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Leadership Changes
 John
M. Kennedy has been appointed director of the Center for Advanced
Engineering Fibers and Films. CAEFF, with an $8.5 million annual
budget, is the National Science Foundation’s only Engineering
Research Center for fiber and film research. The center provides
an environment where academia and industry can work together on
complex, next-generation engineering systems important to the nation’s
future. Clemson University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
partner through CAEFF.
Kennedy,
a professor of mechanical engineering, has served as the center’s
Deputy Director and Associate Director for Education since 1998.
He earned his M.S. degree in mechanical engineering at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute in 1977 and completed his Ph. D. in mechanical
engineering at Clemson, after working at NASA’s Langley Research
Center. He has been a faculty member at Clemson since 1984, and
with CAEFF from its inception.He played a pivotal role in forming
the center’s educational program.
Kennedy
succeeds Dr. Dan Edie, founder and director of CAEFF from 1998 through
2003. Edie has returned to full-time research and teaching in the
department of chemical engineering.
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