Student activity

as it Affects Higher Education

Veiko Karu
Teaching Assistant
TUT Mining Department
veiko.karu@ttu.ee
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 Background

• TUT Mining Department

– Preparing Mining Engineers for Estonian Mining
Industry

• Study programs for

– Bachelor students
– Master students
– PhD students

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 Student activity

• Science Club of Mining and Geology

• Webpage: http://mi.ttu.ee/teadusklubi/

• Student Council of Mining Department

• Webpage: http://mi.ttu.ee/maering/

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The science club has an
educational background
and is meant to diversify
students education, so
that the schoolwork
could have an extra
value and would not
consist only from
lectures/practical work.

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 Future Mining Engineer
must know
• Different mining conditions
• Different mining methods
• How to design a mine
• How to use different measurement equipment
• Etc

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The best way to do this is to check everything
yourself during the studing in University

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 Therefore

• Geotechnology students
– Visit mining enterprises
• Almost every week of semester
– Perform measurements in enterprises
– Bring samples for the laboratory works at
University

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 Fieldwork and Laboratory work

Collecting samples Samples from fieldwork

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 Measurements of the site

Measurement object Flow measurement

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 Measurements of the site

Monitoring of the mining drucks

Blasting
work

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The science club has
several goals:

(1) find a supervisor for every student from the

beginning, so that he/she could adjust better
to the speciality;
(2) introduce the students different aspects
about the chosen speciality, that higher
education recommends;
(3) help to make the studies successful and
decrease dropping out of school;

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 The science club has
several goals:
(4) increase the quality of student’ s work;
(5) notificate students of scientifical work and
include them in the work;
(6) tighten the communication between
academicians and students.

These are just some of the goals, that science club

can offer a student to his/her development and to
rise the quality of an institution

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 Science Club target

• Students
– Bachelor students: from
first curse
– Master students
– PhD students
• Other student of
different specialities

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 Workshop Fieldwork

Seminar Fieldwork
Science club in action

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Academic staff is responsible for
written work and it’s scientific side.

Therefore it is possible to apply the results in all the

scientifical actions and they redound in student’s
bachelor and master thesis, in institute’s
scientifical reports, in the scientifical work the
institute orders etc

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 Action: fieldworks

Different objects: sand pits; oil shale strip mine

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 Action: workshop

• During the workshop

students compose:
– Field work Report
– Posters for seminar
– Webpage :
http://mi.ttu.ee/teadusklubi
– Presentation for seminar

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 Action: seminar

• The result of seminars

is, that student’s are
more successful in
presenting their final
thesis, because they
have several
opportunities to
improve their ability to
talk in front of a big
audience

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 Thank your attention!
http://mi.ttu.ee/mining/

http://mi.ttu.ee/maering/

http://mi.ttu.ee/teadusklubi

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