Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering: Mackay Students

What is unique about being a Mackay student?
Nowhere else on campus will you find a more closely-knit community of students than at Mackay. What makes a Mackay student unique is not just the overwhelming support offered by the Mackay faculty and staff, scholarship opportunities, summer internship programs or great career opportunities. It's bigger than that. To be a Mackay student is to be a key part of the Mackay tradition that has continued for close to 100 years.

Just take a look at some of things our students are involved in here at Mackay, and you'll see why the Mackay experience is unique and why being a Mackay graduate is something to be proud of.

Joe Goss, Captain of the Mackay Muckers mining team, competes in the swede saw event at the 2005 Intercollegiate Mining Competition. This year, the Mackay Muckers will head to Australia where the 2006 competition will take place.	Geology and geophysics student, Weston Thelen, uses a laser theodolite for close-in contour mapping. Surveying is a basic skill for all environmental and exploration scientists and engineers.
Students receive instruction during a field trip to an open-pit gold mine in Nevada.	Students study rock formations at the Geology Summer Field Course, a comprehensive 6-week summer field course in geology.
Students get an up-close view of a haulpak. Haulpaks are a common site in open-pit mining and are used to transport ore.	Students are at work in the mine ventilation teaching and research laboratory. Mine ventilation is of extreme importance to the safety and health of underground miners.

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