MNGN300 - Summer Field session

Designation:

Required

Catalog Description:

Classroom and field instructions in the theory and practice of surface and underground mine surveying.  Introduction to the application of various computer-aided mine design software packages incorporated in upper division mining courses.  3 semester hours.

Prerequisites: 

completion of sophomore year.

Textbook and/or other required material:

Staley, William, Introduction to Mine Surveying, Stanford University Press, 1964.

P.R. Wolf and R.C.

Brinker, Elementary Surveying, 8 ^th Ed., Harper-Collins, 1989.

Course notes available for surveying portion of instruction.

Course Objectives:

Educate mining engineering students in the use of the department’s computing system, provide instruction in the application of computer-aided mine design principles and software subsequently utilized in upper-division mining courses, and  instruct mining engineering students in the fundamental theory and practice of surface and underground mine surveying.  Topics covered:

Part – 1:  Review of Operating System and MineSight mine design software 

               (5 days)

            Part – 2:   Field Surveying  (5 days)

Safety and Procedures, distance measuring, leveling, angular measurement, beaming, azimuth, traversing, latitude, departures, GPS, total station

            Part – 3:  Experimental Mine (5 days)

Underground traversing, volumetrics, vertical loop, horizontal curves, shaft, raise survey

Class/Laboratory Schedule:

8 hours per day; 3 credit hours

Contribution of course to meeting the professional component

This course provides skills in application of computers to real world problems and introduces students to surface and underground surveying techniques. ABET Category Content:

Engineering Science:           2 credit hours (66%)

Other:                                 1 credit hour (33%)

Engineering science makes up 80 % of the course content.(2 credit hours)

Applied science makes up 20 % of the course content.(1 credit hour)

Relationship of Course to Program Objectives:  3a, b1, b2, c, d, f, g 

Provides an environment to develop “ability to apply engineering tools to mining and earth systems related problems”.

Persons Preparing Description and Date of Preparation:

Prepared by:  Dr. Kadri Dagdelen              

                    Dr. Tibor G. Rozgonyi

Date:  May 19, 2000