Master in Mining and Geo-Environmental Engineering

OBJECTIVES

The Master’s Degree in Mining and Geo-environmental Engineering has as its main objective to provide competent and qualified training to engineers to conceive, design and implement optimized technical solutions, in the areas of Exploration, Exploitation and Processing of Mineral Resources, as well as in Geoenvironmental area. MEMG promotes the development of personal skills, understanding and problem solving in new and unfamiliar situations in broad, complex and multidisciplinary contexts of Mining Engineering and Geo-Environment.

STUDY PLAN 2021/2022

PROFESSIONAL ABILITIES

The Master level is the first which, in the design framework of FEUP mining academic profile, possesses full professional capacity.

Upon concluding this study cycle, the mining engineering master:

• knows, understands, designs and operates over every mining technology dimension (prospecting, extraction, processing, environmental integration, closure) in a technical and scientific solid way, and from an holistic design point of view;
• displays personal skills, in the understanding and resolution of new, unfamiliar problems, in a broad mining engineering context;
• delivers technical, social and ethical judgment, presenting reasoning and conclusions;
• is autonomous but integrates into multi-disciplinary teams;
• professionally applies knowledge and skills, identifying, studying and innovatively solving problems;
• understands the need for lifelong learning.

Thus, the mining engineer will be abble to engage, coordinate or design:

• • underground and open pit mine exploitation;
  • industrial and ornamental quarry exploration;
  • industrial, mineral and spring water exploration;
  • energetic minerals exploration such as coal, oil, shale-gas, natural gas and uranium;
  • excavation associated with construction or public works, such as pits, tunnels, caves;
  • mining environmental impact and rehabilitation;
  • decontamination and recovery of soil, subsoil and aquifers;
  • recycling of mining life cycle products, from a circular economy point of view.

EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS

Professional market for graduates is mainly:

• Mining exploitation;
• Mineral resources processing;
• Mining environment assesment, control and remediation;
• Research and development in mineral resources;
• Government management and supervision of public works and mineral resources exploration;
• Local environment;
• Mining and environmental consulting;
• Territorial planning;
• Education;
• Groundwater resources exploration and management.