POSTMEDIA CONTENT WORKS – A new set of undergraduate courses at the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Engineering is helping open the door for students seeking to enter the mining field.
The “mining engineering option” courses in geological, chemical and mechanical engineering allow students seeking a bachelor of engineering degree the opportunity to take additional specialized classes related to mining. Announced in 2013, the first five students to enrol will graduate this spring.
“This means students taking engineering degrees in chemical, mechanical or geological can pick up these mining-focused classes. … We have a strong interest at home because there are still very large mining operations in Saskatchewan,” says Al Shpyth, executive director of the International Minerals Innovation Institute, which entered into a funding agreement with the U of S for five mining-related courses and the options.
Shpyth says this is a homecoming for mining engineering at the university; the U of S hasn’t offered it as a specialty since its Department of Mining Engineering closed back in 1976.
“We have other great colleges that are graduating people related to mining, many disciplines enter into the resources industry; this generation of miners wondered why (the U of S didn’t have a specialty),” he says.
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