Parker Honored as ASME 2008 Fellow

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The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has announced this year's fellows and Rob Parker, professor in mechanical engineering, is a 2008 honoree.

ASME selected Parker for his development of a major research program on the dynamics, vibration, and stability of mechanical systems with particular focus on high-speed machinery. His current work focuses on the dynamics of geared transmissions and axially moving media such as belt drives. This work examines fundamental problems at the boundary of academic research and industrial applications, adopting mathematical, computational and experimental approaches.

Parker has received a number of national awards including the Dow Outstanding New Faculty Member Award from the American Society of Engineering Education and the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers. Parker was a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 1999, following nomination by the Army Research Office after receiving their U.S. Army Young Investigator Award for his planetary gear dynamics research. He received an NSF CAREER Award for separate research on the dynamics of high-speed gyroscopic systems.

His research projects are supported by a mixture of government and industry organizations including the National Science Foundation, U.S. Army Research Office, NASA, General Motors, Center for Rotorcraft Innovation, Ford, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Ohio Space Grant Consortium.

 
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