Program Details - Mining Engineering
Contact name: Danny Taylor
Phone number: 775-784-6922
Fax Number: 775-784-1833
Email address: dtaylor@mines.unr.edu
Website: http://www.unr.edu/mines/mine-eng/index.asp
Program description: The Mining Engineering Department offers an M.S. degree in Mining Engineering and, in collaboration with the Geological Engineering faculty of the Department of Geological Sciences, offers a Ph.D. in geological engineering. Applications for the interdisciplinary areas within the degree include mine ventilation, mine environmental, reclamation, remediation and restoration studies, mine automation and robotics, rock mechanics, drilling and blasting, materials handling, ore reserve characterization, geostatics and mineral economics.