Research

The Department of Mining Engineering at the University of Kentucky has been favored with an excellent faculty, a sufficiency of space and an abundance of modern equipment. This section attempts to describe succinctly the Department's capabilities in research and development for the benefit of potential research collaborators and sponsors.

In summary, the mining faculty has access to 25,259 square feet of space and to equipment with an original purchase value in excess of $1.6 million. They are served by an elaborate but flexible computing network containing personal computers, workstations and minicomputers.

The Departmental LAN is connected to the campus fiber backbone allowing access to campus mainframes and Engineering Computing Services workstations. Via the campus fiber backbone, the Department of Mining Engineering has full Internet access allowing for the sharing of ideas and information with colleagues throughout the world.

Although described separately, the facilities of the UK Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER), are readily available to Departmental researchers. A number of completed cooperative projects point to the open relationship between the Center and the Department. The CAER is a 60,000 square foot facility containing over $7 million in process development and analytical equipment.