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Brief on the school
The School of Mines and Earth Sciences has an antecedent
called School of Earth and Mineral Sciences
(SEMS) that was established in 1983 at the inception
of the University. However, as a result of the reorganisation
of Federal Universities of Technology
(FUTs) in 1988 the SEMS’ academic programmes were
broken up and relocated to School of Sciences (SOS)
and School of Engineering and Engineering Technology
(SEET), thus bringing about the demise of a School
(SEMS) that was intended by the Founding Fathers of
FUTA to make a strong impact on the nation’s mineral
Industry. Between 1988 and 2002, the University
has come to realise that one of the prime objectives for
which SEMS was originally established, which is to
make a strong positive impact on the nation’s mineral
Industry and on the application of climate information
for sustainable development, has not been fully
met. It is for this reason and the need to meet future
challenges that four of the erstwhile SEMS academic
departments are being brought together under the new
School of Earth and Mines Sciences (SEMS).
Objectives
The objectives of the School are; to:
a) provide education on the science of the earth and
its environment, the exploration and exploitation of
mineral and environmental resources.
b) promote the development of technology in order
to improve the local capability in exploiting the nation’s
vast mineral resources and the application of meteorology
to the socio-economic activities of the nation.
c) develop fully integrated programmes in mineral
exploration and exploitation as well as in meteorology
that will take into account the nation’s need to harness
itsmineral resources and allied areas in a sustainable
environment.
d) promote academic excellence and provide opportunities
for research that emphasises:
i) Mineral exploration;
ii) Mineral exploitation and beneficiation; and
iii) Tropical/Applied Meteorology and environmental
pollution.
e) provide the enabling environment for applied research
through active participation in the practical aspects
of the disciplines, particularly the fieldwork
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