Franklin Orr, dean of
Earth Sciences elected to Academy of Engineering
Franklin M. Orr Jr., dean
of the School of Earth Sciences, has been elected to the
National Academy of Engineering. He is among 78 engineers
and eight foreign associates elected to membership in the
academy this year.
Election to the academy is
considered one of the highest professional distinctions
that an engineer in the United States can receive.
Membership honors those who have made "important
contributions to engineering theory and practice,"
including significant contributions to the literature and
those who have demonstrated "unusual accomplishment
in the pioneering of new and developing fields of
technology."
Orr's election brings the
number of Stanford academy members to 79, including three
consulting professors and one foreign associate.
Related
Information:
"Lynn" Orr, a
professor of petroleum engineering, joined Stanford's
faculty in 1985. He has served as dean in the School of
Earth Sciences since 1994 and was recently named the
first Chester Naramore Dean in that school.
He earned a bachelor's
degree in chemical engineering in 1969 from Stanford and
a doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 1976.
Orr specializes in the
quantitative aspects of fluid behavior in porous media.
His research seeks a quantitative description of the
physical mechanisms that act and interact to determine
oil recovery in gas injection processes.
He received the
Distinguished Achievement Award for Engineering Faculty
from the Society of Petroleum Engineers in 1993 and the
School of Earth Sciences Teaching Award in 1994. Orr is a
board member of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research
Institute (MBARI) and chairman of the Fellowship Advisory
Committee of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Fellowship for Sciences and Engineering. He is a member
of the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee of the
U.S. Department of Energy and a director of the American
Geological Institute Foundation. SR
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