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More than 10 years ago this innovative and progressive Bagley College of Engineering graduate parlayed his love of petroleum engineering with his business sense for the stock market. Whether Doug Terreson realized it or not he was ahead of his time, because today universities are implementing a very similar and popular cross-discipline education program. The business industry values and calls it “Design Thinking,” the skill of marrying creative right brain thinking with analytical left brain thinking. That very sought after skill is what is driving engineering and business colleges to collaborate outside their departmental boundaries to create engineering and business students who can both analyze and create new ideas for solving problems in an increasingly creative economy. Following his passion for engineering and his interest in business, Terreson made that connection on his own when he was working as a petroleum engineer with Schlumberger Limited in New Orleans.

“The impact of having a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering and a master’s degree in business administration enhanced my ability to analyze the details –the finite solutions of a problem and then be able to see how those decisions would impact the business on multiple levels,” explained Terreson.

Terreson’s visionary instincts of connecting both disciplines have given him an alternative career where he has experienced much success. Today he is managing director of Morgan Stanley, and provides research coverage on the integrated oil and refining and marketing sectors. He is responsible for the Morgan Stanley equity research global forecast for crude oil and refined products margins. He is the number one integrated oil analyst in the Institutional Investor, Alpha and Greenwich Associates polls, and has been a member of the All-America Research team (II) every year since 1995.

Terreson, a 1984 MSU graduate, grew up and graduated from high school in Pascagoula, Miss. He is a third generation MSU engineering graduate—both his father and grandfather earned their engineering degrees from Mississippi State. Today, Terrson and his family live in Houston, Texas.