LOWELL L. BAKER 
Mechanical Engineering, Accident Reconstruction, Biomechanics and Safety
Qualifications
Investigated motor vehicle, machinery, product liability and fall accidents
Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME)
EDUCATION
2007 Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering MIT
2004 M.S. Mechanical Engineering MIT
2002 B.S. Mechanical Engineering MIT
EXPERIENCE
2007-Present Forensic Engineer, Technology Associates, Stamford, CT
2002-2007 Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant, MIT, Cambridge, MA
2004 (summer) Research Engineer, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
2001 (summer) Fiber Optics Research and Development, Finisar, Sunnyvale, CA
2000 (summer) HVAC Engineer, Case-New Holland, Burr Ridge, IL
AWARDS
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), since 2007
MIT Presidential Fellow, 2002
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, 2002
Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Honor Society, 2001
PUBLICATIONS
K. Seluga, L. Baker and I. Ojalvo, “A Parametric Study of Golf Car and Personal Transport Vehicle Braking Stability,” Journal of Accident Analysis & Prevention 2009; 41:4:839-848.
K. Seluga, L. Baker and I. Ojalvo, “Stepladders – Why they’re not safe,” Proceedings of ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE2008-67399, 2008
L. L. Baker and N. G. Hadjiconstantinou, “Variance reduced Monte Carlo solutions of the Boltzmann equation for low-speed gas flows: A Discontinuous Galerkin formulation.” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, to appear
L. L. Baker and N. G. Hadjiconstantinou, “Variance-reduced particle methods for solving the Boltzmann equation.” Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2008
L. L. Baker and N. G. Hadjiconstantinou, “A variance reduction approach for Monte Carlo solutions of the non-linear Boltzmann equation.” In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels. ASME, 2005
L. L. Baker and N. G. Hadjiconstantinou, “Implicit hybrid simulation framework for steady-state dilute gas flows.” International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering, 3:49-58, 2005
L. L. Baker and N. G. Hadjiconstantinou, “Variance reduction for Monte Carlo solutions of the Boltzmann equation.” Physics of Fluids, 17 (051703), 2005
L. L. Baker, Efficient numerical methods for solving the Boltzmann equation for small scale flows. Doctoral thesis, MIT, June 2007
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