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The New Mexico Institute of
Mining and Technology

Undergraduate Program

Sample Curriculum


Below is a sample curriculum for an undergraduate student. A student's actual curriculum may vary depending on course availability, scheduling conflicts, and advice from the student's academic advisor. Course numbers ending with an 'L' indicate a laboratory.



Semester 1 (Fall)

1 PETR 101 (Intro)
4 MATH 131 (Calculus I)
4 CHEM 121 & 121L (Chemistry I)
3 ENGL 111 (College English)
4 ERTH 101 & 101L (Earth Processes)
2 ES 110 (Intro)
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18 credit hours
Semester 2 (Spring)

4 MATH 132 (Calculus II)
3 ES 111 (Intro)
5 PHYS 121 & 121L (Physics I)
3 ENGL 112 (College English)
3 Social Science
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18 credit hours
Semester 3 (Fall)

4 MATH 231 (Calculus III)
4 CHEM 122 & 122L (Chemistry II)
5 PHYS 122 & 122L (Physics II)
3 ES 201 (Statics)
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16 credit hours
Semester 4 (Spring)

3 PETR 245 (Petroleum Fluids)
3 MATH 335 (Ordinary Differential Equations)
3 ES 216 (Fluid Mechanics)
3 ES 302 (Mechanics)
3 ES 347 (Thermodynamics)
3 ERTH 206 (Fundamentals of Earth's Crust)
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18 credit hours
Semester 5 (Fall)

4 PETR 311 & 311L (Drilling)
4 PETR 345 & 345L (Reservoir Engineering I)
3 ES 303 (Dynamics)
3 ENGL 341 (Technical Writing)
3 Humanities
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17 credit hours
Semester 6 (Spring)

4 PETR 370 (Reservoir Evaluation)
3 PETR 413 & 413L (Well Design)
3 PETR 445 (Reservoir Engineering II)
3 ERTH 460 (Subsurface & Petroleum Geology)
3 Social Science
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16 credit hours
Semester 7 (Fall)

3 PETR 424 & 424L (Production I)
3 PETR 464 (Natural Gas)
2 PETR 471 (Reservoir Description)
3 ES 316 (Engineering Economics)
3 Humanities/Social Science
3 Technical Elective
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17 credit hours
Semester 8 (Spring)

3 PETR 425 (Production II)
2 PETR 472 (Reservoir Management)
3 ES 332 (electrical)
3 Humanities
3 Social Science
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14 credit hours