Petroleum engineering

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<p>can anyone please tell me what will an individual majoring in petroleum engineering study during the four years?</p>

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<p>Weeenie,</p>

<p>FWIW, here is a basic outline of what you may study for four years in that degree plan, coming from memory from my degree plan in the dark ages:</p>

<p>First two years:</p>

<p>Gen Eds (English, History, Political Science)
Calc I,II, III, Differential Equations
Physics I & II
Chemistry I and P-Chem (2nd Law of Thermo)
Statics, Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Solids, Fluids
Two semesters of EE courses
Engineering Graphics, Computers
Structural Geology
Historical Geology</p>

<p>Last two years:</p>

<p>Reservoir Engineering I & II
Production Engineering I & II
Drilling Engineering
Drilling Fluids
Petroleum Fluids
Petroleum Geology
Oil & Gas Law
Log Analysis
Oil & Gas Economics
Special Problems (Waterflooding, Pressure Transient Analysis, etc.) Two or three classes
Senior Project</p>

<p>I’m probably forgetting a class or three, and the curricula has hopefully evolved over the past 30 years to include more current topics.</p>

<p>Bottom line, a Petroleum Engineering student needs to be good at Math and Science before jumping in to the core courses. Good luck if you pursue that plan. It can set you up for a rewarding career.</p>

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<p>Here is the school of mines flowchart-</p>

<p><a href=“http://petroleum.mines.edu/Documents/undergradflowchart.pdf[/url]”>http://petroleum.mines.edu/Documents/undergradflowchart.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Arrdad,</p>

<p>Were the 2 classes in EE required or were they your engineering elective classes? I’m an EE and we had to take 2 classes in another engineering field so I took some ME classes but i’m curious if PetE specifically required EE courses?</p>

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<p>Casper, the EE classes were required for the Pet. Eng. track at Texas Tech way back when I attended. I hope that is a thing of the past, as it was too tough relative to the skills retained for the typical Pet Eng.</p>

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<p>Helo arrdad Guns up!!
M doing PE in texas tech starting this fall. I have been reading so many posts in here nd some people are complaining on how risky this career choice is. Keeping that in mind is it wise to have atleast one minor…i m thinking of taking business minor along majoring in PE. And, how is the job outlook for PE these days, I will be graduating by 2014 so how will it gonna be at that time. I heard lot of PE are retiring in few years so there will be short fall of qualified PE in the industry, how true is that??</p>

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<p>There are a lot of PE with 0 to 5 years experience. The shortage will be at the top, the senior PE positions. These require over 10 years experience.</p>