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 […]
Month: May 2016
10th Annual Crawfish Boil Hosted by OU SPE
Following another successful Relay for Life, OU SPE celebrated with another tradition, the annual crawfish boil. This year’s event, held on the Brian and Sandra O’Brien Plaza of Sarkeys Energy Center, was co-hosted by Baker Hughes whose team tirelessly cooked and served 400 pounds of crawfish straight from Louisiana. The annual crawfish boil is the largest […]
OU SPE Top Fundraiser in OU Relay for Life
Relay for Life is an annual event organized by students at the University of Oklahoma in order to raise money for the American Cancer Society. For many years, Petroleum Engineering students have been involved in a variety of different capacities, ranging from members of the executive committee to event participants. At the nine-hour event, students […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
2016 Student Awards Night
On Thursday, April 21, MPGE faculty and students stepped out of theirs and took a break from their studies to come together and celebrate student achievement during the annual Student Awards Night. Held in the beautiful Cheseapeake Stadium Club overlooking OU’s Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, nearly 300 were in attendance. Following the address by […]