As in all other engineering disciplines, the undergraduate education in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering can only present streamlined versions of comprehensive subjects to students, conveying the foundational and most critical knowledge of the field. Unfortunately, all petroleum engineering graduates around the world try to solve the problems they encounter in their future professional lives using the limited and fundamental theoretical knowledge acquired during their undergraduate studies. Graduate programs not only specialize engineers for solving unique and serious problems faced in the industry but also provide the necessary accumulation and skill set to follow technological developments in the field of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering.
In light of these requirements, the objectives of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering graduate program can be summarized as providing the analysis and synthesis capabilities required to initiate and conduct specialization and research-and-development activities in the fields of drilling, production and reservoir engineering, enhanced oil recovery, natural gas engineering, and geothermal energy.