Professor John Sturgul

Biography/ Background

• 2009 - Present, Professor, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 5005, Australia
• 1991 - 2008, Professor of Mining Engineering, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
• 1982 - 1990, Professor of Mining Engineering, South Australian Institute of Technology, Adelaide, SA, Australia (now the University of South Australia)
• 1976 - 1982, Associate Professor and then Professor of Mining Engineering, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico
• 1968 - 1976, Associate Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
  

Qualifications

• PhD Mining Engineering, University of Illinois, 1968
• MS Mathematics, University of Arizona, 1963
• BSc (with honor), Michigan Technological University, 1961
• Hon, Dr Sc, University of Petrosani, Romania, 2000
• Honor Societies:  Tau Beta Pi, Engineering, Phi Kappa Phi general, Pi Mu Epsilon mathematics, Sigma Gamma Epsilon earth science.  Fullbright Fellowship (Senior Scholar) to University of Queensland, Outstanding faculty member, University of Idaho, 1988
  

Research Interests

• Mine Design using simulation and animation methods
• Mineral Economics
• Geostatistics
  

Publications

Textbooks

Mine Design:  Examples Using Simulation, Sturgul, John R, Society of Mining Engineers, Littleton, CO, 2000.

Mine Simulation, Panagiotou, GN and Sturgul, JR, eds, Balkema, Rotterdam, 1996.

Fortran IV Programming, Merchant, M and Sturgul, J, Wadsworth publishing Co, Beaumont, CA, 1975.

Fortran with WATIV and WATV, Merchant, M and Sturgul, J, Wadsworth publishing Co, Beaumont, CA, 1980.

APCOM 1973, Tucson, Az, University of Arizona Press, Sturgul, JR, ed.

Papers

Over 200 technical papers in refereed journals.

Editorial Boards

Co-Editor of International Journal of Surface Mining.

Organising Committee for numerous major international conferences.

Member, Society of Mining Engineering.

Entry last updated: Saturday, 22 Sep 2012