Jim Yardley, El Paso Corp., president of the Pipeline Group, spoke to the crowd.
El Paso Corp. hosted ME Back to School Bash, Friday, August 29.
Guests enjoyed great BBQ and many nice raffle gifts at the 2008 Back to School Bash.
By Danielle Fournier
AUSTIN, TEXAS—August 25, 2008
Friday, August 29th, from 4:30 — 7:30 p.m.
On Friday, August 29th, from 4:30 — 7:30 p.m. the Department of Mechanical Engineering hosted our 2008 Back to School Bash on the West Plaza. We invited the ME Community (Students, Faculty, Staff, Alumni and Friends of the Department) to join us for BBQ, music, gift raffles and getting reacquainted for the new academic year. The ME Back to School Bash started in 2002 as a community-building event, and thanks to the continued generosity of our corporate partners we have been able to continue what has become a fall tradition for ME.
T-Shirts and Raffle Tickets
Chair Joe Beaman raffled off a book
about the history of ME
Guests signed in in the T-Room (ETC 2nd Floor) and picked up a free t-shirt and raffle ticket.
Free Parking after 4 p.m.
Free parking was available in Parking Lot #53 behind CPE, (off of Dean Keeton and Speedway) after 4:00 p.m. or in any of the campus parking garages.
El Paso Corporation, the event sponsor
This year's Back to School Bash was sponsored by El Paso Corporation and we had several representatives from El Paso Corporation join us for the event, coordinated by Rob Ferguson, Senior College Recruiter, Human Resources, Staffing.
Houston attorney, Paul Kayser, founded El Paso Corporation in 1928. Following the discovery of oil in the Permian Basin in the 1920s Mr. Kayser was convinced that El Paso, Texas provided a promising market for the more cost-effective natural gas. He firmed up supply from several gas wells near Jal, New Mexico, convinced the City of El Paso's industrial facilities to convert to natural gas, and El Paso Natural Gas Company was born; and in 1929 El Paso Natural Gas Company began construction of its first natural gas pipeline.
Today, headquartered in Houston, El Paso Corporation provides natural gas and related energy products in a safe, efficient and dependable manner. Their core businesses are Pipelines, and Exploration and Production. Their 42,000-mile interstate pipeline system transports more than one-quarter of the daily natural gas consumption in the United States. They explore for and produce natural gas across the U.S., the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil and Egypt.
El Paso doesn't build power plants, but fuels them with natural gas. The service El Paso Corporation offers runs not only power plants, but lights cities, provides energy for hospitals and heating for homes. El Paso Corporation conducts meaningful work—day in, day out.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering would like to express our gratitude for El Paso Corporate Foundation's generous sponsorship gift for the 2008 ME Back to School Bash. We are very pleased with the opportunity to work closely with El Paso Corporation, and look forward to continued collaboration.