<p>Does anybody know anything about this major? What kind of jobs do ppl get with this degree?</p>
<p>[Geosystems</a> Engineering: What Does a Geosystems Engineer Do?](<a href=“Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering Department”>Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering Department)</p>
<p>I plan on majoring in geosystems engineering :)</p>
<p>Thanks keelonghorn! And yeah I had seen that link, but I still don’t get what they do for their job? What kind of jobs would a company hire a Geosystems Eng to do instead of hiring one of the conventional engineering disciplines (EE, CivE, Mech, Chem, petro etc.), or maybe a geologist or geophysicist? </p>
<p>What is their niche?</p>
<p>geosystems deals more towards the extraction of earths natural resources. I beleive UT strongly focuses on water. Petroleum engineers would deal more towards the extraction of natural gases/oil. Environmental engineers deal more towards the remediation of natural resources in wastewater management. You would probably be hired by oil businesses or water companies, perhaps the government with geosystems engineering. Do you plan on majoring in this also?</p>
<p>thanks again keelonghorn. How do you know so much about geosystems engineering jw? And what made you pick it over the other engineering disciplines?</p>
<p>Is geosystems engineering pretty similar to geological engineering?</p>
<p>chato, I would asume so due to the fact that through geosystems engineering you are split between both the cockrell school of engineering and the jackson school of geosciences. Onthefly I just did alot of research and tried to get the facts about what I plan to do with the rest of my life, I must try to know every step of the way and plan out my future. And as for choosing it I took AP envionmental science this year and really beleived in the principal of upholding the earths sustainabilities the the best of our abilities.</p>
<p>I actually went to UT a couple months ago and asked about this major, and the advisor said that people who major in this generally get jobs in the petroleum industry. He went on to say that in recent years ExxonMobil and a few other oil companies have specifically been taking 20-30 geosystems engineers every year. If you look at the degree plans for petroleum engineering and geosystems engineering and put them side by side, you will see that they look almost EXACTLY identical, with a difference of only 3 or 4 classes. I personally believe that majoring in geosystems engineering would give you greater flexibility than majoring in petroleum engineering because geosystems would let you go into the oil industry very easily, but would also afford you avenues into a host of other resource extraction jobs such as in the water industry and in the biomass/geothermal energy sectors</p>
<p>wow thanks so much redhotsrock! I am struggling to decide what major to be right now and you just made a very appealing case for Geosystems, i will keep what you said in mind. </p>
<p>are you gonna do geosystems?</p>
<p>haha yeah I think I’m gonna do geosystems, if I really want that petro degree (don’t think I will, but who knows) I think I will try to do that 5 year BS/MS program they have available (BS being geosystems, MS being petro).</p>
<p>sounds cool, i will copy your plan</p>