Ashley Austin Reed– Facilities Engineer at XTO Energy
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My favorite college memory was being surrounded by so many other brilliant students and Field Session II. For four years, I was a Bakken reservoir engineer. I recently made the switch to midstream and am now a facilities engineer supporting XTO's mid-continent assets. My SPE scholarship enabled me to go out of state for school and attend one of the best engineering schools in the country. After receiving my scholarship, I decided to take PEGN102 Intro to Petroleum Engineering and I was hooked. I changed my major from chemical engineering to petroleum engineering the same semester. One year later I got my first internship in the oil and gas industry and knew I had made the right decision. I had a full-time job offer from XTO Energy before even starting senior year and haven't looked back. Receiving an SPE scholarship set me up for a successful career. My advice to current students is to stick with it... engineering is not for the faint of heart and certainly isn't the easiest route to take. But four years of hard work pays for itself in no time when you graduate with a highly marketable technical degree.