{"id":879,"date":"2019-11-06T14:34:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T14:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engage.utk.edu\/?p=879"},"modified":"2026-09-02T16:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T20:34:45","slug":"congratulations-to-ef-gta-john-thress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/engage\/2019\/11\/06\/congratulations-to-ef-gta-john-thress\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to EF GTA John Thress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-002ffff5 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Engineering Fundamentals program congratulates EF GTA John Thress, for excelling as the top engineering summer graduate of 2019.\u00a0John graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BS in Mechanical Engineering.\u00a0 He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Thermal-Fluid Mechanics.\u00a0His interest in research is computational fluid dynamics, machine learning, and fundamental fluid mechanics.\u00a0John is a Knoxville native who graduated from Bearden High School.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"731\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/engage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/08\/John-Thress-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of John Thress\" class=\"wp-image-772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/engage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/08\/John-Thress-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/engage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/08\/John-Thress-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/engage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/08\/John-Thress-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/engage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/08\/John-Thress-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/engage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/08\/John-Thress-1463x2048.jpg 1463w, https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/engage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/08\/John-Thress.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Engineering Fundamentals program congratulates EF GTA John Thress, for excelling as the top engineering summer graduate of 2019.\u00a0John graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BS in Mechanical Engineering.\u00a0 He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Thermal-Fluid Mechanics.\u00a0His interest in research is computational fluid dynamics, machine learning, and fundamental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[36,19,46],"locations":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ef-152","tag-engage","tag-john-thress"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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