Tuesday, September 6, 1977 University Daily Kansan 3 Oil engineer jobs spout dollars By DAVE TOPLIKAR Staff Writer A boom in the job market for chemical and renewable energy is one side effect of the recent energy crises. A recent national report said young petroleum engineers were being hired off campuses this summer at an average starting salary of $18,144 a year. Floyd W. Preston, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, said Saturday that petroleum engineers could expect a 10 percent increase in month or $18,000 a year, upon graduation. Chemical engineers, he said, average $1,475 to $1,500 a month with a $179 leeward. "We had a master's student, for example, in petroleum engineering who was offered the job." "THERE IS no such thing as an unemployed chemical and petroleum engineer!" Every chemical and petroleum material should have a job upon graduation, be on time for and work. 00 00 00 00 on Even engineering undergraduates can get jobs during the summer, according to one He said about 50 to 55 students graduated from the department each year. Eddie Daub, Lawrence senior, said he worked at the summer for $1,000 a month. "The type of job you get depends on how good your grades are," he said. are he said. Daid said he was working for Du Pont six hours a week during the school year, but he went to work and would work when he graduated this spring. PRESTON SAID there were different types of jobs available to chemical and petroleum engineers. A beginning chemical engineer could get a job in a design group, he said, that helps to design a chemical plant. "When he's a young fellow he just sort of helps, and as he grows older he may have more experience and take a larger responsibility in designing a plant," he said. A starting engineer might design and build a plant, a crop or might supervise the construction of a plant. Preston said he also might be in a group that was operating a plant. "He would not actually be twiddling the dab, but he might be supervising the hourly task." PRESTON SAID the chemical engineer might be involved in a process-operations of a process-design group that made modifications in an existing plant, or he also might be involved in technical sales to sell part of the plant to other corporations. "Your job would be to show how they can use your product more profitably in their process. It's a type of technical service, as much as technical sales," he said. Preston said KU petroleum engineers weren't directly involved with the Alaskan pipeline, which, he said, in its construction phase was a specialty. 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Announcements FINE BOOKS FINE SERVICE HILLCREST SHOPPING CENTER Events "We do have some of our engineers that have gone with some of the major oil companies, like Atlantic Richfield, Phillips, Marathon and the Exxon group that are operating under there, and they have been posted to Alaska," he said. PRESTON SAID it was so expensive to keep an engineer in Alaska because of the extra bonuses, office operations and salaries. But they were usually not sent there directly from school. He said companies usually put the young engineers in smaller projects so they could prove themselves and learn company ways before they went into the big new projects in Ninth and Iowa—Phone 843-6424 "But it's not at all unusual for a student three to five years out of school to be involved in some very, very big projects," he said. Preston said petroleum engineers go to the oil-producing states—Texas, Louisiana, California, Alaska and the Rocky Mountain states—to get jobs. HE SAID petroleum engineers could get jobs wherever there was oil production going on, including overseas off-shore oil and the industries, such as Norway and the Middle East. "But engineers can find jobs right here in Kansas if they want. There are many shallow to medium-depth oil fields in the state," he said. 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