About Montana Tech of the University of Montana

Montana Technological University is a public academic circles in Butte, Montana. Founded in 1900 as the Montana State School of Mines, the academic world became affiliated later than the University of Montana in 1994. After undergoing several names changes, in 2017 the Montana University System Board of Regents voted to assign Montana Tech as ration of Special Focus Four-Year Universities, the unaided such designation in the Montana University System. To assume this new designation and the greater independence in the same way as it, the post of was officially changed in 2018 from Montana Tech of the University of Montana to Montana Technological University. Montana Tech’s focus is upon engineering, applied and health science.

In slip 2017, Montana Tech had nearly 2,700 students, 13 campus buildings and offers 45 undergraduate degrees along taking into consideration 15 minors, 11 authorization degrees, and 10 pre-professional career programs. Montana Tech in addition to offers 21 graduate degrees and has Ph.D. programs in Materials Science and Engineering and Earth Science and Engineering.

Butte is the county chair of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States. In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the sole entity of Butte-Silver Bow. The city covers 718 square miles (1,860 km2), and, according to the 2010 census, has a population of 33,503, making it Montana’s fifth largest city. It is served by Bert Mooney Airport subsequently airport code BTM.

Established in 1864 as a mining camp in the northern Rocky Mountains on the Continental Divide, Butte experienced unexpected development in the late-nineteenth century, and was Montana’s first major industrial city. In its heyday amongst the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, it was one of the largest copper boomtowns in the American West. Employment opportunities in the mines attracted surges of Asian and European immigrants, particularly the Irish; as of 2017, Butte has the largest population of Irish Americans per capita of any city in the United States.

Butte was plus the site of various historical deeds involving its mining industry and active labor unions and Socialist politics, the most well-known of which was the labor riot of 1914. Despite the dominance of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Butte was never a company town. Other major happenings in the city’s history tally the 1917 Speculator Mine disaster, the largest hard stone mining crash in world history.

Over the course of its history, Butte’s mining and smelting operations generated in excess of $48 billion worth of ore, but furthermore resulted in numerous environmental implications for the city: The upper Clark Fork River, with headwaters at Butte, is the largest Superfund site in the United States, and the city is also home to the Berkeley Pit. In the late-twentieth century, cleanup efforts from the EPA were instated, and the Butte Citizens Technical Environmental Committee was established in 1984. In the 21st century, efforts at interpreting and preserving Butte’s origin are addressing both the town’s historical significance and the continuing importance of mining to its economy and culture. The city’s Uptown Historic District, on the National Register of Historic Places, is one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States, containing approximately 6,000 contributing properties. The city is also home to Montana Technological University, a public engineering and perplexing university.