Penn State EME Connection Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2008

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Summer 2008

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In This Issue:

Alumni Update .......................................4

EME Education ......................................6

EME@Your Service ...............................8

Professional Society and Club News .....9

Faculty Attributes .................................10

Research in Motion ..............................12

Student Voice ......................................14

Newsletter

From The Department Head

Dear Alumni and Friends,

The pace of living changes in State College in the summer. It’s not that there is less to do. In fact, with the many changes and new initiatives underway in the department, I would say that we are busier than ever. However, the extra-long, sun-filled days seem to allow us time enough for plenty of hard work along with a little time to enjoy a walk around the Arts Festival, or a Spikes baseball game, or the occasional Creamery ice cream cone.

In between ice cream and festivals, we have managed to accomplish quite a bit this season. The faculty have collaborated on the development of a strategic plan that will provide a road map for the next five years and beyond. The six major goals in this plan are:

• toenhancethequalityofundergraduateprograms• toenhancethequalityofgraduateeducation• toenhancethequalityofsponsoredresearch• togrowaglobalpresence• toplayaleadershiproleinenergyoutreach• toensureacriticalmassoffacultyandstaff

Among our top priority areas to ensure excellence in our undergraduate and graduate education are scholarships and enrichment programs, laboratory upgrades and enhancements,

endowed faculty chairs and graduate fellowships,andstudentrecruiting.You’llhearmoreaboutoureffortsto improve and expand these programs in the coming months. We look forward to your support of these initiatives.

We are already making strides toward achieving these goals as evidenced by our increased student enrollment, research funding, and outreach activities. For example, in this issue you’ll find articles on new NSF-funded research in the department, a town hall meeting on underground mine safety, and our leading role in the 2009 Penn State Solar Decathlon team.

Our current faculty have helped set these strategic goals, but we know that the future of the department and its programs is going to be shaped and defined by new faculty. We are currently searching for three Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering faculty members (one at the senior level), one Mining Engineering faculty member, and two Energy Business and Finance faculty members. The six additions to our ranks in the past two years have brought us increased expertise, accolades, and enthusiasm. We can’t wait to see what the next expansion to our family will bring.

In another of our latest accomplishments, we have taken advantage of our diverse faculty to redefine graduate education with the new EME graduate program. No other department better combines the breadth and depth needed to address the interdisciplinary challenges in the energy and mineral industries. The new integrated major provides access to our departmental breadth of knowledge with a flexible curriculum while allowing for depth of study in each of our energy and mineral related disciplines. Our unique combination of science and engineering expertise makes us the leader in comprehensive energy research and education. The article on page 6 details this new program.

Our alumni, faculty, and students continue to shine and excel as reflected in the rest of the newsletter. If you have news to share with the community, please pass it along. We love to hear about the success of our alumni and friends!

I hope that your summer has been as productive as ours, and that you’ve also found some time to kick back with an ice cream cone or two.

Yaw D. Yeboah, Department Head

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State of the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering

Undergraduate Enrollment Data (as of Spring 2008)Energy Business and Finance (EBF) .................................. 166Energy Engineering (EN ENG) .......................................... 12Environmental Systems Engineering (ENVSE) .................. 74Industrial Health and Safety (IHS) ........................................ 8Mining Engineering (MNGE) ............................................ 28Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering (PNGE) .............. 94 Sub-total .................................................382 (Highest in the College)

Graduate Enrollment Data (as of Spring 2008)Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering (EGEE) ......58Petroleum and Mineral Engineering (PME) ........................49 Sub-total .................................................107

Total Students (undergraduate & graduate) .....................489 (Highest in the College)

Incoming Undergraduate Admissions as of August 1, 2008 Energy Business and Finance ................................................15Energy Engineering ..............................................................16Environmental Systems Engineering ......................................9Mining Engineering ................................................................5Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering ..............................36 Total EME Admitted Students ................81

Graduate Applications Received for Fall 2008 .................140

Current Number of Faculty (2007-2008) .............................34

New Faculty Hires2007-2008 ...........................................6 ( 1 Chaired Professor)2008-2009 expected hires ............................. 6 (1 Senior Level)

Outreach and RecruitingHiredrecruiter(Dr.JeffreyR.S.Brownson)•Placed Ads; Newspaper articles for programs•Energy Club; Solar Decathlon•EMEX, Open Houses, TOTEMS, SEEMS•“Spend a Summer Day” visits•School /Career Fair visits•

Scholarships, Fellowships, and Program Support (2007/2008)Undergraduate Scholarships and Awards ...................$314,100Graduate Scholarships and Awards ..............................$71,898Faculty Chairs ............................................................$281,707Faculty Fellowships and Awards ................................$125,075Program Support ........................................................$131,398Total ...........................................................................$924,180

Student Credit Hours and General Education (2006-2007)Student Credit Hour Generated ....................................20,000General Education Student Enrollment...........................4,500

Research Expenditures/Awards (2007-2008)Energy and Mineral Engineering .......................$13.22 millionEnergy Institute....................................................$6.66 millionTotal ...................................................................$19.88 million

Major Software Donations (2007-2008)Schlumberger (PipeSim) ........................................$3.7 millionLandmark/Halliburton (Landmark Graphics) .......$7.6 million

Job Placement Rate for Graduating Students ................100%

Student Professional Societies and ClubsEnergy Business and Finance So-•cietyAdvisor: Dr. Seth Blumsack, [email protected]

Energy Club•Advisor:Dr.JeffreyR.S.Brownson,[email protected]

Society of Environmental Systems •Engineers Advisor: Dr. Mark Klima, [email protected]

Industrial Health and Safety Society•Dr. Joel M. Haight, [email protected]

Penn State Mining Society (SME affiliated)•Dr.R.LarryGrayson,[email protected]

Society of Petroleum Engineers•Dr. Zuleima Karpyn, [email protected]

ABET (accreditation activities)Reaccreditationvisits .................................................Fall 2008Self-StudyReports(ENVSE,MNGE,PNGE) ....Completed

Program ChangesAmalgamated Graduate Program: Energy and Mineral Engi-•neering Environmental Health and Safety Engineering option in •ENVSE

Strategic Plan .................................Developed for 2009-2014

Key EME Community EventsDepartmental Fall Social•EMEX•Irvin Hall Cookout•G. Albert Shoemaker •Lecture in Mineral Engi-neeringEME Awards Banquet•

Key Descriptive Words for 2008/09: “growth” and “forward-looking”

2008 EME Awards Banquet2007 Fall Social

2008 Irvin Hall Cookout

2008 EMEX

Alumni Update

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Barbara J. Arnold (‘82 B.S. Mining Engineering, ‘85 M.S. , ‘89 Ph.D. Mineral Processing) has been chosen as the 2008 GEMS Alumni Achievement Award winner. This award is presented by the EMS Alumni Society to recognize outstanding achieve-ment by EMS alumni. Barbara is President and owner of PrepTech, Inc., an engineering services and mineral processing equipment company based in Apollo, Pennsylvania. Bar-bara has always been active in alumni events. She has served as Secretary and President of the Graduates of Earth and Mineral Sciences (GEMS) Alumni Board.

Heechan Cho (‘86 M.S., ‘90 Ph.D. Mineral Processing) is now a Professor in the Department of Energy Systems Engineering at Seoul University, South Korea, and he has been appointed Director of the InstituteofEnergyandResourcesofthatuniversity.

S.M. Farouq Ali (‘62 M.S., ‘64 Ph.D. Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering) was awarded the 2007 Society of Petroleum Engineers’ An-thony F. Lucas Gold Medal. This award was established in 1936 as the Society’s ma-jor award and it recognizes distinguished achievement in improving the technique and practice of finding and producing petroleum.

Dr. Farouq Ali was also awarded a 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award from Penn State. This award is the highest honor that the univer-sity bestows upon an outstanding alumna or alumnus. It salutes the achievements of outstanding alumni whose “personal lives, profes-sional achievements, and community service exemplify the objectives of their alma mater.”

Dr. Farouq Ali has been a professor at both Penn State and the Uni-versity of Alberta. He currently works as a consultant and serves as PresidentofHOR-HeavyOilRecoveryTechnologiesLtd.inAlberta,Canada.

Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi (‘91 B.S. Petroleum and Natu-ral Gas Engineering) was pre-sented with the 2008 C. Drew Stahl Distinguished Achieve-ment Award at the annual EME Awards Banquet. Mr. Al-Kaabi is Director of Oil and Gas Ventures for Qatar Petroleum, where he oversees all gas development activities in addition to exploration and oil develop-ments in Qatar. In this role he directly reports to QP’s Chairman and Managing Director, H. E. Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Deputy Prime Minster and Minister of Energy and Industry. Mr. Al-Kaabi also represents the Energy Ministry and QP in several company boards, management and executive committees in the oil, gas, power and other sectors.

John A. Leone (‘56 B.S. Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering) has been selected as a 2008 Penn State Alumni Fellow. This award is present-ed to select alumni who serve as leaders in their professional fields.

Mr. Leone is Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and owner of Bonney Forge Corporation, a multi-national designer and manufacturer of flow control products for the international energy industries. Bonney Forge’s operations are located in Mount Union, PA; Houston, TX; Bergamo, Italy; and Shanghai, China.

Mr. Leone is a life member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, an EMS Centennial Fellow, a PVF Industry Hall of Fame selection, and a member of the Board of Trustees at DeSales Univer-sity. Here at Penn State, he and his wife, Willie, are members of the Obelisk Society, the Mt. Nittany Society, and the Laurel Circle. The Leones have also endowed Penn State undergraduate scholarships in Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering, Theatre and Dance, and football.

Dr. Barbara Arnold

Penn State President Graham Spanier (left), Dr. Farouq Ali (center), Board of Trustees

Chairman James Broadhurst (right)

Dr. Turgay Ertekin (left), Mr. Al-Kaabi (center), and Dr. Michael Adewumi (right)

Mr. John A. Leone

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David R. Maneval (‘50 B.S. Education, ‘57 M.S. Chemis-try, ‘61 Ph.D. Mineral Pro-cessing) was presented with the2008RobertStefankoDistinguished Achievement Award at the annual EME Awards Banquet.

After earning his Ph.D., Dr. Maneval worked as an Assistant Professor at Penn State from 1961 to 1963. He went on to serve as Director ofResearchandDevelopmentfor the Pennsylvania Department of Mines and Mineral Industries (1963-69); Deputy Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of the Environment (1969-70); Science Advisor for the Appalachian RegionalCommissioninWashington,D.C.(1971-78);andAssistantDirector,TechnicalServicesandResearch,intheOfficeofSurfaceMining for the U.S. Department of the Interior (1979-81). After retiring from his position as Professor at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks in 1989, Dr. Maneval returned to Pennsylvania where he continues to work as a mineral engineering consultant and occasional lecturer at Penn State.

Ju-Hun Song (‘05 Ph.D. Fuel Science) has been appointed Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Pusan National University in South Korea.

Christopher M. Stroz (‘01 B.S. Industrial Health and Safety) has received board certification from the Board of Certified Safety Profes-sionals. Chris is a Contractor Safety Specialist with Chevron.

Stanley C. Suboleski (‘63 B.S., ‘78 Ph.D. Mining Engineering) was presented with the 2008 Charles L. Hosler Alumni Scholar Medal at the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Wilson Banquet in April. This award was established in 1992 to recognize the achievements of alumni who have made outstanding contributions to the development of science through research, teaching, and administrative leadership.

Throughout his career, Dr. Suboleski has held important leadership roles in academia, industry and government. He is currently working as a mining engineering consultant after having served as Commis-sionerwiththeFederalMineSafetyandHealthReviewCommissionin Washington, D.C. He also serves on the Board of Massey Energy Company.

Dr. Suboleski has maintained strong ties with the college and the department. He has served as Chair of the EME Industrial Advisory Committee, and he served as the G. Albert Shoemaker Lecturer in 2003.

Uday T. Turaga (‘02 Ph.D. Fuel Science) was selected as a 2008 Penn State Alumni Association Alumni Achieve-ment Award Winner. This award recognizes promi-nent young alumni for their extraordinary professional accomplishments.

Dr. Turaga is an associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., a global leader in management and strategy consulting ser-vices. He has authored numerous papers published in professional journals such as Energy & Fuels, Catalysis Today, and Chemistry of Materials; has presented at more than 30 scholarly conferences; and has filed more than 20 patent applica-tions. He has been honored by the National Academy of Engineering, the National Science Foundation, the Indian Academy of Sciences, and the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers. He was also rec-ognized by the American Chemical Society’s Division of Petroleum Chemistry where he led the creation of a fund to support student travel and served as the program’s inaugural chair.

Dr. Turaga is a life member of the Penn State Alumni Association and lives in Houston with his wife, Deepti Kesiraju.

Dr. R. Larry Grayson (left) and Dr. David Maneval (right)

Dean Bill Easterling (left) and Dr. Stan Suboleski (right)

Dean Bill Easterling (left), Dr. Uday Turaga (center),

and President Graham Spanier (right)

Upcoming Alumni Receptions

MakeplanstoattendtheEMEAlumniandFriendsReceptionbeingheld at your next professional society meeting. It’s the perfect place to re-connect with old friends over drinks and snacks. Plus you have the chance to win lots of EME- and Penn State-themed door prizes. You also get the opportunity to chat with your favorite professors and meet some of the current students following in your footsteps. If you don’t see your society of choice listed below, drop us a line to let us know when there is an upcoming meeting ([email protected]). We hope to see you there!

Society for Petroleum Engineers (SPE) ATCE: Sept. 21-24, 2008, Denver, CO ReceptiontobeheldTuesday,Sept.23,5:30to7:00PM attheHyattRegency-65015thStreet,Denver

Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME) Annual Meeting: Feb. 22-25, 2009, Denver, CO ReceptiontobeheldTuesday,Feb.24,5:30to7:00PM Location to be announced

What About You?

We’d love to hear about your recent accomplishments and honors.

Please send your alumni updates to [email protected].

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Aspartofacontinuousefforttoimprovethescopeandqualityofourgraduate education, the department has established a new integrated graduate program in Energy and Mineral Engineering (EME). Representingamergerbetweenitspredecessors,EnergyandGeo-Environmental Engineering and Petroleum and Mineral Engineering, the EME program was officially rolled out at the beginning of summer2008.LedbyprogramofficerR.LarryGrayson,professorof energy and mineral engineering, it is now the sole M.S. and Ph.D. degreeofferinggraduateprograminthedepartment.

“The amalgamated graduate program was created from the multiple, small-size majors to provide a logical and flexible curriculum and the critical mass of faculty to promote breadth and depth as well as promote new synergies and research collaborations in the area of energy and minerals,” said Yaw Yeboah, department head and professor of energy and mineral engineering. Dr. Grayson acknowledged, “The interdisciplinary strengths of the program are the very things most sought by today’s energy and mineral industries.”

Designed to combine the sometimes competing but equally essential goals of in-depth study and flexible education, the program aims to produce graduates who are well equipped to meet the needs of the global energy market of today. Its focus on the safe, sustainable, and efficient production and utilization of energy and minerals is unique to both Penn State and the nation.

Participating students have the opportunity to choose from five differentspecialtyresearchoptions(althoughpickinganoptionisnotrequired), including: energy management and policy, environmental health and safety engineering, fuel science, mining and mineral pro-cess engineering, and petroleum and natural gas engineering. Students may also focus their research on sustainable energy engineering and subsurface science and engineering. The prescribed option courses provide the in-depth knowledge needed within each research track.Nomatterwhattrackastudenttakes,theEMEprogramoffersallenrolleesanintegrated,team-focusedlearningexperience.Required

Department Forms a Single Graduate Program

core courses in integrative design and project investment and evaluation allow students in all options to work together in teams on interdisciplinary problems of societal significance. The experience also exposes students to engineering cost methodologies for evaluating investments in energy and mineral projects and modern techniques for making investment decisions under uncertainty. “This gives students a better understanding of the global, social, and ethical contexts of their work and prepares them for a 21st century job environment that uses multidisciplinary teams to tackle modern mineral and energy problems in much the same fashion,” said Grayson.

Keeping core course requirements to a minimum gives students the flexibility to construct their own additional course plan that allows them to achieve the necessary breadth and depth of study in their selected specialty area. The result is an EME program that will produce broadly educated graduates, capable of working in teams, who still possess in-depth disciplinary education and research experience through their dissertation. This combination, according to Dr. Yeboah, is essential for success beyond the classroom since “companies are moving more towards integration, teamwork, and efficiency and are demanding greater breadth and depth in the background and capabilities of their employees.”

Along with the benefits to our students, the creation of the EME graduate program will also garner distinct advantages for the faculty and department. Bringing our diverse critical mass of faculty together under one program will now allow them to maximize the potential of their broad expertise by engaging in interdisciplinary research and collaborations of interest to society and industry such as the Marcellus shale, coal bed methane, and carbon sequestration. At the same time, “pooling our resources into one unified program raises the overall research profile of the program to over $10 million per year to attract the best domestic and international students,” adds Yeboah.

The first batch of students accepted into the EME program will start this fall. It is expected that the program will eventually retain a graduate enrollment of over 100 students.

R. Larry Grayson, Program Officer for the new EME Graduate Program

“...companies are moving more towards integration, teamwork, and efficiency and are demanding greater breadth and depth in the background and capabilities of their employees.”

Yaw Yeboah, Department Head

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New Handbook Provides Latest Safety, Health Research to ProfessionalsBy Vicki Fong, Penn State Live

A new two-volume comprehensive book for safety and health professionals, “The Safety Professionals Handbook,” is edited by a Penn State industrial health and safety researcher in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and published by the American Society of Safety Engineers.

Joel M. Haight, P.E., CIH, CSP, associate professor of energy and mineral engineering and editor-in-chief of the handbook, notes, “The book is written by a group of people who cumulatively have nearly 2,000 years of work experience and is full of real-life examples. It was written by safety and health professionals for safety and health professionals. This adds a real and applied nature to the book that comes from the foundation of the science and engineering of safety. Coupled with the insight and creativity of the authors, this has resulted in a book that will provide readers with the tools they need tolearnthefieldandtocontinueitseffectivepracticeallthewaytoretirement.”

The publication is for those who want to develop and implement or improve safety, health and environmental programs, and can also be used as a university text. The chapters are grouped into 12 topic areas: workers’ compensation; risk assessment and hazard control; fire prevention and protection; hazard communication and worker right-to-know; emergency preparedness; ergonomic hazards and repetitive strain injuries; personal protective equipment; safety and health training; environmental management; fleet safety; industrial hygiene; management of safety; and, engineering work.

Each of the 12 topic areas contains chapters on: regulatory issues; applied science and engineering; cost analysis and budgeting; benchmarking and performance criteria; and best practices. Cost analysis and budgeting information are also included in a chapter covering selected concepts of engineering economics and the financial aspects of safety.

A percentage of the royalties will go towards the American Society of Safety Engineers and Joel M. Haight Scholarship in Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences to be administered by the University. The scholarship will be for undergraduate students.

The handbook features 79 chapters on such topics as management of safety engineering work, risk assessment, hazard control, physical hazards from an industrial hygienist perspective, fire dynamics, ergonomics, personal protection equipment (PPE) and cost analysis and budgeting. The handbook is comprised of two volumes: Management Applications and Technical Applications. “This is a valuable reference book.

We enforced a rigorous peer review process in which

each chapter was evaluated by three reviewers,” said Haight. “As we moved through

the process of developing this book it became clear that it was going to be so thorough and cover the topic areas so well that it would be valuable to anyone in the safety profession at any level -- students, new professionals, seasoned professionals and anyone needing to have access to additional information about safety and health.”

Haight teaches courses on several safety-related topics and conducts research in loss prevention and safety systems, human error, human factors engineering and biomechanics. He was honored with the ASSE Outstanding Safety Educator Award, has served as the administrator of the ASSE Engineering Practice Specialty, received the first-place ASSE Professional Paper award for his article on human error and the aging workforce, founded ASSE’s first student section at Penn State and serves as faculty adviser. Previously, Haight worked in many capacities for the Chevron Corporation for 18 years before joining the faculty at Penn State eight years ago.

Founded in 1911, the Des Plaines, IL-based ASSE is the largest and oldest professional safety organization and is committed to protecting people, property and the environment. Its more than 32,000 occupational safety, health and environmental professional members manage, supervise, research and consult on safety, health, transportation and environmental issues in all industries, government, labor and education. For more information or to order a copy of “The Safety Professionals Handbook” go to www.asse.org or contact ASSE customer service at (847) 699-2929 or [email protected].

Handbook Editor, Dr. Joel Haight

Taking Learning on the Road

A number of class field trips and professional society activities have given EME students the chance for hands-on training and exposure to real-world industry scenarios.

Dr. Zuleima Karpyn took her PNG 405 class on a field trip hosted byNCLNaturalResourceswherethestudentswereabletoobservean active drill rig. Dr. Karpyn also took a group of SPE students on a trip to the Drake Well Museum in Titusville, PA, to view the “birthplace of the modern petroleum industry.”

Dr. Seth Blumsack took a group of Energy Business and Finance students to a futures trading competition sponsored by the NY Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). The Penn State students didn’t win the competition this year, but it was an excellent learning expe-rience nonetheless.

A group of forty students from Penn State including petroleum and natural gas engineering students, as well as some from geosciences, chemical, and mechanical engineering, were invited to participate inthe“ShellRobertCamp”inMay.ThegrouptravelledtoShell’sRoberttrainingcenterinRobert,Louisiana,wheretheyreceivedtraining in petroleum production operations, drilling techniques, and state-of-the-art subsea technologies.

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Underground Mine Safety Takes Center Stage at Town Hall Meeting

On June 18, 2008, the Penn State Miner Training Program, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), presented the Escape and Survive: Miners’ Town Hall Meeting in Greensburg, PA, to an audience of about 25 underground mining profes-sionals. Spearheaded by Penn State Miner Training Program DirectorMarkRadomsky,theeventaimedtoincreaseaware-ness of underground mine safety procedures, and to provide expert instruction for miners on how to survive and evacuate a mine in case of emergency. To that end, a panel of expert mine safety speakers, including Penn State Professor R.LarryGraysonandProfessorEmeritusRajaRamani,discusseda wide range of topics covering the latest mine safety research, train-ing, and technology.

“The topics were selected to reflect the major provisions of the Mine Improvement and New Emer-gencyResponse(MINER)Actof2006,”Radomskyexplained.“Thegoal was to provide the partici-pants with a better understanding ofMINERActrequirements,sothat companies could provide the best mine emergency preparedness resources, technology, and proce-dures to enhance miner survivabil-ity following a mine emergency.”

TheMINERActwassignedintolawonJune15,2006,invest-ing MSHA with the responsibility of overseeing the fulfillment of its overriding goals of improving mine emergency prepared-ness by the mine operators and miners, and to improve mine rescue capabilities. The legislation came about in the aftermath of some highly publicized mining disasters, most notably the Sago mine incident in January 2006, which drew national at-tention to the need for better emergency preparedness, re-sponse, and communications across the mining industry.

“We have learned valuable lessons in emergency prepared-ness from the recent mine disasters, as well as the events like September11,2001,”Radomskyreflected.“Butwhethertheunexpected event is large or small, workers need to be trained in emergency response with curriculums that address what to do, and how to do it. By depicting these critical behaviors, we demonstrate the skill, and reinforce the learning.”

It is with this in mind that the town hall meeting came into frui-tion. Wanting to cover as much territory as possible, the panelists delved into every aspect of mine safety from the top down. Par-ticipants listened intently as the speakersoutlinedthedifferenttypes of mine emergencies that can arise and the procedures that both the individual miners and their management should follow in order to facilitate a successful escape from life-threatening situa-tions. More specifically, the panel-ists examined case studies of how some companies are complying withMINERActrequirements.Theyalsoofferedinsightfuladviceand expert instruction on impor-tant subjects such as, emergency response plans; self-contained self rescues; communications and miner tracking; incident command

and control; miner training; escape and evacuation; breathable air safe havens; and mine rescue.

This instruction was further enhanced by audience Q&A and the presentation of HD video clips depicting simulated sce-narios of miners responding to emergencies in an active mine. AccordingtoRadomsky,thisisthefirsttimethatanysuchfootage has been recorded in a working mine.

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Congratulations to Penn State Mining Engineering students Matt Mowry and Vance Rumbaugh,whoreceived $3,000 scholarships from The Gimme Foundation, Inc. The Gimme Foundation scholarship initiative is designed to help offsetthehighcosts of education and to bolster the MiningEngineeringprofession.Requirementsforthescholarshipinclude a demonstrated financial need, good class standing, a recommendation from a professor or supervisor in a related field of study and a 500 word essay that describes the student’s career goals.

The Pittsburgh Section of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME) assisted the Gimme Foundation in contacting students about the scholarship at both Penn State and WestVirginiaUniversities.Dr.R.LarryGrayson,UndergraduateProgram Officer in Mining Engineering, Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, at Penn State provided oversight and assistance to Matt and Vance in the preparation of the scholarship materials.

The scholarships were presented to Matt and Vance on May 5, 2008 by James J. Bryja, President of The Gimme Foundation, Inc. and Senior Vice President-Operations, Foundation Coal Corporation (see photo). The Gimme Foundation intends to award additional scholarships for the spring semester of 2009. Scholarship application forms and instructions will be forwarded to the Mining Engineering units at both the West Virginia and Penn State Universities. A call for applicants and scholarship materials will also be posted on the Pittsburgh Section web site at www.smepittsburgh.org.

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EME Students Receive Gimme Foundation ScholarshipsBy Michael Trevits, SME Pittsburgh Section Board of Directors

Attendees at the scholarship presentation (l-r): Yaw D. Yeboah; Matt Mowry; Susan B. Bealko, chair-elect,

SME Pittsburgh Section; James J. Bryja; Michael A. Trevits, member of the board of directors, SME Pittsburgh Section; Vance Rumbaugh and R. Larry

Grayson.

New Club Has Energy FocusThere’s a new gang in town, as the saying goes, and they’ve got one thing on their mind… Energy! That’s right; the department has formed a new Energy Club for undergraduate students in all energy-related fields. While many students are already taking an active role in their program’s professional society student chapter, this is the first departmental club to actively seek membership from the entire EME undergraduate constituency, regardless of major.JeffreyR.S.Brownson,assistantprofessorofenergyandmineral engineering, will serve as faculty adviser to the group.

As their name suggests, the Energy Club will spend the majority of its time discussing and promoting energy, in all its forms. Members will serve as the student mouthpiece for EME’s external outreach activities by assisting the EME Ambassadors with coordinating the department’s participation in the Earth and Mineral Sciences Exposition (EMEX), an annual open house event aimed at high school, current, and transfer students who are considering an earth and mineral science major. They will also organize an energy awareness campaign that targets other Penn State students and the general public as a whole. As part of the campaign, club members will shed light on various topics including energy forms, supply and demand, environmental

impacts, economics, and the links that energy forms with industry and society. The internal audience is just as important to the club. Members will learn more about the other majors in their own department during their monthly meetings and events.Theyalsowillofferguidanceas mentors to the department’s first-year, second-year, and transfer students.

The club’s first official event was a department picnic held at the end of the spring 2008 semester. Encouraged by the student interest and attendance, the club will be hosting another picnic this fall. They will also be reaching out to alumni with invitations to similar activities to network with current students and to serve as invited speakers at club meetings. Plans are also in the works for future development of the Energy Club to expand its reach beyond the University Park campus. Some ideas include having club members visit their home town schools to give lectures; visiting with members of the energy industry; and orchestrating energy science projects with younger students.

2008 EMEX event

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Michael Adewumi, Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, has been named Penn State’s Vice Provost for In-ternational Programs. In this new role he will provide leadership for the University’s education abroad programs and support services for international students and scholars, and will work to develop strategic international partnerships and a more glob-ally oriented curriculum for Penn State students.

Michael was also elected a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering. This honor is akin to be-ing elected to the Academy of Engineering in the U.S. The Nigerian Academy of Engineering is one of the more prestigious and most active Academies in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Luis Ayala, Assistant Profes-sor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, was pre-sented the 2007 Outstanding Technical Editor award last year by the Society of Petro-leum Engineers.

Luis was also presented with the Wilson Award for Excel-lence in Teaching at this year’s EMS Wilson Banquet. With this award he was recognized by his students as an excep-tional teacher in the areas of hydrocarbon thermodynamics,

natural gas engineering, fluid flow in porous media, and petroleum surface production.

André Boehman, Professor of Fuel Science, gave invited and plena-ry lectures at the American Chemical Society Meeting in Boston, the International Biodiesel Congress in Vienna, Austria, and the Spring Meeting of the Central States Section of the Combustion Institute in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Jeffrey R. S. Brownson, Assistant Professor of Energy and Miner-al Engineering, was chosen to lead the 2009 Penn State Solar Decath-

lon Team. Penn State’s entry, dubbed “Natural Fusion,” is one of only 20 invited to participate in the 2009 international design competition.

Derek Elsworth, Professor of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering, was presented with the Faculty Mentoring Award at this year’s EMS Wilson Banquet.

R. Larry Grayson, Profes-sor of Energy and Mineral Engineering and George H., Jr., and Anne B. Deike Chair in Mining Engineering, received the Old Timers Club Faculty Award recognizing an outstanding faculty member who has been an inspiration to students and has devoted a career to the development of mining engineers.

M. Thaddeus Ityokumbul, Associate Professor of Mineral Process-ing and Mineral Engineering, has been appointed Associate Director of the Alliance for Earth Sciences, Engineering, and Development in Africa (AESEDA) at Penn State.

Zuleima Karpyn, Assistant Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, received a five-year, $468,000 NSF Faculty Early Career Development(CAREER)Awardgrantforherproposalentitled,“Astudy of predominant flow mechanisms and parameters controlling contaminant migration in fractured heterogeneous rocks.”

Vladislav Kecojevic, Associate Professor of Mining Engineer-ing, is the new Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering. The journal is published by the Inderscience Publishers.

Also,basedonhispaper,“RiskAssessmentofTruck-RelatedFatalities in Mining”, the SME Program Committee and SME Executive Committee have selected Vlad as one of the five 2008-2009 Krumb Lecturers.

Dean Bill Easterling (left) and Luis Ayala (right)

Vladislav Kecojevic

Michael Adewumi

Ron Stovash, Larry Grayson, and Doug Dahl at presentation of the Old Timers Club

Faculty Award

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Jonathan Mathews, Assistant Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering, and Sarma Pisupati, Associate Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering, received a Best Paper Award from the En-ergy Conversion and Conservation Division of the American Society forEngineeringEducation(ASEE)fortheirpaperentitled,“Differ-ences In Teaching And Learning Outcomes In Face-To-Face, Online And Hybrid Modes Of Energy Conservation Course.”

Sarma Pisupati, Associate Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering, was awarded tenure in 2008.

Sarma was also selected as one of the six faculty members to serve on Penn State’s Homecoming Court this year.

Sarma was also named an “MVP” - one of Penn State’s “Most Valu-able Professors” on the student-produced television show After Hours.

Chunshan Song, Professor of Fuel Science and Director of the Penn State EMS Energy Institute, has been appointed the Associate Director of the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment.

Fan Zhang, Assistant Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering, receivedaWilsonResearchInitiationGrantforherproject,“WhatistheOptionValueofCarbonCapture-Readiness?”

In Memoriam

We were greatly saddened by the loss of our friend and colleagueDr.H.ReginaldHardy, Jr. on January 22, 2008.

RegwasbornAug.19,1931,in Ottawa, Canada. He was the loyal, loving husband of Margaret Mary (Lytle), married on June 5, 1954. In addition to his wife, Margaret, he is survived by his sons, WilliamReginaldandDavidAlexander, and granddaughter, Lony Alexandra Mori, and her husband, Brian.

RegjoinedthefacultyatPennStatein1966,following13yearswiththeMiningResearchSection,FuelsDivision,oftheCanadaDepartmentofEnergy,MinesandResources.He had a passion for his scientific work with his major area of interest in application of acoustic emission/microseismic techniques to the geotechnical field. He carried out a number of major field and laboratory research projects for the former U.S. Bureau of Mines, the American Gas Association, the IBM Corporation, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Pennsylvania Department of Highways.

During his tenure at Penn State, Dr. Hardy directed some 40 Ph.D. and Masters students, published over 60 research papers in geotechnical and mining journals, four technical monographs, and 11 conference proceedings. He was active on the editorial review committee of the Journal of Acoustic Emission. He developed and taught a number of rock mechanics courses, carried out extensive field and laboratory research, and consulted widely on behalf of government and industry in the United States, Canada and overseas.

Dr. Hardy was a member of AIME, ASTM, Canadian Association of Physicists, American Geophysical Union, and the American Society of Nondestructive Testing. He was the recipientoftheASTMC.A.HogentoglerandRichardL.Templin Awards, a Distinguished Member SME/PCMIA’s Pittsburgh Section, and the recipient of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ Matthew J. and Anne C. Wilson Outstanding Teaching Award. He was a Fellow of the Acoustic Emission Working Group (AEWG) and received the AEWG Achievement and Gold Medal Awards for “pioneering work in the geologic applications of acoustic emission.”

RegwasamemberoftheStateCollegePresbyterianChurch.His compassion and giving spirit provided strength to family and friends throughout the world. He enjoyed traveling, exploringthedifferentpartsoftheglobeforfineartsandmusic. He is missed.

Donations in his name are being accepted as part of a student scholarship fund in the department. Checks can be made out to “Penn State” and sent to 117 Hosler Building, ATTN: Hardy Fund, University Park, PA 16802.

Reg Hardy

Sarma Pisupati

The Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering is exploring the possibility of creating an online certificate program in Industrial Health and Safety.

The program would be designed specifically for current and aspiring industry practitioners who lack formal education in industrial health and safety, and who wish to enhance their capabilities and skills, and their value to their employer. The online format would accommodate participation by working professionals who can only study part-time and at a distance. Students would earn a Certificate of Achieve-ment by successfully completing four instructor-led online courses in “Principles of Industrial Health and Safety,” “Safety Behavior and the Investigation Process,” “Industrial Health and Safety Program Man-agement,” and “Environmental Health and Safety.”

“Continuing education for occupational safety and health profession-als is essential to keeping current on changing regulations and tech-nology,“saysDr.MarkRadomsky,oneofthefacultymembersleadingthe discussion on this certificate program. “Current safety profession-als need easier access to high quality learning opportunities” he adds.

The department is now trying to gauge industry interest and need for such an online certificate program. If your company would support or encourage its employees to enroll in this program, or if you would like additional information about the certificate, please contact Dr. [email protected].

New Online Certificate in I H S Being Discussed

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Karpyn Receives CAREER Award from National Science Foundation

In a department that has had such a strong tradition of talented, internationally recognized faculty, it is only natural to expect our newer recruits to pick up the reins and continue down the same path of excellence in teaching, research, and service. And true to form, the junior faculty in the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering are wasting no time in living up to expectations.

The latest example of this can be seen in the awarding of a five-year, $486,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early CAREERDevelopmentgranttoZuleima Karpyn, assistant profes-sor of petroleum and natural gas engineering.

TheCAREERAwardisconsid-ered to be the most prestigious NSF award. Its purpose is to sup-port the early career development activities of junior faculty who mosteffectivelyintegrateresearchand education within the context of the mission of their organiza-

tion.RecipientsareregardedbytheNSFasbeingpoisedtobecomethe academic leaders of the future.

Dr. Karpyn was chosen to receive an award based on her research pro-posal entitled “A study of predominant flow mechanisms and param-eters controlling contaminant migration in fractured heterogeneous rocks.” The main thrust of this project, as she explained, is “to develop a solid foundation of scientific contributions in the area of multiphase flow in fractured geologic formations.”

This is an area of research that has been gaining more and more at-tention as it has become increasingly apparent that the findings could havemajorimplicationstoourcurrentunderstandingofhowdiffer-ent fluids, including groundwater, hydrocarbons (the main source for combustible fuels), and even contaminants, travel through the earth beneath our feet. For instance, radioactive waste can leak through fractures, and fluid flow through fractures can endanger the structural stability of mines, or provide preferential flow channels for oil and gas in hydrocarbon reservoirs. There is, however, a limited amount of detailed experimental work describing how fluids move in fractured rocks using real rock samples.

Rockstructuresareanaturalporous media, which means that they have a certain amount of empty space within themselves (called void spaces) that liquids and/or gases fill up and flow through. The more porous the rock, the more fluid it can take in; and the better interconnected those pores are, the easier it is for fluids to flow through. When a rock formation is fractured, both the porosity and the ability to flow through those pores are altered in a way that changes how fluids enter and migrate through these rock formations.

Discovering how to explain and predict these changes is the premise of Dr. Karpyn’s NSF project. “The study of mechanisms and properties controlling fluid dynamics in heterogeneous rocks will provide the necessary means to improve existing simulation methods, and consequently, provide more accurate extrapo-lations of laboratory observa-tions, and advance current understanding of fluid flow in complex natural structures,” she said.

That advancement in understanding could have a profound impact in a number of areas of social importance, including our abilities to control the migration and distribution of underground pollutants, improve our recovery processes of hydrocarbons and anticipate the natural flow of groundwater.

In order to investigate exactly how fracture structure and orientation influences underground fluid displacement in rock structures, Dr. Karpyn will use a mix of advanced experimental and modeling meth-ods. The majority of these experiments will be conducted at the Penn State Center for Quantitative Imaging.

Dr. Zuleima Karpyn

Both images above show water (in color) moving from a fracture into the neighboring rock, penetrating through the pore space. The rock is not homogeneous, which is

represented by light and dark gray tones.

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In order to reach as wide an audience as possible, the entire town hall meeting was taped live to be shown as a webcast to miners all around the country. “We planned on having a public,liveeventtooffertheminingcommunityinPennsyl-vania and surrounding states an opportunity to have access to an all-star panel of experts in mine emergency prepared-ness.” That webcast will be available at http://www.eme.psu.edu/minerstownhall.

All of this is made pos-sible by the Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grant program. Established by the MINERAct,this program awards grants to states and non-profit organizations

to develop training materials and present training programs that focus on identifying and preventing unsafe working conditions in and around mines and improving emergency preparedness and escape/survivability of mine emergencies.

With its long and reputable track record for providing in-novative industry seminars and devising informative training materials, the Penn State Miner Training Program acquired one of the first of seven Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants.

“We received the largest grant among several other suc-cessful bidders,” Radomskyadds.

First on the agenda was organizing the town hall meeting. Next up will be the project, “Do You Understand Mine Emergencies?AreYou Prepared for a MineEmergency?”This project will entail the upcoming webcast complete with detailed Power-Point slides and new illustrative images, a train-the-trainer course, and a miner’s mine emergency preparedness training program.

Department to Host 4th Summit on Business Process Improvement

Penn State’s Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering will be hosting the 4th Summit on Business Process Improvement (BPI) in the extractive industries in 2009 in Toronto, Canada, with the University of Toronto, Queen’s University, and University of Arizona. Previous venues for the summit, hosted every two years by Penn State, include Denver, Colorado (with Colorado School of Mines (CSM)), and Tucson, Arizona (with CSM and University of Arizona).

The summit has successfully proven to be a gathering place to discuss performance improvement issues, opportunities, and challenges in the energy and extractive industries. The 2009 conference will include presentations from industry leaders in key mining sectors — coal, metals, and nonmetallic minerals — as well as from customers, suppliers, and others with a keen interest in mining industry performance. Organized mining-related field trips and workshops will be planned.

Keynote speakers will include executive management from the world’s largest and most successful mining companies and manufacturers. Issues to be addressed include:

• Costcontainment• Organizationalchangemanagement• Riskmanagementandbusinessprocessimprovement• Sustainabilityofprocessimprovementefforts• Utilizationoftechnologyinprocessimprovement

For registration and further information, please visit http://outreach.psu.edu/programs/bpi/index.html

At the same time, this re-search also will be used as an educational tool for both Dr. Karpyn’s students in the classroom and for the general public. Graduate and under-graduate students enrolled in her courses on rock and fluid properties and transport phenomena in porous media will have the benefit of study-ing the findings first hand as any advances in this area of research will be at the fore-front of class discussion. On

top of that, a new permanent ground flow exhibit will be developed at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, PA in order to provide an interactive and educational medium for visitors of all ages to learn about underground flow through the pore space of soil and rocks.

“The execution of this project involves a strategic plan to conduct innovative high-impact research activities which will be adapted to serve as learning tools,” Karpyn explained. “The support of an NSF CAREERawardrepresentsavaluablesetoftoolsandresourcestoseethose goals crystallize.”

A new ground flow exhibit will be developed at the Carnegie Science Center in

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (pictured above)

The panel of mine safety experts made remarks and took questions from the audience during the June 18

Town Hall Meeting

Penn Staters Mark Radomsky (left), Joe Flick (second from right), and Joe DeSalvo (right) with the evening’s moderator, Bill Brown, WJAC-TV

newscaster (second from left)

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Mining Students Muck

For the first time since its inception, a team of Penn State Mining Engineering students competed in the International Intercollegiate Mining (Mucking) Competition on April 12, 2008 at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly the University of Missouri-Rolla).Altogether,atotalof27teams,includingsixfromAustralia and two from England, vied for championships, with 15 men’s teams, six women’s teams, four co-ed teams and two alumni teams competing. Although a top placement in the men’s competition eluded the enthusiastic Nittany Lions, as first experiences go, this was a truly worthwhile adventure.

“The experience builds teamwork among students and allows them to compete in a way associated with their chosen career field to commemorate the 1972 mining disaster which killed 91 miners at the Sunshine underground silver mine in Idaho,” explainedR.Larry

Grayson, professor of energy and mineral engineering and undergraduate program officer of mining engineering. “It also instills leadership and cultivates camaraderie among team members.”

Theteam,coachedbyDr.Grayson,includedVanceRumbaugh,Alexander Bugbee, Drew Mason, and Timothy Nolan, all undergraduate mining engineering students. Also on board was Harisha Kinilakodi, a petroleum and mineral engineering graduate student, Trey Morris, an undergraduate aerospace engineering major who is working toward a mining engineering minor, and Jesse Mowry, an undergraduate wood cutting student. They traveled over 800 miles and battled a persistent and cold wind with occasional snow showers tosquareoffwith14othermen’steamsinsevendifferentchallenges.Montana Tech ended up walking away with the overall men’s championship but Team Penn State made a respectable showing for its first outing.

“Because of the weather, they really didn’t have opportunities to practice, but they did very well for a new team,” Grayson said.

“Actually, I was very surprised and very proud of what they achieved.”

So what exactly goes on at amuckingcompetition?The answer lies in the name, as Dr. Grayson points out. The term muck is used to describe the broken rock that has been blasted or excavated by a machine, while mucking is the process of clearing and loading the broken rock. The mucking competition events, in turn, parallel those mining techniques, 19th Century style. That means the group of Penn State contenders had to put aside all of their technologically based know-how of contemporary mining engineering and muck like their predecessors of yesteryear.

“The competition definitely presents a stark contrast between old-fashioned mining methods and the modern, machine-dominated methods of today,” Grayson said. “One competition is enough to highlightthephysicaldifferenceofworkinginminesinthepastandtoday.”

Onemightbeenough,buteachteamhadtoenduresevendifferenttrials to test their mining mettle. These included, gold panning, hand steeling, jackleg drilling, mucking, track stand, swede saw, and surveying.

Gold panning proved to be Penn State’s most successful event, as they took an 8th place finish. To compete, five team members had to sift through

2008 Mucking Competition Team

Team members take part in track stand and jackleg drilling events

Penn Staters pan for gold

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EME Takes the Lead in 2009 Solar Decathlon

After winning fourth-place in last year’s Solar Decathlon, Penn State will compete again in the 2009 contest, this time under the direction of Energy and Mineral Engineering AssistantProfessorJeffreyR.S.Brownson.

The Solar Decathlon is an international competition that challenges college students to design, build and operate the most attractive and energy-efficient home powered by sunlight, including electricity, hot water and interior climate control. The full-size house entries are displayed on the National Mall in Washington, DC, during the competition. The contest is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s OfficeofEnergyEfficiencyandRenewableEnergy.PennState’s entry, dubbed Natural Fusion, is one of only 20 invited to participate in the September 2009 competition. This will be the second time that the University has competed in the Solar Decathlon. The 2007 entry was called MorningStar.

“The primary goal of the 2009 home,” says Dr. Brownson, “is toproducecost-effective,building-integratedphotovoltaics,which are building materials like roofing tile or windows that contain photovoltaic solar panels that have the ability to generate electricity from the sun.”

The 2009 team will be led by Dr. Brownson and Kyle Macht, a student in architectural engineering. Natural Fusion will involve students and faculty from Energy and Mineral Engineering, as

well as from other departments in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, and from the Colleges of Engineering and Arts and Architecture.

Additional information on Natural Fusion can be found online at http://solar.psu.edu/2009/Penn_State_SD2009/Welcome.html.

pans of material to find hidden “gold” pieces. Five minutes for each member was the time limit and losing a gold piece out of the pan

tacked on extra minutes to a competitor’s finish time. The team with the lowest net time was declared the winner.

Hand steeling and jackleg drilling demanded the most strenuous exertions of the day. Hand steeling necessitated steady concentration as contestants used a hammer to pound steel

chisels through a concrete block. Victory was determined by the total depth drilled after an allotted time. Jackleg drilling, on the other hand, required sheer physical strength to use a 110-pound jackleg drill with a four-foot drill steel to drive as many holes as possible into a rock within a one-foot square area.

A little less arduous was the mucking contest, in which five members from each team filled a wagon full of “ore” from a muck pile and twice pushed the car wagon down and back on a track as quickly as possible – loaded and unloaded. Later competitors also were tasked with installing and disassembling a proper section of railroad track in the least possible time for the track stand contest.

Roundingouttheday’stournamentwasaswedesawmatchupinwhich five team members sawed through pine timbers as quickly as possible, and the surveying event, which measured the time and accuracy of two team members’ surveying skills.

As Dr. Grayson points out, all seven competitions added up to a lesson in not only hard work, but teamwork as well. “Winners of events must be well practiced, fast, accurate, and motivated to compete. A captain works with team members to comprise competitors for each event, and must consider rest between events as well as the skill level of the differentmembersfordifferentevents.”

Thus, what started as a tradition in the mining camps of the Old West that quickly became a small town event for the summer holiday weekends and spawned a 1978 battle between the Universities of Idaho and Arizona to settle who had the best mining skills, has now evolved into a full-blown international, intercollegiate competition with palpable benefits for modern day students heading into the modern day global workforce.

“The competition cultivates an understanding of the educational system and mining traditions in other countries, so just getting together with students from across the world helps build a broad network among mining professionals,” reflects Grayson.

The mucking contest

Hand steeling competitors

Dr. Brownson (gesturing in photo center) meets with members of the 2009 Solar Decathlon Team

The public flocked to see 20 solar powered homes on the National Mall during the 2007 Solar Decathlon (Photo Credit: Kaye Evans-Lutterodt/

Solar Decathlon)

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