Form professionals in the principles of chemistry and physical chemistry, methodology and engineering techniques. Apply them on related fields with equipment and processes in which matter is treated to suffer changes in the state, energy content or composition. Propose solutions for basic problems and apply them in benefit of society.

Requires an interest in natural sciences and experimental teamwork. Reflect responsibility, struggle spirit, discipline and perseverance. The students who are willing to belong to the University of Guanajuato present an admission exam that takes on high school assignments such as Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and general culture.

A highly qualified professional with knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to work, design and optimize material processing and transformation in the industry in a global level. Would be responsible for the efficient industrial processes with maximum use of human, material and energetic resources with the least cost with a protective environmental sense to satisfy the need and services required.

• Industry: Chemistry, Pharmaceuticals, Food, Tanning, Mining.
• Advisory
• Research and Development
• Education
• Administrative sectors
• Environmental
• Quality

1. Recognized by CACEI, engineering teaching accreditation.
2. High-level recognition by CIEES, interinstitutional committee to assess superior education

Its modality is a credit system.

Enrollments in semiannual periods (6-month terms). For more information, please visit www.ugto.mx/admision.

The study plan includes 59 subjects with a total of 344 credits. The school periods are semiannual.

Form engineers with knowledge and skills to solve problems related to the extraction of minerals and modification of the natural conditions of rocky massifs, obliging the existent state, national and international regulations focusing on sustainability; with vision of continuous improvement and leadership and deep sense for the safety of his team and equipment and responsibility and respect for society and the environment.

Schooled.

No.

Educational program accredited by the Consejo de Acreditación de la Enseñanza de la Ingeniería, A.C. (CACEI).

August 6, 2014.

Jan-Jun 2016.

Semiannual.

For more information, please visit www.ugto.mx/admision

The applicant to this degree must have high school studies, propaedeutic or bivalent concluded and prove that she/he domains the following:

Knowledge

Basic knowledge of:

Mathematics:

• Algebra: concept and operations with sets, real and complex numbers, fundamentals algebraic concepts and operations (binomial, polynomial functions—relations and graphics), factorization and simplification of polynomials, inequalities, exponential and logarithmic functions, matrixes,
• Trigonometry: angles and systems of angular measures, trigonometric functions, trigonometric identities and equations, solution of triangles, rectangles and obliquus angles.
• Plain analytic geometry: fundaments, line, circumference, parable, ellipse, hyperbola, general equation of second grade.
• Analytic geometry of space: fundaments, the blueprint.
• Differential and integral calculus: limits, derived from a function; anti-derivates.

Physics:

• Mechanics: Scale and vectoral quantities, cinematics, dynamics.
• Electricity & magnetism: Electrostatic, electrodynamic, electromagnetism.
• Thermodynamic: States of the matter temperature, gasses.
• Hydraulic: Bernoulli theorem, Pascal principle.

General Chemistry:

• Atomic structure.
• Chemical nomenclature.
• Chemical links.
• Stoichiometry.
• Matter aggregation states.
• Chemistry and environment.

General knowledge on Spanish language, Social and Natural sciences.

Knowledge of English.

Skills

• Interpret physical-chemical-mathematical concepts.
• Interpret and plan solutions to engineering problems.
• Efficiently communicate orally and written.
• Integrate in work teams.
• Use commercial software (Microsoft Office).

Interests, attitudes and values

• Interest to interact with nature.
• Interest for the development of the state, region and country.
• Interest to take care of the environment and sustainable use of the natural resources.
• Interest to know, analyze and improve the productive processes.
• Interest to comprehend the importance of the human factor in the organizations.
• Interest for self-development and a positive attitude.
• Self-respect and respect for others, responsibility and discipline.
• High sense of organization and initiative.
• Creativity, imagination & invention.
• Leadership.
• Objectivity.
• Dynamism.
• Change uneasiness.
• Civic, national, civil and ecological awareness.

During the progress of the course, the graduates will develop the following specific competencies and necessary during their professional career:

• Makes surface and subterranean topographic studies to control the development of the projects she/he is responsible for in a systematic and discipline way.
• Interprets and integrates topographic and geologic information to define action paths regarding the design of worksites and fulfillment of goals with responsibility.
• Makes studies to estimate the resources and serves of several mineral deposits to integrate the information in feasibility studies.
• Participates in studies to define and evaluate methods to concentrate minerals and places for mineral waste disposal so the recovery of the minerals maximizes and waste deposits cover the current regulations.
• Technical and Economically evaluates a m inig prospect to define the feasibility of its exploitation and use the resulting information to make a responsible decision.
• Designs several infrastructure worksites necessary for the development of a mine seeking to minimize the inversion, maximize the recovery of the mineral deposits and in consequence, its sustainable use seeking the maximum safety for the personnel who will participate in the execution of several activities.
• Calculates and selects equipment for the several activities that constitute a mining operation (developments, production, extraction, ventilation, pumping, etc.) seeking the maximum efficiency to guarantee the profitability of the operations in a completely safe environment.
• Designs and calculates fortification and reinforcement systems of excavations which can be mining or several infrastructures (urban, road, hydraulic, etc.) to guarantee the safety of the personnel and equipment used during the construction and its functionality.
• Defines and selects the necessary people for a mining operation in function of the maximum productivity.
• Controls and oversees the execution of several activities that integrate a mining operation, from the start to the extraction and concentration of the mineral from different mineral deposits to guarantee the fulfillment of goals while responsibly making sure everything is done according the applicable and valid laws and norms.
• Promotes and establishes mechanisms to integrate work teams committed with achieving objectives and project goals.
• Plans and administers mine operations in the short, medium and long term to guarantee the maximum profitability and in consequence, the sustainability of the projects and the fulfillment of the current laws and norms.
• Designs and oversees with leadership the execution of diggings (mining or infrastructure and construction) through mechanical means or with the application of explosives with special emphasis in the responsible use of all the supplies and teams in their lead, as well as the safety of all the personnel.
• Each one of the mentioned competencies must be based in the values of integrity, ethics, responsibility and discipline with plain attitude of leadership and respect.

Description of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values

Knowledge

During the academic formation process, the mining engineers acquire knowledge on:

• Exact sciences such as mathematics, physics and chemistry that provide the fundaments to solve complex problems of engineering.
• Technical subjects such as drawing, analytic and descriptive geometry, topography, computing, that provide tools to develop their everyday activities efficiently.
• General engineering, such as infrastructure design, team, mining facilities and concrete.
• Human resources and work teams administration.
• Economic and material resource administration.
• Economy and project evaluation.
• Regulation and environmental remediation.
• Regulations on industrial and mining safety; methods of work risks.
• Applied and general Geology.
• Mineral deposits, mineralogy and applied petrology.
• Subterranean and open sky exploitation methods.
• Methods for extraction, mineral hauling and transport and petroleum materials.
• Use and handling of explosives.
• Methods for mineral concentrations.
• Pumping and ventilation in mines and subterranean worksites.

Skills

The skills developed by a graduate of this educational program are fundamental for the good performance of the professional and general competencies. They will develop the following skills:

• Handle and apply mathematics and physics.
• Comprehend, handle and analysis of engineering principles and their application in the resolution of problems.
• Apply specialized software for drawing, design and spreadsheets, etc.
• Efficiently communicate orally and written.
• Plan in short, medium and long term, integrating technical and economic and human resources information.
• Efficiently administer economic resources and human capital.

Attitudes and values

The attitudes and values are the features of a personality that define the way to behave in society and in different situations such as personal, family, work, community, etc.

In this sense, in our Faculty, we have the objective to develop in our graduates, attitudes and values according the common good within the society he belongs.

The common attitudes and values to the professional competencies that are developed in the graduates of this educational program are:

• Integrity.
• Discipline.
• Ethics.
• Responsibility.
• Creativity.
• Entrepreneur attitude.
• Leadership and continuous improvement.
• Self-development attitude.
• Trust in her/himself.
• Respect to others.
• Respect for the current regulations.
• Respect to the environment.

According the previous, the mine engineer must: develop several professional competencies with a high sense of responsibility, paying special emphasis in observing the regulations and safety norms to maintain the physic integrity the personnel, equipment, facilities and infrastructure, minimizing the impact to the environment and seeking that the activities are made with efficiency both technically and economically.

The professional competencies that compose the profile proposed for the graduates in Mine Engineering, knowledges, corresponding subjects sum to the first three rows of Table 11. Reason why, the skills, attitudes, and values must be considered common in the competencies.

• Complete the respective syllabus.
• Make among the modalities chosen by the Divisional Council: thesis, professional exercise, general graduate exam CENEVAL, academic excellence, professional update courses and elaborate a business plan.
• Complete the professional service.
• Complete the academic and administrative requirements established in the syllabus.

Total number of credits of the educational program: 256 credits.

The curricular objective of the degree in Metallurgic Engineering is: Form professionals in metallurgic engineering, encouraging an education based on the development of skills, to part from the solution of problems or real projects; so, they operate, oversee, control, manage and optimize the operations or concentration processes and the extraction of minerals or metals from its ore, its purification and the elaboration of goods for society.

Schooled

Guanajuato

No

Educational program accredited by the Consejo de Acreditación de la Enseñanza de la Ingeniería, A.C. (CACEI)

August 6, 2014

Jan-Jun 2016

Semiannual

For more information, please visit www.ugto.mx/admision

The characteristics a student must have to enter the degree in Metallurgic Engineerin at the University of Guanajuato must be the following:

Knowledge description

• MATHEMATICS: algebra, plain trigonometry, analytic geometry and basic knowledge of differential calculus.
• PHYSICS: mechanics, electriciy, magnetism & thermodynamics.
• CHEMISTRY: structure of matter, nomenclature, stoichiometry, links, matter aggregation states and chemistry of the environment.

Skills description

• Correctly communicate  both orally and written.
• Use different methods in the knowledge of nature and its social reality.
• Develop their creativity.
• Use concepts and notes.
• Problem analysis and solution.
• Make demonstrations.
• Descriptive graphic construction,
• Self-learning.
• Innovate.
• Teamwork.

Description of attitudes and values

• Manifest their taste and interest for study to propritiate their self-formation, creativity and research.
• Encourage self-respect, to the other and their environment.
• Reflect their responsibility, fighting spirit, perseverance and discipline.
• Manifest their service commitment in transforming their environment.
• Reflect their commitment to extend the benefots of the culture to all the sectors of the community.
• Manifest their civic, national and social behavior.
• Honest.

Specific competencies of the Educational Program

1. Evaluates the processes or unitarian operations of concentration, extraction, refining and adaptation of the metals and/or minerals, appliying the knowledges in the classroom to obtain the most recovery of values in the different processes.
2. Control and optimizes the quality of the metallurgic processes, through sampling and analyzing the taken samples, whose results contribute to make better decisions in the process.
3. Studyies and applies the current technologies in the metallurgic treatment of the ores to apply them in the processes and be able to control the different parameters of the metallurgic processes.
4. Oversees, operates and maintains the processes or unitarian metallurgic processes to have control of the parameters of the process that allow to obtain the greater recovery in the values.
5. Manages the metallurgic processes, considering aspects such as: safety, economy, environment care, etc., to maintain or, if possible, lower the costs of production and make the processes affordable.
6. Designs, calculates and projects metallurgic processes for the treatment of ores applying the acquired knowledge in the classroom so the teams that are in the benefit area be the propoer ones to carry out the better recovery of values possible of the minerals with high profitability.
7. Researches and develops innovative alternatives that allow the best use of the mineral resources through the use of new regeants or extraction methods that are friendlier with the environment.

Description of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values

Knowledge:

• Basic sciencies: Physics, Differential calculus, Integral calculus, Differential equations, statistic probability, numeric methods and programming, Analatic mechanics, linear algebra, beginners English, Advanced beginners English, Intermediate English, Advanced Intermediate English, Advanced English, Superior Algebra and Geometry, Inorganic chemistry, Descriptive Chemistry.
• Engineering sciences: Mineralogy, flotation of sulfides and non-metallic, balance of matter and energy, Physics-Chemistry of Acquous systems, Transport phenomena, Kinetic chemistry, Science and engineering of materials, Mechanic metallurgic, electrometallurgic and corrosion, experiment design, mechanic of fluids, Analytic chemistry, Resistance of materials, Physic metallurgy, Techniques for the Characterization of Materials, Welding, Thermodynamic, Experiment design.
• Applied engineering: Mechanical preparation of minerals, Adaptive metaqllurgy and siderurgy, Design of plants, Non.ferrous pro-metallurgy, concentration of minerals, impact and environmental management systems, Operation research, Quality control, Process simulation workshop.
• Support: Computing, Industrial engineering, Wate water treatment, Accountability and costs, Computer assisted drawing, ecology, Engineering of construction, Electrical engineering, Economic engineering and project evaluation, research seminar.
• Formative: Learning and study techniques, Oral and written communucation, Men and environment, Research methodology, Political and social-economic problems in Mexico, Development of thinking skills, supervision and leadership, Administration of Human resources, human relationships.
• Extracurricular: Pracitces in Mining-metallurgic units, Technical, Scientific seminars, Social service, sport, cultural and recreative activities.

Description of skills

At the end of the program, the engineer will have the skills to:

• Plan and evaluae processes or unitarian metallurgic operations.
• Appropriately use and handle the different laboratory or field equipment associated with the measure of the different variables of control or answer ot the metallurgic treatments.
• Organize and operate the processes or metallurgic unitarian processes.
• Calculate and select equipment for the different metallurgic operations.
• Select a disposal site and adequately handle the waste generated by the mining-metallurgic operations.
• Analyze and propose treatment alternatives to recover metals and minerals from the materials.
• Make metallurgic studies, defining technical and economic viablity of the proposed process.
• Make studies on metallic materials and its alloys, selecting the most appropriate for an specific application.
• Make physical and chracterization tests, that allow to establish causes of faults or interfere in the behavior of metals and/or alloys under different situations and work environments.
• Elaborate and apply preventive maintenance programs to the equipment of the metallurgic processes.
• Manage the human and economic resources to optimize their use.
• Design and project metallurgic processes.
• Recognize and define with ease the problems to solve, so subsequently establish work programs that solve these problems.
• Research problems of the processes or metallurgic treatments, that lead in solutions that reflect in a better use of the mineral resources, reduce the use of energy, deepen in the knowledge of mechanisms of the process, etc.

Attitudes and values

In addition to the prior, the graduate must maintain behaviors such as:

• Careful and clean in his work.
• Patience and perseverance.
• Logical, self-critic reasoning, initiative and willingness to cooperate.
• Truthful registry and handle of the information (ethic).
• Know how to accept opinions,
• Organized.
• Observer and analytic.
• Self-taught and desires to grow.
• Responsible with the environment.

When we refer to attitudes and values the engineer must posses, generally we think that this must be transmitted or cultivated through courses of social sciences and humanities included in the program, however, independently of these, any course should be planned in a form they encourage and promote them.

Responsiblity, honesty, independence, creativity, communication and teamwork capability are some of the qualities that any professional in this century must have, or she/he couldn't work with efficiency in benefit of the society. These attitudes and values don't develop theoretically, it is necessary to make them every day.

• Complete the respective syllabus
• Make among the modalities chosen by the Divisional Council: thesis, academic excellence, professional work, professional update course, business plan elaboration.
• Complete the Professional service
• Complete the academic and administrative requirements established in the syllabus.

Total number of credits of the Educational Program: 275 credits