Distance and Continuing Education
Missouri University of
Science and Technology
216 Centennial Hall
300 W. 12th St.
Rolla, MO 65409-1560
Phone: (573) 341-6222
Fax: (573) 341-4992
Email: dce@mst.edu

Monday Sept. 9, 2013 - Short Courses

Professional Development Hours (PDHs) are awarded for short course participation. Certificates documenting PDHs earned will be issued to those who attend/complete the short course(s). 

Dr. Maochen Ge

Mine Ground Control Principles and Techniques
1 p.m. – 5 p.m.  |  Location TBA  |  Fee: $300  |  4 PDHs

Instructor: Dr. Maochen Ge, Associate Professor of Mining Engineering, Missouri S&T

This short course discusses the mine ground control principles and a number of main ground control issues, including mine stress field, rock mass property and classification, pillar design, roof span, rock reinforcement, rockburst, subsidence and slope stability. Lessons learned from the major mine incidences in recent years will be utilized to demonstrate the importance of the basic ground control principles and the latest ground control techniques.  

Dr. Stewart Gillies
Dr. Jerry Tien

Diesel Particulate Matter (DPM) Monitoring and Control
1 p.m. – 5 p.m.  |  Location TBA  |  Fee: $300  |  4 PDHs

Instructors: Dr. Stewart Gillies, Union Pacific-Rocky Mountain Energy Professor, Interim Director Rock Mechanics Explosives Research Center, Missouri S&T;
Dr.  Jerry Tien, Associate Professor Mining Engineering, Director of Western
Mine Safety and Health, Training and Translation Center Coordinator, Mining Engineering Distance Education Program, Missouri S&T.

The DPM short course will acquaint attendees with the provisions of the MSHA DPM rule for metal and nonmetal underground mines; familiarize operators with current monitoring techniques; provide mine operators with detailed practical technical information on available DPM controls.

Dr. Paul Worsey

Surface Mine Bench Design for Efficient Fragmentation
1 p.m. – 5 p.m.  |  Location TBA  |  Fee: $300  |  4 PDHs

Instructor: Dr. Paul Worsey, Professor of Mining and Nuclear Engineering, Missouri S&T

Fundamentals of effective bench blast design, for use with modern bulk systems. Focused on economics, fitting in with geology and maximize production capacity. Thinking outside the box and avoid the traps that many large scale mining operations fall into.

Dr. Kwame Awuah-Offei

Truck-Shovel Simulation Using Arena® (4 PDHs)
1 p.m. – 5 p.m.  |  Location TBA  |  Fee: $300  |  4 PDHs  

This course is a 4-hour short course on truck-shovel simulation using Arena®. Simulation can be used to evaluate changes to existing truck-excavator systems or new systems. Discrete event simulation provides a means to model truck-excavator systems to evaluate performance through what-if analysis. The advantage of this approach over others is the ability to evaluate uncertainty. This course will introduce participants to discrete event simulation and truck-shovel simulation using Arena® in a hands-on way – drag and drop user interface no coding is required! Each participant will build a basic truck-excavator model. The course will also illustrate several sample models and the kinds of analysis, and results, that can be done with these models. All participants will have a CD of the demo version Arena®.

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Dr. Jamal Rostami

Mechanical Mining and Rock Excavation (4 PDHs)
1 p.m. – 5 p.m.  |  Location TBA  |  Fee: $300  |  4 PDHs 

Proposed Outline and Course Agenda

This short course will provide a quick review of various methods of mechanical rock fragmentation, cutter types and selection, machine selection and operational issues, cutterhead design and optimization, and finally, performance prediction for mechanical excavators.  The course will cover machines such as tunnel boring machines (TBM), shielded machines, roadheaders, continuous miners (CM), longwall sheareers, and surface miners (roadmilling machines).