Master's degree in Mining Engineering
Master's degree in Mining Engineering
The master's degree in Mining Engineering (master's degree website) provides specialised training in sustainable approaches to locating, extracting and exploiting minerals and energy resources. Students also learn about designing, modelling, planning and supervising mining operations; exploring, researching, modelling and assessing geological deposits; the advanced use of explosives; underground spatial management; surveying; advanced mineral processing; etc.
General details
- Duration and start date
- 1.5 academic years, 90 ECTS credits. Starting September and February
- Timetable and delivery
- Afternoons. Face-to-face
- Fees and grants
- Approximate fees for the master’s degree, excluding other costs (does not include non-teaching academic fees and issuing of the degree certificate):
€1,661 (€9,496 for non-EU residents).
More information about fees and payment options
More information about grants and loans - Language of instruction
Check the language of instruction for each subject in the course guide in the curriculum.
Information on language use in the classroom and students’ language rights.
- Location
- Official degree
- Recorded in the Ministry of Education's degree register
Admission
- General requirements
- Academic requirements for admission to master's degrees
- Places
- 30
- Pre-enrolment
- Pre-enrolment period open.
Expected deadline: 06/09/2024.
How to pre-enrol - Enrolment
- How to enrol
- Legalisation of foreign documents
- All documents issued in non-EU countries must be legalised and bear the corresponding apostille.
Professional opportunities
- Professional opportunities
Graduates may seek technical and management positions in companies involved in exploiting mineral and energy resources, or in activities related to locating and evaluating mineral deposits, underground works, boring and mining facilities, maintenance of facilities, and environmental impact studies. They are also qualified to manage projects that involve the extraction, transportation and storage of resources based on application of mineralogical and metallurgical technologies. Career opportunities are mainly in the mining sector, civil engineering, and broader sectors in which mining engineers may be involved in carrying out studies related to environmental impact, environmental consultancy, occupational safety, organisation and quality control.
- Competencies
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Generic competencies
Generic competencies are the skills that graduates acquire regardless of the specific course or field of study. The generic competencies established by the UPC are capacity for innovation and entrepreneurship, sustainability and social commitment, knowledge of a foreign language (preferably English), teamwork and proper use of information resources.
Specific competencies
On completion of this master's degree, the students will:- Have learnt to explore, investigate, model and evaluate geological resource deposits.
- Know how to plan, design, inspect and supervise mines and other geological resources.
- Be able to plan and manage the generation, transport, distribution and use of energy resources.
- Be equipped to carry out land management studies and studies of underground spaces.
- Know how to plan, design and manage mining facilities and metallurgical, iron and steel and construction material industries.
- Be capable of planning, performing studies and designing groundwater collection facilities, and of managing, exploring, researching and exploiting mineral and thermal waters.
- Have learnt how to design and execute facilities for the transport, distribution and storage of solids, liquids and gases.
- Have acquired the ability to environmentally assess and manage projects, plants and facilities.
- Be equipped to design and execute water treatment and waste management procedures for urban, industrial and dangerous waste.
- Know how to design and execute underground tunnels, works and spaces.
- Be capable of designing, managing and supervising the manufacture, transport, storage, handling and use of explosives and fireworks.
- Be familiar with techniques related to business management and employment law.
Organisation: academic calendar and regulations
- UPC school
- Manresa School of Engineering (EPSEM)
- Academic coordinator
- Lluís Sanmiquel
- Academic calendar
- General academic calendar for bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees courses
- Academic regulations
- Academic regulations for master's degree courses at the UPC
Curriculum
First semester
Second semester
Third semester
- Geological and Mining Heritage Management 5
- Integrated Management Systems 5
- Master's Thesis 15
- Materials' Engineering 5
- Mineral Processing Plants
5 - Mining Geophysics 5
- Recycling of Solid Waste 5
- Remote Sensing 5
- Renewables Energies 5
- Statistical Methods in Mining 5
- Underground Electrification 5
- Viability Studies 5
- Waste Treatment and Mining Pollution Soils 5
- CompulsoryECTS
- OptionalECTS
- ProjectECTS
Pre-enrolment
Pre-enrolment for this master’s degree is currently closed.
Use the “Request information” form to ask for information on upcoming pre-enrolment periods.
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