GRADUATE CATALOG - The Petroleum Institute

Graduate Catalog | Academic Year 2013 – 2014Welcome to the Petroleum InstituteThe Petroleum Institute (PI) is committed to provide world-class education through teaching and research inengineering and applied sciences in order to support and advance the petroleum and energy industries in UAEand beyond. Graduate education is a major part of this commitment. Initiated in 2007, the PI offers todaygraduate programs that lead to Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Chemical Engineering, ElectricalEngineering, Health Safety and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or PetroleumEngineering, and to Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Applied Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, ElectricalEngineering, Mechanical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering or Petroleum Geosciences. The M.Eng. programshave an emphasis on applied aspects of the various engineering disciplines while the M.Sc. programs focus onfundamentals, and research in engineering and applied science. Scholarships in the form of Teaching/ResearchAssistantships are available to graduate students with excellent academic record. Outstanding students areeligible for Fellowship status.In the academic year 2011 – 2012, PI launched the ADNOC Fellowship PI Master Program that allows topperforming undergraduate PI students to take graduate courses during their senior year so that they maycomplete their Master degree within a year from completion of their B.Sc. degree. The PI is working towards theinitiation of its own Ph.D. program which is expected to be launched in the near future.All programs consist of core courses and a wide variety of elective courses in order to match the interests of students.Graduate courses are taught by PI and visiting faculty with significant international experience in research andgraduate education. All graduate students are engaged in on-going exciting research projects under thesupervision of a PI faculty. A major research center is currently under construction and expected to beoperational by the end of this academic year.Our graduate program aims to educate engineers and scientists for an outstanding professional career in industry,academia, government or services worldwide. The international and multicultural intellectual environmentbuilt by PI faculty, staff and students provides the basis for our graduates to excel in their professional life.In this catalog, you will find a detailed description of our graduate programs, their educational goals and objectives,the graduate courses offered and a list of full-time faculty members. we would like to express our gratitude tothe colleagues that contributed to the development of the catalog and primarily the Graduate StudiesCoordinators that include Dr. Ahmed Al Durra from Electrical Engineering, Dr. Fawzi Banat from ChemicalEngineering, Dr. Ryan Fernandes from Arts and Sciences, Dr. Fahad Al Maskari from Mechanical Engineering,Dr. Avin Pillay from Applied Chemistry, Dr. Clarence Rodrigues from Health, Safety and EnvironmentalEngineering, Dr. Mohammed Al Kobaisi from Petroleum Engineering and Dr. Sandra Vega from PetroleumGeosciences.Last and most importantly, PI has full accreditation by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) for all its undergraduate programs.Dr. Thomas SteuberActing Dean of the Graduate SchoolThe Petroleum InstituteIsmail A. Tag, PhDActing President and ProvostThe Petroleum InstitutePage 8