SPE Announces Presidential Award for Outstanding Student Chapters

Eighteen SPE student chapters across the world have won the 2019 Presidential Award for Outstanding Student Chapter. The award recognizes chapters whose programs, activities, and levels of participation distinguish them from other chapters. Formerly known as the Outstanding Student Chapter Award, this top award now recognizes the highest-ranked 5% of eligible student chapters that are exemplary in the scoring categories, as opposed to 10% in previous years. 

Al-Azhar University	Peking University
Almetyevsk State Oil Institute	Suez University
Bandung Institute of Technology	Texas A&M University
British University	Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Cairo University	Universidade Federal do Ceará
Hasanuddin University	Université Kasdi Merbah Ouargla
IFP School	University of Petroleum & Energy Studies
Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires	University of Port Harcourt
Nnamdi Azikiwe University	Vellore Institute of Technology

 

Student Chapter Excellence Award Winners. In addition to the President Awards, 68 student chapters were recognized with the SPE Student Chapter Excellence Awards for accomplishing an admirable level of activity. Formerly known as the Gold Standard, the Student Chapter Excellence Award is expanded this year to recognize 20% of eligible student chapters.

The Presidential Award for Outstanding Student Chapters will be presented to the winning chapters during the Student Awards Luncheon at the 2019 SPE ATCE to be held 30 September–2 October in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Excellence Award certificates will be emailed to the designated chapters.

According to the 2019 SPE Fact Sheet, SPE student membership includes more than 72,000 students and 396 student chapters. Each chapter is sponsored by an SPE section. To learn more about SPE student chapters and the awards, click here.