Important topics  discussed by invited speakers from academia and industry and the PTE schools advisory group  included the following:

1-Review of the 100-year-old curriculum; Changes in the industry; Changes needed to bring the curriculum up-to-date with industries expectations.

2-Incorporation of Petroleum informatics in the curriculum

3-Developing a new sense of identity for PTE graduates

4-What is obsolete? What additional skills should we incorporate in the education of PTE graduates to make them marketable to other related industries?

5-Should the emphasis areas be changed to incorporate more courses on data-driven analytics and the concepts of artificial intelligence?

6-Considering application of the PTE concepts to other subsurface resources, is it appropriate to emphasize subsurface engineering as an identity for the PTE graduates?

7-Industry is moving towards automation. Should there be curricular changes in PTE to incorporate these advances in IOT’s?

8-What are the best practices in faculty recruiting and retention; diversity; public relations and outreach?

9-What are the issues and solutions in funding from government and industry, and what are the implications?