<p>I am currently a senior in high school and will be attending ASU in August. I am interested in becoming a petroleum engineer, but ASU does not have a petroleum engineering program. I heard that other engineering majors can become petroleum engineers without actually majoring in petroleum engineering. Is this true? and if so, Would majoring in Materials Science and Engineering and minoring in Geology be a good start? Or would there be a better combination to get into petroleum engineering?</p>
<p>Are you wanting to just work in oil and gas or actually work as a petroleum engineer?</p>
<p>I want to actually work as a petroleum engineer.</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard, the most related engineering field to petroleum is mechanical.</p>
<p>That said, if that is what you really want to do, why don’t you go to a school that offers petroleum engineering?</p>
<p>Mainly because I have a full ride instate.</p>
<p>That makes sense, I’d have a hard time passing it up. That said, you are going to have a hard time breaking in, I take it ASU means Arizona State? Have you looked on the career center website and seen who recruits Arizona State? I would become a remarkable mechanical engineer and try to get in that way, if that doesn’t work maybe go to grad school for petroleum? But the bottom line is, if oil and gas companies aren’t recruiting ASU, you have a massive mountain to climb to get in as a PetE.</p>
<p>thanks for the help! It appears that several oil companies do recruit at asu(Arizona State) so I’ll try to get more info from the school.</p>