Integrated Mining Project

Code:

MEMG0008

Acronym:

PMI

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Technology and Applied Sciences
OFICIAL	Project

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Civil and Georesources Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Mining and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
M.EMG	8	Plano de estudos oficial a partir de 2008/09	2	-	6	45,5	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Integrate knowledge acquired in other CUs of the course and developing skills in conducting, economic evaluation, planning and control of mining projects.

Learning outcomes and competences

Once concluded the CU, the student should be able to critically monitoring and evaluating the development of a project.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Systemic Project's Methodology ;
2. Organization of work teams and leadership;
3. Organization and Integrated Planning of Natural Resources' Explorations (Conceptual, technical and legal reasoning);
4. Evaluation of projects, IRR and NPV;
5. PERT, critical path;
6. Project planning with MSProject;
7. Data acquisition in organizational systems with discrete components;
8. Direction, planning, programming and projects monitoring;
9. Advanced use of MSProject for planning projects;
10. Advanced use of MSProject to control projects.

Mandatory literature

J. A. Botin; Sustainable Management of Mining Operations, SME, 2009. ISBN: 9780873352673

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures, case presentations and problem solving. The questions raised by students are clarified as they are lifted.

keywords

Technological sciences > Engineering > Project engineering

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	40,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	60,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	50,00
Estudo autónomo	56,00
Frequência das aulas	56,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Not applicable

Calculation formula of final grade

60% Written work (project) + 40% Work presentation and discussion

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The WS must be part of one of the working groups.

Classification improvement

Not applicable