Garrett R. Love

A product of Aberdeen, ID and Tilton, NH, "Doctor Love" received his BS degree in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991, followed by MS and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from Duke University in 1997 and 2000, respectively. In between studies (1991-1994), he taught high school mathematics at Central High School in Helena, Arkansas as part of the Arkansas/Mississippi Delta Corps of Teach for America , where he caught a severe case of the 'educational advocacy bug' that eventually led him to Shodor in January of 2001.

Garrett's primary academic research area is in the field of computational mechanics, notably finite element methods for impact analysis. His doctoral dissertation Velocity Update Algorithms for Transient Impact Problems: Consideration of Kinematic Discontinuities Within a Conserving Framework (pdf) and published research contributions were completed at Duke under the advisorship of and in collaboration with Dr. Tod Laursen . In 2001 he served a brief appointment as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Duke, teaching a sophomore-level course in the Mechanics of Solids.

Garrett serves as head coach with the Chapel Hill United Soccer Club, currently coaching a talented group of 10 & 11-year-old girls known as the Tempest. He occassionally expresses his artsy side in local performances as an actor and/or accordionist, most frequently with Jimmy Magoo and the Little Bang Band of Carrboro, NC. Other interests include strategic gaming, fantasy sports, and swing and country dancing.

You can visit Garrett's web page for more information.

You can contact Garrett at:

The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
923 Broad Street Suite 100
Durham, NC 27705

(919) 286-1911 (voice/TDD)
(919) 286-7876 (fax)

glove@shodor.org