45th Annual | Distinguished Engineer Awards Luncheon | April 15, 2011

Texas Tech University | Whitacre College of Engineering

The measure of a college’s distinction and influence depends greatly upon the achievement of its alumni and the positions they earn in their respective communities and fields of endeavor. To recognize some of the most outstanding alumni of Texas Tech, the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering has established the Distinguished Engineer Award.

This year’s awards mark the 45th anniversary of the program, initiated by Dean John R. Bradford in the 1966-67 academic year.

Purpose and Philosophy

The purpose of the program is to recognize and honor engineering alumni who have made significant contributions to society and whose accomplishments and careers have brought credit to the Whitacre College of Engineering of Texas Tech University and to the engineering profession as a whole.

This program does more than honor these former students. It spotlights the accomplishments of the Whitacre College of Engineering of Texas Tech, and thereby increases the pride of alumni, students, faculty, and staff. It likewise presents to the people of Texas and the nation tangible evidence of the effectiveness of engineering at Texas Tech.

In establishing this program, it was recognized that these awards were to be given for outstanding achievement both inside as well as outside the profession and that no compromises diminishing the significance of the awards would be made.

To be eligible for the Distinguished Engineer Award, an individual must:

• Be distinguished in their profession, life work, or other worthy endeavors, and have received recognition from contemporaries.

• Be a person of such integrity, stature, and demonstrated ability that the faculty, staff, students, and alumni will take pride in and be inspired by their recognition.

• Have demonstrated a continuing interest in areas outside the field of engineering to bring honor and prestige to the profession.

• Have received a degree from the Whitacre College of Engineering at Texas Tech University.

Distinguished EngineerAward Program Information

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2011 Distinguished Engineer Awards LuncheonMerket Alumni Center | April 15, 2011 |11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Welcome and Invocation

Lunch

Dean’s Remarks

Presentation of 2011 Distinguished Engineers

Dennis Carroll, Ph.D., P.E.

Randy Crawford, Ph.D.

Terry Fuller

Paul Grimmer

William Guion, Ph.D.

Mary Anne Hicks, P.E.

Jack Rentz, P.E.

Walter T. Winn Jr., P.E.

Presentation of Awards

Closing

Will Hagood ’69Senior Vice President, HDR Engineering, Inc.

2007 Distinguished Engineer

Al Sacco Jr., Ph.D.Dean, Whitacre College of Engineering

B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Computer Science 1987, 1989, & 1991

B.S., Chemical Engineering1949

B.S., Petroleum Engineering1977

B.S., Chemical Engineering1977

B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Electrical Engineering1966, 1968, & 1970

B.S., Industrial Engineering1979

B.S., Mechanical Engineering1974

B.S., M.S., Civil Engineering1972 & 1973

Al Sacco Jr., Ph.D.

Will Hagood ’69

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Dr. Dennis J Carroll is the director of innovation for the Government Solutions Group of Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), a Xerox Company. GSG provides software solutions for federal, state, and local government services.

Born in Canyon, he grew up in numerous Texas cities including six years in Lubbock and his high school years in Abilene. He entered Texas Tech and remained there for eight and a half years earning a bachelor of science, master of science, and doctor of philosophy in computer science, becoming the first person to enter as a freshman and exit with a Ph.D. in computer science at Texas Tech.

After finishing at Texas Tech in 1991, he joined IBM Federal Systems Company, becoming the software development lead for the on-board space station freedom fault detection, isolation, and recovery software. During his 18 years at IBM, he worked in a wide variety of business applications including space technology, telecommunications, health insurance, state corrections, and banking. However, most of his assignments were as the lead architect in increasingly complex state and U.S. federal systems.

In 2001, Carroll became the forty-second person licensed as a professional engineer in software engineering in Texas. In 2002, he was invited to serve on IBM’s I/T Architect Profession board. He has been an active board member for seven years, focusing on mentoring, establishing formal processes, and building educational materials in I/T architecture and advanced systems engineering.

In 2006, he served as the lead architect of the Defense Commissary Agency’s project to replace all retail equipment in 270 stores worldwide. In 2008, he served as the chief engineer for the EADIS program consolidating FEMA software development into one organization. In this role, he established formal software engineering methods leveraging Homeland Security, Department of Defense, and NASA complex systems engineering processes to redefine how FEMA builds and maintains its software systems.

In 2009, he left IBM to join ACS as chief engineer of the Payment Solutions Group (PSG). This 360-person organization provides software for electronic payments systems and drives over $400 million in revenue from service programs in 29 states and the US Treasury. Carroll led the group’s transformation into an engineering process oriented I/T service provider. In 2010, he was named director of innovation in PSG’s parent organization charged with initiating an active innovation program in the billion-dollar Government Solutions Group.

While at Texas Tech, Carroll was an active student member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), spending five years as a contestant, captain, and coach of the Texas Tech Programming Team. After graduating, he continued his relationship with ACM, serving for seven years as Chief Judge of the South Central Region. He also served as chief judge of the Texas UIL high school computer programming contest for an additional four years. Now an emeritus member, he was a charter member of the Whitacre College of Engineering Dean’s Council. He is also a charter member of the Computer Science External Advisory Board and currently serves as chairman.

He married his wife Amy in 1992. She received a bachelor of science in computer science from Texas Tech in 1992. They live in Leander, Texas with their beautiful daughter, Amber, and their wonderful son, Zachary. Formerly an avid volleyball player, he now enjoys fishing and working outside at his home in the Texas Hill Country.

Dennis Carroll, Ph.D., P.E.Distinguished Engineer – 2011

B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Computer Science, Texas Tech, 1987, 1989, & 1991 Director of Innovation

Government Solutions Group - Affiliated Computer Services

Wife: Amy Children: Amber and Zachary

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Dr. Randy Crawford worked as an engineer and manager in petroleum production, well completions and stimulation, contract research, fertilizer, and municipal trash collection and disposal. He is an author of 30 technical papers. He has received six patents and has applied for a patent titled “Mitigation of Rotating Windstorms.” He and his wife, Louise, established three endowed scholarships and have encouraged more than 100 students to go to college, 25 of whom went to Texas Tech.

Crawford graduated from Haskell High School. He, as three of his older brothers had, received a bachelor of science in chemical engineering from Texas Tech. He then worked for Sun Oil for a year before entering the United States Army, where he taught radiological defense in the Far East Command Chemical School in Japan. He received a commendation medal for improving the design of a RADIAC instrument and correcting publications.

With help from the GI Bill, Crawford attended the University of Texas at Austin. He taught mathematics and received a master of science and a doctor of philosophy in chemical engineering. Crawford then worked for The Western Company of North America developing acidizing, cementing, and fracturing products and treatment design methods for the oil and gas industry. Crawford was a pioneer in the design of hydraulic fracturing treatments, publishing the first practical design technique in 1959. As manager of contract research for Western, Crawford’s team designed, built and demonstrated a system to repair a runway “bomb” crater, 70 feet in diameter and 14 feet deep, so that an Air Force fighter plane could land in 45 minutes. The Air Force Liaison person received the “Project Manager of the Year” award for this successful project.

Crawford then joined Conoco where his task was to increase the production rate of new oil and gas wells. He prepared and implemented a well completion and software design program. He developed and taught in schools for employees to learn the new techniques. The result of this effort increased Conoco’s production by about five million barrels per year.

Crawford was on a team that persuaded the management of Conoco’s sister company, Consol Coal, to allow engineers to fracture and produce methane from coal seams prior to sending miners into the mine.

This project made mining safer, doubled the mining rate, and is estimated to save $1.5 billion over the life of project. Consol sells 80 billion cubic feet per year of methane and prevents its release into our atmosphere. Methane is said to be 25 times more damaging as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Crawford was honored by being named one of eight members selected to be a “Legend of Production and Operations” from the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) as reported in the December 2009 Journal of Petroleum Technology. SPE has 90,000 members.

Crawford received the Boy Scouts “Silver Beaver Award.” He was a member of Tau Beta Pi. He is listed in Who’s Who in Texas, in Engineering, in High Schools, and in the South and Southwest. He was president or chairman of the: Dallas AIChE, Richardson Optimist Club, UT Austin Omega Chi Epsilon, Waller County Appraisal District, and The Society for Red Raider Engineering.

Randy Crawford’s two brothers are also Distinguished Engineers. Paul B. Crawford ’43 received the award in 1982 and Duffer B. Crawford ’41 received the award in 2008.

Randy Crawford, Ph.D.Distinguished Engineer – 2011B.S., Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech, 1949Retired

Wife: LouiseChildren: Michael, Donald, Nancy, Barbara

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Terry Fuller is president and founder of Phoenix PetroCorp, Inc., an independent oil and gas production company with operations in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

Fuller was born and raised in Amarillo, Texas and graduated from Palo Duro High School in 1973. Planning to major in engineering, he took a tour of the Texas Tech campus hosted by the Departments of Civil and Mechanical Engineering. During the tour, he happened to meet Dr. Harold Winkler, Chairman of the Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering. Winkler was enthusiastic about the future of the oil and gas industry and convinced Fuller to give the field a closer look. A scholarship offer sealed the deal and he became a petroleum engineering student. Within months, the Arab oil embargo sent the price of oil from $3 to $10 a barrel, boosting the demand for engineers in the petroleum industry. As they say, timing is everything! Fuller was an active member of Sigma Chi Fraternity and Saddle Tramps while a student at Texas Tech. He graduated with a bachelor of science in petroleum engineering in May 1977.

He went to work for Arco Oil and Gas in Midland before transferring to Denver in 1978. He worked as a drilling engineer and spent considerable time onsite, supervising drilling operations throughout the Rocky Mountain region. Following a short assignment in Dallas as a staff drilling engineer, Fuller transferred to Arco Alaska in 1983. He progressed through increasingly responsible field supervisory positions at Prudhoe Bay from 1983 to 1990. In 1990, he was promoted to operations superintendent in Denver City, Texas where he was responsible for CO2 enhanced oil recovery operations in West Texas.

While on a golf trip to Arizona in early 1993, Fuller had discussions with several engineers about utilizing their expertise and experience to start an independent oil and gas production company. Upon his return from the trip, he contacted a former oil and gas law professor at Texas Tech, Jerome Schutzberg, and began the process of establishing a corporate entity in the state of Texas, Phoenix PetroCorp, Inc. His partner in this venture is a colleague from Arco, Jim Williams. Today, Phoenix PetroCorp, Inc. owns and operates oil and gas properties in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas with a particular focus on secondary recovery projects.

Fuller is a member of the Academy of Petroleum Engineers of the Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering. He is currently national president for the Red Raider Club. He also serves on the Executive Committee and is a Board member of the Texas Tech Foundation.

He is married to Linda Schlinkman Fuller who also graduated from Texas Tech with a bachelor of arts in English.

Linda is a National Board member of the Texas Tech Alumni Association and serves on the Equal Access Scholarship Selection Committee and on the Texas Tech Club Board of Governors. The Fullers live in Frisco, Texas. Their son Clint also graduated from Texas Tech.

Terry FullerDistinguished Engineer – 2011

B.S., Petroleum Engineering, Texas Tech, 1977Founder and PresidentPhoenix PetroCorp, Inc

Wife: Linda Children: Clint

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Paul Grimmer owns and leads two companies, Eltron Research & Development in Boulder, Colo., and Continental Technologies, located in Ponca City, Okla. Eltron R&D develops novel materials and catalysts for the energy and chemical industries. Continental Technologies designs and fabricates pilot and demonstration scale plants for other companies doing research and development.

Grimmer was born in Bartlesville, Okla., but grew up in Borger, Texas. His father was a reservoir engineer, and he had two older brothers at Texas Tech majoring in engineering, so it seemed clear that he would go to Texas Tech and become an engineer. In time, he and his four brothers graduated from Texas Tech. There are three chemical engineers, a civil engineer and a computer scientist.

He started at Texas Tech in the fall of 1973 and graduated with a bachelor of science in chemical engineering in 1977. He was active in the student senate, Tau Beta Pi, and many intramural sports. His fast pitch softball team was undefeated and university champions three years in a row.

After graduation, Grimmer worked for 26 years for Conoco in many locations including Houston, Corpus Christi, New Orleans, Anchorage, and Dubai. While in Dubai after the first Gulf War, he was in charge of projects and construction for Dubai Petroleum Company. He then moved back into business development where he worked throughout the Middle East and particularly in Iran. He was one of the lead negotiators in the Sirri development project, which was the first contract awarded to a western oil company since the 1979 revolution.

After that, Grimmer moved back to Houston where he was in charge of new business development. One of his accomplishments was starting a gas-to-liquids effort that ultimately grew to a project of $100 million per year.

In 2005, he purchased Eltron R&D. In its lifetime, the company has invented more than 100 technologies. The most significant to date is a system to capture CO2 in power plants, while producing pure hydrogen at the same time. The company has been awarded $80 million dollars from the Department of Energy to complete development of this system, the largest amount ever awarded to a small business.

In 2007, he started Continental Technologies in Ponca City, Okla., the former home of Conoco’s research and development. This company is deeply immersed in the alternative energy industry, helping hundreds of companies large and small scale up their new technologies.

At the start of his sophomore year at Texas Tech, Grimmer was introduced to his roommate’s cousin from Tyler. This Tyler Rose, Glenda Squyres, stole his heart and they have been married for almost 34 years. They have five diverse children; a lawyer, an entrepreneur, a business developer, a musician, and one about to be a cadet at the Air Force Academy. They have one grandchild to date but are anticipating many more in the coming years.

Paul GrimmerDistinguished Engineer – 2011B.S., Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech, 1977OwnerEltron Research & Development and Continental Technologies

Wife: GlendaChildren: Sarah, Andrew, Emily, Joseph, Michael

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Dr. William G. Guion is a vice president with Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas, where he is responsible for the operation of the Signal Exploitation and Geolocation Division. The institute is a non-profit research and development organization with a staff of approximately 3,000 and annual revenues more than of one-half billion dollars.

Guion was born in South Carolina but moved to Dallas the summer before entering the first grade. While in high school in Dallas, he found that the subjects he liked and excelled in were mathematics and science. He also had a desire to know how things worked. These two interests propelled him toward the engineering profession. Upon graduation from Highland Park High School he enrolled in what was then Texas Technological College. After receiving a bachelor of science in electrical engineering in 1966 from the recently renamed Texas Tech University, he enrolled in the Graduate School and worked under Dr. John Craig to design, build, test, and use the first laser constructed at Texas Tech. He was awarded a master of science in electrical engineering in 1968 and continued his graduate studies under Dr. David Ferry, studying microwave emissions from bulk semiconductors. Guion received a doctor of philosophy in 1970 with a major in electrical engineering and a minor in mathematics. His published work on these topics appeared in Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, and Applied Physics Letters.

Following his graduation from Texas Tech, he took a position as a Senior Research Engineer at SwRI. He focused his efforts on the fields of radio direction finding, antennas, radiolocation techniques, communication signal acquisition, modulation recognition, and RF signal propagation. Guion is a co-inventor on four patents in these areas. He progressed through positions of ever increasing responsibility and authority to his current position of vice president of the Signal Exploitation and Geolocation Division. His division performs project work in the signals intelligence area for commercial firms and the U.S. government, and also for approved foreign companies and governments. Guion’s division oversees nationally recognized programs in radio direction finding, radiolocation, spectrum surveillance, and advanced geolocation techniques.

A long time supporter of Texas Tech, Guion has been a member of the Alumni Association Century Club since the 1970s, served on the Electrical Engineering Industrial Advisory Board from 1981 to 1985 (chairman for the 1984-1985 year) and on the Electrical and Computer Engineering Industrial Advisory Board from 2002 to 2008 (chairman for the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 years), helped start (and was first president of) the Texas Tech Electrical Engineering Association, provided significant support in San Antonio during the Horizon Campaign, and was inducted into the Electrical Engineering Academy in 1997. He is highly involved in his church of more than 5,000 members, and has served in and chaired almost every lay position in the church. He has also served as a representative to the denomination’s annual church conferences. Additionally, Guion is on the Trinity University Engineering Sciences Board of Advisors and is a member of the following professional organizations: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Society, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Eta Sigma, The American Physical Society, and The Association of Old Crows.

Guion is a member of the Texas Tech Whitacre College of Engineering Dean’s Council.

He is greatly blessed to have been married to Freda Thompson Guion, also a Texas Tech graduate, for 47 years, and has daughters Susan, Catherine, and Rebecca, and eight grandchildren.

William Guion, Ph.D.Distinguished Engineer – 2011

B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Texas Tech, 1966, 1968, & 1970Vice President

Southwest Research Institute

Wife: Freda Children: Susan, Catherine, and Rebecca

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Mary Anne Hicks is the vice president of infrastructure program management at AT&T, a global telecommunications company based in Dallas, Texas. In this role, Hicks is responsible for the introduction of new technology into AT&T’s global network and managing large scale network deployments.

Hicks received a bachelor of science in industrial engineering from Texas Tech in 1979. She began her career at Southwestern Bell Telephone Company as a transmission equipment engineer in Dallas. During the first 12 years of her career, Hicks held a variety of engineering and planning assignments.

In 1991, Hicks joined SBC’s integrated marketing team to establish a custom proposal center for sales. In 1993, Hicks returned to the network organization and led the planning activities for the 713, 214, and 314 area code splits. As director of network planning, she was responsible for Southwestern Bell’s five state network including switching and transport. After the SBC/Pacific Bell merger, Hicks served as the SBC lead to set merger initiative goals for network. In 1997, she was named director of switching engineering for the seven state network.

In 1999, Hicks was named executive director of network engineering for SBC Telecom. She planned, designed, and implemented a 30-city out-of-region network ahead of schedule, meeting all FCC due dates and avoiding $1.2B in penalties for SBC/Ameritech merger commitments. In 2001, Hicks led the SBC data services team for SBC’s 13 state Digital Subscriber Loop (DSL) and ATM/Frame Relay network. She also implemented and led SBC’s access management team, responsible for acquiring network access through effective supplier negotiation and mechanized cost models that reduced SBC’s cost of access by eight percent on a multi-billion dollar cost stream. Hicks also led the engineering team for SBC’s internet network during this timeframe.

In February 2006, Hicks was appointed lead for the network merger synergy team as a result of the AT&T and SBC merger. In this role, she assembled a start-up team and program managed the various merger initiatives resulting in significant cost savings for the combined companies. After the BellSouth/Cingular merger, Hicks assumed the lead network role again achieving significant merger savings. In January 2008, she led the U.S. transport engineering team for AT&T and was responsible for implementing transport strategies that reduce cost, improve service, and support AT&T revenue generation.

In July 2008, Hicks was named vice president of international engineering for AT&T in San Antonio, Texas. In this role, she managed an engineering team located in 15 countries around the world. She was responsible for planning, expanding, and implementing network equipment in support of AT&T’s international data and transport products. Key projects included implementing lawful intercept in India. In 2010, Hicks moved back to Dallas and assumed her current role.

Hicks is active in her community, including support for Habitat for Humanity and Women of AT&T. She leads several mentoring circles and is passionate about encouraging young women to pursue their career dreams. She served on the Texas Tech Industrial Advisory Board from 1999 to 2005 and currently serves on the Texas Tech Whitacre College of Engineering Dean’s Council. She resides in Dallas, Texas with her husband Gary and has two grown children, Carolyn and Robert, one son-in-law, John, and one grandson, Jacob.

Mary Anne Hicks, P.E.Distinguished Engineer – 2011B.S., Industrial Engineering, Texas Tech, 1979Vice President - Infrastructure Program ManagementAT&T

Husband: GaryChildren: Carolyn and Robert

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Jack Rentz is the founder, president, and CEO of RENTECH Boiler Systems, Inc. The company designs and sells a wide variety of custom designed and manufactured industrial steam boilers that are used by the refining, power generation, and chemical industries. RENTECH also designs and sells heat recovery steam generators. Rentz is also a co-founder and vice president of RENTECH Boiler Services, Inc. and Frontier Welded Products, Inc.

Rentz was born and raised on a small farm near China Spring, Texas, which has been owned by his family for 110 years. He worked his way through high school managing the farm operations for a prominent local attorney. He was the only student in his freshman class at China Spring High School that drove a company truck. He graduated from high school in 1970. That year, he applied and was accepted to Texas Tech. When he got off the tractor that summer, he vowed that his farming days were over. He had decided that he would go off to Texas Tech and get one of those “engineering degrees” to see where it would take him.

Rentz enjoyed his years at Texas Tech, where he met his future wife, Becky. During his senior year, he was hired for a part time position at Lubbock Manufacturing Company. This is where he got his first exposure to the ASME code for boilers and pressure vessels. Rentz also learned about manufacturing and general management while in this position. After graduating from Texas Tech in the summer of 1974, he continued working full time at Lubbock Manufacturing. It was during this time that he realized he enjoyed designing and building fabricated steel products. The satisfaction of seeing the final product that he had designed and built being shipped out the door to a customer was something he truly enjoyed.

After his wife Becky graduated from Texas Tech in the fall of 1974, they moved to Abilene, Texas. In Abilene, he went to work for ABCO Industries, Inc. ABCO was a small company that manufactured boilers. During the course of his 21 years at ABCO, Rentz designed and sold many “first of a kind” boilers which are being used by major corporations today. Working his way up through the company that he helped to build, he was named President of ABCO in 1992. In 1996, he decided it was time to start his own boiler company. That year, Rentz left ABCO and started RENTECH Boiler Systems, Inc. At that time, he registered the trademark - “RENTECH Boilers for People Who Know and Care”. He chose this guiding statement to set his company apart from his competitors that were selling boilers that simply were not as good as he knew they should be. Sticking to this philosophy, he has grown RENTECH into in the largest industrial boiler company in the industry, experiencing phenomenal growth over the past 14 years and supplying industrial boilers all over the world.

Rentz currently serves as the chairman of the Board of the American Boiler Manufacturers Association. He is a member of the Abilene Chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers. He served as the president of the Abilene Chapter in 1988 through 1989 and was voted “Young Engineer of the Year” in 1984 and “Engineer of the Year” in 1993. He has also served on the boards of directors for the Abilene Better Business Bureau, the Kiwanis Club, and the Abilene Industrial Foundation. RENTECH was awarded the Corporate Star Award in March of 2011. This award is presented by the Abilene Chamber of Commerce to a Corporation that has demonstrated outstanding service to the Abilene community.

Rentz’s companies are active in the Abilene community and support many local charities. He and Becky are also active members of First Baptist Church of Abilene.

Rentz is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. He was inducted into membership of the Texas Tech Academy of Mechanical Engineers in 2001. He and Becky have been married for 37 years and have three children - Scott, Amy, and Bailey.

Because of his and his wife’s hard work, they are enjoying the American dream. They enjoy all types of water activities at Possum Kingdom Lake where they spend as much time as possible. He also finds time to get back to his roots and visits the family farm.

Jack Rentz, P.E.Distinguished Engineer – 2011

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech, 1974Founder, President, and CEO

RENTECH Boiler Systems, Inc.

Wife: Becky Children: Scott, Amy, and Bailey

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Terry Winn grew up in the Houston area. He and his wife of 39 years graduated from Clear Creek High School in League City, Texas. They were married and their daughter Holly was born while they were students at Texas Tech. After they both graduated, they moved back to Houston where he worked for Brown & Root, Inc. for five years. There, he worked with oil and gas industry cooperatives to lead EPA in development of wastewater effluent guidelines for the petroleum refining and offshore oil and gas production industries, designed environmental systems for two offshore supertanker unloading terminals, and designed wastewater treatment systems for industrial facilities. Their son Tim was born while they lived in Houston.

The family moved to Longview in 1978, where Winn was one of the founders of KSA Engineers, Inc. There, he continued his environmental engineering work for industrial clients, and widened his practice to serve municipalities, counties, utility districts, and state and federal agencies. His project experience broadened, too, designing water supply, municipal and hazardous solid waste systems, and air emissions control systems. He worked on a new regional water supply for three independent water utilities, a pump station and pipeline to supply reclaimed municipal wastewater as supply for a new power plant, the first municipal solid waste incineration and heat recovery system in East Texas, the first municipal groundwater desalination system in East Texas, a new wastewater interceptor, a treatment plant and outfall to the Brazos River for Texas A&M University in College Station, and many others.

In 2004, he and three of his staff left KSA to form Winn Professional Engineers and Constructors, LLC in Longview. They have worked on a new Trinity River intake and water treatment plant for a rural water supply corporation, expansion of a municipal wastewater treatment plant, and many others – mostly water system supply, storage and distribution improvements projects.

Winn has been actively involved in the American Society of Civil Engineers since he was a student at Texas Tech. He served in all of the offices of his local Northeast Texas Branch and advanced through the various state offices to be Texas Section President. He is currently the vice-chair of the Region 6 Governors representing Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. He is a trustee of the Texas Civil Engineering Foundation and of the J. Walter Porter Graduate Fellowship in Water Resources. He has been president of his local Rotary Club, a 20 year president of Glenwood Water Supply Corporation, and a six year secretary/teasurer of the Northeast Texas Regional Water Planning Group (Region D). He is very active in his church having served in numerous leadership and teaching roles over 30 years of membership. He is currently vice-chair of the Board of Trustees for Newgate Mission, serving the homeless of Longview.

He recently completed his last term as a member of the Texas Tech Whitacre College of Engineering Dean’s Council, having served as president for two years. He is a member of the Civil Engineering Academy and a former chair of the Civil Engineering Advisory Council.

He is licensed to practice engineering in four states and holds diplomate status in the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers.

Walter T. Winn Jr., P.E.Distinguished Engineer – 2011B.S., M.S., Civil Engineering, Texas Tech, 1972 & 1973OwnerWinn Professional Engineers and Constructors, LLC

Wife: PhyllisChildren: Holly and Tim

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The Whitacre College of Engineering is one of the nation’s largest engineering colleges and is ranked as one of the top 100 undergraduate programs by U.S. News & World Report. The college is one of only 16 colleges nationally that offer petroleum engineering degrees. Graduates of the Whitacre College of Engineering, with their exceptional skills, combined with a strong work ethic, are heavily recruited by national and international organizations.

The college features renowned research programs in pulsed power and power electronics, nanophotonics, medical image processing, semiconductor materials, water remediation, energetic materials, polymer materials, neuroimaging and autism research, and intelligent software systems.

In step with national energy needs and programs, researchers in the college are studying ways of improving production, utilization, distribution, and storage of energy produced by both conventional fossil-based fuels as well as alternative energy sources. These research areas include petroleum engineering, biomass and biofuels, wind power generation and storage, optoelectronics, and photovoltaic capture devices.

Research and academic programs are being built in bioengineering, with emphases in biomolecular engineering, tissue engineering, human factors, and medical image analysis. Through partnerships with the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and other colleges on the campus, the college is able to apply this expertise to meet the technical needs for improved health care and for advancements in biotechnology.

The Whitacre College of Engineering has a strong fiscal foundation with a $100 million endowment that provides sustainability for students, faculty, and academic programs.

The Edward E. Whitacre Jr.College of EngineeringTexas Tech University

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2010 Jeff Bayer Civil 1979

Mica Endsley Industrial 1982 Thomas A. Harper Comp. Sci. 1988, 1995

Allen D. Howard Electrical 1978

Randy Howard Mechanical 1972

2009 Blake W. Augsburger Electrical 1987, 1989

Chi–Ming Chang Industrial 1983, 1986

James A. Edmiston Petroleum 1982

J.G. “Greg” Soules Civil 1979, 2009

Shelby Johnson Const. Engr. Tech. 1986

2008 Duffer B. Crawford Chemical 1941

Thomas J. Zachman Civil 1974

2007 David H. Barr Mechanical 1971

G. Kemble “Kem” Bennett Industrial 1970

William B. Hagood Civil 1969

Harold R. Inman Petroleum 1950

2006 Ajay M. Marathe Industrial 1983

Jerry L. Morgensen Civil 1965

Travis A. Simpson Electrical 1981

2005 J. Gregory Boyd Civil 1976

Francisco “Frank” A. Figueroa Electrical 1967

Gerald C. Murff Mechanical 1961

Alvin Dale Williams Engr. Tech. 1975

2004 Joseph J. Beal Civil 1968

Philip L. Frederickson Industrial 1978

Louis D. Jones Petroleum 1976

Chung-Shing “C.S.” Lee Electrical 1978

Bus. Admin. 1982

2003 Roy A. Battles Mechanical 1969

William M. Marcy Electrical 1964, 1966

Inter. Engr 1972

Fredrick S. Yeatts Electrical 1970

2002 Douglas E. Barnhart Civil Engineering 1969

Joseph C. Martz Chemical 1986

Jerry S. Rawls Mechanical 1967

Richard D. Smith Industrial 1966

Cloyce A. Talbott Petroleum 1958

2001 Ming Chiang Electrical 1978

Enoch L. Dawkins Petroleum 1960

2000 Robert C. “Bob” Banasik Industrial 1967

Robert R. Click Chemical 1948

W. R. “Rick” Hamm Civil 1970

Jimmy D. Williams Mechanical 1972

1999 Dale Courtney Industrial 1971

Julie Spicer England Chemical 1979

Dain M. Hancock Mechanical 1966

Raymond C. Vaughn Engr. Tech. 1973

Mechanical 1976

1998 William “Bill” Hervey Textile 1949

David L. Hirschfeld Civil 1962

Raymond B. Ince Mechanical 1948

Thomas S. Moore Mechanical 1964, 1965

Steven W. Nance Petroleum 1978

Garth Nash Electrical 1963

Bill M. Sanderson Chemical 1960

David E. Sharbutt Electrical 1971

Charles F. Winder Industrial 1979

1997 Woodrow W. Hitchcock Mechanical 1969

Rick D. Husband Mechanical 1980

Herbert A. Mang Civil 1974

Jeff D. Morris Chemical 1974

Harry L. Tredennick III Electrical 1970

1996 Keh-Shew Lu Electrical 1969

James H. Posey Petroleum 1964

Wolfgang Vogel Industrial 1970

Margaret R. Walker Chemical 1974

C. Clayton Yeager Civil 1964

Distinguished EngineersRead full biographies of all past Distinguished Engineers at www.coe.ttu.edu/alumni/de

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Distinguished Engineers1995 William G. Burnett Civil Engineering 1971

Patrick R. Gallagher Electrical 1964

Bob L. Herd Petroleum 1957

Larry D. McVay Mechanical 1970

David G. Wight Petroleum 1964

1994 Raymond E. Goff Industrial 1969, 1970

William R. “Bob” Herrin Jr. Petroleum 1958

Karen S. Hogg Industrial 1974

Mary Jo Poindexter Civil 1968

Louis “Jack” Powers Mechanical 1939

Arati Prabhakar Electrical 1979

1993 Charles A. Bassett II Electrical 1960

Jack L. Clem Mechanical 1975

L. D. “Buddy” Sipes Jr. Petroleum 1957

J. Rex Vardeman Civil 1961

Gary B. Wood Electrical 1973, 1975, 1977

1992 Jack L. Byrd Petroleum 1956

R. D. Cash Industrial 1966

F. Max Merrell Chemical 1957

James G. Renfro Electrical 1959

1991 Arnold Maeker Civil 1946

E. Dave Newman Mechanical 1964

Albert A. “Pete” Smith Electrical 1966

John Michael Stinson Industrial 1966

Bill G. W. Yee Electrical 1961, 1964

1990 William A. Blackwell Electrical 1949

R. David Damron Chemical 1971

Robert E. Dragoo Mechanical 1962

Bill D. Helton Electrical 1964

Allen P. Penton Chemical 1957

1989 Chester A. Green Civil 1947

Jerry D. Holmes Electrical 1959

Charles E. Houston Electrical 1931

Joseph E. Minor Civil 1974

L. Homer Moeller Industrial 1962

1988 Melvin Bobo Mechanical 1949

E. R. Brooks Electrical 1961

Larrie F. Judd Electrical 1965, 1967, 1969

H. Bennett Reaves Civil 1948

Noel D. Rietman Petroleum 1957

1987 George C. Beakley, Jr. Mechanical 1947

James A. McAuley Petroleum 1953

J. Garland Threadgill Civil 1950

D. Wyman Tidwell Chemical 1961

1986 Gerald L. Farrar Chemical 1942

T. Scott Hickman Petroleum 1957

Robert E. Hogan Civil 1950

George F. Watford Petroleum 1948

1985 Glenn C. Bandy Electrical 1949

James W. Clifton Electrical 1960

Jesse L. George, Jr. Petroleum 1947

Charles L. Harris Textile 1947

James W. Lacy Petroleum 1949

Robert J. Lewis Civil 1949

Russell H. Logan Electrical 1951

Wendell Mayes, Jr. Electrical 1949

William D. Trammell Chemical 1957

Edward E. Whitacre Jr. Industrial 1964

Alpha M. Wiggins Electrical 1933

1984 Jerry C. Edmonson Electrical 1963

Robert L. Hale Textile 1948

John C. Mihm Chemical 1964

James P. Myers Industrial 1969

Thomas J. Reeves Civil 1963

Kenneth W. Robbins Petroleum 1943

1983 Gary E. Frashier Chemical 1958

Harley D. Henry Petroleum 1959

Leon Ince Mechanical 1936

E. Carlyle Smith Jr. Architect. & Civil 1963

Joe A. Stanley Civil 1939

Walter D. Warren Electrical 1959

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1982 Larry R. Byrd Industrial 1957

Paul B. Crawford Chemical 1943

Robert B. Dyer Industrial 1960

Joseph W. Luckett Jr. Petroleum 1948

1981 Roger K. Owen Electrical 1948

Richard I. Robinson Chemical 1952

Ben R. Stuart Mechanical 1957

Allan J. Tomlinson Jr. Chemical 1954

1980 Charles Robert Black Petroleum 1958

James L. D’Acosta Industrial 1950

Hugh R. Fewin Civil 1957

James Harold Yeager Chemical 1942

1979 Scott G. Arbuckle Industrial 1957

Lynn H. Elliott Electrical 1958

Norman M. Jasper Industrial 1960

H. Alan Nelson Petroleum 1947

1978 Richard W. Hurn Mechanical 1940

T. A. Rogers Electrical 1928

Gerald R. Seemann Mechanical 1959

Horace L. Smith Civil 1948

1977 John S. Ball Chemical 1934

Donald R. Clark Industrial 1959

A. L. Kincheloe Civil 1950

Orval L. Lewis Mechanical 1939

1976 Charles Ovid Baker Chemical 1939

Dan T. McDonald Chemical 1938

Evan E. Roberts Architectural 1948

Billie J. Whitworth Industrial 1949

1975 Mack Atcheson Chemical 1942

Ray Butler Petroleum 1949

George Raymond Coffman Electrical 1936

George W. Dupree Electrical 1938

Herbert S. Erskine Petroleum 1950

1975 (continued)

Howard Houston Hinson Geological 1934

Guillermo E. Perea Textile 1951

Berl M. Springer Industrial 1943

Louis Dixie Stevens Electrical 1948

David Charles Williams Mechanical 1947

1974 John R. Bradford Chemical 1942

Henry H. Meredith Jr. Mechanical 1939

John W. Sheehan Chemical 1939

R. L. Williams Mechanical 1941

1973 James W. Harrell Textile 1935

A. M. L. Kube Industrial 1942

Paul C. Nail Mechanical 1947

James H. Wright Chemical 1948

1972 J. Fred Bucy Engr. Physics 1951

Arthur W. Busch Civil 1950

1971 Roy Butler Petroleum 1949

Earnest F. Gloyna Civil 1946

Edwin B. Locke Mechanical 1948

Donovan Maddox Textile 1934

1970 Miles Roger Clapp Mechanical 1933

Lester Lynne Kilpatrick Electrical 1946

Jack F Maddox Textile 1929

1969 R. Trent Campbell Civil 1932

W. Lyle Donaldson Electrical 1938

Dysart E. Holcomb Chemical 1937

1968 W. Austin Davis Mechanical 1936

Charles W. Woolridge Textile 1930

1967 William W. Akers Chemical 1943

Byron J. Bennett Electrical 1943

Charles H. Feltz Mechanical 1940

H. Elliott Knox Textile 1935

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