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! Friday, October 17, 1986/The Battalion/Page 5 'etroleum engineer grads rilling for job alternatives K entJ By Tesslyn R. Mustain Reporter John Robert Rayne isn’t sure lhat he’ll be doing after gradua tion in May. As a petroleum engi- ?[ e N| pering major be hopes, but jubts, that he’ll be working in lie oil industry right away. I Rayne is one of many petro- Jum engineering students who live been forced to reevaluate | future plans in the wake of falling lit foil prices. 'tesi M A mail survey conducted each Bar by the Placement Center re- lorted 84 job offers for Decem- dlflbn 1985 and May 1986 petro leum engineering graduates, as jfconipared to 158 offers reported for 1984-85 and 122 offers in j!)83-84. I As a result of the shrinking larket for their skills, graduates entertain other job possibilities, ■hey may work awhile in jobs un related to oil, attend graduate be Shool or accept non-engineering ■bs in the oil industry. 5 William N. Mosley, a visiting rs, ifMrofessor in the Department of di-Ktroleum Engineering, said this Ja good time for students to get li pore education. “More students are going to giaduate school than at the height of the boom (during the ■Os) simply because of the re duced demand for students graduates),” he said. Dr. William D. Von Gonten, head of the petroleum engi neering department, said the Blasters program in petroleum pigineering has seen significant growth. This semester, about 100 students are enrolled as opposed to 25 five years ago, he said. Von Gonten said students who don’t find jobs often choose this alternative while they wait for the economy to improve. Also, he said, oil is getting increasingly hard to find, so students with spe cialized training and advanced degrees probably will do better in the job market. He said graduates may also be come “roustabouts,” those who work in non-engineering posi tions in the oil industry. He said roustabouts get good experience and can usually move into engineering jobs. Mosley, however, said that while the total number of jobs has Photo illustration by dreg Hailey lessened, the number of students seeking these jobs also has de clined; the class that will graduate in May is less than half the size of a senior class during the boom. “Fewer applicants mean fewer that walk away unemployed,” he said. He added that even though companies have fewer openings, salary levels have remained con stant. Starting salaries for petro leum engineers range from $33,000 to $38,000 per year — among the highest for any pro fession, he said. The oil industry will pick up, he said, but it will probably never boom again as it did in the ’70s. Gulf shores plagued by toxic red tide SOUTH PADRE ISLAND (AP) — A toxic red tide continued south ward Thursday, leaving dead fish along deserted beaches and forcing tourists who complained of eye and throat irritation to stay away from the shore. The red tide began near Galves ton in late August and slowly has moved south. Thousands of fish have been killed by the heavy con centration of marine micro-orga nisms. Officials in Corpus Christi, 120 miles to the north, have been forced to close beaches to swimmers. The Texas Health Department has suspended oyster harvests for 300 miles of coast from San Louis Pass to the mouth of the Rio Grande because the organism that causes the toxic red tide builds up in shellfish, said Hector Herrera, regional engi neer for the health agency in Har lingen. Small fish began washing ashore on beaches in this South Texas re sort late Wednesday. Don Hocka- day, an educational assistant at the Pan American University’s coastal studies laboratory, said large fish can also be killed. 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