Faculty Emeritus
Dr. Yoginder P. Chugh
Professor, 1977
Dr. Chugh specializes in rock mechanics and strata control, production engineering in coal mines, mine subsidence. He has obtained his Ph.D at Pennsylvania State University in 1971.
Dr. Joseph Hirschi
Room: Engineering E 10
Email: jhirschi@siu.edu
Dr. Hirschi joined SIU's MMRE department after 13 years as a project manager with the Illinois Clean Coal Institute where he supervised research on mine and power plant optimization; mining methods; coal processing; and miner health, safety, and training. Prior to that, he spent 15 years ...read full profile >>
Rohit Pandey
Rohit graduated with his B.S. in Mining Engineering from Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur (India), following which he joined SIU for his graduate studies. He completed his M.S. in Mining Engineering at SIU in 2015, and is currently a doctoral candidate. He has concurrently held a ...read full profile >>
Dr. Bradley C. Paul
Associate Professor, 1990
Dr. Paul specializes in underground mining systems and solution mining, minerals processing, hard rock and industrial minerals, geostatistics. He has obtained his Ph.D at the University of Utah-Salt Lake in 1989.
Dr. Sam Spearing
Dr. Spearing earned his B.Sc. in Mining Engineering in 1978 and his M.Sc. in Civil Engineering in 1989 from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. In 1993 he earned his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Silesia, Poland. His core area of research is mine ...read full profile >>