Shimin Liu, professor of energy and mineral engineering and the Thomas V. and Jean C. Falkie Mining Engineering Faculty Fellow at Penn State, received the Rossiter W. Raymond Memorial award from the Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE) and the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) for the best paper published in AIME's fields.
For Celia Ghilani, this year was one for trying new things.
A career in sustainable agriculture was not what Luis Alejandro Vergara had originally envisioned for himself. When he came to Penn State, he started studying petroleum engineering, but he eventually switched and ended up graduating with a bachelor's degree in environmental systems engineering in 2017.
This summer, four undergraduate students from four different departments and two colleges at Penn State investigated new engineered living materials — materials that exhibit life-like features — for eight weeks in Germany.
SPE recognized Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Luis Ayala, and Zuleima Karpyn for their exceptional service and leadership, as well as their significant professional contributions within their technical disciplines at the regional level.
Younes Shekarian, a doctoral degree candidate in EME received the SME Ph.D. Fellowship grant from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME).
Russell Johns, professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering at Penn State, was selected to receive the 2023 SPE/AIME Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal from the International Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) for technical leadership.
