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Stress Engineering President and Wife Establish
Texas A & M Mechanical Engineering Fellowship

December 1, 2008 - Joe Fowler and his wife Linda of Houston have endowed a graduate fellowship for Texas A & M University mechanical engineering students. Their $100,000 gift, to be matched by the Turbomachinery Laboratory, establishes the Linda D. and Joe R. Fowler ’68 Fellowship in Mechanical Engineering.

Fowler earned three degrees at Texas A&M. He worked two years as a research engineer for Texaco and co-founded Stress Engineering Services in 1972, becoming president in 1984.

Fowler is a registered professional engineer who holds six U.S. patents. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a member of the Society for Experimental Mechanics, the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. Texas A&M has honored Fowler as an Outstanding Alumnus of the Look College and a charter member of the mechanical engineering department’s Academy of Distinguished Graduates. He currently chairs the college’s Engineering Advisory Council and was a former chair of the Mechanical Engineering Industry Council at Texas A&M.

The Turbomachinery Laboratory is internationally known for its research into important problems of reliability and performance of rotating machinery that extracts or adds energy to fluids. The laboratory’s two major symposia are the meetings of choice for users and manufacturers of commercial turbomachinery.