About Us
Mission and Vision
Our mission is to produce graduates and scholarship of international distinction. Consistent with CSM's mission, the Division emphasizes applied work devoted to industry decision making and public policy. Taking advantage of the strong mathematical and quantitative skills of CSM students, the Division emphasizes quantitative methods. As a multi-disciplinary academic unit, the Division focuses on fields within economics and business that complement one another and build on CSM strengths--that is, microeconomics, management science, and finance.
Our vision is to excel in teaching and scholarship in applied economics and business, especially as they relate to minerals and materials, energy, the environment, and technology.
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Fall 2011
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Division Faculty and Student News
Rod Eggert speaking about rare earths on American Public Media's Marketplace
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/07/05/pm-not-so-rare-earths
Dr. Daniel Kaffine interviewed by the Denver Post on oil and gas prices.
Dr. Kaffine seminar on Emission Savings From Wind Generation quoted in the Oredigger student newspaper.
Read Dr. Eggert's Statement before the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy on "Access to Raw Materials: A U.S. Perspective," Brussels, Belgium, January 26, 2011.
Mines Division of Economics and Business Assistant Professor Steffen Rebennack received an "Honorable Mention" for The 2010 George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award. This award is given by the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) to recognize innovative dissertations that are also relevant to practice. Rebennack wrote his dissertation, "A Unified State-space and Scenario Tree Framework for Multi-stage Stochastic Optimization," at the University of Florida under the auspices of Prof. Panos M. Pardalos before joining the faculty at Mines.
Professor Rod Eggert is quoted in the Christian Science Monitor article "China's lock on market for rare earth elements: Why it matters". Dr. Eggert also receives credit at the end of the Slate story "Has the Earth run out of any natural resources?".
Carol Dahl interviewed and reported in Engineering News.
John Tilton is quoted in the Christian Science Monitor story “Chile mine rescue shows how far mine safety has come”.
Professor Rod Eggert was quoted in the Wall Street Journal article “Pentagon in race for raw materials”.
Dr. Eggert was also recently quoted in The New York Times concerning the minerals under Afghanistan and the cost of mining them "The Curse of Plenty".
Professor Rod Eggert received the 2010 Mineral Economics Award from the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) for “contributions to resource development research and global mineral policy development.” He was presented the award on March 3, in Phoenix, Arizona, at the annual dinner of the Society of Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, which is a member society of AIME.
The journal Interfaces recently published the 8th Rothkopf rankings of university contributions to the academic literature in applied operations research. Colorado School of Mines is first out of 45 U.S. universities in one measure of contributions (yield) and second in the other measure (visibility).
Rod Eggert, Dan Kaffine, and John Tilton have been awarded a $370,000 grant from the Alcoa Foundation for a two-year program of research on Recycling, Solid Waste and Public Policy. The research seeks to better understand the determinants of recycling in the United States. It will focus in particular on the strengths and weaknesses of various public policies influencing recycling of selected solid-waste streams, particularly containers (including but not limited to aluminum, steel, and plastics).