Two Student Teams Place in Top Three at Mining Competition
March 24, 2022
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University of Arizona mining and geological engineering teams competing in the 2022 Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration/National Sand, Stone and Gravel Association's (SME/NSSGA) student design competition placed in the top three for the second year in a row. Seniors in the Department of Mining and Geological Engineering earned second place and a $1,500 prize in the metallic competition, and the juniors placed third in the same real-world test, winning $1,000. A team from the University of Kentucky won first place.