12 Consequently, grading of 75 papers requires a significant time commitment. My primary teaching responsibility is to be the Geology faculty link to the Minor in Petroleum Engineering. I wrote and teach the initial required course for the Minor: GEOL 3413 – Petroleum Geology for Engineers. This practical course begins with mineral and rock identification and ends with a group term project presentation that recommends drilling 3 infill wells, giving project reserves, ROI evaluation and terms for participation in the project. Class size for this course has declined with oil prices and employment trends in the industry. For the 2016 – 2017 school year, with Petroleum Engineering concurring, it was determined that this course be offered once a year, in the Fall semester. In the Fall 2016, 29 engineers were enrolled. We anticipate that enrollment in the Fall 2017 will have 2 lab sections for a total of 50 students. The second Geology sequence course offered to Petroleum Engineering Minor students is GEOL 4323 – Applied Well Log Analysis for Engineers. This course was first offered to Engineering students who completed GEOL 3413, in the Spring 2010. Although this course was offered both semesters in 2014 and 2015, due to the decline in enrollment, it is now offered once a year, in Spring. Enrollment in the Spring 2017 is currently 23 engineering students. Lectures for GEOL 5353 (Advanced Well Log Analysis for Graduate Geology students) and GEOL 4323 are offered at the same time – once a week for 3 hours in the evening for lecture, discussion and problem solving. Topics in GEOL 4323/5353 cover evaluation of the standard suite of vertical hole wireline well logs, introduction to petrophysical evaluation, as well as modern microimaging logs run in lateral boreholes, and current BPSG research about unconventional reservoirs. Graduate students have parallel assignments with the Engineering students, but are given more challenging logs and problems for evaluation. In addition to weekly homework assignments, graduate students have four additional challenging homework problems. These include: (1) interpretation of an overturned and faulted fold (correlation problem), (2) proper Gamma Ray Shale Volume (Vsh) calculation of a glauconite‐rich sandstone, (3) porosity evaluation of an oomoldic carbonate reservoir, and (4) a short paper to evaluate log curve responses to natural fractures in a carbonate reservoir. There are currently 15 graduate students enrolled in this course. Finally, I teach GEOL 4313 – Introduction to Well Log Analysis for undergraduate Geology majors (spring semester). This course covers the fundamentals of standard wireline log interpretation to solve subsurface problems. Because this class meets twice a week, there is ample time for discussion and practice of techniques. This spring, there are 20 students enrolled in this course. I currently am the Thesis Advisor for 2 Master’s Degree students and I am a member of 12 Master’s Thesis Committees. I am also the Faculty Advisor for the OSU Student Chapter of SPWLA (the Society of Professional Well Log Analyists). Dr. Ahmed Ismail Assistant Professor; Exploration Seismology, Azimuthal Anisotropy, Fractured Reservoir Characterization, Near Surface Geophysics Greetings everybody! I joined the Boone Pickens School of Geology at Oklahoma State University last fall. We moved to Stillwater from Denver, Colorado. It is my family’s third move in twelve years and we are all trying to adjust to our new Stillwater community. My wife and I are originally from Egypt. My four wonderful daughters are born in the United States; one in Missouri, two in Illinois, and one in Colorado. I am not sure if we will have a new family member in Oklahoma or not. I got my Bachelor and Master degrees in applied geophysics from Egypt and earned my PhD in geophysics from Missouri University of Science & Technology (MS&T). My PhD project focused on Luxor City in Egypt, (a place that hosts one‐third of the world’s archaeological monuments) integrating geophysical and hydrological techniques to investigate the causes of the rise in groundwater level and increase in salinity leading to deterioration of Luxor monuments. I was able to model the groundwater flow direction, locate the cause of the increase in salinity, and articulate a plan to resolve the problem permanently. I continued as a postdoctoral fellow at MS&T for a year and half with a shift in research focus to active and passive seismic surface wave inversion to derive shear wave velocity of the near surface. We used shear wave velocity to study the stability of highways and bridges to derive soil amplification/shaking maps used for seismic risk analysis. Following my postdoctoral employment, I joined the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champing as a seismologist leading their high‐resolution seismic program. During this time, I upgraded the land streamer seismic acquisition and the seismic analysis processes for better characterization of glacial deposits and groundwater aquifers. I spent the best time of my career, seven years, at ISGS, nonetheless my passion for learning more about seismic exploration drove me to move to the oil industry and I joined Schlumberger Inc. in Denver. I was fortunate to be part of the seismic multicomponent group that dealt mainly with time and depth imaging as well as joint inversion of compressional and converted mode seismic data for a better reservoir characterization. I enjoyed learning the leading technologies and interacting with world‐class geophysicists across the globe. Despite my great learning experience in Schlumberger over four years, my passion for teaching, research, interaction with students, and community service was never met. At that time of my career, I had a unique combination of research, teaching and industry experience, co‐ authored over 20 published articles and abstracts and was invited reviewer of numerous international scientific journals. All of these led me to think of another move to a place where I can better utilize all my previous experiences and fulfil most if not all of my passion. I moved from Schlumberger to OSU last fall. My research at Oklahoma State
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