Chris Sideroff joined Pointwise in September 2007 after working as a petroleum engineer for the NATCO Group, a CAD engineer for ARV Development, and a computer technician for Harddata Ltd. Dr. Sideroff earned both a B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Alberta in 2000 and 2003. He earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Syracuse University in 2009, where his dissertation subject was "Detailed Examinations of the Human Micro-Environment by CFD".
Yves-Marie Lefebvre, sales and support engineer from Intelligent Light, was a research and development engineer at Sirehna prior to joining the Intelligent Light staff in 2007. He earned an engineering degree in
Steve received his B.S. and M.E. in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University and his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. He was employed at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth from 1983 to 2003. Since 2003 he has been a professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the SimCenter: National Center for Computational Engineering. His area of research is mesh generation.
Bruce Hilbert has been the primary grid generator at the UTC SimCenter for almost three years. In that time, Bruce has been the geometer on projects in a wide range of fields including traditional aircraft, turbomachinery, watercraft, fuel cells, and waveguides. He is also engaged in active research regarding tetrahedral meshing and grid procedures involving CAD models. Before his tenure at the SimCenter, Bruce was an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Chattanooga State Technical Community College for a decade.