Rate My Professor Jalal Torabzadeh

California State University, Long Beach

Engineering Geoscience Petroleum Engineering Mechanical Engineering Chemical Engineering Environmental Engineering Aerospace Engineering

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Professor Jalal Torabzadeh serves as Chair of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department and Coordinator of the Mechanical and Petroleum Engineering programs at California State University, Long Beach. He holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Abadan Institute of Technology in Iran, an M.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1980, and a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1984. Before joining CSULB in 1986 to launch the petroleum engineering program as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, he taught and conducted research at USC for two years. Earlier, he worked as a Reservoir Engineer with the National Iranian Oil Company and as a Research Engineer for Chevron Oilfield Research Company. Throughout his career, he has consulted for numerous national and international companies and government agencies. He has also served for 16 years on the Academic Senate and its councils, committees, and task forces, and participated in nearly all College of Engineering and department committees.