr.
Steven J. Stuart is working on a better way to make computer
chips through the development of new mathematical models
of silicon and how they describe the reactive etching process.
These new silicon models allow predictive simulations of
this important etching process that can lead to improvements
in computer processing power. He earned a Ph.D. in chemical
physics from Columbia University in 1995 and worked as a
research instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy before joining
Clemson’s chemistry department in 1998.
Chenning Tong
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Improving Energy Efficiency and Reducing
Emissions
Dr.
Chenning Tong’s research focuses on predicting turbulent
combustion, a common type of combustion found in many automobile
engines, aircraft jet engines, gas turbine power generators
and industrial furnaces. Tong’s research, which investigates
the mixing of fuel and air and their effects on the combustion
process, will help designers build more efficient, low-emission
energy devices. He received his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering
from Cornell University in 1995 and was a research associate
at Penn State before joining Clemson’s mechanical engineering
department in 1999.
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