Environmental Competence of the Future Mining Engineer in the Process of the Training

Abstract

A holistic solution to the problem of formation of ecological competence of the future engineer requires the definition of its content, structure, place in the system of professional competences, levels of forming and criteria of measurement the rationale for the select on and development of a technique of use of information, communication and learning technologies that promote formation of ecological competence. The study is of interest to environmental competence of future mining engineer as personal education, characterized by acquired in the process of professional preparation professionally oriented environmental knowledge (cognitive criterion), learned the ways of securing environmentally safe mining works (praxiological criterion) in the interests of sustainable development (axiological criterion) and is formed by the qualities of socially responsible environmental behavior (social-behavioral criterion) and consists of the following components: understanding and perception of ethical norms of behaviour towards other people and towards nature (the principles of bioethics); ecological literacy; possession of basic information on the ecology necessary for usage in professional activity the ability to use scientific laws and methods in evaluating the environment to participate in environmental works to cany out ecological analysis of activities in the area industrial activities to develop action plans for the reduction of the anthropogenic impact on the environment; ability to ensure environmentally balanced activities, possession of methods of rational and integrated development georesource potential of the subsoil.

Defining the Structure of Environmental Competence of Future Mining Engineers: ICT Approach

“…The author analyzes sources devoted to investigating the problems of ecological competence formation and usage of geoinformation technology in the teaching future mining engineers [7,10]. This research also improves the system of competence among future mining engineers, gives its theoretical explanation and represents geoinformation technology means used in education process [11,12].…”

Enhancement of the rock mass quality in underground iron ore mining through application of resource-saving technologies

“…Further mining of complex-structured ore deposits by underground methods applying current technologies of ore mining and its processing inevitably leads to not only an increase in ore production costs, but also deterioration of the environment in the region (alienation of land for external waste dumps) [16][17][18][19][20][21].…”