MINE 621 - Integrated Excavating and Materials Handling

Pre-req: Graduate Standing and Consent Hours: 3 Integrated mining equipment will be systematically analyzed as to functional, production, failure, and operational aspects. Included will be routine and innovative methods, and surface and underground applications, such as the longwalls and monorails.

MINE 624 - Num Analysis in Mineral Engr Pre-req: Graduate Standing or Consent Hours: 3 Semester Generally Offered: Fall Enrollment Restriction: College of Engineering and Mineral Resources CIP Code: 142101 Application of mathematical and numerical methods in metallurgy and mineral processing problems. MINE 625 - Advanced Mineral Processing Pre-req: MINE 327 or Consent Hours: 3 Theory and technology of separation. Triboelectrostatic and magnetic dry ore and coal separation. Engineering and scientific aspects of column flotation of fines in coal and mineral industries. MINE 627 - Advanced Coal Preparation Pre-req: MINE 427 or Consent Hours: 3 Semester Generally Offered: Fall/Spring Coal preparation design and analysis. Fine coal column flotation, agglomeration and dewatering. Biotechnology and others for HAPs removal. Coking and coal utilization. Instrumentation for process control. MINE 628 - Comput Fluid Flow Mineral Eng Pre-req: Graduate Standing or Consent Hours: 3 Semester Generally Offered: Fall Enrollment Restriction: College of Engineering and Mineral Resources CIP Code: 142101 Applications of appropriate theories for solving fluid transportation problems in mineral engineering. Newtonian and non-Newtonian slurries applications to mineral engineering are emphasized. MINE 629 - Mine Wastes Management/Closure Pre-req: Graduate Standing or Consent Hours: 3 Planning and design to control, detoxificate, and contain mine openings for mine and mill closure in mineral industry. Regulatory frameworks. MINE 631 - Mine Ventilation Network Analysis Pre-req: MINE 331 and MINE 281 or Consent Hours: 3 Theory and computational techniques for mine ventilation network problems with emphasis on computer-aided analysis of complex mine ventilation systems. MINE 632 - Advanced Mine Ventilation Pre-req: MINE 331 Hours: 3 Advanced topics in mine atmospheric control including control of methane, dust, humidity, and heat. Also covers leakage characteristics, fan selection, analysis of ventilation networks, and planning of mine ventilation system. MINE 633 - Coal Mine Methane Control Pre-req: Graduate Standing or Consent Hours: 3 Control of explosive gas emissions in coal mines. Procedures for measurement, mitigation, capture, and utilization of minegenerated gases. Techniques for gas emission forecasting. MINE 642 - Advanced Mine Health and Safety Pre-req: MINE 342 or Graduate Standing Hours: 3 Special emphasis will be placed on mine rescue, mine disaster prevention and organization, and mine property and equipment loss prevention. MINE 651 - Explosive Engineering Design Pre-req: MINE 251 or Consent Hours: 3 Rock drilling, total blast systems simulation, experimental studies in blast design, rock fracturing, chemical thermodynamics, kinetics, and reaction rates. MINE 661 - Num Analysis for Mine Design Pre-req: Graduate Standing or Consent Hours: 3 Semester Generally Offered: Spring Enrollment Restriction: College of Engineering and Mineral Resources CIP Code: 142101 An introduction to the formulation and application of boundary-element, finite-differance, and discrete element methods for geomechanical design of mines and geologic structures. MINE 662 - Disp Disc Modeling in Mining Pre-req: MinE 661 or Consent Hours: 3 Semester Generally Offered: Summer Enrollment Restriction: College of Engineering and Mineral Resources CIP Code: 142101 An indepth look into the formulation and application of the displacement discontinuity method for modeling stresses and displacements in single and multi-seam coal mines. MINE 663 - Geomech Modeling with FLAC Pre-req: MinE 661 or Consent Hours: 3 Semester Generally Offered: Summer Enrollment Restriction: College of Engineering and Mineral Resources CIP Code: 142101 An indepth study of the application of the finite-difference program, FLAC, for modeling static and dynamic scenarios in mining, geologic and soil structure. MINE 665 - Deterministic Methods for Mineral Engineers Pre-req: Graduate Standing or Consent Hours: 3 Analysis and solution of mineral engineering problems which require use of deterministic models. Application of deterministic methods to mineral transportation, mineral resource allocation and extraction problems, and mine planning and equipment utilization problems. MINE 666 - Stochastic Methods for Mineral Engineers Pre-req: Graduate Standing or Consent Hours: 3 Application of stochastic stochastic methods to mineral engineering problems in methods to mineral engineering problems in equipment equipment selection, renewal processes, mine ventilation, selection, renewal processes, mine production, and mineral extraction. MINE 671 - Mine Production and Cost Management Pre-req: MINE 471 and MINE 281 Hours: 3 Planning manpower and material requirements for different mining methods, forecasting productivity from production sections, analysis of mine cost components, scheduling and control of mine operations, integrated optimization of mine cost and productivity. MINE 682 - Advanced Mine Power Systems Pre-req: Graduate Standing or Consent Hours: 3 Semester Generally Offered: Fall Enrollment Restriction: College of Engineering and Mineral Resources CIP Code: 142101 Advanced study of mine electrical power systems from theory to practice covering the vital aspects that go into planning and designing a mine power system. MINE 685 - Graduate Seminar in Coal Mining Hours: 3-6 MINE 686 - Grad Seminar Coal Mine Hours: 3-6 MINE 687 - Materials Engineering Hours: 3 A study of materials engineering fundamentals emphasizing semiconductor, polymer, metal, and ceramic/cementitious material systems. Mechanical and physical properties, theoretical aspects, testing, design criteria, manufacturing, and economics of material systems. Laboratory testing and evaluation. (Equivalent to CE 387, CHE 387, EE 387, IMSE 387,and MAE 387.) MINE 688 - Advanced Mine Design 1 Pre-req: MINE 482 Hours: 1-6 Detailed design of the components of coal mine subsystems including ground control, excavation and handling, and life support subsystems. MINE 689 - Advanced Mine Design 2 Pre-req: MINE 482 Hours: 1-6 Examination of the broad aspects of mine design for non-coal deposits. Consideration of deposits of various shapes, materials, and qualities including country rock. Comparison of principles established for coal mine design. MINE 691 - Advanced Topics Pre-req: Consent Hours: 1-6 Investigation of advanced topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. MINE 693 - Special Topics Hours: 1-6 A study of contemporary topics selected from recent developments in the field. MINE 695 - Independent Study Pre-req: Consent Hours: 1 - 6 Faculty supervised study of topics not available through regular course offerings. MINE 697 - Research Pre-req: Consent Hours: 1-15 Research activities leading to a thesis, problem report, research paper, or equivalent scholarly project, or a dissertation. MINE 711 - Theories of Surface Subsidence Pre-req: MINE 612 Hours: 3 Theories of surface subsidence due to underground coal mining including empirical, profile function, theoretical and physical modeling methods, and time factors. MINE 712 - Theory of Pilar Design Pre-req: MINE 411 and MINE 611 Hours: 3 Examination of various theories of pillar design for room and pillar mining and longwall mining including chain pillars, barrier pillars, and bleeder pillars. MINE 713 - Theory of Roof Bolting Pre-req: MinE 611 or Consent Hours: 3 Semester Generally Offered: Spring Enrollment Restriction: College of Engineering and Mineral Resources CIP Code: 142101 Review and discuss various theories of roof bolting. Review select papers representative of recent development of design of roof bolts, and selection of materials. MINE 716 - Theory of Rock Failure Pre-req: MINE 414 or Consent Hours: 3 Friction, elasticity, strength of rock, mechanism of brittle failure, factors affecting failure process, theories of failure, fracture propagation in rock, fracture toughness of rock and coal, fluid pressure, size, stress gradient, and timedependent effects. MINE 717 - Laboratory and Field Instrumentation Pre-req: MINE 411 and MINE 414 or Consent Hours: 3 Principles and applications of strain gages and photoelasticity for stress analysis in rock/coal; displacement/velocity gages and accelerometer for ground motion; holography and acoustic emission for nondestructive tests. MINE 718 - Rock Mechanics in Mine Design Pre-req: MINE 411 and MINE 414 or Consent Hours: 3 Design process in mining engineering; design approaches for excavations in rock; input parameters for design; empirical, observational, and analytical methods of design; integrated designs. MINE 731 - Mine Ventilation Network Optimization Pre-req: MINE 631 or Consent Hours: 3 Application of mathematical optimization techniques to mine ventilation network problems, including linear and nonlinear optimization for controlled-flow and generalized networks. MINE 751 - Theory of High Explosives Pre-req: MINE 651 or Consent Hours: 3 The application of chemical thermodynamics and the hydrodynamic theory to determine properties of high explosives, chemical equilibria and calculation of detonation, and explosion-state variables. MINE 765 - Optimization Applications in Mining Pre-req: Graduate Standing and MINE 367 Hours: 3 Detailed study and use of optimization techniques to solve mining problems, including programming techniques for large-scale linear, mixed-integer and 0-1, dynamic, nonlinear, and heuristic programming. MINE 769 - Expert Systems in Mining Pre-req: Graduate Standing Hours: 3 An overview of expert systems applications in mining, a detailed study of two mining applications, study of shells and their components, and study of a specific shell used to develop a project. MINE 790 - Teaching Practicum Pre-req: Consent Hours: 1-3 Supervised practice in college teaching of mining engineering. Note: This course is intended to insure that graduate assistants are adequately prepared and supervised when they are given college teaching responsibility. It will also present a mechanism for students not on assistantships to gain teaching experience. MINE 791 - Advanced Topics Pre-req: Consent Hours: 1-6 Investigation of advanced topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. MINE 792 - Directed Study Hours: 1-6 Directed study, reading, and/or research. MINE 793 - Special Topics Hours: 1-6 A study of contemporary topics selected from recent developments in the field. MINE 794 - Seminar Hours: 1-6 Seminars arranged for advanced graduate students. MINE 795 - Indepedent Study Hours: 1-6 Faculty supervised study of topics not available through regular course offerings. MINE 796 - Graduate Seminar Pre-req: Consent Hours: 1 It is anticipated that each graduate student will present at least one seminar to the assembled faculty and graduate student body of his/her program. MINE 797 - Research Pre-req: Consent Hours: 1-15 Research activities leading to thesis, problem report, research paper or equivalent scholarly project, or a dissertation. MINE 798 - Thesis or Dissertation Pre-req: Consent Hours: 2-4 Note: This is an optional course for programs that believe that this level of control and supervision is needed during the writing of their student’s reports, thesis, or dissertation. MINE 799 - Graduate Colloquium Pre-req: Consent Hours: 1-6 For graduate students not seeking course work credit but who wish to meet residence requirements, use the University’s facilities, and participate in its academic and cultural programs. Note: Graduate students not actively involved in course work or research are entitled, through enrollment in his/her department’s Graduate Colloquium, to consult with graduate faculty, participate in both formal and informal academic activities sponsored by his/her program, and retain all of the rights and privileges of duly enrolled students. Grading is S/U; colloquium credit may not be counted against credit requirements for master’s programs. Printer Friendly Version