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You are invited to the College of Engineering’s Open House of the ExxonMobil Lawrence G. Rawl Engineering Practice Facility. Come see for yourself what all the excitement is about! WHEN: Saturday, September 18 10:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Student team members will be on hand to show off their projects and answer questions including Sooner Racing, Baja Off-Road, Sooner Powered Vehicle and the Naval Electric Drag Boat, to name a few. By Tara Malone The ExxonMobil Lawrence G . Rawl Engineering Practice Facility may only have opened earlier this year, but this state-of-the-art structure is already playing a key role in the lives of University of Oklahoma engineering students. Named for former Exxon chairman Lawrence G. Rawl, the building features five first-floor practice bays that allow students to gain hands-on experience in engineering. Four of the bays are open to the second floor. One of the one-story bays is designed to provide students with an enclosed space for projec...

Engineering Women in Leadership Seminar Series SO NOW YOU’RE AN ENGINEER! by Freda Webb Friday, September 10, 2010 Presentation: 11:00 am – Noon followed by Lunch & Discussion: Noon – 1:00 pm ExxonMobil Lawrence G. Rawl Engineering Practice Facility, Room 200 Limited seating available, so RSVP early to tdsmith@ou.edu . Deadline for RSVPs is by Monday, September 6th, before midnight! Freda Webb, P.E., B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 1979, M.S. in Petroleum Engineering, University of Southern California, 1997. Freda began her oil and gas career in 1977 working for Cities Service in the Oklahoma City Field as a roustabout. Cities Service was acquired by OXY and Freda stayed with OXY until 1998, working in Oklahoma City, Okla., Tulsa, Okla., Bakersfield, Calif., and Houston, Texas. She then joined Southwestern Energy in Houston and moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 2001. In 2002, she joined a long-time friend at Greenstar Energy as Vice President of Acq...