Mining Engineering & Industry How do we do it?

Mining Engineering & Industry How do we do it?

Outline UNSW Australia & Faculty of Engineering School of Mining Engineering Mining Education Australia (MEA) Future needs of Mining Professionals Virtual Reality at School of Mining Engineering

University of New South Wales & Faculty of Engineering

UNSW Prepares students for global career success. UNSW graduates make more than a living. They make a difference.

ENGINEERING @ UNSW Giving students a competitive advantage with the skills, attributes and knowledge to solve real-world problems of global relevance

Faculty of Engineering Biomedical Engineering Chemical Engineering Civil & Environmental Engineering Computer Science & Engineering Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering Mining Engineering Petroleum Engineering Photovoltaics & Renewable Energy Engineering

School of Mining Engineering

UNSW Mining Engineering One of the 4 founding Schools at UNSW established in 1949 Since 2007, member of Mining Education Australia (MEA) Established with support from Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) Back From The Brink (1998) Grown to be largest Mining School in Australia Student enrolment, graduations and course offerings Staff number and quality profile Infrastructure for teaching and research All contributing to being the leading mining education provider in the English-speaking world

We provide Education programs Undergraduate level Postgraduate level International education and other collaboration initiatives Continuing professional development and related training/consulting services Postgraduate research program Research centre of choice for industry Strengths: Ground control in hard and soft rock mining Sustainability tailings and rehab, remote sensing Emerging: Mining Systems e.g. Block Caving & LTCC Innovative Learning and Teaching

Summary statistics Enrolled students: total 644 281 undergraduate students 333 graduate coursework students 30 graduate research students Staff 18 academic staff (incl. 5 Professors and 3 Associate Professors) 2 industry-sponsored Chairs 6.5 professional support staff

Student Field Trips at UNSW

Tools at the School Mineral Processing Lab Geo-Mechanics Lab Ventilation Lab Interactive teaching class rooms School Computer Lab AVIE Virtual Reality teaching space

Industry support to the School Field trips ACSMP Labs Scholarships Vacation / Graduate employment Minerals Advisory Council Meeting held every 6 months Lectures from industry personnel

Mining Education Australia Industry-University (demand-supply) collaborative partnership for the sustainable delivery of Mining Engineering education and research

Back from the Brink Landmark publication entitled Back from the Brink discussion paper prepared by the National Tertiary Education Taskforce under the auspices of the MCA (1998). Back from the Brink was a vehicle that revolutionised the mining engineering education in Australia as it reviewed the three major professional disciplines serving the industry mining engineering, geosciences and metallurgy and lead to the formation of the Minerals Tertiary Education Council (MTEC) in 1999 in Australia.

The Minerals Industry Hebblewhite (2008) summarised the current issues as follows: Industry is desperately short of graduate mining engineers, and this problem will only get worse, under a status quo educational provider situation. Universities are struggling to recruit students, albeit with some very recent modest upturns apparent. Community views of mining industry as a future career option are largely negative or misinformed. Mining schools in many universities are struggling to survive financially. There are few prospective future academics to maintain the education process in the future. This is a common problem not confined just to the mining industry.

What is Mining Education Australia (MEA)? Unincorporated joint venture of major universities that offered mining engineering in July 2006 Fostered and financially supported by the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) through Minerals Tertiary Education Council (MTEC) Development supported by $1.3M grant from Federal Government through the Collaboration and Structural Reform funding scheme. Current funding is at an agreed rate for each graduate. After covering its operating costs, MEA distributes funds to the Member Universities on the basis of: the number of graduates; and the amount of collaboration in the teaching of the programme. MEA also uses funds to provide incentives for other types of collaboration such as collaborative research. MEA

MEA structure representation from industry Graduates University Mining Industry MEA Board includes industry senior executives (representing MCA) plus Deans of Engineering Industry Advisory Committee (IAC) function is to review curriculum & alignment with future industry needs Executive Committee comprises Heads of Mining Schools + PLC Chair Program Leaders Committee (PLC) comprises program heads from each university Course teams comprising academics from each uni

MEA overview 2 + 2 program Semester 5 Mining Systems Resources Estimation Mining Geomechanics Socio Environmental Aspects of Mining Semester 6 Mine Planning Rock Breakage Mine Ventilation plus one elective Underground Mining Systems, or Surface Mining Systems, or Mineral Processing Semester 7 Geotechnical Engineering Hardrock Design & Feasibility Study Mining Research Project I plus one elective Asset Management, or Advanced Mine Ventilation, or Mining in a Global Environment 6 themes scaffolding approach to learning Semester 8 Mine Management Coal Mine Design Project Mining Research Project II plus one elective Underground Mining Systems, or Surface Mining Systems, or Advanced Geotechnical Engineering, or Advance Mineral Processing Common final 2 years (4 semesters of mining program) Each semester: 3 core + 1 elective courses

Engineers of the Future (industry requirement and what are we doing?

Students in the classroom

Students in this Generation (Gen Z or Gen ) And many more.

What do companies look for in future students Motivated New ideas Consider big picture Open to feedback Deal with complex problems Commitment to safety Leader / Group person Different skill sets Convince people Professionalism Communication

So what are we doing? Implement technology in the class Introduce project-based courses Group work Communication Report writing Projects forcing students to think outside the box Use of Virtual Reality facility teach what if scenarios

Implement Technology in courses Moving towards flipped classroom concept Quality distance education Use of tools such as socrative, smart sparrow, etc immediate feedback Discussion forums Wikis

Virtual Reality facility at School of Mining Engineering, UNSW Australia

Capacity of the School of Mining Engineering UNSW s award-winning icinema AVIE project a 3D 360 VR facility and idome. Funded partly by a Federal Capital Development grant in 2007, for developing mine safety-training simulations. Completed a multi-million dollar research project to provide VR technologies to NSW Coal Services for mine safety awareness training. AVIE facility is increasingly being used. Have been in collaboration or under discussion with South Africa, China, Turkey, India and many other countries.

Modules Developed till Date INDUSTRY MODULES: Hazard Awareness Isolation Outburst Spontaneous Combustion Deputies Inspection Self Escape Rib Stability Truck Inspection Working at Heights Community Awareness NorthParkes LEARNING & TEACHING MODULES Mining in a Global Environment Laboratory Rock Testing Block Caving Truck & Shovel Longwall Top Coal Caving ViMINE Seismic Data Monitoring Coal Geology (under development)

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Society of Mining Professors (SOMP) 4 th Regional SOMP Meeting Medellin, Colombia 26 28 May, 2016 Organised by Dr Oscar Restrepo, National University of Columbia

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