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Board 37: Developing Globalized Petroleum Engineers (WIP)

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Baltimore , Maryland

Publication Date

June 25, 2023

Start Date

June 25, 2023

End Date

June 28, 2023

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Poster Session

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

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9

DOI

10.18260/1-2--43034

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https://peer.asee.org/43034

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Roman Taraban Texas Tech University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-1815-4687

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Roman Taraban is Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Texas Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. His interests are in how undergraduate students learn, and especially, in text and discourse analysis, problem-solving in engineering, and engineering education.

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Alberto Giussani Texas Tech University

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Alberto Giussani, background in Petroleum Engineering, started in 1981 as a consultant on Natural Gas Hydrates and then moved to the oil and gas arena. Worked for Shell, Altura, and Oxy until December 2019. Areas of experience, water floods and CO2 floods field performance and development, hydrocarbon storage caverns, CO2 source fields. The type of work I enjoyed the most was the development and implementation of plans to either improve field performance or expand field production. Nack for working with teams/groups of different backgrounds to achieve a common goal. Since 2006, first as a part-time instructor and after 2019 as a full-time lecturer teaching in the Petroleum Engineering Department at Texas Tech, the goal of my classes both sophomore and senior levels is to prepare young minds to become strong engineers capable of working in a team concept with a deep sense of responsibility

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William M. Marcy P.E. Texas Tech University

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Professor and Director of the Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism. Dr. Marcy is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Texas (84408). Bill has more than 45 years of experience as a management consultant, engineering educator, software developer and licensed professional engineer. After retiring as Provost of Texas Tech in 2008 he returned part time as Professor and Director of the Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism in the Whitacre College of Engineering. He teaches engineering ethics on-line at both the undergraduate and graduate level. More than 5,500 engineering students have completed his engineering ethics courses.

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Paul A. Terrell Texas Tech University

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Father, Husband, and graduate student interested in the connection between health information and the experience of pain. Former television broadcast news producer. Current IT support specialist for the College of Media & Communication at Texas Tech University.

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Sweta Saraff IHR Kolkata Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-9688-1612

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Sweta Saraff is a research associate at IHR Kolkata. She was an ex-faculty in the department of Amity Institute of Psychology and Allied Sciences in Amity University, Kolkata. She teaches Behavioral Sciences to University students. Her research interests are cognitive science, linguistics and social-cultural studies.

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Ramakrishna Biswal Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute Technology, Rourkela

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Dr. Ramakrishna Biswal teaches in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. His research areas include developmental psychology, ethical engineering, neurodevelopmental disabilities, and mental health.

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Abstract

Petroleum discovery, sale, and distribution have become global issues that affect communities, corporations, and governments. The challenge is to develop an understanding and appreciation in students of how oil and gas exploration differs around the globe, economically, culturally, socially, and ethically. In the present project, we have launched and have begun development of a web platform open to the world that focuses on economic, ethical, and community issues in global oil production. Development of the web platform, titled Petroleum Engineer, is modeled on the highly successful web platform for students’ reactions to engineering ethics, the Ethical Engineer: https://EthicalEngineer.ttu.edu. The Petroleum Engineer website is being developed through a required undergraduate course in the PE major. The primary materials for the Petroleum Engineer website are petroleum engineering case studies, approximately 1000 words in length. Students read and reflect on a case study, post a comment (approximately 300 words), and post reactions to other students’ comments, on a voluntary basis. Instructor-generated guidelines for students for developing comments are posted on the website to help students think critically and gain clarity on their position. Themes within students’ comments will be analyzed beginning with human qualitative data analysis methods and then extended to machine-based classification methods. Students will also be surveyed regarding their web experience. The primary goal of the project is to engage students in an exchange of ideas across national boundaries, as with https://EthicalEngineer.ttu.edu, and to thereby aid in developing globalized petroleum engineers.

Taraban, R., & Giussani, A., & Marcy, W. M., & Terrell, P. A., & Saraff, S., & Biswal, R. (2023, June), Board 37: Developing Globalized Petroleum Engineers (WIP) Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43034

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