These courses are required for a Petroleum Engineering certificate.
Admission Requirements
1. Interest in learning about Petroleum Engineering Topics.
2. Adequate experience in the field of petroleum engineering.
Certificate Requirements
1. A total of sixteen (16) credit hours must be completed from the following courses in the PE undergraduate curriculum:
Course List| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|
| PTRE 201 | Introduction to Petroleum Engineering | 3 |
| PTRE 301 | Reservoir Rock Properties | 3 |
| PTRE 311 | Petroleum Fluid Properties | 3 |
| PTRE 361 | Petroleum Engineering Laboratory I | 1 |
| PTRE 401 | Well Logging | 3 |
| PTRE 405 | Petroleum Eng. Economy and Law | 3 |
| PTRE 411 | Drilling Engineering | 3 |
| PTRE 421 | Production Engineering | 3 |
| PTRE 431 | Reservoir Engineering | 3 |
| PTRE 445 | Well Testing | 3 |
| PTRE 451 | Advanced Drilling Engineering | 3 |
| PTRE 461 | Natural Gas Engineering | 3 |
| PTRE 462 | Petroleum Engineering Laboratory II | 1 |
| PTRE 465 | Petroleum Geomechanics | 3 |
| PTRE 471 | Numerical Reservoir Simulation | 3 |
| PTRE 475 | Well Completions | 3 |
| PTRE 484 | Research Design | 3 |
| PTRE 485 | Senior Design | 3 |
| PTRE 493 | Selected Topics in Petroleum Engineering | 1-4 |
| GEOE 210 | Earth Dynamics Geophysics | 4 |
2. Courses must be passed with the following requirements below:
Courses shall only count as credit toward fulfilling the requirements listed above when a grade of S (for S/U) or C or higher has been awarded at the completion of the course.
The requirements on this page are pulled from UND’s academic catalog and may not reflect
future terms. Updates are published annually in April.