Engineering education: an integrated problem-solving framework for discipline-specific professional development in mining engineering
Engineering education: an integrated problem-solving framework for discipline-specific professional development in mining engineering
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工程教育：采矿工程学科专业发展的综合问题解决框架
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10.17159/2411-9717/2018/v118n1a4
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2018
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R. Webber
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M. Haupt;R. Webber
人民对商品和服务的需求。这是通过采矿（矿物开采）和精炼来实现的，以可持续的方式生产最终产品，促进经济发展和向社会提供服务。采矿工程涉及相关知识的应用和对数学和自然科学的理解，以及采矿工程知识，技术和方法。采矿工程还旨在提供解决方案，即使在大多数不确定的情况下也可以预测其影响。因此，精简采矿工程教育需要掌握必要的知识，并在结构不良，非常规，现实世界的问题解决环境中教授和学习技能（Jonassen，Strobel和Lee，2006）。在采矿环境中，这些问题从结构良好的修理型问题（包括修理和更换故障设备），到半结构和完全结构不良的问题。后者可包括升级安全基础设施，优化现有采矿和采矿相关设备、流程、系统和程序的应用和使用，以及设计创新工具和系统，以有效运作并适应不断变化的实际采矿条件。在所有这一切中，需要考虑和解决与职业健康和安全（OH&S）相关的危害和风险，以确保安全，健康，高效和有利可图的工作环境。工程教育成果的认证水平和采矿工程从业人员的经验水平（ECSA，2015）共同决定了特定从业人员可能被委托解决的问题的性质和复杂性。出于这个原因，当比勒陀利亚大学（UP）的采矿工程学习者开始他们最后一年的真实采矿项目时，他们通常会得到相对结构良好的问题来解决。然而，这并不排除将他们引入半结构化和结构不良的问题，作为更大的研究项目或团队努力的一部分。建立一个健全的问题解决发展过程将有助于他们很好地处理他们将在未来的职业生涯中遇到的半结构化和结构不良的问题。采矿工程教育困难的原因之一是采矿环境复杂。复杂性工程教育：采矿工程专业发展的综合问题解决框架
people’s needs for commodities and services. This is done through mining (mineral extraction) and beneficiation to produce endproducts in sustainable ways that contribute to economic development and the provision of services to society. Mining engineering involves the application of the relevant knowledge and understanding of mathematical and natural sciences, and a body of mining engineering knowledge, technology, and methodologies. Mining engineering furthermore aims to deliver solutions, the effects of which can be projected even in mostly uncertain contexts. Streamlining mining engineering education therefore requires mastering of the necessary knowledge, and the teaching and learning of skills in ill-structured, non-routine, real-world problem-solving contexts (Jonassen, Strobel, and Lee, 2006). In the mining environment, these problems vary from well-structured repair-type problems (including repair and replacement of faulty equipment), to semiand entirely ill-structured problems. The latter can include the upgrading of safety infrastructure, optimizing the application and use of existing mining and mining-related equipment, processes, systems and procedures, as well as the design of innovative tools and systems to operate effectively and adapt to changing physical mining conditions. In all of this, occupational health and safety (OH&S)-related hazards and risks need to be considered and addressed so as to ensure a safe, healthy, productive, and profitable working environment. The certified level of engineering education outcome and level of experience of the mining engineering practitioner (ECSA, 2015) together determine the nature and complexity of the problems a particular practitioner might be entrusted to solve. For this reason, when mining engineering learners at the University of Pretoria (UP) embark on their final year real-world mining projects, they are usually given relatively well-structured problems to solve. This, however, does not preclude introducing them to semiand ill-structured problems as part of a larger research project or team effort. Establishing a sound problemsolving development process will serve them well in dealing with the semiand illstructured problems that they will encounter in their future careers. One of the reasons for the difficulties in mining engineering education is that the mining environment is complex. Complexity Engineering education: an integrated problem-solving framework for discipline-specific professional development in mining engineering