<p>What major should i go into if i want to do petroleum engineering? I;ve heard that some companies hire chemical and mechanical for the same positions as petro engineers. is this true? BTW i dont wanna do the deep off shore petE jobs, i wanna stay northeast and work with marcellus shale. What should i do, because id rather go to Virginia Tech instead of PSU(PSU has petE major VT doesnt)</p>
<p>I’m at PSU as a PNG and this week was career week. A lot of independent oil companies with plays in marcellus have been doing on site interviews. Also, the big companies are starting to get plays here as well. Why do want to stay in the northeast? I for one definitely don’t want to work around here. I can’t wait to try out west or offshore or international.</p>
<p>i just dont wanna work on offshore rigs where you have to be for 2 weeks non stop. i wanna do the on shore work</p>
<p>any help please?</p>
<p>So you want to go into petroleum engineering but you don’t want to major in it and you don’t want to go to a school where they even offer the major?</p>
<p>No one’s going to tell you what you should do. This is your choice. If you go to Vtech to do chemical engineering, then you’ll be working downstream, not upstream. If you do mechanical engineering in hopes of working as a petroleum engineer, you don’t stand as good a chance. Why would companies go to a school looking for petroleum engineers when the school doesn’t even offer it as a program? If they are going to hire petroleum engineers, why not hire the kids that majored in it? Why would you rather go to V tech than PSU?</p>
<p>noleguy i think you are misunderstanding me. i never said i didnt wanna major in it? and its not that i dont want to go to psu i just really really like vtech so i made this thread to see what my options were and if it is even possible to go to vtech and still become a petroleuim eng.</p>
<p>mcubed: what about the university of pittsburgh. they have chemical/petroleum major but their petE isnt ABET acreddited. Would it be a bad idea to go there since its not accreddited?</p>
<p>Does virginia tech offer a “design your own degree” type of program? If it does, you may be able to work out your major that will include almost all of the same courses as petroleum major, and possibly take some of the more specific petroleum courses as a visiting student or in the summer at the petroleum specific colleges? Or maybe do independent study in petroleum? Just an idea. Not sure that it is completely doable!</p>
<p>Ah… that makes much more sense.</p>
<p>Well, you are going to have two things going against you. The first is you won’t have a degree in petroleum engineering. That isn’t necessarily a deal breaker, MechE’s get hired to do the work of a PetE. But the other big thing is you won’t have the Oil and Gas companies recruiting VTech nearly as much as you would at Penn State.</p>
<p>If you want to work in the oil and gas industry, your best option is going to be as a petroleum engineer. You certainly could break in out of VTech, it will just be much harder.</p>
<p>thanks, i feared thats what the case would be :/</p>
<p>Pitt would be a very bad idea. Ask yourself which you want more: To go to Vtech or be a petroleum engineer?</p>
<p>And I don’t know what vlines is talking about. How could you possibly ‘make your own’ petroleum engineering degree? If they don’t have the major, then they obviously don’t have the individual courses that make up the major.</p>
<p>Only petroleum engineers are going to work upstream. Yes, oil companies hire mechanical, civil, and chemical but they will not work in the same position. Mech will work with drilling, civil will work with the infrastructure and transportation, and chemical will work in refining. Petroleum will locate, analyze, extract, and maintain production (to a certain extent) of oil wells. There are school that only have chemical engineering with a focus in petroleum but, again they will place you in refining.</p>
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<p>ChemE seems to be the logical choice.</p>
<p>I don’t know if you have made your decision yet but I tell you my son’s experience. He’s a junior at Georgia Tech majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He was heavily recruited for a summer internship by several of the major oil companies, all of whom came to Georgia Tech to recruit. He ended up with five job offers all paying over $6000/mo. Four of these offers were for field engineering, the other in the chemicals division at a refinery. Full disclosure: he has a 3.8 GPA, 4.0 in his major. Also an Eagle Scout. Bottom line, go to Virginia Tech and do really well and you’ll not have a problem finding a job in the oil industry.</p>
<p>I took a brief look at the career fair list at Vtech. Its a bit more limited than your typical Petr school but they did have Baker Hughes, Schlumberger, Marathon and Exxon Mobil there. </p>
<p><a href=“Engineering Expo | Student Engineers' Council | Virginia Tech”>Engineering Expo | Student Engineers' Council | Virginia Tech;
<p>Just a side note, I’m currently in ME in oil and gas industry. Its definitely feasible to get offers for Petroleum Engineering jobs as a mechanical engineering student.</p>
<p>I know I am a little late, but I attend GA State, but plan on transferring to Tech I was wondering if you think your son would have had all the same opportunities afforded to him if he would have majored in chemical engineering instead?</p>