MINE at Virginia Tech

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate MINE coursework.

• MINE 2564Resource Exploration and Designopens 7 courses (2 directly)
• MINE 3604Mining Geomechanicsopens 6 courses (1 directly)
• MINE 3674Explosives and Rock Fragmentationopens 6 courses (1 directly)
• MINE 3564Underground Mine Designopens 5 courses (2 directly)
• MINE 3574Surface Mine and Quarry Designopens 5 courses (2 directly)
• MATH 2214Introduction to Differential Equationsopens 3 courses (2 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate MINE work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 32 MINE and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 30 more MINE courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on MINE, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in MINE. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at MINE 4636

  1. GEOS 1004Earth Science: Our Past, Present, and Future
  2. MINE 2564Resource Exploration and Design
  3. MINE 3564Underground Mine Design
  4. MINE 4635Mining Engineering Capstone
  5. MINE 4636Mining Engineering Capstone

• 3 courses deep, ending at MINE 3644

  1. CHEM 1035General Chemistry
  2. MINE 3634Fundamentals of Mineral Processing
  3. MINE 3644Applications in Mineral Processing

• 3 courses deep, ending at MINE 3664

  1. MATH 1226Calculus of a Single Variable
  2. MATH 2214Introduction to Differential Equations
  3. MINE 3664Fluids and Thermodynamics for Resources

• 2 courses deep, ending at MINE 2544

  1. ENGL 1105First-Year Writing
  2. MINE 2544Leadership for Responsible Mining

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for MINE yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under MINE yet.

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Department events

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