Faculty

The University of Tulsa is home to many strong, experienced instructors who have dedicated their lives and careers to academic excellence. Because of the University’s historical ties to the energy industry, many of these individuals also have direct industry experience and/or maintain very close relationships with energy companies through collaborative research, industry consulting, and professional activities.

Beyond the University, the City of Tulsa is home to many veteran industry practitioners who are well known, have exceptional academic qualifications, and are experienced instructors. Tulsa is also home to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), two of the world’s largest industry professional organizations. This strong instructional resource base provides an uncommon opportunity for students in the Master of Energy Business program to learn from some of the industry’s best and brightest.

Guided by the desire to appropriately balance theory and practice, and to deliver a curriculum that is highly interdisciplinary, the faculty for the Master of Energy Business purposely consists of representatives from industry and from various academic components across the University. While the Collins College of Business supplies the core faculty group, courses are also taught by instructors from the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences and the College of Law, as well as by adjuncts and industry practitioners from the local community and elsewhere.

The faculty pool expands and contracts depending on demand. Currently, the faculty consists of:

  • Brad Carson, J.D.
    Director, National Energy Policy Institute (NEPI)
    Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business Law
    Former US Representative, 2nd Oklahoma District
    Currently serving as General Counsel for the US Department of the Army
    Specialties: Energy law, energy policy, and the regulatory environment of energy business
  • Timothy Coburn, Ph.D.
    Director, Master of Energy Business
    Professor of Energy and Operations Management
    Formerly: Phillips Petroleum Company, Marathon Oil Company, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Abilene Christian University
    Specialties: Energy statistics, computational and quantitative tools for energy business management, petroleum resource estimation, reservoir studies and geoscience investigations, alternative fuels and energy resources, energy policy, energy business management, technology management
  • J. Markham Collins, Ph.D.
    Coordinator of International Business Programs
    Bartlett Foundation Professor of Business
    Visiting Professor, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, and other locations
    Specialty: International financial management
  • Linda Nichols, Ph.D., CPA
    Associate Dean, Collins College of Business
    Collins Professor of Accounting
    Formerly: Texas Tech University, Columbia Gas Development Corporation, Arthur Anderson & Company
    Specialty: Energy accounting and reporting, economics
  • Roger Stern, Ph.D.
    NEPI Research Assistant Professor of Energy
    Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Princeton Oil, Energy & the Middle East Program
    Specialty: Energy policy, history and economics of the energy industry, structure and influence of international energy companies
  • Dan Crunkleton, Ph.D., J.D.
    Director, Tulsa Alternative Fuels Institute
    Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
    Specialty: Alternative energy sources, fuel cells, hybrid electric vehicles
  • Mohan Kelkar, Ph.D., J.D.
    Chairman, McDougal School of Petroleum Engineering
    Williams Endowed Chair of Petroleum Engineering
    Specialties: Petroleum engineering studies, reservoir characterization, oil and gas production optimization, geostatistics, energy economics
  • Orneita Burton, Ph.D.
    Adjunct Assistant Professor
    Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Abilene Christian University
    Formerly: Mobil Chemical Company, Phillips Petroleum Company
    Specialty: Energy information systems, enterprise resource planning systems, management science
  • Kris Reynolds, MBA
    Adjunct Instructor
    The Persimmon Group, Management consulting firm with extensive energy clientele
    Specialty: Project management
  • Tom Seng, MBA
    Adjunct Instructor
    Manager, Product Marketing, Superior Pipeline Company
    Specialty: Commodity markets and energy trading

Other Industry Contributors, 2012-2013

  • Lon Winton - Retired Senior Vice President and CIO, Sandridge Energy
  • Lars Crotwell - CIO, Laredo Petroleum
  • Ben Williams - CIO, Devon Energy
  • Morris Helbach - Retired CIO, Anadarko Petroleum
  • Dieter Hotz - Project Management & Business Development, Chesapeake Energy
  • Robert Parks - President, Superior Pipeline
  • Loren Leiker - Retired Senior Vice President, Exploration, EOG Resources