Mineral industry extraction and engineering technologies

The Mineral industry extraction and engineering technologies study program provides graduates with a broad professional profile and comprehensive, high-quality knowledge in the fields of mining processes and mining systems, technical systems and technological processes involved in the construction and operation of tunnels, as well as natural dynamic processes related to technical problems. Graduates are familiar with and able to apply scientific research methods used to describe rock mass characteristics, geotechnical stability of underground spaces, and the course of technological processes and systems in mineral extraction and raw material recovery, as well as environmental processes and their influence by mining activities. Within the doctoral study program, graduates—through an individual form of study—are profiled for scientific and research work applicable in the field of technical and engineering use of the underground. Doctoral graduates master methods and methodological procedures used in theoretical and applied research focused on investigating interactive relationships within the rock environment. In particular, this involves the study of interactions such as “excavation tool – rock,” “rock – support structural element,” “rock – disintegrated technological material,” “free rock space – backfill material,” and “rock – open space.” Observation, technical analysis, and evaluation of technological processes within these interactions constitute the main subject of research and scientific inquiry of the graduate.