Teodoriu Continues to Utilize New Approaches for Classroom Success

Since joining the faculty of MPGE last year, associate professor Catalin Teodoriu has been transformative in his classroom techniques. Rather than using straight lecture, Teodoriu encourages his students to explore through hands-on projects that enhance their learning, and has even added a gaming element to it by obtaining corporate sponsorship for in-class contests. This past […]

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Faculty Update: May

Associate Professor Xingru Wu chaired a session during the International Conference on Oil Country Tubular Goods and Tubular String in Xi’an, China, and presented Production Casing Design for Deepwater Development–Lessons Learned from Deepwater Horizon. At the SPE Low Perm Symposium in Denver, Wu presented Integrated Reservoir Modeling Workflow that Couples PVT and Adsorption in Confined Nano-Pores, an […]

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Students Helping Students

To help prepare freshman for the PE 2011: Introduction to Petroleum Engineering Systems final, OU SPE Freshman Liaisons hosted a study session at the dorms. Course TA’s Wes Herron and Yang Zhou were there to help students to review and answer questions. This was a new event for OU SPE, but one they definitely feel was worthwhile and […]

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MPGE Staff Recognized for Superior Performance

Francey Freeman, MPGE’s Student Relations Coordinator, has been named as the 2016 Waintroob/Myers Superior Performer by OU’s Informational Staff Association. This award recognizes her 15 years of dedication to the students and the overall OU community. In the words of her colleagues, “Whether she is visiting school and recruiting students, serving as staff advisor to […]

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