Dr. Shirish L. Patil

Professor of Petroleum Engineering and
Director of the Petroleum Development Laboratory, Emeritus

WHEREAS Dr. Shirish L. Patil served the University of Alaska Fairbanks with distinction in teaching, research and service from 1983 to 2019; and

WHEREAS Dr. Patil helped shape the education and careers of hundreds of graduate and undergraduate students at UAF; and he received the Outstanding Faculty Award from petroleum engineering students nine times; and

WHEREAS after many years of association with the Petroleum Development Laboratory, Dr. Patil became director in 2007; and in 2016 Dr. Patil took a leave of absence to serve as a professor in Saudi Arabia, whence he continued to advise UAF graduate students and participate in UAF research; and his extensive research has secured more than $20 million in funding; and

WHEREAS Dr. Patil’s remarkable record of service earned him the Alaska Engineer of the Year Award in 2005 and the Emil Usibelli Distinguished Service Award in 2007; and his contributions include serving as UAF Faculty Senate president in 2006-2007, as a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, and as editor of the Petroleum and Petrochemical Engineering Journal;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the University of Alaska Fairbanks expresses its deep appreciation to Dr. Shirish L. Patil for his extensive contributions to the State of Alaska and to the University; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the University of Alaska Fairbanks, in further recognition of the invaluable services rendered by Dr. Patil and as evidence of the University’s desire that his identification with the University be maintained, hereby confers upon Dr. Shirish L. Patil the title of Professor of Petroleum Engineering and Director of the Petroleum Development Laboratory, Emeritus; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this resolution be appropriately engrossed and signed by the Chancellor as further evidence of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ esteem and respect for Dr. Shirish L. Patil, and conveyed to Dr. Patil on this twenty-third day of May, 2020.