Teaching

MINE 3604: Mining Geomechanics

Semester: Fall

Offered: 2024 onwards

Properties and behavior of geologic materials and masses and their classifications and ratings. Design principles of structures founded on and in rocks and basic aspects of ground control in mining. Laboratory techniques used in the determination of geologic materials properties and behavior. Determination of rock index properties, strengths, failure criterion and mechanical behavior.

MINE 4624: Mine Water Reservoir Engineering

Semester: Fall

Offered: 2024, 2023, 2022

Essential topics related to water in resource extraction and mining projects, including surface and ground water hydrology, chemistry and treatment of mine-influenced waters. Emphasis on basic design calculations and modeling.

MINE 3584: Ventilation Engineering

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2023 onwards

Subsurface ventilation systems. Ventilation planning and design, laws of airflow, airway resistance. Ventilation surveys, network analysis, ventilation economics. Ventilation software. Fan types, impeller theory, fan laws and testing. Mine ventilation thermodynamics. Class includes experiential learning.

Courses taught at SIU Carbondale

Mine Ventilation (Fall 2017, 2018)

Underground Mining (Spring 2017)

Surface Mining (Spring 2019)

Engineering Statics (co-instructor: Spring 2019)

Probability, Statistics and Modeling (co-instructor: Spring 2016)