Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering

Mining recovers the wealth of the world's resources to meet global demand both from the surface and underground.

Mining engineers apply principles of environmental, civil, mechanical, chemical, computer, and electrical engineering to the discovery, design, and operation of a resource. They use modeling, computational, and design software to create massive 3-D models of the resource that they are attempting to recover.

As a mining engineer, you might work for mining companies, consulting firms, contractors, government agencies, or mining equipment supply companies anywhere in the world.

Research topics include:

Geostatistics

Geomechanics

Material transportation

Equipment and gravel interaction

Structural damage to mobile equipment

Geotechnical and engineering geology

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