Once upon a time, in a land far, far away from Norman, Oklahoma, 12 people embarked on a journey to Rasnov, Romania. These people include Sergio Gomez, Thai Phi, Nate Johnson, Landon Wright, Steve Reiley, Andrew Boremann, Cameron Devers, Dennys Cifuentas, Lavinia Teodoriu, Catalin Teodoriu, Allen the tour guide and myself. Upon arrival in Rasnov […]
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Study Abroad: Romania – Day 7
Written by Steve Reiley Friday, January 12 – Day 7 To close out our first full week in Romania, we took a shop tour of the CDI Oilfield Services facility located about 15 km from the hotel. Our visit began with Mr. Vasile Mogos, the general manager for the facility, introducing the company’s prior work […]
Study Abroad: Romania – Day 4
Written by Sergio Gomez Mejia Tuesday, January 9th – Day 4 Today, we arrived at Ploiesti University of Petroleum and Gas for our second day of class. Before starting class, we had lunch in the university restaurant called the Canteen. After lunch we walked around the university and saw some old equipment used in the […]
Study Abroad: Romania – Day 3
Written by Cameron Devers Monday, January 8th – Day 3 Today was the first day of class. Group activities began around 1:00 p.m. when we decided to visit the local McDonald’s. It took well over 45 minutes for the 10 of us to order and eat our food; however, it was still pretty […]
Study Abroad: Romania – Day 2
Written by Dennys Cifuentes Sunday, January 7, 2018 – Day 2 Today, we took a trip to the city of Bucharest, which is the capital of Romania. In this trip, we took a tour of the Palace of Parliament. Some interesting facts about the palace is that it is the third biggest parliament in the […]
Study Abroad: Romania – Day 1
Written by Andrew Bormann Saturday January 6, 2018 – Day 1 Today was our first big trip outside of Ploieşti. We loaded into a van and headed to the mountain town of Sinaia. Our first stop was at the Sinaia Monastery, built in 1865. This was a special day at the monastery because we were […]
Romania Wrap-Up
This post is a day-by-day breakdown of the Summer 2017 Romania Study Abroad trip led by Dr. Catalin Teodoriu. The summary of the days and the pictures in the post were all written and taken by students in the program. This should provide an accurate account of what to expect from the course. Summers […]
Study Abroad: Romania
This summer I went to Romania and took the Monitoring, Diagnosis and Maintenance of Drilling Equipment, a class taught by Dr. Catalin Teodoriu. The most notable parts of the trip were the company and site visits, the class set-up and the cultural aspects. No other class that I’ve been on has taken us to as […]
Romania: The End
Eric Noguez wraps up our journey to Romania by telling us about their last day of class and the wonderful feast they had at Dr. Teodoriu’s house. I wonder if he would be willing to cater the next MPGE function? On our final day of class, we began the morning by visiting OMV Petrom in […]
Romania: A Weekend at the Black Sea
Amanda Knaup tells us about the groups visit to the Black Sea. You may notice an additional person in the pictures. That is Adonis Ichim, one of Teodoriu’s graduate students who met up with the group while presenting with Dr. Teodoriu at the conference. We traveled to Constesti on the coast of the Black Sea in order […]