What is Mineral Engineering?  Mineral Engineering is a branch of Engineering Geoscience, the science of man's interaction with the earth: the use of math, physics, geology and environmental science to understand and shape the natural world around us.  Mineral Engineering is the interdisciplinary study, development and design of subsurface space for a host of applications: mining, oil and gas exploration, hydroelectric projects, tunnels and subways, subsurface storage facilities, underground urban and shopping spaces.  Think of large projects like the Chunnel, Hydroelectric Dams, Deep Foundations (for the CN Tower...), and much much more.

Mineral engineers design subsurface space:  infrastructures that rely on a comprehensive understanding of complex rock mechanics problems. Mineral Engineers are also talented, computer savvy and adventurous individuals who work across the globe to discover and develop valuable mineral resources, who design the excavation and blasting methods, and who engineer the plants and facilities, all in an environmentally responsible manner.

Can you imagine your life without steel, concrete and glass to construct buildings; without electricity, plumbing and modern appliances such as computers and phones; without planes, trains and automobiles; and without the many products used daily, such as canned goods, cooking utensils, toothpaste and talcum powder?  That is a world without Mineral Engineering.

Some of the many career areas which intersect with Mineral Engineering include mining, geotechnical engineering, geology and geophysics, computer digital modeling, seismology and earthquake research, explosives and environmental reclamation.