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Amin Mehrabian

Email:

amin.mehrabian@psu.edu

Phone:

814-865-6892

Office Address:

102 Hosler Building

Title(s):

Assistant Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Curriculum Vitae (177.55 KB)

Expertise:

Mechanics and Physics of Porous Media
Geomechanics
Drilling and Completions

Research Cluster:

Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction and Utilization

Education:

Ph.D. (Petroleum Engineering), The University of Oklahoma, 2013
M.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering), Sharif University of Technology, 2006
B.Sc. (Petroleum Engineering), Sharif University of Technology, 2005
B.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering), Sharif University of Technology, 2004

Courses Taught:

Drilling Engineering, PNG 450, Undergraduate level
Drilling Engineering Laboratory, PNG 451, Undergraduate level
Coupled Flow and Deformation in Porous Media, PNG 502, Graduate level

Unit:

John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering

About:

Dr. Amin Mehrabian is an Assistant Professor at the Energy and Mineral Engineering Department of the Pennsylvania State University, and a former Principal Engineer at Houston Technology Center of Halliburton Energy Services. His research interest is the mechanics and physics of porous media with applications to petroleum geomechanics. Dr. Mehrabian holds a US patent grant on managed pressure drilling.