One Employer's Viewpoint: Undergraduate Geoscience Curricula and Why We Care
Abstract
Fundamentally, we are interested in hiring a diverse global pool of geoscientists who nevertheless share characteristics which will enable individual and company success over the span of a career. These shared characteristics are driven by increased globalization of the industry, greatly increased technical challenges over a wide variety of hydrocarbon play types, and the continued evolution of organizations to encompass networking concepts in parallel with traditional governance structures. These business drivers come together to form what we consider to be a foundational undergraduate preparation for students whom we would like to employ: a broad understanding of fundamental earth processes and their interactions, a strong knowledge of mathematics and the cognate sciences, fluency in spoken and written English, exposure to other cultures' values and how they are expressed, basic "networking" skills, and some experience in the application of the scientific method.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2008
- Bibcode:
- 2008AGUFMED12A..01L
- Keywords:
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- 0800 EDUCATION;
- 0810 Post-secondary education;
- 0820 Curriculum and laboratory design;
- 0855 Diversity