| The training of doctoral students is an inseparable part of the entire educational and scientific process in the Department of Development of Minerals.
The main objective in the training of doctoral students is to raise their qualification and to help them develop as research workers, teaching personnel in higher education, and highly qualified specialists in the various research and applied fields of opencast mining of minerals and of underwater mining.
The intellectual qualities further developed in the course of the doctoral programme in Opencast and Underwater Mining of Minerals are grounded on: a relatively independent mode of work; analysis and evaluation of data obtained from the conducted research related to modelling and forecasting; and revealing of the dependencies among the technological parameters whereby the adequate summarising of the results obtained will also be allowed.
The valuable practical skills acquired in the course of the training are related to the study of specific conditions for the development of mineral deposits through: observations; application of various approaches to obtaining input information by means of different control systems (GPS, etc.), depending on the technology and the complex mechanisation in the studied site (open pit or quarry); implementation of contemporary methods and software products for the modeling of technological processes; optimisation of their elements; and forecasting of basic parameters, such as productivity, etc.
The training unit, the Department of Development of Minerals, employs a total of eight lecturers, seven of whom are full-time employees and one is part-time. The department has had a tradition of over 50 years of training of students in the area of opencast mining of minerals. It is an internationally established authority as a structure performing significant research work such areas as: design of open pits; drainage and stability of slopes; modelling of technological processes; open cast mining and underwater extraction of non-ore minerals; mine roads/railways; investment process; reclamation of land disturbed by opencast mining; blasting equipment and technology; technology of opencast mining; product quality management, etc. Some of the most significant scientific and applied contributions implemented in practice result from the systemic research conducted by the department.
The Department of Development of Minerals maintains an exceedingly rich specialised research, design, and software equipped basis, suitable for the development and implementation of various technological solutions in the area of the scientific courses of study in the vocational field of Exploration, Mining, and Processing of Minerals.
Within the department, the following have been formed and are in operation: two computer classes, two lecture halls, offices for tutoring and individual consultations. |
