Tunneling & UC Minor

The Underground Construction & Tunneling minor consists of a minimum of 18 credit hours of a logical sequence of courses. Only three of the minimum 18 hours may be taken in the student’s degree-granting department.

Required Courses

MNGN 321- Introduction to Rock Mechanics (3 sem. hours)

MNGN 404 -Tunneling (3 sem. hours)

MNGN 408 -Underground Design and Construction (2 sem. hours)

GEGN 466/467- Groundwater Engineering (3 sem. hours)

Select one of the following:

GEOL 308- Introductory Applied Structural Geology

GEOL 309- Structural Geology and Tectonics

GEOL 311- Structural Geology for Mining Engineers 

EGGN 342- Structural Theory (3 sem. hours)

EGGN 361- Soil Mechanics (3 sem. hours)

EGGN 445- Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures (3 sem. hours)

Electives:

GEGN 468- Engineering Geology and Geotechnics (4 sem. hours)

GEGN 469- Engineering Geology Design (3 sem. hours)

GEGN 470-Ground-Water Engineering (3 sem. hours)

GEGN 473- Geological Engineering Site Investigation (3 sem. hours)

MNGN 314- Underground Mine Design (3 sem. hours)

MNGN 333- Explosives Engineering I (3 sem. hours)

MNGN 406- Design and Support of Underground Excavations (3 sem. hours)

MNGN 418- Advanced Rock Mechanics (3 sem. hours)

MNGN 410-Excavation Project Management (3 sem. hours)

MNGN 424-Mine Ventilation (3 sem. hours)

EGGN 422-Advanced Mechanics of Materials (3 sem. hours)

EGGN 441-Advanced Structural Analysis (3 sem. hours)

EGGN 444-Design of Steel Structures (3 sem. hours)

EGGN 460-Numerical Methods for Engineers (3 sem. hours)

EGGN 464-Foundations (3 sem. hours)