146 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine ENERGY, ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING L. ZANE SHUCK, PHD PRESIDENT, RESEARCH SCIENTIST, ENGINEER Technology Development Inc. Morgantown, WV Boasting over six decades of success, Dr. L. Zane Shuck has cultivated a fulfilling career in the field of engineering, with multiple patents and awards to his credit. Primarily driven by his passion for helping to advance human health and environmental sustainability, he has worked to research disease-causing stomach microbe strains and progress oil and gas extraction and recovery efficiency. At the onset of his vocational journey, Dr. Shuck attended West Virginia Institute of Technology and graduated with a BS in mechanical engineering in 1958. Subsequently attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Shuck completed four special postdoctoral summer programs in 1961, 1962, 1963 and 1965, as well as a graduate program at Iowa State University in 1962. Further progressing his education, he received a master’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1965 and a PhD in theoretical and applied mechanics and biomechanics in 1970, both from West Virginia University. After earning his bachelor’s degree, Dr. Shuck began his career as a sales engineer at the West Virginia Armature Company in 1958. He began teaching at the West Virginia Institute of Technology in 1960, serving as an associate professor and chairman of the mechanical engineering department until 1965. Moving to Morgantown, West Virginia, to study at West Virginia University, he took a position at the university as a National Science Foundation science faculty fellow and research engineer; he remained in this capacity until the completion of his PhD in 1970. Dr. Schuck later entered research in the geological sciences and began working for the United States Department of Energy as a supervising mechanical engineer at the Morgantown Energy Research Center. There, he oversaw and participated in the creation of geomechanics and geological science technologies. Additionally, he was tasked with developing extraction technology for the oil and gas industry. Because of his varied background, he was able to merge different branches of science and engineering to create superior extraction techniques that had previously gone unexplored.
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