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Mining Engineering Department

The Mining Engineering Department trains mine engineers who can handle the full chain from extraction to ore processing, meeting the surging demand for critical minerals, rare earths, and base metals. Students learn mine-design principles through geomechanics and blast-engineering simulation, work through underground mine design and ventilation planning, and practice ore-grade estimation, tailings management, and reclamation planning. Graduates head into the field ready to personally take charge of optimizing real extraction plans with mineral-economics modeling and safely running a mining project end to end.

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Field-based Curriculum · 20

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Underground Mine Design & Methods
Underground Mine Design & Methods
Underground mine design is taught as multi-criteria decision-making: students se…
Thomas Arthur Rickard
Open-Pit Mine Design & Slope Optimization
Open-Pit Mine Design & Slope Optimization
Open-pit design is taught as the joint problem of economic optimization and geot…
Seeley W. Mudd
Ground Control & Underground Support Engineering
Ground Control & Underground Support Engineering
Ground control is taught as classification-driven support design: students deriv…
Josef Stini
Mine Ventilation Engineering
Mine Ventilation Engineering
Mine ventilation is taught as whole-network airflow analysis: students compute a…
John Buddle
Rock Blasting & Explosives Engineering
Rock Blasting & Explosives Engineering
Blasting engineering is taught as simultaneous control of fragmentation quality …
William Bickford
Ore Reserve Estimation & Geostatistics
Ore Reserve Estimation & Geostatistics
Ore reserve estimation and geostatistics is taught as uncertainty quantification…
Herbert Sichel
Strategic Mine Planning, Scheduling & Optimization
Strategic Mine Planning, Scheduling & Optimization
Strategic mine planning is taught as large-scale optimization: students formulat…
George Dantzig
Mineral Economics & Mine Project Valuation
Mineral Economics & Mine Project Valuation
Mineral economics is taught as valuation of exhaustible resources: students quan…
Orris C. Herfindahl
Comminution: Crushing & Grinding
Comminution: Crushing & Grinding
Comminution is taught as an energy-optimization problem: students design crushin…
Robert Hallowell Richards
Froth Flotation & Mineral Separation Chemistry
Froth Flotation & Mineral Separation Chemistry
Froth flotation is taught as design of engineered surface chemistry: students le…
Guillaume Daniel Delprat
Bulk Ore Sampling & Physical Beneficiation Testing
Bulk Ore Sampling & Physical Beneficiation Testing
Bulk sampling and physical beneficiation testing is taught as statistical repres…
Henry Krumb
Hydrometallurgy & Leaching
Hydrometallurgy & Leaching
Hydrometallurgy is taught as metal recovery through aqueous chemistry: students …
James Douglas
Pyrometallurgy & Extractive Smelting
Pyrometallurgy & Extractive Smelting
Pyrometallurgy is taught as high-temperature multiphase equilibrium: students ma…
John Percy
Mine Safety, Health & Occupational Risk Engineering
Mine Safety, Health & Occupational Risk Engineering
Mine safety and health is taught as an integration of exposure measurement, epid…
Alice Hamilton
Mine Waste Management, Tailings, Closure & Reclamation
Mine Waste Management, Tailings, Closure & Reclamation
Mine waste, tailings, closure and reclamation is taught as engineering responsib…
Gifford Pinchot
Mine Automation, Mechanization & Digital Mining
Mine Automation, Mechanization & Digital Mining
Mine automation is taught as a discipline of hazard removal and productivity: st…
Joseph Francis Joy
Critical Minerals & Rare Earth Element Extraction
Critical Minerals & Rare Earth Element Extraction
Critical minerals and rare earth extraction is taught as separation of chemicall…
Carl Gustaf Mosander
Mine Dewatering & Water Management
Mine Dewatering & Water Management
Mine dewatering is taught as prediction and interception of groundwater inflow: …
Thomas Newcomen
Mine Surveying & Spatial Geodesy
Mine Surveying & Spatial Geodesy
Mine surveying is taught as continuity of spatial control: students propagate co…
Thomas Sopwith
Mine Haulage, Hoisting & Materials Handling
Mine Haulage, Hoisting & Materials Handling
Mine haulage is taught as the hard constraint on the whole mine plan: students d…
John Curr