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Mining engineering senior Kevin McCoy uses a jackleg drill in the San Xavier Mine. Research at the mine includes determining whether mining operations are socially stable and cause no permanent damage to the natural environment.

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School of Sustainable Engineered Systems

Background

The SSES is the union of five founding departments in the College of Engineering: Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Materials Science and Engineering, Mining and Geological Engineering, and Systems and Industrial Engineering.

Vision statement

The School of Sustainable Engineered Systems will be a leader in the improved design of linkages between our natural and engineered systems to sustainably provide material resources, water, energy, infrastructure, and manufactured products through innovative education, research, and outreach.

Opportunity

SSES presents a unique opportunity to create a center of excellence in interdisciplinary research and education in the College of Engineering, with the ability to take on the challenges of the 21st century. SSES offers the opportunity of becoming a locally, nationally and internationally recognized school; a school with a reputation rooted in excellence in research, scholarship and education.

SSES will become a leader in proposing creative sustainable solutions to current problems, which will influence the basic human and societal needs in energy and environment, water, manufacturing, health care, transportation and infrastructure, communication and information technology.