Faculty and Staff

Leadership

Scott Houser

Department Head and
Teaching Professor
303-384-2045
shouser@mines.edu

Faculty

Morgan D. Bazilian

Professor of Public Policy
Director of Payne Institute
303-384-2156
mbazilian@mines.edu

Jared Carbone

Professor
303-384-2175
jcarbone@mines.edu

David N. Culbreth

Professor of Practice
303-273-3492
dculbreth@mines.edu

Crystal Dobratz

Teaching Associate Professor Director of Graduate Online Certificate Program
303-273-3481
cldobratz@mines.edu

Roderick G. Eggert

Professor
Viola Vestal Coulter Chair in Mineral Economics
Deputy Director of Critical Materials Institute
303-273-3981
reggert@mines.edu

Tulay Flamand

Assistant Professor
303-273-3757
tflamand@mines.edu

Ben Gilbert

Assistant Professor
303-384-2359
bgilbert@mines.edu

Michael B. Heeley

Associate Professor
Director of Engineering and Technology Management Program
303-273-3167
mheeley@mines.edu

Qiaohai (Joice) Hu

Associate Professor
303-273-3542
qhu@mines.edu

Mona Jabbari

Teaching Assistant Professor
303-273-3531
monajabbari@mines.edu

Werner Kuhr

Administrative Faculty
Director of The Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
303-384-2312
wkuhr@mines.edu

Becky Lafrancois

Undergraduate Program Director and Teaching Professor
303-384-2063
blafranc@mines.edu

Ian Lange

Associate Professor
Director of Mineral and Energy Economics
303-384-2430
ilange@mines.edu

Patrick Leach

Professor of Practice
peleach@mines.edu

Andrew H. Pederson

Teaching Associate Professor
303-273-3426
apederso@mines.edu

Steven M. Smith

Assistant Professor
303-273-3150
ssmith1@mines.edu

Paul Zink

Professor of Practice
pzink@mines.edu

Staff

Kathleen Martin

Program Assistant
Engineering Hall 315
303-273-3482
kmartin@mines.edu

Denise Vigil

Administrative Assistant
Engineering Hall
303-273-3979
dcvigil@mines.edu

Adjuncts – SPRING 2022

Leocadio Bravo Barroso – EBGN 201 (Principles of Economics) and EBGN 302 (Intermediate Macroeconomics) barrasobravo@mines.edu

Denise Lefort – EBGN 307 (Business Communications) dlefort@mines.edu

Steve Piper – EBGN 301 (Intermediate Microeconomics) spiper@mines.edu

Chris Worley – EBGN 330 (Energy Economics) cworley@mines.edu

Kris Hefley – EBGN 308 (Principles of Marketing) khefley@mines.edu