COLLEGE STATION, Texas, May 8, 2009 – Jerry Bradshaw, senior lecturer in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named this year’s recipient of the Fluor Distinguished Teaching Award.
The award recognizes Bradshaw for his dedication and outstanding contributions to the education and professional development of chemical engineering students at Texas A&M.
“Quality of teaching is very important to us, and we’re very pleased to partner with Fluor to present this teaching award,” said Department Head and Charles D. Holland Professor Michael V. Pishko. “Jerry does a fantastic job in teaching the labs and has done it with a lot of integrity, class and professionalism throughout his time here.
“In addition to his work with the labs, Jerry has been a mentor to a large number of students, working closely with them to build an attitude of professionalism and helping them to find jobs. He has served our department well.”
Prior to joining Texas A&M in 1989, Bradshaw amassed nearly 30 years of domestic and international industry experience in chemical manufacturing, plant startups, business management, safety management, maintenance management, distribution management and plant management.
During his 20 years at Texas A&M, he has been named adviser, teacher or professor of the year on six occasions by the school’s student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and has been awarded college and university level Distinguished Teaching Awards. In addition, he has chaired the Instrumentation Symposium for the Process Industries for the past 10 years.
Fluor Corporation is the spring 2009 sponsor of the department’s plant design competition, a capstone chemical engineering course in which seniors are tasked with conceiving a fully functional chemical processing plant that operates per Flour’s specifications. In conjunction with Fluor’s annual plant design sponsorship, the company also presents a teaching award to an outstanding faculty member within the chemical engineering department.
Employing a global workforce of more than 46,000 people, Fluor is one of the world’s largest, publicly owned engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance services companies. A FORTUNE 500 company that is ranked first in FORTUNE magazine’s “Engineering, Construction” category of America’s largest corporations, Fluor maintains a network of offices in more than 25 countries across six continents.
