Loth Named ASME Fellow

4/9/2013 Written by Susan Mumm

AE Professor Eric Loth has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Fellowship status in the 129-year-old organization is conferred upon veteran members who have contributed significant engineering achievements.

Written by Written by Susan Mumm

AE Professor Eric Loth
AE Professor Eric Loth
AE Professor Eric Loth
AE Professor Eric Loth has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Fellowship status in the 129-year-old organization is conferred upon veteran members who have contributed significant engineering achievements.

Professor Loth has distinguished himself nationally and internationally for over 20 years as an engineer and educator in the area of fluid dynamics. His major research accomplishments include development of novel simulation methods and fundamental research in aerodynamic, aeroelastic, multi-phase, and supersonic flow phenomena. He has over 75 journal publications (including a review paper on multiphase flow with more than 90 citations), and over 100 conference papers.

Loth earned his PhD in 1988 from the University of Michigan, with a dissertation on experiments of multiphase supersonic turbulent flows. He earned a master’s in 1985 from Pennsylvania State University and a bachelor’s in 1983 from West Virginia University, conducting research in aerodynamic simulations and wind turbine systems, respectively.

Loth focused on computational fluid dynamics of shock waves with unstructured grids when he began his career at the Naval Research Laboratory. He joined the AE Department’s faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1990, and rose to Associate and then Full Professor by 2002, when he was named a Willett Faculty Scholar of the College of Engineering. In 2008, he was appointed AE’s Associate Head of Undergraduate Studies.

Founded in 1880, ASME is a not-for-profit professional organization that promotes the art, science and practice of mechanical and multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences throughout the world. The core values of ASME are rooted in its mission to better enable mechanical engineering practitioners to contribute to the well-being of humankind.


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This story was published April 9, 2013.