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The School of Geophysics and Petroleum Resources

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The College of Geophysics and Petroleum Resources originates from the Advanced Geophysical Exploration Class founded by Academician Weng Wenbo in Shanghai in 1950. As one of the schools with the longest history in Yangtze University, it has achieved a good academic reputation at home and abroad. The school consists of 4 departments, 3 provincial and ministerial level laboratories and 3 research institutes (centers).

The school is home to 90 faculty members, including 71 full-time teachers among which 21 are professors and 28 associate professors. There are 72 teachers with doctoral degrees, 15 doctoral supervisors, 49 master supervisors, and 3 postgraduate supervisors. We also have 2 part-time doctoral supervisors and 6 part-time master supervisors. The faculty also includes 2 experts who have been granted government subsidies by the State Council, 3 provincial and ministerial level “Cross-Century” academic leaders, 1 provincial and ministerial level academic “Back-Bone” teacher, 2 Hubei Famous Teacher, 1 Hubei province Middle-age Outstanding Contribution Experts, 1 Hubei province New-century High-level Tallents.

At present, the school has three training programs: undergraduate, master and doctoral degrees. For undergraduate study, three majors are optional: Geophysics, Prospecting Technology and Engineering, and Data Science and Big Data Technology. Prospecting Technology and Engineering has been evaluated as National Specialty and National Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program, and also has been awarded the Engineering Education Professional Certificate and additionally approved as a National First-class Undergraduate Major. Geophysics was approved as a Provincial First-class Undergraduate Major. For post-graduate study, there are 1 first-level discipline master

degree program of Geophysics (Solid Geophysics and Space Geophysics)and 3 second-level discipline master degree programs, including Geo-detection and Information Technology, Geophysical Well Logging, and Resources and Environment.

There are also 2 doctoral degree programs in Geo-detection and Information Technology and Geophysical Well Logging, one post-doctoral mobile station for Geological Resources and Geological Engineering. Additionally, Geophysics is awarded as a Provincial Key Discipline and the Geophysical Exploration Laboratory has the quality of China Metrology Accreditation.

After more than 70 years of development, the school has been involved in research fields such as geophysical well logging, rock physics, seismic exploration, gravity and magnetoelectric prospecting, geophysical instruments development, engineering and environmental geophysical exploration, data science and big data applications. Especially, the school exhibits outstanding advantages in the fields of electromagnetism, borehole geophysics, engineering geophysics, and computational geophysics, and has achieved its own research characteristics in production logging, electromagnetic exploration, acoustic logging, comprehensive interpretation of logging data and geological application, seismic data processing and interpretation, and unconventional oil and gas exploration. At this time, the school has more than 100 sets of international advanced equipment such as multi-phase flow simulation test platform for horizontal well with high inclination, controlled source electromagnetic array acquisition system (CSAEM & V8), rock sample electrical parameter scanning system (AutoScan-II), high temperature and high pressure rock physical property multi-parameter scanning test system (AutoLab1000), EILog logging system, basic reservoir characteristic logging system, enhanced rotary sidewall coring logging system, seismic data processing and interpretation system (Geoeast), totally values more than 60 million RMB.

The school takes talent cultivation as its basic task, adheres to the combination of production, teaching and research, and actively undertakes teaching and research projects. Over the past 5 years, 330 national, provincial, ministerial and crosswise scientific projects have been completed, with an average annual funding of more than 30 million yuan. In addition, 8 special textbooks and 397 papers were published, including 189 SCI / EI manuscripts. Built 2 national high-quality resource sharing courses, including 1 national high-quality video open course, 1 MOOC, 1 national firstclass online course. Won more than 50 provincial or ministerial science and technology achievement awards, teaching achievement awards and domestic and foreign patents. Overall, the scientific research achievements of the school reached the domestic leading level, with some even reached the international advanced level.

Since the foundation of the school, more than 10 thousands of undergraduate, master and doctoral students have been cultivated and the school has become the cradle of cultivating senior specialized talents in petroleum exploration with a student body of 1181 on campus now. A large number of excellent groups and individuals have emerged and won excellent awards, such as National Advanced Class Group, National Outstanding Students, China Science and Technology Development Foundation-Sun Yueqi Science and Technology Education Fund-Outstanding Student Award, National English Contest for College Students-Outstanding Winner, etc. Recent years, the admission rate of postgraduate study reached more than 45%, especially Class Logging 11201 reached 72%. The employment rate of graduate students exceeds 96%. Graduates work all around the world and a large number of alumni has made great achievements, such as corporate executives, university professors, experts and scholars, national outstanding youth science fund recipients, and national labor models.

Additionally, countless alumni have made silent devotions to our country at ordinary post, and won the reputation of the school.

The school has carried out extensive domestic and international academic exchanges, actively built domestic and international cooperation platforms, and strived to improve teaching quality. Long-term and close cooperation relations have been established with

the three domestic oil companies, the domestic and foreign well-known universities and scientific research institutes, as well as Schlumberger, Atlas and other international oil companies. In the past five years, 11 domestic and international academic conferences have been hosted and co-sponsored, and faculty in this school has attended more than 160 domestic and international academic conferences.

The school will continue to adhere to the exploration spirit of daring to try, be hardworking, be earnest and down-to-earth, fulfill the duties and have a global mind. Our mission is serving national oil security, resource exploration and local economy; by virtue of the advantage of the Wuhan campus, respecting students, scholars, and academics, creating a harmonious and inclusive educational environment. We will also advocate an academic atmosphere that pursues excellence, strengthen connotation development and improve core competitiveness, and adhere to the concept of building the school by quality, strengthening the school with talents, opening the school for communication, and vitalizing the school with innovation. Make the distribution of disciplines more reasonable, the training model more scientific, and the competition advantage more apparent. Form a teaching and academic team and talent echelon with better quality, more reasonable structure and more sophisticated ability, and have a group of academic leaders and teaching and researching backbone members with great academic influence both at home and abroad in related disciplines and fields.

The school will also further highlight the characteristics of oil and gas and other resource exploration, and strive to build a first-class, both domestically and internationally renowned high-level teaching and research college!