Friday, October 25, 2019

MSU grad named top ECCC alumnus


Mississippi State University petroleum engineering graduate Randy J. Cleveland of Fort Worth, Texas, was recently honored as Alumnus of the Year by East Central Community College, also his alma mater. Cleveland retired this year as VP Americas for ExxonMobil Production Co., after a 35-year career in the oil and gas industry. A 1983 MSU graduate, he was saluted by the land-grant institution’s James Worth Bagley College of Engineering as alumnus of the year in March. Cleveland and his wife Nina have established the Randy and Nina Cleveland Endowed Professorship and have an endowed scholarship in their names among other support. They were instrumental in the re-establishment of MSU’s petroleum engineering program several years ago. At MSU, Cleveland has served as a board member for both the MSU Foundation and the Dean of Engineering Advisory Council in the Bagley College. (Source: MSU 10/25/19)