Mukul M. Sharma is currently Full Professor and W. A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Centennial Chair in Petroleum Engineering

Petroleum engineering

Petroleum engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the activities related to the production of hydrocarbons, which can be either crude oil or natural gas. Subsurface activities are deemed to fall within the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry, which are the activities of...

 at the University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

. He received B.Sc. from the Indian Institute of Technology (1980), M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

. He has been affiliated with UT Austin's PGE department from 1985. He has graduated more than 100 students and currently oversees a group of approximately 20 students.
Notable awards include the 1983 Best SPE PhD student paper, the 1998 SPE Formation Evaluation Award, the Lester C. Uren Award and the SPE Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal in 2009.

External links

• http://www.pge.utexas.edu/faculty/sharma.cfm
• http:///www.pge.utexas.edu/pdf/SharmaRes.pdf