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A campus competition determined which of our students will represent the department in the SPE Gulf
Coast Regional Student Paper/Presentation Contest. The Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering competition was
held on November 18th. Winners of the top two prizes in these contests will go on to compete at the regional competition at LSU in 2012.
The winning presenter at the PhD level is Javad Behseresht. In second place is Mahdy Shirdel. The third place prize goes to Prince Azom.
Placing first in the MS division competition is Gaurav Sharma. Christopher Blyton is in second place. In third place is
Priya Ravi Ganesh.
In Undergraduate competition Philip Flores ranks first. In second place is Charlie Knapp.
Placing third is Jacob Martin. According to Dr. David DiCarlo, the SPE faculty advisor, UT will be well represented in the next level of competition.
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 $1000, each second place winner won
$500 and each third place winner won $300. In the event that first or second place winners are unable to attend the next
level of competition, the third place winner will act as alternate, and will go on to compete again.
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 2012 Annual Fall Meeting. We wish our students good luck in the next round of the competition!
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