Professional Geoscience Master’s
Creating the Next Generation Workforce
Dr. Priyank Jaiswal, the program director, explains how a 36-hour program at OSU brings together academia, professional societies and industries to create a responsible and dynamic workforce for the petroleum and environmental industry.
The ProgramComplete 36 credit hours in 24 months or less with multiple certifications.
9 HRS
3 Core
Basic to geosciences and professional certificates
12 HRS
4 Electives
(Trans-disciplinary (Big Data, Energy Management and more...)
3 HRS
1 Capstone
The grand finale (with an industry partner)
CoreDevelop fundamental knowledge base
Geology of Reservoirs
Understand reservoirs and fluids
A multi-day guided field course across the state of Oklahoma learning about the various kinds of oilfields and aquifers. Students are introduced to various kinds of siliciclastic and carbonate facies and structural features through outcrops, logs, cores and seismic data.
TracksChoose from three tracks for domain expertise
Geophysics
Mastering quantitative earth interpretation
Curriculum provides students with fundamental understanding of acquiring, processing and interpreting various geophysical data-types (seismic, electrical, gravity and magnetics). Students are introduced to various kinds of applications that use these tools and techniques for resource detection, mapping and extraction.
Petroleum Geology
Mastering data-driven earth assessment
Curriculum provides students with fundamental understanding of petroleum geosciences (how oil and gas is generated, how it migrates from its origin and why and where it accumulates). Students are introduced to various kinds of source and reservoir rocks and factors that control their deposition, and post-depositional physical and chemical transformation.
Hydrogeology
Mastering flow in porous media
The curriculum provides students with fundamentals of hydrodynamics and hydromechanics of groundwater systems. Student are introduced to current challenges faced by petroleum companies in managing their produced water.