Nature
of Mining and Mineral Engineering
Mining is a
primary industry devoted to taking minerals out of the earth, improving
the quality, and then supplying those minerals to other downstream industries
to process and use in production of almost every commodity. Mining activities
are not only challenge of mining to convert mineral resources to mans
use with maximum utilization, but also achieving its purpose with a
minimum disruption to the other resources of land, water, and air.
The basic
works of a mining engineer are exploration and evaluation of an ore
deposit to reveal the quantity and quality of the ore deposit with systematic
works and skills. When a decision is made to mine a deposit, mining
engineers play the important roles to design and develop mining system
and producing the raw minerals with carefully considering of health
and safety in the operations. After mineral are mined, a mineral processing
engineering will step in to separate the impurities or improve the raw
minerals and make it ready to use in the following industries.
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Mining and Mineral Engineering
Programs in Chiang Mai University
Department
of Mining Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chiang Mai University has
been established since 1982. The undergraduate mining program is designed
to educate and train students to become the qualified mining engineers,
who will be able to design, operate mine and produce raw minerals with
the intensive knowledge of mine and equipment design, mineral processing,
geological techniques, and mineral economics. Two types of mater programs,
type A-1 and A-2, are offered to the public in 2000. The main purpose
of master program is to support mining engineers in both private and government
sectors who needs to conduct new research and apply new technology to
solve problems in mining and mineral processing methods.
Within the mining engineering objectives, two main specialized courses;
mine planning and design, and mineral processing, are integrally offered.
The mine planning and design includes equipment selection, drilling and
blasting, plant and accessories design, rock mechanics and its application
courses for underground construction, and mineral economics. Those courses
in the mining part include knowledge of both surface and underground mine
planning and design. The mineral processing courses provide students with
concepts and skills of mineral processing and metallurgy. The program
has room for both major and free elective courses for the students to
pursue what they interest in novel mining technology such as tunneling,
geostatistics, mine environment, computer applications in mining, and
clean coal technology, etc.
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Curriculums
Undergraduate Program
The
four-year program leading to the bachelor of engineering degree requires
at least 150 credits for graduation. The program comprises of (a) general
education of 43 credits in social sciences, humanities, English, sciences
and mathematics, (b) core courses of 38 credits in basic engineering,
mathematics, statistics and computer, (c) required major courses of 54
credits in geology, mine planning and designs, mineral processing, rock
mechanics, and mineral economics, (d) required major elective courses
of 9 credits in three major elective fields: mining, processing and rock
mechanics, and (f) free elective courses of 6 credits. more
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Graduate
Programs
Plan
A Type A-1 requires total credits at minimum of 36 credits for graduation.
All 36 credits are devoted to thesis only.
Plan
A Type A-2 requires total credits at minimum of 37 credits for graduation.
The program comprises of (a) graduate courses with a minimum of 19 credits
in required courses of 4 credits and major elective courses of 15 credits
and (b) thesis 18 credits. more
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Teaching and Research Facilities
To
ensure that our under and graduate programs are qualified and meet the
Council of Engineering (COE)s standards, facilities that among one the
best in the country have been assembled: (a) network licenses of MINESIGHT
software for mine planning and design, (b) mineral processing laboratory
which consists of crushing, sizing, mineral dressing, and floatation machines
provides an excellent pilot plant for teaching and doing researches, (c)
rock mechanic laboratory provides a variety of rock preparation and rock
stress measurements, and (d) learning experiences from field trips to
all kinds of mining methods and variety of mineral deposits within easy
driving distance from Chiang Mai university. These facilities are facilitated
not for teaching but also for servicing all engineering testing and researches
for industries outside the university. Many workshops and short courses
in mine planning and design or advanced courses are offered to the company
who needs to improve their personnels skills and knowledge almost every
year.
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Research and Continuing Education
The faculties and students have conducted a variety of mining and mineral processing research at the Mining Engineering department. Also many workshops and short courses aimed at training personnels in the industry who need to supplement their skills and knowledge are offered almost every year.
Reserach areas include
* Mineral and Metallurgical Processing
* Mineral Economics
* Rock Mechanics
* Geotatistics
* Mine Environment
The topics of htese research areas are continuously revised to better meet the needs of minig industry and to keep pace with evolving technology.
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