How to do Petroleum Engineering @ Georgia Tech?

KamelAkbar
Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:02:20 +0000

Plenty of GT people get chemical engineering degree before going to work for ExxonMobil, BP, etc.



Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering are all quite different. If you’re a ChemE or a MechE and get a job with Exxon, it’s probably not going to be a job as a PetE just like an Electrical Engineer who got a job at Boeing wouldn’t be designing Airplanes.

If you look at the curriculum of a PetE degree you’ll find that it’s very specific and much of it is not offered at Georgia Tech. If you look at the prereqs for a PetE MS program, you’ll find that many of them are not covered by ChemE or PetE.

OP sounds like he/she wants to dig for oil, not work in any capacity for BP/Exxon.

tl;dr: If you specifically want to work as a Petroleum Engineer, go somewhere else.