Lowe Awarded Presidential Fellowship

Doctoral candidate Robert (Bob) Lowe has been named a recipient of a Presidential Fellowship, one of the most competitive and prestigious scholarly recognitions awarded by Ohio State’s Graduate School. Presently, Lowe is a course instructor (lecturer) for ME 2010, Statics. His service to the Graduate School and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) has included stints as a delegate to Council of Graduate Students; and graduate student representative on numerous committees, including the College of Engineering Committee on Academic Affairs, the College of Engineering Graduate Studies Chairs’ Committee, and the MAE Computer Committee. He is also a co-founder and former vice-president of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Graduate Student Association (MEGA).

Lowe also served previously as a senior graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His research concentration lies within theoretical and applied mechanics. The title of his dissertation is "An Eulerian Approach for Modeling and Simulating Large-Deformation Dynamic Elasticity, with Applications to Structural Dynamics and Soft Materials." To-date, he has published six refereed journal articles and three conference proceedings papers, with several others submitted and/or in preparation. He has also co-authored a textbook with Professor Stephen Bechtel, which is titled, “Fundamentals of Continuum Mechanics: With Applications to Mechanical, Thermomechanical, and Smart Materials.” The anticipated publication date of the textbook is mid-2014.