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Mining at Missouri-Rolla

We would like to compliment ASEE for its long-overdue article on mining engineering ("Making It Big," Prism, Summer 2005). You have shared with the engineering education community something that we have known for a lifetime: Mining engineering is both fun and vital.

Inasmuch as we at the University of Missouri-Rolla have a vigorous mining program with an enrollment to match-we expect soon to be No. 1 in enrollment and research output-and our students beat Virginia Tech and Colorado School of Mines to take first prize in the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association-sponsored design contest, we want …