BYU SPE Hosts Dr. Larry Lake!

Dr. Larry Lake, professor in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, will deliver a Distinguished Lecture at BYU at 4:00 p.m. on January 22, 2015. This will be followed at 6 p.m. by a dinner meeting with presentations of ongoing research by BYU students. The seminar will be held in room CB 254 of the Clyde Engineering Building at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. The dinner meeting will be held in the Wilkinsons Center, also at BYU. The seminar is complimentary (no charge) and the cost for the dinner is $25 for SPE members and $15 for members of an SPE student chapter.

Larry W. Lake is a professor in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.  He holds B.S.E and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Arizona State University and Rice University, respectively. Dr. Lake is the author or co-author of more than 100 technical papers, four textbooks and the editor of three bound volumes. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), won the 1996 Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal of the AIME, the Degoyer Distinguished Service Award in
2002, and has been a member of the National Academy of Engineers since 1997.