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Industry sustainability topic of OUR guest speaker

Lamar University students, faculty and staff are invited to learn about innovation and creativity in industry at a lecture hosted by the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR).

Rakesh Singh, operations manager with BASF TOTAL Petrochemical LLC in Port Arthur will be the guest speaker Sept. 10.

With TOTAL since 2007, Singh has 18 years of industry experience in research, polymers and petrochemicals.  He holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Southwestern Louisiana at Lafayette, and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.

Singh will speak on “Innovation and Creativity – Key for Sustainability in Industry,” at 3 p.m. in the Landes Auditorium, Galloway Building.

For more information, call the Office of Undergraduate Research at (409) 880-8430.