Ⅰ.Introduction

The “Resources Prospecting Engineering” major of SWJTU started its first enrollment in 2017. Although it is a newly-established undergraduate major in SWJTU, it is a preponderant discipline with a glorious history. At its inception, SWJTU set up the mining department to offer courses in geology in 1905. It set up the mining and metallurgy department in 1931 and the mining engineering department in 1938. Until the beginning of liberation, the major of “Resources Prospecting Engineering” in SWJTU has always been the dominant discipline. For over a century, multiple academic leaders in the field of geology graduated from this discipline, such as Academician He Jie, Academician Wang Hongzhen, Academician Yuan Jianqi, etc. In the great adjustment of departments in colleges and universities in the early 1950s, Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel (predecessor of Beijing University of Science and Technology) was established with Tangshan Railway Institute (now Southwest Jiaotong University) as the main body, and the mining department was included in the newly established Beijing Institute of Geology (predecessor of China University of Geosciences) and Beijing Institute of Mining (predecessor of China University of Mining and Technology). In 1958, in order to adapt to the construction of Baoji-Chengdu Railway and Chengdu-Kunming Railway, SWJTU, according to the requirements of the Ministry of Railways, set up the major of hydrogeology and engineering geology. After over five decades of development, SWJTU now provides first-category “geological resources and geological engineering” discipline for Ph.D. degrees and master's degrees and first-category “geological resources and geological engineering” discipline for postdoctoral research stations. It has also become a national characteristic specialty and a national outstanding engineer education program specialty. Also, its geology major is of distinctive characteristics and important influence in the geology major of colleges and universities nationwide. In 2017, SWJTU set up the undergraduate major of Resources Prospecting Engineering to adapt to the development trend of new energy and unconventional minerals in the future. Centering on the main topic of “new energy”, the Resources Prospecting Engineering major emphasized the trinity academic concept of “geological process-genetic mechanism-engineering technology” and trained Resources Prospecting Engineering professionals with profound geological foundation and mathematical mechanics foundation. Graduates are mainly engaged in planning, exploration, development, process improvement, scientific and technological development and management of resources prospecting projects in Land and Resources System, Industrial and Mining Enterprise and Engineering Design Institute.

Program Code: 081403

Program Name: Resources Prospecting Engineering

Ⅱ.Objectives

SWJTU aims to train inter-disciplinary engineering and technical talents who meet the needs of the socialist modernization construction with Chinese characteristics in the new era, gain all-around development of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetics and labor education, have good humanities and social science literacy, high social responsibility and noble engineering professional ethics; have solid professional theoretical foundation and professional skills, strong sense of innovation, broad international perspective and cross-cultural communication, competition and cooperation capabilities to conduct basic research of geology and mineral resources, unconventional resources investigation-exploration-development and management. Graduates are mainly engaged in technology development and technology management in resources prospecting teaching, scientific research and production departments (such as energy, mining, metallurgy, building materials and other fields), as well as management in administrative departments. After about five years of work, graduates will have the actual working competence of resources prospecting engineers, and can serve in technical backbone and management positions of production, scientific research and engineering design.

Goals:

Goal 1: mater the general and technical expertise of the resource exploration engineering major and acquire related skills.

Goal 2: obtain issue analyzing and resolving abilities related to the resource exploration engineering major and foster scientific research and professional capabilities related to the major.

Goal 3: gain basic knowledge on project management in the sector of resource exploration engineering and develop the abilities to participate in engineering management.

Goal 4：be able to study continuously and communicate effectively.

Goal 5: cultivate sound professional ethics with the sense of responsibility for the profession and the society

III. Graduation requirements

Requirement 1: Have solid basic knowledge of mathematics, physics, mechanics and chemistry, master the basic theories, methods and basic skills of resources prospecting, and can be used to solve complex geological and engineering problems in the process of resources prospecting and development;

Requirement 2: Ability to apply the basic principles of mathematics, natural science and unconventional resources prospecting, identify, express, and analyze the complex engineering problems in unconventional resources prospecting through literature research, analyze the genesis of deposits and the complex geology of mine development and Engineering problems and get reliable conclusions；

Requirement 3: be able to design innovative solutions to complicated issues in non-conventional resource exploration projects and to design systems, units (components) or mining process that meet specific requirements, with social, healthy, safety, legal, cultural and environmental factors taken into consideration;

Requirement 4: be able to study complicated engineering issues in non-conventional resource exploration projects based on scientific principles with proper methods, including experiment design, data analysis and interpretation as well as conclusion drawing based on acquired information;

Requirement 5: be able to develop, choose and employ proper techniques, resources, modern engineering tools as well as information and technology tools to anticipate and simulate complicated engineering issues in non-conventional resource exploration projects and understand the limitations of such techniques, resources and tools;

Requirement 6: be able to make proper analysis based on the knowledge about non-conventional resource exploration engineering projects, assess the social, healthy, safety, legal and cultural implications of non-conventional resource exploration practices and solutions to complicated engineering issues, and understand related responsibilities to be assumed;

Requirement 7: be able to understand and assess the impact of professional engineering practices to solve complicated engineering issues in non-conventional resource exploration engineering projects on the environment and sustainable social development;

Requirement 8: be with humanistic and social science literacy and sense of social responsibility and able to understand and comply with engineering professional ethics and norms as well as fulfill duties in non-conventional resource exploration engineering practices;

Requirement 9: be with excellent teamwork and collaborative spirits and able to work independently, in team or as the project lead in the team with multi-disciplinary background;

Requirement 10: be able to communicate with industrial peers and the public over complicated issues in non-conventional resource exploration engineering projects by writing reports, preparing design drafts, making speeches, expressing or responding clearly;

Requirement 11: understand and master project management principles and economic decision methods and apply them in multi-disciplinary scenarios;

Requirement 12: be healthy physically and psychologically with the pursuit to acquire new knowledge throughout life supported by continuous learning and development abilities.

IV. Duration and Degree

Duration: 4

Degree: Bachelor of Engineering

V.Main Subject and Main Course

Main Subject：Resources Prospecting Engineering

Main Course：Physical Geology，Crystallography and Mineralogy，Petrology，Structural Geology，Deposits，Ore mineralogy，Exploration geochemistry，Unconventional resource science，Geophysical Exploration，geochemistry.