| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2023 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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New Directions in Mineral Processing, Extractive Metallurgy, Recycling and Waste Minimization: An EPD Symposium in Honor of Patrick R. Taylor
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| Presentation Title |
Options for Sustaining Metallurgical Engineering Education |
| Author(s) |
Evgueni Jak, Peter Charles Hayes, Maurits Celine Van Camp |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Maurits Celine Van Camp |
| Abstract Scope |
To design, develop and efficiently operate the new technologies needed by the metallurgical industry we need a skilled workforce with a sound understanding of the key aspects of the value chain and metal processing cycle. That is, we need a workforce with specialist expertise in metallurgical engineering with the ability to use advanced computer-based tools to analyse, predict and control these processes.
With few exceptions, the availability of and enrolments in metallurgical engineering education programs around the world are low, and programs are under-resourced. There are major issues in relation to curricula, content, delivery, attracting students and financial sustainability. In this context we explore the approach taken to the development of the metallurgical engineering program at the University of Queensland, and the teaching of pyrometallurgy to undergraduate students and to engineers working in the metallurgical industry. These examples illustrate the importance of engagement with, and support from, industry. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Extraction and Processing, Pyrometallurgy, Other |