College/Career Task Card & Notes

Instructions: Save this document to your GOOGLE DRIVE with your name. Answer and complete the
following by December 5th. * If you have already completed this assignment in a previous class, please turn in
the link to your portfolio for this assignment.

STEP1: Explore Careers

Identify the Career Cluster(s) that best fits your personality, skills and interests by completing the interest profiler at
http://www.mynextmove.org/

STEP 2: My Roadmap
Define your Roadmap using the site: http://roadtripnation.com/roadmap
*(Take a screenshot of your roadmap statement and insert here):

College/Career Task Card & Notes

Step 3: Research your Career Cluster

Visit these websites to find the name of the job your top career choice: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/a-z-index.htm# or
http://mappingyourfuture.org/planyourcareer/careership/index.cfm
Including details about the career description, tasks, interests, education, knowledge, skills, and etc.
Category

Career Title:

Career Description

Assist scientists in the use of electrical, sonic, or nuclear measuring instruments in both
laboratory and production activities to obtain data indicating potential sources of metallic
ore, gas, or petroleum. Analyze mud and drill cuttings. Chart pressure, temperature, and
other characteristics of wells or bore holes. Investigate and collect information leading to
the possible discovery of new oil fields.

Tasks

Design equipment to extract oil and gas in the most profitable way
Develop ways to inject water, chemicals, gases, or steam into an oil reserve to force out
more of the oil

College/Career Task Card & Notes

Develop plans to drill in oil and gas fields, and then to recover the oil and gas
Make sure that wells, well testing, and well surveys are completed and evaluated
Use computer-controlled drilling or fracturing to connect a larger area of an oil and gas
deposit to a single well
Make sure that oil field equipment is installed, operated, and maintained properly
Interests

Education

Petroleum engineers must have a bachelors degree in engineering, preferably in

petroleum engineering. However, a bachelors degree in mechanical or chemical
engineering may also suffice. Employers also value work experience, so cooperative
engineering programs, in which students earn academic credit for structured job
experience, are valuable as well.

Knowledge

Students interested in studying petroleum engineering will benefit from taking high school
courses in math, such as algebra, trigonometry, and calculus; and in science, such as
biology, chemistry, and physics.

Skills

Petroleum engineers generally work in offices or in research laboratories. However, they

also must spend time at drilling sites, often for long periods of time.

Other:___________

Step 4: Research Career Outlook

College/Career Task Card & Notes

Locate the nature of work, working conditions, education, job outlook, and earnings for your career using the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Outlook Handbook at http://www.bls.gov/ooh/ and/or the O*NET Database at http://www.onetonline.org/
Category
Nature of Work

Working Conditions

Petroleum engineers generally work in offices or in research laboratories. However, they

also must spend time at drilling sites, often for long periods of time. This means they must
travel, sometimes with little notice.

Job Outlook

Employment of petroleum engineers is projected to grow 26 percent from 2012 to 2022,

much faster than the average for all occupations. Oil prices will be a major determinant of
employment growth, as higher prices lead to increasing complexity of oil companies
operations. Additionally, job prospects should be highly favorable because many engineers
are expected to retire.

Earnings

The median annual wage for petroleum engineers was $130,280 in May 2012. The median
wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount
and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $75,030, and the top 10
percent earned more than $187,200.

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STEP 5: College Research
1.

What will your major be? Petroleum Engineer

2.

What will your minor be? Teacher

Note: you may not find all of the information for each of your colleges but try

3.

What is your 1st college choice when you graduate from high school? University Of Houston

a.

What city and state is this college? Houston, TX

b.

Private or public? Public

c.

Does this college have your major and minor? yes

d.

What is the GPA requirement? 2

e.

What is the SAT/ACT requirement? SAT 1500 out of 2400 (Verbal + Math + Writing)

ACT 18 English, 21 Reading, 22 Mathematics and 24 Science

f.

What is the total cost of tuition? $345/SCH

g.

What extracurricular activities do you like that the college offers? (list at least 2)

h.

What scholarships do they offer that you may qualify for or be interested in?