Mine Systems Engineering

Catalog description

This course is aimed at applying operations research and systems methods for decision making in mine operations to improve productivity. The course is designed to introduce the student to the subject of applied operations research and systems methods for efficiently solving various problems in mine design and operations analysis. The major topics include linear programming, the simplex method, transportation problem, network models, critical path method, engineering statistics, regression analysis, simulation techniques. The course uses various mining production and optimization case studies to demonstrate the importance of operation research in the mining production management. The course also use introduce the concept of time study for the multi-process mining operation and use the statistical method for the data analysis.