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2015-2016 SDSM&T Academic Catalog 
    
2015-2016 SDSM&T Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Mining Engineering Department


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Contact Information

Dr. Lance Roberts
Department of Mining Engineering and Management
Office: MI 235B
Phone: 605-394-1973
Email: Lance.Roberts@sdsmt.edu
http://sdsmt.edu/MEM/

Faculty

Professors Kliche, Roberts, Tukkaraja, Wyatt, McCormick and Brickey.

Adjunct Faculty

Dr. Ivy Allard and Mr. Rick Chancellor

Mining Engineering & Management

The Mining Engineering Department offer a non-thesis MS degree to students on-campus and through the Distance Education program.  Requirements for the degree include 32-credits of coursework in areas such as geomechanics, mining engineering management, or general mining engineering.  Current School of Mines undergraduates may be eligible for the new accelerated master’s program.  Students have the opportunity to be involved in research with professors on projects such as equipment simulation, slope stabilization, mine ventilation, rock blasting excavation, coal dust control, underground mined cavern storage, and mineral economics. Faculty are actively engaged in the ongoing research through the Shale Research Initiative at Mines, along with projects at the Sanford Underground Research Laboratory in Lead, SD.



 

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