UAF alumnus receives mining society award for paper
January 17, 2014
University of Alaska Fairbanks alumnus William Collingwood has received an award from
a mining engineering society for his research into air flow in open pit mines.
The Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration's Mining and Exploration Division
gave Collingwood the 2013 Robert Peele Memorial Award. The award is presented for
the best paper related to the division in an SME publication within a two-year period.
The primary author must be an SME member not over 35 years of age.
Collingwood graduated from UAF with a master’s degree in mining engineering in 2012.
He received his bachelor's degree in mining engineering from Penn State University.
Collingwood's paper, “CFD modeling of air flow in an open pit mine,” was published
in the February 2010 edition of Mining Engineering magazine (volume 64, pages 44-50).
The paper was co-authored by K. V. Raj, Abhisekh Choudhury and Sukumar Bandopadhyay
and was the result of research into ventilation of deep open pit mines, especially
during air inversions found in arctic or subarctic regions. Bandopadhyay, a UAF professor
of mining engineering, is the principal investigator on this five-year research project
funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
SME is a member society of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum
Engineers, one of the first national engineering societies established in the United
States.