A new multi-million donation will help bolster the petroleum and natural gas engineering program at Slippery Rock University.
The college announced they received a $3.8 million gift from Petroleum Experts Inc., a company also known as Petex that develops engineering software for the petroleum industry.
University officials say the grant will allow students to use the same software that oil and natural gas professionals use in the field.
“This is a significant advancement for the program to have access to this software,” said Mohammad Kazemi, associate professor of physics and engineering and director of SRU’s School of Engineering. “We are building the foundation for the program and this software will help better prepare our students for careers in petroleum and natural gas engineering.”
The petroleum and natural gas engineering program first started in 2016 at Slippery Rock in response to the growing field in Western Pennsylvania.
