Garrett R. Love

Garrett's primary academic research area is in the field of computational mechanics, notably finite element methods for impact analysis. His doctoral dissertation 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, occasionally with Jimmy Magoo and the Little Bang Band of Carrboro, NC.  and recently (Spring 2004) in Shakespeare & Originals production of Faust. Other interests include strategic gaming, fantasy sports, and swing and country dancing.

ShodorActivities

• Staff scientist and engineer (EIT certified), Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. a non-profit research and education corporation with nearly $1M annually in federal, state, and private funding to undertake interdisciplinary research in the appropriate uses of technology in education. Shodor is a leading undergraduate education component of the National Computational Science Alliance.
• Director, instructor, curriculum assessor and designer, Project SUCCEED (Stimulating Understanding of Computational science through Collaboration, Experiment, Exploration, and Discovery), a middle school and high school workshop and mentorship program.  Dr. Love designed ‘Engineers in Training’ and ‘Physics Explorations’ workshops, and co-created ‘Scientific Programming’ workshop.
  
• Part-time instructor with the National Computational Science Institute, where he trains college faculty in the hands-on use of computational science, numerical models, and data visualization tools across the curriculum. 
• Workshop instructor for the Educational Program of the various SuperComputing conferences, including, SC01, SC02, SC03 and SC04.   Provided instruction and a set of materials in the use of Mathematica for computational science education and for using computational science as part of an engineering curriculum.
  
• Instructor/content developer with the REVITALISE (Rural Educators using Visualization to Inspire Teacher Advancement and Learning to Improve Science and math Education) program, a project that introduces rural high school teachers in Illinois and North Carolina to modern visualization technologies for use in their classroom.
• Instructor, SUNY-Brockport College and Rochester City (SCOLLARCITY) Math and Science Partnership: Integrative Technology Tools for Preservice and In-service teacher education. Dr. Love provides instruction and content on the use of computational science software tools for high school teachers during a summer institute in Rochester.
• Instructor and curriculum developer with the Contemporary Science Center, a project to bring authentic science experiences to high school students through the exploration of actual research projects generated in conjunction with scientists in the Research Triangle Park.
• Workshop instructor for the 2004 TeacherTECH Program offered by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center to train Pittsburgh school teachers in the classroom use of modeling technologies.

• Engineers in Training, a Project SUCCEED workshop designed to introduce middle schoolers to some basic concepts of engineering design.
  (Some lessons are under construction)
• WEAVE (Web-based Educational framework for Analysis, Visualization and Experimentation). A collaboration with Duke University Civil Engineering faculty.  Shodor is responsible for guiding implementation of interactive tutorials for the lesson modules.
• EPA/DODEA (Department of Defense Education Action) SESOIL  model – constructing educational lessons for use with a soil contaminant transport model.
• GWSim (download), a Java-based finite-element modeling tool, designed to be used in conjunction with a tabletop groundwater simulator (available from Crystal Scientific or from enVISION)
  
• Penn State Department of Agricultural Economics Higher Education Challenge Grant program for the development of applets (constrained optimization, iterative matrix multiplication) for teaching undergraduate economics concepts.

• Jenna Ingersoll

• Zach Brewer
• Josh Climer
• Will Davis
• Elizabeth Gass
• Ellie Grano
• Warren Myers
  
• Michael Thuente
• Solomon Valentine
  
• Megan Chaney
  
• Fei Chi
• Alex Evans
• Renee Gerber
• Shilpa Khatri
• Robbie Marriott
  
• Albert Ren
  

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)