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A ROADMAP FOR MINERALS PROCESSING EDUCATION
Creative Engineers Ltd., Dhaka, Bangladesh
Swaziland Iron ore P. Ltd.
Wharton Phosphates Ltd., Oman
Bumegeme Inc., Canada
Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC), The University of
Queensland, Australia
Metso Minerals
Barrick Gold Corporation, Canada
Challenges & Opportunities for Indian Mineral Processing Education
The most serious problem is difficulties in faculty recruitment with Mineral
Engineering specialization. There is little in the way of incentives for
students to embark on PhD studies and therefore not many potential
faculty for Indian Universities. Many universities are unable to find suitable
faculty to teach mineral processing.
There is also a need for alignment of skills demanded by the industry and
the training provided by the universities, despite many efforts to set up
industry advisory boards and established linkages with industry, there is a
need for better engagement between university departments and industry.
Academics tend to underestimate the importance of a number of aspects
of minerals processing education including:
Design of reactors, process engineering, mass, heat and momentum
balance, flowsheet development.
Provision for industrial personnel to participate as adjunct faculty in
student training programs in universities.
Summer training internship programs for students in industry
Faculty secondment to industries to assimilate recent innovations in
machinery and operations in industry.
Strengthening of computational/modeling skills for scale up of bench
scale experiments (ICT).
Techno-economic feasibility reports
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Current Status and Challenges
