In 1990, Jill M. Marlowe came to work at NASA Langley Research Center as a structural analyst in the Engineering Analysis Branch (EAB) within the Systems Engineering Division. During her time in EAB, she was the lead structural analyst on a wide variety of research and development activities, including space flight experiments such as the Small Expendable Deployer System - End Mass Payload, Materials In Devices As Superconductors (a Mir payload), and Stratospheric Aerosols & Gas Experiment (SAGE) III, as well as numerous wind tunnel models and spacecraft and instrument conceptual designs. She was the developer of “TACT: A Set of MSC/PATRAN- & MSC/NASTRAN-based Modal Correlation Tools,” which have been widely distributed to industry and academia.

Ms.Marlowe graduated from Virginia Tech in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science dual majoring in Aerospace Engineering and Ocean Engineering. She began her engineering career with General Dynamics’ Electric Boat Division in the Naval Architecture / Special Structural Systems Section, where she performed finite element analyses on SSN-21 Seawolf and Trident submarine external structures. While working at Electric Boat, she earned a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute.

In 1997, she completed a Degree of Engineer in Civil & Environmental Engineering with a focus on structural dynamics from George Washington University. She became the Assistant Branch Head of the Structural & Thermal Analysis Branch in 1997, and in 2003 became the Branch Head of the Mechanical Systems Branch, both in the Systems Engineering Division. In 2005, Ms. Marlowe became the Branch Head of the Structural Dynamics Branch in the Research & Technology Directorate where she now leads a team of researchers to conduct broad-based research and technology programs to predict and control the structural dynamic response of aerospace systems for NASA missions.

She has served on many Center and Agency teams, and recently chaired an Agency-level Mishap Investigation. Ms. Marlowe is a Senior Member of the AIAA, a member of the AHS, and is the recipient of several NASA Group Achievement Awards.

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