George A. Siler, Chemical Engineering Graduate, Commencement Speaker

George A. Siler, a 1972 chemical engineering graduate of Michigan Tech, was the featured speaker at the university's Spring Commencement. Siler, a Keweenaw native, earned a BS in Chemical Engineering with honors in 1972. He will receive an Honorary Doctor of Engineering degree during Saturday's ceremonies.

Siler has been a licensed professional engineer in Michigan since 1976, and he studied at the College of Financial Planning in Greenwood Village, Colo., where he was certified as a chartered retirement planning counselor.

He began his career in 1972 with General Tire and Rubber Co. and the Michigan Consolidated Gas Co. In 1974, he began a long association with Amoco Petroleum, working as an engineer, economist, senior engineer, chief engineer, manager and executive vice president and general manager. His assignments took him to Illinois, Texas, Colorado, Michigan, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela. He also worked in Egypt for Gulf of Suez Petroleum for three years.

In 1999, he moved to British Petroleum, where he worked in Scotland as an operations manager and in Azerbaijan as vice president of field development on a $12 billion project.

Siler has been retired since 2004. A native of Hancock, he now lives in Evergreen, Colo.

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