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A Programme Project Report on MBA-Oil & Gas
A Distance Learning Programme
Offered by
Centre of Continuing Education
University of Petroleum & Energy Studies Dehradun.
(2017)
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List of Contents
Topic Page. No.
Introduction………... 2
1. Programme’s Mission & objectives………. 3
1.1Programme Mission………... 3
1.2Programme Objectives………. 3
2. Relevance of the program with HEI’s Mission and Goals………. 3
2.1 HEI’s Mission and Goals……….. 3
2.2 Relevance of the program with HEI’s Mission and Goals…………... 3
3. Nature of Prospective Target Group of Learners……… 4
4. Appropriateness of programme to be conducted in Open and Distance…. Learning mode to acquire specific skills and competence………. 4
5. Instructional Design……… 5
5.1 Curriculum Design……… 5
5.2 Syllabus Details……… 6
5.3 Duration of Programme……… 6
5.4 Faculty & Support Staff………... 6
5.5 Instructional Delivery Mechanism……… 6
5.6 Support Services………... 7
5.7 Credit Hours for each course……… 8
6. Procedure for Admissions, Curriculum Transaction and Evaluation……. 8
6.1 Procedure for Admissions………. 8
6.1.1 How to apply……… 8
6.1.2 Eligibility………. 8
6.1.3 Fee Structure……… 8
6.2 Curriculum Transaction……… 8
6.2.1 Academic Flow………. 9
6.2.2 Program Structure………. 9
6.2.3 Learning Content……….. 9
6.2.4 Assignment and End Term Examination……….. 9
6.3 Evaluation Policy……….. 10
7. Requirement of the laboratory support and Library Resources………….. 10
8. Cost estimate of the programme and the provisions……… 13
9. Quality assurance mechanism and expected programme outcomes…… 13
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Introduction
The Energy, Infrastructure & Transportation (EIT) sectors are taking centre stage in the developing and the developed countries making them the powerhouse economies in their continents. These sectors would be the major drivers of economy and employment generation in the future.
UPES is amongst the best known University in India for Energy, Infrastructure &
Transportation Programs. Conceived in 2003, it is Asia's first core sector focused University.
It has undisputed leadership in Logistics & Supply Chain, Oil & Gas, Power and Aviation Programs. Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) at the University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun, India since 2007, offers itself as a centre of excellence for accessing quality blended education through "Distance Learning Mode". The Centre welcomes all those working professionals and fresher who are eager to pursue further education leading to appropriate career path and growth.
Vision
“To be an Institution of Global standing for developing professionally competent talent contributing to nation building.”
Mission
Develop industry focused professionals with global outlook in Energy, Infrastructure, Transportation, IT and allied sectors.
Deliver world class education meeting or preferably exceeding students’ expectations.
Inculcate integrative thought process among students that draws professional respect.
Develop knowledge creation environment through training, research & development, and consultancy.
Facilitate effective interactions among faculty and students, and foster networking with stake-holders.
Practice and promote high standards of professional ethics, transparency and accountability at all levels.
Develop environmentally sustainable & reciprocal relationship with society at large.
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1. Programme’s Mission & Objectives :
1.1 Programme Mission:
Lead to a rewarding careers across the Oil and Gas, Renewable energy and other related industries, both in India and Abroad.
1.2 Programme Objectives:
To understand and compare alternate managerial decisions and identify optimal solutions
To develop leadership and networking skills.
To apply effective capabilities of their conceptual understanding to the real world business situations in the field of Oil & Gas and other service sectors.
To analyse business situations with analytical and critical-thinking ability in the field Oil & Gas and other related services.
To exhibit the ability to integrate functional areas of management with domain perspective for the purpose of planning, implementation, and control of Oil & Gas Business.
To work effectively in teams and demonstrate team building capabilities.
2. Relevance of the program with HEI’s Mission and Goals :
2.1 HEI’s Mission and Goals:
Founded by prominent educationalists and industry experts, UPES is committed to maintain high standards in providing quality education. The university endeavours to be recognized as a 'Nation Builders University' with a progressive vision of creating specialized professionals in the core sectors that can contribute in the economic growth of the country.
HEI’s Mission
Develop industry focused professionals with global outlook in Energy, Infrastructure, Transportation, IT and allied sectors.
Deliver world class education meeting or preferably exceeding students’ expectations.
Inculcate integrative thought process among students that draws professional respect.
Develop knowledge creation environment through training, research & development, and consultancy.
Facilitate effective interactions among faculty and students, and foster networking with stake-holders.
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Practice and promote high standards of professional ethics, transparency and accountability at all levels.
Develop environmentally sustainable & reciprocal relationship with society at large.
The university’s objective is to develop competent technocrats, professionals and managers who are ready to join the core industries. Advanced teaching methodologies, innovative and updated curricula and the focus on 'on-the-job exposure' give UPES students the edge to be readily deployable in the chosen field.
2.2 Relevance of the program with HEI’s Mission and Goals
The MBA (Oil and Gas Management) program combines thorough training in core business administration skills with in-depth education in understanding of strategic business issues across the entire hydrocarbon value chain, from exploration to the retailing of petroleum and petroleum products.
It covers areas like pricing, exploration and production, import of crude oil and LNG, acquisition of oil equity, refining and export of petro products, regulations, distribution of oil
& gas and petro research. The program is focused at creating strong concepts while inculcating hands on practical learning experience
3. Nature of Prospective Target Group of Learners :
This program can benefit students by developing their knowledge and skills in the field of oil
& gas sector. Earning distance-learning master degree in Oil & Gas is a great way to pursue a career in the oil & gas sector. With Oil & Gas Industries surging ahead in India, professionals with management skills and relevant degrees would be much required and with a specialized professional Degree with you, you will have a professional edge over the others.
Students/Working Professionals who have completed an undergraduate degree and are interested in furthering their education may do so by enrolling in distance-learning master’s degree program. This program is offered completely through web-based classroom applications, and enrolees can complete all required coursework in order to earn the degree.
Target group of learners:
Professionals working in Oil & Gas sector who want to enhance their career opportunities
Recommended for Armed forces for career growth / knowledge & short service commissioned officers for alternative career
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Professionals from other industries who wish to enter into oil & gas sector
Fresher’s looking forward to pursue a career in oil & gas sector.
4. Appropriateness of programme to be conducted in Open and Distance Learning mode to acquire specific skills and competence
This program will lead to rewarding careers across the Oil and Gas, Renewable energy and other related industries, both in India and Abroad. You can do this program both as a Fresher and as well as a working professional along with your present job. With traditional oil and gas, new sectors like renewal energy and consulting in India on huge growth, professionals with management skills and degree would be highly preferred.
Program Learning Outcomes:
Students will demonstrate strong conceptual knowledge in the functional area of management as well as O&G domain
Students will demonstrate effective understanding of relevant functional areas of business and their application in O&G domain
Students will demonstrate analytical skills in identification and resolution of problems pertaining to O&G and general management
Students will exhibit the ability to integrate functional areas of management with domain perspective for the purpose of planning, implementation, and control of O&G
Students will have global perspective towards business situations in the area of O&G
Students will exhibit deployable skills pertinent to the O&G sector
5. Instructional Design :
5.1 Curriculum Design:
It's a 2 year program approved by the Distance Education Bureau (DEB) of UGC, delivered in distance education mode where you can continue your job while pursuing the program. The 2 years are divided into 4 semesters; the 1st and 2nd semesters focus on general management papers while other two on oil & gas industry specialization with a dissertation / industry project in last semester.
The program is delivered in a blended learning format that includes self-learning supported by our customized Learning Management Platform, instructor led live session and real life experience through dissertation.
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Sr. No. Semester I Sr. No. Semester II
1 Economics & Management Decisions 1 Human Resource Management
2 Financial Management 2 Customer Relationship
Management
3 Marketing Management 3 Project Management & Contract
Administration 4 Quantitative Techniques for Management
Applications
4 Strategic Management for technology & Innovation 5 Operations & Material Management 5 Research Methodology
Sr. No. Semester III Sr. No. Semester IV
1 Understanding Oil & Gas Business 1 Business Policy & Strategy 2 Understanding Natural Gas Business 2 Petroleum Law & Policy 3 Understanding Petro Chemical Business 3 Petro Retailing Business 4 Fundamentals of Petroleum Refining 4 Dissertation
5 Fundamentals of Petroleum Exploration
5.3 Duration of Programme:
The duration of the programme is 2 years. The program is divided into 4 semesters each of 6 months duration.
5.4 Faculty & Support Staff:
The faculty members who take care of Live Sessions and Offline discussions are comprised of:
Dedicated Faculty members for Centre for Continuing Education headed by an Academic Head.
450+ faculty members who are full time resource taking sessions at our campus in Dehradun.
Industry experts either currently in service or retired at senior level with passion for teaching.
5.5 Instructional Delivery Mechanism:
Our program requires a high level of continuous engagement from our students aptly supported by team of Academicians, Student Relationship Managers and the Operations Staff.
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In fact, it is the vast diversity of experiences brought by our student cohort that makes the program unique.
Self-Learning: We provide access to our Learning Management System (LMS) that includes resources from e-books, assignments, Audio-Video links and web-links. The LMS is accessible via smart phones and tabs, and is also available in our website
Faculty Led Live Classes: Face to face classes will be conducted as enumerated in Table 3 of the guidelines of UGC by our expert faculty members and schedule for the same will be communicated to the students well before time. These sessions will be joined by students from India and Abroad. Key concepts, case studies and real-life examples are discussed.
Assignment and Project: To gain real life cases and working in a corporate on an assignment for a min 8-10weeks. This inculcates hands on learning
Academic Assistance: Students also get chance to clarify their doubts / academic clarifications. The recorded sessions are uploaded on the LMS.
Program Coordinator Support: Each learner would have access to academic team.
He/she may write e-mail or call them to seek clarification. We respond within 2 working days on email queries. We encourage students to use this facility.
Learning Management System {(LMS)(Blackboard-BB)}: Discussions are held both Synchronous and Asynchronous by conducting Discussion Forums through Blackboard mode.
5.6 Support Services:
CCE Helpdesk and Student Query Handling: All learners are allocated to dedicated program manager during the program, wherein they can raise queries or reach out for any support / help required. The queries are answered within one working day.
5.7 Credit Hours for Each Course:
Sr. No. Semester I Credits Sr. No. Semester II Credits
1 Economics & Management Decisions
3 1 Human Resource
Management
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2 Financial Management 4 2 Customer Relationship
Management
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3 Marketing Management 4 3 Project Management &
Contract Administration
4 4 Quantitative Techniques for
Management Applications
3 4 Strategic Management for technology & Innovation
3 5 Operations & Material
Management
4 5 Research Methodology 3
Total 18 Total 16
Sr. No. Semester III Credits Sr. No. Semester IV Credits
1 Understanding Oil & Gas Business 3 1 Business Policy & Strategy 3
8 2 Understanding Natural Gas
Business
4 2 Petroleum Law & Policy 4 3 Understanding Petro Chemical
Business
4 3 Petro Retailing Business 4
4 Fundamentals of Petroleum Refining
4 4 Dissertation 8
5 Fundamentals of Petroleum Exploration
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Total 19 Total 19
6. Procedure for Admissions, Curriculum Transaction and Evaluation :
6.1Procedure for Admissions:
6.1.1 How to Apply:
The student can apply through 3 modes:
1. Online Application – Apply instantly through the online application form.
2. Offline Application – Apply through the offline application process.
3. Talk To Us – Get in touch with us for further clarity on application processes.
6.1.2 Eligibility:
Graduate in any discipline with minimum 50% marks 6.1.3 Fee Structure:
Program
Fee (INR) 1.40 Lacs Per
Semester Fee (INR)
Rs.35,000/-per semester
**Preference to be given to candidates with 2 years and above of work experience.
6.2 Curriculum Transaction:
6.2.1 Academic Flow:
All enrolled students would need to follow a structured Academic and Evaluation sequence.
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10 6.3 Evaluation Policy:
The university follows a relative grading system which includes two types of assessments continuous or formative assessment in the form of assignments (Assignment 1, Assignment 2) and summative assessment in the form of term end examination. The final Grading happens as a score with the applicable weightage.
1) Assignments:
The assignments are normally uploaded within the first week of the launch of any Semester.
The assignments need to be accessed and submitted within the due date via the Learning Management System only. The access details for the Learning Management system is sent to the students post admission.
2) Term End Examinations:
The University conducts all its examinations managed by the examination or evaluation Unit of the Higher Educational Institution conducted in the examination centre approved by the Higher Educational Institution. Further for the convenience of planning for the students, the dates are informed by much in advance. The date-sheet of the all Term End examinations are uploaded on this Website about a month before any examination cycle.
7. Requirement of the laboratory support and Library Resources:
7.1 Laboratory Support:
Since none of the management courses of CCE need any experimental studies therefore there is no requirement of laboratory.
7.2 Library Resources:
The UPES Knowledge Resource Centre (UPES-KRC), with its wide range of collection of knowledge resources and innovative information services, fills an essential requisite in the intellectual pursuits for our students, faculty and the surrounding community. UPES-KRC, a hybrid Centre with the state-of-the-art technological applications holds knowledge resources predominantly related to engineering, science & technology, management, law and allied subjects. The entire UPES-KRC collection of books, print journals/magazines along with its wide range of e-collection including e-journals, e-books, online databases, CD-ROM collection etc., are accessible through the Institute’s network. Our mission is to facilitate convenient and user friendly access to current, global and relevant information by identifying, acquiring, organizing and retrieving information in various formats (print & non print) to
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serve the information needs of the academic fraternity of UPES to meet their teaching, research, consulting, training and learning requirements.
The UPES-KRC building at Bidholi Campus has a sprawling space of about 22465 sq. ft, COLS Library of about 5000 sq. ft. and COMES Kandholi Library of about 6500 sq. ft, with central air-conditioning and designated areas for different sections of the UPES-KRC, providing the right ambiance for reading and reflection. The broad objectives of UPES-KRC are:
To build a state-of-the-art knowledge resources centre for management and allied subjects
To acquire need-based resources to meet information requirements of the academic community of the Institute; and,
To provide proactive and innovative reference services to the user community.
To provide modern tools for accessing information
To disseminate technical knowledge
To network with leading libraries
Due to the growing needs and preference of members, KRC focuses more on subscription to online resources than printed documents. In the last few years, e-resources of the UPES-KRC increased considerably in terms of number and subject coverage. In addition to circulation and acquisition services, the Knowledge Resource Centre Learning Centre provides reference, photocopying services to members, current awareness service, and remote access to databases. Documents which are not available in the KRC, are sourced from DELNET through a inter-library loan arrangement.
LIBRARY RESOURCE
UPES Library has a very rich collection of relevant books, journals and databases. At present library collection strength is 129587 (Titles 20354) books and other documents, 153 Print Journals, 1109 e-books, 16924+ e-journals, 3500+ Theses and Dissertations, and 26 e- databases on Engineering, Management and Law namely, Royal Society of Chemistry, ASME Journals, ASCE Journals, Institute of Physics, IEEE ASPP, ACM Digital Library, Harvard Business Publishing, Taylor & Francis JSTOR, EBSCOHOST - Business Source Premier, ProwessIQ, J-Gate Plus, OnePetro, AIR Databases (Supreme Court/High Court/Criminal law Journal) (1950 to 2012), West Law India, HeinOnline, Taxman Database, EBSCO - Engineering Collection, and SCC Online. UPES library is also the member of National Digital Library of India hosted by MHRD. The library services at UPES are provided to students, staff, research scholars and faculty members for upgradation of their knowledge and supporting the research and teaching / learning activities. Keeping in view the fast technological changes, the collection of the library is regularly updated by way of adding text books, reference books, reports, proceedings, encyclopedias, Journals and databases, etc.
The library is kept open on all working days, except the University holidays from Monday to Saturday. The Library routine services have been fully automated using an Open Source
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Integrated library management software 'KOHA' that supports all in- house operations of the Library and Online Public Access Catalogue (KOHA-WEBOPAC) for students. To assist the students, Research Scholars and faculty members in locating literature as well as information in their areas of research, general reference, current awareness a single window library portal entitled "GyanKosh" has been introduced.
LIBRARY COLLECTION
With the excellent blend of print and electronic resources in the form of books, journals, databases, technical reports, and standards, the library collection is one of the finest in the region particularly in the field of engineering, management and Legal studies. This rich and valuable collection built over the period of last few years has some of the valuable reference materials and several important journals. The total print collection of the library exceeds more than 1.4 lakhs volumes.
The library offers traditional services such as Reference Service, Referral Service, User Guidance Service, Cataloguing and Classification Service, Circulation Service including Inter Library Loan and Document Delivery Service, Weekly display of recent additions of periodicals and books, Bibliographic Service, Photocopying Service, and
Specialized services such as digital repository services for UPES publications & theses, Web based Online Public Access Catalog ( Web OPAC). IP authenticated access subscribed e- journals, e-books and databases, remote access to e-resources. Information literary services such as Library orientations, Subscribed resource demo and training sessions, and Trial access to e-journals and databases etc. The library has been using KOHA, a Opensource Web- based Integrated Library Management software for its housekeeping operations. The library Online Catalogue database has more than 1.5 lakh records of books (Bibliographic Information). Using OPAC, users can search the Library Online Catalogue by Author, Title, Subject, and keywords. Also, the users can know the latest additions of periodicals and books and the status of a document (whether on shelf or on issue). OPAC is accessible on the Web and reservation and renewal of a book can be done Online.
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8. Cost estimate of the programme and the provisions:
Heads Cost Currency Periodicity
Program Development & Maintenance
Content Development 61.1 INR Lakh 3 years
Program Delivery
Content Printing, D
elivery & Distribution 19.6 INR Lakh
Annual Salary (Faculty+Academic
Support+NonFaculty) 67.4 INR Lakh
Annual
Marketing 36 INR Lakh Annual
Examination & related 23.3 INR Lakh Annual
LMS 5 INR Lakh Annual
Other Miscellaneous 9 INR Lakh Annual
* The cost estimate is based on the assumption of an intake of 280 candidates per program.
9. Quality assurance mechanism and expected programme outcomes :
A comprehensive and dynamic Quality assurance mechanism has been established for the learners. The mechanism ensures continuous improvement in the operations of teaching- learning process. Quality assurance and achievement of proper outcomes is achieved by:-
The academic unit of CCE being subjected to an internal audit every year.
The content of all the courses is subject to review and updated as and when required by the Academic Review Committee.
The feedback from students is communicated to faculty to identify the areas of improvement.
Surveys are conducted for assessing student satisfaction.