The Mining Engineering Department was established in 2012 to educate undergraduate and graduate students. The first undergraduate and graduate students started education in 2013 – 2014. The education and research objectives of the Mining Engineering Department are; to train competitive Mining Engineers suitable for the information age (also known as the computer age, digital age, or new media age). Graduated mining engineers will take part in the production of non-renewable mineral resources with ecological environmental awareness and sustainable economic development understanding. Moreover, it is aimed to find new natural resources in Çanakkale and its surroundings, to increase the operability of existing mines, to increase the efficiency and competitiveness of existing mining enterprises and the facilities that use the production of these enterprises as raw materials, to develop new industries that process mines and bring them into the economy.