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MINERALS INDUSTRY EDUCATION AND TRAINING II
Each Department within the School of Mines and Engineering typically
has 6 tenured faculty positions to manage the Batchelor (BS) and Master
(MS) programs. Currently, the Metallurgical and Material Engineering
Department is responsible for teaching the core courses in the MatSci PhD
program, so it also has a visiting faculty/postdoc member of staff.
The Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering resides in
the school of Mining Engineering. All students in mining engineering are
required to take a DDmineral processing course.
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering has the following faculty members:
Courtney Young (Dept Head): Mineral Processing
Hsin-Hsuin Huang: Hydrometallurgy
Jerome Downey: Pyrometallurgy
Alan Meier: Brazing Metallurgy/Ceramic Materials
KV Sudhakar: Physical Metallurgy/Biomaterials
Bill Gleason: Welding Metallurgy/Casting/Polymers
Avimanyu Das: Visiting Faculty/Mineral Processing
This is one more than the usual six faculty allowed per department. The
extra “visiting” faculty member has been allowed because of a new PhD
program.
In addition, there are three adjunct faculty members, and several
supporting staff. The Department houses comprehensive laboratory
facilities including environmental and hydrometallurgy labs, and materials
synthesis and pyrometallurgy labs, in addition to mineral processing and
materials characterization facilities.
Challenges
The discipline of mineral processing and extractive metallurgy has faced a
number of challenges in recent years (i.e. since 1980s), including:
NSF stops granting mineral processing and extractive metallurgy
research
Meeting the Challenges of a
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Changing World
