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A campus competition started our students in the SPE Gulf Coast Regional Student
Paper/Presentation Contest. Sponsored by Schlumberger, the Department of
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering competition was held on February 17th. Winners of the top two prizes in these contests will go on
to compete at regional level of competition, to be held in College Station at Texas A & M University,
on March 31st through April 1. At the PhD level the three winners are: Namsu Park in
first place, Yajun Liu in second place, and Baosheng Liang in third
place.
Winners in the Master’s level paper competition are: Shekhar Srinivasan in first
place, Justin Ferrell in second, and Waleed Fazelipour in third place. In the
Undergraduate competition, the winners are: Benjamin Shlyapobersky in first place,
Scott Hou in second place and Julie Speer in third place.
Congratulations to all of the students who participated, and particularly to the nine winners.
Prize money was awarded at all three levels of competition; each first place winner won $500.,
each second place winner won $300. and each third place winner won $200. In the
event that first or second place winners are unable to attend the next level of competition,
third place winners will act as alternate, and will go on to compete again.
The SPE Paper Contests are held to encourage student engineers to do research
and publish, even at an early point in their education.
Each year the regional sections of the student chapters of SPE hold
paper/presentation contests. The requirements state that the paper should be
the original work of the author in planning the investigation, performing the
work, interpreting the results and preparing the presentation/paper. The
subject of the paper must be related to petroleum engineering which is defined
as the application of basic and engineering sciences to the finding,
development, and recovery of oil, gas and other resources from wells.
The first place winners from each of the eight regional contests then advance
to compete in an international contest to be held at the Annual Fall Meeting.
We wish our students good luck in the next round of the competition!
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