CONSOL Energy Inc. is a funding partner for the SME Professional Engineers Committee. CONSOL Energy Inc. is a Canonsburg, Pennsylvania-based producer and exporter of thermal and metallurgical coal, owning and operating some of the most productive longwall mining operations in the Northern App Basin. CONSOL’s Pennsylvania Mining Complex, comprised of Bailey, Enlow Fork, and Harvey Mines, currently operate 5 longwalls and has a capacity of 28.5 MM clean tons high-Btu coal in 2023. CONSOL also operates the Itmann Mine in the Central App Basin, which is expected to have a 900,000 clean ton per year capacity of premium, low-vol metallurgical coking coal. The company also owns and operates the CONSOL Marine Terminal in Baltimore which has a throughput capacity of ~20 million tons per year. In total, the company controls approximately 1.3 billion tons of coal reserves and resources located in the eastern United States.

The SME Foundation thanks CONSOL Energy Inc. for their support and generosity of the SME Professional Engineers Committee Program fund.

The SME Professional Engineers Committee (P.E. Committee) performs non-examination work critical for the PE license. Focus of the committee includes continued writing and publishing of the Study Guide and Practice Exam, updating the Mining Reference Handbook; outreach through webinars and Speakers Bureau; and participating as a liaison with the NCEES group and as SME representation in two ongoing national efforts concerning advocacy of the PE license: the License that Works Committee, and the Professional Liaison Organization Council.

SME is the only organization in the United States that sponsors the NCEES PE Committee that prepares examination questions for the licensure of mining and mineral processing engineers. Without this program, there would be no state certification for engineers in mining and mineral processing and, consequently, little incentive for college students to pursue careers in our industry.