PhD Student Wins International Contest
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October 15, 2012
UT PGE PhD student Mahdy Shirdel won first place in the SPE International Student Paper Contest held at the organization’s Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in San Antonio. He presented on: “Development of a Coupled Wellbore/Reservoir Simulator for Damage Prediction and Remediation.”
The paper contest competition started at the local level, here at UT – Mahdy was in the Top two of 12 participants. Then he placed first out of eight in the regional contest in Baton Rouge and finally competed at the international conference taking the highest honor in a pool of seven participants.
This a major accomplishment for Mahdy - the department is proud to have an international PE star conducting innovative and game-changing research.
