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A. J. Baker, PhD, PE, departed commercial aerospace industry to join the UT College of Engineering in 1975, to lead academic research in the exciting new field of CFD (computational fluid dynamics). Now Professor (soon Emeritus), Engineering Science Graduate Program, and Director, UT CFD Laboratory (http://cfdlab.utk.edu), he started as a mechanical engineer with Union Carbide Corp in 1958. Challenges there received prompted his resigning to enter graduate school full time in 1963 to “learn what a computer could do.” His first academic challenge was driving an IBM 1620 with 5 kB memory and no disk pack! A summer job with Bell Aerospace Company in 1967 introduced him to unsteady heat conduction via finite element analysis. This led to the 1968 Bell technical report, "A Numerical Solution Technique for a Class of Two-Dimensional Problems in Fluid Dynamics Formulated via Discrete (Finite) Elements," a pioneering contribution to the fledgling CFD field. Matriculating in 1970, he joined Bell full time as Principal Research Scientist to lead a group developing finite element methods in CFD. NASA Langley (ICASE) contacts in this period opened up a visiting professorship at Old Dominion University, 1974-75, hence on to UT. His research expertise lies in weak form finite element algorithms in the computational engineering sciences with focus in computational fluid dynamics (CFD). He has served as major professor for 16 PhD dissertations and advisor for the same number of MSc theses/projects. He has authored some 270 technical publications since 1970, and written three textbooks, two with international editions and one Japanese translation, in the computational engineering sciences and CFD. He has served as Principal Investigator/Technical Director for some $7M in research contracts focused in the computational engineering sciences
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