CU Student wins $100K for manufacturing Software

On Friday, a Clemson University student receives her master’s degree and plans to pay off her student loans and establish a scholarship with $100,000 she won for developing manufacturing software.  Valerie Pezzullo won first place in the MTConnect Challenge 2 for an application that detects vibrations in metal-cutting machines so that corrections can be made before parts are damaged. Pezzullo earned her master’s degree in mechanical engineering while doing research at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research.