MINE-4636: Mining Engineering Capstone

Description: 4635: Serves as the capstone design course sequence for Mining and Minerals Engineering. Undertake a comprehensive design project and feasibility study that integrates courses taken throughout their curriculum, in consideration of public and occupational health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors and constraints. Includes exploration of professional and ethical obligations of engineers and impacts of projects on communities, project management, communication, and working in teams. 4636: Serves as the capstone design course sequence for Mining and Minerals Engineering. Undertake a comprehensive design project and feasibility study that integrates courses taken throughout their curriculum, in consideration of public and occupational health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors and constraints. Includes exploration of professional and ethical obligations of engineers and impacts of projects on communities, project management, communication, and working in teams. Culminates in the preparation of a technical report that describes the commercial development, extraction and closure of a mineral deposit under global reporting standards, and provides detailed operational layouts, production calculations, and engineering cost analyses.

Pathways: 1A Discourse Advanced, 10 Ethical Reasoning

Course Hours: 2 credits

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A