Most students attend college in hopes of getting jobs and starting careers. But for many petroleum engineering majors, the crash of the oil industry has created an uncertain future. “The struggle right now is getting motivated because the market is so bad,” said Lindsey Sweetgall, the only academic advisor for undergraduate students in the petroleum engineering department. […]
An Inside Look Into the New Petroleum Engineering Research Building
February 26, 2014 by
Video by Blake Silverthorn The New Petroleum Engineering Building When entering the new Terry Fuller Petroleum Engineering Research Building, you first notice the Double T on the floor, but then you notice how the entrance hall tells the story of petroleum engineering. Visitors cannot miss the wall to the right that resembles geological layers in […]
Fortune 500 Companies Donate Money to Tech
February 13, 2014 by
The new Texas Tech University petroleum engineering building will receive another $2 million thanks to donations from the third largest U.S. corporation and a Texas-based Fortune 500 oil and gas company. Chevron, a California-based energy corporation ranked third on the Fortune 500 list, is giving $500,000 to Tech. The money will be used to create the […]
