Graduate Program in Petroleum and Mineral Engineering
Research
The graduate program in Petroleum and Mineral Engineering offers extensive and diverse research opportunities for its students. Some of our current research interests include:
Petroleum and Natural Gas...
- Fluid dynamics in pipes
- Compositional multi-phase simulation of fluid flow in pipes and in wellbores
- Remediation of pipeline contamination
- Wellbore-reservoir interactions
- Multi-phase flow in porous media, diffusion in porous media
- Fracture-matrix interaction
- Reservoir rock characterization
- Reservoir engineering
- Conventional and numerical well testing
- Drilling engineering
- Perforations and completions design
- Numerical reservoir simulation
- Improved oil and gas recovery
- Compositional coalbed methane modeling
- Secondary migration
- Rock mechanics
- Virtual intelligence operations
Mining...
- Computer Applications
- Environmental Control
- Geomechanics
- Groundwater and Contaminant Hydrology
- Health and Safety
- Innovative Mining Systems
- Management
- Materials Handling
- Mine Equipment Maintenance
- Mine Management
- Mine Planning and Reclamation
- Monitoring and Control
- Operations Research
- Surface Mining
- Underground Mining
- Ventilation
Mineral Processing...
- Crushing and grinding
- Liberation
- Particle size and shape characterization
- Classification
- Gravity separation
- Froth flotation and column flotation
- Wetting
- Dispersion and flocculation
- Agglomeration
- Hydrometallurgy
- Scale-up, modeling and evaluation of unit operations
- Design and analysis of flowsheets
Industrial Health and Safety...
- Interactions among worker, machine, and environment
- Hearing conservation
- Understanding engineering principles of processes and systems
- Management processes of planning, organizing, and controlling
- Theories of learning, motivation, and morale
- Quantification of accident and injury experience and loss control
- System safety evaluation and safety audits
- Fire and electrical safety
- Industrial ventilation
- Industrial hygiene and toxicology