Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

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College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Established1896
Dean Lee R. Kump
Location, ,
United States
Website ems.psu.edu

The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences is a constituent, semi-autonomous part of Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

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The College was founded in 1896 as a School of Mines, but, over time, diversified becoming the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. The college has five departments: Energy and Mineral Engineering, Geography, Geosciences, Materials Science and Engineering, and Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences. [1]

The Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, as of fall 2007, now offers an undergraduate program in energy engineering, the first of its kind in the country. [2]

The College also includes The Alliance for Earth Science, Engineering, and Development in Africa (AESEDA), The Energy Institute, The Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI), The John A. Dutton e-Education Institute, and The Peter R. Gould Center for Geography and Outreach.

It is currently the smallest college (in terms of student enrollment) at the University Park campus.

Five employees (Michael E. Mann, Klaus Keller, Anne Thompson, Richard Alley, and William Easterling) contributed to the efforts of the IPCC that won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Rankings

According to the latest United States National Research Council rankings (1995), The Department of Geography is ranked number one in the United States. [3] The U.S. News Best Graduate Schools 2007 ranked the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' Meteorology graduate program number one in the US. According to U.S. News rankings for 2009, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering program ranks 5th in the nation and the Geology program ranks 3rd in the nation.

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References

  1. "Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences". www.ems.psu.edu.
  2. "Energy Engineering | Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering". Archived from the original on 2008-03-11. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
  3. "NRC Rankings in Each of 41 Areas". www.stat.tamu.edu.

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