B.Sc. in Operations & Maintenance
Education goes beyond textbooks and classrooms. We believe in empowering students to easily integrate the professional world.
This comprehensive four-year Bachelor’s degree equips students with the technical, engineering, and managerial skills required to operate, maintain, and manage complex industrial facilities, particularly in the oil, gas, and energy sectors.
The curriculum is structured across four key progressive stages:
- YEAR 1 (Foundation): Builds core scientific and mathematics skills (Calculus, Physics, Chemistry), provides a broad industry overview, and emphasizes essential safety standards (Hazard Communication, Safety Data Sheets).
- YEAR 2 (Fundamental Plant Systems): Introduces fundamental systems including electrical circuits, fluid power, basic machines, process measurements, and basic thermodynamics. Covers plant safety and critical process communication.
- YEAR 3 (Core Rotating & Auxiliary Equipment): Focuses deeply on specialized heavy equipment—pumps, compressors, refrigeration systems, and power generation—combined with vital environmental pollution control.
- YEAR 4 (Advanced Process & Control): Dives into advanced process systems, including statistical process control, actuators, comprehensive distillation operations, furnaces, boilers, and industrial wastewater management.
Graduates emerge with a synthesis of hands-on expertise and analytical reasoning, prepared for leadership roles in plant production, maintenance engineering, and process control.
Program Curriculum
| Year One | Year Two | Year Three | Year Four |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calculus 1 and Calculus 2 | Plant Production and Safety | Basic Pump Types and Operation | Introduction to Statistical Process Control |
| Differential equations Numerical methods | Communication in Process Operations | Performance and Inspection of Pumps | Basic Control Charts |
| Physics 1 (Mechanics and heat) and Physics 1 lab | Introduction to Operator Fundamentals | Fundamentals of Centrifugal Pumps | Process Variations |
| Physics 2 (Electricity and magnetism) and Physics 2 lab | Trends, Maintenance and Emergencies | Operation of Centrifugal Pumps | Basic Types and Operation of Valves 1 |
| Chemistry 1 and Chemistry 2 | Solids and Liquids | Reciprocating Positive Displacement Pumps | Basic Types and Operation of Valves 2 |
| Statics, Dynamics and Thermodynamics | Gases and Flowing Liquids | Rotary Positive Displacement Pumps | Introduction to Actuators |
| Basics of Math and Algebra | Heat | Introduction to Compressors | Electric and Hydraulic Actuators |
| Basic Mathematical Operations | Heat Transfer | Positive Displacement Compressors | Basic Principles of Distillation |
| Formulas, Graphs and Trends | Basic Electrical Principles | Types of Compressors - Centrifugal & Axial | Basic Distillation System Components and Operation |
| Basic Principles of Chemistry | Basic Electrical Circuits | Operation of Centrifugal and Axial Compressors | Distillation System Startup and Shutdown |
| Basic Diagrams and Symbols | Basic Principles of Physics | Basic Principles of Power Plant Operations | Distillation Operating Problems |
| Oil & Gas Industry Overview | Forces and Machines | Pollution Control in Plants | Towers, Reboilers and Condensers |
| Upstream Oil & Gas Agreements | Fluid Systems | Air Pollution | Distillation Control Systems |
| Petroleum Geology & the Exploration Process | Tank Trucks | Water Pollution and Waste Disposal | Introduction to Furnaces |
| Drilling & Well Completions | Process Dynamics and Measurement | Power and Energy | Furnace Startup and Shutdown |
| Oilfield Development | Piping - Basic Components and Functions | Power Generation and Hydrogen Cooling | Furnace Operating Conditions |
| Marketing & Trading of Crude Oil | Piping - System Components and Operation | Obtaining Samples | Boilers - Basic Principles and Types |
| Crude Oil Transportation & Storage | Above Ground Storage Tanks, Part 1 | Testing Samples | Boilers - Combustion, Water and Steam |
| Midstream Gas: Gas Processing and NGL Markets | Auxiliary Vessels | Refrigeration Systems, Part 1 | Water for Plant Systems 1 |
| Midstream Gas: LNG Value Chain and Markets | Material Handling Of Bulk Liquids | Basic Concepts of Refrigeration Systems | Water for Plant Systems 2 |
| Refining & Product Specifications | Wastewater 1 | ||
| Overview of Petrochemicals | Wastewater 2 | ||
| Marketing & Distribution of Petroleum Products | |||
| Hazard Communication | |||
| Chemical Health Hazards | |||
| Safety Data Sheets / Globally Harmonized System | |||
| Fire Safety |