mining engineering
Mining engineering Ph.D. student receives SME scholarship
Aamir Iqbal, a Ph.D. student in the mining and explosives engineering, won the 2025 McPherson-Marks-Greuer Ventilation Scholarship from the Coal and Energy Division of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME).
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Researcher wins prize for poster presentation at SME conference
Ellen Amoako Afful, a doctoral student in mining engineering, was awarded a $1,000 prize for a research poster that was presented Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024, at the Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Conference in Tucson, Arizona.
Read More »S&T student selected as scholar for national organization’s Critical Minerals Research Lab
Hamdiya Orleans-Boham, a Ph.D. student in mining engineering, was selected for Resources for the Future’s first class of scholars for its Critical Minerals Research Lab.
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Alagha receives $875,000 from Rio Tinto for critical minerals research
Dr. Lana Alagha, a Robert H. Quenon Associate Professor of Mining Engineering, has been awarded $875,000 from Rio Tinto, a global mining group, for a two-year project researching new techniques to recover critical minerals in the waste byproducts that come from extracting and refining copper.
Read More »Doctoral student publishes in the ‘Journal of Cleaner Production’
Jessica Azure, a doctoral candidate in mining engineering, published her research in the Journal of Cleaner Production.
Read More »Kummer Innovation and Entrepreneurship Doctoral Fellows announced
The fall 2022 Kummer Innovation and Entrepreneurship Doctoral Fellows and their faculty advisors have been announced by the Kummer Institute for Student Success, Research and Economic Development.
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Awuah-Offei named permanent mining and explosives engineering chair
Dr. Kwame Awuah-Offei has accepted the role as permanent chair of mining and explosives engineering, effective Monday, Aug. 1. He has served as interim director of the program and subsequently as interim chair of the department since July 2018.
Read More »Alumnus named legend for petroleum engineering technology
Dr. Ali Daneshy, who earned a Ph.D. in mining engineering from Missouri S&T in 1969, will receive the 2022 Legend of Hydraulic Fracturing Award during the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference in Texas this week.
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ACUE online teaching accreditation goes to 53 instructors
More than 50 Missouri S&T instructors earned a nationally recognized teaching credential as well as online teaching certification through the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE).
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Graduate Faculty Council awards go to faculty and staff
Missouri S&T’s Graduate Faculty Council has announced the winners of its annual awards: Outstanding Contributions to Graduate Studies Award for faculty and Graduate Staff Excellence Award.
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