Lab Alumni

Doctoral

*Cory Goates, August 2023

*Christian Bolander, May 2023

**Jeff Taylor, August 2022

**Zach Montgomery, May 2022

Bruno Moorthamers, August 2021

*Jackson Reid, August 2020

Josh Hodson, April 2019

Dalon Work, May 2017

Masters

Parker Carter, December 2023

*Justice Schoenfeld, December 2022

Kyler Church, December 2022

Austin Kohler, December 2022

Nolan Dixon, December 2022

*Sabrina Snow, December 2021

Jaden Thurgood, February 2021

Josh Brincklow, April 2020

Austin Stewart, December 2019

*Ted Giblette, April 2019

Steven Bennett, April 2019

Joshua Goates, December 2018

Sarah Abdel-Motaleb, December 2018

Dustin Weaver, December 2017

Orrin Pope, December 2017

Philip Le Goubin, May 2017

Yushi Yanagita, April 2017

Undergraduate

Ammon Houser, August 2022

Dallin Wiberg, April 2021

Jacob Rosqvist, May 2018

**Also completed Masters degree in the lab
*Also participated as an undergraduate in the lab

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Alumni Perspectives

Zach Montgomery
(MS/PhD)

Anduril Industries

"It has given me the proper mindset to analyze problems"

Austin Stewart
(MS)

Air Force Research Lab

"Working on a thesis, you become one of the leading experts in that field"

Dalon Work
(PhD)

Dassault Systèmes

"Having the PhD is sort of a sign that you're willing to sit down and do hard things."

Josh Brincklow
(MS)

CAE

"You're making big breakthroughs on things that no one has ever actually figured out before, and that's really fulfilling."

Sabrina Snow
(MS)

Boeing

"It is a very special feeling to see something that you built take off and start flying"

Josh Goates
(MS)

Anduril Industries

"I gained the experience of encountering a problem, independently searching for a solution, coming up with something new, and applying it."

Austin Kohler
(MS)

Dynamic Dimension Technologies

"Grad school has opened up a lot of doors and given me opportunities to find more fulfilling work"

Dallin Wiberg
(Undergraduate)

Aurora Flight Sciences

"What I've always found is that there's no wasted efforts"

Bruno Moorthamers
(PhD)

DAR Corporation

"Find what you like doing and focus mostly on being happy at the end of the day"

Jaden Thurgood
(MS)

Anduril Industries

"Grad school was the way I had envisioned school should have been during my undergrad ... [it is] an introductory course to the rest of life's learning."

Jeff Taylor
(PhD)

USU Center for Anticipatory Intelligence

"I realized that research was what I had always wanted to do, I just didn't know that it was research."

Christian Bolander
(PhD)

USU Engineering Education

"Even more than the skills I've gotten in the AeroLab, I value the connections I've made with people in the lab."