Mining Faculty
Lead Faculty
- Assistant Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
Research Interests
- Mine Planning and Design under Uncertainties
- Production monitoring and automated control using image sensors
- Multi-point and multi-scale geostatistics
- Mine safety, reliability, and occupational risk modeling
- Statistical and artificial intelligence modeling
Teaching Interests
- Mine Planning and Design
- Geostatistics and Mineral Resource Estimation
- Systems Engineering
- Reliability and Safety Engineering
- Blasting and Fragmentation
- Instructor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
- Director, Mine Safety and
Health Training Program
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Research Interests
- Process/product development, instrumentation and process control
- Ammounium carbonate leaching of metallic compounds
- Agglomeration of waste oxides
- Oxidation tower design
- Classification of fine particulate
- Spray drying of metallic compounds.
- Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
- Mining Innovation Enterprise
(MINE) Faculty Advisor
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Teaching Interests
- Engineering Design Process
- Mechanics of Materials
- System Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering Practice
- Finite Element Analysis
- Intro to Aerospace Engineering
- Senior Design Capstone / Enterprise Project
- Product Realization
Areas of Expertise
- Solid Mechanics
- Structural Design
- Finite Element Analysis
- Engineering Design Process
- System Engineering
- Interdisciplinary Engineering (Aerospace, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Mining, Architecture)
- Extreme Environment Design
- Civil and Mining Engineering
- Education
- Optimization and Modeling
Research Interests
- Advances in Engineering Education
- Engineering Design Process
- Extreme Environment Technologies (Space, Underwater, Mining, Arctic, etc.)
- Excavation and Mining Technology
- Planetary Science and Exploration
- Design Optimization
- Robotics and Automation
- System Engineering and Integration
- Additive Manufacturing
Participating Faculty
- Chair, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
- Professor, Geological and Mining
Engineering and Sciences
- Affiliated Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Teaching Interests
- Hydrogeology
- Ground water Engineering
- Contaminant Transport
- Subsurface Remediation
Research Interests
- Field performance of air sparging for removing volatile organic chemicals from ground
water
- Volatile organic vapor transport in unsaturated soils
- Sulfur dioxide interactions with volcanic ash
- Associate Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
- Affiliated Associate
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Teaching Interests
- Computer Methods in Geomechanics
- Computational Geoscience
- Remote Sensing for Geotechniques
- Geostatistics and Data Analysis
- Engineering Geology and Geoinformatics
Research Interests
- Liquefaction susceptibility evaluation at local and regional scales using in-situ
measurements and remote sensing observations
- Estimating liquefaction induced damage such as lateral spread displacement
- Transportation Geotechniques
- Documenting earthquake induced damages, especially liquefaction using aerial/satellite
images that are sensitive to surficial moisture
- Geotechnical asset monitoring
- Associate Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
- Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Research Interests
- Interactions among climate, atmospheric chemistry, air quality, and land use/land
cover
- Impacts of global change on atmospheric chemistry and long-range transport of air
pollution
- Anthropogenic perturbations to the atmosphere and implications for environmental sustainability
- Atmosphere-biosphere interactions, especially in the context of global change
- Impacts of aerosols on the global hydrological cycle
- Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Affiliated Professor, Geological and
Mining Engineering and Sciences
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Research Interests
- Mechanics of seismic signals generated from hydrodynamic phenomena such as the interaction
of tornadoes with the ground
- Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Chemical Engineering Endowed Faculty Fellow
Research Interests
- Particulate processing
- Chemistry and thermodynamics of metals extraction; physical separation processes,
- Sustainable raw materials production
