1-Introduction meeting for summer programs

New main members of SPE chapter at Sharif University of Technology (SUT) began their programs this summer. First of all it was necessary for students to be informed about summer educational programs. Therefore “an introduction to SPE programs” meeting was held in June 2009. Dr. kharrat, the President of Iran Section SPE, Dr. Rashtchian, the chairman of chemical and petroleum engineering department of Sharif University of Technology and Dr. Goodarznia, the former Petroleum committee manager of Sharif U of  Tech were the special guests of this meeting who each of them had a 10 minutes speech. Dr. Kharrat also had a presentation about the SPE and the activities that a section could have, after that Iman Najafi, the new president of SUT SPE chapter declared the summer programs of SPE and at last the participants of this meeting were directed to the hall and served with the beverage and cake while they were asking questions from SPE chapter directing board.

1) Dr. Rashtchian, Chairman of SUT Chemical & Petroleum department, Introduction SPE meeting, June 2009

2) hemical & Petroleum engineering student took part at Introduction SPE meeting, June 2009

3) Professor Kharrat , Iran section SPE’s President, Introduction SPE meeting, June 2009

2-Workshops establishment:

After the introduction meeting with the students and faculty, several meeting has been held to determine essential workshops for summer term. Finally the plan has been drawn (list of workshops and their specifications are presented in the Table 1). Some poster were prepared and sent to all other SPE chapters in Iran. The summer educational programs started in august 29 consist of five teaching software courses. These courses covered Eclipse PVTi, E-100, E-300, Office, and Scale modules that already used in petroleum industry. The classes were held in the Sharif University, chemical and petroleum engineering department, petroleum site and chemical engineering department class 4, where students could easily practice lessons taught by Mr. Abdi (instructor has been invited from Iranian Oil Company). Except PVTI and E-300 that were held together each class lasted a week. Near twenty students attended each class. At the end of the program, students received their certificate signed by chapter faculty and chemical and petroleum engineering department chairman. Summer educational programs ended in September 30 after one month.

Table (1), list of workshops held by  of Sharif SPE chapter at summer 2009

3. Data base generation from members of chapter (Dec 2009)

4-Distinguished lecture (1) (Dec 2009):

Ali Abbasi Goudarzi presented first distinguished lecture entitled “An introduction to optimization problems and solving them using Genetic Algorithms (GA)”. This presentation was hold in Aban month and the following subject was explained:

- Introduction to process optimization
- Definition of basic GA
- history of GA
- GA applications in different sciences
- GA Flowchart
- Work of GA in engineering problems

5-Distinguished lecture (2)(Feb 10):

Dr. Taghikhani’s lecture was about problems in production’s pipes. The main focus was on “pigs and slug”.

6-Distinguished lecture (3) (May 18):

Professor Polladi Darvish was the gust of the third lecture. This meeting had three parts. In the first part “Hydrate Reservoirs” was introduced as a new challenge in petroleum engineering.  In the second part How to apply to Canada universities was explained by the professor of Calgary. The last part was question and Answer with students. Seventy eight students attended this program.

7-Distinguished lecture (4) (May 22):

Dr. Meysam Nourani, graduate student of Sharif University demonstrates his works on polymer injection as a method of enhanced oil recovery.

8-Simulation Software workshops ( May 22 to Jun 8):

The workshop was held by Mr. Samad Abdi. The main software used in the workshop was Eclipse and sixteen students attend this program.

9-Planning for a field trip to Azerbaijan (Baku), with Baku national university (visit will be from 1 jul to 6 jul)

SPE chapter connection with other students’ scientific societies was another superiority of SPE in comparison with other student group in the university. With this regard the SPE can arrange a field trip in Azerbaijan with the cooperation of EAGE student chapter of Baku University.

10-Coalition with Olum Tahghighat Petroleum and gas engineering scientific core for holding common workshops and educational programs

SPE student chapter of Sharif University have also good connection with other Iranian university. Currently, with the collaboration of petroleum and gas engineering group of Olum Tahghighat University, SPE is going to fix common workshops and educational programs.

11-Founding EAGE chapter in Sharif University of technology

European association of geosciences engineering is a universal society like SPE and recently student branches are spread worldwide. Science the geosciences is an important matter in petroleum engineering, the SPE decided to inaugurate the EAGE chapter in Sharif University.   

12-Planning for summer courses

After one year experiences in holding educational programs and by the assist  of SPE members, SPE student chapter are going to hold thorough software courses related to chemical and petroleum engineering. Each course that has more than fifteen enrolled students will be held in summer.  There are 18 courses planned for summer.

13-Prizes award to the SPE student contest winners (June 10)

SPE has a great honor that all of the winners in three division of SPE contest were the member of Sharif University SPE chapter and to the winners was awarded by this group to encourage further researches in the university.