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Sample Four Year Study Plan (AY 2022-2023)

 Freshman Year, Semester 1 (Fall)
Code Course Title Cr
PHYS 110 University Physics I 3
PHYS 111 University Physics I Lab 1
ENGL 101 Composition 3
ENGR 107 Introduction to Engineering 2
MATH 113 Calculus I 3
UNIV 100 University First-Year Transition 1
CHEM 211 General Chemistry I  3
CHEM 212 General Chemistry I Lab 1
Total 17
Freshman Year, Second Semester
Code Course Title Cr
ARAB 101
or
ARAB 110		 Arabic Language and Culture for Non- Native Learners I or
Arabic Language and Culture for Native Arabic Speakers I 		3
MATH 114 Calculus II 3
MEST 100 Introduction to Islam in World Culture  3
PHYS 220 University Physics II 3
PHYS 221 University Physics II Lab 1
CSCI 112 Introduction to Computer Programming 3
CSCI 113 Introduction to Computer Programming Lab 1
Total 17
 Sophomore Year, Semester 1 (Fall)
Code Course Title Cr
ECON 103 Principles of Microeconomics  3
MENG 211 Thermodynamics I 3
MATH 203 Linear Algebra 3
UNIV 200 Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability 3
PENG 101 Physical Geology 3
Total   15
Sophomore Year, Semester 2 (Spring)
Code Course Title Cr
PHIL 100 or ENGL 200 Critical Thinking and Reasoning  or
Advanced Composition 		3
PENG 231 Mechanics of Materials 3
CHEM 215 Organic Chemistry I 3
PENG 202 Intro. to Petroleum Engineering  1
MATH 214 Elementary Differential Equations 3
PENG 351 Reservoir Rock and Fluid Properties 3
PENG 321 Reservoir Rock and Fluid Prop. Lab 1
Total 17
 Sophomore Year, Summer Semester
Code Course Title Cr
ENGR 390 Internship I 3
Total 3
 Junior Year, Semester 1 (Fall)
Code Course Title Cr
ENGR 200 Engineering Statistics 3
IENG 321 Engineering Economy 3
CIEN 251 Fluid Mechanics 3
PENG 361 Drilling Engineering I 2
PENG 322 Drilling Fluids Laboratory 1
UAES 200 Survey of United Arab Emirates Studies 3
Total 15
Junior Year, Semester 2 (Spring)
Code Course Title Cr
PENG 382 Petroleum Production Engineering (Well Performance) 4
PENG 371 Petroleum Reservoir Engineering  3
PENG 381 Well Logging 3
PENG 462 Drilling Engineering II 2
PENG 472 Applied Reservoir Geology 3
Total   15
 Junior Year, Summer Semester
Code Course Title Cr
ENGR 391 Internship II 3
Total 3
 Senior Year, Semester 1 (Fall)
Code Course Title Cr
PENG 482 Natural Gas Engineering  3
PENG 403 Petroleum Property Evaluation 3
PENG 485 Water Flooding 3
Technical Elective I 3
PENG 491 Senior Design Project I 3
PENG 423 Fluid Flow in Porous Media Lab  1
Total 16
Senior Year, Semester 2 (Spring)
Code Course Title Cr
PENG 483 Well Testing 3
PENG 484 Stimulation and Intervention in Petroleum Production Operations 3
PENG 473 Reservoir Simulation 3
  Technical Elective II 3
 PENG 492 Senior Design Project II 3
Total   15
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PHYS 110 – (SCPH 110) University Physics I

Co-requisites: PHYS 111

This is a calculus-based physics course covering the fundamental principles of mechanics. It concentrates on the conservation of energy, the particle motion, the collisions, the rotation of solid bodies, simple machines and on the fluid mechanics. The focus lies on the resolution of one and twodimensional mechanical problems.

PHYS 111 – (SCPH 111) University Physics I Lab

Co-requisites: PHYS 110

This course is intended to be taken with Physics 110. It primarily includes experiments on classical mechanics. Particular emphasis is placed on laboratory technique, data collection and analysis and on reporting.

ENGL 101 – Composition

Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 099 or passing English Placement Test

English 101 provides students with intensive practice in drafting, revising, and editing expository essays for an academic audience. Using logical, rhetorical, and linguistic structures in their writing, students also develop their ability to think creatively, critically, and independently. Throughout the course, students engage in reading texts, evaluating sources, using their reading to form their own opinions, preparing research papers, and employing the MLA documentation style to avoid plagiarism.

ENGR 107 Introduction to Engineering

Co-requisite: Math Placement Test score qualifying student for MATH 113

Introduces engineering profession fundamentals and problem solving. Topics include description of engineering disciplines, functions of the engineer, professionalism, ethics and registration, problem solving and representation of technical information, estimation and approximations, and analysis and design.

MATH 113 – Calculus I

Pre-requisite(s): MATH 095/105, or appropriate score on Math Placement test

The concept of derivative (instantaneous rate of change) is an essential factor in solving real-world problems. One of the objectives of this course is to understand the conceptual foundation of derivative, and learn different techniques of computing the derivative, as well as learning how to apply it to solve real-world problems. Another objective is to understand the concept of integration and learn basic integration technique.

UNIV 100 – University First-Year Transition

Students in this course transition to university life by focusing on academic adjustment, by developing decision-making skills, and by learning about services and opportunities for involvement. Although all classes have a core body of knowledge, each class specializes in a particular aspect of university life.

CHEM 211 – General Chemistry I 

This course covers the foundations of chemical concepts: basic facts and principles of chemistry, including atoms, molecules, ions, chemical reactions, gas theory, thermochemistry, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics and equilibrium, molecular geometry, and states of matter.

CHEM 212 – General Chemistry I Lab

Co-requisite: CHEM 211

This course provides laboratory techniques to accompany General Chemistry I

ARAB 101 – Arabic Language and Culture for Non- Native Learners I

Pre-requisite: None

Beginner Level Arabic Language and Culture 1 is the first in a four-course beginner and intermediate Arabic language sequence specifically tailored to the needs of non-native Arabic language students in the English and Mass Communication Programs (though any non-native learner of Arabic may enroll). This course introduces the student to the Arabic alphabet and the basics of reading and writing in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Instruction in the language is enriched by reference to cultural themes and visits to sites of cultural importance.

ARAB 110 – Arabic Language and Culture for Native Arabic Speakers I

Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 101

Arabic literature has developed many traditions though originating from a common source. The course is an introduction to representative texts from contemporary Arab writers, and their connections with the traditions of the past. The method is comparative, with a study of literary, political social and religious aspects, as well as the application of a theoretical framework of analysis.

MATH 114 – Calculus II

Pre-requisite(s): MATH 113

This course covers techniques and applications of integration, transcendental functions, infinite sequences and series and parametric equations.

MEST 100 – Introduction to Islam in World Culture 

The course provides an introduction to the basic sources and historical contexts for the origins of Islam; some of the basic spiritual principles expressed in those sources; the contexts and practices that exemplify the spiritual principles; contributions Islam has made to civilization and to the political, social and cultural identity of the UAE. It will illustrate the concept of Islamic studies through a global, interdisciplinary and comparative approach and examine contemporary global and local issues that impact and are impacted by Islamic culture.

PHYS 220 – (SCPH 220) University Physics II

Pre-requisite: PHYS 110
Co-requisite: None

This second calculus-based physics course includes a detailed study of the fundamental principles of classical electricity and magnetism, as well as an introduction to electromagnetic waves. The course’s focus targets the resolution of dc- and alternating circuits.

PHYS 221 – (SCPH 221) University Physics II Lab

Co-requisites: PHYS 220

This course is intended to accompany Physics 220. It includes experiments on electricity, magnetism and RLC circuits. Particular emphasis is placed on three aspects of experimentation: laboratory technique, data analysis (including the treatment of statistical and systematic errors) and written communication of experimental procedures and results.

CSCI 112 – Introduction to Computer Programming

Co-requisite(s): CSCI 113

o This course introduces students to computers and programming languages and more specifically the C++ language. Besides, this course presents an introduction to the fields of artificial intelligence and data analytics. The topics covered include basic operations, data types, input/output, selection statements, control structures, arrays, functions, strings, knowledge representation, neural networks and natural language, and data summarization and visualization.

CSCI 113 – Introduction to Computer Programming Lab

Co-requisite(s): CSCI 112

This course introduces the use of computer programming as a problem-solving tool in laboratory environment. Topics in procedural programming include, simple data types, input/output, selection statements, control loops, testing, debugging, and programming environments.

ECON 103 – (GEEC 103) Principles of Microeconomics 

This course introduces learners to microeconomics in the context of current problems. It explores how market mechanism allocates scare resources among competing uses. It uses supply, demand, production, and distribution theory to analyze problems.

MENG 211 – Thermodynamics I

Pre-requisite(s): CHEM 211

This course will consider the fundamental science of classical thermodynamics and its practical applications. Problem solving will be emphasized, including problem formulation, analytic, and computational solutions. Topics include the first law of thermodynamics, work, heat, properties of substances and state equations, the second law of thermodynamics and applications to engineering systems.

MATH 203 – Linear Algebra

Pre-requisite(s): MATH 113

This course covers systems of linear equations, linear independence, linear transformations, inverse of a matrix, determinants, vector spaces, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and diagonalization.

UNIV 200 – Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (3 Credits)

This course aims at equipping the next generation of leaders in the UAE with an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset and its related core skills. The course combines three main points: design thinking, entrepreneurship, and growth and leadership.

PENG 101 – Physical Geology

Composition of the Earth’s crust and oceans, and their Geological characteristics. Primary and secondary structures. Internal Geological processes. Plate Tectonics and the relation of Geological events to it. External Geological processes. Stratigraphic columns, details of the Geological Time Scale and case studies of Geological ages and their palaeogeographic distribution. Climate. Important biological aspects.

PHIL 100 – Critical Thinking and Reasoning 

This introduction to basic principles of reasoning and critical thinking enhances the learner’s abilities to evaluate various forms of reasoning in everyday life and in academic disciplines. The course explores such topics as inductive and deductive reasoning, the nature and function of definitions, fallacy types, statistic use and misuse, and the rudiments of logic.

ENGL 200 (ENGL 302) Advanced Composition

Prerequisite(s): Completion of a minimum of 45 credit hours and ENGL 101

This course builds on the general college-level writing skills and strategies students have acquired in earlier courses, and prepares them to do advanced level analysis and writing specifically within their major field and their possible future workplaces.

PENG 231 – Mechanics of Materials

Pre-requisite(s): MATH 114

This course covers external and internal forces in structures and/or machines, including conditions of equilibrium, systems of force, moments of inertia and friction. It also covers an introduction to Petroleum Rock Mechanics: Elasticity and Rock strength, Rock properties from logs, Stresses around wellbore and borehole failure criteria, Hydraulic Fracturing.

CHEM 215 (CHEM 313) – Organic Chemistry I

Prerequisite(s): CHEM 111 or CHEM 211
Co-requisite: CHEM 216

This course provides a foundation in Organic Chemistry and includes the theoretical and synthetic aspects of the chemistry of carbon compounds.

PENG 202 – Intro. to Petroleum Engineering 

Pre-requisite(s):

The course provides an overview and history of the petroleum industry and petroleum engineering, including nature of oil and gas reservoirs, petroleum exploration and drilling, formation evaluation, well completions and production, surface facilities, reservoir mechanics, and improved oil recovery. It introduces the importance of ethical, societal, and environmental considerations and current events on activities in the petroleum industry. It also introduces students to professional society and university resources that aid career development.

MATH 214 – Elementary Differential Equations

Pre-requisite(s): MATH 114

This course covers first-order ODEs, higher-order ODEs, Laplace transforms, linear systems, nonlinear systems, numerical approximations, and modeling.

PENG 351 – Reservoir Rock and Fluid Properties

Pre-requisite(s): CHEM 215

Fundamental properties of reservoir rocks, namely porosity, compressibility, permeability, electric conductivity, fluid saturation, surface forces and capillary pressure, effective and relative permeability, and their applications in volumetric and flow calculations in petroleum reservoirs. Fundamental properties of reservoir fluids, namely oil, natural gas, and formation water. The course covers hydrocarbon phase behavior, equations of state, formation volume factors, gas solubility, types of vaporization, K values, and gas separation.

PENG 321 – Reservoir Rock and Fluid Prop. Lab

Pre-requisite(s): PENG 351 (Co-req.)

This course deals with the measurement of fundamental properties of reservoir rocks and fluids. Rock properties include porosity, irreducible water saturation, residual oil saturation, absolute permeability, capillary pressure, and relative permeability. Fluid properties include oil distillation, oil composition of one of oil fractions, oil density at room conditions and at high pressure and temperature conditions, oil viscosity at high pressure and temperature, surface and interfacial tensions, flash liberation process, estimation of bubble-point pressure at reservoir temperature, and oil-formation-volume factor and solution gas/oil ratio at pressures below the bubble-point pressure.

ENGR 390 – Internship

Pre-requisite(s): : Completion of 60 credits and a CGPA of 2.0 or higher

Supervised field experience of professional-level duties for 180 to 240 hours at an approved internship site under the guidance of a designated site supervisor in coordination with a faculty supervisor.

ENGR 200 – Engineering Statistics (3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): none

The course introduces principles of statistics and probability for undergraduate students in Engineering. The course covers the basic concepts of probability, discrete and continuous random variables, probability distributions, expected values, joint probability distributions, and independence. The course also covers statistical methods and topics including data summary and description techniques, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis.

IENG 321 – Engineering Economy (3:0:0)

Pre-requisite(s): MATH 113

Principles of economic analysis and methods in engineering including: time value of money, discounted cash flow techniques equivalence, economic measures of worth, single and multiple alternatives evaluation and selection, replacement decisions, cost estimation, equipment depreciation, the use of Minimum Attractive Rate of Return MARR and Benefit/cost analysis.

CIEN 251 – Fluid Mechanics 

Prerequisite(s): MATH 213 & CIEN 211

Properties of fluids, flow regimes, pressure and force calculations under hydrostatic conditions, manometers, buoyancy and stability of floating and submerged bodies, elementary fluid dynamics, conservation equations: mass, energy and momentum, continuity and Bernoulli equations, hydraulic gradient line and total energy line, linear and angular momentum equations.

PENG 361 Drilling Engineering I

Pre-requisite(s): PENG 231
Co-requisite(s): CIEN 251

This course introduces basic drilling techniques and drilling fluid properties. Topics include rock characteristics, drilling fluids, mud weight calculations, components of rotary drilling rig, drilling hydraulics, drilling bits, factors affecting rate of penetration, cementing operations.

PENG 322 – Drilling Fluids Laboratory

Co-requisite: PENG 361

This course deals with lab measurements of cement and mud properties. Mud preparation, mud rheology, filtration, wall building and resistivity, mud weight control, drilling fluid contamination test, oil well cementing experiment.

UAES 200 – Survey of United Arab Emirates Studies (1 Semester Credit Hour)

This course presents the UAE from multiple perspectives in an attempt to expose the students to the distinct qualities of the UAE. The purpose of this course is to give students a broad, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive introduction to key features and issues in the UAE’s historical, cultural, political and economic landscapes. (Writing Intensive Course)

PENG 382 – Petroleum Production Engineering (Well Performance)

Pre-requisite(s): CIEN 215

This course covers basic well performance calculations necessary for the design and analysis of naturally flowing and artificially lifted wells. Topics include Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR), Tubing Performance Relationship (TPR), Flowline Performance Relationship (FPR), Choke Performance Relationship (CPR), Gas-Lift, Electric Submersible Pumps (ESP), and production forecasting.

PENG 371 – Petroleum Reservoir Engineering 

Pre-requisite(s): PENG 351

This course deals with material balance (MB) techniques to estimate reserves. Topics include generalized MB equations, fluid drive mechanisms, selection of PVT data, water influx, flow through porous media, displacement of oil, fractional flow, and oil recovery by internal drive.

PENG 381 – Well Logging

Pre-requisite(s): PENG 351

Logging is an essential operation to determine the key formation parameters, such as porosity, permeability, reservoir thickness, water saturation. All types of well logging techniques such as Logging while Drilling, Cased Hole Logging, and Production Logging are included. Logs are also run to gain information about well casing and cementing.

PENG 462 – Drilling Engineering II

Pre-requisite(s): PENG 361

This course deals with additional topics in drilling engineering, namely casing design and landing, directional and horizontal drilling, drilling problems and fishing operations, well control problems and solutions.

PENG 472 – Applied Reservoir Geology

Pre-requisite(s): PENG 101
Co-requisite(s): PENG 381

Oil distribution in the world and in the UAE: geology of reservoirs, which includes the formation of reservoir rocks, cap rocks, source rocks and the environments of depositions: petrophysical parameters of parameters of reservoir fluids: oil field waters, crude oil and natural gas; reservoir conditions: pressure, temperature and their effects on oil maturation, migration and accumulation: oil generation. Oil migration: types of oil traps: methods of exploration.

ENGR 391 Internship II (3 Semester Credit Hours)
Prerequisite(s): Completion of 90 credits (97 credits for Interior Design students; 112 credits for Architecture students) and
a CGPA of 2.0 or higher.

This is one of two supervised field experience of professional-level duties where each is for 240 to
320 hours (8 weeks) of full-time training at approved internship sites. The internship takes place under the guidance of a
designate site supervisor in coordination with a faculty supervisor. In addition to the regular reports during the internship,
students must present their activities and learning experiences at the end of the internship.

PENG 482 – Natural Gas Engineering 

Pre-requisite(s): PENG 371 + PENG 382

This course introduces the properties of natural gas, covers flow of gas in reservoir, wellbore and surface pipelines. Based on such knowledge, students are able to run nodal analysis for gas production system design. This course also covers gas compression and gas operation issues.

PENG 403 – Petroleum Property Evaluation

Pre-requisite(s): PENG 371 and IENG 321

Applications of reservoir engineering techniques, reserve calculations, decline curve analysis, rate of return calculations to project design and evaluation.

PENG 485 – Water Flooding

Pre-requisite(s): PENG 371

This is a senior level course on reservoir engineering series courses. The course covers the reservoir engineering aspects of water flooding. Topics include introduction to reservoir forces and concepts of surface and interfacial tension, wettability, capillary pressure, relative permeability; trapping and mobilization of residual oil; fluid distribution and frontal displacement theory, concept of mobility ratio, flood patterns and areal sweep efficiency considerations, pattern injection rates and pressures; characterization of reservoir heterogeneity; vertical and volumetric sweep efficiency, waterflood performance prediction models; waterflood pilot test; designing, monitoring and evaluating a waterflooding operation; water for water flooding, its sources and treatment.

PENG 491 – Senior Design Project I

Pre-requisite(s): Senior Standing

A significant design effort in one area of petroleum operations. Design is based on fundamental understanding of petroleum and reservoir engineering concept and a critical review of literature of current state of knowledge for the subject under consideration. Projects may involve analysis and computer program development and/or usage combined with experimental work. Topics for projects may be developed with industry cooperation.

PENG 423 – Fluid Flow in Porous Media Lab 

Pre-requisite(s): None

This course deals with the design aspects of oil displacement by another fluid in rock samples. It builds on the experiences of students obtained in lab measurements of individual reservoir rock and fluid properties in PENG 321 to create an integrated lab measurement of all properties needed to analyze oil displacement by a displacing fluid. The displacing fluid can be chosen to study the relative permeability and displacement efficiency of water flooding, gas flooding, or any enhanced oil recovery fluids (acidic water, microbial water, polymer solution, or steam) using cores, fractured cores (sand packs and glass beads may be considered as alternatives) in one-dimensional geometry or packed layers in twodimensional geometry.

PENG 483 – Well Testing

Pre-requisite(s): PENG 371 + MATH 214

This course covers reservoir characterization by pressure test analysis. Topics include fluid flow equations in porous media under transient and pseudo-steady state flow conditions, pressure buildup and pressure drawdown tests, average reservoir pressure, type curve matching, well testing of heterogeneous reservoirs, pressure derivatives analysis technique, multiple well testing, and test design and instrumentation.

PENG 484 – Stimulation and Intervention in Petroleum Production Operations

Pre-requisite(s): PENG 382

Topics include well completions, perforations, wellbore damage sources and detection, hydraulic fracturing, fracturing fluids, acid/rock interactions, and acid treatment of oil wells, design and evaluation of treatments, evaluation by nodal system analysis.

PENG 473 – Reservoir Simulation 

Pre-requisite(s): PENG 371 + MATH 203

This course covers fundamental concepts of reservoir simulation to model single-phase flow in petroleum reservoirs. Topics include reservoir engineering concepts, mathematical concepts, derivation of reservoir flow equations, finite difference approximations, and their solutions, and applications to predict reservoir performance.

PENG 492 – Senior Design Project II

Pre-requisite(s): PENG 491

Continuation of phase (1).