Strategies for undergraduate education of oil & gas storage and transportation in the era of energy transformation and artificial intelligence

In this paper, changes in the curriculum system of Oil & Gas Storage and Transportation Engineering(OGSTE)in China over the past 70 years were reviewed and analyzed. It is found that the focus of OGSTE education has gradually shifted from the cultivation of engineering practice ability at the beginning to the cultivation of scientific research ability, which is different from the development direction of international engineering education. Therefore, the main problems of OGSTE education at present were pointed out based on the status of teachers of the colleges and universities, with consideration to the OGSTE requirements for talents in the era of national energy transformation and artificial intelligence, including inadequate engineering practice ability of the young teachers, inconsistency of talent cultivation objective with the development of international engineering education, lack of systematic training of students in knowledge application, failure of the curriculum system to meet the requirements of the new era, and failure of the teaching methods to mobilize the learning initiative of students. Therefore, strategies were proposed in a targeted manner as follows: to establish the teacher engineering ability training system, set the OGSTE training goal of cultivating interdisciplinary talents, adopt the integrated curriculum structure of theory and practice, build an "engineering + intelligence" curriculum system, and apply the projectbased teaching methods. Conclusively, the research results could provide reference for returning the OGSTE undergraduate education in the new era to the cultivation of engineering practice ability.