Mining Engineering Department
The discipline of Mining Engineering is unique to IIT Kharagpur among the
IITs. Set up in 1956, the department offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and
doctoral programmes. It is actively involved in research in the broad areas
of Mine Fire and Explosions, Model Studies in Ventilation, Rock Mechanics,
Underground and Surface Environment, Geomatics, Mine Safety, and Reliability,
and relevant computer applications. The department has considerable industrial
interaction with all the major mining establishments in India in terms of
short-term courses.
The sponsored projects and consultancies undertaken by the department include
Preparation of Environmental Management Plans, Determination of Physico-Mechanical
Properties of Rocks, Mine Ventilation Reorganization Studies, Accident and
Risk Analysis and Mine Safety Studies, Resource Estimation and Surface Mine
Planning., Hydro-Pneumatic Filling of Abandoned Mine Voids, Dust, Noise and
Ground Vibration Studies, Design of Underground Excavations etc.
Source: IIT Kharagpur official website.