Petroleum Engineering

As human standards of living rise, so does energy and resource consumption. Hydrocarbon energy will continue to dominate energy usage, and other non-hydrocarbon resource development, such as geothermal and subsurface resource acquisition and development, will continue to grow in importance.

Petroleum Engineering

As human standards of living rise, so does energy and resource consumption. Hydrocarbon energy will continue to dominate energy usage, and other non-hydrocarbon resource development, such as geothermal and subsurface resource acquisition and development, will continue to grow in importance.

Welcome

The Petroleum Engineering Department’s vision of distinction is to lead the world in education, training, research and innovation for the responsible and sustainable acquisition and development of subsurface energy resources.

Our mission is to provide the necessary skills at the undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education levels to serve the world in developing conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resources, water resources, and geothermal energy, while promoting cutting-edge research to improve resource recovery, advancing technologies to combat environmental problems, such as carbon sequestration and other earth disposal processes, and to foster the socially responsible development of Earth’s resources.

In light of our vision and perceived mission, we set our strategic goals as follows:

  • We will educate undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students to be problem solvers based on science and engineering technology.
  • We will innovate, pioneer, and lead in fundamental, long-term research and technology development.
  • We will inform the general public, government and non-government entities, and the news media about the technical issues of socially responsible energy development.

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