By Neville Judd Two mining engineering students at the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) have earned top honours after using Hexagon MinePlan in their graduation research. Their success highlights how access to industry-standard software can help students build practical skills while producing stronger academic work. Both students, from the School of Resources and Safety Engineering, applied MinePlan training to their graduation projects. Jiangwei Liu received the university’s Outstanding Graduation Thesis Award for the dissertation “Resource Estimation and Mining Design of an Open-Pit Mine Based on MinePlan”. Qin Hao, whose research focused on underground mining, received the School-Level Outstanding…