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Current Students

Eshan K. Maitra

PhD Student-Petroleum Engineering

Research Topic: Drilling and drillstring vibrations

Katrine Hareland

PhD Student-Petroleum Engineering

Research Topic: Geothermal energy optimization

Tariqur Mridha

MS Student-Petroleum Engineering

Research Topic: Hole cleaning & bit wear analysis

Students Achievement

2022 AADE Fluid Conference Student Competition- Houston, TX

Left: Jose Bocanegra-Yanez (BS. ME) placed 2nd at the undergraduate level. His paper title was "Experimental Investigation of Strain Rate Effect on Cement-Steel Bond".

Right: Faraz Khan (MS) placed 2nd at the graduate level. His paper title was "Data Analysis to Explore the Effect of Drillstring Natural Vibration on Drill Bit Dynamics".

2023 AADE National Conference Student competition- Midland, TX

Jose Bocanegra-Yanez (BS. ME) placed 2nd at the undergraduate level. His paper title was “PDC Bit Wear Evaluation in Enhanced Geothermal Wells”.

Former Students

Master students:

Kevin Klein. 2020. Vibration Analysis of PDC Drill Bits in Hard Rock.
Laymon Barnett. 2022. Laboratory Scale Evaluation of Compliant Drillstring with PDC Bits in Geothermal Applications.
Faraz Khan. 2022. Vibrational Analysis of PDC Bits in A Laboratory Compliant Drillstring.
Eshan Maitra. 2023. Fluid Induced Drilling Dynamics -A Mechanically Scaled Experimental Investigation.

Ph.D. students:

Haden Kolmer. 2024. Selective Versus Geometric Completions Analysis In The Caney Shale: A Prescriptive Analytical Approach.
Vigleik N. Kjeldal. 2024. Experimental Evaluation of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Dual Fracture Enhanced geothermal System.

Undergraduate:

Jose Bocanegra-Yanez. BS. ME. 2023. Several undergraduate projects for two years.

Former Postdoctoral Researchers:

Dr. Saman Akhtarmanesh. 2022-2023.
Dr. Amin Atashnezhad. 2023.

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