The UT CFD Laboratory graduate program has matriculated nearly a dozen and a half each PhD and MSc students over the past two decades. Most graduates have moved into, or remained in, professionally challenging career positions in the computational engineering sciences field. The following summarizes current professional environments.

• Stuart Walker (Graduate CFD Certificate, 2009)
  Graduate student, Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee

• Jack Holder (MSc, 2008)
  Operations Research Analyst, NAVAIR, Bethesda, MD

• Shashank Karra (MSc, 2007)
  Research Engineer, Baker Hughes Corp., Mechanical Systems Reliability Group, Houston, TX

• Scott Lusted (MSc, 2007)
  Computational Analyst, Corvid Technologies, Inc., Mooresville, NC.

• Marcel Grubert (PhD, 2006)
  Engineering Specialist, Well Stimulation Section, Drilling & Subsurface Technology Division, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, TX

• Sunil Sahu(PhD, 2006)
  Senior Engineer, Fuel Systems Simulation and Analysis, Large Power Systems, Caterpillar, Inc. Mossville, IL

• Kevin Kilpatrick (PhD, 2001)
  Retired US Airforce 2005, now Performance & Reliability Engineer, Standard Aero Alliance, Inc., Maryville, TN.

• W. Reid Williams (MSc, 2005)
  Senior Engineer, DOE Y12 Facility, Oak Ridge, TN.

• Shawn Ericson (MSc, 2001)  
  Applications Engineer, CFD Research Corp., Huntsville AL

• Alexy Kolesnikov (PhD, 2000)  
  Senior Associate, CPP Wind Engineering & Air Quality Consultants, Fort Collins, CO.

• Zacharia Chambers (PhD, 2000)
  Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Rose Hulman University, Terre Haute, Indiana.

• Atish Mitra (MSc, 2000, PhD mathematics (UTK), 2006)
  Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL

• David Chaffin (PhD, 1997)
  Digital Analyst, Texas Technical University, TX

• Allen Crabtree (MSc, 1997)
  Senior Engineer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN

• Kwai Wong (PhD, 1995)
  Senior Research Scientist, UT Joint Institute for Computational Science (JICS), ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN

• Dee Wong(PhD, 1995)
  Location unknown. 

• Lamar Lepard (MSc, 1995)
  Engineer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN

• Jing Zhang (PhD, 1995)
  Location unknown. 

• Subrata Roy(PhD, 1994)
  Associate Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

• Kara Kruse (MSc, 1994)
  Research Engineer, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN

• Paul Williams (PhD, 1993)
  Senior Staff Member, Computational Sciences and Mathematics Division, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN

• Ed Schaub (MSc, 1993)
  CFD specialist,working on a PhD.

• Jim Freels (PhD, 1992)
  Senior Research Staff, HFIR Division, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN

• Leif Willanning (MSc, 1991)
  Location unknown. 

• Joe Iannelli (PhD, 1991)
  Location unknown..

• Wilbert Noronka (PhD, 1989)
  Location unknown. 

• Dean Carter (MSc, 1989)
  Technical Staff, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville AL.

• Jon Woods (MSc, 1989)
  Location unknown 

• Albert Hines (MSc, 1988)
  CES Specialist, Casting Simulation Group, ALCOA, Inc. Pittsburg, PA.

• Jin Whan Kim (PhD, 1987) kimjw@hyomin.dongeui.ac.kr
  Professor, Mechanical Engineering, DongEui University, Busan, Korea.

• George Moore (MSc, 1984)
  Location unknown 

• M. Osama Soliman (PhD, 1978)
  Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN

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