Master Of Engineering

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When I first went to work with Phillips Petroleum Company, I was an ambitious young man looking to improve my self to make me a better engineer. This is one program offered by Phillips that was mutually beneficial.

 

 

 

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Master Of Engineering

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Sometime after I graduated from Texas Tech College, and got a job with Phillips Petroleum Company in Borger, Texas, Phillips started a program where they would fly a professor from Texas Tech Into Borger once a week to teach a graduate engineering course at Frank Phillips Junior College. The idea was to teach classes that would help the many engineers in the Borger area learn general graduate engineer principles that would help us with our jobs. If we completed 36 credit hours of graduate engineering classes, Texas Tech would give you a degree called “Master Of Engineering” and Phillips had a basis to raise your pay. This helped both the Company and the Engineer employees.

 

 

The Company would reimburse you for the cost of the class once you successfully completed the 3 hour course offered. I found that taking one class at a time was fairly easy to study for so I made an “A” in every graduate class that I took. When my brother Craig graduated from Texas Tech College, he went to work at the Copolymer Plant west of Borger and he started taking the classes also.

 

 

It became a Tuesday night ritual that Craig and I and this engineer named Bruce would head to Jeans Bar and Grill after class and have a few beers and a pool tournament. Pam didn’t seem to mind as long as I was taking the classes to improve my pay with Phillips and I got home by 11 PM.

 

Thanks Pam, after working all day and getting educated in the evening, I was ready for a beer with the boys to loosen up a little.

 

 

By the time I finished 33 hours of classes after work, I only liked one three hour class getting the Master Of Engineering Degree to perhaps enhance my pay. I got an offer for a promotion to a better job in Oklahoma City and we moved away from Borger. So I never did get that advanced degree, although I did carry the knowledge I got from the classes with me to all my future positions with Phillips.

 

 

Thanks for reading Master Of Engineering,
Bill