The Virginia Tech Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering is one of the largest minerals and energy related programs in North America, with a strong international reputation for its academic (undergraduate and graduate), research, and public service programs. Housed within a nationally ranked College of Engineering at Virginia’s public land-grant research university, the department engages in broad research efforts, to include sustainable mineral and energy resource development, occupational health and safety, optimized separation processes, and coalbed methane recovery. It is home to two research centers: the Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research and the Center for Advanced Separation Technologies.