<p>Hello, I am going to attend U of Minnesota this fall, and my major is ChemE. Is it possible for me to apply petroleum engineering graduate department after I get the bachelor degree??? I don't think U of has the major of petroleum engineering?</p>
<p>*i would like to work in upstream oil sector. It seems to be excited to explore oil in the wild</p>
<p>First of all, congrats for planning to attend one of the top few Chem Eng programs in the nation. With that undergrad, I can’t imagine you wouldn’t be able to then advance to a top petro engineering grad program.</p>
<p>Yep, it’s completely possible. Look at the staff from Stanford, UT Austin, Texas A&M and you’ll notice several of them come from a ChemE background. </p>
<p>If you really wanted to work in reservoir, production and drilling - and you’re 100% sure about it - then petroleum engineering would have been a more direct degree for your bachelor’s but you’re fine with a ChemE bachelor’s. PetE majors will tell you your course work is irrelevant; but that’s because they haven’t taken ChemE. Take it from a guy who took both. The production of unconventional resources such as shale oil are heavily laden with ChemE topics (heat transfer, equilibrium, kinetics). Shale gas is all about adsoprtion. </p>
<p>I am a ChemE major, accepted to the top ChemE and PetE Master’s programs in the US. And by top I mean top. What really matters when you graduate are 1) evidence of hard work and 2) internships if you want to enter the industry. </p>
<p>I hope that helps. If you really feel insecure about your ChemE degree, then take courses in geology, geophysics, surfactant/surface science… look for words in courses such as “multiphase flow, reservoir simulation, flow in porous media”. But again, you’re gonna be fine.</p>