Petroleum Engineering – Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

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Hedco Building 316
(213) 740-0322
FAX: (213) 740-0324
Email: chemspte@vsoe.usc.edu
chems.usc.edu
Chair: Michael Kassner, PhD

Associate Chair, Graduate Program: Noah Malmstadt, PhD

Director: Iraj Ershaghi, PhD, PE

Faculty

Zohrab A. Kaprielian Dean’s Chair in Engineering and Chester F. Dolley Chair in Petroleum Engineering: Yannis C. Yortsos, PhD

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

William M. Keck Professor of Energy Resources: Donald M. Paul, PhD

Associate Professors: Behnam Jafarpour, PhD; Kristian Jessen, PhD

Assistant Professor: Birendra Jha, PhD

Research Professor: Fred Aminzadeh, PhD

Associate Professor of Practice: Jincai Chang, PhD

Adjunct Research Professor: Dongxiao Zhang, PhD

Adjunct Professor: Faruk Civan, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professors: Davood Khairkhah, PhD; Andrei Popa, PhD

Lecturers: Robello Samuel, PhD; Donald Gautier, PhD; Martin Karrenbach, PhD; Bradford Pierce, MS; Ke-Thia Yao, PhD

Joint Appointments: Edward Crandall, PhD, MD (Medicine); P. Daniel Dapkus, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering); Stacey Finley, PhD (Biomedical Engineering); Martin Gundersen, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering); Qiang Huang, PhD (Industrial and Systems Engineering); Jerry S.H. Lee, PhD (Medicine); Grace Lu, PhD (Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering); Brent Merlot, PhD (Chemistry); Aiichiro Nakano, PhD (Computer Science, Physics, Biomedical Engineering); George Olah, PhD (Chemistry); Charles G. Sammis, PhD (Geological Sciences); Raymond Stevens, PhD (Biological Sciences and Chemistry); Armand R. Tanguay Jr., PhD (Electrical and Biomedical Engineering); Mark E. Thompson, PhD (Chemistry); Han Wan, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering); Arieh Warshel, PhD (Chemistry); Chongwu Zhou, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Emeritus Professors: George Chillingar,PhD; Elmer L. Dougherty, PhD; Murray Gershenzon, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering); Peter Will, PhD (Astronautical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering)

Petroleum Engineering Honor Society: Pi Epsilon Tau

Degree Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering

Emphasis in Petroleum Engineering

See the listing under Chemical Engineering .

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Emphasis in Petroleum Engineering

See the listing under Aerospace and Mechanical 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 requirements for graduate degrees.

Programs

Minor

• Petroleum Engineering Minor

Master’s Degree

Graduate Certificate

Dual Degree

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

Doctoral Degree

• Petroleum Engineering (PhD)

Courses

Petroleum Engineering