Jeffrey Marshall is a Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Vermont. He received a Ph.D. degree (Mechanical Engineering) from the University of California at Berkeley (1987) and BS and MS degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles (1983, 1984). He has previously served as Assistant Professor of Ocean Engineering at Florida Atlantic University (1989-1993), and as Associate Professor, Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Iowa (1993-2006). He is the recipient of the ASME Henry Hess Award (1992) and of the young investigator award from the Army Research Office (1993), and he was later elected as a fellow of the American Association of Mechanical Engineers (2004). He is the author of nearly 100 journal articles and book chapters. He has written a graduate-level textbook Inviscid Incompressible Flow (John Wiley & Sons, 2001) and a scholarly monograph Adhesive Particle Flow: A Discrete Element Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2014, with Shuiqing Li). Professor Marshall currently serves as the director of the Smart Grid IGERT program at the University of Vermont.