Case-based drilling curricula using integrated HIL simulator and remote collaboration center

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dc.contributor.advisorVan Oort, Eric
dc.contributor.advisorPryor, Mitchell Wayne
dc.creatorHoss, Ashton Ashkan
dc.creator.orcid0000-0003-3918-3062
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-02T15:55:19Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-22T22:31:34Z
dc.date.available2017-02-02T15:55:19Z
dc.date.available2018-01-22T22:31:34Z
dc.date.issued2016-12
dc.date.submittedDecember 2016
dc.date.updated2017-02-02T15:55:20Z
dc.description.abstractThe university educational system has raised many concerns in recent years regarding the effectiveness of its curricula and implementation. The focus on course-based training in engineering programs does not provide students sufficient opportunities to apply the attained knowledge and skills to demonstrate their competency. To address this deficiency of academia, industry spends millions of dollars building development programs and on-the-job training. This creates an opportunity for the universities to address this deficiency and increase their students’ marketability, while also addressing problem solving in their curricula. Inspired by a successful program developed and offered at Harvard Business School, the advantages and disadvantages of the case-based method was investigated. It was concluded that the students can benefit the most from a combination of existing educational and case-based curricula elements. Further research expressed the engineering students’ interest and positive feedbacks towards utilization of this method supported by statistical analysis. The aviation industry experienced a great training cost reduction and eliminated the on-the-training accidents after adopting simulators to train their workforce. This encouraged the Drilling & Automation team at University of Texas at Austin to develop the existing surface simulator further and utilize it as a tool to train the next generation of engineers to carry out the appropriate performance at the time of failure and emergencies. By considering various effective skills development methods such as Triadic method and Kolb’s Four-Stage Learning Cycle, ten case-based laboratories were designed and proposed. These open-ended student-led laboratories provide the opportunity for students to experience life-like challenges associated with drilling operations using a realistic up-to-date virtual drilling simulator. Students are divided in teams and assigned to different roles (drilling engineer, remote supervising engineer, etc.) where they are required to make decisions and communicate with one another. This creates a realistic work environment where depending on difficulty of each case, different amounts of stress are experienced. To implement the proposed laboratories, down-hole physics models were identified and developed. These mathematical models were then simulated in MATLAB programing language and integrated with one another to form the down-hole simulator. An Application Program Interface, API, was developed to access the surface simulator data and to connect the surface and the down-hole simulators. The integrated developed simulator has potential for future research including automated rig design.
dc.description.departmentPetroleum and Geosystems Engineering
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2Q52FJ0M
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/44625
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectCase-based drilling
dc.subjectHIL simulator
dc.subjectRemote collaboration center
dc.subjectRCC
dc.subjectNOV simulator
dc.subjectDrilling simulator
dc.subjectDownhole simulator
dc.subjectIntegrated simulator
dc.subjectSurface simulator
dc.subjectCase-based
dc.subjectCompetency
dc.subjectDrilling laboratory
dc.subjectSimulation laboratory
dc.subjectFracture pressure predication
dc.subjectHydro-static head drop
dc.subjectMud static pressure
dc.subjectPump flow rate
dc.subjectFrictional pressure loss
dc.subjectPump pressure
dc.subjectSurge & Swab
dc.subjectSurge pressure
dc.subjectSwab pressure
dc.subjectSurge
dc.subjectSwab
dc.subjectInduced pressure
dc.subjectDrill string buckling
dc.subjectBuckling
dc.subjectRate of penetration
dc.subjectROP
dc.subjectBurst
dc.subjectCollapse
dc.subjectBit position
dc.subjectMud hydro-static head
dc.subjectDiscretization
dc.subjectMud total pressure
dc.subjectRAPID
dc.subjectUT Austin drilling
dc.subjectDrilling and rig automation
dc.titleCase-based drilling curricula using integrated HIL simulator and remote collaboration center
dc.typeThesis
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