Individual work on some selected problem in the field of mining engineering. May be repeated for a maximum of six credits.

Individual work on some selected problem in the field of mining engineering. May be repeated for a maximum of six credits.

Individual work on some selected problem in the field of mining engineering. May be repeated for a maximum of six credits.

Mineral-project investment decisions based on the time value of money with tax considerations. And project scheduling using the critical path method (CPM) and project evaluation and review technique (PERT).

Automation techniques for controlling equipment and processes, including applications of sensors, transducers, motor starters, variable-frequency motor drives, linear actuators, and proportional hydraulic valves. Ladder logic programming of programmable automation controllers (PACs) and programming human-machine interface (HMI) touch-screen panels.

Introduction to the principles of sustainable mine planning with a focus on environmental control system design, reclamation and restoration design, and environmental monitoring systems.

Determination of the physical properties of rocks, rock mass classification, stress around mine openings, strain and displacement of the rock mass, rock reinforcement and support, stress interaction and subsidence, strata control. Lecture, three hours; laboratory, three hours per week.

3D state of stress and strain, stress redistribution around mine openings, tunnels, wellbores, intact rock and rock mass properties, rock mass failure criteria, role of discontinuities and failure along discontinuities, rock reinforcement and support.

Design a coal preparation plant by integrating unit operations preceded by certain back-up laboratory experiments. Cost sensitivity analysis of competing design schemes will be determined on a selected coal. Lecture, two hours; laboratory, three hours per week.

Design of mineral processing plants including the associated unit operations; flowsheet development, unit selection, sizing and number, water/mass flow balancing.