The partners of the CASE-IN championship have educated Russia's first "digital" mining engineers

With the support of the partners of the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship, NUST MISIS hosted the graduation of Russia's first specialists in the field of Mining and Geological Information Systems. Training in this field is the basis for mastering six professions in the field of mining and processing of minerals. Many students have already been employed by leading industry companies. The average starting salary for digital engineers is 100,000 rubles with the prospect of rapid growth.

The training program for specialists who will solve the tasks of digitalization of the mining industry was developed by NUST MISIS in 2016 as a response to a business request due to an acute shortage of personnel. The relevance of the program is confirmed by the demand for graduates, many of whom have already been offered jobs in the Moscow and regional divisions of GC Rosatom, GC Rostec and the partner of the CASE-IN championship JSC Rosgeologiya.

Our business partners include leading mining corporations. Thus, Mycromine Rus, which is a partner of the CASE-IN championship, is ready to accept graduates in the field of Mining and Geological Information Systems into its ranks.

Boris Kurtsev, Chairman of the State Examination Commission, CEO of Mycromine Rus LLC: "Graduates of the program are well aware of digital technologies and understand the specifics of the mining industry. All the guys had long-term internships in real production, and at some point my colleagues and I began to treat them as established specialists with serious work experience in a mining company. I believe that the teaching staff has done an excellent job of educating mining engineers who are able to implement modern information systems in production."

Having received a basic education in the field of Mining and Geological Information Systems, one can master any of the six professions in the field of mining and processing described in the Atlas of New Professions developed by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI). Graduates will be able to try themselves as a system mining engineer, an operator of distributed mining teams, an engineer of robotic systems, an engineer interpreting telemetry data, an operator of UAVs for field exploration and an eco-analyst in the extractive industries.

Alevtina Chernikova, Rector of NUST MISIS: "In the context of the digital transformation of the economy, interdisciplinarity is of particular importance. The program "Mining and Geological Information Systems" (GGIS) was developed at the junction of mining, geology and information technology to train specialists who will have applied skills and competencies in the field of modeling, design, management of mining and processing processes and production organization; professionals who can make a significant contribution to the modernization of the country's mining industry".

Graduates are proficient in methods of modeling mineral deposits and quality management systems for mineral raw materials, can use neural networks to calculate the parameters of modern tectonic movements, build models of mining traffic during underground mining, etc.

Elena Dmitrieva, graduate of NUST MISIS, Geologist Manager in the geological consulting unit of RG LLC Consulting, a subsidiary of JSC ROSGEO: "The main indicator of the quality of education for me was the opportunity to have a dialogue with experienced mentors in the same language. It will take a lot of effort to become a leading specialist, but right now my knowledge is enough to perform a number of specific tasks in my new job — the tasks I face relate directly to the development of materials for the feasibility study of exploration conditions. The practical skills I gained during my studies helped me, yesterday's graduate, get a job in my specialty, in one of the leading consulting companies."

Most of the graduates received a job offer during their studies. Employers note the high level of training of young specialists. The average starting salary for "digital" engineers is 100,000 rubles with the prospect of rapid growth.

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