Our Director, Dr. Madan M. Singh

Dr. Madan M. Singh was appointed Director of the Department of Mines and Mineral Resources by the Board of Governors on July 18, 2005. Governor Napolitano approved his appointment August 1, 2005. Singh has a Ph.D. in mining engineering and is a registered Professional Engineer in Arizona. His research interests and areas of expertise encompass aspects of mining, geotechnical engineering, tunneling, subsidence, environmental studies, and other related fields.

In 1975 Singh founded Engineers International and developed it from a one-man operation to a company with a staff of over 50. He has authored over 100 technical papers in addition to serving as chapter author on mine subsidence in the SME Mining Engineering Handbook and Mining Environmental Handbook. He has chaired several symposia and lectured extensively.

Singh has been involved with a variety of professional organizations, including National Director of the American Consulting Engineers Council, President of the Consulting Engineers Council of Illinois, member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., (SME), Chair of the SME Coal Division, and Chair of the American Society for Testing and Materials subcommittee on rock strength.

In 1996 Singh was named a Centennial Fellow by the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State and was honored with the Robert Stefanko Distinguished Achievement Award by the Department of Energy and Geoenvironmental Engineering in 1999. He won the Howard N. Eavenson Award of SME in 2000 and was selected as a Distinguished Member in 2004. Singh has served on two committees related to coal for the National Research Council of the National Academies, in addition to the U.S. National Committee for Rock Mechanics, and the U.S. National Committee on Tunneling Technology.