Larry L. Howell

Larry L. Howell is Professor and Associate Dean of the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology at Brigham Young University. He received his BS degree from BYU and MS and PhD degrees from Purdue University. Prior to joining BYU in 1994, he was a visiting professor at Purdue University, a finite element analysis consultant for Engineering Methods, Inc., and an engineer on the design of the YF-22 (the prototype for the U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor). He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the recipient of the ASME Machine Design Award, ASME Mechanisms & Robotics Award, Theodore von Kármán Fellowship, NSF Career Award, and the BYU Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecture Award. He and his wife, Peggy, live in Orem and have four children and two grandchildren.