Drilling, blasting, ground excavation and loading. Mineral transport systems. Topics include written and oral communication skills, understanding ethical responsibility and appropriate ethical conduct, real world problem formulation and solution skills, exercise of abilities important to lifelong learning, knowledge of contemporary issues important to mining engineering. May be repeated for a maximum of six credits. Consent of department chairperson and the instructor, engineering standing.
Course consists of reserve engineering, presystems modeling and interfacing systems to reserves.
Course may not be used to satisfy degree requirements in electrical engineering if credit is earned in EE 538. Design and construction under normal conditions. Organization and management of construction operations. Topics include concepts for characterizing production systems, approaches to structuring simulation models, instruction in a simulation language, and techniques for comparing alternative system designs and control strategies. Applications to manufacturing, commercial and mining production systems are considered.