Mining Technology (MNG)

Provides orientation to the mining engineering and mining technology professions. Includes introduction to key mining engineering activities and functions, mining methods and equipment, and health and safety subsystems. Lecture: 3.0 credits (45 contact hours).

Qualifies students to take the Mine Electrical Certification Exam administered by Kentucky Office of Mine Safety and Licensing. Includes topics of basic electricity, direct current circuits, impedance, reactance, power, electrical energy, permissibility, underground and surface law, solid-state, and national instruments and applications. Lecture: 4.0 credit hours (60 contact hours).

Encompasses an elementary lab for mining technology students. Includes construction of circuits using electrical-measuring instruments in the analysis of the circuits with focus on electrical safety. Emphasizes mining electrical equipment circuits, permissibility and maintenance. Laboratory: 1.0 credits (30 contact hours).

Provides the theory, intent, construction and application of state and federal regulations pertaining to underground and surface coal mining. Lecture: 3.0 credits (45 contact hours).

Introduces underground mining methods, operations, and procedures. Includes topics of miners' rights, work environments, health and safety standards, roof control, mine ventilation, transportation, communication, compressed gas cylinders, explosives, mine gases and instruments, electrical hazards, accident prevention, and emergency procedures. Lecture: 3.0 credits (45 contact hours).

Applies the principles and policies of mining methods, operations, and procedures in a controlled laboratory environment. Focuses on the skills associated with the information taught in the paired underground mining lecture course. Pre-requisite OR Lab: 1.0 credit (30 contact hours).

Introduces study of surface mining methods, operations, and procedures. Includes topics of miners' rights, work environments, ground control, health and safety standards, transportation, communication, compressed gas cylinders, explosives, mine gases and instruments, electrical hazards, accident prevention, and emergency procedures. Lecture: 2.0 credits (30 contact hours).

Introduces topic of how underground and surface mining operations impact the environment in a multitude of ways. Includes basic information related to geological formations in mining and structure of coal material. Relates methods to mitigate negative effects of mining. Discusses methods to repair damage to environment. Lecture: 3.0 credits (45 contact hours).

Introduces mine safety, program organization, safety training, mine rescue operations, and the role of state and federal governments in mine safety. Includes field trips as an integral part of the course. Lecture: 3.0 credits (45 contact hours).

Involves an in-depth study of roof and rib control, and coal mine ventilation. Includes methods of inspection and reporting potential safety hazards, reading roof control plans, processes and procedures involving mine resistance, law, and minimum standards. Lecture: 3.0 credits (45 contact hours).