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One of the strongest, if not the strongest, petroleum engineering departments in the U.S. Many students from the Middle East go there to do their undergraduate and/or graduate degrees. Then they return to their countries afterwards to work.
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New Mexico Tech: New Mexico Tech: New Mexico Tech
One of the strongest, if not the strongest, petroleum engineering departments in the U.S. Many students from the Middle East go there to do their undergraduate and/or graduate degrees. Then they return to their countries afterwards to work.
looks like a very good choice!
In Socorro, you will have plenty of time to focus on your Schooling!
Costs... Best to come a yr early and engage in related employment to gain residency BEFORE starting course work.
I'm with another poster. What do you want to do? If you want to work in the industry, my advice is to forget the PhD. Also, petroleum engineering degrees in the US really do not focus on refinery work. That is largely the province of chemical engineering because molecules will react reguardless of where the ethane came from. Advanced distillation and hydrocracking technologies are often developed in house by process engineering firms and I've never seen them hire someone because they had a PhD from X.
If you are interested in fracking shales or finding the next blowout preventer, please go ahead. If you want to teach petroleum engineering, please go ahead. If you want to develop distillation columns and reactor designs for refineries, a chemical engineering department that focuses on refining Tulsa, OU, U of TX or TX A&M would be your best bet.
petroleum engineering degrees in the US really do not focus on refinery work. That is largely the province of chemical engineering
That's why New Mexico Tech has an equally strong chemical engineering program side-by-side with its petroleum engineering program: Chemical Engineering at New Mexico Tech
New Mexico Tech aka New Mexico School of Mines aka New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. (It's had a few name changes over the many years of its existence).
It's something that I am thinking about. While finishing my Master's Degree I met a guy from Ecuador who is applying for a PhD in Chemical Engineering in Madrid, Spain for the next year. It's a possibility, but rather than in Spain where most programmes are about chemical reactions, catalysts and other chemical engineering experimental stuff, I want to search for Process Engineering/Petroleum/Oil & Gas/Power generation related PhDs, it could be any place, I can adapt, but It would be a must to be financially supported, this ecuatorian guy will have financial support in Spain and I am interested in it. Where to start?
Where are you doing your Master’s degree? In general, you shouldn’t be paying for a PhD in the science/engineering fields. I don’t know anyone who wasn’t paid one way or another to get their PhD. That’s true in the US and in Europe.
What exactly are you looking to do? It seems a little bit like you’re approaching the PhD as some sort of super Master’s degree. It isn’t. The jobs you get with a PhD are fundamentally different than those you get with a Bacherlor’s or Master’s degree. There is certainly some overlap and having a PhD won’t usually prevent you from getting those other jobs, but it won’t be a big asset.
Along those same lines, it seems like you’re interested in the oil and gas industry, but don’t seem to be too specific. It’s a huge field. Upstream or downstream? If upstream, a good place to start would be looking at the SPE (society of petroleum engineers). There are a fair number of good programs in the US, some in Canada (mostly Alberta), the U.K., and Norway, What you end up doing should probably be set by what interests you and what you’re good at.
Texas Tech is great for petroleum-related degrees.Its cheaper than UT and TAMU i believe.
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