Petroleum Engineering – Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science - University of Southern California (2024)

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HEDCO (HED) Chemical Engineering Building 216
(213) 740-9338
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Chair: Andrea Hodge, PhD

Associate Chair: Noah Malmstadt, PhD

Director of Petroleum: Iraj Ershaghi, PhD

Director of Graduate Programs: Kristian Jessen, PhD

Faculty

Choong Hoon Cho Chair: Jay Lee, PhD

M.C. Gill Chair in Composite Materials: Steve Nutt, PhD

Ray Irani Chair in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science: Andrea M. Armani, PhD

Zohrab A. Kaprielian Dean’s Chair: Yannis Yortsos, PhD

Philip and Cayley MacDonald Endowed Early Career Chair: Jayakanth Ravichandran, PhD

Omar B. Milligan Chair in Petroleum Engineering: Iraj Ershaghi, PhD, PE

N.I.O.C. Chair: Muhammad Sahimi, PhD*

Robert E Vivian Chair: Theo Tsotsis, PhD

Dean’s Professor in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science: Michael Kassner, PhD

Dean’s Professor in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science: Priya Vashishta, PhD

Flour Professorin Engineering: Andrea Hodge, PhD

Kenneth T. Norris Professor: Anupam Madhukar, PhD

Robert E. Vivian Professor: Charles Zukoski, PhD

N.I.O.C. Fellow: Behnam Jafarpour, PhD

Zohrab A Kaprielian Fellow: Pin Wang, PhD

Professors: Andrea Armani, PhD; Iraj Ershaghi, PhD; Malancha Gupta, PhD; Andrea Hodge, PhD; Behnam Jafarpour, PhD; Kristian Jessen, PhD; Rajiv Kalia, PhD; Michael Kassner, PhD; Jay Lee, PhD; Anupam Madhukar, PhD; Noah Malmstadt, PhD; Steve Nutt, PhD; Richard Roberts, PhD; Muhammad Sahimi, PhD*; Theo Tsotsis, PhD; Priya Vashishta, PhD; Pin Wang, PhD; Yannis Yortsos, PhD; Charles Zukoski, PhD

Associate Professors: Nicholas Graham, PhD; Shaama Mallikarjun Sharada, PhD; Jayakanth Ravichandran, PhD

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science: Lessa Grunenfelder, PhD

Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering Practice: Jincai Chang, PhD

Assistant Professors: Paulo Branicio, PhD;Birendra Jha, PhD; Zhenglu Li, PhD; Yu-Tsun Shao, PhD;Luis Francisco Villalobos, PhD; Wade Zeno, PhD

Senior Lecturer: Ken-Ichi Nomura, PhD

Adjunct Professor: Faruk Civan, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering Practice: Andrei Popa, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor: Nikhil Kar, PhD

Part-Time Lecturers: Virgil Adumitroaie, PhD; Michael Hahn; PhD; Davood Khairkhah, PhD; Andre Kovach, PhD; Robello Samuel, PhD

Joint Appointments: Edward Crandall, PhD, MD (Medicine); Stacey Finley, PhD (Biomedical Engineering); Martin Gundersen, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering); Rajiv Kalia, PhD (Physics and Astronomy); Terence Langdon, PhD (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering); Jerry S.H. Lee, PhD (Medicine); Brent Merlot, PhD (Chemistry); Surya Prakash, PhD (Chemistry); Ishwar Puri, PhD (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering); Richard Roberts, PhD (Chemistry); Mark Thompson, PhD (Chemistry); Arieh Warshel, PhD (Chemistry)

Emeritus Professors: Elmer L. Dougherty; Ed Kwock Goo, PhD; Katherine Shing, PhD*; Peter Will, PhD (Astronautical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering)

*Recipient of university-wide or school teaching award

Affiliated Student Organizations: WiSE (Women in Science & Engineering); Chem-E Car, AiChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers); SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers); MRS (Materials Research Society) WChE (Women in Chemical Engineering)

Degree Requirements

Undergraduate Emphasis in Petroleum & Subsurface Engineering (Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering)

See the listing under Chemical Engineering.

Undergraduate Minor:Petroleum Engineering

Engineer in Petroleum Engineering

Requirements for the Engineer degree in petroleum engineering are the same as set forth in the general requirements. See general requirementsfor graduate degrees.

Graduate Degrees: Masters, PhD

Students with an interest in petroleum engineering may work toward a Masters or PhD degree. This degree is awarded in conformity with the general requirements of the Viterbi School of Engineering. The specific courses that constitute an acceptable program must be approved in advance by the administering department.

Programs

Minor

• •Petroleum Engineering Minor

Master’s Degree

• •Petroleum Engineering (Digital Oilfield Technologies) (MS)
• •Petroleum Engineering (MS)

Dual Degree

• •Master of Science, Petroleum Engineering/Master of Science, Engineering Management (MS/MS)

Doctoral Degree

• •Petroleum Engineering (PhD)

Courses

Petroleum Engineering

• •PTE 202x Energy and Society
• •PTE 390 Special Problems
• •PTE 411 Introduction to Transport Processes in Porous Media
• •PTE 412x Petroleum Reservoir Engineering
• •PTE 461 Formation Data Sensing with Well Logs
• •PTE 462 Economic, Risk and Formation Productivity Analysis
• •PTE 463L Introduction to Transport Processes in Porous Media
• •PTE 464L Modeling and Simulation of Subsurface Flow Systems
• •PTE 465L Drilling Technology and Subsurface Methods
• •PTE 466 Petroleum Geology
• •PTE 490x Directed Research
• •PTE 499 Special Topics
• •PTE 500 Computational Reservoir Modeling
• •PTE 502 Applied Subsurface Characterization and Engineering
• •PTE 503 Technology of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources Development
• •PTE 504 Geophysics for Petroleum Engineers
• •PTE 505 Inverse Modeling for Dynamic Data Integration
• •PTE 506 Geothermal Reservoirs
• •PTE 507 Engineering and Economic Evaluation of Subsurface Reservoirs
• •PTE 508 Numerical Simulation of Subsurface Flow and Transport Processes
• •PTE 509 High-Resolution Simulations of Porous Media Flows
• •PTE 511 Advanced Phase Behavior of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids
• •PTE 512 Subsurface Carbon and Energy Storage
• •PTE 514 Drilling Engineering
• •PTE 515 Natural Gas Engineering
• •PTE 517 Testing of Wells and Aquifers
• •PTE 519 Integrated Physical and Cyber Security for Oil and Gas Operations
• •PTE 520 Mathematical Methods for Deep Learning
• •PTE 531 Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery
• •PTE 542 Carbonate Rocks
• •PTE 545 Corrosion Control in Petroleum Production
• •PTE 555 Well Completion, Stimulation, and Damage Control
• •PTE 572L Applied Geostatistical Modeling for Subsurface Characterization
• •PTE 574 Optimization Methods for Subsurface Energy Systems
• •PTE 575 Data-Driven Modeling for Physical Systems
• •PTE 578 Advanced Production Engineering
• •PTE 581 Environmental Technology in the Petroleum Industry
• •PTE 582 Fluid Flow and Transport Processes in Porous Media
• •PTE 586 Deep Learning for Energy Engineering
• •PTE 587 Smart Completions, Oilfield Sensors and Sensor Technology
• •PTE 588 Smart Oilfield Data Mining
• •PTE 589 Advanced Oilfield Operations with Remote Immersive Visualization and Control
• •PTE 590 Directed Research
• •PTE 591 Petroleum Geochemistry
• •PTE 592 Geomechanics for Energy and Environment
• •PTE 594 Formation Damage in Petroleum Reservoirs
• •PTE 594a Master’s Thesis
• •PTE 594b Master’s Thesis
• •PTE 594z Master’s Thesis
• •PTE 599 Special Topics
• •PTE 611 Stochastic Modeling and Simulation
• •PTE 690 Directed Research
• •PTE 790 Research
• •PTE 794a Doctoral Dissertation
• •PTE 794b Doctoral Dissertation
• •PTE 794c Doctoral Dissertation
• •PTE 794d Doctoral Dissertation
• •PTE 794z Doctoral Dissertation