Professor
(MEA Node: University of Adelaide)
Phone: +61 8 831 30007
Email: jsturgul@civeng.adelaide.edu.au
Room: EM122, Engineering Maths Building
Biography/Background
2009 – Present, Professor, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 5005, Australia
1991 – 2008, Professor of Mining Engineering, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
1982 – 1990, Professor of Mining Engineering, South Australian Institute of Technology, Adelaide, SA, Australia (now the University of South Australia)
1976 – 1982, Associate Professor and then Professor of Mining Engineering, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico
1968 – 1976, Associate Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Qualifications
PhD Mining Engineering, University of Illinois, 1968
MS Mathematics, University of Arizona, 1963
BSc (with honor), Michigan Technological University, 1961
Hon, Dr Sc, University of Petrosani, Romania, 2000
Honor Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Engineering, Phi Kappa Phi general, Pi Mu Epsilon mathematics, Sigma Gamma Epsilon earth science. Fullbright Fellowship (Senior Scholar) to University of Queensland, Outstanding faculty member, University of Idaho, 1988
Publications
Textbooks
Mine Design: Examples Using Simulation, Sturgul, John R, Society of Mining Engineers, Littleton, CO, 2000.
Mine Simulation, Panagiotou, GN and Sturgul, JR, eds, Balkema, Rotterdam, 1996.
Fortran IV Programming, Merchant, M and Sturgul, J, Wadsworth publishing Co, Beaumont, CA, 1975.
Fortran with WATIV and WATV, Merchant, M and Sturgul, J, Wadsworth publishing Co, Beaumont, CA, 1980.
APCOM 1973, Tucson, Az, University of Arizona Press, Sturgul, JR, ed.
Papers
Over 200 technical papers in refereed journals.es, B.J. Noye (Ed.), World Scientific Publishing, 317-341.
Editorial Boards
Co-Editor of International Journal of Surface Mining.
Organising Committee for numerous major international conferences.
Member, Society of Mining Engineering.
Research Interests
Mine Design using simulation and animation methods
Mineral Economics
Geostatistics