Reassessment of petroleum engineering education: Is it the end of an era or a new start?

IF 3.5 2区 教育学 Q1 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES
Tayfun Babadagli
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Abstract

Since emerging more than a century ago, petroleum engineering (PE) education has increasingly kept its popularity despite significant downturns in the industry. During these downturn periods, observed at least four times since the 1973 oil crisis, structural changes in university programs have been considered. While experiencing the fifth downturn period over the last five decades, it is time again to ask the same question: “Shall we continue with the same PE education model or radically shift to a new model?” In this paper, after reviewing more than fifty articles published over the last 85 years reporting the attempts made towards reshaping PE education, an option of restructuring PE programs is discussed. This option is less oil industry (and oil prices) dependent and more of a “general” engineering education program with an emphasis on the “geoscience” or “subsurface” engineering aspects of the PE discipline. The viability of the proposed program was discussed from industry, academia, and students’ perspective. Fundamentals are essential in this new program similar to other general (or major) engineering disciplines such as mechanical, civil, chemical, and electrical engineering. The critical elements of engineering skills such as creative design, decision making, problem description and solving, management under high degree of uncertainty, and data collection and processing for optimization are to be included in the new model.

石油工程教育的再评估:是一个时代的结束还是一个新的开始?
自一个多世纪前出现以来,尽管石油工程(PE)行业出现了严重的衰退,但它越来越受欢迎。自1973年石油危机以来,在这些低迷时期,人们至少四次观察到大学课程的结构变化。在经历了过去五十年来的第五次衰退期之际,是时候再次提出同样的问题了:“我们是继续采用同样的体育教育模式,还是从根本上转向新的模式?”在本文中,在回顾了过去85年来发表的50多篇报道重塑体育教育尝试的文章后,讨论了重组体育项目的选择。这种选择较少依赖石油行业(和油价),更多的是“普通”工程教育计划,重点是体育学科的“地球科学”或“地下”工程方面。从工业界、学术界和学生的角度讨论了拟议项目的可行性。与机械、土木、化学和电气工程等其他一般(或专业)工程学科类似,基础知识在这个新课程中是必不可少的。工程技能的关键要素,如创造性设计、决策、问题描述和解决、高度不确定性下的管理以及用于优化的数据收集和处理,都将包含在新模型中。
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CiteScore
8.80
自引率
17.90%
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30
审稿时长
31 days
期刊介绍: Education for Chemical Engineers was launched in 2006 with a remit to publisheducation research papers, resource reviews and teaching and learning notes. ECE is targeted at chemical engineering academics and educators, discussing the ongoingchanges and development in chemical engineering education. This international title publishes papers from around the world, creating a global network of chemical engineering academics. Papers demonstrating how educational research results can be applied to chemical engineering education are particularly welcome, as are the accounts of research work that brings new perspectives to established principles, highlighting unsolved problems or indicating direction for future research relevant to chemical engineering education. Core topic areas: -Assessment- Accreditation- Curriculum development and transformation- Design- Diversity- Distance education-- E-learning Entrepreneurship programs- Industry-academic linkages- Benchmarking- Lifelong learning- Multidisciplinary programs- Outreach from kindergarten to high school programs- Student recruitment and retention and transition programs- New technology- Problem-based learning- Social responsibility and professionalism- Teamwork- Web-based learning
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