The Casper College Alumni Association will honor Raymond Jacquot at its 18th annual Alumni and Friends Banquet on Oct. 6 at the Parkway Plaza, according to a news release from Casper College

"Dr. Jacquot is being honored for his distinguished career as an educator, author, and mountain climber," said Linda Nix, alumni assistant.

Tickets for the banquet are now on sale for $30 per person. The banquet will begin with a no-host cocktail hour at 5:30 p.m. followed by dinner at 6 p.m.

A Casper native, Jacquot graduated from Casper College in 1958 with an A.A. degree. He earned his B.S. (1960) and M.S. (1962) degrees from the University of Wyoming and a Ph.D. (1969) from Purdue University.

Jacquot spent his entire teaching career at UW where he retired in 2001 with the title Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering. During his career as an educator, he taught 49 different courses, primarily in engineering.

He has published three major textbooks, chapters in five other books, and countless refereed journal articles. The Wyoming Engineering Society selected him as the President's Outstanding Engineer for 2007.

Other awards include the John P. Ellbogen Meritorious Classroom Teaching Award, as well as the Sigma Tau Outstanding Teaching Award for three separate years. The American Society for Engineering Education Rocky Mountain Section honored Jacquot with their 2000 Teaching Award.

Jacquot's current research is in the area of passive control of transient vibration in structural dynamic systems, according to the college. Other recent efforts involve the authoring software for the animation of solutions to dynamic systems governed by partial differential equations.

In addition to his academic accomplishments, Jacquot is a renowned mountain climber. During his time at Casper College he was a member of the Casper College Mountaineers that existed from 1955 to 1958. Jacquot completed a book on the history of the club, "CC on the Rocks: The Story of the Wyoming Mountaineers of Casper College," in 2005, the year of the 50th anniversary reunion of the Mountaineers.

On July 29, 1961, Jacquot, along with partner Herb Swedlund, made the first ascent of the Black Ice Couloir on the Grand Teton, the classic ice route in the United States. He was among the first to climb other routes in the Tetons, Wind Rivers, Big Horns, Devils Tower, Vedauwoo and the Snowy Range.

Tickets for the banquet must be purchased by 5 p.m. Tuesday. For more information or to purchase tickets contact the Casper College Alumni office at 268-2218 or toll free at 800-442-2963, ext. 2218.